910 WILD FOWL——BIRDS- AND GAME. [ART. 99

14.*

Birds and Game.

1904, art. 99, sec. 13. 1888, art. 99, sec. 13. 1860, art. 98, sec. 13. 1878, ch. 460.

1882. ch. 139. 1888. ch. 29. 1894, ch. 404. 1898, ch. 206. 1902, chs. 154,

157, 276, 288, 379, 618. 1914, ch. 472.

20. No person shall shoot, trap, catch or kill, or gun or hunt for
any partridge or quail, English or Mongolian pheasant, American pheas-
ant, dark neck Bohemian pheasant, pheasant or ruffed grouse, rabbit,
squirrel, wild turkey, woodcock or deer within the State of Maryland
between the twenty-fourth day of December and the tenth day of No-
vember in any year, exclusive of both dates. Nor upon Sunday or
when the ground is sufficiently covered with snow to track the birds
or game above mentioned. And there shall be a daily closed season on
nil the above enumerated game birds and game animals, with the excep-
tion of rabbits, between sunset and sunrise.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) In volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1888. art. 99, sec. 14. 1860, art. 98, sec. 14. 1858, ch. 263,
sec. 4. 1898, ch. 206. 1900, ch. 303. 1902, ch. 70. 1914, ch. 472.

21. Any person convicted, before any Justice of the Peace of this
State, for violating the preceding Section (20) shall be fined not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs
for each and every offense. And any deputy game warden, constable
or other person who shall procure the conviction of any person or per-
sons violating the provisions of the preceding Section shall receive
one-half of the fine collected, and the remaining one-half of the fine
shall be paid over to the State Treasurer to be credited to the account
of the State Game Protection Fund. Provided, that any person who
fails to pay any fine so imposed shall be committed to jail for not less
than twenty-five nor more than sixty days.*
See notes to section 27.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15H. 1914, ch. 720.

28. No person shall in this State, at any time, shoot or in any
manner catch or kill, expose for sale, sell or buy, or have in possession,
alive or dead, any turkey buzzard, wren, sparrow, bluebird, egret, hum-
ming-bird, blue jay, heron, migratory or other thrush, wood-robin, red-
breasted robin, martin, mocking-bird, cat-bird, swallow, oriole, red-
bird, lark, indigo-bird, joe wink, pewitt, sapsucker, whippoorwill, gold-
finch, yellow-breasted chat, cedar bird, herring gull or mackerel gull,
or gull of any description, under a penalty of not less than one ($1)

*The act of 1914, chapter 5, repeals either section 14 or section 21 so far as
it relates to Charles County; it is not clear which section is repealed because
the particular code referred to is not mentioned or indicated in the act.