938 WILD FOWL——BIRDS AND GAME. [ART. 99

County jail in the County wherein said offence was tried for a period
of not less than ten days nor more than two months.

63.*

1914, ch. 315.

63A.+ It shall not be lawful for any person whether resident or
n on-resident of the State of Maryland, to shoot or trap any wild goose or
wild duck on the Patuxent River, its tributaries or its marshes between
the fifteenth day of March and the thirty-first day of October following,
both days inclusive, in each and every year, or any ortolan, rail or reed
bird between the first day of December and the thirty-first day of
August, both days inclusive, in each and every year, or to have in his
possession in any of the Counties bordering on said river any of the
above named birds or wild fowl during the closed season for the same
respectively provided by this Section. And .any person convicted in
the Circuit Court or before any justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland in and for any of the Counties bordering on said river of a
violation of this Section, shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and
every wild goose, wild duck, ortolan, rail or reed bird killed by him or
found in his possession, one-half of said fine to be paid the informer,
if any, and the remainder or the whole, as the case may be, to the
Board of County School Commissioners of the County in which the
trial is had, for the use and benefit of the public schools thereof, after
deducting all cost incident to such trial and conviction; and on the
failure to pay such fine, such offender shall.be committed by the Court,
or justice of the peace who imposed said fine to the County jail of the
County in which such conviction was had for ten days.

1904, art. 99, sec. 55. 1904, cb. 509, sec. 5: 1906, ch. 471 1/2, sec. 5. 1914, ch. 314.

64.++ No person, unless a bona fide resident of the State of Maryland,
shall shoot or trap upon the waters of the Patuxent river or any of its
tributaries, or any of the marshes of said river or tributaries, any wild

*While the act of 1914, chapter 314, repeals the act of 1906, chapter 471 1/2—

erroneously called in the title to said act chapter 471% of the act of 1910—and
the act of 1908, chapter 520, no reference is made to the act of 1910, chapter 376
(p. 332), and hence it would seem that the latter act has not been expressly
repealed and accordingly it is codified. It may be that if the question should
arise, the courts would hold that this section is impliedly repealed by the act of
1914, chapter 315.

f Apparently the act of 1914, chapter 315, was intended as a substitute for sec-
tions 60 to 64 and section 66, but in view of the situation explained in the footnote
to those sections and of the fact that the editor does not attempt to determine
when statutes are impliedly repealed, that being a question for the courts, both
sections 60 to 64 and section 66 (as they remain after the act of 1914, chapter
314), and the act of 1914, chapter 315, are codified.

++While the act of 1914, chapter 314, repeals the act of 1906, chapter 471 1/2—
erroneously called in the title to said act chapter 471% of the act of 1910—no
reference is made to the act of 1904, chapter 509, and hence it would seem that
the latter act has not been expressly repealed and accordingly it is codified. It
may be that if the question should arise, the courts would hold that this section
is impliedly repealed by the act of 1914, chapter 315.