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732 WILD FOWL——BIRDS AND GAME. [ART. XCIX
1916, ch. 367, sec. 59B.
59B. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of the
preceding Section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof, before any justice of the peace in either of said Counties,
shall pay a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty-five
dollars for each and every offense; and in default of payment of fine
or fines imposed hereunder, together with the costs, the offender shall be
committed to jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days for
each offense; one-half of all fine or fines to go to the informer.
Elk and Deer.
1916, ch. 399.
73. There * be a closed season on Elk and Deer within the State of
Maryland for a period of six years beginning from June first, 1916.
Any person convicted, before any justice of the peace of Maryland, of
violation of this statute shall be fined not less that $25.00 nor more
than $100.00, for each and every offense. One-half of the fine in such
case shall go to the informer or officer causing the arrest and conviction,
unless such officer be a salaried game warden, and the other half of said
fine shall go to the credit of the State Game Protection Fund for the
protection and propagation of Game. If the arrest and conviction be
effected by a salaried game warden, the entire fine recovered shall go to
the State Game Protection Fund.+
Shipping Game Out of State.
1916, ch. 215.
74. It shall be unlawful to export or ship out from the limits of the
State of Maryland any wild game; water-fowls excepted; and it shall
also be unlawful for any express company or any common carrier, to
knowingly accept any game, water-fowls excepted, for shipment with-
out the State. Provided, however, that any hunter who has obtained
the necessary license to hunt within the State of Maryland, or any
county thereof, shall be permitted to carry out with him as personal
baggage, for own use and not for purpose of selling same, an amount
of game killed by himself equal to one day's bag limit, upon exhibiting
his license, if so required. Any game shipped to points within the
limits of the State shall be plainly and conspicuously marked as game.
Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section
shall be liable to a fine of not less than Twenty-five nor more than one
hundred dollars for each and every offense, upon conviction before any
Justice of the Peace of the State.:}:
*There is an omission here in the act (probably of the word "shall").
+Section 2 of the act of 1916, chapter 399, provides for the repeal of all laws or
parts of laws inconsistent with said act of 1916.
++Section 2 of the act of 1916, chapter 215. provides for the repeal of all laws
or parts of laws inconsistent with said act of 1916.
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