WILD FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME. 3059

or any kind of firearms or explosive, on the roosting or feeding grounds or
waters of water-rail or ortolan or reed-birds, rail-birds or rice-birds. Any
person violating the provisions of this paragraph shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than
ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than fifty ($50.00) dollars for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 19. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15E.

27. No person shall in Baltimore city have in possession, expose for
sale, sell or buy, alive or dead, any partridge or quail, wild turkey, rabbit
or hare between the twenty-fourth day of December and the first day of
November following, or any American pheasant or ruffled grouse between
the twenty-fourth day of December and the first day of October following;
or any woodcock between the twenty-fourth day of December and the first
day of July following and between the first day of August and the first day
of November following, or any wild duck, wild goose, wild swan or wild
brant between the tenth day of April and the first day of November follow-
ing, under a penalty of not less than one ($1) dollar nor more than ten
($10) dollars for each of the aforesaid birds or game animals so had in pos-
session, exposed for sale, sold or bought; or any doves, flickers or yellow
winged woodpeckers between the twenty-fourth day of December and the
fifteenth day of August; or any snipe or plover, between the first day of
May and the fifteenth day of August; or any water-rail or ortolan, reed-
bird or rail-bird, or rice-bird between the first day of November and the
first day of September, or any squirrel between the first day of December
and the first day of September, under a penalty of not less than one ($1)
dollar nor more than two ($2) dollars for each of the aforesaid birds or
game animals so had in possession, exposed for sale, bought or sold.
See notes to sec. 28.

An. Code, sec. 27. 1904, sec. 20. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15F.

28. No person shall have in possession, expose for sale, sell or buy any
of the aforesaid birds or game animals, alive or dead in said city of Balti-
more, or in any of the aforesaid respective counties during the aforesaid
respective closed seasons or dates between which, in said city or counties,
it is made unlawful, by the preceding sections of this sub-title, to shoot
or have the same in possession, whether such birds or game animals so had
in possession, exposed for sale, sold or bought, shall have been shot, or in
any manner caught or killed in that county, or in any other county of this
State, or in any other State, territory or country, under a penalty for the
having in possession, exposing for sale, selling or buying of each such bird
or game animal, similar in amount, respectively, to that hereinbefore made
and provided for the illegal shooting or having in possession of the same;
but nothing in this section or the preceding sections contained shall be so
construed as to prevent any person or corporation from having in his or
its possession, at any time, any live birds or game animals, for the purpose
of stocking lands in this State.

Act of 1898, ch. 206, is a valid exercise of police power, though it applies to game
brought from another state. It is not unconstitutional as embracing more than one
subject, nor because it is made applicable only in certain portions of state.