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twenty-five ($25) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for
each offense.

An. Code, sec. 33. 1904, sec. 26. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15N.

45. No person shall in this State, at any time, use any ferret or weasel
for the purpose of hunting, capturing or killing any of the aforesaid game
animals, under a penalty of not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more than
twenty-five ($25) dollars for each offense, and under a further penalty of
ten ($10) dollars for each such game animal so captured or killed.

An. Code, sec. 34. 1904, sec. 27. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15 0.

46. No person shall in this State, at any time molest or destroy the
nests or eggs of any of the aforesaid birds, except those of hawks or other
birds destructive to domestic poultry and game birds, or those of English
sparrows, crows and blackbirds, under a penalty of not less than one nor
more than twenty-five ($25) dollars for each and every such offense.

An. Code, sec. 35. 1904, sec. 28. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15P.

47. No person shall kill or injure by poison any domestic poultry or
any golden English or Mongolian pheasants, or any of the aforesaid game
birds not the property of said person, but upon the premises of and belong-
ing to some one else, under a penalty of not less than ten ($10) dollars,
nor more than three hundred ($300) dollars.

An. Code, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 29. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15Q.

48. No person shall trap, net or ensnare any partridge or quail, pheas-
ant or ruffled grouse, wild turkey, woodcock or water fowl of any kind, or
have in possession any trap, net or snare with the intent or purpose to
capture or kill any such birds, under a penalty of ten ($10) dollars for
every such bird so trapped, killed, netted or ensnared, and under a further
penalty of fifty ($50) dollars for the having in possession any such trap,
net or snare, and every such trap, net or snare shall be forfeited and
destroyed.

An. Code, sec. 37. 1904, sec. 30. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15R.

49. Any person in this State above the age of eighteen years engaged in
the killing of birds or mammals or the collecting of eggs for purely
scientific purposes shall be exempt from the provisions of this sub-title;
provided that said person shall first obtain a certificate in writing from the
state game warden to the effect that such person is engaged in the scientific
study of ornithology or mammalogy; and to obtain such certificate, such
person must first file with the state game warden an application and an
affidavit to the truth and bona fides thereof made by the person requesting
the same and taken before any officer authorized to administer an oath in
this State, which application and affidavit shall be retained and kept on
file by said state game warden; but the possession of such birds, or their
eggs or mammals without certificate, during any of the aforesaid dates
between which it is hereinbefore made unlawful to shoot and collect the
same shall in all cases be prima facie evidence against such person.