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taken, whether found or not found in his possession, one-half of the said
fine to go to the informer, if any, and the other half or whole, as the case
may be, to the board of county school commissioners of the county wherein
said offense was tried, for the benefit of the public schools thereof; and upon
the failure of the offender to pay said fine and all costs incident to said
trial, said offender shall be committed by the court or justice who imposed
said fine to the county jail in the county wherein said offense was tried for
the period of ten days.
See sec. 82.

An. Code, sec. 60A. 1914, ch. 315.

77A.1 It shall not be lawful for any person not a bona fide resident of
the State of Maryland to hunt, shoot or trap within the State upon the
waters of the Patuxent River, its tributaries or marshes of said river or
tributaries, any wild goose, wild duck, snipe, ortolan, reedbird or birds or
wild fowl of any description, at any season of the year, unless such non-
resident person shall have first obtained from the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of one of the Counties bordering on said river a license permitting such
person named in said license to hunt, shoot or trap the said birds and wild
fowl upon the waters of said river, its tributaries, or marshes of said river
or tributaries; and the said license so obtained shall be limited, said limita-
tion to be stated in said license, to open season for shooting the aforesaid
birds and wild fowl; shall not be transferable under penalty of forfeiture of
the same, and a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars, and shall expire
one year from the date of its issue. Any person desiring such license shall
apply for same in person to said Clerk of the Court, and shall pay therefor
the sum of ten dollars, which amount shall be paid by the said clerk to the
Board of County School Commissioners of said County in which said license
was issued for the use of the public schools thereof, and, in addition thereto,
such persons securing said license shall pay to the said clerk the sum of one
dollar as a fee for issuing said license. Said clerk shall prepare and keep a
book substantially bound of such blank license, with stub thereto, and when
such license is issued by him a full memorandum thereof shall be entered
on the stub of such license, which stub shall remain in said book, and be a
public record of said office; and before such license shall be delivered to the
applicant therefor such applicant shall write his name and address both on
said license and on said stub. Any non-resident who violates any of the pro-
visions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof 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 shall be fined five dollars for each wild goose, wild duck, snipe, ortolan
or reed bird or other birds or wild fowl so shot or taken, whether found or
not found in his possession, one-half of the said fine to go to the informer,
if any, and the other half or whole, as the case may be, to the Board of

1 Apparently act of 1914, ch. 315, was intended as a substitute for secs. 77 to 81 and
sec. 82, but in view of situation explained in footnote to those sections and of fact that
the editor does not attempt to determine when statutes are impliedly repealed, that
being a question for the courts, both secs. 77 to 81 and sec. 82 (as they remain after act
of 1914, ch. 314), and act of 1914, ch. 315, are codified.