WILD FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME. 3077

of this section shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and every wild goose,
wild duck, ortolan, rail or reedbird killed by him or found in his possession;
one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer, if any, and the remainder of 1
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 of the public schools
thereof, after deducting all cost incident to said trial and conviction; and
on 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 held, for not more than ten days.

An. Code, sec. 63A. 1914, ch. 315.

80A.2 It shall not be lawful for any person whether resident or non-
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 clay 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 Coun-
ties 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.

An. Code, sec. 64. 1904, sec. 55. 1904, ch. 509, sec. 5. 1906, ch. 471i, sec. 5. 1914, ch. 314.

81.3 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
goose, wild duck, snipe, ortolan, reedbird or other birds or wild fowl with-
out the written permission of the owner of the land adjacent to such waters
or marshes; said right or permission to extend to and embrace such por-
tions of said waters and marshes as lie between the lands of the adjacent
proprietor and the middle thread of the main channel of said river, upon
extending the river frontage of such proprietor at right angles with the
course of said main channel to the thread thereof, under a fine of not less
than five dollars or more than twenty-five dollars for each violation of
this section, and the cost of any proceeding to enforce the same, which

1 Evidently a typographical error in the act.

2 See footnote to sec. 77A.

3 See footnote to sec. 77.