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the fine shall be paid to the informer causing the arrest and conviction,
and the remaining one-half shall be paid to the State Comptroller of this
State or the State Game Department to be credited to the State Game Pro-
tection Fund to be used as provided by law.1

Shipping Game Out of State.

An. Code, sec. 74. 1916, ch. 215.

97. 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 without
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.2

Hunting Licenses.

An. Code, sec. 75. 1918, ch. 468, sec. 67. 1920, ch. 720, sec. 67. 1922, ch. 549, sec. 67.

98. For the purpose of providing a fund for the payment of the ex-
penses of protecting and propagating certain birds and animals, and pre-
venting unauthorized persons from killing the same, no person or persons
shall at any time hunt, pursue or kill or trap in any manner any Game as
defined in Section 59 of this Article, or any birds or animals on which
there is an open and closed season, without first having procured a license
to so hunt, pursue or trap, and then only during the respective periods of
the year when it shall be lawful to hunt, pursue or trap birds and animals.
The said license shall be procured from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
any county, or from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore
City, in the following manner, to wit:

The applicant shall fill out, sign and forward to the Clerk of Court a
blank application to be furnished by the State Game Warden through the
clerks of said courts, stating the name, age, color, height, color of eyes and
hair, occupation and place of residence of the applicant; application for
any such license may be made through the mails. The applicant, if a non-
resident of the State of Maryland, shall pay to the Clerk of Court in which
he files his or her application, the sum of ten dollars ($10) as a license
fee; if a non-resident landowner of any county to the assessed value of

1 Sec. 2 of ch. 114 of acts of 1924 repeals all laws inconsistent with said act.
2 Sec. 2 of the act of 1916, ch. 215, provides for the repeal of all laws or parts of laws
inconsistent with said act of 1916.