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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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WILD FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME. 3085

hunt, pursue and kill said enumerated birds and animals, during the open
season for the same, on the said farm lands of which he or they are the bona
fide owners, children of such owners, or tenants, or children of such tenants.

An. Code, sec. 78. 1918, ch. 468, sec. 70. 1920, ch. 720, sec. 70.

101. The Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the counties and the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City shall, on the first day
of June, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and on the first day of each and
every month thereafter, transmit to the Comptroller of this State all
moneys received by them for licenses; the said amounts so received by the
Comptroller shall be placed to the credit of a separate fund to be known
as " The State Game Protection Fund," and shall be disbursed by the
said State Comptroller from time to time, on warrants signed by the
Conservation Commissioner of Maryland. The moneys in said fund shall
be used solely for the salaries and expenses of the State Game Warden
and his subordinates, and for the protection and propagation of birds and
game of all kinds. Out of the said fund the State Game Warden shall
pay the sum of fifty cents for each head of a bird-hawk or chicken-hawk
actually killed in this State, to the person producing satisfactory proof
of having killed said hawk within this State. The said Commissioner shall
require the State Game Warden to file an annual account with him showing
the entire receipts and disbursements of himself and all deputies, and
exhibit vouchers therefor, and also shall require said State Game Warden
to file an approved bond in the penalty of two thousand dollars ($2,000)
for the faithful performance of his duties, the cost of said bond to be paid
out of said fund.

An. Code, sec. 79. 1918, ch. 468, sec. 71. 1920, ch. 720, sec. 71. 1922, ch. 549, sec. 71.

102. Any person found guilty of hunting, pursuing or killing of any
of the birds or animals referred to in this Act1 without having a license,
except as herein provided or for refusing to show said license when de-
manded by the State Game Warden or any Deputy or Local Game Warden,
Sheriff, Constable or other officer or person, or failing to display the license
number on his back as provided in Section 99, or violating any of the
other provisions of this Act,1 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace of this State,
shall be fined fifteen dollars ($15) for each and every offense and shall
stand committed to the County jail or the Baltimore City jail, until such
fine and costs are paid, but such imprisonment shall not exceed fifteen
days for each offense. Any Constable or other person other than the Game
Warden or Deputy Game Warden or officer under the Conservation Com-
missioner receiving compensation, who shall procure the conviction of any
person for violating any provision or provisions of this Act1 shall receive
half of the fine recovered; the remaining half shall be paid over to the
State Comptroller for account of the State Game Protection Fund, to be
used as provided by Law.

1 It is not clear whether the reference was intended to be only to the sections included
in ch. 549 of 1922 or to the sections included in ch. 720 of 1920 as well.

 

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