WILD FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME.

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vided further that such persons may be permitted to kill such fox or foxes
within a reasonable time after the pursuit, killing or carrying away of
said poultry.

Destruction of Game Pens, Game Animals, Etc.

An. Code, sec. 83. 1918, ch. 398, sec. 1.

107. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wilfully dam-
age or destroy any game pen, fence or other enclosure used for the pur-
pose of raising and propagating of game birds and game animals, con-
structed or maintained upon any land in this State by the owner thereof,
or to wilfully poison, kill, wound, destroy, remove or steal any game birds
or game animals, their young or their eggs, while kept or maintained
within any such game pen, fence or other enclosure or to enter into any
such game pen, fence or other enclosure, unless by and with the consent
of the owner of the land on which such game pen, fence or other enclosure
is kept or maintained.

An. Code, sec. 84. 1918, ch. 398, sec. 2.

108. Whoever shall violate Section 107 shall be liable, upon convic-
tion thereof, to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred
dollars and imprisonment in the House of Correction for a period of not
more than six months.

An. Code, sec. 85. 1918, ch. 398, sec. 3.

109. The Justices of the Peace in the Counties and the Police Jus-
tices in the City of Baltimore shall have jurisdiction to hear and deter-
mine all cases arising under this sub-title, subject to the right of the ac-
cused to pray a jury trial and have his case heard and determined in the
Circuit Courts for the Counties and in the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City.

Trapping Permits.

1920, ch. 222.

110. The Conservation Commissioner of Maryland be authorized to
issue permits to their employees to trap game birds and game animals on
property owned or acquired by the State of Maryland or controlled by the
State Game Department, for the propagation of game and the re-stocking
of the covers in the State of Maryland,