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in any manner except through the method known as still hunting. It shall
be unlawful for any person at any time to shoot at or kill, or wound or
capture, or attempt to kill or wound or capture, either an Elk or Deer
while same is taking refuge in or swimming through the waters of any
stream, pond or lake. It shall be unlawful for any person to make use of
a dog in hunting Elk or Deer and every person who takes a dog into the
woods, or who has possession or control of a dog in the woods and uses

same for chasing, taking or killing an Elk or Deer, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to kill more than one buck deer
during open season, said open season applying only to Allegany County
and to any game preserve in Washington County enclosed by a fence not
less than seven feet high, and in Garrett County. It shall be unlawful to
shoot, trap, pursue or kill, or gun or hunt for, any fawn or female deer at
any time within the limits of this State.

(c) Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 73, shall be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before any Justice

of the Peace of this State shall be fined Three Hundred ($300) Dollars
and costs for each and every offense. Any person who fails to pay the fine
so imposed shall stand committed to jail until the fine and costs shall have
been paid, but such imprisonment shall not exceed ninety days for any
one offense.

Any person other than the State Game Warden, Deputy Game Warden,
or officer receiving compensation from the Conservation Department of
Maryland who shall procure the conviction of any person violating any of
the provisions of Sections 60, 61, 62 and 73 shall receive one-half of the
fine recovered, the remaining one-half shall be paid to the State Game
Warden or to the State Comptroller to be placed to the credit of the State
Game Protection Fund to be used as provided by law.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of Sections 60, 61, 62 and
73. shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any Court of competent juris-
diction to be unconstitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or section thereof, so found
unconstitutional and invalid. ¹

Trapping Permits.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 77.

74. The Game Warden of Maryland is hereby authorized, when he
deems it advisable, to issue permits to any employees of the Conservation
Department or others, to trap game on property owned or acquired by the
State of Maryland or controlled by the Game Division, or on any property
where permission may be procured, for the propagation of game and the
restocking of the covers of this State.

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 416 of Acts of 1929 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to
extent of inconsistency.