2860 ARTICLE 12.
1896, ch. 373, sec. 1.
519. Any person or persons who shall enter upon the enclosed land of
any person or persons or body corporate in Garrett county, Maryland,
with intent to hunt or fish on same, without first having obtained per-
mission so to do from the owner or owners of said land, or from his, her,
their, or its agent, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof before any justice of the peace of said county, be fined not
less than $1 nor more than $20, and in default of payment of said fine,
together with the costs of prosecution, shall be by said justice of the peace
committed to the county jail for not less than one nor more than twenty
days.
1896, ch. 373, sec. 2.
520. All fines collected under the foregoing section shall be paid by the
justice of the peace before whom such conviction was had over to the
County School Commissioners of said county, for the use of the schools
therein, within thirty days after having received the same, and shall take
duplicate receipts therefor from said School Commissioners, one of which
he shall file with the County Commissioners of said G-arrett county.*
WAGES.
1892, ch. 445, sec. 1.
521. Every corporation engaged in mining or manufacturing or oper-
ating a railroad in Garrett County, and employing ten or more hands,
shall pay its employees the full amount of their wages in legal tender
money of the United States; and that any contract by or on behalf of any
such corporation for the payment of the whole or any part of such wages
in any other manner than herein provided, shall be and is hereby declared
illegal, null and void; and that every such employee shall be entitled to
recover from any such corporation employing him the whole or so much
of the wages earned by him as shall not have been actually paid to him in
legal tender money of the United States, without set off or deduction of
his demand for or in respect of any account or claim whatever.
See State v. Potomac Coal Co., 116 Md. 381.
1892, ch. 445, sec. 2.
522. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent any such cor-
poration from demising to any of its employees the whole or any part
of any tenement in said county of any rent thereon reserved or from con-
tracting for or advancing money to supply him with medicine or medical
attendance needed for himself or family, or smithing or fuel, and de-
ducting from the wages of any such employee for and in respect of such
rent, medicine, medical attendance, smithing or fuel or money advanced
as aforesaid.
*Sec. 3, ch. 373, 1896, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.
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