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under authority of a license, or for the purpose of a second shipment of
game from any such premises. Nothing contained herein requiring the
tagging of game shall apply to any game released within this State, or
hatched from eggs of game birds and released for stocking purpose, or sold
to the Game Warden or representative for propagating purposes.

(d) Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this sub-
title, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before
any Justice of the Peace of this State shall be fined not less than One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) and costs for each and every offense, and in addition to said
fines shall be fined Five Dollars ($5.00) for each and every game bird,
the eggs of same, or game animal sold or offered for sale in violation of
the law; the license shall be revoked and game on said property confiscated
by order of the Game Warden.

State Game Refuges and Hunting Grounds.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 67.

66. (Acquisition.) The Game Warden of this State may acquire title
to or control of lands or waters within this State, suitable for protection
and propagation of game and fish or for hunting purposes to be used as
hereinafter provided, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, to be known as
State Game Lands. The Game Warden may purchase or erect such build-
ings as may be deemed necessary properly to maintain and protect such
lands or for propagation of game and fish, and may also purchase or lease
lands from which the ownership of minerals, oil or gas and the right to
mine and drill for the same have been excepted.

1939, ch. 327.

67. The State of Maryland hereby assents to the provisions of the
Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall
aid the States in wild life—restoration projects, and for other purposes,"
approved on September 2, 1937, (Public No. 415—75 Congress) and
the Commission or Department charged with the administration and en-
forcement of this Article is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to
perform such acts as may be necessary to the conduct and establishment
of administrative cooperative wild life—restoration projects, as defined
in said Act of Congress, in compliance with said Act and the rules and
regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture thereunder; and
no funds accruing to the State Game Protection Fund of the State of
Maryland from license fees paid by hunters shall be diverted for any other
purpose than for the administration, protection, restoration and propaga-
tion of game administered by the Commission or Department charged
with the administration and enforcement of this Article.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 68.

68. (Title and Control.) The title to any land or water acquired by
purchase, gift or otherwise, shall be taken in the name of the State of
Maryland, for use of the Game Division of the Conservation Department
of Maryland. The entire control of such land or water shall be under the
direction of the Game Warden and Conservation Commission of this State.

No land or water shall be purchased at a price to exceed Five Dollars
($5.00) per acre, except where buildings or cultivated lands deemed neces-