1304 TERRAPINS—DIAMOND BACK. [ART. 92.
order him to pay the costs of the term, and may impose on him
each fine as the circumstances of the case may require.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 92, sec. 17. 1779, ch, 25, sec. 12.
17. If a surveyor shall return a certificate for the examination
of the commissioner of the land office, and the same shall be
found by him to be erroneous, the party for whose use the
survey was made shall not pay any fees to the commissioner or
surveyor on such erroneous certificate, but the surveyor shall pay
to the commissioner of the land office one-third the usual fees
thereon.
Ibid. sec. 18. 1781, ch. 20, sec. 14.
18. No surveyor shall mention any boundary in his certificate
of any survey, unless he shall actually run and measure the
distance to such boundary, and the boundaries by him returned
shall be at the end of the line as expressed, and his certificate
shall not contain more land than certified by him therein.
ARTICLE XCII.
TERRAPINS—DIAMOND BACK.
1. Between what days unlawful to
catch; Worcester excepted.
2. What size may not be taken at all;
Worcester excepted.
3. Unlawful to interfere with eggs.
4. Only bona, fide citizens may take.
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5. Penalty.
6. Possession, when prima fade evi-
dence of violation of this article.
7. Duty of constables to arrest offen-
ders.
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1878, ch. 424, sec. 1. 1880, ch. 462. 1886, ch. 347. 1888, ch. 82. 1888, ch. 238.
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch
diamond back terrapins from the waters of this State, between
the first day of April and the first day of November, in each
year. This section shall not apply to Worcester county; nor to
Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's counties, as to which three coun-
ties special provision is made by the local law thereof.
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