1070 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

of said fine to go to the informer, the other half to be paid into
the treasury of the school fund of said county by the justice of
the peace before whom the case may have heen tried.

1864, ch. 322.

290. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch dia-
mond-back terrapins from the waters of Dorchester county between
the first day of June and the first day of September in each year.

1880. ch. 462.

291. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch from
the waters of this State any diamond-back terrapin of a less size
than five inches in length upon the bottom shell, at any time;
but this section shall not apply to Dorchester county.

1878. ch. 424.

292. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or
in any manner destroy the diamond-back terrapin eggs.

Ibid.

293. None but bona fide citizens of the counties of this State
bordering upon the waters of the same shall take or catch diamond-
back terrapins from said waters.

Ibid.

294. Any person violating any of the four preceding sections
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of
the same before a justice of the peace in the county in which the
offence shall have been committed, he shall be fined a sum not
less than five nor more than ten dollars for each diamond-back
terrapin so taken or caught, or for destroying any diamond-back
terrapin eggs; one-half of said fine to go to the informer and the
balance to be paid over by the said justice of the peace to the
county commissioners of said county, to be by them disbursed for
the benefit of said county; said fine to be collected as other fines
and forfeitures are now collected.

Ibid.

295. The possession of any diamond-back terrapin by any
person within the time prescribed by section 290, prohibiting the