116 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY [ART. 2.

ning and other shooting apparatus of the party so convicted,
shall be forfeited and sold under the direction of the justice of
the peace adjudging such forfeiture; one-half of all fines so-
imposed, and forfeitures so adjudged, to go to the informer, and
the other half to the school fund of the county in which the
offence was committed, and all costs of such prosecution to be,
paid by the party convicted.

1876. ch. 309.

77. The possession of any dead bird by a non-resident, at any
time, shall be prima facie evidence that the person so possessing
it shot the same.

1884, ch. 16.

78. It shall not be lawful for any person to hunt, shoot, kill
or otherwise destroy any ortolan, sora or railbird upon any of
the marshes of the Patuxent, Potomac or Patapsco rivers border-
ing upon said counties, except between the fifth day of Septem-
ber and the first day of November in each and every year.

1886, ch. 190. 1888, ch. 110.

79. It shall not be lawful for any person to shoot, kill, catch
Or in any way entrap any partridge, quail or rabbit in said
counties between the twenty-fourth day of December and the
first day of November following; nor any woodcock, between,
the first day of February and the fourth day of July; nor any
robin, between the first day of April and the first day of Novem-
ber. It shall be lawful to kill, catch, trap and destroy English,
sparrows in said county at all times.

1886, ch. 190.

80. Any person violating sections 78 or 79 shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any
justice of the peace in the county where such violations occur,
shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and every ortolan, sora,
railbird, partridge, woodcock or rabbit shot or taken, one-half of
said fine to be paid to the informer and the remainder as directed
in the succeeding section, and on failure to pay said fine
shall be committed to the house of correction or the county jail,
for ten days, in the discretion of the justice trying the cause.