ART. 16.] BIRDS AND GAME—CIRCUIT COURT. 1505

goldfinch, sap-sucker, hanging bird, woodpecker, fly catcher and
tanager; but nothing contained in this section shall be so con-
strued as to prevent the killing or capture of crows, hawks, owls,
or other kinds of birds of prey; robins may be taken or shot after
the first day of September until the first day of April next
following.

1888, ch. 161.

54. It shall not be lawful for any person to unnecessarily
destroy the nests or take the eggs of any of the birds protected
by the preceding section.

Ibid.

55. No person shall trap, shoot, or in any manner catch, kill,
or take, any partridge in Montgomery county between the
fifteenth day of December and the first day of November; nor
any woodcock between the first day of January and the first day
of July; nor any pheasant between the first day of January and
the first day of September; nor any wood-duck between.the first
day of January and the first day of September; nor any wild
turkey between the first day of February and the first day of
November; nor any rabbit between the first day of February and
the first day of September.

Ibid.

56. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, for the pur-
pose of being carried out of the county, or to carry out of the
county for the purpose of selling, any partridge, pheasant or wild
turkey.

Ibid.

57. Any person violating any of the provisions of the four
preceding sections, on conviction thereof, shall be fined ten
dollars, to be recovered in the name of the State before a justice
of the peace; one-half to the informer, the other half for the
public schools.

CIRCUIT COURT.

1868, ch. 11.

58. There shall be, in each year, four terms of the circuit
court for Montgomery county, for the transaction of law and
equity business, to commence and be held at Rockville, on the
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