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shall be forfeited and sold under the direction of the justice of
the peace adjudging such forfeiture; one-half of all fines so im-
posed, 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. 800.

31. 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.

32. 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 bordering
upon either of said counties, except between the fifth day of
September and the first day of November.

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

33. It shall not be lawful for any person in said counties to
shoot, kill, catch, or in any way entrap any partridge or quail or
rabbit in said counties, between the twenty-fourth day of Decem-
ber and the first day of November; 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
November. It shall be lawful to kill,.catch, trap and destroy
English sparrows in said counties at any and all times.

1886, ch. 190.

34. Any person violating sections 32 or 33 shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any
justice of the peace in the county where such violation occurs,
shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and every ortolan, sora, rail-
bird, partridge, woodcock, rabbit or robin, 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.