1660 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.
1886, ch. 190.
35. It shall not be lawful for any person, not a bona fide resi-
dent of said counties, to shoot any partridges, woodcock or rab-
bits, in the said counties, without having first obtained from the
clerk of the circuit court for said counties a license permitting
the person named in said license to shoot said game in said coun-
ties for one year from the day on which said license is issued
and the person named therein, or party procuring such license,
shall pay to said clerk for such license the sum of six dollars,
which amount shall be turned over by the said clerk to the
board of school commissioners, for the use of the public schools,
and fifty cents to the clerk for his fee for issuing said license;
and any non-resident convicted before a justice of the peace of
said counties, for gunning within the limits of said counties with-
out a license so to do, shall be fined ten dollars for each and
every offence; on failure to pay said fine the offender shall be
confined in the county jail of the eounty in which the offence is
committed, for ten days; provided, that any landowner may
extend the privilege of killing said game upon his own land to
whomsoever he may; in case of conviction for any such offence,
one-half of all fines imposed shall be paid to the informer, and
the other half of said fines shall be paid to the board of county
school commissioners for the county in which the offence shall
occur, for the use of the public schools in such county.
Ibid.
36. The possession by any person within said counties of any
rabbit or of any of the birds mentioned in sections 32 and 33, at
any time in which the shooting or trapping of the same is pro-
hibited by said sections, shall be prima facie evidence of the
violation thereof.
Ibid.
37. The fines which may be collected by any justice of the
peace of said counties under the eight preceding sections, and the
money paid to said clerk of the circuit court for licenses under
section 35, shall be paid by said justice of the peace and the
clerk, to the county commissioners for said counties, to be by
them placed to the credit of the school fund for said counties,
respectively.
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