1642 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

the same will be sold at public sale at the most public square in
the town; one-half of the purchase money shall go to the person
impounding such geese or swine, and the other half to the owner,
and if no owner shall claim the said half on the day of sale, the
whole shall go to the person impounding.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec. 176.

327. If the owner of any geese or swine impounded under the
preceding section, shall prove to the satisfaction of any justice of
the peace residing in said town, that the said geese or swine did
not go at large from negligence or want of care on his part, and
that due diligence was used to prevent it, the owner shall have
return of the property on paying all expenses of keeping and
proving the same.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

P L. L, (1860,) art. 16, sec. 183.

328. The keeper of the standards of weights and measures, in
Prince George's county, shall receive an annual salary of eighty-
dollars.

WILD FOWL.

1880, ch. 176.

329. It shall not be lawful for any persons, not actual resi-
dents of Prince George's, Charles, Anne Arundel, Calvert and
St. Mary's counties, to shoot or trap upon the waters of the
Patuxent river, its tributaries, or the marshes bordering upon the
same, any goose, duck, snipe, ortolan or other wild fowl.

Ibid.

330. Any person who may be fonnd violating the provisions
of the preceding section, shall, upon conviction thereof before a
justice of the peace of the county wherein the offence was com-
mitted, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dol-
lars, for the first offence, and not less than twenty-five dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars for each and any subsequent
offence; and the boat, gun, ammunition, and all other property
found in the possession or use of such person at the time of the