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cock between the first day of February and the fifteenth day of
June, nor any pheasant between the first day of January and the
first day of September.

1878, ch. 405. 1888, ch. 538.

6. Any person violating any of the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace
in said county shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and every

woodcock or rabbit shot or taken; one-half of said fine to be
paid to the informer and the remainder as directed in the suc-
ceeding section; and on failure to pay said fine shall be com-
mitted to the house of correction or the county jail, in the dis-
cretion of the justice trying the case, for ten days.

1888, ch. 538.

7. It shall not be lawful for any person not a bona fide resi-
dent or taxpayer of said county to shoot any woodcock or rabbits
in the said county without having first obtained from the clerk
of the circuit court for said county a license permitting the per-
son named in said license to shoot said game in said county, 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 ten dollars, which
amount shall be turned over by the said clerk to the board of
school commissioners of Baltimore county 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 county for gunning within the limits of said county
without a license so to do shall be fined ten dollars for each and
every offence, and on failure to pay said fine, the offender shall be
confined in the county jail for ten days; provided, that any land-
owner may extend the privilege of killing said game upon his
land to -whomsoever he pleases during such parts of the year
as the killing of such game is lawful under section 5; in case
of conviction for any offence under sections 6-7, 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 commission-
ers for said county, for the use of the public schools in said
county.