1834 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.

victuals, the sum of thirty cents per head per day; and the county
commissioners shall in no case allow a greater compensation.

1878, ch. 254.

240. He may be allowed for the removal of one convict to the
penitentiary the sum of thirty dollars, and for every additional
prisoner convicted at the same term of court and sentenced to the
penitentiary he may be allowed additional compensation not
exceeding ten dollars; and said compensation shall include all
expenses incident to the removal of said convict; but nothing
herein contained is to interfere with any order of the court
requiring the sheriff to remove a prisoner at any other time.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 19, sec. 200.

241. He shall be entitled to fifty cents for the delivery of each,
certificate of appointment of trustees of the poor.

TERRAPINS.

1874, ch. 189.

242. No person shall hunt, catch, trap, capture, take, kill or
destroy, in any manner, within the limits of Somerset county,
any terrapins or terrapin eggs, during the months of May,
June, July or August, in any year.

Ibid.

243. All persons hunting, catching, trapping, capturing, tak-
ing, killing or destroying, in any manner, terrapins or terrapin
eggs, during the months of May, June, July or August, in any
year, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any
justice of the peace of said county, shall be punished by a fine of
not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars; one-half
thereof to the informer and the other half to the school fund for
Somerset county.

Ibid.

244. The possession by any person of any terrapins or terra-
pin eggs, during the time forbidden in section 242, shall be
prima fade evidence of a violation of said section.