1924 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 21, sec 36.

26. If any person shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for
anything done in pursuance of this sub-title of this article, or of
anything herein contained, he may plead the general issue and
give the special matter in evidence; and if upon trial, verdict
shall be found for the defendant, or if the plaintiff shall be non-
suited or discontinue, the defendant shall recover treble costs, and
if the plaintiff shall be unable to pay them, they shall be paid by
the attorney who brought or prosecuted the suit, unless the plain-
tiff shall give security for the costs, to be approved by the court.

Ibid. sec. 27.

27. All penalties and forfeitures imposed by this sub-title of
this article shall be recoverable by the said trustees, before any
justice of the peace, and applied to the use of the poor of said
county, as they shall direct.

Ibid. sec. 28.

28. The trustees may annually retain, out of the money levied
for their use, the sum of thirty dollars, as a compensation for their
services.

BIRDS AND CAME.

1880, ch 183.

29. It shall not be lawful for any person in Washington
county to shoot, kill or in any way entrap or destroy any blue-
bird, swallow, martin, robin, catbird, woodpecker, sparrow, wren,
whippoorwill, lark, thrush, mocking-bird, or any insectivorous,
bird, at any season of the year, under the penalty of two dollars
for each bird so killed, taken or destroyed.

1880, ch. 73.

30. It shall not be lawful for any person to capture or take
any rabbit in districts numbers eight and eleven of said county, by
the contrivances commonly called snaring or looping, and any
person offending against the provisions of this section shall forfeit
and pay a fine of ten dollars for each and every such offence, to
be recovered before a justice of the peace of the district in which.