2044 WICOMICO COUXTY. [ART. 23.

provisions of this section shah" be fined two dollars for each and
every bird proved to have been shot, killed or in any way taken,
trapped, caught or destroyed by him.

1886, ch. 181.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person in said county to shoot,
kill, take, trap or in any manner destroy or catch, in said county,

woodcock, between the first day of February and the fifteenth
day of June; plovei or sandpipers, partridges and quail, between
the first day of January and the first day of November; wood or
summer ducks, between the first day of January and the tenth

day of September; squirrels, between the fifteenth day of Feb-
ruary and the first day of September; rabbits, between the
fifteenth day of February and the first day of November; minks,

otters and musk-rats, between the fifteenth day of March and the
fifteenth day of December; and every person violating the pro-
visions of this section shall be fined ten dollars for each and every
woodcock, plover or sandpiper, partridge, quail, duck, squirrel,
rabbit, mink, otter or musk-rat so killed, taken, trapped, shot or
destroyed within said specified times; and possession of any of
the within-named birds or game, dead or alive, within any of the
specified times, by any person in said county, shall be deemed
unlawful, and be punishable by a fine of ten dollars for each and
every such bird or animal.

1880, ch. 478.

3. The possession by any person of any of the birds, ducks or
game mentioned in the preceding sections, during the time when
the shooting, killing, taking, trapping, catching or destruction of
them is therein prohibited, shall be deemed prima facie evidence
of the guilt of the person possessing the same; provided, however,
that nothing contained in said sections shall be construed so as to
prevent any person from killing the birds herein mentioned when
found upon his own premises.

Ibid.

4. No person shall at any time wilfully destroy, in Wicomico
county, any egg or nest of any of the birds mentioned in sections
1 and 2, under a penalty of five dollars for each and every viola-
tion of this section.