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sum not less than two dollars and not more than ten dollars, for
each offence, with costs of prosecution; and all prosecutions
under said sections shall be in the name of the State, before a
justice of the peace of the election district in which such viola-
tion may occur; and of all such fines, when collected, one-half
shall be paid to the informer and the other half to the county
commissioners of said county, to be applied by them to the
support of the public schools of said county.

1883, ch. 273.

55. The possession by any person within said county of any
of the birds protected by section 52, captured, shot, killed or
otherwise destroyed, shall be prima fade evidence of the viola-
tion by such person of the provisions of said section; and it shall
be the duty of the constables of said county to arrest all persons
they may detect in, or who may be charged with, the violation of
any of the provisions of sections 52 and 53, and take them before
the nearest justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law.

1888, ch 127.

56. It shall not be lawful for any person in Worcester county
to shoot, kill, catch or in any way entrap any rabbit in said
county, between the fifteenth day of January and the first day of
November in each and every year.

Ibid.

57. Any person violating any of the provisions of the preced-
ing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, before any justice of the peace of said county, shall pay
a fine of five dollars for each and every rabbit shot or taken.

1886, ch. 76. 1888, ch. 149.

58. No person, corporation or company shall at any time kill,
or expose for sale, transport or have in possession, any partridge
or quail, after the same has been killed, for any purpose except
for consumption as food, within Worcester or Wicomico counties,
nor kill, expose for sale, or have in possession, any of the above
named game with the intention of sending or transporting, or
having the same sent or transported, beyond the limits of said
counties; provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent