ART. 7.] BIRDS AND GAME. 701

partridge between the twenty-fourth day of December, (said day
included,) and the twentieth day of October next ensuing, in each,
and every year; nor any woodcock between the first day of
January and the first day of July; nor any pheasant between the
twenty-fourth day of December,, (said day included,) and the
first day of October; nor any rabbit between the twenty-fourth
day of December and the fifteenth day of October; nor any
squirrel between the twenty-fourth day of December and the
first day of September; nor shall any person during such period,
destroy or molest the eggs or nests of said birds in said county.

1886, ch 139.

9. Any person violating the preceding section or any of its
provisions, shall pay a fine of ten dollars for each and every par-
tridge, pheasant, woodcock, rabbit or squirrel so shot, killed or
found in his possession, or for any eggs or Bests so molested ; the
said fine to be recovered before a justice of the peace of said
county, or by indictment in the circuit court for said county;
and in default of payment of the fine imposed hereunder, the
offender shall be committed to jail for not more than thirty days
for each offence; and the non-payment of each and every fine
shall be considered a separate offence within the meaning hereof;
one-half of all of said fines shall go to the informer, and the
remainder to the county commissioners, to be placed to the credit
of the school fund of the county.

Ibid.

10. The possession by any person within said county of any
partridge, pheasant, woodcock, rabbit or squirrel, during the
time mentioned in section 8, so shot or killed, shall be prima
fade evidence of the violation of said section.

1872, ch. 841.

11. It shall not be lawful for any person in Carroll county to
shoot, kill or in any way trap or destroy any blue birds, swallows,
martins, robins, cat-birds, woodpeckers, wrens, sparrows, whippoor-
wills, doves, or any other insectivorous birds, at any season of the
year, under the penalty of two dollars for each bird so killed, taken
or destroyed; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall