920 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

hawk, big owl or crow before some justice of the peace of Charles
county, and at the same time make oath that the said hawk, big
owl or crow was captured and killed within the limits of said
county; and thereupon the said justice of the peace shall give a
certificate of the production of the head of such hawk, big owl
'or crow, and the taking of said oath; and it shall be the duty of
the said justice of the peace to destroy such head so as to prevent
a second allowance for the same.

1886, ch. 377.

35. Upon the production of such certificate, the county com-
missioners are authorized and directed to levy upon the assessable
property of the county a sum sufficient for the aforesaid bounty,
for the use of the person producing such certificate, and the col-
lectors of taxes shall collect and pay the same accordingly.

Ibid.

36. No justice of the peaee shall be entitled to any fee or
reward for the issuing of such certificate.

Ibid.

37. Section 33 shall not be so construed as to include any fish-
hawk.

1888, ch. 352

38. It shall not be lawful for any person in Charles county to
shoot, kill or catch, or in any manner to entrap any partridge or
quail in said county between the twenty-fourth day of December
and the first day of November; nor any woodcock, between the
twenty-fourth day of February and the fourth day of July; nor
any rabbit, between the fifteenth day of January and the fifteenth
day of October of each year.

Ibid.

39. Any person violating the preceding section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any
justice of the peace in said county, shall pay a fine of five dollars
for each partridge, woodcock or rabbit shot or taken ; one-half of
said fine to be paid to the informer, and the remainder as directed