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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

peace, to be dealt with according to the provisions

of said act and supplements and the said Board of

Special Police shall be paid for their services the

moneys, and no other, received by the clerks of the

Circuit Courts for Harford and Cecil counties, for

licenses issued for the privilege of shooting " Wild

Fowl," which moneys shall be distributed as follows:

at the end of each gunning season the clerks afore-

said shall each certify to the other the amount re-

ceived by each for issuing the licenses aforesaid, and

the clerk who has received the larger amount (if

either has received a larger amount than the other)

shall pay over to the other such a sum as will ren-

der the amounts in the hands of both equal. Then

the clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford county

shall pay the sum received by him as aforesaid to

the two special police appointed from said county,

each receiving an equal share, and the clerk of the

Circuit Court for Cecil county shall, in like manner,

pay the money received by him as aforesaid, to the

special police appointed from Cecil county. That

each member of said Board of Special Police shall,

File bond.

within sixty days after his appointment, file with the

clerk of the Circuit Court for the county from which

he is appointed, a bond, with sureties to be approved

by said clerk, in the penalty of one thousand dollars,

for the faithful performance of his duties under the

provisions of said acts and its supplements, and the

possession of any wild ducks between the first of

April and the thirty first of October in any year

shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of the

prohibitions of said original acts and its several sup-

plements, by the person or persons in whose posses-

sion said ducks may have been found, and the offen-

der or offenders shall be fined in the discretion of

the court not less than five dollars nor more than

To be a blen-

one hundred dollars, and the said funds for said li-

ded fund.

cense shall be a blended fund, to be divided equally

between said two counties, and to be disposed of as

herein provided.

Approved March 25, 1880.