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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 149.

AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and thirty-nine, passed

at the January session of the General Assembly eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-four, entitled an act to prevent the hunting or

collecting, trapping, capturing, taking, killing or destroying in

any manner terrapins or terrapin eggs in Somerset county,

during the months of May, June, July and August, and to re-

enact the same so as to read as follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Repeal.

That chapter one hundred and thirty-nine, passed at the January

session eighteen hundred and eighty-four of the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted.

so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That no person shall hunt, catch, trap,

capture, take, kill or destroy in any manner within the limits of

Somerset county in this State, any terrapins or terrapin eggs dur-

ing the months of April, May, June, July, August or September

Terrapins

in any year, nor shall it be lawful under the provisions of this

act to hunt, catch, trap, capture, take, kill or destroy in any man-

ner within the limits of said Somerset county at any time during;

the year, any terrapin which measures less than four inches and

a-half on the bottom or underneath shell.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person hunting, catch-

ing, trapping, capturing, taking, killing or destroying in any man-

ner, terrapin or terrapin eggs during the months of April, May,

June, July, August or September in any year as aforesaid, or if

any person shall hunt, catch, trap, capture, take, kill or destroy

in any manner within the limits of said Somerset county at any-

time during the year, any terrapin which measures less than four

inches and a-half on the bottom or underneath shell, contrary to

Misdemea-

the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and

nor.

upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of said

county, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five

dollars nor more than fifty dollars and shall stand committed to

the jail of Somerset county until said fine and costs are paid; the

one-half of said fine shall be paid to the informer and the other

half to the school fund for Somerset county, but whenever any

person shall be convicted under the provisions of this act before

any justice of the peace as aforesaid, the person or persons so con-

victed shall have the right to appeal to the circuit court for said

county, and if the said judgment should then be affirmed by the

court aforesaid, like penalties as hereinbefore set forth shall be

imposed, and all costs shall be imposed on said offender, and he

shall be committed to the jail aforesaid until said fine and costs

are paid.