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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any justice

Misde-

of the peace in said county shall pay a fine of five dollars

meanor.

for each partridge, woodcock, or rabbit shot or taken;

one-half of said fine to he paid to the informer, and the

remainder as hereinafter directed, and on failure to pay

said fine shall be committed to the county jail or to the

house of correction for not longer than ten days, in the

discretion of the justice of the peace trying the case.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be

lawful for any person not a bona fide resident of said county

License to

or any corporation to shoot, entrap or in any manner to catch

kill game

or kill any partridge, woodcock or rabbit in the said county

without having first obtained from the clerk of the Circuit

Court for said county a license permitting the person named

in said license to shoot kill or trap said game in said county

during the term when the killing of said game is made

lawful by section one of this act, and the person named

therein shall pay the said clerk for such license the sum of

twenty dollars, which amount shall be turned over to the

board of county commissioners by the said clerk and fifty

cents to be paid the clerk as his fee for isening said license,

and any non-resident convicted before any justice of the

peace in said county for violating the provisions of this

section shall be fined twenty dollars for each and every

offense, and shall forfeit his gun or guns, ammunition and

other apparatus, and on failure to pay said fine the

offender shall be confined in the county jail for ten days.

and the gun or guns so forfeited shall be sold after giving

ten days' notice of time and place of sale by publication

in a newspaper published in the county, or by written notice

posted at three or more public places in said county at

public auction to the highest bidder for cash by the officer

the arrest, the proceeds of said sale after deducting five

dollars as a fee to the officer for making the sale, to be

paid over to the justice of the peace before whom the offender

or offenders were tried, and said fine or fines as well as all

fines collected by justice of the peace under this act be paid

over to the county commissioners.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That natives of St.

Who not

Mary's County, who have at any time resided in the said

Included.

county for a space of fifteen years, or land -owners therein,

shall not be included under the provisions of section 111 of

this act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted. That the possession by

any person within said county of any partridges, quail,

Evidence.

woodcock or rabbit without having complied with the neces-

sary requirements of this act to enable him to take or kill