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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Laws, entitled " Wild Fowl," as amended and re-

enacted by the act of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, at the session of eighteen hundred and sixty-two,

Repealed and
re-enacted.

chapter forty-three, entitled ''An act to amend sec-
tions thirteen and fifteen of article ninety-eight of

the Code of Public General Laws," entitled " Wild

Fowl," relating to the catching and killing of

partridges, woodcock and pheasants, be and the

same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to

read as follows :

SEC. 13. No person shall shoot or in any manner

catch, kill or have in possession any partridge be-

tween the twenty-fourth day of December, said day

included, and the first day of November next ensuing,

Prohibited
from killing

in each and every year ; nor any woodcock between
the first day of February and the fifteenth day of

partridges,

June ; nor any pheasant between the first day of
January, said day included, and the fifteenth day of

August ; nor any rabbit between the fifteenth day

of January and the fifteenth day of October; nor

shall any person trap or destroy, or molest the eggs

or nests of any of the said birds at any time.

SEC. 15. Any person violating either of the sec-

Fine for vio-
lation.

tions thirteen or fourteen, shall pay a fine of not
more than ten dollars for each and every partridge,

woodcock, pheasant or rabbit shot or in any manner

caught, killed, or in their possession; or for any

partridge trapped, or for any egg or nest molested

or destoyed contrary to section thirteen ; said fines

to be recovered before a justice of the peace of the

county or city where the offence is committed, or by

indictment in the court having criminal jurisdiction

in the county or city where the offence is committed;

and in default of payment of the fine or fines im-

posed hereunder, the offender shall be committed to

jail for thirty days for each offence, and the non-

payment of each and every fine shall be considered

Fines— how

a separate offence within the meaning hereof; one-

disposed of.

half of all fines imposed hereunder shall go to the

informer.

Approved April — , 1878.