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correspond with said name or number of license issued to
him.

Section 59 (b) It shall be lawful for any person to hunt
any Raccoon or Opossum within the State of Maryland, be-
tween the first day of November and the thirty-first day
of January, following, in each and every year, both dates
inclusive. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt
any Raccoon or Opossum between sunrise and sunset. It
shall be unlawful to cut a tree at any time for the purpose
of catching, killing or dislodging a Raccoon or Opossum,
unless by consent of owner of said tree or trees, and no
person shall set, place, keep or maintain any steel traps or
other similar device for the purpose of catching Raccoon
or Opossum.

Provided, however, an owner of a dog or dogs, between
October 1st and October 20th, both dates inclusive, may be
permitted to run or train such dog or dogs on Raccoon or
Opossum, provided an attendant accompanies it or them but
in so doing no person shall be allowed or permitted to
carry a gun or firearms of any description, climbers or ax.
Be it further provided that it shall be unlawful to shake
or throw out from any tree or hollow any Raccoon or
Opossum between the 31st day of January and the 31st day
of October, inclusive, or have same in possession dead or
alive except live Raccoon or Opossum may be kept in cap-
tivity for progagation purposes upon securing a permit
from the State Game Warden.

Be it further provided that it shall be lawful to hunt,
pursue or kill any raccoon or raccoons found in the marsh
areas of this State when said raccoon or raccoons are de-
stroying muskrats or their homes.

Section 73. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt
for any elk or deer within the State of Maryland, at any
time, provided however, it shall be lawful to shoot or kill
any male deer or male elk with two or more points to one
antler during, any open season as provided by Section 20

of article 99.

Every person killing an elk or deer found in a wild

state, shall within twenty-four hours, write the State Game

Warden, giving name, address, hunter's license number

and county and location where said elk or deer was killed.

(a) It shall be unlawful to hunt in any manner any

elk or deer except through the use of a gun propelling one

all-lead or lead alloy or soft nosed or expanding bullet or