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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any manner catch, kill or have in possession
in Carroll county, any partridge between the
twenty-fourth day of December, (said day in-
cluded), and the twentieth day of October next

Game season.

ensuing, in each and every year; nor any
woodcock between the first day of January
and the first day of July; nor any pheasant
between the twenty-fourth day of December,
(said day included), and the first day of October
nor any rabbit between the twenty-fourth day
of December and the fifteenth day of October ;:.
nor any squirrel between the twenty-fourth
day of December and the first day of Septem-
ber; nor shall any person during such period
destroy or molest the eggs or nests of said
birds in said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person
or persons violating the preceding section or
any of its provisions, shall pay a fine of ten.
dollars for each and every partridge, pheasant,
woodcock, rabbit or squirrel so shot, killed
or found in the possession of said person, or
for any eggs or nests so molested; the said
fine or fines to be recovered before a Justice of
the Peace of said county, or by indictment in
the Circuit Court of said county, and in de-

Penalty.

fault of payment of the fine or fines imposed
hereunder, the offender shall be committed to
jail for not more than thirty days for each
offence, and the non-payment of each and
every fine shall be considered a separate
offence within the meaning hereof; one-half
of all of said fines shall go to the informer,
and the remainder to the County Commis-
sioners of said county, to be placed to the
credit of the School fund of said county.

Prima facie.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the possession
by any person within said county of any par-
tridge, pheasant, woodcock, rabbit or squirrel
during the time mentioned in this act, so shot
or killed, shall be prima facie evidence of the
commission of such offence as aforesaid.