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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 269.

Penalty
or violation.

tion thereof before a justice of the peace of this State, shall
be fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars for each
terrapin so taken or held in possession, or for destroying such
eggs, and the terrapin so held in possession shall be confiscated
and returned by the officer making the arrest to the public
natural waters for terrapin ; one-half of all such fines to go to
the informer, and the balance to the general warden.

Evidence of
violation.

6. The possession by any person of terrapins between the
first day of April and the first day of November shall be con-
clusive evidence of violation of this Article.

May make
arrests.

7. The constable, game warden and officers of the State
Fishery Force shall, upon information of any one, arrest any
person or persons violating the provisions of this Article, and
take them before the nearest justice of the peace to be dealt
with in accordance to the provisions of section 5.

How to be
construed.

SEC. 2. That this Act shall not be construed so as to effect
any prosecutions for violations of this Article, or any section
thereof, for offences committed prior to the passage of this Act.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 260.

AN ACT for the relief of the trustee, next of kin and dis-
tributees of the late John T. Gray, former Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, aiad for the
settlement of the litigation now pending between said
trustee, next of kin and distributees of said John T. Gray
and the State of Maryland.

Preamble

WHEREAS, The claim has been made by the State of Mary-
land that the late John T. Gray, former Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas, received from the bank in which he
deposited the public funds in his hands as Clerk of the said
Court of Common Pleas certain sums of money as interest
for the use of said public funds, and that said John T. Gray
retained said interest money so received for his own use and
did not turn the same into the public treasury at the time he
accounted for the principal sums of public money received by
him, and
WHEREAS, The further claim has been made by the State
of Maryland that interest money, as matter of law, belongs to
the State of Maryland ; and
WHEREAS, A suit in equity lias been brought by the said
State of Maryland against The Baltimore Trust and Guarantee
Company as trustee of the last will of the said John T. Gray,