JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Section 31. It shall not be lawful to shoot, kill or in any
way entrap or destroy any wild birds or any wild fowl of
any description, except hawks, crows, owls, English sparrows,
wild geese, wild ducks, wild pigeons, jack snipe, sand snipe,
plover, cedar birds and rails, or to shoot, kill, entrap, wound
or destroy any rabbit, squirrel, deer or fawn ; provided, how-
ever, that it shall be lawful to shoot woodcock between the
twelfth day of July and the twenty-fifth day of December;
pheasants and doves between the twelfth day of August and
the twenty-fifth day of December ; squirrel between the
fifteenth day of September and the twenty-fifth day of
December; deer and wild turkey between the first day of
November and the first day of the following January ; quail,
partridges and rabbits between the first day of November
and the twenty-fifth day of December ; but it shall not be
lawful to use ferrits to hurt or kill rabbits at any time.

CHAP. 379.
Game law.

Section 31 A. It shall not be lawful for any person not a
bona fide resident or taxpayer of the State of Maryland or
District of Columbia to shoot, hunt, catch or kill any game
or fish of any kind in the county of Washington, without
having first obtained from the clerk of the Circuit Court of
said county a license permitting the person therein named to
shoot, hunt, catch or kill game or fish in said county for the
period of one year from the date of the issue thereof. And
such license shall not be transferable ; and in order to guard
against such transfer, the clerk at the time of issuing the
same shall write a description of the party obtaining the same
on the back thereof, as a means of identification of such
license ; a license fee of ten dollars shall be charged for such
license, besides the fifty cents to said clerk for issuing such
license. The whole amount of license money so received shall

License to be
obtained.

by said clerk be paid to the Board of School Commissioners
of said county for the use of the public schools therein. Any
non-resident of said county convicted before a justice of the
peace for gunning and fishing therein without such license
shall be fined ten dollars for each, offense, and in default of
payment of such tine and cost shall be committed to the
county jail for a period of thirty days, and for the purpose of
the strict enforcement of the aforesaid provision of this and
the next preceding section the sheriff, deputy sheriff, constables
and road supervisors in said county are hereby clothed with
the powers conferred on game wardens and deputy game
wardens by the general law of this State, and shall receive
similar remuneration. The licensees under this section shall
always when hunting carry their licenses with them, and shall
present them to any of the aforegoing officers when demanded
by them, and upon failing to produce such license the said

Penalty
for violation.