JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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sive, in each and every year, or any snipe or plover between
the first day of May and the tenth day of September, follow-
.ing, both days inclusive, in each and every year, under a fine
of not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each
of the aforesaid birds or game animals so shot, caught, killed
or in possession.

CHAP. 410.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any justice of the peace
of this State in and for the county where the offense shall be
committed, shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all
prosecutions for the purpose of enforcing fines and costs
collectable under the provisions of this Act, and all such
fines and costs are hereby expressly made subject to the pro-
visions of section 8 of chapter 293 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at the Session of 1896 ;
and in all cases where such prosecutions are begun or instituted
by any person other than the State Game Warden or one of
the Deputy Game Wardens of this State, and shall result in
the collection of a fine or fines, then one-half of such fine or
fines after the proper Court costs or magistrates' costs in the
trial and decision of the case shall have been paid, shall be
paid to the informer, and the other half to the school fund of
the county in which said prosecution is conducted, and in
failure to pay such fine and costs the offender shall be com-
mitted by the judge or justice of the peace who imposed the
fine to the county jail for ten days.

Justices of
the peace
have
Jurisdiction,

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act shall
apply to any person who may have in his possession part-
ridges, quail or pheasant imported into the State of Maryland
for breeding purposes.

Not to apply
to persons
having game
for breeding
purposes.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts,
and all sections or parts of sections of the Code of Public
General and Public Local Laws now in force in the State of
Maryland inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act,
be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

Repeal.