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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 434.

to be known as Sections 38 A, 38 B, 38 C, 38 D and 38 C of
said Article.

New sections
added.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That five additional sections be and the same are
hereby added to section 38 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of the State of Maryland, title "Cecil County, " sub-title
"Birds and Game, " to be known as sections 38 A, 38 B, 38 C,
38 D and 38 E of said Article, and to read as follows:

Game law.

Section 38 A. That from and after passage of this Act it
shall be unlawful for any person not a citizen of this county
to hunt, kill, take or destroy, sell or expose for sale, or have
in his or her possession after the same has been killed, any
partridge, grouse, quail, woodcock, rabbit or hare, reed-bird,
ortolon or railbird and summer duck, unless he shall have first
obtained a license from the clerk of the Circuit Court of
Cecil County; said license fee to be tive dollars and fifty cents;
five dollars of said fee to be turned into the county treasury
and fifty cents to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil
County for issuing said license; provided, however, that if
any land owner may extend the privilege of killing game
upon his land to any person, then in such case no license will
be required.

Game law.

Section 38 B. That from and after the passage of this Act
it shall be unlawful for any person within the county to kill
or destroy while the ground is covered with snow any
partridge, grouse, quail or woodcock or have in his or her pos-
session any bird or animal mentioned in this Act that has been
killed or taken as aforesaid.

Penalty
for violation

Section 38 C. That if any person shall be found guilty of
violating any of the provisions of this Act he shall be deemed
guilty of a common nuisance, and upon conviction thereof
before any justice of the peace in this State he or she shall
be fined tive dollars and costs for each and every offense, and
be committed to the jail of the county until said fine and
costs are paid.

Plenary
Jurisdiction.

Section 38 D. That the justices of the peace of this State
shall have plenary jurisdiction of all offenses against the pro-
visions of this Act. and upon the affidavit made, that a person
has violated any of the provisions of this Act to forthwith
issue his warrant directed to the sheriff or to any constable
commanding him to arrest the person so charged, and to bring
him or her forthwith before such justice for trial, and if upon
each trial the said justice shall find that the person arrested has
violated any of the provisions of any section of this Act and
such person shall fail to pay forthwith the tine imposed by said