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the provisions of this Act, and all such fines and penalties
are hereby expressly made subject to the provisions of Sec-
tion 8 of Chapter 293 of the Acts of the General 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 his
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 costs of the magis-
trate in convicting the offender shall have been paid, shall
be paid to the informer, and the other half to the school
fund of the city or county in which said prosecution is con-
ducted. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in
any manner to throw or cause to be thrown any slab of
timber or other substance across or into any stream, under a
penalty of two dollars ($2) for each fish so caught, taken or
killed.
85. No person shall have in possession, expose for sale,
sell or buy any of the aforesaid, alive or dead, in the city of
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Justices of the
peace have
Jurisdiction.
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Baltimore, or in any of the counties of this State during the
aforesaid respective closed season or dates, except white
perch, between which it is made unlawful, by the preceding
sections of this Act, to catch or kill the same, or at any time
of any size less than there is provided, whether such fish so
had in possession, exposed for sale, sold or bought, shall
have been caught, trapped or in any other manner taken or
killed in that county, or in any other county of this State,
or in any other State, territory or county, under a penalty
for having in possession, exposing for sale, selling or buying
of each such fish similar in amount, respectively, to that
hereinbefore made, and provided for the illegal catching of
the same; but nothing in this section contained shall be so
construed as to prevent any of the fish commissioners of
this State, in pursuance of their capacity as fish culturists,
or any other person or corporation which shall first obtain a
certificate in writing from the State game warden, to the
effect that such persons or corporations are engaged in the
scientific culture or propagation of fish, from having in his
or its possession alive at any time any fish for the purpose
of said scientific culture or propagation only; and to obtain
said certificate said persons or corporations must file with
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Unlawful to
have in pos-
session,
expose for
sale or buy
certain
kinds of
fish.
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