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Game law.
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resident or tax payer of said county, to shoot any woodcock,
pheasant, partridges, rabbits or gi'ay squirrels in the said
county, without having first obtained from the clerk of
the Circuit Court for said county, a license permitting the
person named in said license to shoot game in said county, for
one year from the day on which said license is issued, no such
license to be issued before June fifteenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five, and when issued to give such license no rights
other than those possessed by citizens of the county under this
act; and the person named therein, or party procuring such
license, shall pay the said clerk for such license the sum of ten
dollars, which amount shall be turned over by the said clerk
to the board of school commissioners of Baltimore county for
the use of the public schools, and fifty cents to the clerk for a
fee for issuing said license; and any non-residont convicted
before a justice of the peace of said county, of gunning or
trapping within the limits of said county without a licence so
to do, shall be fined ten dollars for each bird, rabbit or gray
squirrel found in his possession or proven to have been killed
by him, in case nine are found in his possession, and shall
forfeit his gun or other instrument used by him in the killing
or taking thereof, the same to become the property of the
person on whose property such non-resident may be found
gunning or trapping; and on a failure to pay said fine of ten
dollars the offender shall be confined in the county jail for ten
days; provided, that any land owner may, by express authority
extend the privilege of killing said game upon his land to
whomsoever he pleases, during such parts of the year as the
killing of such game is lawful under section five, unless the
person so privileged be engaged in killing or taking said game
for the market, in which case the aforementioned license fee
of ten dollars shall be paid -in the manner specified; in case of
conviction for any offence under sections tive, six and seven,
one-half of all tines imposed shall be paid to the informer,
and the other half of said tines shall be paid to the board of
county school commissioners for said county for the use of the
public schools thereof.
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