LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

shall have been shot, or in any manner caught or killed in that
county, or in any other county of this State, or in any other
State, territory or country, under a penalty for the having in
possession, exposing for sale, selling or buying of each such
bird or game animal, similar in amount, respectively, to that
hereinbefore made and provided for the illegal shooting or
having in possession of the same ; but nothing, in this section
or the preceding sections contained, shall be so construed as to
prevent any person or corporation from having in his or its
possession, at any time, any live birds or game animals, for the
purpose of stocking lands in this State.

15 H. No person shall, in this State, at any time shoot or in

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any manner catch or kill, expose for sale, sell or buy, or have
in possession, alive or dead, any turkey-buzzard, wren, sparrow,
blue bird, humming bird, bluejay, migratory or other thrush,
wood robin, red-breasted robin, martin, mocking bird, cat bird,
swallow, oriole, red bird, lark, indigo bird, joe wink, pewitt,
sapsucker, whipporwill, gold finch, yellow-breasted chat, cedar
bird, herring gull or mackerel gull, or gull of any description,
under a penalty of not less than one ($1) dollar nor more than
five ($5) dollars for each such bird so shot, caught, killed, exposed
for sale, sold, bought or had in possession ; and no person shall,
under like penalty, have in his or her possession, offer for sale
or wear, the skins, plumage, wings or feathers of any of the
birds, the catching or killing of which is prohibited by this
section ; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to make it unlawful to shoot, catch or kill,
or in any manner destroy, at any time, any hawk or other birds
destructive to domestic poultry, or any English sparrow, or
crow, or blackbird ; provided, that this section shall not apply
to St. Mary's county and Calvert county; provided, that it
shall be lawful to have mocking birds or red birds, or other
song birds in cages or stuffed specimens of any said birds in
educational institutions, or public or private museums.

15 J. No person shall, at any time, in this State shoot at or

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kill any of the birds or game animals permitted to be shot or
killed under this Act, with any other kind of gun than such as
is habitually raised at arm's length from the shoulder, under a
penalty of not less than tive ($5) dollars nor more than twenty-
five ($25) dollars for every such bird or game animal so shot at
or killed, and under a further penalty of not less than fifty
($50) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for
each offense, and every gun which is not so habitually fired
from the shoulder, as aforesaid, shall be liable to seizure by

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