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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

provisions of this Act, and all such fines and penalties are
hereby expressly made subject to the provisions of section 8 of
chapter 293 of the Acts of the General Aesembly of Mary-
land, 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 city or county in which
said prosecution is conducted.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
and all sections and parts of sections of the Code both of Gen-

Repeal.

eral and Local Laws, now in force in the State of Maryland,
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the same
are hereby repealed; provided, nothing in this Act shall in any
manner affect the Public Local Laws for Kent, Talbot, St.
Mary's, Calvert and Harford, also Allegany, Somerset, Wor-
cester, Caroline, Prince George's, Cecil, Frederick, Charles,
Dorchester, Montgomery, Queen Anne's, Carroll, Washington
and Wicomico counties relating to game and wild fowl, but
that the local laws shall remain in full force in said counties,
respectively.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage, provided, that nothing in this Act
shall alter the law as it now exists in Montgomery county as
to hunting and killing rabbits.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 207.
AN ACT to prohibit certain combinations in trade and the
means used to bring them about, and for that purpose to add
certain new sestions to Article 27 of the Code of Public
General Laws of the State of Maryland, title " Crimes and
Punishments," under the new sub title " Trade," to follow
Section 263, and to be known as Sections 263 A, 263 B, and
263 C.
WHEREAS, By the use of cunning devices now commonly

Preamble.

called "trading stamps," large combinations in trade have been
brought about in this State, and many traders have been induced
to enter into such combinations by threats and fear of the con-