388 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dollars, authorizing the holder thereof to catch any birds,
collect and take their nests and eggs, for scientific purposes
only, without being subject to the penalties imposed by this
section; but before said clerk shall issue said permit he shall
require the applicant to produce before him satisfactory writ-
ten testimony, from at least two scientific men, certifying to
the good character of the applicant, and that he is a proper
person to be entrusted with such privilege, and he shall also
demand from said applicant a good and sufficient bond, to be
approved by said clerk, in the sum of fifty dollars, conditioned
for the strict observance of the privilege so granted; should
the person obtaining such permit, catch any of the birds men-
tioned in section four or disturb or destroy the eggs as men-
tioned in section five of this article for other than scientific
purposes, he shall forfeit to 'the county the bond herein re-
quired to be given, and shall also be subject, for each offense,
to the penalties provided in this section for other persons.

7. The possession of any person, within said counties, of
any of the above mentioned birds, shot, killed or otherwise
destroyed, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation by
such person of section one; and it shall be the duty of the
constables of said counties, respectively, to arrest all persons
they may detect in, or who may be charged with the violation
of sections four and five, and take them before the nearest
justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law.

8. No person shall shoot, or in any manner catch, kill,
trap, take or have in possession in Baltimore county, any
rabbit, pheasant, partridge, or woodcock, between December
24th and November 1st, exclusive of both dates, or upon any
Sunday or election day or when the ground is covered with
snow; and no person shall shoot, or in any manner catch, kill,
trap, take or have in possession in Baltimore county, any
squirrel, between November 1st and September the 15th,
exclusive of both dates, or upon any Sunday or election day.

9. No person or corporation or transportation company
shall have the right to buy, sell or offer for sale for the pur-
pose of export from Baltimore county or to export from or to
carry out of said Baltimore county any pheasant, partridge or
woodcock, except as in this article otherwise provided. Any
person violating the provisions of either this or the preceding
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and
every bird, rabbit, or squirrel so taken, killed or have in pos-
session or transported, bought or sold for export, and in