BALTIMORE COUNTY. 589

Local Laws, title "Baltimore County," is hereby repealed;
and Chapter 681 of Acts of General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at January Session of 1908, are hereby repealed and
re-enacted and four additional sections added thereto to be
known as 17A, 17B, 17C and 17D, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to
shoot or otherwise kill or injure with such intent any of the
following named birds, within the limits of Baltimore County,
viz., blue bird, ground sparrow, whippoorwill, wren, pewit,
goldfinch, sapsucker, ground robin, hanging bird or wood-
pecker.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and
unnecessarily to destroy or' disturb the eggs of any of the
above mentioned birds.

SEC. 6. Any person violating either of the two preceding
sections shall, on conviction thereof, be fined a sum not less
than two dollars and not more than ten dollars for each offense,
with the costs of prosecution; and all prosecutions shall be in
the name of the State before a Justice of the Peace of the said
county; provided, that anyone applying to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County may obtain a permit good
for one year from the date of issue by paying to the said clerk
the sum of five dollars authorizing the holder thereof to catch
any birds, collect and take their nests and eggs for scientific pur-
poses only, without being subject to the penalty imposed by
this section; but before said clerk shall issue said permit he
shall require the applicant to produce before him satisfactory
written 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 one or disturb or destroy the eggs as men-
tioned in Section two 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 purposes.

SEC. 7. The possession of any person, within said county, 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 three, and it shall be the duty of the
constable or deputy game warden of said county to arrest all
persons they may detect in or who may be charged with the
violation of Sections one and two, and take them before a Jus-
tice of the Peace, to be dealt with according to law.