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580 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
SEC. 42 A. And be it further enacted, That no person, per-
sons, partnership, corporation or transportation company shall
buy, sell, have in possession or offer for sale for the purpose of
export from Harford County, or export from or carry out of
said County any rabbit, jack-rabbit, cotton-tail, partridge,
quail, squirrel or raccoon. Nothing in this Section, however, is
intended to prohibit a bona fide licensee, or a resident owner,
lessee or tenant from taking out of the County for private use
during the open season for the killing of said game, not more
than ten partridges or quail, five woodcock, ten jack-snipe, six
rabbits, one jack-rabbit, eight squirrels, or fifty rail birds.
SEC. 42 B. And be it further enacted, That no person or per-
sons shall set any trap, deadfall, pitfall, snare, steel trap or
other device for the taking or trapping of wild animals in said
Harford County, between the tenth day of December and the
tenth day of November, exclusive of both dates.
SEC. 42 C. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlaw-
ful for any owner or owners of a dog or dogs, male or female,
to permit his or their dogs, male or female, to run at large dur-
ing the closed season and pursue, kill, harm, destroy, catch or
take any bird, game, or animal mentioned in this Act, the eggs,
nests or young of any or all birds, game or animals mentioned
herein. Any person or persons who shall harbor or permit any
dog or dogs, male or female, to remain on or about his or their
premises shall be deemed the owner of such dog or dogs, male,
or female, for the purposes of this Section.
Nothing in this Section is intended, however, to prohibit any
owner or owners of a dog or dogs, male or female, from train-
ing his dog or dogs between September first and November
tenth, provided he accompanies it or them, but in so doing he
shall not be permitted to carry a gun.
SEC. 42 D. And be it further enacted, That it shall be un-
lawful for any person to shoot, kill, trap, take, destroy or have
in possession more than ten partridges or quail, five woodcock,
ten jack snipe, six rabbits, one jack-rabbit, or eight squirrels, in
any one day, nor more than fifty rail birds per tide.
SEC. 43. And be it further enacted, That any person or per-
sons, partnership or corporation violating any of the provisions
of the five preceding Sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace
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