1412 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

prima facie evidence against the person having such posses-
sion of a violation of this Section, except when it may appear
that such birds or game are for breeding purposes.

127. No person, persons, partnership, corporation or trans-
portation 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. Noth-
ing in this Section, however, is intended to prohibit a bona
fide licensee, or a owner, lessee or tenant from taking out of
the County for private use during the open season for the kill-
ing of said game, not more than ten partridges or quail, five
woodcock, ten jacksnipe, six rabbits, one jack-rabbit, eight
squirrels, or fifty rail birds.

128. No person or persons shall set any trap, deadfall, pit-
fall, snare, steel trap or other device for the taking or trapping
of wild animals, except muskrats, in said Harford County,
between the 24th day of December and the 10th day of No-
vember, exclusive of both dates.

129. It shall be unlawful 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 during 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
training 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.

130. It shall be unlawful 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.

131. Any person or persons, partnership or corporation
violating any of the provisions of the five preceding sec-
tions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof before any Justice of the Peace of said County