ART. 99.] WILD FOWL, BIRDS AXD GAME. 1455

ded and apportioned in the following manner: one-half to the
officer and those who assisted him in making the arrest and
seizure, and the balance to be paid over to the county commis-
sioners for the benefit of the school fund of the county. The
preceding sections shall not apply to Baltimore, Harford or Cecil
counties, as to which special prevision is made in the local laws
thereof.

Birds and Came.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 98, sec. 13. 1878, ch. 460. 1882, ch. 139. 1888, ch. 29.

13. No person shall shoot or in any manner catch, kill or have
in possession any partridge between the first day of February
(said day included) and the first day of November next ensuing
in each and every year; nor any woodcock, between the first day
of February and the fifteenth day of June; nor any pheasant
between the first day of January (said day included) and the
fifteenth day of August; nor any rabbit between the fifteenth

day of January and the fifteenth day of October; nor shall any
person trap or destroy or molest the eggs or nests of any of the
said birds at any time. This section shall not apply to Dorchester

county.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1858, ch. 263, sec. 4.

14. No person keeping a tavern, restaurant or eating house,
nor any market man, shall expose for sale or have in his posses-
sion in this State any partridge, woodcock or pheasant, between
the times within which the killing of such birds is forbidden by
the preceding section.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1862, ch. 43. 1878, ch. 460.

15. Any person violating either of sections 13 or 14, shall
pay a fine of not more than ten dollars for each and every part-
ridge, woodcock, pheasant or rabbit shot or in any manner caught,
tilled, or in his possession; or for any partridge trapped, or for
any egg or nest molested or destroyed contrary to section 13;
said fines to be recovered before a justice of the peace of the
county or city where the offence is committed, or by indictment
in the court having criminal jurisdiction in the county or Baltimore
city where the offence is committed; and in default of payment of
the fine or fines imposed hereunder, the offender shall be committed