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Surveyor. 176. Compensation of. 177. Plata, compensation for. Taxes. 178. Sale of timber on lands of non- residents for, proceedings. 179. Certificate to purchaser; time within which purchaser may ent such timber. 180. If not sufficient timber on land to pay taxes, collector may sell land upon which taxes due. proceedings. 181. Redemption of land by owner. Terrapins. 182. When lawful for citizens of Charles county to catch. 183. Only bona fide citizens may catch. 184. Violation of two preceding sec- tions; penalty.

185. Boat and seine of person violat- ing said sections responsible for fine. 186. Unlawful to catch, less than six inches long, penalty; when un- lawful to catch Wild Fowl. 187. Who may shoot upon Patuxent river. 188. Violation of preceding section; penalty. 189. None but bona fide residents of county may shoot without first obtaining license. 190. Violation of preceding section; penalty. 191. Possession of, prima facie evidence of violation of this sub-title. 192. Fines, how applied. 193. Duty of sheriff and constables to arrest persons violating this sub-title. 194. Bona, fide citizens may shoot from sink-boxes.

ALMSHOUSE.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. O, sec. 1.

1. The trustees of the poor of Charles county are a body
corporate, with power to sue and be sued, by the name of "The
Trustees of the Poor in Charles County," and by that name may
take and hold any gift, donation or present which may be given,
devised or bequeathed by any person to them for the support of
the poor in said county; and may purchase and hold any lands
or tenements not exceeding the yearly value of twenty-five
hundred dollars.

Ibid. sec. 2.

2. They may have and use a common seal, and may change
the same at pleasure.

Ibid. sec. 3.

3. As often as any one of the trustees shall die or remove ont
of the county, the trustees for the time being, or the majority of
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