178 Assembly Proceedings, May 21-June 16, 1730.

Session
Laws

Person or Persons within this Province, (the Indians in Amity with
us excepted) from the End of this Session of Assembly, to the last
Day of July, this present Year, and in every Year afterwards between
the first Day of January, and the last Day of July, to kill any Deer,
under the Penalty of Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every
Deer so killed, to be recovered before a single Magistrate, (as in
Cases of small Debts,) by the Oath of the Informer, and to be applied,
the one half thereof to the Use of the Publick School of the County
where such Offence shall be committed, the other half to the Use of
the Person so informing.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That any Person, in whose
Hands or Custody any Deers Flesh shall be found, that shall appear
to have been killed between the End of this present Session of Assem-
bly, and the last Day of July this present Year, and in every Year
afterwards, between the first Day of January, and the last Day of
July, shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be the Killer of such
Deer, and liable to the Penalty aforesaid, unless such Person make
appear before a Magistrate, who it was that really killed the same,
or from whom such Person or Persons thereof possessed, received
the same.

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And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Con-
sent aforesaid, That it is the true Intent and Meaning of this Act,
that the Liberty given to the Indians aforesaid, shall extend only to
the killing of Deer for their private Use, and not for Sale; and that
it shall not be lawful for any Inhabitant within this Province, under
the Penalty aforesaid, to be recovered as aforesaid, for the Uses
aforesaid, to purchase any dead Deer, or any Part thereof, of any
Indian or Indians within the Time prohibited by this Act to kill
Deer in.

Repeals
1729, ch. 21

And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That an Act of Assembly made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Tenth Day of July,
Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty Nine,
Intituled, An Act for the Preservation of the Breed of Wild Deer,
be, and is hereby repealed, abrogated, and made null and void.

Chap. XXII

An Act to ascertain the Fees of Practitioners of the Law within this
Province, and to prevent Extortions, Frauds, and Abuses therein.
Forasmuch, as it is necessary to ascertain the Fees of Practitioners
of the Law within this Province :
Be It Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governour, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That from and after the End of this present Session of Assem-