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Scalp or Head shall be brought, is hereby required to give the Per-
sons bringing the same a Certificate thereof, and cause the said
Heads and Scalps to be burnt, or otherwise destroyed.
And be it further Enacted, That every Person who shall kill or
destroy any red Fox in any of the aforesaid Counties of Kent,
Queen Anne's, or Talbot, and shall bring the Head of the same to

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any Justice of the Peace for the aforesaid Counties, who is hereby
required to burn or otherwise destroy the same, and give the Person
so bringing such Fox's Head a Certificate thereof; shall be allowed
for every such Head, in the County Levy, the Quantity of twenty
Pounds of Tobacco.

[Twenty
Pounds of
Tobacco
allowed
for each red
Fox killed.]

Provided always, That no Person whatsoever, other than those
who shall be Residents in the aforesaid Counties of Kent, Queen
Anne's, and Talbot, shall be intitled to such Rewards as is herein
before directed; nor any such Residents, until he, she, or they shall
first make Oath before a Justice of the Peace, or Affirmation (if a
Quaker) , or make appear by the Oath, or Affirmation (if a Quaker) ,
of some other credible Person, that such Crow, Squirrel, or Fox
was, to his, her, or their Knowledge, or the Knowledge of such other
credible Person, actually killed after the Commencement of this
Act, and in the County where the Allowance is prayed.

[Proviso.]

Provided always, That the said several Sums herein before men-
tioned to be allowed for every such Squirrel's Scalp, Crow's or
Fox's Head, shall and may be collected, paid, and discharged by the
Inhabitants of the said Counties of Kent, Queen Anne's, and Tal-
bot, respectively, as other Public and County Levies are collected,
paid, and discharged.

[Proviso.]

This Act to continue for three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said
three Years.

[Continu-
ance of this
Act.]

June 23^d 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry
of this province I will
this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle

The Great Seal in
wax appendant

23 June 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up. Ho.

An Act to impower the Justices of Queen Anne's County Court to
sell the Materials of the old Prison of that County, and the Pro-
duce thereof to apply as therein directed.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Justices of

Queen Anne's County Court, for the Time being, and they are

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[Money
arising from
the Sale of
the old
Prison, to be
applied
towards de-
f ra3'ing the
Expence
of the

County.]