478 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.
p. 503

the Upper Part of the said Parish. Be it therefore Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid, That from henceforth the said Mr. De Butts
shall, and he is hereby required and obliged to perform Divine
Service, and preach in the said Court-House, every third Sunday,
as he has lately done, unless he shall be hindered therefrom by Sick-
ness, or some other lawful Cause; any Order of the Vestry, or Cus-
tom, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

31^st May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Sam. Ogle

the great Seal in
Wax appendant

I. June 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper house of
Assembly.
Signed p Order
J Ross. Cl Up Ho.

No. 22

An Act to encourage the destroying of Squirrels and Crows, in the
several Counties therein mentioned.

[Allowance
for killing
Squirrels
& Crows, in
Dorchester,
Baltimore,
and Cecil
Counties.]

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 the Justices of Dorchester, Baltimore, and Cascil
Counties respectively, shall, at the laying of their County Levies,
yearly, allow unto the several Inhabitants of their said Counties
respectively, for the Scalp of every Squirrel, and the Head of every
Crow, the Sum of two Pounds of Tobacco, that shall be produced
over and above the three Squirrel Scalps or Crows Heads, which
they are obliged to produce by any former Law of this Province.
And be it likewise Enacted, That from and after the tenth Day of
June, Seventeen hundred and fifty, every Person or Persons, who
shall bring to any Justice of the Peace within the said Counties of
Dorchester, Baltimore, and Caecil, any Squirrel's Scalp or Crow's
Head, and shall and will make Oath on the Holy Evangels of Al-
mighty God (or Affirmation if a Quaker) that the Squirrels or
Crows, of which he, she, or they then and there actually produced
the Heads or Scalps of, were really and bona fide killed within such

[County
Justices to
give Certifi-
cates to Per-
sons bring-
ing Heads of
Squirrels or
Crows.]

County after the said tenth Day of June, Seventeen hundred and
fifty (naming the County); and upon such Oath taken, or Affirma-
tion made, that the Justice of the Peace of the respective Counties
aforesaid, before whom such Oath shall be taken or Affirmation
made, and such Scalps or Crows Heads produced, shall, and he or
they are hereby directed to burn, or cause to be burnt, such Scalps
or Heads in his Presence, to the intire destroying of them; and
after such burning and destroying such Justice of the Peace shall,
and he is hereby directed to give to the Person or Persons bringing
such Scalps or Heads, and making Oath or Affirmation as aforesaid,
a Certificate of his, her, or their having produced the same; insert-