Acts. 309

Proprietary his Heirs and Successors and to all Bodies Politick and
Corporate and all others not mentioned in this Act, their Several
and respective Rights
This Act to continue Seven years and unto the end of the next
session of Assembly which shall happen after the expiration of the
said Seven years.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

[Duration]

Dec.^r 14.^th 1765.
Read and Assented to
By the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p order
MMacnemara Clk :LoHo:

On Behalf of the Right
honble the Lord Propry
of this Province I Will
this be a Law
Hor:^o Sharpe

14.^th Dec.^r 1765.
Read and Assented to
By the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p order
UScott Cl: Up: Ho:

The Great Seal
in Wax app.t

No. 35 An Act for destroying of Crows and Squirrels in particular Counties,
Ex.^d and of red Foxes in Kent and Queen Ann's Counties.

p. 578

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority
of the Same that so much of an Act of Assembly made at a Session
of Assembly begun and Held at the City of Annapolis the third
day of October one Thousand Seven hundred and twenty eight
entituled an Act to encourage the destroying of Wolves Crows and
Squirrels as relates to the killing of Crows and Squirrels so far as
the same relates to the Several Counties of Saint Mary's, Somerset,
Charles, Ann Arundel Caecil, Calvert, Worcester, Talbot, Prince
George's, Frederick and Dorchester be and is hereby repealed
abrogated and made Null and void.

[The Act of
1728, Ch. 7,
repealed]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from
and after the first day of March next every Master, Mistress, Owner
of a Family or Single Taxable in the Counties of Somerset, Csecil,
Worcester and Dorchester shall be and are by this Act obliged
yearly at some time before the laying their County Levy to produce
to some one of the Justices of the Peace of their County four
Squirrel Scalps or Crows Heads for every taxable Person they shall
Pay Levy for that year, and the Several Justices of the Peace before
whom such Squirrel Scalps or Crows Heads shall be brought shall
burn or Cause to be burnt or otherwise destroyed such Squirrel
Scalps or Crows Heads that shall be so produced to him or them
to prevent their being produced a Second time and give Such Person
a Certificate under his hand certifying the Number of Squirrel Scalps
or Crows Heads such Person brought before him which Certificate
the Person obtaining the Same shall lay before the Justices of their
County at the time of laying their County Levy and the Justices of
the said Counties Severally Shall then Cause a List of Taxables to
be laid before them in order from thence to compare the Numbers of

[Taxables in
Somerset,
Caecil,
Worcester
and Dor-
chester to
produce four
squirrel
scalps or
crows heads]