CHAP.
III.
Any credible
White Person
bringing the
Head of a
Wolf before
any Justice of
Frederick
County, and
making
Oath, &c.
such Magistrate
shall
give Certificate,
and judge of
the Age,
and cut the
Ears and
Tongue.
Allowance on
such Certificate,
20 s.
for every old,
and 15 s. for
every young
Wolf's Head
therein mentioned.
Repeal of the
Act of 1713,
ch. 13, and
its Supplementary
Act.
Continuance. |
II. And 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 when,
and as often as,
any credible White person or Persons, shall bring before any Justice of
the
Peace within Frederick County, the Head or Heads of any Wolf or
Wolves,
and make Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty GOD (or Affirmation if
a Quaker) that the Wolf or Wolves, of which he, she, or they, produces
the Head or Heads, was or were actually killed (or caught and killed, as
the
case shall happen) within the Limits of the aforesaid Frederick County,
within
Three Days next before the producing the same to such Justice, that then
such Justice shall, and is hereby obliged and directed, to give such Person
or Persons, producing such Wolves head or Heads, a Certificate for such
Head or Heads so produced and proved as aforesaid, and in such Certificate
to
mention the Oath or Affirmation taken, and therein distinguish, which,
or
how many of the Heads, was the Heads of Old or Young Wolves. And
every Justice that shall have any Wolves Head or Heads brought before him
by any Person as aforesaid, shall be, and he is hereby authorized and impowered
to judge of the Age of the said Wolf or Wolves, of which the
Head or Heads is brought before him; and if such Justice shall believe
the
Age of such Wolf or Wolves to exceed Three Months, that then he shall
distinguish it in his Certificate by the Words Old Wolf or Wolves;
but if
he shall believe the said Wolf or Wolves to be under the Age of Three
Months, that then he shall distinguish the same in his Certificate, by
the
Words Young Wolf, or Wolves: And that every Justice
to whom any Wolf's
Head is brought, and by whom a Certificate shall be given as aforesaid,
such
Justice is hereby obliged and directed, immediately to cut off the Ears,
and
to take out the Tongue, off and from the Head or Heads of such Wolf or
Wolves, to prevent such Head or Heads from being a second Time carried
before
a Justice in order to obtain a Certificate.
III. And
be it further Enacted, by
the Authority aforesaid, That every person
or Persons, who shall produce any Certificate as aforesaid, to the Justices
of the aforesaid Frederick County, in November Court yearly,
shall, for every
Young Wolf's Head, be allowed the Sum of Twenty Shillings, and for
every
Young Wolf's Head, the Sum of Fifteen Shillings Current Money, to be by
the Justices aforesaid, assessed and levied in the County Levy, Yearly
and every
Year, during the Continuance of this Act, together with the Sheriff's Salary
for collecting the same; and be paid by the Sheriff to such Person
or Persons
as shall be entitled to the same as aforesaid.
IV. And be it
likewise Enacted, That so much of any Act of Assembly of
this Province, entitled, An Act for Killing of Wolves, Crows, and Squirrels,
made at a Sessions of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis,
the
Twenty-seventh Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen,
and the Supplementary Act thereto, so far as relates to the making an Allowance
for any Wolf's Head, and that may thereby, in any Manner, affect
Frederick County aforesaid, be, and is hereby declared to be repealed,
abrogated,
and made null and void.
V. This Act to b continue
for Three Years, and unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said Three
Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
