JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

required for any of the purposes aforesaid by agreement with
the owner or owners of any land, earth, stone, gravel or other
materials, or any improvements wanted for the construction
or repair of said railway or its works, for the purchase, or use,
or occupation of the same, and in case it does not agree with
said owner or owners, or if the owner or owners, or any of
them, be a femme covert, or under age, or non-compos mentis,
or out of the county in which the property required may be
or lie when such land or materials shall be needed, the said
company may proceed to condemn and acquire the use of the
same for the purposes of said railway, or for the purposes of
the motive power thereof, in the manner provided by the Code
of Public General Laws, Article 23, Sections 167, 167A., 169
and 173, inclusive, as far as the same may be applicable, and
may condemn lands, easements, rights of way, materials and
privileges for the purposes of the company in the manner
aforesaid.

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SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said company
shall enjoy and have all the general powers, provisions and
privileges, and be subject to the general regulations contained
in Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of this State
so far as the same may be necessary and proper to enable it
to exercise the powers hereinbefore granted.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1900.

CHAPTER 713.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 27 and 28 of Article 6 of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "Caroline County," sub-
title "Birds and Game," and to re-enact the same, with
amendments.

General
powers, etc.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 27 and 28 of Article 6 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Caroline County," sub-title "Birds
and Game," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, to read as follows:

Caroline Co.
Birds and
game.

27. It shall not be lawful for any person in Caroline County
to shoot, kill, catch or in any way entrap any partridges (or
quails), rabbits (or hares), or squirrels in said county between
the twenty-fourth day of December and the fifteenth day of
November in each and every year; nor any woodcock between

Unlawful to
catch or kill
certain named
game between
certain dates
specified.