JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 550.
AN ACT to repeal Section forty of Article 11 of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "Frederick County," sub-
title "Birds and Game," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted bv the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section forty of Article 11 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Birds and
Game," be and the same hereby is repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

Frederick Co.
Birds and
game.

Sec. 40. That it shall not be lawful for any person to shoot,
trap, or by any other means to kill, destroy or catch any
pheasant or partridge within the limits of Frederick County
before the fifteenth day of November, in the year nineteen
hundred and two, and that after the said fifteenth day of No-
vember, in the year nineteen hundred and two, and each year
thereafter, it shall not be lawful for any person to shoot, trap,
or by any other means to kill, destroy or catch any pheasant
or partridge within the limits of said county except between
the fifteenth day of November and the twenty-fourth day of
December, inclusive, in each and every year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage .

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 551.
AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland to the deed from the German-
American Fire Insurance Company, to Israel Baptist Church
of Baltimore City.

Unlawful to
shoot, trap,
kill, etc.,
pheasants or
partridge
within certain
specified times

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction and consent of the General Assembly
of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared, given and
granted to the conveyance of certain property by the German-
American Fire Insurance Company to Israel Baptist Church
of Baltimore City, by deed bearing date the 31st day of De-

Israel Baptist
Church of
Baltimore city