LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1832.

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to the sum of one dollar for his services, per day, and that each
and every juror, after being returned summoned, shall, on his
non-attendance, be subject to an attachment, and fined thereon,
in the discretion of the justice or justices of the peace to whom
such summons may be returned, any sum not exceeding ten
dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said justices in such cases
are further authorized and directed to tax the costs of the pro-
ceedings so as to include the allowance to jurymen, and to give
judgment accordingly, and thereupon to issue execution, if
required.

Judgment
for costs.

CHAPTER 128.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for Quieting
Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and securing the Estates of Pur-
chasers.

*1715, ch.
47.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all deeds or instruments of writing, which have been taken, ex-
ecuted, and acknowledged, within this state, since the first day
of September last, which may not have been certified by the
takers of the acknowledgments of said deeds or instruments of
writing, as required by the act of December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and five, be, and
the same are hereby confirmed and made valid, to all intents
and purposes ; Provided, that in all other respects, the act, en-
titled, an act for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances,
and securing the estates of purchasers, and the several supple-
ments thereto, have been complied with.

Deed con-
firmed in
certain
cases.

CHAPTER 134.

AN ACT for the preservation of Wild Fowl in the Potomac River, and
its tributary streams.
Supplement, 1836, ch. 105.

WHEREAS, the general assembly of the commonwealth of
Virginia, on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, passed an act, enti-
tled, an act for the preservation of fish and wild fowl in the
waters of the Potomac, and its tributary streams. Now, in
order to give full effect to the aforesaid law of the common-
wealth of Virginia, so far as it regards the shooting of wild
fowl, and for the further purpose of suppressing the mal-prac-
tices of divers persons who use such means of killing wild fowl,
that they are in danger of being wholly destroyed or driven from
the waters of this state, to the great detriment of the citizens
thereof, and the community at large ; And whereas, it is repre-
sented to this legislature by a large and respectable number of
the citizens of this state, that persons living upon the waters of
the Potomac, and its tributary streams, are subjected to great

Preamble.