DEER.

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applied to the use of the county, and the other half to be re-

ceived by the person who shall make information thereof*

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That any person or persons what-

Persons ha-

soever, in whose hands or custody any deer's flesh, or deer's

ving deer's
flesh con-

skin or skins, shall be found, that shall appear to have been

sidered the

killed at any other time except between the said fifteenth of

killer, &c.

September and the fifteenth of December yearly, shall be

deemed, taken and adjudged, the killer or destroyer of such

deer, and liable to the penalty aforesaid, unless such person or

persons shall make it appear who it was that really killed the

same, or from whom such person, thereof possessed, received

the same, or that the same was not killed contrary to the pro-

hibition of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any master, mistress or

Penalty on

overseer, shall willingly suffer any servant or servants, slave or
slaves, under his, her or their care and management, to hunt,

servants,
&c. hunting
deer, &c.

kill or destroy, any deer contrary to this act, the said master,

mistress or overseer, so offending, shall forfeit the sum of five

pounds, to be recovered and applied as before directed ; and if

any servant or servants, slave or slaves, do or shall hunt, kill or

destroy any deer contrary to this act, and without the privity

and knowledge of their master, mistress or overseer, and thereof

be convicted before a justice of the peace, such servant or ser-

vants, slave or slaves, shall be whipped not exceeding thirty-

nine lashes, at the discretion of such justice of the peace.

SEC. 4. Provided always, That nothing herein contained

Proviso.

shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent the owner

from killing tame deer, or deer actually confined within parks

or islands.

SEC. 5. Provided also, That nothing in this act contained

Proviso.

shall extend, or be construed to extend, to Washington, Balti-

more and Anne Arundel counties.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That an act, entitled, an act for

An act

the more effectual preservation of the breed of wild deer, passed

repealed.

at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-five,* be,

* Ch. 29.

and is hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for the more effectual pre-

* 1789, ch.

servation of the Breed of Wild Deer .—-1795, ch. 49.

5.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly tof Maryland, That

Penalty for

from and after the first day of May next, it shall not be lawful
for any person or persons whatsover, to kill, or otherwise de-

killing deer,
&c.

stroy, any wild deer in Washington or Allegany county, except

in the months of August, September, October, November and

December, yearly, under the penalty of five pounds current

money for every offence.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons in
whose hands or custody any deer's flesh, except dried venison,

Person ha-
ving deer's