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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

flesh deem-
ed the
killer, &c.

•hall be found, that shall not appear to have been killed agree-
ably to the provisions of this act, 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 killed the same, or from whom such per-

son thereof possessed, received the same, or that the same was

killed agreeably to the provisions of this act.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the Preservation

of the Breed of Wild Deer, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

1833, ch. 203.

Proceedings

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

directed.

That from and after the passage of this act, in addition to the

provisions of the aforesaid act to which this is a further supple-

ment, it shall be lawful for proceedings to be had in Allegany

county, in the name of the state of Maryland in pursuance of

this act and the act to which this is a further supplement, before

any justice of the peace against any and every person, against

whom complaint may be made, and proof of the fact of him or

them, in person or by agent, being engaged in killing or trying

to kill or destroy by catching or running with dogs or otherwise

any wild deer, out of the season as is prescribed in and by the

act to which this is a further supplement, and the said justice

may and shall determine on the matter and proceed for the re-

covery of the sum as adjudged against the defendant or defen-

dants, as in cases of small debts within the jurisdiction of a

Disposition

justice of the peace, one half of said fine to the informer, and the

of proceeds

other to the commissioners of Allegany county, to be added to

the free school fund, and distributed among the several election

districts, at the discretion of said commissioners, in said county.

Remedy at
law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted That this act shall not be so
construed as to justify any person or persons in shooting, crip-

pling or killing any dogs found in pursuit of deer, and any

owner or owners of said dogs that may be injured or killed

may have their remedy at law as before the passage of this act.

ELECTIONS.

AN ACT to reduce the per diem of the Judges and Clerks of Elections

in Allegany County.— 1810, ch. 46.

Allowance
to judges

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the judges and clerks of

and clerks
of elections

elections in Allegany county, shall each of them be allowed, for

in Allegany
county.

every election at which they respectively attend, and for making
the returns of the said election, the sum of two dollars per day,

and no more, to be levied and paid as other county charges! any

law to the contrary notwithstanding.