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WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that
wolves are very numerous and mischievous in the county afore-
said, and that they destroy a great number of sheep ; therefore,
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Preamble.
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That when and as often as any credible free person or persons
shall biing before any justice of the peace for Baltimore county,
the head or heads of any wolf or wolves, and make oath, or
affirmation if a quaker, menonist or tunker, that the wolf or
wolves of which he or they produce the head or heads, were
actually caught and killed within the limits of Baltimore county
within six days next before the producing the same to such
justice, that then such justice shall and he is hereby authorized
and directed to give such person or persons producing the same a
certificate for such head or heads produced and proved as afore-
said, and in such certificate to mention the oath or affirmation
taken, and therein distinguished how many of the heads are of old
or young wolves ; and every justice who shall have any wolves'
head or heads brought before him by any person or persons as
aforesaid, shall be and he is hereby authorized and empowered
to judge of the age of the said wolf or wolves of which the said
head or heads was brought before him, and if such justice shall
believe the age of such wolf or wolves to exceed six months,
that then he shall distinguish it in his certificate by the words
old wolf or wolves, but if he shall believe the said wolf or
wolves to be under the age of six months, that he shall dis-
tinguish the same in his ceitificate by the words young wolf
or wolves ; and that every justice before whom any wolfs head
is brought, and by whom a certificate shall be given as aforesaid,
is hereby authorized and directed immediately to cause the ears
to be cut off, and the tongue to be taken out of and from the
head or heads of such wolf or wolves, to prevent such head or
heads from being a second time carried before a justice in order
to obtain a certificate.
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Justice to
give a certi-
ficate, &c.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every person or persons who
shall produce a certificate as aforesaid to the justices of Balti-
more county at the levy court, shall, for every old wolfs head,
be allowed forty dollars, and for every young wolfs head be
allowed ten dollars, to be by the said justices assessed and
levied in the county levy, together with the sheriffs commis-
sion for collecting the same, and to be paid by the sheriff to
such person or persons as shall be entitled to the same as afore-
said, any thing in any other law to the contrary notwith-
standing.
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Persons to
be allowed,
&c.
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