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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Compensation
of appraisers.

of the county wherein said default may exist, by
suit or warrant, as the case may bo, and the
Justice of the Peace and appraisers hereinbefore
provided for, shall be entitled to the same com-
pensation as now provided by law for similar ser-
vices in other cases; provided, that the tax herein
mentioned shall not be construed to apply to in-
corporated towns wherein a similar tax is imposed.

Stealing dog.

Sec. 11. And, be it enacted, That if any person
shall feloniously steal, take or carry away any
dog, the property of another, in either of the afore-
said counties of this State, he shall be liable to
presentment and indictment by the grand jury ot
the county wherein he may have committed the
said offence, and upon conviction thereof in the
Circuit Court for the said county, shall be deemed

Guilty of felo-
ny.

guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced by the
said Court to the penitentiary of this State for riot
less than twelve months nor more than two years,
in the discretion of the said Court.

In force.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 190.

AN ACT to repeal Section one of Chapter four
hundred and forty-two, of the Laws passed at
January Session, eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight, to prevent the hauling of seines over one
hundred fathoms in length in Synapuxent Bay,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Section one of Chapter four
hundred and forty-two, of the Laws passed Jan-
uary Session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
entitled "An Act to prevent the hauling of any

Not to haul
seine.

seine or seines over one hundred fathoms in length
in Synapuxent Bay, or any of the bays or their
tributaries on the eastern side side of Worcester
County above George's Island Landing," be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so
as to read as follows: