ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 315

CHAPTER 200.

AN ACT to repeal An Act entitled " An Act to
provide for the better protection of Partridges
in Washington County," passed January Ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter
twenty-one, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act entitled An Act to pro-
vide for the better protection of Partridges in Washington County, passed January Session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter twenty- one, be and the same is hereby repealed and re- enacted, so as to read as follows: Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no person or persons shall kill,	Repealed and re-enacted.
shoot, or in any manner catch or wound any Par- tridge or Partridges in Washington County from the date of the passage of this Act, until the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.	Time to kill.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or persons violating the preceding section, shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and every Partridge killed, shot, trapped, caught or wounded, in vio- lation thereof, upon conviction before a Justice of the Peace, one-half of which fine shall be paid to	Penalty.
the County Commissioners of said county for the use of the Public Schools thereof, and the other half to the informer, and in default of the pay- ment of such fine, the person convicted of violat- ing the preceding section as aforesaid shall be	How disposed of.
committed to the county jail for thirty days, or until said fine and costs of prosecution be paid, whichever shall first occur. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the operation	May commit.
of all Acts of Assembly in conflict with the pro- visions of the preceding section, be and the same are hereby suspended until the expiration of this Act. Approved April 4, 1870.	If in conflict suspended.