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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 113.

AN ACT to repeal section five of chapter three hun-
dred and eighty-one of the acts of eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, entitled an act to provide for the
'destruction of hawks and owls, and to protect the
class of small birds, known as insectivorous birds
in Prince George's, Talbot and Montgomery coun-
ties, and to re-enact the same, with amendments,
so as to exclude Montgomery and Talbot counties
from the provisions of said section.

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section five of chapter three hundred
and eighty-one of the acts of eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, entitled an act to provide for the de-
struction of hawks and owls, and to protect the class
of small birds known as insectivorous birds in Prince
George's, Talbot and Montgomery counties, be and
the same is hereby repealed, and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

County Com-
missioners to
pay reward.

SECTION 5. The County Commissioners of Prince
George's county shall pay the sum of fifty cents per
head for every hawk or owl killed in said county on
the production of such proof as is required by sec-
tions, one, two, and three of article thirty-one of
the Code of Public General Laws, title " crows. "

In force

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this, act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1876.