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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

County be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to appro-

Additional
appropriation

priate and pay over to the Board of County School Commis-

to build new

sioners of Worcester County, out of the permanent free school

school houses.

fund of said county, eight thousand dollars, in addition to the

sums of money heretofore authorized to be so appropriated

out of said funds, to be used by said Board of County School

Commissioners in building and repairing school houses in said

county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not repeal

Chapter 220 of the Acts passed at the January Session, 1894;

but all other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the pro-

visions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 168.

AN ACT to prevent the killing or trapping of foxes in Kent

County.

Unlawful to
kill foxes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful to injure or kill any fox in

Kent County when pursued by dogs.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful to shoot

Forbidding the
sale or barter

or trap foxes in Kent County for the purpose of selling or

of a fox.

bartering.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or persons

One-half of

guilty of violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed

the fine to go
to the county

guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before

school fund.

some justice of the peace of said county shall pay a fine of

ten dollars, one-half of which shall go to the informer and the

other half into the school fund of said county, and in default

of the payment of said fine, shall be confined in the county

jail for a term of not less than five or more than twenty days.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 169.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 25

of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900,