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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

resignation or incapacity the office has become vacant be not

then completed, a Commissioner shall be elected to serve for

the unexpired term occasioned by the vacancy.

105B. The powers and duties of County Commissioners shall

be such as are now and may hereafter be prescribed by law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 410 of the Acts of the General

Assembly of Maryland, passed at the Session of 1902, regu-

lating the closed season for hunting in Anne Arundel and

Prince George's Counties, and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

SECTION Ii. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Act of 1902, Chapter 410, of the General As-

sembly of Maryland be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read as follows :

Restricting

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no person shall shoot or

the hunting,
of game, etc.,

in any manner hunt, catch, kill or have in possession in Prince

in Prince
George's

George's County, in this State, any partridge or quail, English

County.

or Mongolian pheasant, American pheasant or rabbit between

the twenty-fifth clay of December and the ninth day of Novem-

ber following, both days exclusive, in each and every year; or

any woodcock between the first day of January and the first

day of July following, both days exclusive, in each and every

year ; or any snipe or plover between the first day of May and

the tenth day of September following, both days inclusive, in

each and every year, under a fine of not less than one dollar

nor more than ten dollars for each of the aforesaid birds or

game animals so shot, caught, killed or in possession.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any justice of the peace of

this State in and for the county where the offense shall be com-

Magistrates
to hear and

mitted shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all prose-

determine

cutions for the purpose of enforcing fines and costs collectible

violations.

under the provisions of this Act, and all such fines and costs

are hereby expressly made subject to the provisions of Sec-

tion 8 of Chapter 293 of the Acts of the General Assembly of

Maryland, passed at the Session of 1896, and in all cases where

such prosecutions are begun or instituted by any person other