EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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such freeholder, tenant or other occupant of real estate residing

within the carrying capacity of any such firearm aforesaid, and

the Board of County Commissioners aforesaid shall in no case

grant such leave to practice with firearms if in their opinion

the use of the public highways or streets of any real estate

sub-division be endangered by the use of such firearms; this

section shall not apply to practice in firearms now conducted

by the United States Government on any of the navigable

waters of this State, where such practice is conducted under

any Act of Congress or established rule or ordinance of the

United States Navy or War Departments; any person or per-

sons, body corporate or other association of persons guilty of

a violation of this section, upon conviction thereof before any

court of this State or justice of the peace therein having juris-

diction in the county where such shooting is done, shall be fined

not less than fifty dollars for each and every shot, ball or shell

fired from any such firearm, and be imprisoned in jail in the
discretion of the court or justice of the peace; provided, the

Act to apply to
Prince

provisions of this Act shall apply only to Prince George's

George's
County.

County.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 448.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the County Com-

missioners of Queen Anne's County to grant a pension of

fifty dollars to William H. Nichols of said county, and to

levy said amount on the assessable property of said county.

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

land, That the County Commisioners of Queen Anne' s County

be and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed

to grant a pension of fifty dollars annually to William H.
Nichols of said county, said pension of fifty dollars to be paid

To grant an-
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quarterly of twelve dollars and fifty cents during his natural

life, and to levy said sum of fifty dollars of current money

upon the assessable property of said county.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.