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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

New section.

land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to

Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Frederick

County," sub-title "Treasurer," to immediately follow Section

45 A, to be designated as Section 451 A A, relating to the ap-

pointment and compensation of a clerk to the County Treasurer.

451 A A. The said Treasurer is hereby authorized to appoint

Clerk to Coun-

a clerk at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum ; and the

ty Treasurer.

County Commissioners of said county are hereby authorized

and directed to levy said sum annually for the payment of the

salary of said clerk, and the Treasurer shall pay the same

monthly.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 492.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 11 of the Code

of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County,"

sub-title "Birds and Game," to be known as Section 55A, to

said Article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Additional

land, That the following section, to be known as Section 55 A,

section.

be added to Article n of the Code of Public Local Laws of

Marvland, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Birds and

Game :"

55A. It shall not be lawful for anyone to trap, snare, net,

Pertaining to

bag or bunch on the ground with a gun or other firearms, at

partridges.

any time, any partridges in Frederick County, and anyone

doing so shall be fined twenty dollars for each bird so taken

or killed, and in default of the payment of said fine and the

State's costs, shall be committed to the Maryland House of

Correction for a period of three months. That the several

justices of the peace of Frederick County shall have jurisdic-

tion of violations of this law, and said violations shall be prose-

cuted in the name of the State of Maryland; and one-half of

the fine imposed, when collected, shall be paid to the informer,

whether he be an officer or some other person, and the other

half to the County Commissioners of Frederick County for

the benefit of the public roads of said county ; and it is further

provided that this Act shall not prevent humane persons trap-

ping partridges to protect them during severe winter weather,

and who shall turn them out again after the winter is over.