EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 550.

AN ACT to regulate the holding of camp and bush meetings

in Anne Arundel County.

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

land, That it shall not be lawful for any society, public or pri-

Regulating the
holding of

vate, to hold camp meetings or bush meetings or other out-door

camp-meet-

meetings in Anne Arundel County for a longer period than two

ings.

weeks in any one year in said county except by permission

from the County Commissioners, and the said County Commis-

sioners in their discretion may, on application, extend the time

for such meeting as in their judgment they may deem expedi-

ent in additional to the term by this Act prescribed; for any

violation of this the president or directors of said society,

public or private, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

and upon conviction before a justice of the peace, such presi-

dent or directors shall be fined for each offense not less than

twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs, and

Violations.

in default of payment of said fine and costs, shall be committed

to the county jail for a period of sixty days, unless sooner

released by due process of law.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 551.

AN ACT to prohibit hunting with a gun or rifle in Frederick

County from the tenth day of October to the first day of

November in each year or on election day.

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

land, That it shall not be lawful for anyone to hunt with a

Prohibiting

gun or rifle in Frederick County hereafter from the tenth day

gunning on

certain days.

of October until the first day of November or on any election

day in November of each year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That to carry around a gun or

rifle in the field, woods or other such place in Frederick

Prima facie
evidence.

County within the abovementioned time shall be prima facie

evidence of a violation of Section I of this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That anyone violating the provi-

sions of this Act, for each violation on his or their conviction

Penalty for
violation of

before a justice of the peace of Frederick County shall forfeit

Act.