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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

nary session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,

chapter fifty-four, entitled an act to exempt all that

portion of the waters of the Chesapeake Bay lying

Repealed and

northward of a certain line therein described, from

re-enacted

the operation and effects of sections one and three,

of article ninety-eight, of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Wild-Fowl," and to enact other

sections, to be in force and operation in, on and over

said waters, be and the same is hereby repealed,

amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

16. John Mahan and Henry J. Poplar, of Harford

county, and Benjamin Die, of Cecil county, and their

successors, are hereby appointed a Board of Special

Board of

Police, with power and authority to appoint as many

Special Police.

deputies from among those who take out a license

under the provisions of this act, as in their judgment

maybe necessary to enforce the provisions of this act,
with power to arrest without warrant all persons who

may be detected by them in violating any of its pro-

visions, and to carry such person or persons before a

justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to the

provisions of this act; and the said special police

Compensation

shall be paid for their services a reasonable sum, to

be fixed by the Judges of the Circuit Court of the

county in which such services are rendered, out of

the moneys, and no other, received by the Clerks of

the Circuit Courts of Harford and Cecil counties for

licenses issued by them for the privilege of shooting

wild-fowl; and in case there should be a surplus re-

maining after paying said police force, such surplus

Surplus

shall be paid over, at the expiration of each gunning

season, to the school commissioners of Harford and

Cecil counties respectively, to be applied to school

Proviso.

purposes ; provided, that the term of office of the

said John Mahan and Henry J. Poplar, of Harford

county, and Benjamin Die, of Cecil county, shall
expire on the-first day of May, in the year eighteen

hundred and seventy-four, and that thereafter the

term of office of the members of said Board of

Term of service

Special Police shall be for two years, and all vacan-

cies that may occur from the expiration of term, or

by removal from Harford or Cecil counties, or death,

or conviction of malfeasance in , office, or from any

other cause, in the said Board of Special Police, shall

be filled by the County Commissioners of the county