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ARTICLE XXVIIL

CROWS.

1. Bounty paid for heads of.

2. Oath required before Justice.

3. Justice to destroy heads and give
certificate.

4. Counties excepted.

1904, art. 28, sec. 1. 1888, art. 28, sec. 1. 1860, art. 31, sec. 1. 1820, ch. 66.

1831, ch. 227, sec. 1.

1. If any person shall bring to any justice of the peace for the
county in which such person resides the head of any crow, he shall for
every such head be allowed in the county levy for said county the sum
of six and a quarter cents.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 28, sec. 2. 1860, art. 31, sec. 2. 1831, ch, 227, sec. 2.
1846, ch. 343, sec. 2. 1847, ch. 319.

2. No person shall be entitled to an allowance for any crow's head
without first making oath before the justice that such crow was taken
and killel in the county where such person resides and that no certificate
hath been obtained from any other justice of the peace for the same;
and the justice shall take such oath without fee or reward.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1888, art. 28, sec. 3. 1860, art. 31, sec. 3. 1831, ch. 227, sec. 1.

1846, ch. 343, sec. 1.

3. The justice before whom such heads shall be brought shall burn
or destroy the same and shall give the person bringing them a certificate
thereof to be laid before the county commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1888, art. 28, sec. 4. 1864, ch. 250. 1876, ch. 12. 1878, ch. 301.
1880, ch. 180. 1884, ch. 25.

4. This article is not to apply to Allegany, Calvert. Harford, Fred-
erick, Montgomery, Queen Anne's, Prince George's, Garrett, Talbot,
Charles, Carroll, Caroline, St. Mary's, Dorchester and Baltimore coun-
ties; nor to any other counties as to which special local laws exist.