402 ARTICLE 2.

ceptance or payment on any half-holiday Saturday, such person shall not
be deemed guilty of any neglect or omission of duty nor incur any liability
in not presenting for payment or acceptance or collecting such bill of ex-
change, bank check, draft or promissory note on that day; and provided
further, that in construing this section, every half-holiday Saturday shall,
until twelve o'clock noon, be deemed a secular business day. Nothing
in this section shall affect the provisions of Sections 9 and 10 of Article
13 of the Code of Public General Laws, applicable to any Saturday
whenever the same, under the provisions of said section, shall be a legal
holiday.

See sec. 337.

BIRDS, GAME AND FOXES.*
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 87. 1914 Code, sec. 126.

156. Any person killing any hawk, owl or fox within the limits of
Anne Arundel County, shall be entitled to receive a bounty of twenty-five
cents for each and every hawk and owl, and fifty cents for every fox so
killed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 88. 1914 Code, sec. 127.

157. To obtain said bounty it shall be necessary for the person killing
said hawk, owl or fox, to produce the head or heads of the same before
some justice of the peace for Anne Arundel County, and at the same time
make oath that the said hawk, owl or fox was killed within the limits of
said county, and within thirty days before the production of said head or
heads before the said justice; and thereupon the said justice shall give a
certificate of the production of the said head or heads before him, and
the taking of said oath; and it shall be the duty of the said justice to
destroy the said head or heads, so as to prevent a second allowance upon
the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 89. 1914 Code, sec. 128.

158. Upon the production of the said justice's certificate before the
County Commissioners they are authorized and directed to levy upon the
assessable property of the county a sum sufficient for such bounties, for
the use of the persons producing the same, and shall pay the same accord-
ingly.

BRIDGES, +
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 97. 1914 Code, sec. 129.

159. The bridge over the Patapsco River, upon the Hammond's Ferry
road, between Baltimore County and Anne Arundel County, where the

*A11 local laws relating to Birds and Game were repealed by ch. 568, 1927. See
1929 Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 99. As the sections relating to the
bounty on foxes may not have been repealed, they have been codified.

+Ch. 302, 1929, authorized the County Commissioners to issue bonds to the ex-
tent of $100,000 to replace public bridges over Weems Creek, Rock Hole Creek
and Tracey's Landing Creek and to levy taxes to pay the interest on and to
redeem said bonds.