340 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 12.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

1870, c. S3 authorizes and empowers the governor to appoint an additional justice
of the peace for election district No. 4, in Harford county.

1870, c. 131 enacts as follows: That in addition to the four justices of the peace in
district number two, in Harford county, now provided for by law, there shall be
one additional justice of the peace-appointed for said district, in said county, and the
governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint and commission one addi-
tional justice of the peace for said district.

See public local laws, Article II, Anne Arundel county, sub-title justices of the
peace, for the act of 1870, c. 434, to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in
Harford and other counties, to cases of assault and battery.

SHERIFF.

1870, c, 417 adds the following sub-sections to come in after section 136:

1870, c. 417. Physician to jail.	SEC. 136. Sub-Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Harford county, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a competent physician to at- tend the inmates of the jail in said county whenever in his judgment said inmates by reason of sickness or oth- erwise may require such attention.
Payment.	Sub-Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county com- missioners to levy annually upon the assessable prop- erty of said county, a sum of money not exceeding one hundred dollars, to carry into effect the provisions of the above sub-sections. Approved and in force April 4, 1870. WILD FOWL AND FISH.

1870, c. 51 entitled an act for the better protection of partridges and pheasants in
Harford county, enacts as follows:

1. No person shall trap, shoot or in any manner catch or kill any partridges and
pheasants within the limits of Harford county for the period of two years from the
date of the passage of this act.

2. Any person violating the preceding section shall pay a fine of ten dollars, to bo
recovered before a justice of the peace of the county, one-half of said fine to be paid
to the informer and the balance to the county commissioners, for the use of the school

fund.

Approved and in force February 19, 1870.

For 1870, c. 231 entitled an act to protect fish and wild fowl in the waters of Queen
Anne, Kent, Caroline and Harford counties, see public local laws, Article VI, Caro-
line county, sub-title Fish and Wild Fowl, ante p. 280.