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COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 22.

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Fees of county
clerk for record-
ing certificate's
of variations,
etc.

167. For recording each certificate of variations and affidavits
of the correctness of the same appended, and for copies or abstracts
of the same, and for drawing certificate and seal therefor, the county
clerk shall be allowed the same fees as are now allowed by law for
similar services in regard to matters of record in his office, the said
fees to be paid by the parties presenting the same for record, or
demanding abstracts or copies as aforesaid.

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Penalty for de-
facing meridian
marks

168. Any person or persons who shall wilfully erase, deface,
displace, or otherwise injure said pillars, or any part thereof, or
destroy, break down or carry away the inclosure aforesaid, or any
lock, bolt, bar, or any part thereof, shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hun-
dred dollars.

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Expenses, how
paid

169. The commissioners of any county adopting the provi-
sions of this act are hereby authorized to provide for the payment
of the costs of carrying out its provisions in the same manner that
other county expenses are paid.

CROWS.

Art 31, s 1
1831, c 227, s. 1,
1820, c 66.
Reward for
killing crows.

170. If any person shall bring to any justice of the peace of 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.

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1881,. c 227, s 2,
1846, c 341, s 2,
1847, c 319
Oath before
entitled to
allowance.

171. No person shall be entitled to an allowance for any crow's
heads without first making oath before the justice that such crow or
crows were taken and killed in the county where such person resides,
and that no certificate had been obtained from any other justice of

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1831, c 227, a 1,
1846, c 343, s 1.
Heads to be
destroyed
Certificate to
person bring-
ing

the peace for the same, and the justice shall take such oath without
fee or reward.
172. 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.

1864, c 250, 1876,
c 12, 1878, c
301
To what coun-
ties not appli-
cable

173. The preceding three sections shall not apply to Alleghany,
Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Charles, Frederick, Garrett, Harford,
Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, and Talbot
counties