ART. 28.] CROWS. 60$

custody; and the said prisoner shall, whilst there, be subject to
the same laws and discipline to which other convicts from the
State courts are subjected.

P. G. L., (1860,) art., 73, sec. 95. 1819, ch. 55, sec. 3.

484. The per diem mentioned in the preceding section shall
be paid, or secured to be paid monthly, to the warden of the
penitentiary, who shall account for the same to the said insti-
tution ; and if the payment thereof shall not be punctually made,
the warden shall release the prisoner, after three days' notice to
the marshal of the district.

ARTICLE XXVIII.

CROWS.

1. Bounty paid for heads of. 3. Justice to destroy heads and give-

2. Oath required before justice. certificate.

I 4. Counties excepted.

P. G. L, (I860,) art. 81, 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. 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 killed 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 with-
out fee or reward.