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be sentenced to imprisonment therein by the courts of the
United States, in and for the district of Maryland, on condi-
tion that he be paid towards the support of said institution
the sum of thirty cents per diem for the time the said prisoner
shall remain in 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.

1888, art. 27, sec. 484. 1860, art. 73, sec. 95. 1819, ch 55, sec. 3
650. 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-
tuion; 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.
2. Oath required before justice.

3. Justice to destroy heads and give

certificate.
4 Counties excepted.

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. 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 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 without fee or reward.

Ibid. 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