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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT to repeal an act passed at the January

session, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chap-

ter three hundred and eighty-seven, entitled " An

act for the prevention of cruelty to animals in the

City of Baltimore," and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the act of eighteen hundred

Repealed and

and seventy-eight, chapter three hundred and eighty-

re-enacted.

seven, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Not to tor-

Maryland, That whoever shall unnecessarily over-

ture, &c.

drive, overload, overwork, torture, torment, deprive
of necessary sustenance, cruelly or unnecessarily beat,

cruelly mutilate, or cruelly kill, or cause, or procure

to be so unnecessarily overdriven, overloaded, over-

worked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary

sustenance, cruelly or unnecessarily beaten, mutilated

or killed any horse, ox or other animal, shall be pun-
ished by a tine of not less than five dollars, nor more

Penalty.

than twenty dollars, to be recovered on complaint

of any member of the Society for the Prevention of

Cruelty to Animals, or by any other person before

any justice of the peace in Baltimore city, or before
any justice of the peace or judge of any court in any

county in this State.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every owner,

Owner, &c ,

driver or possessor or person having charge or cus-

of maimed

tody of a maimed, disabled or diseased horse, mule

animal.

or other animal, who shall cruelly work the same

when unfit for work or cruelly abandon the same,

Punished.

shall be punished in the same manner as provided

in Section two.

Duty of mag-

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the

istrate.

duty of any magistrate in the city of Baltimore, or

the judge of any court or magistrate in said city or