WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 743

	chapter one hundred and fifty-five, passed at the
	January session of the said General Assembly of
	eighteen hundred and seventy-six," entitled "An act
	for the better protection of birds and game in Wi-
	comico county, be and the same is hereby repealed
	and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as
	follows :
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlaw-
	ful for any person or persons in Wicomico county to shoot, kill or in any way take, trap, catch or de-
	stroy, at any time in said county, any of the birds
	called or known as the mocking bird, blue bird,
	swallow, martin, robin, cat-bird, woodpecker, spar-
	row, wren, whippoorwill, dove, thrush, lark, killdeer,	Unlawful to
	red bird, bobalink, yellow bird, linnet, bat, night	shoot, kill, &c
	hawk, branch-robin, gold-finch, sap-sucker, tomtit
	or any other insectivorous bird, and each and every
	person violating the provisions of this section shall
	be fined two dollars for each and every bird proved
	to have been shot, killed or in any way taken,
	trapped, caught or destroyed by the person or per-
	sons so offending.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlaw-
	ful for any person or persons, in Wicomico county,
	to shoot, kill, take, trap, or in any manner catch or
	destroy in said county, in any year, any of the birds
	or game within the different periods of time men-
	tioned and specified in this section ; that is to say,
	woodcock between the first day of January and the
	first day of September ; plovers (or sand pipers), partridges and quail, between the first day of Febru-
	ary ana the first day of November; wood or sum-	Unlawful to
	mer ducks, between the first day of January and the	destroy, &c.
	tenth day of September ; squirrels and rabbits, be-
	tween the fifteenth day of February and the first day
	of November; mink, otter and muskrat, between
	the fifteenth day of March and fifteenth day of
	December ; and each and every person violating the
	provisions of this section shall be fined twenty dol-
	lars for each and every woodcock, plover (or sand
	piper), partridge, quail, duck, squirrel, rabbit, mink,
	otter and muskrat, proved to have been shot, killed,
	taken, trapped, caught or destroyed, by the person or
	persons so offending.