ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the possession by any person

of any terrapins or terrapin eggs during the time hereinbefore
prohibited shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this

Prima
facie.

act.

Approved March 21, 1890.

CHAPTER 150.

AN ACT to authorize the county commissioners of Frederick

county to issue bonds bearing interest at a rate not exceeding;

four per centum per annum, for the payment of the money

borrowed by the county commissioners of Frederick county to

build, repair and replace bridges in said county, and for the

payment of such further expenses as may be or have been in-

curred in the building and repair of bridges in said county,

and also for the purpose of redeeming such outstanding bonds

of the county commissioners of Frederick county as are now

redeemable, and to levy and collect the necessary taxes for the

payment of the bonds hereby authorized to be issued and the

interest thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the county commissioners of Frederick county be and they

are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds to an amount

not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred and thirty thousand

dollars, in sums of not less than one hundred dollars nor more

than one thousand dollars each, to be signed by the president of

Bonds.

the said county commissioners of Frederick county and counter-

signed by the clerk thereof, said bonds to bear interest at a rate

not exceeding four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually

according to the tenor of the coupons for said interest to be

attached to said bonds, and the bonds to be issued under the pro-

visions of this act are hereby exempted from municipal and county

taxation, and the coupons on said bonds shall, when due and pay-

able, be received by the collector of taxes for said county in pay-

ment of county taxes; provided, however, that said bonds shall

not be sold for less than par or the face value thereof in cash

current money.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That each of said bonds shall be

payable forty years after date to bearer, redeemable, however, at

the pleasure of the county commissioners of Frederick county at

Redeem.

any time after the expiration of twenty years from their respec-

tive dates.