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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

cock between the first day of January and the first day of July;

nor any pheasant between the first day of January and the first

Game

day of September; nor any wood-duck between the first day of

season.

January and the first day of September; nor any wild turkey

between the first day of February and the first day of November ;

no person shall shoot any rabbit between the fifteenth day of

December and the first day of November, but the trapping and

running of rabbits shall be lawful from the fifteenth day of Octo-

ber until the fifteenth day of January.

57. Any person violating any of the provisions of the four pre-
ceding sections on conviction thereof, shall be fined ten dollars

and costs, to be recovered in the name of the State before a jus-

Fine.

tice of the peace; and in default of payment shall be committed

to the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days; all fines

recovered under this section shall be disbursed as follows : one-

half to the informer, and the remainder to the public schools of

said county.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the day of its passage.

Approved March 22, 1890.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to repeal section- one hundred and fifty-three, of article

four, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " City of Balti-

more," sub-title " Coroners Inquest aiid Dead Bodies," and to

re-enact the same with amendments.

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

That section one hundred and fifty-three, of article four, of the

Repeal.

Code of Public Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title

" Coroners Inquest and Dead Bodies," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

153. Any public officer of Baltimore city or Baltimore county

having charge of or control over the bodies of deceased persons

required to be buried at the public expense, or at the expense of

any institution supported by said city or county shall notify the

chairman of the anatomy board, said board being composed of a

demonstrator of anatomy from each medical school in the State

of the existence and possession of such bodies, and shall give per-

Bodies

mission to said anatomy board through its chairman or to any

how to dis-
pose of.

physician or surgeon of the State of Maryland, upon his request

made therefor, to take such bodies within forty-eight hours after

death, to be given by him used within the State for the advance-

ment of medical science, preference being given to medical schools,