FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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payment of the same by mortgage or otherwise, said bonds

not to exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars,

and also that it shall and may be lawful for the said com-

pany to issue certificates of stock and apply the same, if

they shall find it expedient to do so, in payment of the

expenses of the construction and equipment of said works

or other liabilities of said company.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts

Repealed

of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and

the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take

Effective

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 472.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section three of article three

of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title

"Baltimore County," sub-title "Birds and Game."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section three of article three of the Code of

Repealed

Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore County,"

and re-
enacted

sub-title "Birds and Game," be, and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

3. Any person violating either of the two preceding sec-

tions, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined a sum uot less

than two dollars and not more than ten dollars for each

Birds and

offence, with the costs of prosecution ; and all prosecutions

game in
Baltimore

shall be in the name of the State, before a justice of the

County.

peace of the election district in which such violation may

occur ; and all such fines, when collected, one-half shall be

paid to the informer and the other half to the treasurer of

the county, to be applied to the support of the public schools

of the county ; provided that any one applying to the clerk

of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, may obtain a

permit, good for one year from the date of issue, by paying

to the said clerk the sum of five dollars ; authorizing the

holder thereof to catch any birds, collect and take their

nests and eggs, for scientific purposes only, without being

subject to the penalties imposed by this section ; but before

said clerk shall issue said permit he shall require the appli-

cant to produce before him satisfactory, written testimony,

from at least two scientific men certifying to the good char-

acter of the applicant, and that he is a proper person to be

entrusted with such privilege, and he shall also demand