690

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

Repealed
and

Public Local Laws, title " Washington County " sub-title

re-enacted

" Birds and Game " be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Game in

SEC. 31. It shall not be lawful to shoot, kill or in any

Washing-

way entrap or destroy any wild birds, or wild fowls of any

ton county

description, except hawks, crows, owls, English sparrows,

wild geese, wild ducks, wild pigeons, jack snipes, sand

snipes, plover, cedar birds and rails, or to shoot, kill,

entrap, wound or destroy, any rabbit, squirrel, deer or

fawn, provided, however, that it shall be lawful to shoot

wood-cock between the twelfth day of July and twenty-

fifth day of December, pheasants and doves, between the

twelfth day of August and the twenty-fifth day of Decem-

ber ; rabbits between the first day of November and the

fifteenth day of the following January ; squirrels between

the first day of September and the twenty-fifth day of

December ; deer and wild turkeys between the first day of

November and the fifteenth day of the following January ;

quails and partridges betweeu the twentieth day of October

and the twenty-fifth day of December ; but it shall not be

lawful to use ferrets to hunt or kill rabbits at any time.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 494.

AN ACT to repeal certain sections of the Code of Public

Local Laws article twenty, title "Somerset County,"

sub-title " Crisfield," and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That sections fifty-five, sixty-nine, seventy-two, seventy-

Repealed

and

four, seventy-six, eighty-three, ninety-five, and ninety-six

re-enacted.

of the Local Code for Somerset County (article twenty,

Public Local Laws) be and the same are hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read, respectively, as follows :

SEC. 55. The said commissioners shall be five in number,

Commis-
sioners of

and each commissioner shall hold his office for two years,

Somerset
county.

unless sooner vacated by death, resignation, removal or

otherwise ; and any person, to be eligible as a commissioner,

must be the owner of a freehold or leasehold estate within

the limits of said town, and must have resided in the State

one year, and have resided or carried on his principal