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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 263.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and ninety-

nine of article one of the Code of Public Local

Laws of Maryland, entitled " Allegany county,"

sub-title "Birds," as enacted by the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy-four, chapter twenty-three,

and enact other sections in lieu thereof, to be

known as 199, 199 a, 199 b, 199 c, and 199 d.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section one hundred and ninety-

nine of article one of the Code of Public Local Laws,

entitled "Allegany county," sub-title "Birds," as

Repealed.

enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-

four, chapter twenty-three, be and is hereby repealed,
and the following sections enacted in lieu thereof, to

be known as 199, 199 a, 199 b, 199 c, and 199 d :

199. Any person who shall shoot, kill or destroy
within the limits of Allegany county any hawk, owl

or weasel shall be entitled to receive from the Com-

Compensa-
tion allowed.

missioners of said county, upon complying with the
terms of this act, the following sums of money, viz :

For every hawk or owl so killed, shot or destroyed,

the sum of thirty cents, and for every weasel, the

sum of twenty-five cents.

199 a. The person so killing, shooting or destroy-

ing any such hawk, owl or weasel, shall, in order to

get the benefit of this act, take said hawk, owl or

Furnish evi-

weasel, or the head thereof, before some justice of

dence to jus-

the peace in said county as evidence of such killing

tice of the

or destroying, and shall make 6ath that the same

peace.

was bona fide killed or destroyed in said county, and

said justice of the peace shall thereupon burn said

head, so that the same cannot be used again, and

shall give the party producing the same a certificate
that such head had been produced before and de-

stroyed by him, and that the party producing the

same had made the affidavit required by this act,

and shall receive from such person for such service

the sum of fifteen cents for every case in which there