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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That hereafter it shall not be lawful for

any person to hunt, shoot, kill or otherwise destroy

Unlawful to

any ortolan, sora or rail birds, upon any of the

kill ortolan,

marshes of the Patuxent or Patapsco rivers border-

&c

ing upon said counties, except between the fifth day
of September and the first day of November in each

and every year.

SEC. 3. And le it enacted, That hereafter it shall

not be lawful to trap any partridge within the limits

Unlawful

of said counties at any time, nor to shoot any part-

to trap par-
tridges.

ridge within Prince George's or Anne Arundel coun-
ties, except between the nineteenth day of October

and the twentieth day of December in each and

every year.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 285.

AN ACT to repeal sections five, eight, ten and

eleven of an act passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter forty, entitled "An

act to incorporate the town of Western port, in

Allegany county," and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections five, eight, ten and

eleven of the act passed at January session, eighteen

Repealed and
re-enacted.

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter forty, entitled "An
act to incorporate the town of Westernport, in Alle-

gany county, Maryland," be and the same are hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said Com-

missioners, elected according to the provisions of

this act, shall, at their annual meeting, to be held on

the first Monday of July after the said election, in