JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 49

	CHAPTER 48.
	AN ACT to encourage the destruction of large
	hawks and owls in Somerset county.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That any person killing any large
	hawks or owls within the limits of Somerset county	Received
	shall be entitled to receive a bounty of fifty cents	bounty.
	for each and every large hawk and owl so killed.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That to obtain said boun-
	ty it shall be necessary for the person killing said large hawk or owl to produce the head or heads of the	Produce
	same before some justice of the peace for Somerset	heads.
	county, and at the same time make oath that the
	said large owl or hawk was killed within the limits
	of said county, and within sir days before the pro-
	duction of said head or heads before the said justice,
	and thereupon the said justice shall give a certificate	Give a certi-
	of the production of the said head or heads before him,	ficate.
	and the taking of said oath ; and it shall be the duty
	of the said justice to destroy the said head or heads,
	so as to prevent a second allowance upon the same.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That upon the produc-
	tion of the said justice's certificate before the Com-
	missioners of Somerset county, the said Commission-
	ers are hereby authorized and directed to levy upon	Commission-
	the assessable property of Somerset county a sum sufficient for the aforesaid bounties for the use of the	ers author-, ized to levy.
	persons producing the same; and the collector of
	the taxes shall collect and pay the same accordingly.
	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved February 21, 1878.