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act, it shall not be lawful for any person to erect a
gate upon or across any public road in Calvert county,	Unlawful to-
where there is not now a gate already erected ; and	erect gates.
any person violating the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction thereof before a justice of the
peace for Calvert county, be adjudged guilty of a
misdemeanor, and be fined not more than fifty nor
less than ten dollars, which fine shall be collected as
other small debts are, and shall be paid to the
County Commissioners of said county.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on and after the
first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty, it
shall not be lawful for any person to keep on any
public road, between the village of St. Leonards, ia
said county, and the Anne Arundel line, and used!
as a mail route in said county, any gate without the permission of the County Commissioners of said	Must obtain permission.
county j and any person violating this section shall,
on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not
more than fifty or less than ten dollars, which fine
shall be collected as other small debts are, and shall
be paid to the County Commissioners of said county.
Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 405.
AN ACT for the better protection of partridges,
woodcock, pheasants and rabbits in Baltimore
county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That no person shall shoot or in any
manner catch, kill or have in possession in Baltimore	Unlawful
county any partridge between the twenty-fourth	to shoot par-
day of December, said day included, and the first	tridges, &c.
day of October next ensuing, in each and every year ; nor any woodcock between the first day of February
and the fifteenth day of June; nor any pheasant
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