WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Arundel county, be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

6. The said coroner or justice of the peace in the

account of expenses rendered to the County Com-

missioners for holding such inquest shall include

such sum for the said physician as the said coroner

or justice and jurors shall deem just, not less than
ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, which

Compensation
— whom to be
paid by.

sum shall, with the other expenses of the inquest,

be paid by the county, and which may be decreased

or increased, not beyond the limitations herein ex-

pressed, by the said County Commissioners, so as to

fully compensate said physician for his services;

provided, that this section, as hereby amended, shall

apply only to Anne Arundel county.

Approved March 21, 1882.

Chapter 96.

AN ACT for the protection of Partridges and Rab-

bits, and to permit the shooting of Ducks and

other Wild Fowls from the shore over decoys; also

to pay a bounty upon the heads of Large Hawks

and Owls in Kent county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful to

shoot or trap any partridges in Kent county between

the fifteenth of January and the twenty-fifth of

When unlaw-

October, nor any rabbits between the twenty -fifth

ful to shoot or
tran.

day of December and the twenty-fifth day of Octo-

ber next succeeding, except that, they may be trapped

and preserved for stocking or breeding purposes.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be

How lawful

lawful to shoot ducks or other wild fowl from the

to shoot.

shore over decoys in said county.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That any person

killing any large hawks or owls in said county shall

Entitled to

be entitled to a bounty of fifty cents for each and

bounty.

every hawk or owl killed.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That to obtain

such bounty it shall be necessary for the persons