ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Germantown," be and it is hereby authorized and em-

powered to purchase, acquire and hold and receive by

Authorized and
empowered to

grant, conveyance or gift, real and personal property

purchase prop-
erty.

in Frederick county, in the State of Maryland, for a

church, a parsonage, a school house or houses, a resi-

dence for the teachers of such school or schools, and

for a burial lot; provided the clear yearly income

from such property does not exceed the sum of five

thousand dollars; and to sell, convey, mortgage and

transfer the same from time to time as occasion may

require, for said purposes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the assent of the

General Assembly of Maryland be and it is hereby

given, that said corporation may acquire such proper-

Assent ,^iven.

ty to the amount, for the purpose and in the mode and

manner prescribed in section one of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the day and date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1884.

Chapter 136.

AN ACT to protect Game and Wild Fowl in Wash-

ington county, and to repeal all acts inconsistent

with this act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful, in Wash-

When unlawful

ington county, to shoot, kill or in any way entrap or

to shoot, etc.

destroy any wild bird, or wild fowl of any descrip-

tion, except hawks, crows, owls, English sparrows,

wild geese, wild ducks, wild pigeons, jack snipe, sand

snipe, plover, cedar birds and rails, or to shoot, kill,

entrap, wound or destroy any rabbit, squirrel, deer or

fawn; provided, however, that it shall be lawful to

shoot woodcock between the twelfth day of July and

When lawful.

the twenty-fifth day of December; pheasants and

doves, between the twelfth day of August and the

twenty-fifth day of December; rabbits and squirrels,

between the first day of September and the twenty-

fifth day of December; deer and wild turkeys, be-