ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 192.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact chapter three hun-

dred and eighty-six of the acts of eighteen hundred

and eighty, entitled "An act to repeal and re-enact

chapter two hundred and ninety-four of acts of

eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled 'An

act to encourage the destruction of Hawks in Har-

ford and Worcester counties.' "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter three hundred and

eighty-six of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty,

entitled "An act to repeal and re-enact chapter two

Repealed and

hundred and ninety-four of the acts of eighteen hun-

re-enacted.

dred and seventy-four, entitled 'An act to encourage

the destruction of hawks in Harford and Worcester

counties,' " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That any person killing any hawks

Bounty for kil-

within the limits of Harford county shall be entitled

ling hawks.

to a bounty of fifty cents for each and every hawk

killed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That to obtain said

bounty, it shall be necessary for the person killing a

hawk or hawks, to produce the head or heads of the

same before some justice of the peace for said Harford

county, and at the same time make oath that the said

How to obtain

hawk or hawks were killed within the limits of Har-

bounty.

ford county, and thereupon the said justice of the peace

shall give a certificate of the production of said head

or heads before him, 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

for the same.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That upon the produc-

tion of the said justice's certificate, the commissioners

of Harford county are hereby authorized and directed

Commission-

to levy upon the assessable property of said county a

ers authorized

sum sufficient for the aforesaid county, for the use of

to lery.

the person or persons producing the same, and the

collectors of tax shall collect and pay the same accord-

ingly.

Approved April 8,1884.