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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 40.

AN ACT to refund to Maria Laura Key, of Saint

Mary's county, certain sums of money erroneously

paid into the treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the treasurer of the state be and

he is hereby directed and authorized, upon the war-

rant of the comptroller, to pay to Maria Laura Key,

Repay taxes
paid in error.

of Saint Mary's county, the sum of thirteen dollars

and twenty-five cents, being the sum the said Maria

Laura Key has paid into the treasury erroneously for

taxes for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six

to eighteen hundred and eighty-two inclusive.

Approved March 4, 1884.

Chapter 41.

AN ACT to encourage the killing of hawks, big owls

and crows, in Calvert county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That any person killing any hawk, big

owl, crow or fox, within the limits of Calvert county,

Bounty for kill-
ing; hawks. &c.

shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty-five cents for

every hawk and big owl, and six and a quarter cents

for every crow so killed, and fifty cents for every fox

so killed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That to obtain said

bounty it shall be necessary for the person killing any

hawk, big owl, crow or fox, to produce the scalp of

such hawk, big owl, or bill of such crow and brush of

such fox, before some justice of the peace of Calvert

Bounty ? how
obtained.

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

hawk, big owl, crow or fox was killed within the limits

of Calvert county, and thereupon the said justice of

the peace shall give a certificate of the production of

such scalp or bill, and the taking of said oath, and it

shall be the duty of the said justice of the peace to