ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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together with all improvements thereon erected within

the bounds thereof, belonging to the United States,

shall be exempted, exonerated and discharged from all

Exempt from
taxes.

state, county and municipal taxation, so long as the

said lot shall remain the property of the United States

of America for the purposes aforesaid.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 333.

AN ACT to repeal section one of chapter four hun-

dred and twenty-four of the acts of eighteen hundred

and seventy-eight, entitled "An act to protect dia-

mond-back terrapins in the waters of the State of

Maryland, and to regulate the catching of the same; "

so far as it relates to Dorchester county, and to re-

enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section one of chapter four hun-
dred and twenty-four of the acts of eighteen hundred

Section repeal-
ed.

and seventy eight, entitled "An act to protect diamond-

back terrapins in the waters of Maryland, and to

regulate the catching of the same " be and the same

is hereby repealed so far as the same relates to Dor-

Enacted in lieu

chester county, and the following enacted in lieu

thereof.

1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to

take or catch diamond-back terrapins from the waters

Unlawful.

of Dorchester county, between the first day of June

and the first day of September in each year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.