ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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in Charles county," is hereby repealed and re enacted

with amendments.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person killing

any hawks or big owl within the limits of Charles

Entitled to
bounty.

county, shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty-five

cents for every hawk and big owl so killed.

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

bounty, it shall be necessary for the person killing any

hawk or big owl to produce the scalp of such hawk or

big owl before some justice of the peace of Charles

county, and at the same time make oath that the

Necessary to

said hawk or big owl was killed within the limits of

obtain bounty.

said county, and thereupon the said justice of the

peace shall give a certificate of such scalp and the

taking of said oath and it shall be the duty of the

said justice of the peace to destroy such scalp so as to

prevent a second allowance for the same.

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

tion of such certificate, the county commissioners of

Charles county are hereby authorized and directed to

levy upon the assessable property of said county a

Levy for boun-
ty.

sum sufficient for the aforesaid bounty, for use of

the person or persons producing the same, and the

collectors of taxes shall collect and pay the same

accordingly.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That no justice of the

peace shall be entitled to any fee or reward for the

No fee to the
justice.

taking of such oath or the issuing of such certificate.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the aforegoing

How construed.

sections shall not be so construed as to include any

fish hawks.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.