JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said County Commis-
sioners are hereby authorized and empowered to levy upon the
assessable property of Dorchester county a tax sufficient to
pay the cost of constructing said drawbridge.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 13, 1902.

CHAPTER 49.
AN ACT to repeal Section 2 of Article 23 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Wicomieo County," sub-title
"Birds and Game," as amended by Chapter 51 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1891,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 2 of article 23 of the Code of

CHAP. 49.

Tax to be
levied.

Public Local Laws, title "Wicomico County," sub-title "Birds
and Game," as amended by chapter 51 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, session of 1894, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows :
2. It shall be unlawful for any person in said county to
shoot, kill, take, trap or in any manner destroy or catch, in

Repeal.

gaid county, woodcock, between the first day of February and
the fifteenth day of June; plover or sandpipers, partridges
and quail, between the fifteenth day of January and the
fifteenth day of November; wood or summer ducks, between
the first day of January and the tenth day of September;
squirrels, between the fifteenth day of February and the first
day of September; rabbits, between the fifteenth day of
January and the fifteenth day of .November; muskrats,
between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of
December ; and every person violating the provisions of this
section shall be fined ten dollars for each and every woodcock,
plover or sandpiper, partridge, quail, duck, squirrel, rabbit,
mink, otter or muskrat so killed, taken, trapped, shot or
destroyed within said specified times ; and possession of any
of the within-named birds or game, dead or alive, within any
of the specified times, by any person in said county, shall be
deemed unlawful, and be punishable by fine of ten dollars for
each and every such bird or animal so killed or in possession
of any person.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 13, 1902.

Game law.