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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 70.

Time for
killing
animals.

Section 55 A. No person shall kill for human food, or shall
carry or offer to any butcher, or at any slaughter-house, to be
killed for human food, any female animal within 30 days
before the time for the delivery of its young, or within 30
days thereafter, or any animal that is so far disabled by sick-
ness as to be unable to walk, or any animal known to said
person, by reason of disease or injury, to be unfit for human
food ; and whenever any of said animals shall be found at
any place where animals are usually killed for human food,

Guilty of
misdemeanor

the burden of proving that such animal was not intended for
human food shall rest on the party charged ; and any person
violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not lees than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved March 20, 1902.

CHAPTER 70.
AN ACT to repeal Chapter three hundred and three of Acts
of General Assembly, passed at January session of nineteen
hundred, entitled an Act regulating the shooting of squirrels
in Howard county, and to re-enact section fourteen of
Chapter two hundred and six of Acts of Assembly of
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, title "Wild Fowls,
Birds and Game."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repeal.

Maryland, That chapter three hundred and three of Acts of
General Assembly, entitled "an Act to regulate the shooting
of squirrels in Howard county," passed at the January session
of nineteen hundred, be and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That section fourteen of chapter
two hundred and six of Acts of General Assembly, passed at

Re-enacted.

the January session eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Public
General Laws, entitled "Wild Fowls, Birds and Game," which
was repealed in so far as it applies to Howard county, by
chapter three hundred and three of Acts of General Assembly
passed at January session nineteen hundred, be and the same
is hereby re-enacted in so far as it applies to Howard county.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
From the date of its passage.
Approved March 20, 1902.