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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That all the proceedings

Proceedings
ratified.

of Robert W. Adams, Levin E. Bowland and
Thomas Williams, under a commission issued to
them by the county commissioners of Somerset
county to lay off a tax ditch in said Somerset
county, and known as the Turkey Branch tax
ditch, be and the same are hereby ratified and
confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as
though the said Thomas Williams, one of the
said commissioners, were a freeholder as re-
quired by the General Laws of this state.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 17, 1888.

Chapter 29.

AN ACT to add seven additional sections to be
known as sections two hundred and sixty-three,
two hundred and sixty-four, two hundred and
sixty-five, two hundred and sixty-six, two hun-
dred and sixty-seven, two hundred and sixty-
eight, and two hundred and sixty-nine, to arti-
cle ten of the Code of Public Local Laws of the
State of Maryland, title " Dorchester County,"
to provide for the better protection of partridges,
woodcock and rabbits, in said county.

SECTION 263. Be it enacted by the General As-

Not to shoot,
catch, kill, &c.

sembly of Maryland, That no person shall shoot,
or in any manner catch, kill, or have in posses-
sion, any partridge between the first day of Feb-
ruary, said day included, and the twentieth day
of October next ensuing, in each and every year ;
nor any woodcock, between the first day of Feb-
ruary and the fifteenth day of June ; nor any
rabbit, between the fifteenth day of January and
the twentieth day of October ; nor shall any per-
son trap, destroy or molest the eggs or nests of
any of the said birds at any time.