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CHAPTER 179.

AN ACT to prohibit the taking or willful destruction of trees,
branches, shrubs, vines, moss, turf or flowers without the
written consent of the owner thereof, and providing a penalty
therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any person to remove, take,
cut, break, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, vine, flower, moss
or turf from the land or premises of another, or shall cut, or at-
tempt to cut, burn or attempt to burn, girdle, or attempt to gir-
dle, or otherwise damage or destroy, or attempt to damage or
destroy, any standing or growing timber or trees thereon with-
out the written consent first had and obtained of the owner
thereof, or under the personal direction of such owner, and any
violation of this Act shall constitute a misdemeanor and any
person convicted thereof before a Justice of the Peace or other
court of proper jurisdiction shall be punishable by a fine of
not less than five dollars or more than twenty-five dollars, or by
imprisonment of not less than thirty or more than ninety days,
or both, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall
apply to the trimming of trees under the supervision of the
State Board of Forestry.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and eighteen.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 180.

AN ACT to enable the Mayor and City Council of Cumber-
land, Maryland, a municipal corporation duly incorporated
under the laws of the State of Maryland, to pay the Fabric
Fire Hose Company of New York City the sum of one
thousand, one hundred and thirty-four dollars for fire hose
and other equipment purchased and used by the said Mayor

and City Council, and the further sum of two hundred and
thirty-eight dollars and fourteen cents ($238.14) accrued
interest.

WHEREAS the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland,
Maryland, a municipal corporation, duly incorporated, did on
or about June 14, 1914, order from the Fabric Fire Hose