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SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person within the
limits of Talbot County at any time between the hour of sunset
and the hour of sunrise to shoot or shoot at, or in any manner
kill, except by trapping, any otter or muskrat; and it shall also
be unlawful for any person within the limits of Talbot County
to dig into or in any manner destroy the roof or any part of a
muskrat house or den.

SEC. 3. That any person violating either of the two preced-
ing sections shall, on conviction thereof before any justice of
the peace of Talbot County, be fined ten dollars for each offense,
to which shall be added the costs of prosecution, and the boat,
gun or other apparatus used by said offender shall be forfeited
and sold by the officer making the arrest, and the officer making
the sale shall receive from the proceeds of such sale twenty-five
per cent, of the proceeds of said sale, save and except that the
said officer's fee for making said sale shall not be less than two
dollars nor more than ten dollars, and one-half of all such fines
and the proceeds from the forfeiture shall be paid to the in-
former and the other half to the game wardens, and in case
where the offender does not pay the fine imposed the costs of
prosecution shall be paid from the sale of the forfeited prop-
erty.

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

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 617.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of Oxford to issue
bonds to the amount of sixteen hundred dollars for the pur-
pose of providing money to pay the floating debt owing by
the said Commissioners of Oxford.

Whereas, There has been for a number of years a floating
debt owed by the Commissioners of Oxford, amounting to or
about the sum of sixteen hundred dollars, which said debt can
be more advantageously provided for and gradually paid off,
with interest, in the meantime, at a lower rate than is now
paid if bonds of the Commissioners of Oxford may be issued for
the purpose of liquidating the same,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Commissioners of Oxford be and they are hereby
authorized to borrow on the faith and credit of themselves as
a corporation, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars, and to issue
coupon bonds therefor for the sum of one hundred dollars each,