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ward mentioned in Section 18 of this Act, must be a resident
of Allegany County, and shall take said fox, wild cat, hawk or
hoot-owl, or the hide with head attached if it be a fox or wild
cat, before some justice of the peace of said county, as evidence
of such killing or destroying and shall make oath that the same
is bona fide killed or destroyed in said county and that the
person so killing or destroying such bird or animal is a resi-
dent of Allegany County, and said justice of the peace shall
burn said animal or bird, or the head thereof, or so brand it
by severing the head from the hide in case of animals, that the
same cannot be used again in evidence, and shall give the party
producing the same a certificate that such head has been pro-
duced before and destroyed or branded by him, and that the
party producing the same had made such affidavit, and shall
receive from such person the sum of fifteen cents for every
certificate so issued, which certificate shall enumerate the
number of scalps so produced, but a separate certificate shall
be required for each species of bird or animal set forth in this
section; and the said Justice of the Peace shall keep a record
of all certificates so issued by him, subject at all times to pub-
lic inspection. And it shall be the duty of every Justice of the
Peace in Allegany County on or before the tenth day of every
month to file with the Clerk to the County Commissioners of
said County an itemized statement of the bounty certificates
issued by him in the preceding month, which said statement
shall contain the name of the persons to whom certificates
were issued, the amounts respectively issued to each and the
number and kinds of animals for which certificates were re-
spectively given.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts of laws,
both of the Code of Public General Laws and of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 585.

AN ACT to repeal Section 171 of Article 1 of Public Local
Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Insane Asylum,"
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 171 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Insane Asylum," be