1224 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 720.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 21 of
Article 99, Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title
'' Game,'' sub-title '' Birds.''

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 21 of Article 99, Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows :

SEC. 21. No person shall in this State, at any time, shoot
or in any manner catch or kill, expose for sale, sell or buy, or
have in possession, alive or dead, any turkey buzzard, wren,
sparrow, bluebird, egret, humming-bird, blue jay, heron, mi-
gratory or other thrush, wood-robin, red-breasted robin, mar-
tin, mocking-bird, cat-bird, swallow, oriole, red-bird, lark,' in-
digo-bird, joe wink, pewitt, sapsucker, whippoorwill, goldfinch,
yellow-breasted chat, cedar bird, herring gull or mackerel gull,
or gull of any description, under a penalty of not less than
one ($1) dollar nor more than five ($5) dollars for each such
bird so shot, caught, killed, exposed for sale, sold, bought or
had in possession; and no person shall, under like penalty,
have in his or her possession, offer for sale or wear the skins,
plumage, wings or feathers of any of the birds, the catching or
killing of which is prohibited by this Section; provided, how-
ever, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as
to make it unlawful to shoot, catch or kill, or in any manner
destroy at any time any hawk or other birds destructive to
domestic poultry, or any English sparrow, or crow or black-
bird; provided that this Section shall not apply to St. Mary's
County and Calvert County; provided that it shall be lawful
to have mocking-birds or red-birds, or other song birds in
cages or stuffed specimens of any said birds in educational in-
stitutions, or public or private museums.

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

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 721.

AN ACT to appropriate certain sums of money to the support
of sundry schools and charitable institutions in the State of
Maryland for each of the two fiscal years ending on the thir-