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of Cecil County to shoot, trap or in any manner to kill, catch or
have in possession any muskrat, between the 1st day of March
and the 1st day of December, inclusive, in each and every year.

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

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person violating any
provision of the two preceding Sections shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any Jus-
tice of the Peace of Cecil County, shall be fined ten dollars for
each offense or sent to jail for not more than thirty days, or both
at the discretion of said Justice; and every muskrat illegally
killed or caught and every occasion upon which a muskrat house
or den is illegally molested shall be deemed a separate offense.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 40.

ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Cumber-
land to annually levy a tax not to exceed five cents on each
One Hundred Dollars of the taxable and assessable property
in the City of Cumberland for the support and maintenance
of a Health Department, and to provide for the submission of
the same to the voters of said City."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland be and
they are hereby authorized to annually levy a tax not to exceed
five cents on each One Hundred Dollars of the taxable and as-
sessable property in the City of Cumberland, the proceeds of
which shall be devoted to the maintenance of a Health Depart-
ment in the City of Cumberland, said sum to be expended un-
der the order and direction of the Board of Health of said City
as constituted by the Charter of said City; provided, that at
the first regular municipal election to be held in said City after