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possible after the first day of January in each year, to canvass
thoroughly the district in order to ascertain the number of
dogs, the owners of same, and also the other facts required of
the constables in the reports referred to in the preceding Sec-
tion to the County Commissioners. Upon the payment of the
tax by the owner of a dog the constable shall give him a receipt
in the form of this Act prescribed, and also a tag to be worn
by the dog; and the constable shall report to the County Com-
missioners on or before the first day of every month in the same
manner and form aforesaid, and shall at the same time pay to
the County Treasurer all the tax funds they have collected,
less the sum of twenty-five cents for each and every dog so
receipted for by them, which said sum, and no more, they shall
retain for their services; they shall also state in their monthly
reports those who have failed to pay the tax on their dogs as
required by this Act.

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

Approved March 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 46.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 36 of
Article 5 of the Code of Public Local Laws as amended by
Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1910, title "Calvert County," sub-
title "Birds and Game."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 36 of Article 5 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, as amended by Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1910, title
"Calvert County," sub-title "Birds and Game," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 36. No person shall shoot or in any manner catch or
kill within the limits of Calvert County any partridge or rabbit
between the 25th, day of December (10th, day of January) and
the 14th, day of November (15th, day of November) of each
and every year."

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

Approved March 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 47.
(Vacant Chapter Number.)