PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 809

CHAPTER 484.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 763
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
commonly known as the New Charter of Baltimore City.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 485.

AN ACT to repeal Section 40 of Article 9 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Charles County," sub-title "Birds and
Game," and to re-enact the same so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, To repeal Section 40 of Article 9 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Charles County," sub-title "Birds and

Game,'' and to re-enact the same so as to read as follows:

SEC. 40. It shall not be lawful for any person not a bona
fide resident of said County, or any corporation, to shoot, en-
trap or in any manner kill or catch any partridges, ortolan,
reed birds, snipe, woodcock or rabbit in the said County with-
out having first obtained from the clerk of the Circuit Court
for said County a license permitting the person named in said
license to shoot, kill or trap said game in said County during
the time when the killing of said game is made lawful by Sec-
tion 38 of this sub-title of this Article; and the person named
therein shall pay the said clerk for such license the sum of five

dollars, which amount shall be turned over to the Board of
School Commissioners by the said Clerk for the use of the pub-
lic schools of said County, and fifty cents to be paid the clerk
for his fee for issuing said license; and any non-resident con-
victed before any Justice of the Peace in the said County for
violating the provisions of this Section shall be fined twenty
dollars for each and every offense, and shall forfeit his gun, am-
munition and other apparatus; and on failure to pay said fine
the offender shall be confined in the County Jail for ten days,
and the gun so forfeited shall be sold, after giving ten days'
notice of time and place of sale by written notice posted at three
or more public places in said County, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, by the officer making the arrest; the
proceeds of said sale, after deducting five dollars as a fee to the
officer for making the sale, to be paid over to the Justice of the
Peace before whom the offender was tried, to be held by the said