EMERSON C. HARRINGTON/GOVERNOR. 120T

CHAPTER 595.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 99 of Bagby's Anno-
tated Code of Public General Laws, title "Wild Fowl—
Birds and Game, " sub-title "Birds and Game, " to follow
Section 20, to be known as section 20-A; providing for the
propagation, raising or killing of domesticated English or
Ring-necked pheasants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new Section be added to Article 99 of
Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General Laws, title- "Wild
Fowl—Birds and Game, " sub-title "Birds and Game, " to fol-,
low Section 20, to be known as Section 20-A, and to read as
follows:

Section 20-A. Nothing in Section 20 of this Article shall
prevent the propagation, raising or killing of domesticated,.
English or Ring-necked pheasants where the said pheasants are
hatched out and raised on the place where they are killed;
provided that said pheasants shall not be killed on grounds
other than those owned by the breeders thereof, and nothing in
this Act shall permit the following of said pheasants beyond
the boundaries thereof. Any person violating the provisions
of this Section shall be subject to the same penalty provided
for violating Section 20.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 596.

AN ACT to revise the Corporation Laws of the State of Mary-
land.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary~
land, That Section 2 of Article 9 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

2. Every person who doth not reside in this State, and every
person who absconds, may be made a defendant in an attach-
ment; and any corporation not chartered by this State, or any
corporation chartered by this State, which for a period of ten
days next preceding is without at least one resident agent,
whose name and postoffice address is given in its charter or filed