EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 797

CHAPTER 399.

AN ACT, to further protect the game of the State by creating
a new section of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land Article 99, Title "Wild Fowl—Birds and Game, " to
be known as section 73.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section to be known as section 73, be
added to the Code of Public General Laws, Article 99, said
section to read as follows:

Section 73. Be it enacted by the Genera], Assembly of
Maryland, That there be a closed season on Elk and Deer with-
in the State of Maryland for a period of six years beginning
from June first, 1916. Any person convicted, before any jus-
tice of the peace of Maryland, of violation of this statute shall
be fined not less that $25. 00 nor more than $100. 00, for each
and every offense. One-half of the fine in such case shall go
to the informer or officer causing the arrest and conviction, un-
less; such officer be a salaried game warden, and the other half
of said fine shall go to the credit of the State Game Protection
Fund for the protection and propagation of Game. If the
arrest and conviction be effected by a salaried game warden,
the entire fine recovered shall go to the State Game Protection
Fund.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and that this
Act shall take effect from the first day of June 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 400.
(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 401.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Board of County School
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County to borrow money
on the credit of Anne Arundel County with which to pur-
chase a school house lot and to erect thereon a suitable
school building in the Village of Glen Burnie, Anne Arun-
del County, Maryland, and to furnish same when completed