1829.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 128.
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sale shall be appropriated in the first instance to
the payment
of the penalties above, to the person so taking and impounding
the same, and the balance, if any, to the owner or owners.
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Exhoneration.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That if any person shall be sued
for killing or impounding any hog or goose, found going at large
in said town, such person may plead the general issue, and give
this act and the special matter, as evidence.
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Passed Feb. 23, 1830.
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CHAPTER 129.
An act to encourage the destruction of Crowns, in Charles and
Prince George's counties.
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Ten cents—certificate.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any person residing in Charles and Prince George's
counties, shall being to any justice of the peace of the
county in which such person shall reside, the head or heads of
any crow or crows, such person shall, for every such head or
heads, be allowed, in the county levy of said county, the sum of ten
cents; and the justice of the peace before whom such head or
heads shall be brought, is hereby required to give the person
or persons bringing the same, a certificate thereof, and cause
the said head or heads to be burnt, or otherwise destroyed.
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Oath required.
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Sec. 2. Provided nevertheless,
and be it enacted, That no
person whatsoever shall be entitled to any allowance for any
such head or heads, without first making oath or affirmation,
as the case may be, that such crow or crows were taken and
killed in the county where such certificate is applied for, since
the passage of this act and that no certificate hath been obtained
from any other justice of the peace for the same; and
it shall be the duty of each and every justice of the peace,
before whom such head or heads may be brought by virtue of
this act, to take and receive the oath or affirmation of the party
bringing the same, without fee, and clear from all charges
against the person or persons making such oath or affirmation
any thing in any law, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Repeal.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That
the law passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter six, entitled,
" an act for the destruction of crows in the several counties
therein mentioned," and an act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred
and ten, entitled, " and act to encourage the destruction of
crows in the several counties therein mentioned," so far as they
or either of them, related to Charles' and Prince George's
counties, be and the same are hereby repealed.
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