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County in which he resides, an official copy of his oath shall
be filed and recorded in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court
of the County in which he may reside, or in the Clerk's office
of the Superior Court of the City of Baltimore, if he shall re-
side therein. All words or phrases, used in creating public
offices and positions under the Constitution and laws of this
State, which denote the masculine gender shall be construed to
include the feminine gender, unless the contrary intention is
specifically expressed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That said aforegoing section, hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution, shall be at the next general
election for Members of the House of Representatives of Con-
gress held in this State submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of the State for adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions contained in Article XIV of the Constitution
of this State, and at the said general election the vote on the
said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be by bal-
lot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words ''For
the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the Constitu-
tional Amendment," as now provided by law, and immedi-
ately after said election due returns shall be made to the Gov-
ernor of the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as
directed by said Fourteenth Article of the Constitution, and
further proceedings had in accordance with said Article Four-
teen.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 276.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 317
of the Acts of 1918, relating to the killing or taking of foxes
in Baltimore County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 317 of the Acts of 1918, entitled "An Act
to make the killing or taking of foxes in Baltimore County
under certain conditions a misdemeanor punishable by fine,"
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. In order to encourage the sport of fox hunting and
to prevent the indiscriminate and unnecessary destruction of