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or remodeling any building where the cost of the same shall be
in excess of the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100), without
first having made application and obtained a permit therefor,
such person or persons, firm or corporation upon conviction
thereof shall be fined a sum not more than Fifty Dollars
($50) and shall stand committed to the Anne Arundel County
Jail, until said fine and costs be paid, not to exceed an im-
prisonment of fifteen days.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the first day of June, Nineteen Hundred and
twenty-seven (1927).

Approved April 26, 1927.

CHAPTER 232.

AN ACT to prevent the killing or trapping of foxes and the
selling, buying or exposing for sale of foxes and fox hides
in Cecil County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall not be lawful to shoot, shoot at, trap,
set a trap for, injure or kill any fox in Cecil County while
such fox in being pursued by dog or dogs.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be un-
lawful for any person to dig out, or in any manner to take
from any den a female fox, or her young whelps, or kill or
in any manner cause the death of such female fox or her
young whelps, during the period of time in which she is
suckling them.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be un-
lawful to sell, buy or expose for sale any fox or fox hide in
Cecil County, and it shall be unlawful to transport any fox or
fox hide from any place in Cecil County to any place without

Cecil County, and possession of any fox or fox hide shall be
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