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out a certificate of authority granted by the Commission. If
the certificate of authority is refused, no further proceedings
shall be taken before the Commission, but a new application
may be made therefor after six months from the date of re-
fusal.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 339.

AN ACT to exempt agricultural or horticultural or live stock
fairs and exhibits in Wicomico County, Maryland, from
county and municipal taxation for fifteen years.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 340.

AN ACT to add nine new sections to Article 99 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, title "Wild Fowl—Birds and
Game, " sub-title "Water Fowl, " to follow Section 37 of said
Article as designated in Senate Bill No. 105 of the Session
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1927. Said new
sections designating the boundaries of the area at the Head
of the Chesapeake Bay to be known as the "Susquehanna
Flats, " prescribing rules and regulations for the hunting of
water fowl within said area and providing for the policing
and prescribing penalties for the violations of the provisions
thereof.

SECTION 1. For the purposes of this Act, all that part of
the Chesapeake Bay and its waters lying within the follow-
ing lines shall be known as the "Susquehanna Flats, " more
briefly referred to herein as the Flats.
All that portion of the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries ly-
ing south of a line drawn east from Concord Lighthouse, in
Harford County, to Carpenters Point, on the western shore
of Cecil County, and north of a line beginning at the lighthouse
on Turkey Point, in Cecil County, and drawn westerly to a
point half a mile north of the northerly part of Spesutia Island;
thence continuing said line still westward, but at no time ap-