332                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 263

CHAPTER 263
(House Bill 450)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 721 and
722 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington County (1957
Edition, the same being Article 22 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Washington County", sub-title "Wild
Animals", relating to bounties for killing or destroying certain
animals in Washington County; and providing generally for meth-
ods of obtaining said bounties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 721 and 722 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Wash-
ington County (1957 Edition, the same being Article 22 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Washington County", sub-
title "Wild Animals", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

721.  Any citizen of Washington County, Maryland, who shall kill or
destroy a fox, wildcat, or weasel, within the limits of Washington
County, shall be entitled to the following allowance or bounty, viz:
For each fox, the sum of [$2.00] $3.00; for each wildcat, the sum
of [$2.00] $3.00; for each weasel, the sum of [$.50] $1.50, for each
horned owl, the sum of $3.00.

722.  In order to obtain such allowance, it shall be necessary for the
person, or parent, or guardian of the person or persons, killing a fox,
wildcat, weasel, horned owl, hawk or crow, to produce the skin or
skins of such fox, wildcat or weasel and the head or heads of such
hawk, horned owl or crow before the Clerk of the County Commis-
sioners of Washington County or the county sheriff or a justice of
peace, and at the same time make oath in due form that the said fox,
wildcat, weasel, horned owl, hawk or crow, as the case may be, was
taken and killed within the limits of said Washington County, within
sixty days before the production of said skin or skins or head or heads
to the said Clerk of the County Commissioners or the county sheriff
or a justice of peace. The said Clerk of the County Commissioners or
sheriff or justice of the peace shall thereupon give to the person or
persons producing said skin or skins, or head or heads, a certificate
that such skin or skins, or head or heads were produced before him,
wherein he shall set forth the above mentioned oath. It shall also be
the duty of the said Clerk of the County Commissioners or sheriff
or justice of the peace, to mark any such skin or skins, by means of
perforating both ears and forehead of such skin or skins, by means
of a special perforating machine to be furnished said Clerk, sheriff
or justice of peace by the said County Commissioners of Washington
County and to destroy the head or heads of any hawk, horned owl
or crow, in order that no person or persons may collect said allowance
or bounty on any skin or skins, head or heads, more than one time.
Upon presentation of said certificate, above mentioned, to the Treas-
urer of said Washington County, the Treasurer shall pay the allow-
ance or bounty as provided in Section 721 hereof.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.