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ROBERT EDEN, Esq; Governor.
name of, the commissioners of the town of Baltimore for the time being,
before
any one justice of the peace for Baltimore county, or the county where
the person
offending shall reside, and shall be paid to the commissioners or clerk
of the market
for the time being, and shall be applied to the use of the said town of
Baltimore.
Saving to his most sacred majesty, his heirs and successors, and to all
bodies politic and
corporate, and all others not mentioned in this act, their several and
respective
rights. |
1773.
CHAP.
XXIII. |
XV. This act to continue three years, and
unto the end of the next session of
assembly which shall happen after the expiration of the said three years.
Continued for seven years, &c.
by the act of February, 1777, ch. 17; and for seven years, &c. by the
act of November, 1784, ch. 83. |
Continuance. |
CHAP. XXIV.
An ACT for the more effectual preservation of the breed of wild
deer. |
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WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, that the
species of deer hath of late years been very much lessened, for the prevention
whereof it is thought proper by this general assembly to pass
an act restraining all persons whatsoever from shooting or otherwise destroying
them for a limited time. |
Preamble. |
II. Be it therefore
enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and
with the advice and consent of his governor, and the upper and lower
houses of assembly,
and the authority of the same, That it shall not be lawful for
any person or
persons whatsoever within this province, (the Indians in amity with us
excepted)
from and after the end of this assembly, during the term of three years,
to kill any deer, under the penalty of ten pounds current money for every
deer so
killed, to be recovered in the county court where the said offence shall
be committed,
by indictment or information, one half of which said sum of ten pounds
shall
be applied to the use of the county school where such offence shall be
committed,
and the other half to be received by the person who shall make information
of the
said offence. |
Penalty on
persons killing
deer during
three years,
&c. |
III. And be
it further enacted, That any person or persons whatsoever, in
whose hands or custody any deers flesh shall be found, that shall appear
to have
been killed on or before the end of the said three years, shall be deemed,
taken
and adjudged, the killer of such deer, and liable to the penalty aforesaid,
unless
such person shall make it appear who it was that really killed the same,
or from
whom such person or persons thereof possessed received the same. |
Persons having
deers flesh
to be deemed
the killers. |
IV. And be it
further enacted, That it is the true intent and meaning of this
act, that the liberty given to the Indians aforesaid shall extend only
to the killing
of deer for their private use, and not for sale; and that it shall not
be lawful for
any inhabitant within this province, under the penalty aforesaid, to be
recovered
as aforesaid, for the uses aforesaid, to purchase any dead deer, or any
part thereof,
of any Indian or Indians, within the time prohibited by this act to kill
deer. |
Inhabitants
not to purchase
dead
deer. |
V. And be it
further enacted, That no person or persons whatsoever, shall
shoot, or otherwise destroy, any deer, after the end of this present session
of assembly,
for and during the term of three years; and that no person or persons whatsoever,
after the expiration of the said three years, shall shoot, kill or destroy,
any
deer during the continuance of this act, except in the months of September
and
October yearly. |
Nor to kill
any during
three years,
&c. |
VI. And be it
further enacted, That the justices of the several county courts
shall, and they are hereby required to give this act in charge to their
several grand
juries, whose duty it shall be to present all persons whatsoever who shall
have
made a breach of this act. |
To be given
in charge to
grand juries. |
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