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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTEE 183.

AN ACT entitled " An act to repeal sections three

hundred and forty-seven and three hundred and

forty- eight of article twenty-one of the Code of

Public Local Laws, as enacted by chapter three

hundred and twenty-seven of the acts of eighteen

hundred and seventy, and' to repeal section one

of chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the acts

of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and re-enact

the same with amendments ; to regulate the shoot-

ing, killing, entrapping and destroying of birds in

Washington county."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections three hundred and forty-

seven and three hundred and forty-eight of article

twenty-one of the Code of Public Local Laws, as

Repealed and
re-enacted.

enacted by chapter three hundred and twenty-seven
of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy, be and

the same are hereby repealed, and that section one

of chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the acts

of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows :

SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person

or persons in Washington county to shoot, kill or in

Unlawful to

any way entrap or destroy any blue-bird, swallow,

shoot blue

martin, robin, cat-bird, wood-pecker, sparrow, wren,

birds, &c.

whip-poor-will, lark, thrush, mocking-bird, or any

insectivorous bird at any season of the year, under the

penalty of two dollars for each bird so killed, taken

or destroyed, nor for any person or persons to trap,

shoot or in any manner catch, kill or wound any bird

or birds or wild fowl of any kind or description

whatever in Washington county, except pheasants,

bull-bats, or night hawks and doves, between the

twelfth day of August and the thirty-first day of

December ; wild turkeys between the first day of

November and the first day of the ensuing January,

and partridges between the twentieth day of Octo-

ber and the first day of the ensuing January in each