JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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passage of this act, to ascertain all county taxes paid

by Alexander Kitzrmiller of said county, in error or

excess, for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-

three, eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-five, and levy back to the

said Alexander Kitzmiller, all county taxes which

they shall find or ascertain to have been paid by him

in excess or error as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 387.

AN ACT to regulate the shooting of ducks and

other wild fowl in West and Rhode Rivers, and

their creeks in Anne Arundel county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any person

Not be lawful.

to ahoot at or shoot any ducks or other wild fowl on

or over the waters of West or Rhode Rivers and their

creeks, except from the natural shores of said West

and Rhode Rivers and their creeks.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-

ful for any person to shoot at or shoot any duck or

Not be lawful.

other wild fowl on or over the said West and Rhode

Rivers and creeks, except on Tuesdays, Thursdays

and Saturdays of each week.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every person who

shall be adjudged guilty of the violation of any pro-

Penalty.

visions contained in the foregoing sections, before

any justice of the peace of the said county, shall for

the first offence be fined the sum of five dollars and

every subsequent offence the sum of twenty dollars,

and the boats, guns and other gunning apparatus of
the said party so convicted shall be forfeited and sold

under the direction of the justice of the peace ad-