BULLET PLAYING,— CATTLE, &c.

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neglect or refusal shall be continued, which said fine shall be

imposed, levied, collected and applied as other fines now are in

this state.

BULLET PLAYING.

AN Act to prevent Bullet Flaying in Washington and Allegany Counties*

1819, ch. 11.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Penalty for

If any person or persons, after the first day of April next, shall

playing at
bullet*

be found playing at bullets in the public streets of any town in

Washington or Allegany counties, or any of the public roads or

highways in said counties, each and every person so playing

shall be liable to be presented or indicted therefor in the county

where the offence may have been committed, and upon convic-

tion thereof shall be fined, in the discretion of the court, a sum

not exceeding fifty dollars.

CATTLE,— HERDSMEN,- STRAYS,— TRESPASSES.

Note.— 1812, ch. 57; 1816, ch. 215; 1819, ch. 116; repealed by 1820,

ch.91.

AN ACT relating to stray Black Cattle in Allegany County. — 1804, ch. 92.

I find no law repealing this act. The title of the act of 1820, ch. 91,

professes to repeal 'all antecedent laws/ on this subject, yet the repealing

clause therein does not enumerate this act.

WHEREAS, an inconvenience is found from the want of a re-

Preamble.

gular mode prescribed by law, whereby strays of the aforesaid

description may be taken up, and compensation made for the

injury done by said strays ; therefore,

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Stray cattle

That whenever any black or horned cattle shall break into any

to be ap-
praised, &o.

enclosure, or otherwise be found trespassing and estray, the

party aggrieved, or owner or occupier of the land whereon such

stray shall be found, may forthwith and immediately thereon

procure from a justice of the peace, or a justice of the levy

court, a warrant directed to two such disinterested judicious

persons as one of the justices aforesaid shall appoint, to ap-

praise and value the stray cattle as aforesaid upon oath, at the true

value thereof in money, according to their best judgment, and to

administer an oath unto them for that purpose accordingly,

which warrant and oath, either of the justices aforesaid are

hereby respectively authorized to issue and administer ; and it

shall further be the duty of the persons so as aforesaid autho-

rized, to make out a certificate of the valuation by them affixed.

together with a description of the stray beast, setting forth its

age, colour and marks, natural and artificial, which certificate

and warrant shall, within fifteen days from the date of the

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warrant, be, by the party taking up such stray, lodged with the