GAOL.

2093

Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, for the mutual benefit and
advantage of different owners or possessors of adjoining lands,
it shall be the duty of each party to keep up in good repair his,
her, or their just and respective proportion thereof; in the

manner following, that is to say, all post <and rail or plank
fences, shall be at least four and a half feet high, and all worm
or other fences shall be at least five feet high, the distance in
every case to be computed from the ground or base of any
embankment upon which said fence may be placed.

Height
regulated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That if either of the parties so
making or keeping a joint fence, shall not comply with the
foregoing provision, and shall refuse or delay, 'to repair the
said fence within twenty days after notice in writing shall be
given to the said party, bis agent or overseer, then upon proof
thereof, before a justice of the peace, it shall be lawful for the
said justice, under his hand and seal, to authorize the party
aggrieved, and suffering by such refusal or delay, to repair the
said fence, as above required, and for so doing shall be re-im-
bursed,all costs and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred,
to be recovered from the party so refusing or delaying, in the
same manner as debts of a like amount are now recoverable.

Case of
neglect.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That in case joint fences are not
made and kept in repair according. to the provisions of this act;
it shall also be lawful for the party aggrieved, or likely to be
injured, instead of pursuing the remedy above allowed, to dis-
continue the said fence, upon giving three months notice in
manner aforesaid, and in all other cases, (unless by mutual
consent,) twelve months notice shall be required to discontinue
any joint fence.

Discon-
tinuance.

GAOL.
AN ACT authorizing the Justices of the Levy Court in Queen Anne's
County lo levy a sum of money for the building a Prison in the said
County, and to regulate the same. — 1797, ch. 17.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that
the sums of money formerly levied on the inhabitants of Queen
Anne's county, for the purpose of building a court-house and
prison in the said county, are inadequate for that purpose, and
that the prison is not yet built,
SEC. 2, 3. Authorize a levy for building a Gaol.

Preamble.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or
a majority of them, in planning and directing the building of
the said gaol, shall lay off two apartments and a cellar, and re-
serve and appropriate the same to the residence of the keeper
of the said gaol ; and the said commissioners, as soon as the
said building shall be completed, shall return a fair and faith-
ful account of their proceedings and expenditures to the jus-

Two apart-
ments to be
laid off, &c.