304 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 170.
	AN ACT to repeal Sections two and three of Ar- ticle thirty-six, of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Estrays," and to re-enact thesame with amendments.
Repealed,	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Sections two and three of Ar- ticle thirty-six, of the Code of Public General Laws, be and the same are hereby repealed, and the fol- lowing enacted in place thereof:
Estray.	2. Any person taking up an estray, trespassing upon his enclosures, shall within a reasonable time thereafter go before some Justice of the Peace of the neighborhood and make affidavit thereof, which affidavit shall contain a description of said estray, and such person shall cause the certificate of such Justice as to such affidavit to be published once in each of two successive weeks, in any newspaper
Publish.	published in the county where such estray shall be taken up, if any be so published, and also copies of same to be set up at not less than three of the most public places in the neighborhood, if such estray be of the value of ten dollars or upwards.
Posted.	3. If there be no newspaper published in the county where the estray may be found, or if it be of less value than ten dollars, in such cases the said persons shall cause copies of the certificate of the Justice of the Peace to be set up at three of the most public places in the neighborhood where found.
In force.	Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act take effect from its passage. Approved March 20, 1868.