112 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.
ELECTIONS.
100*. Baltimore county is divided into thirteen election dis-
tricts, according to their present bounds and limits, and all elec-
tions for public officers shall be held in each of the said districts,
at the places now or hereafter established by or in pursuance
of any act of Assembly passed for that purpose.
101. The judges and clerks of election in said county shall
receive three dollars a day while acting as such; the return
judges who reside over ten miles from the court-house, shall be
entitled to two days' extra pay, and other return judges to one
day's extra pay.
FENCES.
102. In all cases in which two or more persons in said county
have agreed or shall agree to join in making division fences
between their respective lands, each of said persons shall make
and keep in good repair his portion of such fence.
103. If either of said persons shall fail or neglect to make
such fence in pursuance of his agreement, or to keep or put the
same in good repair within twenty days after he shall have been
notified and requested so to do, in writing, by the parties to such
agreement, or by any person who may have joined in making
any division fence now in existence in pursuance of an agree-
ment heretofore made, the person making the request may
apply to a justice of the county, who, upon proof being made
that the notice and request has been given as aforesaid, and that
any or either of the parties has refused to comply with the
provisions of the last preceding section, shall order and direct
in writing that the person so applying to him may make said
fences, or put the same in repair, as the case may be, and the
cost thereof shall be chargeable to the party or parties whose
duty it was to make or repair the same, and may bo recovered
by the person making or repairing said fences, in an action of
debt before any justice of the peace of said county, or by suit in
the Circuit Court for said county, if the amount expended shall
exceed one hundred dollars.
104. The fences so to be made or kept in repair shall be, if
a worm fence, of ordinary good height, to be ascertained by
three freeholders as directed by the next succeeding section,
and shall be sufficiently close to prevent hogs or pigs from
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