ART. 6.] CAROLINE COUNTY. 391

139. A judgment of a justice of the peace in Caroline county
shall be a lien on the lands and tenements of the defendant in
such judgment lying in said county, from the time a short copy
of such judgment shall be filed in the office of the dork of the
Circuit Court for Caroline county.

NAVIGATION OF NANTIOOKE EIVBR.

140. All weirs and hedges made in the northwest fork branch
of Nanticoke River from the northwest fork bridge to the mill
of Robert Boyce, so as to prevent the free passage of vessels,
scows; rafts of logs or scantling passing to and from said mill,
shall be deemed nuisances, and may be by any person taken out
of said branch or river and destroyed.

141. Any person who shall place any weir or hedge in said
river between said points so as to stop the passage of boats, ves-
sels, scows, rafts of logs or scantling, or in any manner to injure
the navigation thereof, shall be subject to a fine of twenty dol-
lars, to be recovered before a justice of the peace of Caroline
county as small debts are recovered, one-half to the informer or
person who may sue for the same, the other half to the use of
the county.

NEGROES AND SLAVES.

142. It shall be the duty of constables in Caroline county to
arrest and bring before a justice of the peace any slave who"
may be going at large and hiring himself in their respective dis-
tricts, or who may not have a fixed home in the family or on
the estate of his owner, or be hired to or in the regular employ
of another person by virtue of a contract with his owner.

143. In all cases, the justice, if satisfied that the slave was
going at large contrary to law, shall direct the constable to hire
such slave for the entire balance of the year.

144. For each examination of slaves under this law, the justice
shall be entitled to twenty-five cents, to be levied as part of the
county expenses.

145.' The constables shall keep an account of the slaves by
them respectively hired out, and the amount of hire received for
each, the account to be submitted and the money accounted for
to the county commissioners annually.