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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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666 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

rested; and in case of their disagreement, it shall be lawful for
the referees to call in a third person, who shall qualify, as above
required, and the decision of any two of them shall be final, and
the damages by them awarded, may be recovered in the same
manner as small debts.

96. Each freeholder who shall be called upon to value and
assess such damages, shall be entitled to one dollar per day for
his services.

97. No action of trespass quare clausum fregit shall be ad-
judged to be maintained or supported by evidence that any
defendant in such action, or any horse, cow, hog, or other do-
mestic animal belonging to such defendant, passed on or over
any waste or unenclosed land in Kent county, or by proof that
any such animal trod down or ate the grass or herbage, or
rooted up or destroyed the soil or earth on any such waste or
unenclosed lands; and the defendant in any such action may
plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence.

98. No person shall distrain any horse, hog or other beast
damage feasant upon any waste or unenclosed land in Kent
county.

GALENA.

99. The town formerly known as Georgetown Cross Roads in
Kent county shall be called Galena.

100. The citizens of said town are a body politic by the name
of the " Town Commissioners of Galena, Maryland," and by their
corporate name may sue and be sued, grant, receive, convey,
bargain and sell and hold real, personal and mixed property, and
have a common seal, and the same alter at pleasure, and do all
acts and things for the benefit of said town as may not be con-
trary to law.

101. An election shall be held on the first Monday of May in
, each year for the purpose of electing five persons out of the legal
voters of said town as commissioners, who shall hold their office
for one year, and until their successors are chosen and qualified.

102. All elections for said commissioners shall be held as the
town commissioners shall direct; Provided, they be held annually;

and all persons who shall have resided in said town for six months

 

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