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128. The said commissioners may allow such compensation to
the clerk of the market and bailiff aa they may think proper.

129. No person shall suffer his hogs to go at large within the
circle of half a mile from the mill in said town, and the commis-
sioners may provide for enforcing this section.

130. All penalties, fines and forfeitures which may be incurred
by any person under the provisions of this article in relation to
Millington, may be recovered in the name of the said commis-
sioners before a justice of the peace as small debts, and shall be
appropriated to the benefit of said town.

NEOBOES AND SLAVES.

131. In all cases where the Orphans' Court of said county
shall bind out the children of free negroes, they shall fix the
freedom dues of such apprentices at such sum as they may think
right and proper, in no case exceeding double the amount pro-
vided by the laws of the State.

132. They shall, in binding out such apprentices, inquire into
the manner and expense of raising such children, and shall pro-
vide for and secure to the parents, relations or other person who
may have raised such children, or proportionally, when the cir-
cumstances require it, such sum to be paid by the master, as
they may think reasonable and just under all the circumstances.

133. The justices of the peace binding such apprentices shall
exercise the same powers as the Orphans' Court, and the Or-
phans' Court, before confirming such indentures, shall inquire
into all the circumstances of such freedom dues and compensa-
tion for raising such children, and if they think it expedient, re-
quire them to conform to the practice and opinion of the court
before they shall sanction such indentures.

134. The county commissioners of said county may at their
discretion, in addition to the regular police force of the county,
<m or before the third Monday of March, annually, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, appoint not less than ten nor more
than twelve persons, to act as a special police force in the county,
who shall entertain opinions favorable to the recovery and secu-
rity of slave property, and who shall be in other respects quali-
fied, and who shall, before they proceed to act, make oath before