ART. 17.] QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. 769

74. The said clerk shall also execute a bond to the State of
Maryland, approved by said commissioners, in the penalty of one
thousand dollars, for the true and faithful performance of the '
duties of his office, which bond shall be recorded in the office of
the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county.

75. He shall receive annually as a compensation for his services
such sum as the commissioners may deem proper, not exceeding
two hundred dollars.

ELECTIONS.

76. Queen Anne's county is divided into five election districts,
according to their present bounds and limits, and all elections for
public officers shall be held in each of said election districts at
the place now established by law for that purpose.

FENCES.

77. Whenever joint fences have or may be established in said
county, for the mutual advantage of different owners or posses-
sors of adjoining lands, each shall keep up in good repair his or
their respective proportion thereof, in the manner following, that
is to say: all post and rail or plank fences shall be at least four
feet and a half high, and all worm or other fences shall be at
least five feet high, the distance in every case to be computed
from the ground or base of any embankment on which the same
may be placed.

78. If either of the parties making or keeping a joint fence,
shall refuse 'or delay to repair his proportion thereof within
twenty days after notice in writing given to him, his agent or
overseer, upon proof thereof before a justice of the peace, the
said justice may, under his hand and seal, authorize the party
aggrieved to repair said fence, and for so doing, he shall bo re-
imbursed all costs and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred,
to be recovered from the party so refusing and delaying, in the
manner debts of like amount.are recoverable, and he shall have
a lien on the adjacent land or farm of the person who shall have
refused or delayed to make and repair said fence, so as to secure
the reimbursement of the costs and expenses of such making or
repairing,4n the event of the transfer of said land; Provided,
that proceedings to enforce such lien be commenced by the
party, his or their representative, within two years next after
such repair, shall have been done.