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admitted into the same for the purpose of search, and if the
owner or occupant shall refuse to suffer such entry and search,
they may use all necessary force to effect the same, and in any
action or suit brought by any owner or occupant for any entry
made in virtue of this section, the defendant may plead the
general issue and give the .special matter in evidence.

74. If any person named in such requisition as patrol, on being
duly notified and summoned by the justices of the peace, shall
neglect or refuse to obey such summons, he shall be subject to a
fine not exceeding five dollars nor less than fifty cents, to be re-
covered as small debts are, by summons in the name of the State,
and applied to the use of the commissioners of the school fund
of the county.

OBDINABIES.

75. The county commissioners of said county shall, from time
to time, establish and regulate the rates of all public inns and
taverns in said county.

ORPHANS' COTJBT.

76. Each judge of the Orphans' Court of said county shall be
entitled to two dollars and fifty cents for each day's attendance
at said court, and mileage at the rate of five cents per mile on all
distances not exceeding twenty miles from his residence, com-
puted by the shortest public road.

77. The county commissioners of said county, at their first
meeting after each election, shall determine the amount of mile-
age each judge of the Orphans' Court is entitled to receive, and
shall levy a sufficient sum to pay the same.

OUT-PENSIONERS.

78. The county commissioners of said county may keep as
many out-pensioners as they may think proper, but no out-pension
shall exceed the sum of thirty dollars a year.

BAIL KOADS.

79. Whenever any seven or more free white persons, citizens
of the United States, and a majority of them citizens of said
county, are associated together, or intend to associate together,