808 SOMEKSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

•or resides, one-half to the informer and the other half to the
county.

60. If any slave shall offend against the provisions of section
68th of this article, he shall, on conviction thereof, before any
justice of the peace, be whipped on his back, in the discretion of
the justice, not exceeding for each offence thirty-nine lashes.

61. The master, or any other person, may redeem a slave
thus convicted, on payment of twenty dollars, one-half to the
informer and the other half to be paid to the justice; but if such
slave shall have acted by his master's order, he shall not be
subject to punishment, but his master shall be subject to. the
penalty of twenty dollars.

62. Any person may destroy or remove any seine staked or
fixed across said river to obstruct the passage of fish, and if he
be sued therefor, he may plead the general issue and give the
special matter in evidence.

63. Every justice of the peace who shall receive any money
under the provisions of section 61 of this article, shall, under
the penalty of one hundred dollars, account for the same to the
county commissioners of said county.

JUKOBS.

64. Each juror summoned upon the regular panel of jurors to
the Circuit Court for said county, shall be entitled to receive for
each day he shall attend as a juror, the sum of one dollar and
fifty cents, and an allowance of six and a quarter cents per mile
for every mile his place of residence shall be distant from the
place of holding said court, to be computed for each day's
attendance.

JUSTICES or THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

65. There shall be the following number of justices of the
peace and constables in Somerset county, to wit: for election
district number one, two justices of the peace and two consta-
oles; tor election district number two, two justices of the peace
and two constables; for election district number three, three
justices of the peace and two constables; for election district
number four, one justice of the peace and one constable; for