820 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.
habitant, or if not an inhabitant of said town, one dollar, to be
accounted for and paid over by the said bailiff to the commia-
sioners, after deducting the sum of twenty cents for each hog
for his trouble.
133. If the owner shall refuse to pay the said sum, the bailiff
shall sell such swine at public sale, and account for and pay over
the proceeds of sale as directed in the preceding section.
134. Whenever any swine shall be taken up by the bailiff,, he
shall advertise the same at the court-house door and at each
tavern in the town, describing the marks and size of such swine,
and if the owner thereof shall not make claim thereto within
aeven days, and pay the sum of two dollars, or one dollar as the
case may be, the bailiff shall sell said swine, and shall account
for and pay over the proceeds of such sale as directed in the
preceding section; and in all cases the bailiff shall be entitled to
six cents a day for each swine by him impounded.
135. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this charter,
or by any ordinance of said town, may be recovered in the name
of the commissioners of Princess Anne, as small debts, before
any justice of the peace of Somerset county, and the bailiff of
said town shall have the power and be entitled to the fees of a
constable in the collection thereof, and such fines, penalties and
forfeitures, and the money arising from the rent of stalls and
shambles in the market house, shall be applied by the commis-
sioners to the improvement of the town.
136. The bounds of said town shall be as described on a plat
thereof on record ii» the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Somerset county; the eastern precincts of said town shall
contain all those lots of ground which are embraced by the line
extending from Bombay Hook bridge along the back of Disha-
roon's, Doctor Jones', Colonel Handy's, and the lot formerly
occupied by Israel Planter, to the county road leading to Snow
Hill; the southern precincts shall contain all those lots of ground
which are embraced by the line extending westerly along the
said county road till it crosses the town parallel with the southern
extremity thereof and reaches the sink or gully extending in the
rear of L. D. Teaokle's grounds; the western precincts shall
embrace all persons residing within one hundred feet from the
alley which bounds the town on the west, and all the land lying
between said alley and a line drawn parallel with said alley at
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