852 TALHOT COUNTY. [ART. 20.

benefit of the town and sold by the bailiff to the highest bidder, and
the proceeds, except fifteen cents for every goose and thirty cents for
every swine, which shall be retained by the bailiff for his trouble,
shall be accounted for and paid to the said commissioners; and
any person who shall keep any geeso or swine, (except in pens
or enclosures,) or shall wilfully suffer them to go at large within
said town, shall forfeit the sum of seventy-five cents for every
goose and two dollars for every swine so kept or going at large.

81. All fines, penalties and forfeitures herein imposed for the
violation of the charter of the town of Easton, or imposed by
any ordinance of said town, may be recovered before any justice
of the peace for Talbot county, in the name of said commis-
sioners, as small debts are recovered, and shall be applied to the
repair and support of the market house, and the repair or
purchase of scales, weights and measures, or otherwise, in the
discretion of the commissioners, for the benefit of said town.

ELECTIONS.

82. Talbot county is divided intofive election districts, according
to their present bounds and limits, and elections shall be held in each
district at the place heretofore established by law for that purpose.

FENCES.

83. Wherever joint fences have or may be established in said.
county for the mutual advantage of owners of adjoining lands,
each shall keep in good repair his respective proportion thereof
in the manner following, that is to say: all post and rail or plank
fences sliall 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 any
case to be computed from the ground or base of any embank-
ment on which the same may be placed.

84. 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 or his agont,
upon proof thereof before a justice of the peace, the justice may,
under his hand and seal, authorize the party aggrieved to repair
said fence, and for so doing he shall be reimbursed all costs and
reasonable expenses necessarily incurred, to be recovered from
the party so refusing and delaying, in the manner debts of a like
amount are recoverable, and he shall^ave a lien pn the adjacent