ART. 21.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 899

uses aforesaid; and if said slave shall act by the order of his
owner or employer, he shall not *be subject to such whipping,
but the owner or employer giving such order shall be subject to
the penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered as aforesaid.

105. Every justice of the peace shall annually account with
the county commissioners of the county, at their meeting to
make the county levy, for all fines received under this law,
under the penalty of twenty dollars for each fine by Sim imposed
or received.

FOXES.

106. Every person who is an actual resident of Washington
county, shall be entitled to an allowance from said county, not
to exceed one dollar, for every fox destroyed or killed by him
within the limits thereof.

107. It shall be necessary for the person killing or destroying
any fox, to produce the head and tail of the same before some
justice of the peace in and for said county, and make oath that
the said fox was taken, wounded or 'killed within the limits of
said county, within six days then next preceding.

108. The said justice shall thereupon give to said person a cer-
tificate setting forth the said oath, and shall at the same time
cut off the ears and tail, and cut out the tongue from the head,
so as to prevent any second allowance therefor; and the county
commissioners of said county shall levy for the use of the person
producing such certificate the sum to which he shall thereby
appear to be entitled under the provisions of section 106 'of this
article.

HAGERSTOWN.

109. The inhabitants of Hagerstown, in Washington county,
are a body corporate, by the name of " The Mayor and Council
of Hagerstown," and by that name may sue and be sued, and
have and use a common seal.

110. The bounds of said town shall be as laid down and de-
scribed on a plot of Hagerstown, recorded in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington county.

111. The free white male citizens of Hageratown, of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, who have resided in the Sto*i.