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may be summoned to view the same by the respec-
tive parties interested, and in case of their disagree-
ment it shall be lawful for the referee to call in a third
person who shall qualify as above required, and the
decision of any two of them shall be final, and the
damages by them awarded may be recovered in the
same manner as other debts of like amounts.
SEC. 7. Se it enacted, That each free holder who	Compensation
shall be called upon to assess such damages, shall
be entitled to one dollar per day, for his services.
SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That no action of trespass
quare clausum, fregit shall be adjudged to be main-	Trespass
tained or supported by evidence that any defendent
in such action or any horse, cow or hog, or domestic
animal belonging to such defendant, passed on or
over any waste or unenclosed land in Prince George'6
county, or by proof that any such animal trod down
or ate the grass or herbage, or rooted up or injured
the soil or earth on any such waste or unenclosed
lands, and the defendant in such action may plead
the general issue and give the special matter in evi-
dence.
SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That no person shall distrain
any horse, hog or other beast, damag feasant upon	Distrain
any waste or unenclosed iland in Prince George'e
county.
SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That this act shall take	Enforce.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 280.
AN ACT to amend section eighteen of an act passed
at the January session of the General Assembly in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chap-
ter one hundred and ninety-five, entitled an act to
incorporate the Emmittsburg Rail Road Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	Repealed and
Maryland, That section eighteen of chapter one hun-	re-enacted