PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1279

to run at large within their own enclosure which covers an
area of not less than one and one-half acres, and provided, how-
ever, that the Town Commissioners may prohibit such running
at large if same becomes a nuisance. Any person violating this
provision shall be fined one dollar and costs recoverable as
hereinbefore provided; if any animal or animals of any kind
heretofore named of which the owner shall be unknown or can-
not be found, shall be found running at large in said town,. the
bailiff shall forthwith seize and impound the same and shall
give notice thereof by notice posted at the courthouse door, and
if the owner shall not within three days thereafter appear and
pay said bailiff the amount of the fine hereinbefore named and
twenty-five cents extra for each day in which the said animal
shall be taken and impounded, the said bailiff shall sell the
same at public sale, and after deducting one-half of the amount
due on same, including fine, which he shall retain, shall account
for the balance to the said commissioners; the said bailiff is
hereby given the power, and it shall be in his discretion to take
the same proceeding with reference to any animal or animals
of any kind hereinbefore named of which the owner may be
known, and it shall be his duty to so impound the said animal
or animals if the owner be known, or to institute proceedings
before a justice of the peace as hereinbefore provided for viola-
tion of the provisions of this section as hereinafter set forth
herein. It shall be the duty of the bailiff, as far as practicable,
to enforce this and other provisions of this act as well as the
ordinance enacted by the said Town Commissioners, as pro-
vided in this act, and any wilful neglect upon his part to enforce
either of them upon coming to his notice shall be malfeasance
in office.

116D. No person shall sell or barter any spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or lager beer in the said town at any place
within a distance of three hundred yards of any church now
or hereafter to be constructed in said town; nor shall any per-
son sell any liquors within two hundred yards of the county
court house, unless at the time of applying for license therefor
he shall file with the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
an application in writing, verified by affidavit, stating the exact
place at which said liquor is to be sold, the manner of selling
the same, as to whether it is to be done in connection with a
hotel or otherwise, and bearing the indorsement of the commis-
sioners of said town and the County Commissioners of Charles
County, the aforesaid provisions of this section not to apply,
however, to any place where such liquor is now sold under such
license as is provided by law in said town. Any person who