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SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 211.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 478
of the Acts of General Assembly of 1884, entitled "An Act
to repeal section 1 of an act passed at the January Session,
1874, Chapter 337, entitled 'An Act to regulate the building
of joint fences in Howard county.'"

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land. That Chapter 478 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, 1884, entitled "An Act to repeal section 1 of

an act passed at the January Session, 1874, Chapter 337,
entitled 'An Act to regulate the building of joint fences in
Howard county,'" and to re-enact the same with amendments
so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whenever joint fences may hereafter be established in said
county for the mutual benefit of different owners or possessors
of "adjoining lands each party shall keep in good repair his
just proportion thereof in the manner following: All post and
rail or plank fences shall be at least four feet and a half high;

all stone fences shall be at least four feet high, and all worm or
other fences shall be at least five feet high, the height in every
case to be computed upon from the ground or base of any
embankment upon which said fence may be placed; and there
shall be between the bottom rail or plank and the ground or
embankment on which said fence is placed no larger interval
than five inches, and between the bottom rail or plank and
the rail or plank directly above the same no larger interval than
five inches. And when said fence or fences shall be constructed,
in whole or in part, of wire, the wires thereof shall not be more
than five inches apart to the height of twenty inches from
the ground or embankment of which said fence or fences may
be placed.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted. That if either of the parties, so mak-
ing or keeping a joint fence, shall not comply with the provi-
sions of the preceding section, and shall refuse or delay to
make or repair the said fence within twenty days after notice,
in writing, shall be given to him or his agent, overseer or ten-