1518 ARTICLE 5.

1892, ch. 610, sec. 16.

297. The County Commissioners, justices of the peace, constables,
sheriffs and all State and county officers shall have, hold and exercise their
offices and jurisdiction in said town as if this charter had not been granted.

1892, ch. 610, sec. 17.

298. Neglect or non-use shall not work a forfeiture of this charter.

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 126. 1888, ch. 68. 1894, ch. 354. 1912, ch. 103.

299. The State's Attorney for Calvert Comity shall receive a salary of
nine hundred dollars per annum, and no more, which shall be annually
levied by the County Commissioners of Calvert County to the use of the
State's Attorney, for the performance of the duties which are now or may
be hereafter required by him by law, to be paid for by the County Com-
missioners of Calvert County.*

SWINE IN LOWER MARYBOROUGH.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 127. 1860, Art. 5, sec. 73.

300. No swiue belonging to the inhabitants of Lower Marlborough, in
Calvert County, shall be suffered to go at large in said town; and if any
person shall find any such swine going at large in said town, he may kill
the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 128. 1860, Art. 5, sec. 74.

301. If any person shall be sued for killing any such swine going at
large, he may plead the general issue and give the special matter in evi-
dence.

TAXES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 129. 1860, Art. 5, sec. 75.

302. Where there is no personal property on the land lying in Calvert
County belonging to any person not residing therein, for the payment
of taxes, the collector or deputy collector may sell a sufficient quantity
of timber suitable for cord wood or fence rails, in one parcel, growing on
the same acre or contiguous acres of the land, to pay such taxes.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 130. 1860, Art. 5, sec. 76.

303. The collector or deputy collector, before making such sale, shall
give notice in some newspaper published in the District of Columbia, and
in the City of Baltimore, and by advertisement set up at three of the most
public places in the neighborhood adjoining the lands on which the taxes
are due, of the time and place of sale; and at the time of making the

*Sec. 2 of ch. 103, 1912, repeals all laws inconsistent therewith.