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to the extent of the value of the lumber or timber used in the construc-
tion of said building and grown on the land of the owner.

CRIER.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 69. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 49.

123. The Crier of the Circuit Court for Caroline County shall be
entitled to two dollars a day for each day he shall attend the sittings of
the court, in lieu of all fees.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 71. 1880, ch. 129.

124. The provisions of Sections 241 to 245, of Article 4 of the Public
Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," relating to "Cruelty to Animals,"
shall apply to Caroline County as fully as if repeated in this Article.

Secs. 241-245 of Art. 4 were repealed by ch. 496, 1902'. Ch. 198, 1890, superseded
said sections. See Annotated Code of Md., Art. 27, secs. 69-70, and State v.
Falkenham, 73 Md. 465.

DENTON.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 72. 1884, ch. 367. 1914, ch. 730, sec. 72.

125. The inhabitants of Denton are hereby declared to be a body cor-
porate, by the name of "The Commissioners of Denton," and Toy that
name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, have and
use a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and have and pos-
sess all powers incident to municipal corporations, as well as those here-
inafter particularly enumerated.

1914, ch. 730, sec. 73.

126. The limits of said town shall be as follows:

As described on a plat thereof recorded in the Clerk's office, of the
Circuit Court for Caroline County in Liber J. K. S. No. 75, folio 187,
one of the land record books for said county.

1914, ch. 730, sec. 74.

127. The government of said town shall be vested in and enforced by
three Commissioners who shall be elected by the inhabitants of said town
qualified to vote for delegates to the General Assembly; the said Com-
missioners shall be at least twenty-five years of age and payers of taxes
on the assessed value of at least five hundred dollars worth of property,
subject to municipal taxation, and shall have resided at least two years
within said town. At the election for Commissioners to bo held in April,

*Ch. 232, 1924, authorized Denton to issue $15,000 bonds for improving certain,
named streets and ch. 181, 1927, authorized the town to issue $12,000 of bonds
for improving certain streets. Both of these Acts provided for imposing special
assessments of $1.50 per lineal foot on the property abutting on said street and
authorized the levying of taxes to pay the interest on and to redeem said bonds.