1576 ARTICLE 6.

County, so as to impede the free flow of water therein, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof by any Justice of the
Peace in and for Caroline County shall be fined not exceeding twenty
dollars for each offense and the costs of prosecution, and, in the discre-
tion of said Justice, may be committed, to jail until such fine and costs
are paid; provided, however, the proceedings in such case shall, in all
respects, conform to the law governing criminal procedure before Justices
of the Peace in the State of Maryland.

1914, ch. 607, sec. 2.

164. It shall be lawful for any person or persons whose lands are
drained by said ditch, whether he or they be residents of Caroline County
or not, to go upon the lands bordering upon said ditch in Caroline County,
with such men, teams and appliances as are reasonably necessary for the
removal of any obstruction to the free flow of the water in and through
said ditch, in Caroline County, and to remove said obstruction therefrom,
provided that the person or persons having charge of the removal of any
such obstructions in said ditch, and the person and persons ordering the
same to be removed, shall be liable in damages to the respective owners of
the land bordering on said ditch for any damage done to the growing
crops, timber and fences of the said respective owners, in and about the
removal of said obstructions.

DROVERS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. ]08. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 76.

165. Every drover who shall drive any cattle or sheep in or through
Caroline County shall have each and every cattle and sheep so marked with
red paint or tar on their forehead that said mark may be easily seen.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 109. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 77.

166. Any drover failing to have his sheep or cattle so marked, shall
forfeit one-half the value of the cattle: or sheep unmarked; and any indi-
vidual of said county may take from his drove any cattle or sheep un-
marked as aforesaid.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 110. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 78.

167. The person taking the cattle or sheep from such drove, unless
they be his own, shall safely keep them, and shall advertise them in some
newspaper for not less than three weeks, and if no owner shall then
appear he shall sell them at public sale, one-half of the net proceeds of sale
to go to the person taking the cattle and the other half to the County
Commissioners, for the use of the county.

ELECTION DISTRICTS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 111. 1870, ch. 54. 1880, ch. 107.

168. Caroline County is divided into six election districts, to be known,
respectively, as district number one, or Henderson's district; district num-