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quire by purchase or condemnation, the property, real and personal, rights
and franchises, of any person or persons, partnership or corporation now
furnishing water to the citizens of the Town of Fcderalsburg.

1927, ch. 603, sec. 5.

229. "The Commissioners of Federalsburg" are hereby authorized and
empowered to levy and collect all necessary taxes on the assessable prop-
erty within the corporate limits of said town for the payment of the in-
terest on said bonds as well as to redeem and pay said bonds as they ma-
ture, if at any time the receipts from water rents shall prove insufficient
therefor.

1927, ch. 603, sec. 7.

230. "The Commissioners of Federalsburg" are hereby authorized and

empowered to do all acts and things not specifically mentioned herein
which may be necessary to issue and sell said bonds and to arrange for
the construction, establishing and maintaining of said water supply system
as herein provided, or in their discretion to acquire by purchase or con-
demnation, the property, real and personal, rights and franchises of any
person or persons, partnership or corporation now furnishing water to the

citizens of the Town of Federalsburg.

FENCES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 135. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 86.

231. Whenever joint fences are established for the mutual benefit of

different owners or possessors of adjoining land, each party shall keep
in good repair his respective proportion thereof in manner following,
that is to say: all post and rail or plank fences shall be at least four feet
and a half high, and all worm fences at least five feet high, in every case
to be computed from the ground or base of any embankment on which
said fence may be placed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 136. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 87.

232. If either of the parties making or keeping a joint fence shall not

comply with the provisions of the preceding section, and shall refuse or
delay to make or repair his proportion of such joint fence within twenty
days after notice in writing shall be given to him, or his overseer or tenant,
upon proof thereof before a justice of the peace, the said justice may,

under his hand and seal, authorize the party aggrieved to make or repair
said fence, and for so doing he shall be reimbursed all costs and reason-
able expenses, to be recovered from the party so refusing or delaying in
the same manner as debts of a like amount are recoverable.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 137. 1860, Art. 6, sec. 88.

233. In cases in which joint fences are not made or kept in repair

according to the directions of Section 231 of this subtitle of this Article,
the party aggrieved, instead of pursuing the remedy prescribed by the