DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2277

1924, ch. 538, sec. 7.

289. Any provisions of the General Election Laws as embodied in
Article 33 of Bagby's Annotated Code, title "Elections," and of all Acts
supplementary thereto, anywise inconsistent with the provisions of the
aforegoing sections, in so far as the same applies to Dorchester County
only, are hereby repealed, and the said aforegoing sections are hereby
substituted in place thereof, but that all other provisions of the General
Election Laws of this State as now in force, excepting such as are changed
hereby, shall continue in full force and effect in Dorchester County,
Maryland.

FENCES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 164. 1870, ch. 64. 1878, ch. 83. 1882, ch. 361. 1922, ch. 136.

290. All fields and other ground in that part of Hooper's Island lying
between the ferry or narrows and the thoroughfare in District Number
Six of Dorchester County, shall be fenced with planks, rails, logs or
barbed wire of not less than five strands, with sufficient posts; said fence
to be at least four feet high from the ground to the top of the upper plank,
rail, log or wire on level ground, and three feet high on embankments,
said embankments to be not less than twelve inches high; and the space
between the said planks, rails, or logs, from, the ground, for two feet,
shall not exceed four inches; from thence upwards not to exceed six inches;
and if any livestock of any kind and description whatsoever shall break
into any person's enclosure, the same being of the height and sufficiency
aforesaid, then the owner or owners of said livestock shall be liable to
make good all such damages to the owner or owners of such enclosure as
shall be found and awarded by two or more judicious persons to be ap-
pointed by a justice of the peace for said county; the said persons to view
the same under oath and make return before the justice of the peace before
whom they were appointed, and the said damages to be recovered in the
same manner that is or shall be provided by law for the recovery of small
debts; provided, nevertheless, upon the trial before any justice of the
peace for damages, at the instance of either party, it shall be the duty of
said justice of the peace to issue a subpoena for witness as either plain-
tiff of defendant may require.*

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 10, sec. 167. 1882, ch. 361. 1922, ch. 136, sec. 2.

291. Whenever joint fences have or may be established in said part of
Hooper's Island, lying between the ferry or narrows and the thorough-
fare in District Number Six of Dorchester County, for the mutual benefit
or advantage of different owners or persons of adjoining lands, it shall
be the duty of each party to keep up in good repair, his, her or their just
and respective proportion thereof, in manner following, that is to say:

*Ch. 60, 1906. repealed this section as to the Eleventh or Drawbridge District.
Ch. 772, 1914, repealed this section as to "Upper Hoopers Island." or that part of
Election District No. 6 which lies between Fishing Creek on the north and the creek
separating the Upper Island from the Middle Island on the south.