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black cattle to enter on any of the lands of any citizen residing west of
Savage River in Allegany County, whether said lands be enclosed or not,
without the permission or license of such owner.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 232. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 164.

631. Any entry of such cattle shall be deemed a trespass, and such
cattle shall be liable in damages to the person aggrieved in a sum not
exceeding fifty cents for each head of horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle
thus trespassing, for each day they shall be and remain on the land and
premises, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the county
as hereinafter directed.

P. L. L. (1888), Art 1, sec. 233. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 165.

632. If any such horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle shall at any time
be found running at large on the lands of any person within the limits
aforesaid, the owner of the lands, his agent, tenant or overseer, may con-
sider them as trespassing, and may distrain them by impounding in an
enclosure; and it shall be the duty of the person making the distress to
deliver on oath over his own name and under date, a description in writ-
ing of the horses, hogs, sheep, or black cattle distrained, with their natural
and artificial marks, within two days after making the distress, to some
justice of the peace who shall reside nearest to the place where the dis-
tress was made; and the justice shall file the same among the papers of his
office, and give a copy thereof over his own signature to the person making
the distress; and such person may sell the said horses, hogs, sheep or black
cattle, or so many thereof as may be necessary to pay the sum of fifty
cents on each and every head for each day trespassing as aforesaid.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 234. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 166.

633. The person making the distress and selling as aforesaid, shall,
before making such sale, give notice of the time and place thereof, by
public advertisement, set up at three or more public places in the neigh-
borhood where such distress was made, and setting forth in such adver-
tisement the certified copy of the justice of the peace, giving the natural
and artificial marks of said horses, hogs, sheep or horned cattle.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 235. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 167.

634. Any person may redeem said horses, hogs, sheep, or horned cattle,
by paying the damages aforesaid and all costs arising on the same before
the sale thereof.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 236. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 168.

635. Any person making a sale under the provisions of Section 633 of
this Article, shall return to a justice of the peace of the county, a statement
setting forth the number of horses, hogs, sheep and black cattle sold, and
the amount sold for, and after deducting the damages and costs, shall pay
over the surplus to the said justice, to be retained by him for the use of the