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of all the expenses of keeping said swine and all other costs, including
fifty cents for taking up of each of said swine.
1901, ch. 427, sec. 3.
390. If any person shall take up any swine such person shall impound
same and shall notify the constable, who shall immediately proceed to give
the notice and make the sale in the same manner as provided in Section
389 of this Article; and the owner shall have the return thereof on the said
conditions as provided in that section; and for making a sale under this
section the constable shall be allowed the same commissions now allowed
by law for the sale of personal property under execution; this provision for
commission not to apply to sale of swine taken up by the constable himself.
1904, ch. 427, sec. 4.
391. The said constable thus authorized to make sale of such swine, if
not returned to the owner as aforesaid shall, out of the moneys arising
from such sale first, pay the person or persons taking up the swine and
the cost, charges and expenses incurred and damages sustained by the per-
son or persons upon whose land said swine was trespassing; said damage
to be ascertained upon the oath of two disinterested sworn appraisers; and
the balance, if any, to the owner or owners of such swine; and should no
one claim said balance as owner within sixty days of said sale, the con-
stable shall pay the same to the treasurer of the school fund for Dorchester
County to be applied to the benefit of the public schools of said county.
1904, ch. 531, sec. 1.
392. It shall not be lawful for stock of any kind to go at large without
an attendant in that part of Precinct No. 3, District No. 10, lying to the
westward of Elliott's Creek, known as Elliott's Island proper, of said dis-
trict, lying on the east side of Fishing Bay in Dorchester County.
1904, ch. 531, sec. 2.
393. It shall be lawful for any person, or the duty of any constable,
of said District No. 10, or Straits, to take up any horse, mare or gelding,
or mule, horned cattle, swine or other stock running at large and without
attendants in that part of said District No. 10, or Straits, specified in this
Act, and the person or constable so taking up any stock shall impound the
same, and if taken up by a constable, he shall give notice of said impound-
ing by advertisement in at least two public places, by either written or
printed notice, posted within that part of said district specified in this
Act, describing the stock so impounded, and he shall proceed to sell said
stock, at public auction, for cash, after giving ten days' notice from the
time of taking up of stock; provided, the owner shall have the return of
said stock on payment of all the expenses of keeping said stock and all
other costs, including fifty cents for taking up each of said stock.
1904, ch. 531, sec. 3.
394. If any person shall take up any stock, such person shall impound
the same, and shall at once notify the constable, who shall immediately
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