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and any constable so doing, shall immediately set up notices thereof at the
most public places in said village for at least three days, inserting in such
notices the marks and description of the said geese or swine, and if the
same are not claimed within five days after impounding them, and the
expenses of impounding or keeping them, as determined by a justice of
the peace, paid, together with the sum of fifty cents for every hog, and
twelve and a half cents for every goose, the same shall, after two days'
notice, in writing, of the time and place of sale, be sold by the constable
at public sale, and the proceeds applied first to the payment of the ex-
pense of impounding and keeping them, and of the residue, one-half shall
go to the constable, and the other half to the commissioners of said village
for the use of the village.
P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 17, sec. 276. 1912 Code, sec. 511.
863. Any constable neglecting or refusing to perform the duty required
of him in the preceding section, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for
each neglect, to be recovered before a justice of the peace, as small debts,
one-half to the informer and the other half to the said commissioners for
the use of the village.
RACING.*
RIVERDALE, +
1920, ch. 731, sec, 1.
864. The citizens, residing within the area more particularly herein-
after defined are hereby made a body corporate by the name and style
of the "Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale" and by that name may
have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase
and hold real and personal property or dispose of the same for the benefit
of said town.
1920, ch. 731, sec. 2.
865. The corporate limits of said town shall be within the following:
limits and lines, viz: Beginning at a point on the west side of the Wash-
ington-Baltimore Boulevard (also known as State Road Number One)
where the same is intersected by the south side of the Colesville Road,
thence running in a northwesterly direction along the south side of the
Colesville Road to the southwest corner of Calvert street and Colesville
Road, being more clearly described as the northeast corner of Lot No. 1
in Block No. 2 of the subdivision of Ellaville, thence running along the
*Sec. 512 of 1912 Code (1892, oh. 386), relating to betting on races, held to have
been repealed by implication by oh. 285, 1898, in Beale v. Southern Md. Agri. Asso.,
136 Md. 312. See also Agri. Soc. Montgomery Co. v. State, 130 Md. 474. Ch. 272,
1920, creating a Racing Commission for Prince George's County, was repealed or
superseded by ch. 273, 1920, by creating State Racing Commission.
+Ch. 371, 1920, incorporating Riverdale, was ratified by the voters as provided for
by sec. 12 of said Act. Oh, 271, 1924, authorized Riverdale to issue $6,000 of fire-
equipment bonds.
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