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tions for conducting Farmers' Co-Operative Demonstration Work in Queen
Anne's County the said County Commissioners may co-operate with both
the United States Department of Agriculture and the Maryland Agricul-
tural College in providing funds and conducting the work in such manner
as may be agreed upon by the agents of the Co-Operative Institution.
Provided, that not more than One Thousand-Dollars per year be appro-
priated for this purpose by the said County Commissioners.

FENCES.

P. L. L., 188S, Art. 18, sec. 163. 1860, Art. 17, sec. 77.

230. Whenever joint fences have been or may be established in said
county for the mutual advantage of different owners or possessors of ad-
joining lands, each shall keep up in good repair his or their respective
proportion thereof, in the 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
or other fences shall be at least five feet high, the distance in every case
to be computed from the ground or base of any embankment on which the
same may be placed.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 164. 1860, Art. 17, sec. 78.

231. If either of the parties making or keeping a joint fence, shall
refuse or delay to repair his proportion thereof within twenty days after
notice in writing given to him, his agent or overseer, upon proof thereof
before a justice of the peace, the said justice may, under his hand and
seal, authorize the party aggrieved to repair said fence, and for so doing,
he shall be reimbursed all costs and reasonable expenses necessarily in-
curred, to be recovered from the party so refusing and delaying, in the
manner debts of like amount are recoverable, and he shall have a lien
on the adjacent land or farm of the person who shall have refused or
delayed to make and repair said fence, so as to secure the reimbursement
of the costs and expenses of such making and repairing, in the event of
the transfer of said land; provided, that proceedings to enforce such lien
be commenced by the party, or his representative, within two years next
after such repair shall have been done.

P. L. LL, 1888, Art. 18, sec. 165. 1860, Art. 17, sec. 79.

232. If joint fences are not made and kept in repair, according to
the provisions of the two preceding sections, the party aggrieved or likely
to be injured, instead of pursuing the remedy prescribed in the preceding
section, may discontinue the said fence upon giving three months' notice
in writing to the party refusing or delaying, his agent or overseer; and
in all other cases, (unless by mutual consent,) twelve months' notice shall
be required to discontinue any joint fence.