QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. 4249

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 202. 1880, ch. 217.

303. All horses, mules, cattle, sheep and swine are prohibited from
going at large on any public road or public ground within the limits of
school district number four (Church Hill) of election district number two
of Queen Anne's county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 203. 1878, ch. 388. 1880, ch. 217.

304. The owner of any and every horse or mule, of each head of cattle,
sheep and swine found trespassing under the preceding sections, shall be
made to pay a fine for each offence per head; for horses and mules and
cattle, fifty cents; for sheep and hogs, twenty cents; for geese, ten centa
—to be collected as fines, penalties and forfeitures are collected under the
Code of Public General Laws.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 204. 1878, ch. 388.

305. Any owner of stock so taken up shall have the privilege of a fair
hearing before any justice of the peace of the election districts hereinbe
fore named.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 205. 1878, ch. 388.

306. The fines specified in Section 304 shall be paid, one-fourth to
the informer, one-fourth to the constable in the case, and the remainder
to the board of county school commissioners, to be by them applied to the
public school fund of said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 206. 1878, ch. 388.

307. Said fines shall not be imposed in any case where the owner of
stock found trespassing as above named shall make it appear satisfactorily
to the justice of the peace in the case, that he had employed all reasonable
means to prevent such trespass, and that it had occurred through some
agency over which he could exercise no control.

P. L. L., 1888, Art 18, sec. 207. 1878, ch. 388.

308. This subtitle of this article shall not apply to any stock being
driven from point to point on the public roads or public grounds in school
districts aforesaid, when such stock shall be under proper guard.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 203. 1878, ch. 388.

309. Any one who shall be found guilty before any justice of the peace
of the county, of purposely turning out stock, or of opening gates, or in
any other way aiding any stock mentioned in sections 302 and 303, to
trespass as herein prohibited, shall be liable to a fine of not more than
five dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected under this sub-title
of this article, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceed-
ing seven days; and any fine collected under this section shall be paid,
one-half to the informer and the other half into the county treasurv.