4312 ARTICLE 19.

ELECTIONS.

1904, ch. 420.

67. The clerk to the Board of Supervisors of Elections for St. Mary's
County shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per year for services,
to said Board, to be paid by the County Commissioners of said county,
after the account for services of said clerk has been approved by the said
Board of Supervisors of Elections.

See Art. 33 of the Annotated Code for general law.

FENCES.

1916, oh. 477, sec. 1.

68. Whenever joint fences may hereafter be established in said County,
for the mutual benefit, of different owners or possessors of adjoining land,
each party shall keep in good repair his just proportion thereof in the
manner following: All post and rail or plank fences shall be at least four
feet high and all worm and other fences shall be at least four and one-
half feet high, the height in every case to be computed from the ground
or base of any embankment upon which said fence may be placed; and
there shall be between the bottom rail or plank and the ground or embank-
ment on which said fence is placed, 110 larger interval than eight inches,
and between bottom rail or plank, and the rail or plank directly above
the same no larger interval than eight inches. And when said fence or
fences shall be constructed, in whole or in part of wire, the wires thereof
shall not be more than seven inches apart to the height of twenty inches,
from the ground or embankment of* which said fences may be placed.

1916, ch. 477, sec. 2

69. If either of the parties, so making or keeping a joint fence, shall
not comply with the provisions of the preceding section, and shall refuse
or delay to make or repair the said fence, within thirty days after notice
in writing, shall be given to him or his agent, overseer or tenant, upon
proof thereof, before a Justice of the Peace, the said Justice may, under
his hand and seal, authorize the party aggrieved by such refusal or delay,
to make or repair the said fence as above required and for so doing he
shall be reimbursed the proper proportion of all costs and reasonable ex-
penses necessarily incurred, to be recovered from the party so delaying
or refusing in the same manner as debts of like amount are recoverable.

1916, ch. 477, sec. 3.

70. If joint fences are not made and kept in repair according to the
provisions of the first section of this Act, the party aggrieved, instead of
pursuing the remedy prescribed in the preceding Section, may discontinue
said fence by giving three months' notice in writing to the party refusing
or delaying to make or repair the same, or his tenant, overseer or agent;

*"On" evidently intended.