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in all other cases unless by mutual consent, twelve months' notice shall be
required to discontinue any joint fences.

1916, oh. 477, sec. 4.

71. On any line of land of adjoining owners where there has been no
fence either of said owners, upon giving notice to the adjoining owner as
provided in Section 69 of this Article, and upon the refusal or delay of
said adjoining owner to build said fence, the party giving said notice is
hereby authorized to build said fence, and recover all proportionate costs
and reasonable expenses incurred in building same from the owner so in
default according to the provisions and in the manner prescribed by Sec-
tion 69 of this Article.*

FERTILIZERS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 19, sec. 38. 1870, ch. 356.

72. Whenever any of the farmers and planters of St. Mary's county
shall purchase for the purpose of manuring their farms in said county,
any guanos or manufactured concentrated manures, including ground
bones, on credit, it shall be lawful for such purchaser of any of said
manures to pledge to the person from whom they are purchaser, as security
for the price of said manures, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per
annum until paid, all the crops which may be made or gathered, or such
portion thereof as may be designated in their agreement, for the making
of which said manures may have been purchased; and such pledge when
entered into as hereinafter required, shall be a preferred lien on such
crops, and to be paid out of the proceeds thereof before all judgments,
executions or other claims whatever against said purchaser, except for rent,
as hereinafter provided for.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 19, sec. 39. 1870, ch. 356.

73. The vendor of any of said manures shall make out an account of
the sales thereof made by him to any purchaser, to which such purchaser
shall add the pledge aforesaid, in writing, and signed by said purchaser,
and which shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
for St. Mary's county, and such recording thereof, for which the clerk
shall receive the usual fee, shall be sufficient notice to all persons of the
preferred claim of such vendor; provided, in case of the death of the
purchaser, the claim of said vendor shall be submitted to and passed by the
orphans' court of the county in which the purchaser shall have been a
resident, upon which the executor or administrator shall be bound to pay
to said vendor, the proceeds of the sale of the crops aforesaid, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the claim of said vendor.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 19, sec. 40. 1870, oh. 356.

74. Any sheriff or constable may levy execution on any of the crops
so as aforesaid pledged, but shall pay to the pledgee or his agent, out of

*Sec. 5, ch. 477, 1916, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.