4414 ARTICLE 20.

(F) Liquor seized as hereinbefore provided, and the paraphernalia used
for the manufacture, sale or transportation of the same shall not be taken
from the custody of the officer by a writ of replevin or other process while
the proceedings herein provided for are pending, and final judgment of
conviction in such proceedings shall in all cases be a bar to all suits for
the recovery of any liquor seized or the value thereof or for damages al-
leged to arise by reason of the seizing and detention thereof.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 101. 1880, ch. 129.

117. The provisions of sections 241 to 245 of article 4 of the public
local laws, title "City of Baltimore," relating to "Cruelty to Animals,"
shall apply to Somerset county as fully as if repeated in this article.

Secs. 241-245 of Art. 4 were repealed by ch. 496, 1902. Ch. 198, 1890, superseded
said sections. See Annotated Code, Art. 27, secs. 69-70, and Falkenham v. State,
73 Md. 463.

DRAINAGE.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 2.

118. Whenever the owner or owners of any swamp or low grounds
shall deem it fit to have them drained, if the owners of said lands cannot
agree, or should any be married women, infants, non compos mentis, or
non residents of the county where swamp or low lands are situated, they
or any of them may petition the County Commissioners, sitting in the
county where such swamp or low lands or any part thereof are situated,
for the appointment of commissioners to locate or lay out a ditch or ditches
for the purpose; and who shall thereupon appoint a board of three or
more commissioners to be composed of judicious and impartial freeholders,
to be taken from the neighborhood or vicinity of said swamp or low lands.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 3.

119. The commissioners so appointed being first duly sworn to execute
their duties faithfully and impartially, shall call to their assistance a skill-
ful surveyor, sworn in like manner, and shall go upon and view the
swamps or low grounds mentioned in the petition, and lay out, by specified,
courses and distances, breadths and depths, such ditch or ditches as shall
be sufficient to drain the said swamp or low grounds.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 4.

120. They shall estimate the probable costs or expenses, including
damages, if any, of cutting such ditch or ditches, and the sum or propor-
tion thereof which each owner or possessor, or person benefited, shall be
bound to pay.

1918, ch, 161, sec. 5.

121. They shall make out and return to the County Commissioners, at
their next meeting thereafter to which it may be practicable, a report in