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to them to possess the proper qualifications for the position to which
they are severally appointed, and the said persons may be sworn in by
any member of said board, or by a justice of the peace or a notary public
of said county, and when sworn in by such justice or notary, shall file
with said board a certificate of such qualification.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 104. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 103.

184. The return judges of election in said county shall, in addition to
their per diem, be entitled to six and a quarter cents a mile for every mile
their places of residence shall be distant from the county town, said mileage
to be allowed them, both for going and returning.

See Art. 33 of Annotated Code.

FENCES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 105. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 50.

185. The partition fences between the adjoining fields of different
proprietors now existing, or which may hereafter be established by mutual
consent in said county, shall be made and repaired by the parties respec-
tively owning or occupying the fields, at their joint and equal expense.

P. L. U, 1888, Art. 20, sec. 106. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 51.

186. Upon failure of a party to make or repair and keep in good
order his portion of such fence, or to pay his equal share of the cost
thereof, he shall be answerable therefor in an action of debt before a jus-
tice of the peace.

P. L L., 1883, Art. 20, sec. 107. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 52.

187. The person desiring such partition fence to be repaired shall give
at least thirty days' notice to the owner of the adjoining land and joint
owner of the fence, of such repair being necessary, and of his intention to
proceed to make the same, and if the said joint owner shall not, before
the expiration of the thirty days, repair the same, he may repair and con-
struct, the same out of the usual materials and in the ordinary way; and
the joint owner shall be liable for all the expenses thereof, to be recovered
as prescribed in the preceding section.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 108. 1878, chs. 256 and 445. 1884, ch. 144.
1886, chs. 268 and 418. 1892, ch. 517.

188. All fields and other grounds kept for enclosure in Mount Vernon
and Tangier district, except that part of Tangier district which comprises
Deal's Island, as the same is now surrounded by water, shall be fenced with
post and rail, or plank, or with a worm fence made of good and sub-
stantial rails, at least four feet high from the ground to the top of the
highest rail, and the first or under rail, in post and rail, or plank, or worm
fences, shall not exceed in distance five inches from the ground or em-
bankment upon which the same may be built, and the width between the
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