TALBOT COUNTY. 4585
1912, ch. 600.

254. All judges and clerks of election, appointed according to law by
the supervisors of election of Talbot and Calvert counties, are hereby
authorized to qualify for their duties and take the oath of office required
by law before any justice of the peace in said counties, who are hereby
duly authorized to administer such oaths to said judges and clerks of elec-
tion, and to certify to the same. And upon such qualification before such
justices of the peace in said Talbot and Calvert counties, said judges and
clerks of election are hereby authorized to enter upon and perform the
duties of their respective offices according to law.

This act shall only apply to Talbot and Calvert counties, and shall be in
force and effect from the date of its passage.

FENCES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 102. 1860, Art. 20, sec. 83.

255. Wherever joint fences have been or may be established in said
county for the mutual advantage of owners of adjoining lands, each shall
keep in good repair his respective proportion thereof in the manner follow-
ing, that is to say: all post and rail or plank fences shall be at least four
feet and a half high, and all worm or other fences shall be at least five
feet high, the distance in any case to be computed from the ground or base
of any embankment on which the same may be placed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 103. 1860, Art. 20, sec. 84.

256. If either of the parties making or keeping a joint fence shall
refuse or delay to repair his proportion thereof within twenty days after
notice in writing, given to him or his agent, upon proof thereof before a
justice of the peace, the justice may, under his hand and seal, authorize
the party aggrieved to repair said fence, and for so doing he shall be reim-
bursed all costs and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred, to be recov-
ered from the party so refusing and delaying, in the manner debts of a
like amount are recoverable, and he shall have a lien on the adjacent
land or farm of the person who shall have refused or delayed to make
and repair said fence, so as to secure the reimbursement of the costs and
expenses of such making and repairing in the event of the transfer of said
land; provided, that proceedings to enforce such lien be commenced by
the party, or his representative, within two years next after such repair
shall have been done.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 104. 1860, Art. 20, sec. 85.

257. If joint fences are not made and kept in repair according to the
provisions of this subtitle of this article, the party aggrieved or likely to be
injured, instead of pursuing the remedy prescribed in the preceding sec-
tion, may discontiue the said fence upon giving three months' notice in
writing to the party refusing or delaying, his agent or overseer; and in all
other cases (unless by mutual consent) twelve months' notice shall be re-
quired to discontinue any joint fence.