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retain the same in his or her custody, until all charges for so keeping shall
be paid by the owner or owners thereof.

1896, ch. 100, sec. 2.

321. Any person keeping any horse, mare, gelding, mule or horned
cattle or vehicle in said county, may state an account for keeping said
horse, mare, gelding, mule, horned cattle or vehicle, and prove the same
before any justice of the peace for said county, and said justice being
satisfied by proof of demand, refusal or neglect to pay on the part of the
owner or owners, shall thereupon issue his warrant, authorizing the sale
of such horse, mare, gelding, mule, horned cattle or vehicle.

1896, ch. 100, sec. 3.

322. Upon receiving such warrant, the said keeper may sell such horse,
mare, gelding, mule, horned cattle or vehicle, at public auction, at some
public place, in said county, after giving ten days' notice in one paper
published in Talbot county, and hand bills set np in the vicinity of such
sale, of the time, place, manner and terms of sale; and after deducting
the amount due for keeping and all expenses of said sale shall pay the sur-
plus, if any, to the owner or owners thereof

MANUFACTORIES.

1892, ch. 676.

323. For the purpose of aiding, promoting and encouraging the erec-
tion of manufactories in the towns of Easton, Trappe, Oxford, St. Michaels
and the village of Cordova, Talbot County, in this State, the County
Commissioners of Talbot County and the commissioners of the town of
Easton are hereby authorized and empowered in their discretion to exempt
any and all manufactories which shall hereafter be erected and conducted
in said town of Easton or adjacent thereto from all county and municipal
taxation.*

OFFICERS' FEES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 129. 1876, ch. 216.

324. All accounts for officers' fees shall be made out in a fair and
clear manner, and in words at length; and whenever any person interested
in them, or to whom the same are charged, shall require a copy of such
account, said officers shall in as short a time as may be convenient, give
him an account of said charges in words at length; and no account for
officers' fees, rendered for services to or in behalf of any county of this.
State, shall be allowed by the county commissioners thereof, until said
account has been submitted to and approved by the circuit court for said,
county.

*Sec. 2, ch. 676, 1892, repealed all Acts inconsistent therewith.