TALBOT COUNTY. 4641

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 173. 1884, ch. 465.

421. It shall not be lawful for any person to place and keep any port-
able steam saw-mill within a distance of seventy-five yards of any of the
public roads of Talbot County; any person violating any of the provisions
of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars, one-half of which, when collected, shall go to
the informer, and the other half to the county commissioners, for the
benefit of the school fund of said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 174. 1888, ch. 448.

422. The county commissioners are authorized to condemn the land
lying on the south side of the public road from Easton to Easton Point,
beginning with west side of Washington street in said town of Easton, and
ending with the west boundary of I. Edward Beckwith's property, at
Easton Point, for the purpose of widening the public road between those
two points, notwithstanding the same may embrace buildings, yards and
gardens; and the same proceedings now required by law to be had by said
commissioners for opening and altering public roads in said county shall
be followed in condemning the land aforesaid.

1892, ch. 530.

423. The County Commissioners of Talbot County are hereby author-
ized and empowered, in their discretion, to build a road, or drive-way,
from the town of Oxford to Vancouver's Island in said county.

1890, ch. 482.

424. All roads opened under the provisions of this act in Talbot county
shall be of such width as may be determined upon by the commissioners
appointed for that purpose at the time such road is laid out, and when
opened and sufficiently cleaned shall be a public road, and a statement
declaring such road a public highway shall be published by the clerk of
the county commissioners in one or more newspapers published in Talbot
county.*

LIVESTOCK ON ROAD.

1908, ch. 602, sec. 1 (p. 1024).

425. It shall be unlawful for any person to hitch, tie or fasten any
horse, mule, cow, bullock or sheep or goat on any public road or highway
in the fifth election district of Talbot county, provided that nothing in
this section shall be construed to include within its provisions the hitching,
tying or fastening of any horse, mule or ox by a person when such animal
is being ridden or driven.

1908, ch. 602, sec. 2 (p. 1024).

426. Any person violating the provisions of the above section, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any

*Sec. 1, ch. 482, 1890, repealed sec. 151 of Art. 25 of the Annotated Code in so far
as it applies to Talbot County.