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per head, to be collected as fines, penalties and forfeitures are collected
under the code of public general laws.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2.1, sec. 206. 1880, ch. 380.

512. Any owner of any hog taken up under section 510 shall have the
privilege of a fair hearing before any justice of the peace of said election
district.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 207. 1880, ch. 380.

513. The fines specified in section 511 shall be paid, one-fourth to the
informer, one-fourth to the constable in the case, and the remainder to
the board of county school commissioners, to be by them applied to the
public school fund of said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art;. 21, sec. 208. 1880, ch. 380.

514. Section 510 shall not apply in any ease where the owner of the
hog shall make it appear satisfactorily to the justice of the peace hearing
the case that he had employed all reasonable means to prevent such tres-
pass, and that it had occurred through some agency over which he could
exercise no control.

P. L. L., 1888, Art, 21, sec. 209. 1880, ch. 380.

515. Section 510 shall not apply to hogs being driven from point to
point on the public roads or public grounds in said election district, when
such hogs are under proper guard.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, see. 210. 1880, ch. 380.

516. Any person who shall be found guilty before any justice of the
peace of the county, of purposely turning out any hog, or of opening any
gates, or in any other way aiding any hog to trespass to the extent of the
violation of Section 510, shall be liable to a fine of not more than five
dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected under Section 511, or
be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding seven days;
any fine collected under this section shall be paid one-half to the informer
and the other half to the public school fund of the county.

TAX COLLECTORS.

1894, ch. 75, sec. 1.

517. The County Commissioners of Talbot county shall, on or before
the third Tuesday in April in each year, or as soon thereafter as may bo,
appoint five collectors of all State and county taxes for the said county
that may be levied by the commissioners aforesaid, for which service the
said collectors may be allowed a commission not exceeding three per
centum on the amount collected; the first collection district shall comprise
so much of Easton Election District, or District No. 1, as was contained
within the original boundary lines of said election district before the
passage of the act of assembly, changing the boundary line between said