WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4733

1920, ch. 160, sec. 6.

176. The Governor of the State of Maryland and County Commis-
sioners of Washington County are hereby authorized and empowered,
respectively, to make appointments of Justices of the Peace and Con-
stables for said new election district as are now authorized by law for the
other election districts of said Washington County.

See sec. 540.

ELECTIONS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 124. 1920, ch. 143.

177. All judges of election and clerks of election of Washington Coun-
ty, when actually sitting as judges of registration or election and as clerks
of election respectively, shall be allowed and paid five dollars ($5.00)
a day; fractions of a day shall be allowed and paid at the rate of fifty cents
an hour; and in all other respects Sections 126 of Article 33 of the Anno-
tated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Elections," sub-
title "Compensation," shall remain in full force and effect in Washington
County.

1922, ch. 76, sec. 1.

178. The Supervisors of Election of Washington, Allegany and Fred-
erick Counties shall give ten days' notice of the time and place of regis-
tration, and of the revision thereof, and of the elections in each precinct
of said counties only by advertisement in two newspapers (one of which
newspapers, if possible, shall be of the opposite political faith from that
of the majority of said Supervisors) of general circulation in any of said
respective counties, and they shall not be required to give notice by post-
ing handbills of said elections or registrations.

1922, ch. 76, sec. 2.

179. The said Supervisors of Election of Washington, Allegany and
Frederick Counties shall not be required to give notice of persons regis-
tered or erased in each precinct of said county by posting hand-bills, but
notice shall be given only by publishing the names and addresses of such
persons in two newspapers (one of which newspapers, if possible, shall
be of the opposite political faith from that of the majority of said Super-
visors) within three days after the return of the list of voters registered
and erased by the registers.

FENCES.

P. L, L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 128. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 97.

180. Whenever joint fences have been or may be established in said
county for the mutual benefit of different owners or possessors of adjoin-
ing lands, each party shall keep in good repair his just proportion thereof
in the manner following: all post and rail or plank fences shall be at least
four feet and a half high; all stone fences shall be at least four feet high;
and all worm or other fences shall be at least five feet high; the height in