4734 ARTICLE 22.

every case to be computed from the ground or base of any embankment
upon which said fence may be placed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 129. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 98.

181. If either of the parties so making or keeping a joint fence, shall
not comply with the provisions of the preceding section, and shall refuse
or delay to make or repair the said fence within twenty days after
notice in writing shall be given to him or his agent, overseer or tenant,
upon proof thereof before a justice of the peace, the said justice may,
under his hand and seal, authorize the party aggrieved by such refusal or
delay, to make or repair the said fence as above required, and for so doing,
he shall be reimbursed all costs and reasonable expenses necessarily in-
currd, to be recovered from the party so delaying or refusing, in the same
manner as debts of like amounts are recoverable.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 130. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 99.

182. If joint fences are not made and kept in repair according to the
provisions of section 180 of this sub-title of this article, the party ag-
grieved, instead of pursuing the remedy prescribed in the preceding
section, may discontinue said fence by giving three months' notice in writ-
ing to the party refusing or delaying to make or repair the same, or his
tenant, overseer or agent; in all other cases (unless by mutual consent)
twelve months' notice shall be required to discontinue any joint fence.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 131. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 100.

183. Whenever any person shall, under and by virtue of this law or
any law of this State, be summoned or called upon to value and assess the
damage done upon any enclosed land in said county by the trespassing of
live stock of any kind and description whatever, they shall inspect and
examine into the state and condition of the enclosure of the land upon
which the said trespass or damages shall be alleged to have been done or
committed; and if the enclosures shall not be good and sufficient, accord-
ing to the provisions of section 180 of this sub-title of this article, they
shall not assess any damages whatever.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 132. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 101.

184. In all actions and suits to recover damages for trespass upon
lands in said county, by any kind of live stock, the defendant may plead
the general issue and give the special matter in evidence; and the plaintiff
shall be non-suited whenever it shall be clearly proven that the lands
whereon the trespass shall be alleged to have been done or committed, were
not enclosed according to the provisions of section 180 of this sub-title
of this article.

FISH.

(All local Fish Laws were repealed by ch. 471, 1929. See 1929 Supplement to Anno-
tated Code, Art. 39.)