60 AETICLE 1.

1922, ch. 76, sec. 2.

165. 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 handbills, 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 opposiite 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.

ESTRAYS.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 114. 1860, art. 1, sec. 64.

166. If any horned or black cattle shall break into any enclosure, any
Justice of the Peace in said county, on the application of the party ag-
grieved or owner or occupier of the land whereon such estray shall be
found, may issue a warrant to two such disinterested judicious persons as
he shall appoint, to appraise and value the said cattle at their true value
in money, and the Justice shall administer to said appraisers an oath to
appraise the same according to their best judgment; and it shall be the'
duty of such appraisers to make out a certificate of the valuation by them
made, together with a description of the estray, setting forth its age, color
and marks, natural and artificial; and the certificate and warrant shall be
lodged with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County by the
party taking up such estray within fifteen days from the date of the
warrant, and the clerk shall enter the same in a book to be kept for that
purpose, and shall be paid therefor at the time of receiving the same the
sum of twenty-five cents.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 115. 1860, art. 1, sec. 65.

167. The person taking up such estray shall also cause an advertise-
ment, giving a description thereof, to be set up at the most public places
in his neighborhood, or publish the same in some newspaper within the

time above limited for the return of the warrant.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 116. 1860, art. 1, sec. 66.

168. If the owner of such estray shall, within one year after the filing

of such certificate with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, appear and prove
his right and title thereto before any Justice of the Peace, he shall have
restitution of the same, or the value thereof, allowing and paying the

costs of entering the warrant and certificate, together with such necessary
charges as shall have arisen in keeping, notifying, appraising and neces-
sary travel about the said estray, as the Justice before whom the proof is
made, or any other justice, may determine.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 117. 1860, art. 1, sec. 67.

169. If no owner shall appear within the time aforesaid such estray
shall be and remain to the finder, he being answerable to the owner for