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ART. 14. ] KENT COUNTY.
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a supervisor of said streets and alleys, and of the
public road between said town and Whaland's Mill,
and between said town and Thomas P. Dixon's gate,
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Supervisor.
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formerly Samuel Thomas's gate; and the said county
commissioners shall levy the sum of two hundred
dollars annually for the use of said commissioners
for said town, but not until they are satisfied that
such appointment of supervisor has been made and
accepted.
In force from March 1, 1866.
DROVERS.
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Amount of levy
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1S67, c. 59 repeals sections 87, 88 and 89 relating to drovers. In force from Feb-
ruary 25, 1867.
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1867, c. 66 adds the following:
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87. Every drover or person employed by him
who shall drive any cattle, sheep or hogs into or
through Kent county shall have each one marked
with red paint or tar on their forehead or back that
the mark may be easily discovered or seen.
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1867, C 66.
Cattle, &c, how
marked.
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88. Any person finding any unmarked cattle,
sheep or. hogs in a drove in said county may take
them from such drove, and if they are not his own
lie shall advertise them for sale in some public news-
paper published in Kent county, and by handbills set
up in at least two public places in Queen Anne's
county for not less than three weeks, and if no owner
shall then appear to claim them he shall sell them at
public sale to the highest bidder.
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Unmarked to
be advertised
and sold
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89. One-half of the net amount of such sale, after
deducting the charges for advertising and keeping
such cattle, sheep and hogs, shall belong to the per-
son, so detecting or taking them up and the other
half to the county commissioners, to be applied or
divided equally among the primary schools in said
county.
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Proceeds, how
applied.
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90. If it shall appear that the drover and person
employed by him to drive said cattle, sheep and
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To what cases
not applicable.
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