ART. 1.] ALLEGANY COUNTY. 179

1870, c. 293 entitled an act to ratify the action of the mayor and city council of the
city of Cumberland, authorizing Jones' alley to be closed, enacts, that the action of
the mayor and city council of the city of Cumberland, Maryland, on the seventh
day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy, authorizing the closing of Jones' alley,
be and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed and made valid.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

DEER.

1870, c. 380 repeals and re enacts section 57 as follows:

57. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to kill or destroy, or try to kill or destroy, any wild deer in Allegany county, except in the months of August, September, October, November and Decem- ber; and for each and every violation of this section, the offender shall on conviction pay a fine of not less than fifteen dollars. Approved and in force April 4, 1870. FENCES. 1870, c. 137 repeals and re-enacts section 69 as follows :

1870, c 380. When unlawful to kill, and penalty.

69. It shall not be lawful for any person to impound any horned or black cattle, horses, mules, sheep or hogs, unless the same shall be found trespassing within an enclosure, enclosed by a good and substantial fence at least four and one-half feet high ; and no damage shall be recovered by any owner, occupant or tenant of any lands, whereon any such horned or black cattle, horses, mules, sheep or hogs may have trespassed, unless said lands shall be enclosed at the time of such trespass

1870,c 137. Impounding cattle, &c., tres- passing.

by a good and substantial fence at least four and one- half feet high. Approved and in force March 31, 1870. FROSTBURG.

Height of fences.

1870, c. 77 entitled an act to incorporate the town of Frostburg, enacts as follows and
repeals all acts conflicting with this charter.

72. The citizens of the town of Frostburg, in Alle- gany county, are a body corporate, by the name of the

1870, c 77, s 1. Incorporated.