708 ESTRAYS AND TRESPASSING CATTLE, DOGS, [ART. 67.

VIII.—ESTRAYS AND TRESPASSING CATTLE, DOGS, AND
OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

ESTRAYS AND TRESPASSING CATTLE. ETC.

1 What found trespassing may be taken up as an estray 2 Affidavit to be made , notice , as to Dor- chester county 3 When certificates to be set up 4. How owner may prove and When delivered to owner 5 When to be sold , how proceeds disposed of 6. Penalty for neglecting to advertise 7 Damages, where person aggrieved by tres-

pass of cattle , proceeding if damages not paid , to what counties not applicable 8 Person impounding to advertise descrip- tion of property, etc 9 Proceedings where cattle distrained damage feasant, the owner of which is known, publication of notice before sale, ap- praisement, sale, what deductions from proceeds of sale , overplus fur owner

DOGS.

10 When dogs may be killed 11 Damages recovered before justice of the peace, bond to be given, right of ap- peal , what counties exempt 12 County commissioners to provide for an- nual taxation of dogs, rates of tax 13. Counties to be divided into constabulary districts , constables to enumerate, assess and collect tax; amounts collected to be paid into county treasury, on failure to return, bond liable , commission allowed ,

surplus to credit of school fund , house- holder entitled to keep one male dog free of taxation 14 Commissioners to furnish metal tags, dog at large without tag to be killed , owner not to recover damages 15 Fine for maliciously removing tag 16. Duplicate tag 17. Forfeiture of office by constable for ne- glect 18 What counties and city exempted

	ESTRAYS AND TRESPASSING CATTLE, ETC.
1874, c 315 What found trespassing may be taken up as an estray	1. If any horse, mule, cow, ox, bull, sheep, hog, goat, or other domestic beast shall be found trespassing on the inclosed property of any one, it shall be deemed an estray, and may be taken up as such and dealt with as provided in the second section of this article relating to estrays.
1868, c 170 Affidavit to be made	2, Any person taking up an estray, trespassing upon his inclo- sures, shall within a reasonable time thereafter go before some justice of the peace of the neighborhood and make affidavit thereof, which affidavit shall contain a description of said estray, and such person shall cause the certificate of such justice as to such affidavit to be published once in each of two successive weeks, in any news-
Notice	paper published in the county where such estray shall be taken up, .if any be so published, and also copies of same to be set up at not less than three of the most public places in the neighborhood, if such estray be of the value of ten dollars or upwards. So far as
1876, c 308 As to Dor- chester county.	this section relates to Dorchester county it is hereby repealed in respect to its provisions, requiring the publication of estrays for two successive weeks in a newspaper, when the value of such estrays shall not exceed ten dollars, and in lieu thereof it is enacted, that a written or printed description of such estray shall be posted con- spicuously in at least two places of public resort or on the county
1868, c 170 When certifi- cates to be set up.	road in the neighborhood where such estray shall be taken up. 3. If there be no newspaper published in the county where the estray may be found, or if it be of less value than ten dollars, in