1268. RIOTS. [ART. 82.

ARTICLE LXXXII.

RIOTS.

1. Owner of property destroyed by rioters to be compensated by the city or county.

2 Conditions of their liability, limi- tations 3 When indemnity shall not be re- covered. 4. Pleadings

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 82, sec. 1. 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1.

1. If in any county or incorporated town or city of this State,
any church, chapel or convent, any dwelling-house, any house
used or designed by any person or any body corporate as a place
for the transaction of business or deposit of property, any ship,
ship-yard or lumber-yard, any barn, stable or other out-house, or
any articles of personal property, shall be injured or destroyed,
or if any property therein shall be taken away, injured or de-
stroyed by any riotous or tumultuous assemblage of people, the
full amount of the damage so done shall be recoverable by the
sufferer or sufferers by suit at law against the county, town or
city within whose jurisdiction such riot or tumult occurred.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1. 1867, ch. 282.

2. No such liability shall be incurred by any county, incorpo-
rated town or city, unless the authorities thereof shall have had
good reason to believe that such riot or tumultuous assemblage
was about to take place, or having taken place, shall have had
notice of the same in time to prevent said injury or destruction,
either by its own police or with the aid of the citizens of such,
county, town or city, it being the intention of this article that
no such liability shall devolve on such county, town or city,
unless the authorities having notice have also the ability of them-
selves, or with their own citizens, to prevent said injury; and all
causes of action under section 1, shall be prosecuted within the
period of three years from the time of accrual of the same.

M. & C. C. v. Poultney, 25 Md. 107. M. & C. C. v. Dechert, 32 Md. 369.
M. & C. C. v. Sehner, 37 Md. 180.