1026 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

assessors appointed to value the damages, be sufficient to turn or
keep out live stock, shall be considered a sufficient and legal fence
within the meaning of this section; and, provided further, that
nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any person
having a sufficient fence, as hereinbefore provided, from impound-
ing any trespassing live stock as now provided by law, only as a
part of his proceedings; any person in said district so trespassed
upon, and having a sufficient-fence as aforesaid, shall have the suf-
ficiency of his fence passed upon as herein provided, before pro-
ceeding to sell the stock impounded by him. The provisions of
this section shall only apply to outer fences and boundary fences
in the districts aforesaid, and not to any person's interior fences
upon his own property.

1884, ch. 445.

166. If the assessors appointed under sections 164 and 165
shall certify in writing to the justice of the peace hearing the
complaint under said sections, that said fence at the particular
point or place through or over which any live stock may have
broken or trespassed, is of the height and sufficiency required in
section 164, or is or has been freshly broken, then damages shall
be awarded to and recoverable by the owner as required in sec-
tions 164 and 165,

1870, ch. 64. 1878, ch. 83. 1880, ch. 344 1882, ch. 361. 1882, ch. 483.
1884, ch. 445. 1888, ch. 387.

167. Whenever joint fences have been or may be established
in the districts and parts of districts mentioned in sections 164
and 165, and in district number two or East Kew Market, and
district number twelve or Williamsburg, for the mutual benefit
or advantage of different owners or possessors of adjoining land,
it shall be the duty of each party to keep up, in good repair, his
just and respective proportion thereof, in the manner following,
that is to say: all post and rail or plank fences shall be at least
four feet high, and all worm or other fences shall be at least five
feet high, the height in every case to be computed from the
ground or base of any embankment upon which said fence is or

may be placed.

Ibid.

168. If either of the parties so making or keeping a joint
fence shall not comply with sections 164,165 and 167, and shall