ART. 11.] SWINE AND GEESE. 1207

1886, ch 193

439. The county commissioners are authorized and required
to pay to the county surveyor as salary, the annual sum of three
hundred dollars, in quarterly instalments of seventy-five dollars
each.

SWINE AND CEE8E.

1878, ch. 150.

440. No swine or geese belonging to any inhabitant of
Creagerstown shall be allowed to go at large in said town, and if
either be found going at large it shall be the duty of justices of
the peace, upon the information of any citizen of said town, or
upon their own personal knowledge of the same, to have said
swine and geese impounded, and they shall charge the owners
one dolkr for each swine and twenty-five cents for each goose so
found at large, which charge shall be in the nature of a fine, and
shall retain them until such fines are paid; all emoluments
arising from said fines shall be paid to the trustees, of the public
schools for the school district in which said town is located, for
the use of such public schools.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 11, Bee. 314.

441. Any person may kill any swine or poultry going at large
in the town of New Market.

Ibid. sec. 815.

442. No inhabitant of Liberty, or inhabitant of any small lots
of ground containing less than ten acres of land, lying within a
quarter of a mile of said town, shall raise or keep any swine or
geese within said town, or within a quarter of a mile thereof,
except in enclosures; or suffer any geese or swine to go at large
in said town, or within a quarter of a mile of said town; and
any person may kill or impound any swine or geese so going at
large; and if impounded shall immediately give notice, by
advertisement set up at the most public places in the town,
describing such swine or geese; and if the owner shall not,
within five days from the time of giving such notice, prove his
property and make compensation for any injury done to any
inhabitant of said town, to be ascertained by two disinterested
inhabitants thereof, and pay for every swine the sum of twenty-