ART. 12.] STOCK TRESPASSING. 1289

1888, ch 471

218. Said sum of fifteen dollars allowed by the last preceding
section shall be in lieu of all trial fees to said State's attorney.

STOCK TRESPASSING.

1878, ch. 108.

219. No person other than a bona fide resident of said county
shall drive or cause to be driven upon, or permit any of his
horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle to enter any of the lands of any
citizen of said county, whether said lands be enclosed or not,
without the permission of such owner.

Ibid.

220. If any horses, sheep, hogs or black cattle of any non-
resident shall at any time be found running at large upon the
land of any citizen of said county, the owner of such land, his
agent, tenant or overseer may consider them as trespassing and
may distrain them by impounding them in an enclosure; and it
shall be the duty of the person making such distress to deliver, on
oath, over his own name and with the date of such distress, a
description in writing of the horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle
distrained, with their natural and artificial marks, within five days
after making the distress, to some justice of the peace who shall
reside nearest to the place where the distress has been made; and
the justice shall file the same among the papers of his office and
give a copy thereof over his own signature to the person making
the distress, and such person may sell the said horses, hogs, sheep
or black cattle, or so many thereof as may be necessary to pay
the sum of two dollars on each and every head for each day's
trespassing as aforesaid.

Ibid.

221. The person making the distress and selling as aforesaid,
shall, before making such sale, give notice of the time and place
thereof, by public advertisement set up at three or more public
places in the neighborhood where such trespass was made, and
setting forth in such advertisement the certified copy of the
justice of the peace, giving the natural and artificial marks of
said horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle.