ART. 2. ] ELECTION DISTRICTS—FENCES. 129

elections for public officers shall be held in each of said districts
at the places now established, or that may hereafter be established,
by law for that purpose.

1 1872, ch. 163.

132. The county commissioners are authorized to make such
division of any election district or districts into election precincts
as in their judgment the public interest may require, and to
designate the places of holding elections therein, and the number
by which each of said precincts shall be known.

Ibid.

133. It shall be the duty of the officer of registration in each
election district so divided into precincts, prior to the next elec-
tion in such district, to register all the voters in such district in
the same mode and manner as the voters in other districts are
required to be registered by the public general laws, article 33,
title "Elections, " relating to registration laws; and he shall pre-
pare separate lists of voters according to the sub-divisions
of such district into precincts, designating the election pre-
cinct of the district in which the voters are, or shall be,
respectively entitled to vote, and shall deliver one copy of the
list of voters for each of said precincts to the judges of election
thereof.

Ibid.

134. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to
appoint three persons for each of said precincts, residents thereof,
to act as judges of election for said precincts, who shall perform
the duties of their office in the manner required by the public
general laws, article 33, title "Elections"; and such judges shall
make their returns in the same manner as if the said precincts,
were districts, and in accordance with the laws applicable to
judges of elections for districts, and they shall receive the same
compensation as other judges of election in said county.

FENCES.

P. L. L., (1860, ) art 2, sec. 90.

135. All fences constructed upon or near the dividing line or
lines of tracts of land belonging to different proprietors, and
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