1290 GARRETT COUNTY. [ART. 12.

1878, ch. 108.

222. Any person owning, or having a part ownership in said
horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle, may redeem the same at any-
time before the sale thereof, by paying the damages aforesaid,
and all the costs.

Ibid.

223. Any person making a sale under the provisions of the
aforegoing sections of this sub-title of this article, shall return to a,
justice of the peace of the county, a statement showing the num-
ber of horses, sheep or black cattle sold, and the amount sold for,
and after deducting the damages and costs, shall pay over the
surplus to said justice, to be retained by him for the use of the
original owner of such horses, hogs, sheep and black cattle; and
if any remain unsold they shall be treated as estrays under the
public general laws of this State.

Ibid.

224. If any person residing in said county shall claim any
right and ownership to or in any horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle
distrained as aforesaid, he shall, before some justice of the peace
of the county, make oath that the same are bona fide his property
and that he did not acquire said right to, or ownership therein,
for the purpose of defeating or evading the provisions of the five
preceding sections; and on his making such oath the justice shall
certify the same under his hand and seal; and the said owner, on
presenting said certificate to the person having made the distress,
shall be entitled to have delivered over to him the property so-
taken.

THISTLES.

1882. ch. 78.

225. No land owner or tenant of any land owner in said;
county shall permit any Canada thistles to grow upon the land
owned or rented by him.

Ibid.

226. If any such land owner or tenant shall permit any
Canada thistles to grow on the land so owned or rented by him,
he shall be fined a sum of not less than one nor more than ten
dollars for every day he shall permit the same to grow or remain,
standing on his land after they shall have developed sufficiently