1438 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 15.

behaved in a disorderly manner, or hath neglected or refused to
obey any of the rules of the said corporation, said trustee may
order and direct such moderate and proper correction, not
exceeding ten lashes for any one offence, as the nature of the case
may require.

P. L. L. (1860,) art. 14, sec. 28.

28. Any justice of the peace for said county, or any person
Authorized and appointed by such justice, may apprehend, or
cause to be apprehended and committed to said almshouse, any
vagrants, vagabonds, beggars, and other idle and dissolute and dis-
orderly persons found loitering or residing in said county, who
follow no labor, trade or occupation, and have no means of
subsistence, there to be kept at hard labor for any time not
exceeding three months.

Ibid. sec. 29.

29. All sheriffs, constables and other officers shall aid the said
trustees and the officers appointed by them, in the discharge of
their respective duties.

Ibid. sec. 30.

30. If any person shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for any
matter or thing done in pursuance of this sub-title of this article, or
Anything therein contained, he may plead the general issue and.give
the special matter in evidence in his defence; and if, upon
trial, verdict shall be given for the defendant, or if the plaintiff
be non-suited, or discontinue, the defendant shall recover treble
costs; and if the plaintiff shall be unable to satisfy the same, they
shall be satisfied and paid by the attorney who brought or prose-
cuted the suit, unless the plaintiff shall give security for the costs,
Approved by the court.

BIRDS AND CAME.

1876, ch. 128.

31. It shall not be lawful for any person in Kent county to
shoot, kill or in any manner take, trap, encage, barter or sell any
English mocking birds, old or young, or wilfully destroy the eggs
or nests of said birds.