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ART. 15.] ELECTION DISTRICTS—FENCES. 1467
1874, ch. 250.
99. It shall not be lawful for any person in Kent county to
carry, on the days of election, secretly or otherwise, any gun,
pistol, dirk, dirk-knife, razor, billy or bludgeon ; and any person
violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any justice of
the peace of said county, shall be fined not less than five nor
more than twenty dollars, and on refusal to pay said fine shall be
committed by such justice of the peace to the jail of the county
until the same shall be paid.
Ibid.
100. The fines collected under the preceding section shall be
paid by the officer collecting the same, to the school commis-
sioners of the county, for school purposes.
Ibid.
101. Any constable of said county, or the sheriff thereof, who
shall refuse to arrest any person violating section 99, upon infor-
mation of such offence, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof before the circuit court shall be fined
not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and shall forth-
with be discharged from office.
FENCES.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 01.
102. Wherever joint fences have been or may be established
in said county, for the mutual advantage of different owners or
possessors of adjoining lands, each party shall keep in good repair
his proper proportion thereof, in manner following, that is to say:
all post and rail or plank fences shall be at least four feet six
inches high, and not more than four inches between the lower
and second, and not more than five inches between the second
and third rails; and all worm or other fences shall be five feet
high; the height of said fences to be in every case computed
from the ground or base of any embankment upon which they
may be erected.
Ibid. sec. 92.
103. K either of the parties so making or keeping a joint
fence shall not comply with the provisions of the preceding
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