1634 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

1878, ch. 39.

301. In all case; where the punishment for the offence is
death or confinemeit in the penitentiary, the county commis-
sioners may allow to the State's attorney such additional com-
pensation as they may think just; provided, said additional com-
pensation so allowed by the county commissioners, together with
the total of the fees received, shall not amount to more than one
thousand dollars in my one year, and in no event shall the State's
attorney receive mere than one appearance fee in the same case.

SWINE AND GEESE.

P L. L., (1860,) art. 10, sec. 177.

302. No swine belonging to the inhabitants of the town of
Queen Anne, or the inhabitants of Prince George's county, living
within one-quarter of a mile of said town, shall be suffered to go
at large in said town or within one-quarter of a mile thereof; and
any swine so found going at large may be killed or impounded
by any person; if mpounded, the person impounding shall im-
mediately give notit e, by advertisements set up at the most public
places in said town describing the swine so impounded; and if
the owner shall no; within five days after such notice prove his
property and make compensation for the injury (if any,) sustained
by any inhabitants of said town or county, to be ascertained by
any two disinterested persons residing therein, and pay for every
swine twenty-five cents for every day it shall have been im-
pounded, the person impounding may, sell or kill the same for
his own benefit.

Ibid. sec. 178.

303. If any person shall be sued for killing or selling any
swine, under the receding section, he may plead the general
issue and give the special matter in evidence.

Ibid. sec. 179.

304. No person in the town of Nottingham, in Prince George's
county, shall confine in any pen, sty, house or other enclosure,
any hog, except from the twentieth of October to the first of
March in each year, under the penalty of forty dollars for each