ART. 21.] ELECTION DISTRICTS—FENCES. 1869

cincts, as in their judgment the public interest may require; and
to designate the places of holding elections therein and the num-
ber by which each of said precincts shall be known.

1876, ch. 154.

100. It shall be the duty of the officer of registration in each
election district so divided into precincts, when notified by the
county commiesioners of such division into precincts of any such,
district prior to the next election, to register all the voters in such,
district, in the same mode and manner as the voters in other dis-
tricts are required to be registered by article 33 of the code of
public general laws, title " Elections," sub-title " Registration of
Voters;" and he shall prepare separate lists of voters according to
the sub-divisions of such districts into precincts, designating the
election precincts of the districts in which the voters are or shall.
be respectively entitled to vote, and shall deliver one copy of the
lists of voters for each of said precincts to the judges of election,
thereof.

Ibid.

101. 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 elections for said precincts, and who shall
perform the duties of their office in the manner required by said
article 33 of the code of public general laws; 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 compen-
sation as other judges of election in said county.

FENCES.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 20, sec. 83.

102. Wherever joint fences have been or may be established
in said county for the mutual advantage of owners of adjoining
lands, each shall keep in good repair his respective proportion
thereof in the manner following, that is to say: all post and rail
or plank fences shall be at least four feet and a half high, and all
worm or other fences shall be at least five feet high, the distance
in any case to be computed from the ground or base of any
embankment on which the same may be placed.