1870 TALBOT COUNTS. [ART. 21.

P. L. L., (1860,) art 20, sec. 84.

103. If either of the parties making or keeping a joint fence
shall refuse or delay to repair his proportion thereof within
twenty days after notice in writing, given to him or his agent,
upon proof thereof before a justice of the peace, the justice may,
under his hand and seal, authorize the party aggrieved to repair
said fence, and for so doing he shall be reimbursed all costs and
reasonable expenses necessarily incurred, to be recovered from
the party so refusing and delaying, in the manner debts of a like
amount are recoverable, and he shall have a lien on the adjacent
land or farm of the person who shall have refused or delayed to
make and repair said fence, so as to secure the reimbursement of
the costs and expenses of such making and repairing in the event
of the transfer of said land; provided, that proceedings to en-
force such lien be commenced by the party, or his representative,
within two years next after such repair shall have been done.

Ibid sec 85.

104. If joint fences are not made and kept in repair accord-
ing to the provisions of this sub-title of this article, the party
aggrieved or likely to be injured, instead of pursuing the remedy
prescribed in the preceding section, may discontinue the said
fence upon giving three months' notice in writing to the party
refusing or delaying, his agent or overseer; and in all other cases
(unless by mutual consent) twelve months' notice shall be re-
quired to discontinue any joint fence.

FISH.

1874, ch. 466.

105. It shall not be lawful for any persons, except bona fide
resident voters of Talbot, Caroline and Dorchester counties, and
they shall first obtain permission of the occupants or owners of
lands bordering on the waters of said above named counties, to
take or catch fish in the waters of said counties with seines with
meshes of less size than five inches square.

Ibid.

106. It shall not be lawful for any person to empty his seines
in water less than twelve inches deep; and all persons violating