ART. 21.] TRAPPE. 1901

1880, ch. 380.

208. Section 204 shall not apply in any case where the owner
of the hog shall make it appear satisfactorily to the justice of the
peace hearing the case that he had employed all reasonable meana
to prevent such trespass, and that it had occurred through some
agency over which he could exercise no control.

Ibid.

209. Section 204 shall not apply to hogs being driven from
point to point on the public roads or public grounds in said elec-
tion district, when such hogs are under proper guard.

Ibid.

210. Any person who shall be found guilty before any justice
of the peace of the county, of purposely turning out any hog, or
of opening any gates, or in any other way aiding any hog to
trespass to the extent of the violation of section 204, shall be
liable to a fine of not more than five dollars, to be collected as-
other fines are collected under section 205, or be imprisoned in the
county jail for a term not exceeding seven days; any fine col-
lected under this section shall be paid, one-half to the informer
and the other half to the public school fund of the county.

TRAPPE.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 20, sec. 187.

211. The inhabitants of the town of Trappe, in Talbot county,
are a body politic by the name and style of "The Commissioners
of Trappe," and by that name may sue and be sued, make and
use a corporate seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may make
and enforce all such by-laws and regulations for the government
of said town, not contrary to law, as they may deem proper.

Ibid. sec. 188.

212. The bounds and limits of Trappe shall be as follows:
beginning at a locust tree standing at the northeast corner of E.
P. Mullikin's house-yard, and running thence to the northwest
corner of C. R. Millikin's barn; thence with a straight line
touching the northeast corner of Robert H. Kemp's garden till