ART. 24.] ELECTION DISTRICTS—FENCES. 2133

DOCS.

1876, ch. 97.

93. Worcester, Wicomico, Queen Anne's, Montgomery, Dor-
chester, Allegany, St. Mary's, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Prince
George's, Washington, Somerset, Kent, Garrett and Cecil coun-
ties, and Baltimore city, and all cities, towns or boroughs in which
dogs are taxed by municipal ordinance, are exempted from the
operation of sections 157-162 of article 81 of the code of public
general laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," providing for the tax-
ation of dogs in this State.

ELECTION DISTRICTS.

1872, ch. 362. 1876, ch. 153.

94. Worcester county is divided into nine election districts,
according to their present bounds and limits, and the said

districts are named and numbered as follows: Newton district,
number one; Snow Hill district, number two; East Berlin dis-
trict, number three; Newark district, number four; St. Martin's

district, number five; Coulbourne's district, number six; Atkin-
fion's district, number seven; Stockton district, number eight, and
West Berlin district, number nine; and all elections for public

officers shall be held in each of said districts at the place estab-
lished by law for that purpose.

P. L. L (1860,) art. 22, sec. 43.

95. Judges and clerks of election in said county shall each be
entitled to receive, for each election at which they shall attend,
and for making their returns, the sum of three dollar per day; and
each return judge shall also be allowed six and a quarter cents a
mile for every mile his place of residence shall be distant from
the county town, to be allowed both going to and returning from
the same.

FENCES.

1874, ch. 46.

96. All fields and other grounds, kept for enclosure in the first

election district of Worcester county, shall be fenced with post
and rail, or plank, or worm fence, made of good and substantial
rails, at least four feet high from the ground to the top of the
upper rail, and the first or under rail, in post and rail, or plank,