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or division fences belonging to the owners of the farms; said
cattle-guards shall be of sufficient length and width to prevent
the passage of stock of all lands, and shall be constructed on the
request in writing of any land owner interested therein, made to
the agent of the company who shall have charge or supervision
of the road at that point; and in addition to said cattle-guards,
such railroad companies shall cause to be built and kept in good
order a lawful fence on each side thereof, and extending sixteen
feet from the cattle-guard, to which the land owner shall have
the right to join his fence; provided, that no land owner shall be
in any way liable, either directly or indirectly, to the railroad
company or any person whatever, for any damage or injury which
may occur or result from the construction of his fence over the
company's land, which may be necessary to connect his fence
with that of the company's.

1886, ch. 398.

220. For any failure to comply with any of the provisions of
the preceding section, the company so failing for sixty days after
such written request, shall forfeit and pay to the party injured,
five dollars for each day's failure thereafter, to be recovered as
other debts are now collected by an action before a justice of the
peace, or the circuit court, when the amount is such as will give
such circuit court jurisdiction; said notice or request may be
served upon an agent of the company.

RECORDS BURNED.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 22, sec. 93.

221. All deeds, papers and documents recorded in pursuance
of the act of 1835, chapter 279, which provided for making rec-
ords in place of those destroyed or lost by the burning of the
court house of Worcester county, shall have the same legal effect
to all intents and purposes as the original records or papers would
have had if they had not been destroyed or lost.

Ibid. sec. 94.

222. In all cases where the record of any judgment or decree,
and the original papers thereto belonging, have been destroyed
by the burning of the court house as aforesaid, a short copy of
such judgment or decree, or copy of the docket entries, under the