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to be kept and maintained, any number of hounds, contrary to
the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of
twenty dollars for every such offence, and shall moreover be
subject to pay the further sum of one dollar per day for each
day the said hounds, exceeding as above, shall be so kept or main-
tained thereafter.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 3, sec. 137.

169. Any person who shall bury or remove any dead carcass
or offensive carrion, thrown out and deposited contrary to the
provisions of the two preceding sections, shall recover, before
any justice of the peace, against the person guilty of such offence,
all expenses thereby incurred in burying and removing the same.

Ibid. sec. 138.

170. All fines and forfeitures accruing under the three pre-
ceding sections may be recovered before any justice of the peace
for Baltimore county, one-half for the use of said county, and the
other for the use of the informer; and it shall be the duty of
such justices, respectively, to receive one-half of all such fines and
forfeitures, and to render an account thereof to the county com-
missioners annually in the month of October, and to pay the
amount to them

ORPHANS' COURT.

1868, ch. 98.

171. The orphans' court of Baltimore county shall meet on
Tuesday and Wednesday of each week at ten o'clock A. M., and
continue their sessions for such length of time and on such days
as in their judgment the public interests require.

Ibid.

172. There shall be allowed the said judges, the sum of five
cents per mile for each mile traveled by them in going to and
returning from the said sessions of the orphans' court, to be paid
by the county commissioners, on the certificate of the register of
wills for said county.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 8, sec. 141.

173. The judge of said court may appoint a baliff, who shall
attend each sitting of the court, and perform such duties as the