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tions, shall not bind the said commissioners, but they shall have
full power to increase or diminish the said amount at their sound
discretion.

SWINE IN LOWER MARLBOROUGH.

P. L. L., (1860,) art 5, sec. 73.

127. No swine belonging to the inhabitants of Lower Marl-
borough, in Calvert county, shall be suffered to go at large in
said town; and if any person shall find any such swine going at
large in said town, he may kill the same.

Ibid sec. 74.

128. If any person shall be sued for killing any such swine
going at large, Le may plead the general issue and give the
special matter in evidence.

TAXES.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 5, sec. 75.

129. Where there is no personal property on the land lying
in Calvert county belonging to any person not residing therein,
for the payment of taxes, the collector or deputy collector may
sell a sufficient quantity of timber suitable for cord wood or fence
rails, in one parcel, growing on the same acre or contiguous acres
of the land, to pay such taxes.

Ibid. sec. 76.

130. The collector or deputy collector, before making such
sale, shall give notice in some newspaper published in the District
of Columbia, and in the city of Baltimore, and by advertisement
set up at three of .the most public places in the neighborhood
adjoining the lands on which the taxes are due, of the time and
place of sale; and at the time of making the sale, shall give a
certificate to the purchaser, under his hand and seal, verified by
affidavit, stating the quantity of timber sold, and shall also return a
similar certificate to the county commissioners, at their next meet-
ing, to be recorded among their proceedings.

Ibid. sec. 77.

131. The purchaser of any timber so sold may, at any time
within twelve months from the day of sale, enter upon the lands