ART. 9.] ELECTION DISTRICTS—FENCES. 927

as heretofore laid off, to correct and change said lines when, in
their discretion, such correction and change will contribute to
public convenience; provided, three weeks' previous notice of
such petition shall have been given in any newspaper published
in said county, or if there be no newspaper published in the
county, by notices set up at the court-house door and at three
public places in the districts to be affected by such change.

1886, ch. 267.

61. The county commissioners are authorized, npon the peti-
tion of any voter living in the limits of any election district of
Charles county, to change the place for the holding of elections
in said district whenever, in the judgment of the county commis-
sioners, the public convenience will be promoted by said change;
provided, however, that before any such change is made the
county commissioners shall give notice in some newspaper pub-
lished in the county, for three weeks, setting forth in the notice
the substance of the petition and the day on which they will act
upon the same.

FENCES.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 9, sec. 41.

62. Partition fences between the adjoining fields of different
proprietors in Charles county shall be made and repaired by the
parties, respectively, owning or occupying the fields, at their joint
and equal expense; and npon failure of either party to make or
repair his respective proportion of such fence or pay his equal
share of the costs thereof, he shall be answerable therefor in an
action of debt, to be recovered before a justice of the peace; but
no person shall be so answerable unless the fence, for the making
or repair of which he shall be sued, shall have been constructed
of the usual materials and in the ordinary way.

Ibid. sec. 42.

63. No action of trespass quare clausum fregit in Charles
county shall be adjudged to be maintained or supported by evi-
dence that the defendant, or any horse, cow, hog or other domestic
animal belonging to him, passed on or over any waste or unen-
closed land in said county, or by proof that any such animal trod