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perform the duty required of him in this section, he shall forfeit
the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in the name of the said
commissioners before any justice of the peace for the said county.

P. L. L., (1860,) art 9. sec. 81. 1888, ch. 297.

141. No person shall permit his swine to run at large within
said village, and the bailiff, upon the information of any person,
or upon his own view, shall forthwith seize all swine found at
large therein; and unless the owner shall redeem the same by
paying to the bailiff the sum of fifty cents for each and every
swine seized, the bailiff shall, after two days' notice set up at the
court-house door, sell such swine at public sale, the proceeds of
which sale shall be paid by him to the treasurer of said commis-
sioners.

Ibid. sec. 82. 1888, ch. 297.

142. No person shall keep or raise any swine in styes, pens or
other, enclosures in said village, or within two hundred and fifty
yards thereof; and the bailiff of said village, upon information
that any person has any swine confined in a sty, pen or other
enclosure within said village, or within two hundred and fifty
yards thereof, shall give notice to such person to remove such
sty, pen or enclosure, and upon failure to do so within ten days
after such notice, the person so failing shall forfeit the sum of
ten dollars, to be recovered in the name of the State, use of the
commissioners of the village of Port Tobacco, before a justice of
the peace for Charles county, which amount shall be used for the
improvement of said village.

Ibid. sec. 83. 1888, ch. 897.

143. The commissioners for the county, justices of the peace,
sheriff, constables and all other county and State officers shall
have, hold and exercise their offices and jurisdiction in said town
as if this sub-title of this article had not been enacted; and the
commissioners of Charles county shall appropriate annually one-
half of the tax levied or imposed upon the assessable property
within the corporate limits of said village for the improvement of
the streets within said corporate limits, and shall order the county
collectors who shall collect the taxes within said corporate limits,
to pay said one-half thereof to the treasurer of the commissioners
of the said village for that purpose.