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	stock shall not pay the damages so awarded, together	Failure to
	with all costs that have accrued by reason of im-	pay damages
	pounding such stock and valuing the damages,
	within ten days from the date of the notice of such
	impounding, the person who takes up such stock
	shall apply to the said justice of the peace, who
	shall issue an order for the sale of the same, and
	after giving at least five days' notice, by public
	advertisement, set for at two or more public places
	in the neighborhood where the stock is impounded,
	the person taking up the stock shall proceed to sell
	the same at public sale for cash, and shall report to	Sell at public
	the justice of the peace who issued the order for the	sale.
	sale of the same, the name of the purchaser or pur-
	chasers of such stock, and the amount it sold for,
	which amount he shall pay over to the said justice
	of the peace, and the said justice of the peace shall
	then pay the damages, if any, and all costs, [and the balance, if any, and all costs,] and the balance, if any,
	he shall pay over to the owner or owners of such
	stock, but if no person or persons shall come forward
	and claim such property within six months after the
	date of such sale, then the justice aforesaid shall pay the balance to the treasurer of the school board of
	Wicomico county, for the use of the public schools.
	SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts	Inconsistent
	of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this be	acts repealed.
	and the same are hereby repealed.
	Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 272.

AN ACT to repeal chapter fifty-eight of the acts
passed January session, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-four, being an act to prevent stock from run-
at large in Quantico, Wicomico county, and to
re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That chapter fifty-eight of the