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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Repealed and

acts passed at January session, eighteen hundred and

enacted.

seventy-four, being an act to prevent stock from

running at large in Quantico, Wicomico county, be

and the same is hereby repealed and enacted so as

to read as follows :

SEC. 58. It shall not be lawful for stock of any

kind to run at large in Quantico, Wicomico county,

Limits

nor within the following described limits: Beginning
at the bridge across Quantico creek on the south

side, and the residence of George A. Bounds on the

north, and the residence of Mathias Disharoon on

the west side.

SEC 2. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

Duty to im-

of any constable or officer of the law to take up

pound.

and impound any cattle or swine which may be

found going at large, and any constable or officer of

the law so taking up and impounding, shall notify
a justice of the peace, resident within the said county,

who shall give notice of said impounding by adver-

tisements set up at one or more public places, de-

scribing the stock so impounded, and that the same

will be sold at public auction at some public place

in said limits within four days ; provided that if the

owner of any stock impounded under this act shall

Due diligence

prove to the satisfaction of the justice of the peace

used.

that said stock did not go at large from negligence,

or want of care on his or her part, and that due dil-

igence was used to prevent it, the owner shall have

return of the property on paying all expenses of

keeping and proving the same, and fifty cents for
taking up each of said stock.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That all moneys arising

from the execution of this act, the justice of the

peace shall collect and pay to the party taking up

How dispos-

and impounding said stock, a fair compensation for
his services, and the balance to the owner or owners,

ed of.

who may establish his or their claim to said prop-

erty; and in the event of no such claimant appear-

ing within thirty days, then the balance, after de-

ducting cost, shall be paid into the school fund for

Wicomico county.

Approved April 10, 1880.