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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 380.

AN ACT to prohibit hogs going at large on the pub-

lic roads in election district number five of Talbot

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That all hogs shall be and they are

Prohibited.

by this act prohibited from going at large on any pub-
lic road within the limits of election district number

five of Talbot county; provided, however, the pro-

visions of this act shall not apply to the public roads

of Pot-pie neck and Tilghman's island.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the owner or

owners of any and every hog found trespassing in

violation of this act shall pay a fine of one dollar

Fine for vio-

for each offence per head, to be collected as fines,

lation.

penalties and forfeitures are collected under article

forty, section one of the Code of Public General

Laws.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any owner or

owners of any hog or hogs, taken up under this act,

Fair hearing.

shall have the privilege of a fair hearing before any

justice of the peace of the election district herein-

before named.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the fines speci-

fied in section two of this act shall be paid, one-

Fines — how

fourth to the informer, one-fourth to the constable

disposed of.

in the case, and the remainder to the board of county

school commissioners, to be by them applied to the

public school fund of said county.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall not

apply in any case where the owner or owners of the

hog or hogs found trespassing as above named shall

make it appear satisfactorily to the justice of the

How con-

peace hearing the case that the said owner or owners

strued

cannot justly he held responsible for the trespass,

inasmuch as he, she or they, as the case may be, had

employed all reasonable means to prevent it, and

that said trespass had occurred through some agency