ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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said decedent within the meaning of this section, and shall have

the same rights herein conferred upon the creditors of said

decedent; this section to apply to all cases where the heirs or

devisees are residents or non-residents, or are of full age, or infants

or of sound mind, or non compos mentis, and to cases where the

parties left no heirs or where it is not known whether he left

heirs or devisees, or if the heirs or devisees be unknown, and if

there be no heirs, the State's attorney shall appear to the bill.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective

the day of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 321.

AN ACT to amend article fifty-eight, of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Live Stock," by the addition thereto of another

section, to follow section eighteen of said article, and to be

numbered section nineteen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That article fifty-eight, of the Code of Public General Laws, title

To amend.

" Live Stock," be amended by the addition thereto of a new sec-

tion, to follow section eighteen of said article, and to be numbered

section nineteen, and read as follows:

19. That all hogs and other domestic animals dying of any con-

tagious or infectious disease, shall be buried at the depth of at

least three feet, or be burned at the discretion of the owner, and

any person or persons permitting any dead hogs or any other do-

mestic animals, having died of any contagious or infectious

Dead ani-
mals.

disease, to remain unburied upon his or their premises for the

space of three hours, prior to sun set of said day, after he has

discovered the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, shall be fined

not less than ten dollars for each offense, or imprisoned in the

county jail for not less than ten days, or be both fined and im-

prisoned in the discretion of the justice.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.