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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and in default of paying the same, or if the owner

or owners do not claim the stock or geese impounded

within five days from the time of posting the notices

Lawful to

aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the person impound-

sell.

ing to sell the stock, swine or geese impounded for

cash, at public sale, within said limits, upon giving

four days' notice of the time and place of sale, by

written or printed bills, to be posted in at least five

public places within the above described limits, and

Deduct costs

from the proceeds of such sale to deduct the costs

and charges.

and charges hereinbefore allowed, the costs of sale

and the penalties hereinafter prescribed, and the bal-

ance of the sales, if there be any, shall be paid over

to the owner of the stock or geese sold, if applied

for within sixty days from the time of sale.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the owner or

owners of any horse, mule, horned cattle or swine,

or lot of geese, including two or more, who shall

allow the same to go at large and unattended by a

keeper within the village of Towsontown, or within

the limits prescribed in the first section of this act,

Liable to fine

shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for each horse,

mule, head of cattle or swine, or lot of geese, so

allowed to run at large unattended, in addition to the

charges and costs above provided for, to be imposed

by a justice of the peace within the limits aforesaid;

and it shall be the duty of the person impounding

any such stock or geese, or knowing the same to be

Report to a

running at large, to report the same to a justice of

justice.

the peace, together with the name of the owner or

owners, so soon as he discovers the same ; and it

shall be the duty of such justice to forthwith issue a

summons against such owner or owners in the name

of the State, for the use of the person informing, to

answer in a plea of trespass, and if it shall appear

upon testimony taken, that such swine, stock or

geese were found going at large within the limits

prescribed in the first section of this act, the justice

Render judg-

shall render judgment against the owner or owners

ment.

for the sum of five dollars, as herein prescribed, to-

gether with costs, the said fine to be paid one half to

the informer and the other to the person upon whose

premises the stock or geese were found trespassing ;

provided, that if the owner of such stock, swine or

No fault or

geese, shall make it appear to the justice that the

negligence.

same went at large through no fault or negligence