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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

owners of any and every horse or mule, of each

head of cattle, sheep and swine found trespassing

Penalty for

under this act, shall be made to pay a fine for each

violation.

offence per head ; for horses and mules and cattle,

fifty cents ; for sheep and hogs, twenty cents, to be

collected as fines, penalties and forfeitures are col-

lected under article forty, section one, of the Code

of Public General Laws.

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

Entitled to

owners of stock taken up under this act, shall have

hearing.

the privilege of a fair hearing before any justice of

the peace of the election district hereinbefore named.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the fines specified

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

Fines — how

to the informer, one-fourth to the constable in the

applied.

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

When not

apply in any case where the owner or owners of

applicable.

stock found trespassing as above named shall make

it appear satisfactorily to the justice of the peace in

the case that he or they (said owner or owners), can-

not justly be held responsible for the trespass, inas-
much as he or they had employed all reasonable-
means to prevent it, and that said trespass had oc-

curred through some agency over which said owner

or owners could exercise no control.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall not

Not to apply
to stock when
driven.

apply to any stock being driven from point to point
on the public roads or public grounds in school dis-

trict aforesaid, when such stock shall be under proper

guard.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That any one who shall

be found guilty before any justice of the peace of

Aiding stock
in trespassing

the county aforesaid of purposely turning out stock,
or of opening gates, or in any other way aiding any
stock of the character specified in this act, to trespass

to the extent of a violation of this act, shall be lia-

ble to a fine of not more than five dollars, to be

collected as other fines are collected under this act,