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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Child & Co., two hundred and thirty-four dollars

and ninety-three cents ; and McDowell & Co., four

thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and twen-

ty-four cents, in full payment for their several bills

for work done and materials furnished in the im-

provement and repairs of the State House, and the

furnishing of the same, under the order and. direction

of the Board of Public Works.

In force.

SEO. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 445.

AN ACT to regulate the fences in Brinkley's, Law-

son's and Hungary Neck Districts in Somerset

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly

of Maryland, That all fields and other grounds

kept for enclosure in Brinkley's, Lawson's and Hun-

gary Neck Districts in Somerset county shall be fenced

How fenced.

with posts and rails, plank or with a worm fence

made of good and substantial rails, at least four feet

high from the ground to the top of the highest rail,

and the first or under rail in post and rail, or plank

or worm fences shall not ezceed in distance five

inches from the ground or embankment upon which

the same may be built, and the width between the

rails or planks of which the fence may be built shall

be such as is usual in the construction of fences of

this kind, and all brush fences made upon the sur-

face of the ground shall be at least four feet high,

and all brush fences made upon an embankment of

earth thrown upon the ground shall be at least three

feet high, the embankment, nevertheless, shall be

eighteen inches high ; and if any live stock, of any

kind or description whatever, shall break into any