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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
height and sufficiency aforesaid, then the owner or owners of
such horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, shall be liable to make good
all such damages to the owner of such enclosure, as shall be
found and awarded by two respectable landholders, who may view
the same, under their oath or affirmation made before some justice
of the peace in said county; the said damages to be recovered
in the same manner that is or shall be prescribed by law for
the recovery of debts. |
Persons joining
fences and
neglecting to
keep in repair
—proceedings. |
2. And be it enacted, That whenever
any person or persons
have joined, or shall join fences for their mutual benefit and advantage,
it shall be obligatory on each of the parties to keep up
and in good repair, his, her, or their respective proportions thereof;
and if any one of the owners or possessors, upon the request
of the other, shall refuse to make or repair the said fence or
fences, within twenty days after notice given, that then, upon
proof thereof before a justice of the peace, it shall be lawful for
the said justice to order the person aggrieved and suffering
thereby to repair the said fence or fences, who shall be reimbursed
his costs and expenses, to be recovered in the same manner
as is, or shall be prescribed by law for the recovery of debts. |
Damages for
injury done to
stock on lands
not properly
enclosed. |
3. And be it enacted, That whosoever,
not having their
grounds enclosed with such sufficient fence as aforesaid, shall
hurt, kill or do damage to any horse, sheep, hogs or any kind of
cattle belonging to any other person, by hunting, or driving
them out of, or from the said grounds, shall make good all
such damages sustained thereby, to the owner or owners thereof,
as shall be awarded by two respectable land holders under
their oath or affirmation who may view the same; the said damages
to be recovered in the same manner as is prescribed for the
recovery of damages in the two first sections of this act. |
This act subject
to a vote
of the people
at next election. |
4. And be it enacted, That this act
shall not have the force
and operation of law in Harford county, unless a majority of
the voters, who may lawfully vote in such county at the election
to be held for delegates on the first Monday in October
next, shall by their votes with reference to this act, approve the
same, which approbation shall be expressed by the words,
" In favor of the act regulating fences," to be written or printed
on the ballots that may be given at the election
aforesaid; and of which votes the judges of election in Harford
county, shall take an exact account and make complete
returns thereof to the justices of the levy court of the county,
who upon receiving the said returns shall cause the result
thereof to be published; and in case the said act shall appear by
the said returns to have been approved by a majority of the
persons so voting in said county as aforesaid; then the justices
of the levy court shall issue a public notice, declaring the said
act to have then acquired the full force and virtue of a law, in
and applicable to the county of Harford. |
This act to
be published. |
5. And be it enacted, That the levy
court of said county shall
cause this act to be published in the Bond of Union, a newspaper
published in Belle Air, at least once a week for six successive |
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