ROBERT M McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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stock at public auction, for cash, after giving ten days'

notice from the time such stock was taken up; pro-

vided the owner shall have the return of said stock

on paying all the expenses of keeping the stock and

all other costs, including fifty cents for taking up

each of said stock.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person shall

take up any stock, such person shall impound the

same, and shall at once notify the constable, who shall

immediately proceed to give the notice and make the

sale upon the same terms and in the same manner as

provided in the second section of this act, and the

Commissions

owner shall have the return of said stock on the said

allowed.

conditions as provided in that section; and for making

a sale under this section, the constable shall be allowed

the same commissions now allowed by law for the sale

of personal property under execution, this provision

for commissions not to apply to sales of stock taken
up by the constable himself.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said constable

thus authorized to make sale of such stock, if not

returned to the owner as aforesaid, shall, out of the

Moneys aris-

moneys arising from such sale, first pay the person or

ing from sale.

persons taking up the stock, and the costs, charges and

expenses incurred, and damages sustained by the

person or persons upon whose land said stock was

trespassing, said damages to be ascertained upon the

oath of two disinterested sworn appraisers, and the

balance, if any, to the owner or owners of such stock ;

and should no one claim said balance as owner within

How disposed

sixty days of said sale, the constable shall pay the same

of.

to the treasurer of the school fund of Dorchester

county, to be applied to the benefit of the public

schools of sajd county.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That before this act

shall become a law, it shall be submitted to the quali-

fied voters of Williamsburg district to determine its

application to said district, and to the qualified voters

of the Fork district included within this act, to deter-

mine its application thereto, at special elections to be

How ratified.

held on the second Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred

and eighty-four; and the county commissioners of Dor-

chester county are hereby authorized and directed to

appoint three judges for each of said elections, which

shall be conducted in accordance with the require-

ments of the law regulating elections, and the poll