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Chapter 478.
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AN ACT to repeal section one of an act passed at the
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January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
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chapter three hundred and thirty-seven, entitled
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"An act to regulate the building of joint fences in
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Howard county," and to re-enact the same with
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amendments.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That section one of an act passed at the
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January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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chapter three hundred and thirty-seven, entitled "An
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act to regulate the building of joint fences in Howard
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county," be and the same is hereby repealed, and re-
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enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That whenever joint fences may hereafter
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be established in said county for the mutual benefit of
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different owners or possessors of adjoining lands, eaeh
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party shall keep in good repair his just proportion
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thereof in the manner following : all post and rail or
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plank fences shall be at least four feet and a-half high;
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all stone fences shall be at least four feet high, and all
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Joint fences;
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worm or other fences shall be at least five feet high,
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the height in every case to be computed from the
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ground or base of any embankment upon which said
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fence may be placed; and there shall be between the
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bottom rail or plank and the ground or embankment
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on which said fence is placed no larger interval than
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five inches, and between the bottom rail or plank
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and the rail or plank directly above the same no larger
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interval than five inches. And when said fence or
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