1827

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 133,

Impounded wine,&c

SECTION 1, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That if any swine belonging to any person or persons
without the limits cf the said village of Hillsborough, or kept
and owned by persons living oii lots or farms without the li-
mits of the said village, shall go within the limits of the said
village, and there commit any damage whatsoever, the par-
ty or parties who shall receive such damage, shall have power
to take up and impound such swine, and in their own custody
safe keep them until the damage shall have been fully satisfied
with the expense of keeping said swine, which damage shall
he ascertained by three persons chosen, as follows: each party
shall have a right to choose one person, but if upon neglect or
nfusai of either party, the other party shall have a right to
choose both of the said referees, and in case of disagreement
of the two referees, they the said referees shall have a light to
choose a third, who shall be free holders, and who shall as-
certain the same.

Advertise-Sale

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of any
person who shall by virtue of this act take up any swine, to
advertise the same at least fifteen days at the store doors of
the said village, and at the methodist meeting house near the
said village, and at the end of the said fifteen days, if no per-
son or persons shall come and claim the same, prove proper-
ty, pay damages and cost of keeping, the said person hav-
ing then in possession, shall be, and he, her or they are here-
by authorised to sell the same at public sale for the purposes
aforesaid, and apply the proceeds to the payment of the dam-
age and cost aforesaid, and the overplus, if any, shall be re-
turned to the owner or owners, when the same shall be ascer-
tained.

CHAPTER 134.

Passed-day of-
1828.

A supplement to the act, entitled an act, for draining a branch or
swamp, called Beetree Swamp, tying and being in Caroline
County, passed December Session, eighteen hundred and
twelve.

Preamble

WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assembly,
That the above recited act, in its provisions falls short of
effecting the object which was intended by the said act, in
consequence of there being no provision therein contained
authorising the commissioners, therein named, fin case of the
neglect dr refusal of the party or panics through the land of
which the said ditch shall or may run,) not being Authorised
to employ hands to do the necessary labor of opening and
keeping clear such parts of the said ditch, as runs through the
land of such person or persons as do neglect or refuse to do
the same, and to charge the expense of wages, accommodation
and implements to the said delinquent.