EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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him or his agent as aforesaid, upon proof thereof before a
justice of the peace, the justice may, under his hand and seal,

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authorize the party aggrieved to repair the fence, and for so
doing he shall be reimbursed all costs and reasonable
expenses necessarily incurred by him in and about the
same, to be recovered from the party so refusing or delaying
in the manner debts of like amounts are recoverable; and
said costs and expenses shall be a first lien on the adjacent
land or farm of the person who shall have refused or delayed
to make and repair the fence; provided the proceedings to
enforce such lien, whether said lien shall have been hereto-
fore or shall be hereafter acquired, be begun in the Circuit
Court for Prince George's county in equity by the party in
whose favor said lien may be, or by his personal represen-
tative, within twelve months after such repair shall have
been done; and said court is hereby vested with full juris-
diction in the premises, which jurisdiction shall be exercised
as in the enforcement of liens in other cases in equity, pro-
vided further that neither any such cost or expense hereto-
fore incurred, nor any such lien heretofore acquired shall be

Refusal or
delay in
repairing.

lost or impaired by any provision of this Act, and all such
costs and expense heretofore incurred may be recovered in
the manner provided by said Section 142 prior to the pas-
sage of this Act and any such lien heretofore acquired may
be enforced in the manner and within the time by this Act
provided for the enforcement of liens heretofore acquii'ed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1906.

CHAPTER 351.

AN ACT to repeal Section 37 of Article 19 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title " Comptroller," as amended
by Chapter 494 of the Act of 1904, and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 37 of Article 19 of the Code of Public

Proviso.

General Laws, title " Comptroller," as amended by Chapter
494 of the Acts of 1904, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

Repeal and
re-enact.