CHARLES COUNTY. 765

in such manner confined as not to be able to walk or run over
any portion of the streets or other portion of said town, nor
shall any cattle of any kind be slaughtered within the limits
of said town. Any person violating this provision shall be
fined one dollar and costs recoverable as hereinbefore provid-
ed; if any animal or animals of any kind heretofore named of
which the owner shall be unknown or cannot be found, shall be.
found running at large in said town, the bailiff shall forthwith
seize and empound the same and shall give notice thereof by
notice posted at the courthouse door, and if the owner shall
not within three days thereafter appear and pay said bailiff
the amount of the fine hereinbefore named and twenty-five
cents extra for each day in which the said animal shall be
taken and empounded, the said bailiff shall sell the same at
public sale, and after deducting one-half of the amount due on
same, including fine, which he shall retain, shall account for
the balance to the said commissioners; the said bailiff is hereby
given the power, and it shall be in his discretion to take the
same proceeding with reference to any animal or animals of
any kind hereinbefore named of which the owner may be known,
and it shall be his duty to so impound the said animal or ani-
mals if the owner be known, or to institute proceedings before
a justice of the peace as hereinbefore provided for violation of
the provisions of this section as hereinafter set forth herein.
It shall be the duty of the bailaff, as far as practicable, to en-
force this and other provisions of this Act as well as the ordi-
nance enacted by the said town commissioners, as provided in
this Act, and any wilful neglect upon his part to enforce either
of them upon coming to his notice shall be malfeasance in
office.

116D. No person shall sell or barter any spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or lager beer in the said town at any place
within a distance of three hundred yards of any church now
or hereafter to be constructed in said town; nor shall any per-
son sell any liquors within two hundred yards of the county
courthouse, unless at the time of applying for license there-
for he shall file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the
county an application in writing, verified by affidavit, stating
the exact place at which said liquor is to be sold, the manner
of selling the same, as to whether it is to be done in connection
with a hotel or otherwise, and bearing the indorsement of the
commissioners of said town and the County Commissioners of
Charles County, the aforesaid provisions of this section not to
apply, however, to any place where such liquor is now sold
under such license as is provided by law in said town. Any
person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall on
conviction pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two