PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1531

CHAPTER 811.

AN ACT to amend Article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Live Stock
Running at Large," by adding four new Sections thereto to
follow Section 228, and to be designated as Sections 228A-1,
228A-2, 228A-3 and 228A-4.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title '' Dorchester County,'' sub-title '' Live Stock Running
at Large," be, and the same is hereby amended by adding four
new Sections thereto to follow Section 228, and to be designated
as Sections 228A-1, 228A-2, 228A-3 and 228A-4, so as to read
as follows:

SEC. 228A-1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful for any swine to go, run
or roam at large, and without an attendant or person in charge
thereof, within the limits or bounds of Election District No. 5, or
Lakes, in Dorchester County, State of Maryland

SEC. 228A-2. Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any
person, and it shall be the duty of any Constable of said District,
to take up and impound any swine which may be found
going, running or roaming at large, and without an attendant
or person in charge thereof, within the limits and bounds of said
District, and the Constable or other person so taking up and
impounding any such swine shall forthwith, and within twenty-
four hours after so taking up and impounding said swine, notify
a Justice of the Peace, resident within the limits and bounds
of said District, which said Justice of the. Peace shall, upon
being so notified as aforesaid, within twenty-four hours after
being so notified, give notice of said impounding by written or
printed advertisements or notices stuck up in at least three
public places in said District, one of which shall be in the
vicinity of the place where said swine is impounded, which said
advertisements or notices shall contain a description of the
swine so impounded, and of the place where impounded, and
shall warn all persons that the same will be sold at public auc-
tion, to the highest bidder, at the time and place set forth in said
advertisements or notices, which place of sale must be within
the limits and bounds of said District, and the day of sale not
less than ten days, nor more than fifteen days, from the day
on which the said swine was so impounded; provided, that if the
owner of any swine impounded under the provisions of this Act