PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1533

ages assessed by said appraisers to have the same reviewed by
application to the said Justice of the Peace, Avho shall, upon
being so requested, fix a day for trial, at some reasonable day
before the day fixed for the sale of said property, at which trial
it shall be competent for all parties concerned to be heard and
to have such witnesses summoned and sworn as such parties, or
any of them, may desire, and the decision of the said Justice of
the Peace shall be final, unless an appeal to the Circuit Court
for Dorchester County, shall be taken therefrom within five days
from the date of said decision or judgment, and the right of such
appeal is hereby given to all parties interested in said proceed-
ings.

SEC. 228A-4. And be it enacted, That any Justice of the Peace

of the District aforesaid before whom the impounding proceed-
ings aforesaid shall be brought, or who shall be applied to or
notified to advertise the impounded property as hereinbefore
provided, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to
make sale of any of such swine so impounded as aforesaid, if the
same be not returned to the owner as hereinbefore provided, and

out of all moneys arising from such sale or sales made in execu-
tion of the provisions of this Act, he shall pay all of the ex-
penses hereinbefore provided, and all fees and expenses and
costs of every kind properly incurred in connection with the im-
pounding and advertising of said property, including a fee of
fifty cents ($0.50) to each of the appraisers, if an appraisement

shall be made and in accordance with the provisions of this Act,
and including a fee of fifty cents ($0.50) to the Constable for

summoning and swearing each appraiser, if the said appraisers
shall be summoned or sworn under and in accordance with the
provisions of this Act, and the damages, ascertained as herein-
before provided, sustained by the person or persons upon whose
land and property the said swine was trespassing when so im-
pounded, and the remainder, if any, to the owner or owners who
may establish their ownership to said impounded swine; and in
the event that no such owner appear within thirty days after
said sale, then and in that event, the said Justice of the Peace

shall pay the said balance remaining in his hands as aforesaid,
to the County Commissioners of Dorchester County for the use
and benefit of the public schools of said County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of May, 1914.

Approved April 16th, 1914...