428 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 288.

AN ACT to prohibit hogs from running at large in Garrett
County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful for any hog to run at large
in Garrett County; any hog found upon the public highway,
or unenclosed lands, or trespassing upon enclosed lands, may be
taken up and impounded by the owner or occupant or occupants
of any enclosure in Garrett County; the said owner or occupant
may impound any hog so found, and if the owner is known,
shall immediately notify the owner of the hog so impounded,
who may claim and remove said hog by paying One Dollar
($1.00) for each hog so impounded, and, in addition, shall pay
for feeding of the hog so impounded.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if the owner of the hog,
so impounded, is not known to the person who has impounded
said hog, he shall cause a notice to be inserted in some news-
paper published in the County containing a description of the
hog so impounded, and if, at the end of one week from the
time the notice was so published, the owner has not claimed and
removed said bog, the person who has impounded the hog shall
cause a second notice to be inserted in some newspaper pub-
lished in the County, giving ten days' notice, and state the
time and place where the hog or hogs are to be sold, at which
time if the hogs are not claimed and removed by the owner,
and all charges paid, including penalty, advertising and feed-
ing, said hog or hogs so impounded shall be sold at public sale
to the highest bidder, and if the hogs are sold at public sale,
a full account of all expenses and moneys paid out, as well as
all moneys received for the hogs so sold, shall be filed with the
County Commissioners and any money remaining over and above
the amount required to pay all expenses as above mentioned
shall be turned over to the County Commissioners who may
return it to the owner of said hogs, provided, he makes claim
and produces satisfactory proof that he is the owner of the
hog or hogs so sold.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act
shall be construed so as to interfere with hogs turned out and
herded so long as they do not come without twenty rods of any
enclosure.