1444 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680
lands, or for any other reason, they shall so report in their
award; and no one shall be required to make or repair more
than one-half of such fence, as shall be necessary to him.
237. If any person, having an interest in any joint divi-
sion fence shall fail to make or keep in repair his part -thereof,
he shall not be entitled to damages on account of any trespass
through said part, by stock belonging to the other joint owner
of the fence; and if he shall kill, maim or otherwise injure
such stock, he shall, upon conviction, pay to the owner thereof
the full value of such stock, with costs of suit.
238. In all other cases of trespass by stock, the party tres-
passed upon shall be entitled to recover from the owner of
the stock trespassing, the amount of damages done by such tree-
pass, as other debts are now recovered; but if the party tres-
passed upon shall kill, maim or otherwise wilfully injure the
stock trespassing, he shall forfeit his right to recover; but in
case of prosecution for such killing or maiming, he shall be
entitled to prove the amount of damage done by such stock in
mitigation of damages for the killing or maiming.
239. Each freeholder acting under the provisions of this
sub-title of this article, shall be entitled to two dollars per day
for each day he shall be so employed, one-half of which shall
be paid by each party interested.
FERTILIZER.
240. Any person, company or corporation, who shall offer,
sell or expose for sale, in Harford County, any commercial
fertilizer or bone dust, the price of which exceeds ten dollars a
ton, shall affix to every package; in a conspicuous place on the
outside thereof, a plainly-marked certificate, stating the num-
ber of net pounds in the package sold or offered for sale; the
name or trade-mark under which the article is sold; the name
of the manufacturer and the place of manufacture, and a
chemical analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen, or its
equivalent in ammonia in an available form, of potash, soluble
in water, and of phosphoric acid in an available form, (soluble
or reverted, ) as well as the total phosphoric acid.
241. Before any commercial fertilizer or bone dust can be
sold, or offered for sale, the manufacturer, importer or party
who causes it to be sold or offered for sale within Harford
County, shall file with the clerk to the county commissioners
of said county, a certified copy of the certificate mentioned in
the preceding section, and also an affidavit that the analysis
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