EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 867

animals named so permitted to run at large, for the first offence,
and for the second offence to a fine of not less than one dollar
or more than ten dollars and costs, to be recovered before a
justice of the peace, with such process and formal proceedings,
and for such appeal and prayer for jury trial and other rights
as now prevail in this county in cases of misdemeanor
not punishable by confinement in the penitentiary; provided,
however, that in case the said fine shall be paid after the same
shall be imposed by the justice of the peace or the Circuit
Court upon appeal, the same may be collected by the sheriff
or constable or bailiff of said town by process similar to that by
which judgments rendered by justices of the peace are col-
lected, or if the sentence imposed shall be reaffirmed upon ap-
peal to the Circuit Court are collected by the sheriff, and the
sentence of the justice of the peace or the Circuit Court shall
be considered as in the nature of a judgment for the purpose,
with the further provision that any property levied upon in
pursuance of this act shall not be subject to any exemption from
execution, and in case of a second offence and failure to pay
such fine in addition to the above remedy the party committing
the same by permitting the animals to run at large as afore-
said, may be committed to the jail; but in no case shall
the imprisonment be for more than five days in the County
jail of Charles County; and provided further that instead of
process in the nature of arrest, the justice of the peace shall
issue the ordinary process of summons as in civil cases, to be
followed by process of arrest, however, in case the party shall
fail to appear after summons served upon him. No hogs shall
be kept, penned or unpenned for any purpose or be slaughtered
within limits of the said Town of La Plata; provided, how-
ever, that any person or persons may allow hogs to run at large
within their own enclosure which covers an area of not less than
one and one-half acres, and provided, however, that the town
commissioners may prohibit such running at large if same
become a nuisance. Any person violating this provision shall
be fined one dollar and costs recoverable as hereinbefore pro-
vided; 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 forth-
with seize and impound, the same, and shall give notice thereof,
by notice posted at the Court House 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