1823

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 150.

and not exceeding fifty dollars, may recover the amount of
such damage, from the owner or owners of such hog, hogs,
or other swine, by warrant before a justice of the peace,
who may summon one or more competent and disinterested
persons, not exceeding three, to value and ascertain such
damage; and any judgment rendered on any such claim for
damage, may be appealed from as other judgments rendered
by justices of the peace for the recovery of small debts,
and no such judgment shall be set aside, or appeal dismissed,
because of any incorrectness in the form of the warrant, or
of any of the proceedings before the justice.

Hogs may be sold,

&c

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That any person who shall
lawfully impound any hog, or other swine, as aforesaid, at

days notice in some newspaper published in the city of Bal-
timore, may cause such hog, or other swine, to be sold to
the highest bidder, in some public market within the city
of Baltimore, or as near thereto during market hours as the
ordinances of said city will permit, and after retaining out
of the proceeds of such sale the amount of charges herein
before authorised, and all expenses necessarily incurred in
making such sale, pay over the balance, if any, to the owner
of the hog or swine so sold, or if he cannot'be convenient-
ly found, to the treasurer of Baltimore county, to be re-
tained for such owner's use twelve months; and if not ap-
plied for within twelve months, to be applied to the use of
the county.

Penalty for killing

them

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person shall kill
or cause to be killed any hog, or other swine, without the

Shall be trespassing or not, such person shall pay the owner
of such hog, or swine, the full value thereof, to be recovered
before a justice of the peace as small debts are.

Repeal

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That so much of the act of
assembly, passed at November session, in the year seventeen
hundred and ninety-seven, chapter eleven, entitled, An act
to prevent the going at large of swine within five miles of the
city of Baltimore, in Baltimore county, and of the act sup-
plementary to the said act, passed at December session, in the
year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter two hundred
and forty-one, as is or are inconsistent with the provisions of
this act, be and they are hereby repealed.

CHAP. CL.

Passed Mar 10, 1829

An Act for the relief of Walter Cross, of Anne-Arundel
County.

Benefit of insol-

vent laws extended

to him

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the judges of Anne-Arundel county court, or