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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-
eral Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 208.

AN ACT to prohibit horses, cattle, sheep or swine, from run-
ning at large on the public roads or streets in the Village
of Unionville, Frederick County, Maryland, and on the
public roads within one mile of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in said village.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for horses, cattle, sheep
or swine, to run at large in or on any of the public roads or
streets in the Village of Unionville, in Frederick County,
Maryland, or in or on any of the public roads of said county,
or of the State of Maryland, within one mile of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in said village.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any and every per-
son, or persons, owning said animals or any of them mentioned
in the preceding section, who shall permit said animals, or
any of them, to run at large on any of the public roads or
streets mentioned in the preceding section shall be fined not
less than one dollar nor more than five dollars for each offense,
on conviction before any justice of the peace of said county,
and on failure or refusal to pay said fine and the costs of
prosecution to the justice of the peace before whom said person
shall be so convicted, shall be committed to the jail of said
county and confined therein for not less than five days nor
more than thirty days; provided, that any person so convicted
shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for said
county upon giving bond in a sum to be fixed by said justice
sufficient to secure the payment of said fine and costs and the
probable costs in said court, conditioned that if the party ap-