HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 359
CHAPTER 253.
(House Bill 403)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 10 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Dor-
chester County", sub-title "Live Stock Running At Large",
said new section to be known as Section 387A and to follow
immediately after Section 387 of said Article, relating to
the running at large of live stock in a certain part of
Hooper's Island or Election District No. 6.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
10 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edi-
tion), title "Dorchester County", sub-title "Live Stock Run-
ning At Large", said new section to be known as Section 387A,
to follow immediately after Section 387 of said Article, and
to read as follows:

387A. It shall be unlawful for any cattle, swine or live
stock of any kind to run at large, without an attendant or
person in charge thereof in that part of Hooper's Island or
Election District No. 6 which lies between Fishing" Creek on
the north and the Creek separating the Upper Island from
the Middle Island on the south, in Dorchester County. It shall
be the duty of the sheriff, any deputy sheriff, any constable, or
any other peace officer of Dorchester County, to seize and im-
pound any cattle, swine, or live stock found at large without
an attendant or person in charge thereof, in violation of this
section, when the same are found unlawfully upon the public
roads or private property of persons not the owner of such
cattle, swine or live stock. Immediately, or within a rea-
sonable time thereafter, said officer seizing and impounding
same, shall cause a notice to be inserted in some newspaper
published in Dorchester County, containing a description of
the same and the location where such cattle, swine or live
stock were found, and further stating that the same will be
advertised and sold after ten days publication of such notice,
if the owner fails to claim the same, and pay in full all costs
of such impounding and seizing, and together with the amount
of damage done, if any, to the property of any individual, firm
or corporation. If no person claims any such cattle, swine or
live stock, or claims the same, or refuses or neglects to tender
the costs and expenses aforesaid, within the ten days after
the same shall be so advertised, then the officer impounding
and seizing the same shall apply to a justice of the peace of
the county, who upon being satisfied that the notice heretofore
directed has been given, shall order said officer to sell the same