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at public auction on ten days' notice to be set up at three
public places of the neighborhood, and after deducting from
the proceeds of sale all expenses incident to taking up and
impounding, keeping, advertising and selling the same, and
the amount of damages, if any, done by such cattle, swine or
live stock, the residue shall be delivered to the justice of the
peace ordering said sale, and by him paid to the County Com-
missioners of Dorchester County as fines and forfeitures, un-
less the owner of such cattle, swine or live stock, shall, within
sixty days from the time of sale, claim such residue and prove
before said justice of the peace that he is entitled thereto.

The sheriff, any deputy sheriff, any constable or other peace
officer of Dorchester County, so seizing and impounding any
such cattle, swine or live stock, under the provisions of this
section, shall in no way be responsible in civil damages for
any such seizure or impounding. The provisions of this sec-
tion shall not in any way be construed as repealing any exist-
ing law, either public general or public local, relating to estray
or trespassing cattle, swine or live stock, or to those laws
known as fence laws, but is passed only as an additional
remedy in that part of Hooper's Island or Election District
No. 6 heretofore mentioned.

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, safety and welfare and
being passed by a yea and nay vote of three-fifths of all the
members of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 254.
(Senate Bill 164)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 185 to 188, inclusive, of Article
11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1980
Edition), title "Frederick County", sub-title "Feaga-
ville", said sections relating to the running at large of
livestock in the village of Feagaville.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 185 to 188, inclusive, of Article
11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Frederick County", sub-title "Feagaville",
be and they are hereby repealed.

Approved April 23, 1941.