1843

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 140.

CHAPTER 139.

Passed Feb.
19,. 1844.

An act to continue an act passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter sixty-nine, entitled
an act to incorporate The Neptune Insurance Company.

Preamble.

Whereas the said act of incorporation will by its limi-
tation expire at the end of the present session of the ge-
neral assembly, and said corporation has applied for the
continuance of said act, but only to enable the corpora-
ration to wind up and settle its concerns, inasmuch as it
has ceased to transact business of insurance or lend-

Continued in
force.

ing on Bottomry or Respondentia—Therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act aforesaid, entitled, "An act to incorporate
the Neptune Insurance Company, " be, and the same is
hereby continued and shall remain in full force until the
first day of December in the year eighteen hundred and

Proviso.

forty-nine, and until the end of the session of the general
assembly which shall happen next thereafter, provided
however, that this act shall not be deemed to authorize said
corporation to make any insurances, nor to lend money
on Bottomry or Respondentia.

CHAPTER 140.

Passed Feb
17, 1844.

An act to regulate the height of fences in election district
Number two, in Allegany county, and for other pur-
poses.

Five feet high.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any person or
persons within the limits of the second election district
of Allegany county to impound any horned or black cat-
tle, sheep or hogs, unless the same shall be found tres-
passing within any fields or yard or gardens which shall
be enclosed with a good and substantial fence, at least

Liable to ac-
tion of dama-
ges.

five feet high, staked and ridered, if made of rails.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person or per-
sons within the limits of the said election district, shall
dog, beat, bruise, or in any manner injure any horned or
black cattle, sheep or hogs, the owner or tenant of the
property on which said horned or black cattle, sheep or
hogs, shall be so injured, shall be liable in an action of
damages, for the injury so inflicted to the full amount of
the value of the stock so injured as aforesaid, the same to