THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

the injury so inflicted to the full amount of the value of
the stock so injured as aforesaid, the same to be apprais-
ed by two disinterested persons, one of whom shall be
chosen by each party, the said damages to be recovered
before any justice of the peace in and for Allegany
county, in the same manner as small debts out of court
are now collected.

CHAP. 142.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if either party shall
neglect or refuse, during the space of five days after
notice of such injury to, or impounding of said horned or
black cattle, sheep or hogs, then the justice of the peace
to whom complaint shall be made by the party aggrieved,
shall have authority to appoint an appraiser for and on
behalf of the patty so neglecting or refusing.

May appoint
an appraiser,
&c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any act, or parts of
acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

Repealed

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the judges of elections of said county, to propound to
the voters of said county, at the ensuing October election,
the question, whether they are for or against this act, and
if a majority of said voters are in favor of this act, then
it shall be the duty of the said judges to announce the
fact by publication, in some newspaper published in said
county, and upon such annunciation, this act shall become
a law and not otherwise.

Judges to
propound, &c.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of Alle-
gany county shall have the foregoing act published in all
the newspapers published in Allegany county, at least
four weeks before the next annual election.

CHAPTER 142.

Sheriff to have
act published.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act to incorporate the
Mutual Insurance Company of Talbot County, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and forty-five,
chapter one hundred and ninety.

Passed March
1, 1847.

WHEREAS, it appears that the ninth section of said
act is incomplete in consequence of the omission of a part
of said section as it was originally drawn and intended
to be enacted, whereby it is rendered entirely unintelligi-
ble—Therefore,

Preamble.