Private Acts of 1919 Chapter 537

SECTION 1.  That Chapter No. 33 of the Private Acts of 1917, passed January 25, 1917, and approved January 30, 1917, the caption of which Act is above stated, and which Act prohibits live stock from running at large in counties of this State having a population of not less than 19,390 nor more than 19,410 according to the Federal Census of 1910 or any subsequent Federal Census, be and the same is so amended as to require all adjoining land owners in said counties to build a wire fence forty-eight (48) inches high, of sufficient wire or a sufficient fence of any kind of material on a line between each owner’s land at their joint expense; that each individual owning adjoining lands shall build one-half of said fence between farms, or bear one-half of the expense of the erection of such fence, unless they mutually agree not to have the fence between their lands, or dividing their lands.

SECTION 2.  That any such person failing, refusing, or declining to join with his adjacent land owner in building said fence shall be subject to a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00.

SECTION 3.  That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  April 2, 1919.