Art. 175. If no owner appear to claim the animals, and that the ow be unknown, the party suffering trespass shall, after 8 days, hand them overs the Justice of Peace: if no owner appear within three months, the Justice shall sell them by public auction, to be slaughtered and skinned, and if the anima be horses the same rule shall be observed as in 2nd paragraph of Section 2, Chapter 3.

Art. 176. From the proceeds of sale, after satisfying all costs and epenses incurred, the Municipality or (in its stead) Justice of Peace shall pay the injured party the proper compensation, and keep the remainder, if any, for the owner of the animals.

Art. 177. This money shall be kept in deposit for 12 months, and if the owner of the animals do not appear in that period, the amount shall be handed over to the Municipal treasury.

Art. 178. In case the proceeds of the auction-sale do not suffice to cove the amount of damage, the injured party may at any time afterward claim the balance from the trespasser in case he find him.

Section 6th.

FENCES.

Art. 179. It is entirely optional to put down, pull up or remove the fence of a quinta or chacra, provided the fence do not interfere with a highway or bye-way already existing, or with a legal or customary right of way.

Art. 180. It is also optional to make the fences of trees, hedge, bricks, timber, or any other material found convenient.

Art. 181. Any neighbor wishing to put up a fence must first notify the Municipality, as the latter may have some special reason to prevent his doing so; penalty 150 dollars per cuadra,

Art. 182. If the intended fence should be in a locality where it may be judged fit to open a bye-road, a lane must be left open 10 yards wide, under penalty of being afterwards obliged to take up the fence and leave such space open, besides the fine expressed in Art. 171.

Art. 183. If, on the contrary, the proposed fence should be in a place here no bye-road is wanted, and happen to complete the fence of another neigh

boring quinta or chacra, the owner of the latter can be compelled to pay his proportionate share of the cost of the fence.

Art. 184. All questions between neighbors, about fences already made or in contemplation, shall be decided without appeal by the Justice of Peace, after duly investigating the case, but if the question involve title-deeds an ap. peal shall be freely given to a higher court.

Section 7th.

SEIZURES OR EMBARGOES.

Art. 185. The animals used in working a chacra or quinta, as well as farming implements, machinery, seed in barns, and manure, shall be considered accessory of the soil and participating of the nature of real estate,

Art. 186. Bee-hives and silk-worms while the insects are at work shall be included under the same category as above.

Art. 187. All the above-mentioned articles are therefore included in the sale, barter, legacy or donation of the ground, as also in its forcible transfer: in like manner they are affected by any mortgage on the land and may be distrained or embargoed in a judicial execution on the estate.

Art. 188. It shall never be lawful to distrain or embargo crops that are being reaped or gleaned, and the seizure cannot be made till they are properly harvested and put in the barn ; but the Justice may, at the creditor's request #appoint a care-taker in case the debtor cannot produce good bail.

Section 8th.

WATER SUPPLY FOR CHACRAS.

Art. 189. All the regulations laid down in Section 12, Chapter 1, respecting water-supply for estancia-lands shall also have force with regard to chacras and sheep-farms within the 10 leagues expressed in Art. 147.

Art. 190. The year, however, established in Art. 99, shall be understood as half a year with regard to chacras.

Art. 191. The Municipalities are authorized to use a wise discretion in prolonging as often as necessary the term therein laid down, in its application to small chacras, especially when the owners are poor.

Section 9th.
SWINE.

Art. 192. In lands not fenced in, whether rented or not, the proprietor cannot keep more than 12 pigs, between big and little, without a herd to mind them, under penalty of fine.

Art. 193. If the pigs be found trespassing on strange land, although they may have caused no damage, the owner of the land may exact the fine exprer sed in the tariff, keeping them until same be paid. For a second trespass the fine shall be doubled, and for a third time, trebled.

Art. 194. But if they have caused damage of any kind, the owner of the pigs, besides paying the fine shall indemnify the owner of the land.

Art. 195. If the partics cannot agree on the amount of compensation, this shall be assessed by the Justice of Peace as prescribed in Art. 164.

Art. 196. And if the pigs cause damage a second time, no matter what their value or number, the injured party may kill them and notify the nearest authority of his having done so.

Art. 197. The various fines spoken of in this Section shall be established and set down in a tariff by the Municipality of the Partido, such tariff to be hung up in a public locality for general notice.

Section 10th.

PIGEONS, BEES, AND POULTRY.

1st. Pigeons.

Art. 198. Anyone finding pigeons on his land during the sowing-season may fire at them, but he shall be responsible for any injury caused by his shot to his neighbors' persons or properties.

Art. 199. If pigeons leave their place spontaneously and without any raud or artifice to entice them away, and settle in another pigeon-house, they hall then belong to the owner of the latter.

2nd. Bees.

Art. 200. No one can have bee-hives within a league of any town.

Art. 201. If the swarm break away, the owner may follow and claim them, so long as he does not lose sight of them, and for this purpose he may cross his neighbors' lands if even fenced or sown, with permission of the proprietor.

Art. 202. In case the owner of the land will not let him enter, and that be knows where the swarm of bees is, he may within 6 days next following claim them before the Justice of the partido.

Art. 203. But if the owner of the swarm should not follow it, or claim it before the Justice within six days, the bees shall then become the property of the owner of the land on which they have settled.

3rd. Poultry.

Art. 204. If hens, turkeys, ducks or other poultry should get on a neighbor's land and cause injury to seeds or fruits, the owner of the latter may demand compensation, and if the amount cannot be agreed on, the Justice of Peace shall assess same either in person or by means of another.

Art. 205. If it happen a second time, the injured party, besides exacting compensation, may kill or maim the fowls, without making use of them, as he must return them killed or maimed to their owner.

Art. 206. If poultry be frightened and fly into a neighbor's land the owner may claim them during eight days: after that term they shall belong to the owner of the land.

CHAPTER 3rd.

REGULATIONS

COMMON TO CATTLE-FARMING AND TILLAGE

Section 1st.

GENERAL INTERPRETATION IN EXCEPTIONAL CASES.

Art. 207. Besides the prescriptions contained in this and the following chapters, which, by their nature, are always especially applicable either to chacras or estancias, those regulations referring to estancias in Chapter ls, Section 1st, Articles 11 to 15, are also applicable in accidental cases, according to the circumstances, to chacras.

Section 2nd.

CATTLE-STEALING.

Art. 208. Anyone is guilty of cattle-stealing, who steals one or more horses, cows, or sheep, whether wild or tame, either taking them from a neighbor's camp to his own, or finding them in his camp and killing or making use of them, or killing them, no matter where, to take the whole or any part of the animal.

1st. Cattle-stealing in general.

Art. 209. In cases of cattle-stealing where the value of the animals does not exceed twenty thousand dollars, the Justice of Peace of the partido shall hear and decide in the first instance, beginning by drawing up the informations and arresting the party or parties suspected: he shall then return such of the animals as he may find the owners of, and embargo the rest.