The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-04-05
Cows Of AlarnIouo.
Published 6y -iuthoritg.
A n ACT

A y ACT,
ENTITLED IN .9CT FOR THE PRO
TECTI0N or SHEEP BY TAKING
DOGS IN CECIL COUNTY.
SECTION |. Be it enacted, by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, That it shall be the
Guty the Commissioners of Cecil county,
and they are hereby required to cause an
accurate return to be taken annually by the
Collectors Of the several districts within the
said County, of all dogs upwards OF two
month old, owned or possessed by any per-
son or persons within their respective dis
tricts, particularly noting the number owned
Or possessed by each person or persons and
kept about the same house, and when the
said Commissioners shall have asccr.aincd
the number OF dogs, they Shall levy and cause
to be collected the sum OF one dollar Tor one
DOE, and fifty cents each for every additional
dog, kept, owned, or possessed by such per-
son orpersons to be collected by the Cul-
lcctors OF the several districts al the same
time and in the same manner as County aid
State taxes are nov collected, for which the
SAID Collectors shah be allowed the sum Of;
six per ccntum on the amount 80 collected:
And it shall! be the duty Of the County Com
missloncrs to keep separate account of the
money arising from! the tax on dogs, and the
said money shall be and hereby il appro-
pratcd as L lnnd for rcnuncratins ,hc in
habilants Of said County 10, any loss they
shall sustain after the passage OF this Act.
by sheep being destroyed or njured by any
dog or dogs; and also to pay the a,rayGs al
| ready made and on file in the Office of the
County Commissioners Of Cecil county, for
the years eighteen hundred and fifty -tour and
eighteen hundred and fifty five.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when
any inhabitant Of the County aforesaid shall
have any sheep destroyed or injured as
aforesaid, he or size may apply to the nn0rcs;
Justice Of the Peace who shall and is hereby
empowered 70 appoint three disintercstcd
persons, who are hereby authorised and
acquired to view and ascertain the damages
sustained by the owner or owners OF such
sheep injured or destroyed as aforesaid, and
they or any two Of them shall certify the
same under their hands and seals to the
Commissioners of said County, and said Com
miSsioncrs Shall draw their warrant on the
Treasurer of the county for the amount so Ger
tilted, to be paid out OF the funds arising from
the tax on dogs, but if there shall not be
sufficient money in the Treasury belonging
to the said fund, hen the said warrant Shall
be kept by the said person in whose favor it
shall have been drawn and be paid out Of the
first money that Shall come into the Treasury
belonging to said fund.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the fact
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house shall be deemed sufficient evidence of
ownership to authorise the Collector to return
the person inhabitng snch house, as the
owner or possesSor Of such dog or dogs, and
any person sending his or her dog or dogs
from house to house or place to place, in
order to evade the said tax shall be liable to
pay double tax therefor, and every dog not
returned shall be deemed to have no owner,
and may be lawfully killed by any person
who may sec such dog running at large.
SEC. l.. And be it enacted, That if any
dog shall be seen worrying sheep, it Shall he
lawful for any person seeing the same to Kill
such dog, or if any dog shall have been
known to worry sheep and information there
of be given TO the owner Of such dog, if he
or she does not kill or cause to be killed
such dog. he or She shall make full compcn-
sation for all damages done by said dog, and
| any person seeing such dog or dogs running
at large may lawfully kill the same.
SEC. ). And be it enacted, That any
money that may be in the Treasury at the
expiration of one year from the first levy
| under this Act, and at the expiration oi
every year thereafter, over and above paying
the damages sustained by said inhabitants in
the loss or injury Of sheep by dogs, shall be
by said Treasurer upon the warrant of said
Commissioners paid to be Judges of the
Orphans Court Of said County, 10 be by them
applied to the purposes Of education iii said
county.
SEC. 6, And be it enacted, That the said
Commissioners be and they are hereby re-
1uired TO allow each Collector the sum Of
six cents Il head for each dog returned, as
provided III the first section of ths Act. to be
paid out Of the fund arising from taxes on
dogs.
SEC. I. And be it enacted, That all form
CT acts imposing n Tux on dogs in Cecil
| county be, and the same are hereby repeal
cd.
SEC. 8. And he in enacted, That this
Act shall take fleet from the date o1 its
passage.
! BY Order Of the County Commissioners OF
Cecil county. JAMES 5. CRAW FORD,
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