The Democratic advocate., 1872-01-20

encouragement 70 sheep Growers
Sfach has been said and written as
to the necessity Of . general law for the
Stats levyiug tar on dogs for the ben.
eft Of sheep growers, and to raise fund
10 each county, BY means Of such tax,
70 pay for all sheep killed by dogs.
There are but few sheep, at present, in
Carroll county, aud it is Thought that a
law Of this kind would induce many Of
our farmers to engage ia this very pro.
ftable branch Of husbandry, A CORES.
p-S:.oat sends us an abstract Of the
Csca county law, on this subject, and
thinksSit would be good thing if this
or sone similar law we're enacted for the
State % large.
Eptross oF THE ABsocATe.-In glancing
over the III. Vol. Maryland Code, Public
4oenl Laws, my attention was drawn TO
what consider several very excellent eu.
4actments now in, force in our sister county
OF Cecil, relative to "Sheep," and under
that heading 10 series of sections more
particulariy applicable to E'Hags,n and
can conceive of no better method of en-.
lghteniug the public generally on this sub.
leet than by Communicating Il through the
columns of your most excellent paper, and
ct tho same time quote verbatim from the
ASbose. paessfissned .statHtes :1iis 5ft.l EE
The County Commissioners of Cecil
County shall require an accurate return to
be made annually by the collectors of the
severaldistricts within the county OF all dogs
upwards Of two months old owned or nos.
cesscd bysany persons within shsir resnec.
tive districts, Particnlarly noting the ram-
Der Owned Or possessed W each person and
kept about the same house.
They Shall levy and cause "a Be collected
the sum Of one dollar for one dog and fifty
cents each Tor every additional dog kept
.ovnedcr possessed by esch person named
IN such ren.rH as the owner thereof.
The collectors of the several districts
shall collect the sums SO levied at the same
time and in the same manner as the county
and State taxes are collected, and shall
keep separate account of the money aris.
ing therefrom, and shall be entitled TO six
per centum on the amount collected by
them respectively, and six cents head for
each dog returned in the aforesaid return
70 the County Commissioners.
The money arising from the said levy
shall be paid to the treasurer Of the conuty,
and shall constitute fund for remunera,
ing the inhabitants Of tho county for losses
sustained by sheep being destroyed or in
Jnred BY dogs. When any inhabitant of the
county shall have any sheep destroyed or
injured BY dogs, he may apply TO the nearest
Justice OF the peace, who shall appoint three
disinterested persons to view and ascertain
the damages by him sustained, and they,
or any of them shall certify the same under
thar hands and seals to the County Com.
missioDers, and the Commissioners shall
draw their warrant on the Treasurer Of the
county for the amount so certified, TO be
raid out OF the funds arising from the tax
on dogs.
lfthere shall not be sufficient money in
the Treasury belonging to- the said fund,
the warrant shall be kept by the person in
whose favor it is drawn and be paid out of
the first money that shall come into the
Treasury belosging thereto.
Any money that may be in the Treasury
a. the expiration Of any year from the levy
thereof, over and above paying tn G damages
sustained by the inhabitants Of the county
IN the loss or injury Of sheep BY dogs, shall
be by the Treasurer. on the warrant OF the
County Commissioners, paid 10 the Board
Of Commissioners of Public Schools of
Cecil county, to be by them applied to the
purposes OF education.
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