The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-09
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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
PASSED at JANUARY SESSION 1882.
CHAPTER 122.
AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PRO
LECTION OF SHEEP IN CAR
ROLL COUNTY.

SECTION 1. BE it enacted, That the County
Commissioners of Carroll county shall require
m accurate return to be made annually, by
the collectors of the several districts within
the county, of all dogs, upwards of two months
old, owned or possessed by any person within
their respective districts, particularly noting
the number owned or possessed by each per-
son and kept about the same honse.
SEC. 2. They shall levy, and cause to be
collected, the sum of one dollar for one dog
and fifty cents for every additional dog kept,
owned or possessed by each person named in
such return as the owner thereof.
SEC. 8. The collectors of the several dis
tricts shall collect the sums so levied at the
same time and in the same manner as county
and State taxes are collected, and shall keep
o separate account of the money arising there
from, and shall be entitled to six per centum
on the amount collected by them respective
ly, and six cents head for each dog returned
in the aforesaid return to the County Com
missioners.
SEC. 4. The money arising from the said
levy shall be paid to the treasurer of the coun-
ty, and shall constitute fund for remunerat-
ing the inhabitants of the county for losses
sustained by sheep destroyed or injured by
dogs.
SEC. 5. 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 disinter-
ested persons to view and ascertain the dam
ages by him sustained, and they or any of
them shall certify the same under their hands
and seals to the County Commissioners, and
on the treasurer of the county for the amount
so certified to be paid out of the fund arising
from the tax on dogs
SEC. 6. If there 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 treas
ury belonging thereto.
SEC. I. Any money that may be in the treas
ury at the expiration of any year from the
levy thereof, over and above paying the dam
ages sustained by the inhabitants Of the coun-
ty in the loss or injury of sheep by dogs, shall
be, by the treasurer, on the warrant of the
County Commissioners, paid to the Board of
Commissioners of Public Schools of Carroll
county, to be by them applied to the purpose
of education,
SEC. 8. Any dog kept or staying about
house shall be deemed sufficient evidence of
ownership to authorize the collector to return
the person inhabiting said house as the owner
or possessor of such dog, and any person send
ing his-dog from house to house, or place to
place, to avoid 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 killed by any person seeing him
run at large.
SEC. 9. If any dog shall be seen running
sheep, any person may kill him; or if any dog
shall have been known to worry sheep, and
information thereof be given to the owner
thereof, if he does not kill such dog, he shall
make full compensation for all damages done
by it; and any person seeing the dog running
at large may kill him.
Approved March 80, 1882.
By order of the County Commissioners,
JOSEPH A. WAESCHE,
aug post Clerk.