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Ill d separate IuHu ny tuS treasurer
of the respective counties, and shall
be used for the payment of damages
for the injury and killing of sheep,
poultry or other live stock in said
respective counties. In the event
the same are not sufficient for the
payment of all such damages the
said damages shall be paid in the Or
der the claims are presented, and
any person or persons whose claims
are not paid in any one year by rea-
son of the lack of money to the
credit of the said fund, which is to
be designated The Dog License
Fund" shall be paid out OF the first
money coming into the fund after
his claim is reached, and shall be
paid in the order in which said claims
are proved and filed; and any claims
now filed and passed upon, but re-
naming unpaid. shall have prefer
ence over any new claim in the or
der of payment Any fund in excess
of one thousand dollars ($1,O00) re-
naming in the hands of the Treasur-
er of any county after the payment
of the claims as aforesaid, unused for
such purpose at the end of each fiscal
year, shall be used by said county
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the public roads, as the Board of
County Commissioners of said coun
ty may direct.
200. When any inhabitant of any
county shall have any sheep, poultry
or live stock destroyed or injured by
a dog or dogs, he may apply to any
Justice of the Peace Of said county,
who shall appoint three disinterested
persons as appraisers to view and ap-
praise the damages by him sustain
ed, and they, or a majority of them,
under oath, shall state in writing to
the County Commissioners of said
county, the number of sheep, poultry
or live stock killed, the character and
extent of the injury, if any done, and
the amount of the damages sustain
ed by the owner; and both the ap
praisers and the owner of the sheep,
poultry or live stock shall make oath
that they believe the same to have
been destroyed or injured by dog
or dogs; and when the report of such
proceedings has been filed, the Coun-
ty Commissioners of said county
shall review said report, and if in
their judgment the amount of dam
ages stated is unfair, they shall
award such amount as they may
deem fair; which award shall be paid
out of the fund hereby created. And
if the owner of the dog or dogs do
ing the damage be known, it shall
be the duty of the County Commis>
sioners to. notify such owner or own.
ers to kill said dog or dogs immedi-
ately. If such dog or dogs be killed
by the owner, after notice as afore-
said, he shall be exempt from all fur
ther liability, but in case the said
owner or owners should refuse or
neglect to kill said dog OF dogs upon
notice as aforesaid, the said owner
for owners shall be liable to the
County Commissioners for said dam
Lagos to the same extent as he would
| be liable in case of negligence or
malicious destruction of property.
201 Any person violating or re-
fusing to comply with any of the
Iprovisions of this Act shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton thereof before any Justice OF
lae Peace of the county in which he
resides, or in the Circuit Court of
said county, shall be fined a sum of
not less than five dollars ($5) nor
more than twenty-five dollars ($25);
or snail De imprisoned IN the county
Jail for not more than thirty days, or
shall be both fined and imprisoned,
in the discretion of the Court. Pro-
vided that nothing in this Act shall
apply to the City of Baltimore. All
laws or parts Of laws, whether pub
lie general laws or public local laws,
| inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.
Section 2. And be it further en-
acted, That this Act shall take effect
June l, 1918.
Approved April Is, 1918.
EMERSON G. HARRINGTON,
(SEAL) Governor.
HERBERT r. WOODEN,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
PETER J. CAMPBELL,
President of the Senate.