The Republican., 1922-04-27

dog bears the proper license tag re-
quired by these provisions. There
shall be no liability on such persons
in damages or otherwise for such
killing. Any unlicensed dog that en-
ters any field or yard shall constitute
private nuisance and the owner or
tenant Of such field or yard, or other
agents or servants. may kill such
dog while it is in the field or yard
without liability or responsibility of
any nature for such killing and any
person may kill a female dog running
at large while in heat without liabili-
ties therefore.
1879. All monies arising from the
dog licenses or taxes shall be kept in
a seperate fund by the Treasurer of
the respective counties, and shall be
used for the payment of damages for
the injury and killing of sheep, poul-
try or other live stock in said respec-
tive counties. In the event the same
are not sufficient for the payment
of all such damages the said damages
shall be paid in the order the claims
are presented, and any person or
persons whose claims are not paid in
any one year by reason 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 remaining unpaid shall have pref
erence over any new claims in the
order of payment. Any fund in ex-
cess of one thousand dollars l,0OO)
remaining in the hands of the treas
urer 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
either for the public schools or for
the public roads, as the board of
county commissioners of said county
may direct
200. When any inhabitant of any
county shall have any sheep, poultry
or live stock destroyed or injured
by dog or dogs he may apply to
any Justice of the Peace of said
/ County, who shall appoint three dis
interested persons as appraisers to
view and appraise the damages by
him sustained. and they or a ma
jority of them, under oath, shall
state in writing to the County Com
missioners of said County, the num-
Der of sheep, poultry or live stock
killed, the character and extent Of
the injury, if any done, and the
amount Of the damages sustained by
the owner; and both the appraisers
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 a 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 judgement the amount of dam
, ages stated is unfair. they shall
award such amount as they may deem
tar; which award shall be paid out
of the fund hereby created. And if
the owner of the dog or dogs doing
the damage be known, it shall be the
duty of the County Commissioners
to notify such owner or owners to
Kill said dog or dogs Immediately. If
such dog or dogs be killed by the
owner after notice as aforesaid. he
shall be exempt from all further
liabilities, but in case the said owner
or owners should refuse or neglect
to kill said dog or dogs upon notice
as aforesaid, the owner or owners
shall be liable to the County Com
/ mlsSloners for said damages to the
same extent as he would be liable in
case of negligence or malicious de-
struction Of property.
| 2Ol. Any person violating or re-
fuslng to comply with any of the pro-
visions of this Act shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof before any Justice of the
| Peace of the County in which he re-
sides or in the Circuit Court of said
| County, shall be fined sum of not
less than five dollars ($5.00) nor
more than twenty-five dollars ($25.-
OO); or shall be imprisoned in the
county Jail for not more than thirty
days, or shall be both fined and i'm
prisoned in the discretion of the
Court. Provided that nothing in this
Act shall apply to the City of Balti-
more. All laws or parts of laws,
whether public general laws or pub
llc local laws, inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed to the extent of such incon-
sistency.
Sec.2. And be it further enacted
That this Act shall take effect June
/, 1918.
Approved April 18th, 1918.
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