EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the Circuit Court for the said county, shall be deemed guilty

of a felony, and shall be sentenced by the said court to the

House of Correction for not less than six months nor more

than one year.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

of Queen Anne's County shall furnish tags with numbers'

Fags for li-
censed dogs.

thereon corrresponding to the number of the dog or bitch re-

turned by the constable to the owner or keeper of the dog or

bitch when said tax is paid, and the owner is required to at-

tach such tag on the collar of the dog or bitch, which the owner

or keeper is required to furnish for the dog or bitch ; and the

cost of said tag is to be paid out of the fund created by this

Act.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That if, upon sufficient evidence,

any dog is proven to have committed any damage upon the

Damages com-
mitted by

property of any one, said damage to be estimated by three

dogs.

disinterested persons, the owner of said dog shall pay to said

person or persons sustaining said loss the estimated damage,

or, upon refusal to pay said damage, then it shall be the duty

of said constable to kill said dog or dogs within three days

after refusal to pay said damage.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 595.

AN ACT to refund to Lewis M. Milburne, bondsman of

Hamson Bundick, twenty-three dollars and twenty-five cents,

being the amount paid by said Milbourne to the sheriff of

Somerset County when said Bundick forfeited his recog-

nizance.

WHEREAS, A certain Hamson Bundick was arrested in Som-

erset County some time in the year 1903 upon the charge of

larceny, and, after a hearing before a justice of the peace of

said county, entered into a recognizance bond, with Lewis M.

Surety.

Milbourne as surety in the sum of twenty-three dollars and

twenty-five cents to appear and answer said charge at the

April term of the Circuit Court for said county, but did not

appear at said term ; and