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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Compensation

titled to receive four dollars, recoverable as for

damages before any justice of the peace residing in

the district in which the killing took place.

Compensation

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That any person or
persons owning any dog male or female, known to

have killed any sheep, upon proof thereof before

any justice of the peace, the owner of said sheep

may collect from the owner of said dog or dogs as

other debts are collected, the sum of three dollars

and fifty cents for each and every sheep so killed.

Money to bo

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the money col-

applied

lected under the provisions of this act, shall be

applied first to the payment of all necessary expenses

attending the collection thereof; secondly, that so

much of the residue as may have been collected from

white persons, shall be paid to the Board of County

School Commissioners of said county for school

purposes, to be expended under existing laws; and

that so much thereof as may have been collected

from colored persons, shall be paid over to the said

Board of County School Commissioners, to be

applied to the education of colored children of said

county, in such manner as to said Board of County

School Commissioners may seem best, or in such

manner as may hereafter be provided by law.

In force

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 339.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of Talbot

county to refund to or credit Dr. Luther C. Cox,

with part of his county taxes due for the years

eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, eighteen hun-

dred and sixty-eight, and eighteen hundred and

sixty-nine.

Preamble

WHEREAS, Doctor Luther C. Cox, of Talbot county,

was assessed in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-