PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1377

ury to the credit of the "dog fund" on the first day of January
of each year a sum more than sufficient to pay the awards for
damages for domestic fowls and animals made by the county
commissioners prior to that date, such surplus shall, upon the
order of the commissioners, be applied to macadamizing public
roads in the county and in the district from which the fund
is raised. And provided, further, that said dog fund as col-
lected shall be entered and kept as collected from each of the
election districts 6f Montgomery county and awards for dam-
ages shall be paid out and accounted for in respect to each
district, and no fund collected from any particular district shall
be liable or applied to awards for damages in any other district.

Ibid. sec. 6.

194. That the county commissioners shall direct the con-
stables to kill any dog for which said tax is not paid before the
first day of April in each year, and for such service,the com-
missioners may allow such compensation as they may deem
adequate, provided it be paid from the tax collected on dogs,
and any person opposing or in any way hindering any con-
stable in killing any dog in the performance of his duty shall
be fined not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten
dollars and costs, upon conviction before any justice of the
peace in and for Montgomery county, and shall stand com-
mitted to the county jail until the fine and costs are paid;
provided, however, that the owner of dogs who reside in any
incorporated town in Montgomery county in which dogs are
taxed by ordinance now or hereafter, shall be exempt from the
operation of this act if he has procured a license from and paid
for the current year a tax on his dog to said town and his dog
wears about his neck a tag issued by said town.
1910, ch. 717, sec. 7.

195. That every person who shall maliciously remove from
any dog wearing the legal tag procured from the constables or
county treasurer or allow his dog to run without wearing such
tag shall pay a fine of five dollars and costs, upon conviction
before any justice of the peace in and for Montgomery county.

Ibid. sec. 8.

196. That in case of the loss of the tag issued by the county
treasurer, upon application to 'him by the owner of the dog,
a duplicate may be furnished on the payment of twenty-five
cents and satisfactory evidence being furnished that the tax of
one dollar for a male dog and two dollars for a female dog,
as the case may 'be, has been paid for the current year for the

use of the dog.
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