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648 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. LXXXI
Justice of the Peace, the said Justice of the Peace may retain as his
fee for the issuance of said license, reporting the same, and remitting
payment therefor, to the County Treasurer, or Clerk of the County
Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer, the sum of twenty-five
cents. Such report and remittance shall be made by the Justice of the
Peace at the end of each month; whereupon the county treasurer shall
make a record of, and otherwise treat, said license as though it had been
issued from his office, except that he shall also note upon his record the
name of the Justice issuing the license. Every Justice of the Peace
shall deliver the book or books from which he had issued licenses, to-
gether with the stubs therein properly filled out and 'showing the names
of each license and the number of the license issued to him, to the
county treasurer or Clerk to the County Commissioners in Counties
having no Treasurer before the first day of July of each year.
Any person becoming the owner, after the first day of July of any
year, of any dog six months old or over which has not already been
licensed, or any person owning or keeping a dog which became six
months old at any time after the first day of July of any year, shall
forthwith apply for and secure a license for such dog in the same man-
ner as the annual license is obtained under the provisions of this sub-
title.
1918, ch. 497, sec. 198.
198. Any person may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pur-
suing, worrying, wounding or killing any poultry or live stock, or
attacking human beings whether or not such dog bears the proper license
tag required by these provisions. There shall be no liability on such
persons in damages or otherwise for such killing. Any unlicensed dog
that enters any field or yard shall constitute a private nuisance and the
owner or tenant of such field or yard, or other agent or servant, may
kill such dog while it is in the field or yard without liability or re-
sponsibility of any nature for such killing and any person may kill a
female dog running at large while in heat without liabilities therefor.
1918, ch. 497, sec. 199.
199. All monies arising from the dog licenses or taxes shall be kept
in a separate fund by the treasurer of the respective counties, and shall
be used for the payment of damages for the injury and killing of sheep,
poultry or other livestock 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 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 desig-
nated "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 preference over
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