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ART. LXXXI] DOGS. 649
any new claims in the order of payment. Any fund in excess of one
thousand dollars ($1,000) remaining in the hands of the treasurer 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.
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1918, ch. 497, sec. 200.
200. When any inhabitant of any County shall have any sheep,
poultry or live stock destroyed or injured by a dog or dogs, he may
apply to any Justice of the Peace of said County, who shall appoint
three disinterested persons as appraisers to view and appraise the dam-
ages by him sustained, and they, or a majority of them, under oath,
shall state in writing to the County Commissioners of said County, the
number 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, poul-
1ry 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 County Commissioners of said County
shall review said report, and if in their judgment the amount of dam-
ages stated is unfair, they shall award such amount as they may deem
fair; 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
liabilty, but in case the said owner or owners should refuse or neglect
to kill said dog or dogs upon notice as aforesaid, the said owner or own-
ers shall be liable to the County Commissioners for said damages to the
same extent as he would be liable in case of negligence or malicious
destruction of property.
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1918. ch. 497, sec. 201.
201. Any person violating or refusing to comply with any of the
provisions of this sub-title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace of the County in
which he resides, or in the Circuit Court of said County, shall be fined
a sum of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) ; or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not
more than thirty days, or shall be both fined and imprisoned in the dis-
cretion of the Court. Provided that nothing in this sub-title shall
apply to the City of Baltimore. All laws or parts of laws, whether
public general laws or public local laws, inconsistent with the provisions
of this sub-title are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
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