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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.

An. Code, sec. 198. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 198.

209. Any person may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pursuing,
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 responsibility of any nature for such
killing and any person may kill a female dog running at large while in
heat without liabilities therefor.

An. Code, sec. 199. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 199.

210. 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 designated " 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 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.

An. Code, sec. 200. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 200. 1920, ch. 498, sec. 200.

211. 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 damages 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, poultry 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 Commis-