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sioners of said county shall review said report, and if in their judgment
the amount of damages stated is unfair, they shall award such amount as
they may deem fair; which award shall be paid out of the fund hereby
created; provided, however, that the said sworn report of the appraisers
shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the fairness of the award of
damages in each instance; and provided, further, that the County Commis-
sioners shall not change such an award unless they shall have personal
knowledge of its unfairness, or shall receive competent testimony to the
effect that the award is in excess of a fair commercial valuation of the
sheep, poultry or live stock injured or destroyed by dogs. 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 liability, 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 owners 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, and the said
County Commissioners may in their discretion have the special officers or
constable's to kill said dog or dogs.

An. Code, sec. 201. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 201. 1920, ch. 498, sec. 201.

212. Any person violating or refusing to comply with any of the pro-
visions of this sub-title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion 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 nor more than twenty-five dollars or shall be imprisoned
in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or shall be both fined and
imprisoned in the discretion of the Court. It shall be the duty of the State's
Attorney, the Sheriff and the constables of the several counties of the State
to prosecute all persons found violating the law by refusing to comply with
its provisions. 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hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

Mode and Measure of Taxation.

An. Code, sec. 202. 1904, sec. 198. 1896, ch. 120, sec. 178.

213. All property permanently located in any county in this State or
in the city of Baltimore shall be valued and assessed to the owner thereof
in the assessment district in which the said property is located. All shares
of stock in any national bank, corporation, association or company incor-
porated under the laws of this State, and belonging to any non-resident
owner, and all other personal property located in this State belonging to
any non-resident owner shall be valued and assessed to the owner thereof, in
the assessment district in which said bank, corporation, association or com-
pany may have its principal place of business in this State, or in which