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special officers out of the moneys arising from the said dog license or taxes
in the respective counties.

These Constables of the several counties may also receive and receipt
for necessary blanks and tags, may issue such dog licenses and tags in like
manner as prescribed for the issuance of licenses by a County Treasurer
or a Justice of the Peace. Every constable shall at the end of each month
report to the County Treasurer or Clerk to the County Commissioners in
counties having no Treasurer the number and character of licenses issued
and remit all moneys received for these licenses. Also every constable shall
deliver the book or books from which he issued license, together with the
stubs therein, properly filled out and showing the name 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.

An. Code, 1924, art. 81, sec. 209. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 198.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 270 (p. 711).

270. 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 hu-
man beings whether or not such dog bears the proper license tag required
by these provisions. There shall be no liability on such persons in dam-
ages 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, 1924, art. 81, sec. 210. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 199.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 271 (p. 711).

271. 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, poul-
try 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 per-
sons 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.