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each year, to canvass thoroughly the districts in order to ascertain the
number of dogs, the owners of same and also the other facts required of
the constable in the reports referred to in the preceding section to the
County Commissioners, upon the payment of the tax by the owner of a
dog the constable shall give him a receipt in the form in this act pre-
scribed, and also a tag to be worn by the dog and the constable shall report
to the County Commissioners on or before the first day of every month
in the same manner and form aforesaid, and shall at the same time pay
to the county treasurer all the tax funds they have collected, less twenty-
five per centum of said amount for their services; they shall also state
in their monthly reports those who have failed to pay the tax on their
dogs as required by this act.

1912, ch. 210, sec. 5.

110. If any constable shall neglect or refuse to perform his duty as
set forth in this act he shall be subject to prosecution for malfeasance in
office, and to removal from office.

1912, ch. 210, sec. 6. 1914, ch. 172, sec. 6.

111. The County Treasurer shall place the tax so collected to the
credit of a fund to be called "The Dog Fund" of Howard County; but
if there remains in the County Treasury to the credit of the "Dog Fund"
on the first day of January of each year a sum more than sufficient to pay
the awards for damages for domestic fowls and animals made by the
County Commissioners prior to that date, such surplus shall upon the
order of the Commissioners in their discretion, be applied to macadamiz-
ing public roads or the building of sidewalks in any village in the County
and in the district from which the fund is raised. And provided, fur-
ther, that said dog fund as collected shall be entered and kept as collected
from each of the election districts of Howard County, and awards for
damages shall be paid out and accounted for in respect to each district
and no fund collected from any particular district shall be liable or applied
to awards for damages in any other district, and provided, further, that
should the amount collected in any one of the election districts of Howard
County in any one year be insufficient to pay in full awards for dam-
ages sustained during said year, whatever awards for damages remain
unpaid at the end of said year shall be paid as soon as sufficient funds
shall have been collected in the next year in the order of their priority.

1912, ch. 210, sec. 7.

112. The County Commissioners shall direct the constables to kill any
dog for which said tax is not paid before the first day of April in each
year, and for such service the commissioners may allow such compensa-
tion as they may deem adequate, provided it be paid from the tax col-
lected on dogs, and any person opposing or in any way hindering any
constable in killing any dog in the performance of his duty shall be fined
not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars and costs,