MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3369

1910, ch. 717, sec. 4. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 192. 1916, ch. 198, sec. 4.
1922, ch. 264, sec. 192.

282. If any person or persons directly or indirectly fail or refuse to
procure a tag for any dog owned by him, her or them, or for any dog in
the possession of, or over which said person may have the care or custody,

on or before the first day of April in each year, said person shall upon
conviction thereof be fined not more than twenty-five dollars and the costs

of the prosecution, and shall be committed to the Montgomery County
Jail until said fine and costs be paid, for a period not to exceed 30 days,
and one-half of the fine imposed and collected shall be paid to the in-
former, and any person, including the Sheriff or any Deputy Sheriff or
Constable, may be entitled to claim and receive such informer's fee, even
though any of said officers may be salaried officers and specially charged
with the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. It shall be the duty

of the Sheriff and any deputy sheriff and all constables to enforce the
provisions of this section, and each of said officers are specially charged
to make diligent inquiry and investigate the violations of this section,
and in all cases brought by any officer for violation of this section said

officer shall be allowed and paid all of the fees allowed in such cases, to-
gether with the informer's fee if said officer be the informer, even though
said officer be a salaried officer, and these prosecutions and payment to

officers of the costs and informers shall be an exception to any statute to
the contrary.

1910, ch. 717, sec. 5. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 193. 1916, ch. 198, sec. 5.
1922, ch. 264, sec. 193.

283. The county treasurer shall place the tax so collected to the credit

of a fund to be called "the dog fund" of Montgomery 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, be applied to the Police Fund. And provided fur-
ther, that said dog fund as collected shall be entered and kept as collected
from each of the election districts of Montgomery 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 ap-
plied to awards for damages in any other district.

1910, ch. 717, sec. 6. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 194. 1916, ch. 198, sec. 6.
1922, ch. 264, sec. 194.

284. 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 collected

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 upon conviction