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them, shall state under oath the names of the owners of said dogs or
sluts; and when the report of such proceedings shall have been filed in the
office of the County Commissioners, the said Commissioners 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; provided,
that before the Commissioners shall make any award of damages for the
killing of sheep or poultry the person claiming damages shall be required
to prove to the satisfaction of the County Commissioners that he does not
know and is unable with reasonable diligence to ascertain the owner of the
dogs or sluts which did said damage; or, if the said owner is known, to
prove to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners that it is not possible
to collect the amount of damage sustained by suit against the owner of said
dogs or sluts; and in case any dog or slut shall be known habitually to kill
sheep or poultry or chase or worry the same, it shall be lawful for any
person to kill such dog or slut; and in case the damage to any person by
Reason of loss or injury to his sheep or poultry shall be from dogs or
sluts, either his own or kept upon his premises, he shall be entitled to no
compensation under this subtitle of this Article.*

EASTON.+

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 41. 1860, Art 20, sec. 30. 1906, ch. 458, sec. 41.

1927, ch. 19.

129. The inhabitants of the town of Easton, in Talbot County, are
now and shall hereafter be a body corporate, under the name and title of
"the Mayor and Council of Easton," with all the rights, franchises, pow-
ers, privileges and prerogatives which, at the time of this enactment, they,
as a body corporate, have, hold and possess, under the name and title of
"Mayor and Council of Easton"; and as well, all the rights, franchises,
powers and privileges and prerogatives which are given under this enact-
ment, and that may hereafter be given, acquired or received thereby, sub-
ject, however, to the limitations hereinafter in this section, or as may be by
other legislation, imposed. The said Mayor and Council of Easton, as such,
shall have perpetual succession, and by said name may sue and be sued;
they may hold, possess, purchase and otherwise acquire for corporate pur-
poses property, real, personal and mixed, and they may sell, dispose of and
convey any such property for the benefit of said town; provided, however,
that no sale or purchase of any such property, having a single or compo-
site value equal to or exceeding ten thousand dollars, shall be consum-
mated without the previous approval of a majority of all the registered

*Sec. 16, ch. 565, 1910, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.

+Easton has been authorized to issue bonds as follows: 1910, ch. 117 (p. 1161),
$35,000 for street improvements; 1912, ch. 620 (amount not stated), to reimburse
certain citizens for advances in sale of sewer bonds; 1912, ch. 747, $20,000 for
sewers and street improvements; 1914, ch. 73, $29,000 for purchase of water plant
of Easton Water Company; 1920, ch. 45, $12,000 for fire equipment; 1922, ch. 128,
$25.000 for water and sewer extensions. This loan was approved by referendum
vote. 1927, oh. 227r $30,000 for fire equipment. (See Renshaw v. Grace, 155 Md
294, as to ch. 227, 1927.)