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said county, unless payment has been made by the owner as provided in
Section 126.

1906, ch. 492, sec. 100D.

129. That the justice of the peace, for special services under the provi-
sions of this Act, shall be entitled to one dollar for each case, and the two
disinterested persons shall receive each seventy-five cents for the time
necessary spent by them in investigating each claim, said cost to be paid
by claimant in each case; provided, that in all cases where damages are
awarded, the fee paid by claimant shall be included in the amount of such
damage.

1906, ch. 492, sec. 100E.

130. The County Commissioners of said county shall annually levy
an amount sufficient to cover all such claims as may be presented; for the
year 1906 the sum of three hundred dollars shall be levied, and annually
thereafter a sum sufficient as in their judgment will meet the claims.

1912, ch. 715, sec. 100F.

131. That whenever any person shall sustain any loss or damage to
sheep by a dog, bitch or spayed bitch in any election district in said county,
and such person shall have preferred any claim for such loss and damage
against the County Commissioners for Allegany County, in accordance
with Sections 126, 127, 128, 129 and 130 of this Article, with reference to
the killing of sheep by dogs in Allegany County, and such claim shall have
been allowed and paid by the County Commissioners of Allegany County,
in accordance with said act, that in each and in all such cases, the owner
or owners of such dog, bitch or spayed bitch, shall be liable for all dam-
ages and costs, said County Commissioners shall be required to pay on
account of the sheep so injured, in a suit to be instituted by the County
Commissioners of Allegany County, before any justice of the peace, or
the Circuit Court for Allegany County, provided, however, that in any
such suit the owner or owners of any dog or dogs so sued, shall have the
right to make any and all defenses to such suit as to the value of the sheep
killed, and the dog or dogs so killing said sheep, as he or they could have
made in a suit against him for said damages by the owner of the sheep.

1916, ch. 500, sec. 100G.

132. The County Commissioners for Allegany County are hereby au-
thorized, empowered and directed to collect from the person or persons
or body corporate owning dogs in Allegany County, a license tax for all
dogs over six months of age in said County for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1916, and for each and every year thereafter, in the following
sums:

Each female dog—$2.00.

Each male dog—$1.00.

Each Spayed Female—$1.00.