5302 ARTICLE 24.

meaner, and upon indictment and conviction of such offense in the Cir-
cuit Courts for Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester Counties be
fined not less than twenty dollars or more than fifty, or be confined in the
county jail.

SHEEP.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 225. 1920 Code, sec. 387.

290. Worcester County is exempted from the provisions of Sections
1 and 2 of Article 86 of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "Sheep
and Dogs."

1910, ch. 287, sec. 3. 1920 Code, sec. 388.

291. If any dog shall be detected in killing or injuring sheep, and
proof thereof shall be made by the oath of the owner of said sheep, or any
other person before a Justice of the Peace, the owner of said dog, upon
complaint to him made and information of such proof, shall proceed forth-
with to kill said dog; and on his refusal or neglect to do so the owner of
said sheep may kill such dog afterwards found running at large, or may
apply to a constable, who, upon production of said affidavit, shall proceed
to the house of the owner of said dog and kill said dog there, or wherever
else found.

1910, oh. 287, sec. 4. 1920 Code, sec. 389.

292. If such dog shall immediately upon such complaint and infor-
mation be killed by his owner, the owner of the sheep shall not have cause
of action against the owner of said dog, but upon his refusal to kill such
dog the owner of said sheep may recover double the value of the sheep
killed, with costs, in the manner prescribed for the recovery of debts.

SHERIFF.

1910, ch. 179. 1920 Code, sec. 390.

293. The Sheriff elected for Worcester County shall be required to
give bond in accordance with Section 2 of Article 87 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland in the penalty of ten thousand dollars and for no
greater sum.

1920, ch. 669.

294. The Sheriff of Worcester County shall receive an annual salary
of nine hundred dollars ($900.00), to be paid to him in monthly install-
ments of seventy-five dollars ($75.00), by the County Commissioners of
Worcester County, in addition to the fees, civil or criminal or other com-
pensation now allowed to him or hereafter to be allowed to him by law
or otherwise; and the salary of the present Sheriff of Worcester County
shall commence with the beginning of his term in the month of Decem-
ber, 1919.