800 ARTICLE 56.

such field or yard, or other agent or servant, may kill such dog while it
is in the field or yard without liability or responsibility of any nature for
such killing and any person may kill a female dog running at large while
in heat without liabilities therefor.

An. Code, 1924, art. 81, sec. 210. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 199.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 271 (p. 711).

271. All monies arising from the dog licenses or taxes shall be kept in
a separate fund by the treasurer of the respective counties, and shall be
used for the payment of damages for the injury and killing of sheep, poul-
try or other livestock in said respective counties. In the event the same
are not sufficient for the payment of all such damages the said damages
shall be paid in the order the claims are presented, and any person or per-
sons whose claims are not paid in any one year by reason of the lack of
money to the credit of the said fund, which is to be designated "The Dog
License Fund, " shall be paid out of the first money coming into the fund
after his claim is reached, and shall be paid in the order in which said
claims are proved and filed; and any claims now filed and passed upon,
but remaining unpaid, shall have preference over any new claims in the
order of payment. Any funds in excess of one thousand dollars ($1, 000)
remaining in the hands of the treasurer of any county after the payment
of the claims as aforesaid, unused for such purpose at the end of each fiscal
year, shall be used by said county either for the public schools, or for the
public roads, as the board of county commissioners of said county may
direct.

An. Code, 1924, art. 81, sec. 211. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 200. 1920, ch. 498, see. 200.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 272 (p. 711).

272. When any inhabitant of any county shall have any sheep, poultry
or livestock destroyed or injured by a dog or dogs, he may apply to any
Justice of the Peace of said county, who shall appoint three disinterested
persons as appraisers to view and appraise the damages by him sustained,
and they, or a majority of them, under oath, shall state in writing to the
County Commissioners of said county, the number of sheep, poultry, or
livestock killed, the character and extent of the injury, if any done, and
the amount of the damages sustained by the owner; and both the apprais-
ers and the owner of the sheep, poultry or livestock shall make oath that
they believe the same to have been destroyed or injured by a dog or dogs;
and when the report of such proceedings has been filed, the County Com-
missioners of said county shall review said report, and if in their judg-
ment the amount of damages stated is unfair, they shall award such amount
as they may deem fair; which award shall be paid out of the fund hereby
created; provided, however, that the said sworn report of the appraisers
shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the fairness of the award of dam-
ages in each instance; and provided, further, that the County Commission-
ers shall not change such an award unless they shall have personal knowl-
edge of its unfairness, or shall receive competent testimony to the effect
that the award is in excess of a fair commercial valuation of the sheep,