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poultry or livestock injured or destroyed by dogs. And if the owner of the
dog or dogs doing the damage be known, it shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners to notify such owner or owners to kill said dog or dogs im-
mediately. If such dog or dogs be killed by the owner, after notice as
aforesaid, he shall be exempt from all further liability, but in case the said
owner or owners should refuse or neglect to kill said dog or dogs upon
notice as aforesaid, the said owner or owners shall be liable to the County
Commissioners for said damages to the same extent as he would be liable
in case of negligence or malicious destruction of property, and the said
County Commissioners may in their discretion have the special officers or
constables to kill said dog or dogs.

An. Code, 1924, art. 81, sec. 212. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 201. 1920, ch. 498, sec. 201.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 273 (p. 712).

273. Any person violating or refusing to comply with any of the pro-
visions of this sub-title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof before any Justice of the Peace of the county in which he re-
sides, or in the Circuit Court of said county, shall be fined a sum of not
less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars or shall be impris-
oned in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or shall be both fined
and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. It shall be the duty of the
State's Attorney, the Sheriff and the constables of the several counties of
the State to prosecute all persons found violating the law by refusing to
comply with its provisions. Provided that nothing in this sub-title shall
apply to the City of Baltimore.

Outdoor Advertising.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 274.

274. From and after June 1, 1931, no person, firm or corporation,
resident or non-resident of this State, shall engage in the business generally
known as outdoor advertising for profit gained from rentals or other com-
pensation received for the erection, use or maintenance of billboards, or
any other structures, signs, posters or display advertising of any kind or
nature whatsoever, upon real property, without a license having first been
obtained from the State Roads Commission of Maryland to engage in
such business, for which the said firm, person or corporation shall pay an
annual license fee for the use of the State of $200.00; provided, however,
that a person, firm, or corporation maintaining not more than fifty bill-
boards, signs, posters, or other structures for display advertising, shall
pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and that the licenses
first issued under this section shall be dated June 1, 1931, and shall ex-
pire on the 30th day of April succeeding, and the charge therefor shall
be $183.25, unless the applicant engages in business in any month sub-
sequent to June 1, 1931, when a ratable sum shall be charged. There-
after, all licenses shall be dated May 1st and shall expire the following
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