258 CALVERT COUNTY. [ART. 5.

CRIER.

1870, c. 328 repeals section 29 and enacts the following as substitute therefor:

1870, c. 328. Pay of crier.

SEC. 29. The county commissioners of the said county are authorized and directed, at their next meeting for laying the county levy, and annually thereafter, to levy for the use of the crier of the said court, on the assessable property in said county, one hundred dollars, which shall|be in lieu of all other allowance or compensation whatever, and the same shall be collected and paid over as other public charges are collected and paid in the said county. Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

1870, c. 319 enacts that the governor is authorized and empowered to appoint an
additional justice of the peace in and for election district number one of Calvert
county.

See under public local laws, Article II, Anne Arundel county, sub-title justices of
the peace, for the act of 1870, c. 434 to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace
in Calvert and other counties to cases of assault and battery.

DOGS AND FOXES.

1870, c. 338 entitled an act to provide for levying a tax upon the owners of dogs in
Calvert county, and to appropriate a portion thereof, as a compensation to any
person who may kill or destroy foxes in said county enacts the following:

1870, c. 338, s. 1 Tax on dogs.	80. The county commissioners for Calvert county, are authorized and directed to levy a tax of fifty cents upon the owner of each and every dog in said county, except dogs three months old and under, and to appro- priate a certain portion of said tax as a compensation to any person who may in any manner kill or destroy any fox or foxes in the county aforesaid.
Ibid s. 2. Annual state- ment of num- ber and owners of dogs	81. The county commissioners of said county shall require an accurate return to be made annually in the months of July and August, by the collectors of taxes of the several election districts in said county of all