ART. 5. ] CALVERT COUNTY.

dogs owned or kept by any person within their respec-
tive districts, particularly noting the number owned or
kept by each person, and the names of each owner or
keeper thereof.

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82. The said collectors, in their respective districts
of the county aforesaid, shall proceed to collect the sum
so levied and apportioned by the said county commis-
sioners, as soon as the levy list is placed in their hands,
in the same manner as is now provided by law, for the
collection of state and county taxes in said county, and

Ibid. s. 3.
Collectors to
collect tax.

shall keep and return an accurate account under oath of
the money arising therefrom, together with the money
collected by them, and shall be entitled to receive out

Return under
oath.

of the fund provided by this act, ten per centum, on
the amount collected by them respectively.

Per centage
allowed.

83. If any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the
tax levied as aforesaid, the collectors of said tax, shall
1 kill any dog or dogs of such delinquent person, except
dogs three months old and under.

Ibid. s. 4.
If tax not paid,
does to be
killed.

84. Out of the tax directed to be levied upon the
owner or owners of dogs in said county, as hereinbe-
fore provided, the sum of two dollars shall be paid by
the county commissioners as a compensation to any
person who may kill or destroy as hereinbefore pro-
vided any fox or foxes in said county, and the sur-
plus or residue of said tax, if any shall constitute a
general county fund in the hands of the county com-
missioners for said county, for the repair of the public
roads thereof.

Ibid s. 5.
Compensation
for killing
foxes.

85. Before the killer or destroyer of any fox in said
county, shall be entitled to the compensation of two
dollars as aforesaid, he shall present both the bush and
scalp of the fox so killed or destroyed to the commis-

Ibid. s. 6.
Proof of killing.

sioners' court of said county, and make oath, in their
presence, that the same was killed or destroyed by him
in said county.
Approved April 4, 1870.

Oath.