150 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

to the treasurer, who shall keep a separate account of the money
arising therefrom, after deducting ten per centum on the amount
collected by them, respectively, and -six cents a head for each
dog or bitch returned in the said return to the county com-
missioners.

1888, ch. 517, sec. 5.

208. The money arising from the said levy shall be held by
the treasurer of the county, and shall constitute a fund for re-
munerating the inhabitants of the county for losses sustained by
sheep destroyed or injured by dogs.

Ibid. sec. 6.

209. When any inhabitant of the county shall have any sheep
destroyed or injured by dogs, he may apply to the nearest justice
of the peace, who shall appoint three disinterested persons to
view and ascertain the damages by him sustained; and they, or &
majority of them, shall certify the same under their hands and
seals to the county commissioners, and the county commissioners
shall draw their warrant on the treasurer of the county for the
amount so certified, to be paid out of the fund arising from the
tax on dogs.

Ibid. sec. 7.

210. If there shall not be sufficient money in the treasury
belonging to said fund, the warrant shall be kept by the person,
in whose favor it is drawn and be paid out of the first money
that shall come into the treasury belonging to such fund.

Ibid. sec. 8.

211. Any money that may be in the treasury at the expir-
ation of any year from the levy thereof, over and above paying
the damages sustained by the inhabitants of the county in the
loss or injury of sheep by dogs, shall be paid by the treasurer, on
the warrant of the county commissioners, to the board of com-
missioners of public schools of the county, to be applied by them
to the use of such schools.

Ibid sec. 9.

212. Any dog or bitch staying about a house shall be deemed
sufficient evidence of ownership to authorize the collector to