ART. 4.] DOGS AND FOXES. 603
the several election districts in said county, of all dogs owned or
kept by any person within their respective districts, particularly
noting the number owned or kept by each person, and the names
of each owner or. keeper thereof.
1870, ch 338.
64. The said collectors, in their respective districts of the county
shall proceed to collect the sum so levied and apportioned
by the county commissioners 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 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 ont of the fund provided by sec-
tion 66, ten per centum on the amount collected by them, re-
spectively.
Ibid.
65. If any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the tax levied
as aforesaid, the collectors of said tax shall kill any dog of such,
delinquent person, except dogs three months old and under.
Ibid.
66. Out of the tax directed by section 62 to be levied upon
the owners of dogs in said county the sum of two dollars shall be
paid by the county commissioners as a compensation to any per-
son who may kill or destroy any fox in said county, and the
surplus or residue of said tax, if any, shall constitute a general
county fund in the hands of the county commissioners for said
county, for the repair of the public roads thereof.
Ibid.
67. 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 brush and scalp of the fox so killed or
destroyed, to the county commissioners, and make oath in their
presence that the same was killed or destroyed by him in said
county.
1876, ch. 97.
68. Calvert, Cecil, Somerset, Washington, Caroline, St. Mary's,
Prince George's, Carroll, Queen Anne's, Dorchester, Montgomery,
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