WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

175

shall be kept by the person in whose favor it is

Conditions of

drawn, and be paid out of the first money that shall

payment.

come into the treasury belonging thereto.

SEC. 7. Any money that may be in the treasury

at the expiration 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, by the treasurer, on the

Money in the
treasury— how
to be disbursed

warrant of the County Commissioners, paid to the

Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of Car-

roll county, to be by them applied to the purpose of

education.

SEC. S. Any dog kept or staying about a house

shall be deemed sufficient evidence of ownership

to authorize the collector to return the person in-

habiting said house as the owner or possessor of

such dog, and any person sending his dog from house

What consti-
tutes sufficient

to house, or place to place, to avoid the said tax,

evidence.

shall be liable to pay double tax therefor; and every

dog not returned shall be deemed to have no owner,

and may be killed by any person seeing him run at

large.

SEC. 9. If any dog shall be seen running sheep,

any person may kill him; or if any dog shall have

been known to worry sheep, and information thereof

Make full com-
pensation for

be given to the owner thereof, if he does not kill

damages.

such dog, he shall make full compensation for all

damages done by it; and any person seeing the dog

running at large may kill him.

Approved March 30, 1882.

Chapter 123.

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Managers of

the Maryland Hospital for the Insane to grant

to the Catonsville Short-line Railroad Company

certain portions of land situate along the line of

the same.

WHEREAS certain parties have made surveys for

the purpose of constructing and operating a steam

Preamble.

railroad from a point at or near St. Agnes station,

on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, to the town