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373. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners
to provide each District collector of dog taxes with suffi-
cient, suitable metal tags, having stamped on one side the
number thereof, and on the other side the year for which
they are to be used, to be worn on the neck of the dog or
dogs, whose owner, or owners shall pay to the collector the
said. tax;. and the County Commissioners shall provide the
collectors of dog tax in each District with blank receipts
in printed form, which when filled up, shall contain, the
name of the owner of said dog, his post office address, as
well as the name of the dog, sex, breed and color, with the
number and the date of its tag, and the amount of tax col-
lected, and the County Commissioners shall also provide
the collectors of dog tax with blank reports in printed form
to be furnished by the County Commissioners containing
the facts required above to be given in the receipt from the
collectors of dog tax to the owner upon the payment of
the annual tax aforesaid, all of which shall be made return-
able in the monthly report to be rendered each month to
the County Commissioners. The said Clerk to the County
Commissioners shall safely keep the reports and enter the
facts required above, regularly in a book to be kept for that
purpose in the office and under the supervision of the
County Commissioners, and said Clerk shall receive and
keep accurate account of all funds received from the collec-
tion of said taxes and paid over to the County Commission-
ers as required under the provisions of this Act, and to
deposit the license fee together with all fines collected to
the credit of the general funds of the County.

378. When any resident of Prince George's County shall
have any domestic fowls or animals destroyed or injured
by dogs, he may apply to any Justice of the Peace of said
County, who shall appoint three disinterested persons as
appraisers to view and appraise the damages by him
sustained, and they or a majority of them shall, under oath,
state in writing to the County Commissioners the number
of fowls or animals so killed, the character and extent of
the injury, if any, and the amount of the damages sustained
by the owner; and in like manner they shall give a general
description of both the destroyed or injured fowls or ani-
mals, and both the appraisers and the owner shall make
oath that they believe the same to have been destroyed or
injured by dogs, and they, or either of them shall state
under oath the names of the owners of said dogs, and when
the report of such, proceedings shall have been filed in the
office of the County Commissioners, the said Commissioners