ELIHU E JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

for each bitch, and fifty cents for each additional
dog or bitch, owned or possessed by each person
named in such return as the owner thereof.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the treasurer
shall appoint for each election district a deputy,
who shall be known as the collector of the dog
tax.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the collectors

Appoint a
deputy.

of the several districts shall collect the sums so
levied, at the same time and in the same manner
as county and state taxes are collected, and shall
pay over the same to 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 afore-
said return to the county commissioners.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the money

When collect-
able.

arising from the said levy shall be held by the
treasurer of the county, and shall constitute a
fund for remunerating the inhabitants of the
county for losses sustained by sheep destroyed
or injured by dogs.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, When any inhabi-

Money — how
to be used.

tant of the county shall have any sheep de-
stroyed or injured by dogs, he may apply to the
nearest justice of the peace, who shall appoint
three disinterested persons to view and ascer-
tain the damages by him sustained; and they, or
a majority of them, shall certify the same under
their hands and seals to the county commis-
sioners, 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.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, If there shall not be

Ascertain
damages, etc.

sufficient money in the treasury belonging to
said fund, the warrant shall be kept by the per-
son in whose favor it is drawn and be paid out
of the first money that shall come into the treas-
ury belonging thereunto.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That any money that

Warrant shall
be kept.

may be in the treasury at the expiration of any
year from the levy thereof, over and above pay-
ing 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 warrant of the

Surplus to
whom paid.