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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

county commissioners, paid to the board at com-
missioners of public schools of Anne Arundel
county, to be by them applied to the purpose of
education.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any dog or

Sufficient evi-
dence.

bitch staying about a house shall be deemed suf-
ficient evidence of ownership to authorize the
collector to return the person inhabiting said
house as the owner or possessor of such dog or
bitch; and any person sending his dog or bitch
from place to place to avoid the said tax shall be
liable to pay double the tax thereon, and every
dog or bitch not returned shall be deemed to
have no owner, and shall be killed by the dog
collector.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all acts or

Repealed.

parts of acts which are inconsistent with this
act be and the same are hereby repealed to the
extent of inconsistency.

Not to apply.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing con-
tained in this act to apply to the second, third
and fourth districts.

Effective.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 518.

AN ACT for the prevention of cruelty to ani-
mals in Anne Arundel county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That whoever shall unnec-
essarily overdrive, overwork, overload, torture,

Punished by
fine.

torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, cruelly
or unnecessarily beat, cruelly mutilate or cruelly
kill, or cause or procure to be so unnecessarily
beaten, mutilated or killed, any horse, ox or
other animal, shall be punished by a fine of not
less than five dollars nor more than twenty dol-
lars, to be recovered on complaint of any person
before any justice of the peace, or any other court
of competent jurisdiction in said county.