ART. 16.] MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 907

to pay the awards for damages for domestic fowls and animals
made by the County Commissioners prior to that date, such
surplus shall, upon the order of the Commissioners, be applied
to macadamizing public roads in the county and in the dis-
trict from which the fund is raised; and provided further, that
said dog fund as collected shall be entered and kept as collected
from each of the election districts of Montgomery county, and
awards for damages shall be paid out and accounted for in re-
spect to each district, and no fund collected from any particu-
lar district shall be liable or applied to awards for damages in
any other district.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
shall direct the constables to kill any dog for which said tax
is not paid before the first day of April in each year, and for
such service the Commissioners may allow such compensation
as they may deem adequate, provided it be paid from the tax
collected on dogs; and any person opposing or in any way hin-
dering any constable in killing any dog in the performance of
his duty shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars nor
less than ten dollars and costs, upon conviction before any
justice of the peace in and for Montgomery county, and shall
stand committed to the county jail until the fine and costs are
paid; provided, however, that the owner of dogs who reside in
any incorporated town in Montgomery county, in which dogs
are taxed by ordinance now or hereafter, shall be exempt from
the operation of this Act if he has procured a license from
and paid for the current year a tax on his dog to said town, and
his dog wears about his neck a tag issued by said town.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That every person who shall mali-
ciously remove from any dog wearing the legal tag procured
from the constables or county treasurer shall pay a fine of
five dollars and costs upon conviction before any justice of the
peace in and for Montgomery county.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That in case of the loss of the tag
issued by the county treasurer, upon application to him by
the owners of the dog, a duplicate may be furnished on the
payment of twenty-five cents and satisfactory evidence being
furnished that the tax of one dollar for a male dog and two
dollars for a female dog, as the case may be, has been paid for
the current year for the use of the dog.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That when any resident of Mont-
gomery county shall have any domestic fowls or animals de-
stroyed or injured by dogs, he may apply to any justice of the
peace of said county, who shall appoint three disinterested per-
sons as appraisers, to view and appraise the damages by him