296 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 95. None of the provisions of this Act shall apply to
any sale, or to any contract to sell, made prior to the taking
effect of this Act.

SEC. 96. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this
Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 97. The above sections 19 to 96, inclusive, may be cited
as the "Uniform Sales Act."

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, A. D. 1910.

Approved April 11, 1910.

ARTICLE LXXXVI.

SHEEP AND DOGS.

CHAPTER 287.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Sections 2, 3 and 4 of Article
86 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Sheep and
Dogs."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 2, 3 and 4 of Article 86 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, title "Sheep and Dogs," be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. Any person whose sheep have been killed or in-
jured by any dog may proceed against the owner, keeper or
harborer of such dog before any Justice of the Peace of this
State having jurisdiction within the county where the killing
or injury may have occurred, and such Justice shall forthwith
issue a summons for the owner, keeper or harborer of such dog
and for such witness as may be necessary to ascertain the
amount of damage sustained by such killing or injuring and
shall forthwith give judgment for such damages as may be as-
certained, which shall be collected as other debts in this State
are collected; and such Justice shall also require the owner,
keeper or harborer of such dog to give bond, with good and
sufficient security in the sum of not less than fifty dollars, that
such dog shall not thereafter kill or injure any sheep; and upon
failure of such owner, keeper or harborer of such dog to give
such security, then said Justice of the Peace shall require some
one of the constables of the county to proceed forthwith to kill
such dog; and said constable for such killing shall be allowed
the sum of one dollar for each dog killed by him upon such
order by the Justice of the Peace, as aforesaid, to be taxed
against the owner, keeper or harborer of such dog as a part of
the costs in such case; provided, that nothing in this Article