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ment 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 212. When any resident of Anne Arundel County shall
have any domestic fowl or fowls, animal 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 her, him
or them sustained, and the appraisers, or a majority of them,
shall, under oath, state in writing to the County Commission-
ers the number of fowls or animals so killed or injured, the
character and extent of the injury, if any, and the amount of
damages sustained by the owner, and in like manner they shall
give a general description of both the destroyed and injured
fowl or animal; and both the appraisers and the owners 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 shall review
said report, and if in their judgment the amount of damages
stated is unfair, they shall award such amounts as they may
deem fair, and shall give an order on the County Treasurer to
pay the amount of such award out of the "Dog Fund" from the
amount credited to the district in which the damage is done,
and in case the amount credited to any district is not sufficient
to pay said award, said order shall be and remain good, and
shall be payable out of any funds in said "Dog Fund" credited
to such district, and shall be payable in turn according to the
date thereof; provided, that before the Commissioners shall
make any award of damages for the killing of said fowls or
animals, the person claiming damages shall be required to prove
to the satisfaction of the County Commissioners that he does
not know and is unable with reasonable diligence to ascertain
the owner of the dogs which did»such damage; or if the said
owner is known, to prove to the satisfaction of said Commis-
sioners that it is impracticable to collect the amount of dam-
age sustained by suit against the owner of said dogs, and in
case any dog shall be known to kill any domestic fowls or
animals, it shall be lawful for any person to kill such dog;
and in case the damage to any person by reason of loss or
injury to his domestic fowls or animals shall be from dogs
either his own or kept upon his premises, he shall be entitled
to no compensation under this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of