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office address, as well as. the name of the dog, its sex, breed
and color, with the number and date of its tag, and the amount
of tax collected; and the County Commissioners shall also
provide them with blank reports in printed form, to be made
by the constables to the County Commissioners, containing
the facts required, as above'given, in the receipt from the con-
stables to the owner upon the payment of the annual tax afore-
said; the treasurer shall keep safely the reports from the con-
stables, and enter the facts required above regularly in a book
to be kept for that purpose in the office and under the supervi-
sion of the County Commissioners of Calvert County; and the
said County Treasurer shall receive and keep an accurate ac-
count of all the tax funds paid to him by the constables as
required by this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners to designate a constable in each elec-
tion district of Calvert County, whose duty it shall be in said
district, as soon as possible after the first day of January in
each year, to canvass thoroughly the district in order to ascer-
tain the number of dogs, the owners of same, and also the
other facts required of the constables in the reports referred to
in the preceding section to the County Commissioners. Upon
the payment of the tax by the owner of a dog the constable
shall give him a receipt in the form in this Act prescribed, and
also a tag to be worn by the dog; and the constable shall re-
port to the County Commissioners on or before the first day
of every month in the same manner and form aforesaid, and
shall at the same time pay to the County Treasurer all the
tax funds they have collected, less twenty-five per centum of
said amount for their services; they shall also state in their
monthly reports those who have failed to pay the tax on their
dogs as required by this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any constable shall neg-
lect or refus^ to perform his duty as set forth in this Act, he
shall be subject to prosecution for malfeasance in office and to
removal from office.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the County Treasurer shall
place the tax so collected to the credit of a fund to be called
the "Dog Fund," of Calvert County; but if there remains in
the county treasury to the credit of the "Dog Fund" on the first
day of September of. each year a sum more than sufficient 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 turned
over to the Board of School Commissioners of said county as
revenue for the public schools of said county.