MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 931

treasurer shall keep safely the reports from the constables and
enter the facts required above regularly in a book to be kept
for that purpose in the office and under the supervision of the
County Commissioners of Montgomery County, and the said
county treasurer shall receive and keep an accurate account 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 Montgomery 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 as-
certain the number of dogs, the owners of same and also the
other facts required of the constable 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
report 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 month-
ly 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 refuse 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 Montgomery county; but if there remains in
the county treasury to the credit of the "dog fund" on the
first day of January 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 applied
to macadamizing public roads in the county and in the district
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.