932 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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 col-
lected on dogs, and any person opposing or in any way hinder-
ing 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 ma-
liciously remove from any dog wearing the legal tag procured
from the constables or county treasurer or allow his dog to
run without wearing such tag 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
sustained, and they or a majority of them, shall, under oath,
state in writing to the County Commissioners the number of
fowls or animals so killed, 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 descrip-
tion of both the destroyed and injured fowl or animals, 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
owaiers of said dogs, and when the report of such proceedings
shall have been filed in the office of the Countv Commissioners