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fund out of which owners of domestic fowls or animals killed
or injured by dogs may be reimbursed for the loss of the same,
and furnishing revenue for the macadamizing of public roads
in said County, and to provide for the treatment of indigent
person bitten by mad animals by the Pasteur or other treat-
ment, so as to read as follows."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 6 and 10 of Chapter 210 Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session of
1912, entitled "An Act to provide for the taxation of dogs in
Howard County and creating a fund out of which owners of
domestic fowls or animals killed or injured by dogs may be
reimbursed for the loss of the same, and furnishing revenue
for the macadamizing of public roads in said County, and to
provide for the treatment of indigent persons bitten by mad
animals by the Pasteur or other treatment" be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to
read as follows:

SEC. 6. 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 Howard County; but if there remains
in the County Treasuiy to the credit of the "Dog Fund" on
the first day of January of each year a sum more than suffi-
cient 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 in
their discretion, be applied to macadamizing public roads or
the building of sidewalks in any village 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 Howard County,
and awards for damages shall be paid out and accounted for
in respect to each district and no fund collected from any
particular district shall be liable or applied to awards for
damages in any other district, and provided, further, that
should the amount collected in any one of the election dis-
tricts of Howard County in any one year be insufficient to
pay in full awards for damages sustained during said year,
whatever awards for damages remain unpaid at the end of
said year shall be paid as soon as sufficient funds shall have
been collected in the next year in the order of their priority.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That when any resident of
Howard County shall have any sheep or turkeys destroyed or