370 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

mals 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 ac-
counted 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.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
shall direct the constable 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
collected on dogs, and any person opposing or in any way
hindering 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
maliciously remove from any dog wearing the legal tag pro-
cured from the constables or the 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.