ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 621

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 the Police Fund. 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 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.

Section 194. 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
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 be-
fore the police justice in and for Montgomery County,
and shall stand committed to the county jail until the
fine and costs a,re 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 pro-
cured 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.

Section 195. Be it enacted, That every person who shall
maliciously remove from any dog wearing the legal tag pro-
cured from the clerk of the Police Court 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.

Section 196. Be it enacted, That in case of the loss of the
tag issued by the clerk of the Police Court upon application to
him by the owner 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.

Section 197. Be it enacted, That when any resident of
Montgomery County, shall have any domestic fowls or animals