930 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 345

stock in said Kent County. In the event the same are not suffi-
cient for the payment of all such damages the said damages shall
be paid in the order the claims are presented, and any person
or persons whose claims are not paid in any one year by reason
of the lack of money to the credit of the said fund which is to
be designated ''The Dog License Fund, " shall be paid out of
the first money coming into the fund after his claim is reached,
and shall be paid in the order in which said claims are proved
and filed; and any claims now filed and passed upon, but remain-
ing unpaid, shall have preference over any new claims in the
order of payment. Any fund in excess of one thousand dollars
($1, 000. 00) remaining in the hands of the County Commis-
sioners of Kent County, after the payment of the claims as
aforesaid, unused for such purpose at the end of each fiscal year,
shall be used by said County either for the public schools, or for
the public roads, as the Board of County Commissioners of said
County may direct.

91-E. When any inhabitant of Kent County shall have any
sheep, poultry or livestock destroyed or injured by a dog or
dogs, he shall within six hours have the carcass or injured animal
viewed by three disinterested persons, and they with the owner
appear before the Board of County Commissioners and answer
under oath such questions as pertain to the case; and the Com-
missioners shall award for damages such amount as they may
deem, fair; which award shall be paid out of the fund hereby
created.

The damages awarded for turkeys shall not exceed $1. 00 for
turkeys one month old, $2. 00 for turkeys three months old, $3. 00
for turkeys five months old, $4. 00 for turkeys seven months old,
or over.

The damages awarded for lambs and sheep shall not exceed
$1. 00 for lambs or sheep one month old,, $3. 00 for lambs or sheep
two months old, $5. 00 for lambs or sheep three months old, $6. 00
for lambs or sheep six months old or over.

And if the owner of the dog or dogs doing the damage be
known, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to
notify such owner or owners to kill said dog or dogs immedi-
ately. If such dog or dogs be killed by the owner, after notice
as aforesaid, he shall be exempt from all further liability, but in
case the said owner or owners should refuse or neglect to kill
said dog or dogs upon notice as aforesaid, the said owner or own-
ers shall be liable to the County Commissioners for said damages
to the same extent as he would be liable in case of negligence or