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sonable out of said fund in each case where such damages are
allowed; and may also allow payment out of such fund for
the treatment by the Pasteur or other treatment, of any per-
son who may be bitten by a dog, cat, horse or other animal in
Montgomery County provided that such treatment shall be in
addition to and not in lieu of any antitoxin or other serum
furnished such person under the general law of this State.

The Health Officer of Montgomery County is hereby author-
ized, empowered and directed to take immediate possession of
or cause to be confined for the purpose of examination and
observation, any dogs found in Montgomery County known to
have been bitten by an animal.

Section 197-B. That the clerk of the Police Court for Mont-
gomery County shall on the first day of every month, render
to the chief of the Montgomery County Police, a report in
writing, setting forth by election Districts the names of all
persons who have paid taxes on dogs for the current year, said
report shall show the names and addresses of each owner,
the number of the tag or tags issued to him and the date of
payment. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to enforce
the provisions of this Act by requiring his officers to make
monthly canvasses of the dogs in the County, to kill all un-
licensed dogs and to arrest and prosecute any person or per-
sons violating any provision of this Act; and provided fur-
ther that if any dog, killed by any member of the Montgomery
County Police, shall not at the time he is so killed, be wearing
the tag provided in this Act, unless said dog is owned and cared
for by a person having a kennel license, the officer shall not be
liable to the owner in damages or otherwise for the destruction
of said dog; but that for enforcing the provisions of this act
no officer or other person, shall be allowed any informers fee
or any other compensation whatsoever.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 198 of
Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Montgomery County, " sub-title "Dogs, " as enacted by Chap-
ter 264 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, be
and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act or with
the provisions of Sections 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195
and 196 of Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of