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him to the County Commissioners for the general expenses
of said County. Any persons, firm, association or corporation
who violates the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction before any
Justice of the Peace of said County, shall be subject to a
fine of not less than Five Dollars ($5. 00) nor more than
Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00) for each such violation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 161.

(House Bill 333)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 378
of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Dogs", as the same
was enacted by Chapter 387 by the Acts of 1927.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 378 of Article 17 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Prince George's County", sub-
title "Dogs", as the same was enacted by Chapter 387 by the
Acts of 1927, be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

378. When any resident of Prince George's County shall
have any domestic fowls or animals destroyed or injured by
dogs, he may apply to any Justice of the Peace of said county,
who shall appoint three disinterested persons as appraisers to
view and appraise the damages by him sustained, and they or a
majority of them shall, under oath, state in writing to the
County Commissioners the number of fowls or animals so
killed, the character and extent of the injury, if any, and the
amount of the damages sustained by the owner; and in like
manner they shall give a general description of both the
destroyed or injured fowls or animals, and both the appraisers
and the owner shall make oath that they believe the same to
have been destroyed or injured by dogs, and they or either of
them shall state under oath the names of the owners of said
clogs, and when the report of such proceedings shall have been
filed in the office of the County Commissioners, the said Com-
missioners shall review said report, provided it was filed within