THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1661

or owners shall be liable to the County Commissioners for
said damages to the same extent as he would be liable in
case of negligence or malicious destruction of property,
and the said County Commissioners may in their discre-
tion have the special officers or constables to kill said dog
or dogs. In Montgomery County, however, the County
Council in lieu of notifying the owner or owners to kill
such dog or dogs may require such owner or owners to
execute and file with the Clerk of the County Council a
bond in such amount and upon such terms as it shall deter-
mine to indemnify the County Council for any such damage
as said dog or dogs shall have done, but in case the said
owner or owners should refuse or neglect to execute and
post such bond the said County Council may, in its discre-
tion, provide for the humane destruction of said dog or
dogs.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect August 15, 1951.

Approved April 27, 1951.

CHAPTER 545
(Senate Bill 387)

AN ACT to add a new section to the Code of Public Local
Laws of Baltimore County (1948 Edition), being Article
3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Baltimore County", said new section to
be known as Section 247A, to follow immediately after
Section 247 thereof, to be included in "Title 19, Pen-
sions", and to be under the sub-heading "Fire Depart-
ment System", authorizing and directing the County
Commissioners of Baltimore County to pension the
widow and infant children of volunteer firemen of Bal-
timore County who are killed in the active discharge of
their duties or who die as a result of injuries sustained
in the active discharge of such duties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new section be and it is hereby added to the Code

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.