T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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son seeing the same, to kill such dog, or if any dog
shall have been known to worry sheep, and informa-
tion thereof be given to the owner of such dog, if he or
she does not kill or cause to be killed such dog, he or

she shall make full compensation for all damage done
by said dog, and any person seeing said dog or dogs
running at large may lawfully kill the same.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any money that
may be in the treasury at the expiration of one year
from the first levy under this act, and at the expiration
of every year thereafter, over and above paying the da-
mages sustained by said inhabitants in the loss of sheep
by dogs, shall be by said treasurer, upon the warrant of
said commissioners, paid to the judges of the orphans'
court of said county, to be by them applied to the edu-
cation of poor children in said county.

Surplus mo-
ney — how to
be applied.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners be, and they are hereby required to allow each

collector the sum of ten cents per head for each dog re-
turned, as provided for in the first section of this act,
to be paid out of the fund arising from taxes on dogs.

Fee allowed

collector.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 130.

In force.

AN ACT for the relief of Mary Beard and daughter of
Baltimore county.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the commissioners of Baltimore
county, be, and they are hereby authorised if they in
their judgment think it just and proper, to levy on the
assessable property of Baltimore county, for the relief of
Mary Beard and daughter, not exceeding the sum of
forty dollars annually as long as they or either of them
may require it for their support, to be placed in the
hands of J. R. Moore for their special benefit.

Authority to
levy.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act take effect
from the date of its passage.

In force.