T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE,, GOVERNOR

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owned or possessed by any person or persons, within
said county or kept about their premises.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when the com-
missioners of said county, shall have ascertained the
number of dogs, they shall levy and cause to be collect-
ed the sum of fifty cents, for the first dog, and twenty-five
cents for each and every dog thereafter, and to be col-
lected in the same way and manner as the State and
county taxes, are now collected, and for which the said
collector or collectors of the said tax shall receive six
per cent, or more, if deemed inadequate by the said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, and it shall be the
duly of the commissioners, or their clerk to keep a se-
parate account of the money raised from said
lax, and it shall be, and is hereby levied, collected, re-
tained and appropriated as a fund indemnifying any
and all losses of sheep, killed by dog or dogs, to any

Levy.

person or persons; Provided, that nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed as to indemnify any person
or persons, who may have been damaged by his own
dog, when it happens that the said dog or dogs were in
the habit of worrying sheep and the same being known
to him or her.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when any per-
son or persons, in said county, shall have any sheep
killed, crippled or worried by any dog or dogs, he or
she, may apply to any justice of the peace, in the coun-
ty, who shall and is hereby authorised to appoint three
disinterested and qualified persons, who shall be au-
thorised and required to view and ascertain the
damages sustained to the owner or owners, of such sheep
killed or crippled, when they have ascertained the dam-
ages so sustained they or a majority of them shall cer-
tify under oath to the commissioners of said county,
who shall draw upon the collectors so appointed to col-
lect said tax, for the amount of damages, but if there
should be no funds, in the hands of the said collectors,
he or she may then require the acceptance of the col-
lector, and be entitled to the first money in hand arising
from the said tax, and in no case shall the appraisers
estimate the damages higher than the cash value, and
all appraisements shall be in accordance with the dam-
ages done, and the appraisers shall be each thirty-three
and one third cents, and the justices fee the same as in
State cases.

Damages.

SEC. 4; And be it enacted, That every dog kept
or permitted to remain on or about the premises of any
person or person of said county, it shall be deemed suf-

Evidence of
ownership.