T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 196.

AN ACT to repeal an act passed at the January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, chapter two
hundred and sixty-two, entitled an act imposing
a tax on dogs, to protect the raising of sheep in
Kent county.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

WHEREAS, an act passed at the January session
eighteen hundred and fifty-four, chapter two hun-
dred and sixty-two, imposing a tax on dogs, to
protect the raising of sheep in Kent county, which
empowered the county commissioners to ascertain
the number of dogs, by persons to be appointed by
them, imposing a tax on every dog; providing a
mode of collecting the same; and of pay ing there-
out to the owners of sheep killed by dogs, a com-
pensation, to be ascertained according to the di-
rections of said act, providing for the destruction
of dogs in certain cases; and for the application of
uncalled-for funds derived from such tax, &c.; and
whereas, a considerable number of the citizens of
said county, interested in the raising and protec-
tion of sheep, have, by their petition to this Gen-
eral Assembly, represented that the said act has
not proved of any beneficial effect to the owners
of sheep killed by dogs, and is not likely to be-
come beneficial, but is considered generally in the
county as unavailing and ineffectual; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly,
of Maryland, That the said act be and is hereby repeal-
ed; provided, however, that such repeal shall not prevent

the collection of taxes imposed, and in a train of col-
lection, under the same, or impair the bond or obli-
gation of the collector to collect and account for all
moneys collected and to be collected, nor the pow-
er to collect, nor the application by die county com-
missioners of all such moneys according to the pro-
visions of said act.

Repealed

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all unexpended
moneys derived from the said tax, and appropriated
by the said county commissioners, by the first day of
November next, shall be distributed rateably by them
among the primary school districts in the said coun-
ty, to be applied to educational purposes.

Tax rateable
distributed to
the primary
school districts.