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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and said commissioners shall draw their warrant on
the Treasurer of the county, for the amount so certi-
fied, to be paid out of the funds arising from the tax
on dogs, and if there shall not. be sufficient money in
the Treasury belonging to the said fund then the said
warrant shall be kept by the said person in whose
favour it shall have been drawn, and be paid out of
the first money that shall come into the Treasury,
belonging to the said fund.

Evidence of
ownership.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any dog kept
or staying about a house, shall be deemed sufficient
evidence of ownership to authorise the collector to
return the person inhabiting such house as the owner
or possessor of such dog or dogs, and any person
sending his or her dog or dogs, from house to house
or place to place, in order to evade the said tax,
shall be liable to pay double tax therefor, and every
dog not returned, shall be deemed to have no owner
and may bo lawfully killed by any person who may
see such dog running at large.

Lawful to kill.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any dog shall
be seen worrying sheep, it shall be lawful for any
person seeing the same to kill such dog or if any
dog shall have been known to worry sheep, and in-
formation 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
damages done by said dog, and any person seeing
such dog or dogs running at large may lawfully kill
the same.

Surplus to be
applied to pur-
poses of edu-
cation.

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 expira-
tion of every year thereafter over and above paying
the damages sustained by said inhabitants in the
loss or injury of sheep by dogs, shall be by said Trea-
surer upon the warrant of said commissioners, paid
to the judges of the Orphans Court of said county
to be by them applied to the purposes of education in
the said county.

Allowed col-
lector.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said com-
missioners be and they are hereby required to allow
each collector, the sum of six cents a head for each
dog returned as provided in the first section of this
act, to be paid out of the fund arising from taxes on
dogs.

Act repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That a former act im-
posing a tax on dogs in Cecil county, passed at