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AMINERS," TO FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY AFTER SECTION
325 THEREOF, AND TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

325A. NOTHING IN THIS SUBTITLE APPLIES TO OR
WITHIN CALVERT COUNTY.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT SEC-
TION 2 OF CHAPTER 722 OF THE ACTS OF 1965, BE AND
IT IS HEREBY REPEALED AND RE-ENACTED, WITH
AMENDMENTS, TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

2. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT SHALL NOT BE
APPLICABLE WITHIN CARROLL AND FREDERICK COUN-
TIES.

Sec. 2 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 693
(House Bill 569)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 197 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle "Dog
Licenses in the Counties," to provide that in Kent County certain
damages caused by dogs shall be paid out of the "dog license
fund."

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 197 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Licenses,"
subtitle "Dog Licenses in the Counties," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

197.

All monies arising from the dog licenses or taxes shall be kept
in a separate fund by the treasurer of the respective counties, or
tax collecting office thereof, and shall be used for the payment of
damages for the injury and killing of sheep, poultry or other live-
stock in said respective counties. In the event the same are not
sufficient for the payment of all such damages the said damages
shall be paid in the order the claims are presented, and any person
or persons whose claims are not paid in any one year by reason
of the lack of money to the credit of the said fund, which is to be
designated "the dog license fund," shall be paid out of the first
money coming into the fund after his claim is reached, and shall
be paid in the order in which said claims are proved and filed;
and any claims now filed and passed upon, but remaining unpaid,
shall have preference over any new claims in the order of payment.
The county commissioners of the several counties are hereby author-
ized to expend any funds in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000)