CHAP. 274.--An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 10 of an act entitled "an act to protect sheep and other stock in the counties of Accomac and Northampton," approved February 7, 1894.
Approved February 11, 1890.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections two and ten of an act entitled an" act to protect sheep and other stock in the counties of Accomac and Northampton," approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 2. That every case where the owner of a dog fails to pay the license tax provided for in the third section of this act, it shall be the duty of the constable of the district, in which said delinquent resides, to kill said dog, for which he shall receive a fee of fifty cents out of the fund hereinafter provided; and to that end the said constable shall obtain from the county treasurer a list of all delinquents under this act in his district, and shall, within thirty days after receiving such list, discharge his duty in this behalf, and on failure so to do, when practicable, he shall pay a fine of fifty cents for each dog he so fails to kill: provided it shall be lawful, when the owner of said dog has been declared delinquent under this act, for the constable to exempt said dog from such killing on payment by said owner to the constable the amount of seventy-five cents, if it be a male dog, and one dollar and fifty cents, if it be a female dog: one third of which amount, in either case, shall be to the constable and the remainder of the dog-tax fund, to be so accounted for by said constable.
§ 10. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the towns of Onancock and Belle Haven, in Accomac, and the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton, nor to any other town in Accomac and Northampton which may hereafter adopt an ordinance for taxing all dogs within its corporate limits.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.