CHAP. 673.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled act to protect sheep in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
Approved March 5,1894.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That three of an act entitled an act to protect sheep in the counties Accomac and Northampton, approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to as follows
§3. That when said assessors shall have ascertained the number
of dogs they shall assess a license tax of fifty cents per head on male dogs and all spayed female dogs, and on every slut or female dog (not spayed) one dollar shall be assessed, and the said sum, assessed, shall be collected and accounted for by the county treasurer as county levies are by law directed to be collected and counted for; and the treasurer shall keep a separate account of fund arising from said tax. The said fund shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for remunerating the inhabitants of counties for any loss they may sustain from dogs killing or crippling their sheep or any other stock, and for paying any expense necessary to carry this act into effect, and any balance remaining on hand for any year shall he appropriated to the county road fund for the working and keeping in repair the public roads, respectively of the aforesaid counties, in accordance with the laws governing to disposition of such fund.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.