Chap. 155.—An ACT to amend the act for the protection of sheep in
the county of Powhatan.

Approved March 6, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the sixth
section of an act, approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five, entitled an act for the protection of
sheep in the county of Powhatan, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 6. That when any inhabitants of said county shall have
any sheep killed by a dog or dogs, he or she may make out
an account for the sheep so killed, which sball be verified by
affidavit, and present the same to the board of supervisors at
its next or some subsequent meeting, who shall allow for
each sheep so killed the amount at which the said sheep
were assessed by the commissioner of the revenue at the
last preceding assessment made by him, and shall issue to
the owner of the sheep a warrant on the treasurer for the
said amount; and if the sheep so killed have not been
assessed in the hands of the owner, then they shall allow
the average value at which sheep were assessed in the said
county at the last assessment. At the close of the. fiscal
year, the treasurer shall make an estimate of all such war-
rants, and of the amount of ‘such tax of the same year, and
if it-appear that the amount of said tax collected will be
insufficient to discharge the whole amount of said damages
and rewards, he shall apportion the same, and pay each
sufferer in proportion to the Joss sustained. He shall also
pay all rewards for the destruction of foxes and coons, when
properly certified; and if, after settling the yearly account
as aforesaid, there shall be any surplus, such eurplus shall be
placed to the credit of the county for county purposes: pro-
vided that all dogs upon which the tax of the preceding year
has been paid, shall be entitled to the protection of the law,
as if the same were personal property, and shall to that
extent be considered personal property. |