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, 1893.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions 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 con-
stable shall obtain from the county treasurer a list of all delinquents
under this act in his district, and shall, within thirty days after re-
ceiving 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 con-
stable 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.