2<)U-i MlSCELLAIs^EOUS LaWS 



persons so appointed and employed, for the services rendered by 

 them. ( 4s ame^ided hy chapter 02 D of the Laivs of lUlo.) 



§ 134. Value to be recovered. The value of any dog destroyed 

 by any constable except as herein provided may be recovered by the 

 owner of such dog' from either such constable or the town therein 

 such dog is destroved. 



§ 135. Disposition of registration fees and penalties. The town 

 clerk shall at the end of every calendar month pay to the supervisor 

 all fees received bv him during such month for the registration of 

 does and bitches nnder this article, less the sum of twentv-iive cents 

 for each dog and bitch registered, which may be retained by him as 

 his fee therefor. Any village clerk receiving such fees or the pro- 

 ceeds of penalties provided for l)y this chapter shall pay over the 

 same monthly, less such registration fees, to the village treasurer, 

 and the latter shall retain the same in a separate fund until the 

 close of the fiscal year of such village, excepting that he shall, from 

 time to time, pay therefrom to the supervisor of the town in w^hicb 

 such village is located any portion thereof which the supervisor 

 certifies to be needed for satisfying claims for the killing or injur- 

 ing of sheep in such town after the other moneys in the hands of 

 the supervisor, applicable to such purposes, have been exhausted. 

 Any part of such fund in the hands of a village clerk and treasurer 

 not so paid out and remaining in their hands at the close of such 

 fiscal year shall belong to the village and may be applied to such 

 village purpose as the trustees thereof may direct. A justice of 

 the peace before whom a penalty is recovered as provided in sec- 

 tion one hundred and thirty-two of this article, if the complaint 

 was made by a town clerk, shall fortliwith pay one-half thereof, 

 when collected, to the supervisor, and one-half to the town clerk 

 for his fees in making the complaint in the action in which such 

 penalty is recovered. The money paid to the supervisor pursuant 

 to this section on account of registration fees and penalties, or 

 j^aid to him by any village clerk under the provisions of this sec- 

 tion, shall, except as otherwise provided herein, be applied for the 

 same purposes as provided l)v law with respect to taxes col- 

 lected upon dogs, if the complaint in any action for such 



