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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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dollar and fifty cents for each male, two dollars and fifty 

 cents for each female, and one dollar and fifty cents for each 

 neuter dog, the same to be collected by the proper authority 

 at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are 

 collected ; -provided, however, that there shall be collected at 

 the first collection such proportion of the annual tax as cor- 

 responds to the number of months the tax has been in opera- 

 tion plus one year advance payment. After this dog license 

 tax has been established in a county, city and county, or incor- 

 porated city or town, it shall be continued in force until an 

 order has been issued by the state board of health declaring 

 that county, or such portion of that county as may be deemed 

 advisable, to be free from rabies or further danger of its 

 spread. 



(&) One-half of all fines collected by any court or juiga 

 f r violations of the provisions of this act shall be placed to 

 the credit of the rabies treatment and eradication fund of 

 the county, city and county, incorporated city or town in 

 which the violation occurred. 



SEC. 7. Whenever it becomes necessary in the judgment of 

 the state board of health or its secretary, to enforce the pro- 

 visions of this act in any county, city and county, or incorpo- 

 rated city or town, the said board or its secretary may insti- 

 tute special measures of control to supplement the efforts of 

 the local authorities in any county, city and county, or incor- 

 Expenditures. porated city or town whose duties are specified in this act. All 

 expenditures incurred in enforcing such special measures shall 

 be proper charges against the special fund created by the 

 provisions of this act, and shall be paid as they accrue by the 

 proper authorities of each county, city and county, or incor- 

 porated city or town in which they have been incurred; pro- 

 vided, that all such expenditures which may be incurred after 

 the issuance of the order establishing the said fund and before 

 the first collection of the tax, shall be paid as they accrue from 

 the general fund of the county, city and county, or incor- 

 porated city and town ; and, provided, further, that all expen- 

 ditures in excess of the balance of money in this fund shall 

 likewise be paid as they accrue from said general fund. All 

 moneys thus expended from the general fund shall be repaid 

 from the said special fund when the collections from said tax 

 have been provided the money. 



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