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ART. LXXXI] DOGS. 647
months old or over, shall apply either orally or in writing, to the County
Treasurer or Clerk to the County Commissioners in Counties having
no Treasurer of the county in which he or she resides or to a Justice
of the Peace of any district in said county for a license for each such
dog owned or kept by him, and such application shall be accompanied
by a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each male dog or each spayed female
dog, and a fee of two dollars for each unspayed female dog, and pro-
vided that a kennel license shall be issued for ten dollars ($10.00) to
persons owning or keeping not in excess of twenty-five dogs and that a
kennel license fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be issued to persons
keeping more than twenty-five dogs. The said license or fee shall be
the only license or tax required for the ownership or keeping of said
dog, or dogs. Such license shall be issued on a form prepared and sup-
plied by the county commissioners. Such license shall be dated and
numbered, and shall contain a description of the dog licensed. All
licenses shall be void upon the first day of July of the following year.
The county commissioners shall also furnish, and the county treasurer,
or Justice of the Peace, issuing the license, shall issue, with each license,
a metal tag. Such tag shall be affixed to a substantial collar. The
collar shall be furnished by the owner, and with the tag attached shall
at all times be kept on the dog for which the license is issued, except
when confined in the kennel or when hunting in charge of an attendant.
This and the following sections are not applicable to Baltimore City;
see section 201.
1018, ch. 497, sec. 106.
196. The county commissioners of the several counties shall pre-
pare, and furnish annually to the county treasurer, Clerk to County
Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer, and to the Justices
of the Peace of the respective counties metal tags to be given to the
owners of dogs when such owners shall pay the license fee for said dogs.
Such tags shall be of metal, and shall have serial number corresponding
with the number on the license issued to said owner, as provided in the
preceding section. Such tags shall also have impressed thereon the
calendar year for which such tag is issued, and shall not be more than
one inch in length, and shall be equipped with a substantial metal fas-
tening device. The general shape of said tag shall be changed from
year to year, and the tags furnished owners of kennels shall have the
word "kennel" thereon. If any such tag is lost it shall be replaced by
the county treasurer, or Justice of the Peace, upon application by the
person to whom the original license was issued, upon production of such
license and payment of a fee of twenty-five cents.
1918, ch. 497, sec. 197.
197. Any Justice of the Peace of the several counties after having
received and receipted for necessary blanks and tags, may issue such
dog licenses and tags in like manner as prescribed for the issuance of
licenses by the county treasurer. When a license is issued by the
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