2214 ARTICLE 10.

female dog a yearly tax of two dollars shall be imposed. On and after-
the first day of July, A. D. 1900, no dog, male or female, shall be kept
or harbored within said town unless a permit or license shall be applied
for and obtained authorizing the keepi.ng or harboring thereof. The year
for which such permits or licenses are to be issued shall be reckoned from
the first day of July, inclusive, in one year, to the first day of July,
exclusive, in the next year. The owner of a dog kept and harbored in
said town, and when a different person, the tenant or controlling occupant
of the premises where the dog is kept or harbored, shall be alike and
equally bound to take out such permit or license; and where a married
woman is the tenant or controlling occupant of said premises, and her
husband resides therein with her, the husband and wife shall both be
bound. No permits or license shall in any case be issued unless the tax
is duly paid on the issuing of the same. All permits or licenses shall be
authenticated by the signature of the town clerk and the corporate seal.
They shall be delivered to the town collector, who shall give a receipt for
the same and account therefor. He shall collect the tax and issue the
licenses or permits, and make monthly settlements with the town clerk
therefor.

If any dog, whether male or female, shall be kept or harbored in said
town for ten days in any year, as the year is herein defined, without a
license or permit being taken out therefor, the owner of such dog, and
the tenant or controlling occupant of the premises where the same is kept
or harbored shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
before a justice of the peace or in the Circuit Court for said county, such
parties shall be fined three dollars for every offense, and shall be adjudged
to pay the costs and to stand committed till the fine and costs are paid.
If at the trial of any such case the evidence shows that the dog has been
kept and harbored in the town for two days, the burden shall be on the
defendant of showing that it has not been so kept or harbored for ten
days. The owner of the dog and the tenant or controlling occupant of the
premises where the same is kept may be prosecuted in one case, or in sepa-
rate cases. But if they are prosecuted in one case, a single fine of three
dollars shall be imposed; and if in separate cases, a fine of three dollars
shall be imposed in each case; but tie payment of one fine and all the
costs shall entitle all the parties to be discharged.

It shall be sufficient if the warrant or charge sets forth—that the
defendants (naming them) unlawfully kept or harbored a certain dog
within the limits of Cambridge for the space of ten clays, between the
first day of July, A. D. —————, and the ————— day of ————— A. D.
The second date shall be the date on which the warrant of arrest is issued.
A new prosecution may be sustained 011 proper evidences as often as the
parties who are liable keep or harbor such dog for ten days after the pre-
vious prosecution has terminated. When it is uncertain who is the con-
trolling tenant or occupant of the premises whereupon the dog is kept,