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changed from year to year. If any such tag is lost it shall be replaced by
the Dog Constable, 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.

1924, ch. 345, sec. 91B.

162. Any Dog Constable, after having received and receipted for
necessary blanks and tags, may issue such dog licenses and tags. When a
license is issued by the Dog Constable, the said Dog Constable may retain
as his fee for the issuance of said license, reporting the same, and remit-
ting payment therefor, to the Clerk to the County Commissioners, the sum
of twenty-five cents. Such report and remittance shall be made by the
Dog Constable at the end of each month; whereupon the Clerk to the
County Commissioners shall make a record of, and otherwise treat, said
license as though it had been issued from his office, except that he shall
also note upon his record the name of the Dog Constable issuing the
license. Every Dog Constable shall deliver the book or books from which
he had issued licenses, together with the stubs therein properly filled out
and showing the name of each licensee, and the number of the license
issued to him, to the Clerk to the County Commissioners, before the first
day of July of each year.

Any person becoming the owner, after the first day of July of any year,
of any dog six months old or over which has not already been licensed, or
any person owning or keeping a dog which became six months old at any
time after the first day of July of any year, shall forthwith apply for and
secure a license for such dog in the same manner as the annual license is
obtained under the provisions of this sub-title.

1924, ch. 345, sec. 91C.

163. Any -person may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pur-
suing, worrying, wounding or killing any poultry or livestock, or attack-
ing Iranian beings whether or not such dog bears the proper license tag
required by these provisions. There shall be no liability on such persons
in damages or otherwise for such killing. Any unlicensed dog that enters
any field or yard shall constitute a private nuisance and the owner or ten-
ant of such field or yard, or other agent or servant, may kill such dog while
it is in the field or yard without liability or responsibility of any nature
for such killing and any person may kill a female dog running at large
while in heat without liability therefor.

1924, ch. 345, sec. 91D.

164. All monies arising from the dog licenses or taxes shall be kept in
a separate fund by the County Commissioners of Kent County, and shall
be used for the payment of damages for the injury and killing of sheep,
poultry or other live stock in said Kent County. In the event the same
are not sufficient for the payment of all such damages the said damages
shall be paid in the order the claims are presented, and any person or per-