5270 ARTICLE 24.

shall be paid; and on and after the passage of this Act 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 keeping or har-
boring thereof; the year for which permits or licenses are to be issued
shall be reckoned from the first day of May, inclusive, in one year to the
first day of May, exclusive, in the next year. The owner of a dog kept
or harbored in said town, and when a different person, the tenant or con-
trolling occupant of a premises where the dog is kept or harbored, shall
be 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 licenses shall in any case be issued unless the above
mentioned tax of one dollar per dog is duly paid on issuing the same,
provided that a kennel license may be issued for five dollars ($5.00) per
year to persons keeping or harboring within the corporate limits not in
excess of seven dogs and a kennel license may be issued for ten dollars
($10.00) per year to persons keeping or harboring within the corporate
limits in excess of seven dogs. All permits or licenses shall be authenti-
cated by the signature of the town clerk, and the corporate seal. 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 har-
bored shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before
a Justice of the Peace for Worcester County, or in the Circuit Court of
said county, such parties shall be fined three dollars for every offense, and
shall be adjudged to pay the costs and to stand committed until the fine
and costs are paid; if at the end of such case the evidence shows that the
dog has been kept or 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 occupants
of the premises where the same is kept may be prosecuted in one case or
in separate cases; but if they are prosecuted in one case, a single fine of
three dollars shall be imposed, but if in separate cases a fine of three dol-
lars shall be imposed in each case; but the 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 Pocomoke
City for the space of ten days, between the first day of May, A. D........

and the........ day of................ A. D........." The second

date shall be the date on which the warrant of the arrest is issued. A
new prosecution may be sustained on proper evidence as often as the party
or parties who are liable keep or harbor such dog for ten days after the
previous prosecution has terminated; when it is uncertain who is the con-
trolling tenant or occupant of the premises whereupon the dog is kept,
the Justice before whom the complaint is about to be made may issue a
subpoena for and compel the attendance of any witness in order that he