LICENSES. 797

1927, ch. 152, sec. 2C6.

266. If any part or parts of this sub-title, or of any section thereof,
shall be held to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not
affect the validity of the remaining parts of this sub-title, or of any sec-
tion thereof. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed
the remaining parts of this sub-title, or of any section thereof, if it had
known that such part or parts thereof, or of any section thereof, would be

declared unconstitutional.

Secs. 258-266 applied to prevent co-operative company from extending its
route to compete with private company. Co-operative Co. v. Pub. Serv. Commn.,
Daily Record, March 7, 1935.

See notes to secs. 255 and 258.

1931, ch. 380.

266A. Nothing in Sections 256 to 266, both inclusive, of this Article
. shall be construed to apply to farmers and others having general hauler's
license, hauling certain farm products to markets for their neighbors, but
all such farmers and others having general hauler's license shall be
allowed to haul farm products, except milk, for their neighbors, when such
hauling constitutes the first movement of said products from farm to
market; provided, however, that no fanner or anyone having a general
hauler's license shall so haul as aforementioned on regular schedule, except
when transporting a seasonable product.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect in any manner any
rights or privileges which farmers and others having a general hauler's
license now or may hereafter have for the transportation of such products.

DOG LICENSES IN THE COUNTIES.

An. Code, 1924, art. 81, sec. 206. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 195.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 267 (p. 708).

267. On or before the first day of July, 1918, and on or before the
first day of July of each year thereafter, the owner of any dog, six months

old or over, shall apply either orally or in writing, to the County Treas-
urer or Clerk to the County Commissioners in Counties having no Treas-
urer 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 provided that a kennel
license shall be issued for ten dollars ($10. 00) to persons owning or keep-
ing not in excess of twenty-five dogs and that a kennel license fee of twenty

dollars ($20) shall be issued to persons keeping more than twenty-five

dogs. [Provided, further, that in Talbot County the fee for a male dog

or a spayed female dog shall be $1. 50 and the fee for an unspayed female
dog shall be $3. 00. 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 supplied by the County