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LICENSES. [ART. 12.

Id s 101
1845, c 374, s 3
Charitable
entertainments

104. Every entertainment, exhibition, or performance given for
charitable objects, shall be exempt from taxation or license.

STALLIONS AM) JACKASSES.

Id s 102
1841, c 194, s o
Stud-horse or
jackass.

105, The owner or keeper of every stud-horse or jackass shall,
before being permitted to stand or station such animal, pay to the
clerk of the Circuit Court of some one of the counties in this State,
the highest sum which he intends to ask or receive for the season of
one mare; and the receipt of the said clerk, with the seal of his
court attached thereto for said sum, shall be the license for station-
ing or standing such stud-horse or jackass for one year from the date
thereof; Provided, that in no case shall the sum directed to be paid
by this section for such license, be less than ten dollars; and that
every stallion or jackass upon which the said tax is paid, shall be
exempt from all other State tax.

Id s 103
1841, c 194, s 5.
Penalty.

106. Any owner or keeper stationing or standing any stud-horse
or jackass without a license, shall forfeit and pay twice the sum
authorized and required to be paid in the last preceding section,
one-half to the State, and the other half to the informer

Id s 104
1841, c 194. s. 5
Distraint.

107. Upon information being given upon oath to the sheriff of
any county in which such animal is stationed or standing, that the
owner or keeper is standing such animal without license, the sheriff
shall distrain for the same by seizing such stud-horse or jackass,
and make sale of the same for the amount thus forfeited.