670 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 384

any person between October 31st and December 31st of any
year, the license tax for the succeeding calendar year shall
be paid forthwith by said owner, and owners of any other
dogs subject to license may, at their option, on and after
November 1st renew such license for the succeeding calendar
year and such lincense shall protect all such dogs from the
date of such purchase.

(b) (Kennel License.) A kennel license is meant to cover
one pack or collection of dogs kept on a single premises,
however owned, whether maintained for breeding, treatment,
boarding, sale, training, hunting or other purposes, and in-
cluding pet shops where dogs and other animals are on sale
and the one license and the one tag securely fastened at a
prominent place on the enclosure shall cover all dogs kept
there with the limit of the license issued. Such license war-
rants, when under close supervision, hunting dogs, or dogs
for breeding purposes or sale, to be taken from the kennel to
the hunting field and hunted or taken for exercise or showing,
and returned to the kennel in similar manner but does not
warrant any dog kept at the kennel otherwise to leave its
limits without an individual license and the wearing of an
individual license tag.

For protection and identification of kennel dogs in transit
between the kennel and the field as above provided they must
wear collars or harnesses with kennel identification marks
by name or number attached thereto and furnished by the
kennel, which may be removed only when under supervision in
the exercise or hunting field.

Kennel licenses are due and payable on or before January
1st and not later than the last day of February in each
year, or when beginning operations, and the license fee
for kennels owning or keeping not more than twenty dogs
shall be Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) and for each additional
ten dogs or fraction thereof over twenty, the license fee shall
be increased Five Dollars ($15.00), and the names of all per-
sons owning, operating or interested in the kennel at the time
of taking the licenses shall be written on the back of the certi-
ficate and the stub; and the name and address of the owner
of each dog kept in such kennel and a record giving full data
concerning sales or other disposition of dogs from such ken-
nels or ships shall be kept on file thereat and available for
inspection by the Warden or other peace officers at all times.

A kennel shall not be operated in such manner as to de-
fraud the County of the license fee applying to dogs which
cannot legally be covered thereunder or in any manner to
violate other provisions of this sub-title; the primary purpose