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be written on the back of the certificate 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 kennels or shops 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 Act; the primary purpose of a
kennel license being to relieve owners of dogs kept at a ken-
nel and never being allowed to run at large, from the neces-
sity of taking out individual licenses for such dogs.

(c) Adjustment from Fiscal to Calendar Tear. For the
purpose of changing the licensing period from the fiscal year
to the calendar year the license period under the present law
beginning July 1st, 1937, shall extend for eighteen months
to December 31st, 1938, and thereafter shall run for the
annual period from January 1st to December 31st.

For this period of adjustment from July 1st, 1937 to Decem-
ber 31st, 1938, all license fees, individual and kennel, estab-
lished by this Act shall be increased one-half in order to cover
the one and one-half year period.

License certificates for this period shall clearly indicate
its inclusive dates and corresponding license tags shall be
marked 1937-1938 and thereafter both certificates and tags
shall be marked for the calendar year. Census books for this
period shall be made up during July and August 1937.

For this period penalties provided under Section 256C
shall be figured on the basis of the eighteen months license
fees instead of the annual fees.

256C. PENALTIES AND FINES FOR DELINQUENT LICENSES.
Any license either individual or kennel that is not procured
during the month of January or within thirty days from the
time when by the provisions of this Act it is due and payable
shall have added to it as a penalty for such delinquency an
amount equal to 25% of the regular annual fee for each month
or fraction of a month of such delinquency; and any person
violating either by failing or refusing to comply with any of
the provisions of Section 256B shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of
the peace of Anne Arundel County or in the Circuit Court of
said County, shall be subjected to a mandatory fine of not more
than Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00) or shall be imprisoned in the
County Jail for not more than thirty days, or shall be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the Court. It shall
be the duty of the State's Attorney, the Sheriff, and the War-