EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1011

the license is issued, except when confined in the kennel or
when hunting in charge of an attendant.

196. The county commissioners of the several counties shall
prepare, and furnish annually to the county treasurer, Clerk
to County Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer, and
to the Justices of the Peace of the respective counties metal tags
to be given to the owners of dogs when such owners shall pay
the license fee for said dogs. Such tags shall be of metal, and
shall have serial number corresponding with the number on the
license issued to said owner, as provided in the preceding sec-
tion of this Act. Such tags shall also have impressed thereon
the calendar year for which such tag is issued, and shall not be
more than one inch in length, and shall be equipped with a
substantial metal fastening device. The general shape of said
tag shall be changed from year to year, and the tags furnished
owners of kennels shall have the word "kennel" thereon. If
any such tag is lost it shall be replaced by the county treasurer,
or Justice of the Peace, upon application by the person to
whom the original license was issued, upon production of such
license and payment of a fee of twenty-five cents.

197. Any Justice of the Peace of the several counties after
having received and receipted for necessary blanks and tags,
may issue such dog licenses and tags in like manner as pre-
scribed for the issuance of licenses by the county treasurer.
When a license is issued by the Justice of the Peace, the
said Justice of the Peace may retain as his fee for the issu-
ance of said license, reporting the same, and remitting pay-
ment therefor, to the County Treasurer, or Clerk of the
County Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer, the
sum of twenty-five cents. Such report and remittance
shall be made by the Justice of the Peace at the end of each
month; whereupon the county treasurer shall make a record
of, and otherwise treat, said license as though it had been
issued from his office, except that he shall also note upon his
record the name of the Justice issuing the license. Every Jus-
tice of the Peace shall deliver the book or books from which
he had issued licenses, together with the stubs therein properly
filled out and showing the names of each license and the num-
ber of the license issued to him, to the county treasurer or Clerk
to the County Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer
before the first day of July of each year.

Any person becoming the owner, after the first day of July
of any year, of any dog six months old or over which has not