CHARLES COUNTY. 749

SEC. 58A. That every owner or custodian shall pay an an-
nual license fee of one dollar and fifty cents on every male dog
and a license fee of two dollars and fifty cents on every gyp or
female dog owned or kept in Charles County by such owner or
custodian, the payment of which said sum or sums shall be the
license for such owner or custodian of such dog or gyp to keep
said dog or gyp from the 1st of June preceding the payment of
such licenses to the 31st day of May next following.

SEC. 58B. For carrying into effect the provisions of Section
58A and collecting the license therein imposed, the Board of
County Commissioners for Charles County are hereby author-
ized, empowered and directed to provide, before the 1st day of
June in each and every year a sufficient number of metal tags
having stamped thereon "License for Dog or Gyp," as the case
may be, together with the year, which said metal tag shall be
in some secure manner attached to every dog or gyp in said
county, and shall be the only evidence that the owner or cus-
todian of the said dog or gyp has paid the license herein pre-
scribed for the year as stamped on said tags.

SEC. 58c. The constables for the respective election districts
for said Charles county are hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to obtain for the said County Commissioners on or
before the 15th day of June in each and every year, a sufficient
number of said metal tags in each year for each and every dog
or gyp in their respective election districts, and to furnish to
each owner or custodian of such dog or gyp one of said tags
upon payment to said constable of the license fee imposed by
Section 58A, and to collect said license fee from said owner or
custodian, and to turn over all fees so collected to the said
Board of County Commissioners at their first meeting in each
and every month. And should the owner or custodian of any
dog or gyp in said county fail to pay the said license fee to the
constable when called upon to do so, the constable shall imme-
diately give notice to such owner or custodian in writing, that
unless said license is paid within a period of twenty days from
the date of said notice that he, the constable, will kill said dog
or gyp, and upon the failure of the owner or custodian to com-
ply with the said notice by paying the license fee prescribed by
this Act, it shall be the duty of the constable to immediately
kill said dog or gyp, wherever found, and the said constables
are hereby empowered to enter upon the premises of any person
in said Charles county for the purpose of carrying into effect
any of the provisions of this Act, and each of said constables
shall receive the sum of twenty-five cents for each dog or gyp
so licensed by him, and the sum of fifty cents for each dog or
gyp killed by him, under the provisions of this Act, to be paid
to the said constables out of the moneys collected as license