368 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

CHAPTER 198.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 717
of the Acts of 1910, entitled "An Act providing for the tax-
ation of dogs in Montgomery County, and creating a fund
out of which owners of domestic fowls or animals killed or
injured by dogs may be reimbursed for the loss of the same,
and furnishing revenue for the macadamizing of public
roads in said County, and to provide for the treatment of
indigent persons bitten by mad animals by the Pasteur or
other treatment, " so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all owners of dogs bom before the first of
January in each year, in Montgomery County, shall pay to the
County an annual tax of One Dollar for each male dog and
Two Dollars for each female dog, except keepers of dogs who
shall pay a county license of ten dollars per annum for less
than twenty-five dogs and for fifty dogs, twenty-five dollars,
and each and every dog in such kennel shall be a thoroughbred
and the bona fide property of the keeper of such kennel; the
dog tax collectors shall issue a kennel license, which shall
specify the name of the owner, the name of the kennel, and
the keeper of the same, and any dog kept or straying about
the premises of any person, with his knowledge, whether such
person be the owner or only the occupant of said premises,
shall be deemed for the purpose of this Section the property oi
said person, and the tax imposed by this Section shall be due
and payable on the first day of January of each year, and
shall be payable within the first ninety days of each year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners to provide the constables of the County
in their respective districts, with suitable metal tags, having
stamped on one side the number thereof and on the other side
the year for which they are to be used, to be worn on the neck
of the dogs whose owners shall pay to the constable the said
tax, and County Commissioners shall provide the constables
with blank receipts, in printed form, which, when filled up,
shall contain the name of the owner of the dog, his postoffice
address, as well as the name of the dog, its sex, breed and color,
with the number and date of its tag, and the amount of tax
collected, and County Commissioners shall also provide them
with blank reports, in printed form, to be made by the con-
stables to the County Commissioners, containing the facts re-