ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 709

female dog, and provided that a kennel license shall be issued
for ten dollars ($10. 00) to persons owning or keeping not in
excess of twenty-five dogs and that a kennel license fee of
twenty dollars ($20) shall be issued to persons keeping more
than twenty-five dogs. Provided, further, that in Talbot
County the fee for a male dog or a spayed female dog shall
be $1. 50 and the fee for an unspayed female dog shall be
$3. 00, The said license or fee shall be the only license or
tax required for the ownership or keeping of said dog or dogs.
Such license shall be issued on a form prepared and supplied
by the County Commissioners. Such license shall be dated
and numbered, and shall contain a description of the dog
licensed. All licenses shall be void upon the first day of July
of the following year. The County Commissioners shall also
furnish, and the county treasurer, or Justice of the Peace,
issuing the license, shall issue, with each license, a metal tag.
Such tag shall be affixed to a substantial collar. The collar
shall be furnished by the owner, and with the tag attached
shall at all times be kept on the dog for which the license is
issued, except when confined in the kennel or when hunting in
charge of an attendant.

268. The county commissioners of the several counties
shall prepare, and furnish annually to the county treasurer,
Clerk to County Commissioners in Counties having no Treas-
urer, and to the Justices of the Peace of the respective counties
metal tags to be given 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 section. 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.

269. Any Justice of the Peace of the several counties after
having received and receipted for necessary blanks and tags,