HERBERT R. O'CONOR., GOVERNOR. 677

of the license issued. Such license warrants, when under
close supervision, hunting dogs, or dogs for breeding purposes
or sale, to be taken from the kennel to the hunting field and
hunted or taken for exercise or showing, and returned to the
kennel in similar manner but does not warrant any dog kept
at the kennel otherwise to leave its limits without an individual
license and the wearing of an individual license tag.

For protection and identification of kennel dogs in transit
between the kennel and the field as above provided they must
wear collars or harnesses with kennel identification marks by
name or number attached thereto and furnished by the kennel,
which may be removed only when under supervision in the
exercise or hunting field.

Kennel licenses are due and payable on or before January 1st
and not later than January 31st in each year, or when begin-
ning operations, and the license fee for kennels owning or keep-
ing not more than twenty dogs shall be Fifteen Dollars
($15. 00) and for each additional ten dogs or fraction thereof
over twenty, the "license fee shall be increased Five Dollars
($5. 00), and the names of all persons owning, operating, or
interested in the kennel at the time of taking the licenses shall
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 ships 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 defraud
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 li-
cense being to relieve owners of dogs kept at a kennel and
never being allowed to run at large, from the necessity of tak-
ing out individual licenses for such dogs.

(c) The Board of County Commissioners shall have the
right to reduce the cost of any or each class of license fees
not to exceed fifty percent (50%) if, in the discretion of the
Board, such reduction is necessary and proper.

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 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 frac-
tion of a month of such delinquency; and any person violating
either by failing or refusing to comply with any of the pro-
visions of Section 256B shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and