678 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 620

upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of
Anne Arundel County or in the Circuit Court of said County,
shall be subjected to a minimum fine of not less than Five
Dollars (f5. 00) and not more than Twenty-five Dollars
(|25. 00) or shall be imprisoned in the County Jail for not more
than thirty days, or shall be both fined and imprisoned in the
discretion of the Court. It shall be the duty of the State's At-
torney, the Sheriff, the County Police, and the Wardens of the
County to prosecute all persons found violating the law by
failing1 or refusing to comply with its provisions. Provided,
however, that the Board of County Commissioners shall have
the right, in their discretion, to extend the time for procuring
licenses until April 1st and no longer.

Payment of the license tax subsequent to the issuance of a
summons or warrant by a magistrate or other court for failure
to do so within the time required shall not operate to relieve
said owner from the penalties provided. Any dog not wearing
a license tag of the proper calendar year shall prima facie be
deemed to be unlicensed and in any proceedings under this Act
the burden of proof of the fact that such dog has been licensed,
or is otherwise not required to bear a tag a the time, shall be
on the owner of said dbg.

256D. (Disposition of License Fees, Penalties and Fines).
The County Treasurer shall keep receipts of dog license fees,
penalties, and fines, and expenditures incident to operation and
enforcement of this Act in a separate account, and all receipts
shall be expended only for the proper operation and enforce-
ment of this Act, and for no other purposes. -

256E. (License Certificate. ) The County Commissioners,
not later than November 1st each year, shall furnish the
County Treasurer with a supply of license certificates to-
gether with the corresponding metal tags, dog census books, af-
fidavit forms, etc., in sufficient quantity to cover all require-
ments for the following year.

Certificates shall be serially numbered in books of 100 each
with duplicate stubs both of which shall provide spaces in
which shall be recorded the following data:

Election district, full name of owner, home address with
street and house number, or rural route and box number, name
of dog, sex, breed, age, color and markings.

Certificates shall be kept by the owner for exhibit to the
Warden or his agents on demand and any alteration of the
entries on the same is subject to penalty as hereinafter pro-
vided.

Individual license certificates and their accompanying tags
attach to the dog for which issued, and unless surrendered to
the County Treasurer, pass with the dog upon its change of