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tag attached shall at all times be kept on the dog for which the license is 

 issued, except when confined in the kennel ; and except, also, that dogs 

 owned or used by the Board of Game Commissioners of the Commonwealth, or 

 their special deputy game-protectors, servants, agents, and employes, shall not 

 be required to wear the collar and tag aforesaid when used in hunting wildcat 

 and bear during the winter months of December, January and February in 

 each and every year. 



SEC. 6. The county commissioners shall prepare, and furnish annually to the 

 county treasurer, metal tags to be given by the county treasurer to the owners 

 of dogs when such owners shall pay the license fee for said dogs. Such tags 

 shall be of metal, and shall bear the name of the county issuing it, and a 

 serial number corresponding with the number on the license issued to said 

 owner, as provided in the preceding section of this act. 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 sub- 

 stantial metal fastening device. The general shape of said tag shall be changed 

 from year to year. 



If any such tag is lost it shall be replaced without cost by the county treasurer, 

 upon application by the person to whom the original license was issued, and 

 upon production of such license. 



SEC. 7. Any justice of the peace within the county who has qualified by 

 having applied to the county treasurer, and having received and receipted for 

 necessary blanks and tags, may issue such dog license and tags in like manner 

 as prescribed for the issuance of licenses by the county treasurer. When a 

 license is issued by a justice of the peace the person applying for the license 

 shall pay fifteen cents to the said justice, in addition- to 'the other fees pre- 

 scribed as the cost of said license., Said fifteen cents shall be retained by the 

 justice of the peace as his fee for the issuance of said license and reporting 

 the same and remitting payment therefor to the county treasurer. Such report 

 and remittance shall be made by the justice of the peace within twenty-four 

 hours after the issuance of any license by him ; whereupon the county treasurer 

 shall make a record of, and otherwise treat, said license as though it had been 

 issued from his office, except that he shall also note upon his record the name 

 of the justice issuing the license. 



Every justice of the peace shall deliver the book or books from which he has 

 issued licenses, together with the stubs therein properly filled out and show- 

 ing the names of each licensee and the number of the license issued to him, 

 to the county treasurer before the fifteenth day of January of each year. 



SEC. 8. Any person becoming the owner, after the fifteenth day of January 

 of any year, of any dog six months old or over which has not already been 

 licensed, or any person owning or keeping a dog which becomes six months 

 old at any time after the fifteenth day of January of any year, shall forthwith 

 apply for and secure a license for such dog in the same manner as the annual 

 license is obtained under the provisions of this act. If any such application 

 is made at any time after the fifteenth day of July of any year the license fee 

 shall be, for each male or unspayed female dog, one-half of the amount fixed 

 as the annual license, by county commissioners, for male or spayed female 

 dogs ; for each unspayed female dog, one-half of the amount fixed as the 

 annual license, by the county commissioners, for unspayed female dogs. 



SEC. 9. No license or license tag issued for one dog shall be transferable to 

 another dog, except as provided in sections eleven and twelve of this act. 

 Whenever the ownership or possession of any dog is permanently transferred 

 from one person to another within the same county, the license of such dog 

 may be likewise transferred, upon notice given to the county treasurer. This 

 act does not require the procurement of a new license, or the transfer of a 

 license already secured, when the possession of a dog is temporarily transferred 

 for the purpose of hunting game, or for breeding, trial, or show, in this 

 Commonwealth. 



SEC. 10. Whenever any dog licensed in one county is permanently removed 

 to another county, the county treasurer of the county where the license was 

 issued shall, upon the application of the owner or keeper of such dog, certify 

 such license to the treasurer of the county to which the dog is removed. 

 Such treasurers shall thereupon, and upon the payment of a fee of twenty-five 

 cents, issue a license and tag for such dog in the county to which it is removed. 



This section does not apply to dogs used during the hunting season for hunting 

 game, or temporarily for breeding, trial, or show, in the Commonwealth ; nor 



