This hard bound book was something I discovered recently. It has a whole chapter on dog kennel and individual licensing. At this time of 1929-1930, a dog license costed one dollar for males and spayed females, otherwise fees for females were $2. In the state of Pennsylvania this biased differential license fee has caught up with the times and all genders are taxed the same. There is no longer any exceptions made for INTACT males.

Intact males roam more often, are more often caught fighting other dogs, especially when they are in search for females. Intact males also cause more injury to humans than neutered males and females.

Some excerpts from this lengthy chapter include:

All licenses will be void upon the 15th day of January, the following year

If the license is issued by the Dept. of Revenue, the applicant shall pay an additional .10 for the issuing, recording and reporting said license to this department.

Tags should be attached to "substantial" collars that is furnished by the owner.

Licenses cannot be transferred to another dog, but if one dog is moved from one county to another by the same owner and payment of .25 is made to the treasurer, the owner can obtain a license in the new county of residence for his pet.

Kennel license fees for this time were $10 for 10 or less dogs or less (who were 6 months are older) and $20 for more than 10 dogs.

A person was allowed to bring a dog into the state for up to 30 days, one or more dogs for show, trial or breeding purposes without securing such license. This did not account for hunting dogs though.

Only individual licenses contained information relating to the breed, sex, age, color and markings of the dog licensed.

Female dogs in heat were discriminated against and required to be confined onto the owners property or tethered, none such law pertained to roaming, intact males. Needless to say, this type of gender biased system did not work.

Township or city police officers were given $2 for killing dogs that mained or killed livestock. Of course this allowance was abused and innocent dogs lost their lives

If a dog had bitten livestock, there was a particular fee that compensated for such losses. For example, the state allowed for up to $100 for each horse or mule bitten or $60 for each head of cattle. Poultry was alloted $2 and so was domesticated hare. No specifications were given for how severe the bite actually was.

The dog tax funds that were collected went to cover damage to livestock from dogs runnin at large.

*It was forbidden to own a dog by unnaturalized, foreign-born residents within the Commonwealth

Nowadays we don't have this problem in cities and suburbs, but the government has not withdrawn its DOG TAX has it? Once a tax is written into the law, it rarely dissapears. Cats have never been required to be licensed in the state of PA.....How fair is that?