Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and
thirty-seven of chapter one hundred and forty of the General Laws or any
other provision of law to the contrary, the registering, numbering,
describing and licensing of dogs, if kept in said town, shall be conducted
in the office of the town clerk of said town.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, all money received for or from the sale of dog licenses by the town of Montgomery, or recovered as fines or penalties by said town under the provisions of said chapter one hundred and forty relating to dogs, shall be paid into the treasury of said town and shall not thereafter be paid over by the town treasurer to Hampden county.