The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-05
Dog Law.


law regulating the keeping of dogs; the
law went into effect on the first Tues
day of April inst. It's provisions are
important to every dog owner, and we
give below brief abstract Of it's essen
tial provisions.
Sec. 1. Provides that Every owner
or keeper of dog shall on or before
the first Tuesday of April in each year,
cause it to be registered, numbered,
described and licensed for one year
from that date in the clerks office of
the city, Incorporated village, or town
where he resides and shall pay for such
license one dollar for every mail dog,
six months old, and upwards, and three
dollars for every female dog six months
and upwards.
Sec. 2. The owner of every dog so
licensed shall keep a collar around its
neck distinctly marked with the name
of the owner, registered, numbered and
the year for which such dog is licensed,
which date shall be stamped on said
collar by the officer issuing the said IL
cense, and for the purpose of enabling
such officer to so stamp the collar with
the year for which he shall issue a IL
cense as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of
the proper authorities of cities, incorpo-
rated villages and towns to furnish such
officers with a proper stamp for such
purpose.
SEc.3. Any person may, and every
police officer, constable or marshal shall
kill or cause to be destroyd, all dogs
going at large and not licensed and coll
AIRED according to the provisions of the
act; officers shall receive from the city
or town treasurer twenty-five cents
for every dog SO destroyed and buried
by them.
Sec. A. Whoever shall remove the
collar from the neck Of dog so licens-
ed and collared without the knowledge
and concent Of the owner, or steal dog
so licensed and collared, or shall al
ter the stamp on such collier, shall be
punished by fine not exceeding fifty
dollars.
Sec. s. and 6. Prescribes the manner of pro-
ceeding in tn case of the loss of sheep by dogs.
SEC. z. Whoever keeps a dog not registered,
numbered, described and licensed accorning to
the provisions of this act, shall forfeit the sum of
five dollars to the town, city village where the
dog is kept.
SEC. 8. Owners of dogs may at any time
have them licensed until the the first Tuesday
in April succeeding, upon payment to the clerk
of the sums provided in the first section of this
act, but such payment and license shall not ex-
empt them from the penalties of the preceding
section on any complaint already made. Is
SeEc. g. Provides that no new icence shall
be required on the removal of the owner of a
dog into another town.
SEC. TO- The mayor and aldermen of any
city, president or trustee of any incorporated
village, and the supervisors of each town shall
require all dogs not licensed and collared accord
ing to the provisions of this act,to be destroyed
by poison or otherwise az they may ordain and
shall enforce all the penalties herein provided.
Sec. IL. Any officer of any city town or IN.
corpOrated village, who shall refuse or neglect to
perform the duties imposed upon him by this act,
shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty
dollars for every twenty-four hours which he
shall so neglect or refuse which shall be paid
into the taeasury of snch town, city or incorpe-
rated village.
SEC. r. Provides that the city ouncil of
any city, or supervisors of any town, may make
duult1oHdI tuieS anu regulations anu dHA penal
ties tor their violation not conflicting with the
provisions of this act.
Sec. 49, All fines and forfeitures imposed as
a penalty for the violation of any of the provi-
sionS of this act, or neglect Of any duty imposed
by the same, shall be presented by complaint be-
fore justice of the peace of the proper jurisdic-
ton, and no more technical objection to the
complaint shall be alleged to defeat prosecution
so commenced, and prosecutions for fines and
forfeitures under this act shall be in the name of
the State of Wisconsin.
SEC. IA. Provides that all prosecutions nnder
the provisions of this act, if in city, it shall be
in the name Of the Mayor as plaintiff, and when
brought in any town, the chairman of the Board |
of Supervisors, shall be plaintiff.