Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-14
The Dos Ordinanoo License REQUIRED
from Owners

4
passed an ordinance "To regulate and re-
strain dogs from running at large in the
| city, and 70 provide against the spread OF
! hydrophobia.n As this act will affect the
interests Of most Of our citizens we publish
the following brief abstract of its provisions:
| every owner of an animal of the dog
kind is required TO procure license-check
| of the Mayor, upon which the number shall
| be marked, which check shall be attached to
the dogs collar; shall be good for one year,
and for which the owner shall pay 81.
Every person is prohibited from owning or
harboring any dog unless thus licensed.
ut shall be unlawful for any one to re-
move this check or collar; to entice any
animal of the dog kind away from the prem
ises of the owner; to beat or abuse them; TO
set them to fight, or keep them for that pur-
pose; or to throw any poisonous substance
in their way for the purpose Of destroying
them.
at shall be unlawful for the owner of any
vicious or fierce dog to suffer him to run at
large, or for any person to harboI one which,
by constant barking and yelpiDg, shall dis
tufb the neighbors. The ordinance makes
the usual provisions for preventing the
spread of hydruphobia, by requiring dogs to
be muzzed or confined for at least sixty
days. upon the issue of proclamation by the
Mayor"
The ordinance further provides:
"That the Mayor shall provide a pound
wherein he shall cause to be impounded all
animals of the dog kind that may at any
time be found running at large without
wearing license check or that, during the
term of proclamation, may be found running
| at large without wearing muzzle, as here
inbefore provided. The Mayor may, when
necessary, employ pound master, or, when
convenient, designate and detail some one of
the police to take charge of the pound. The
Mayor may also, when necessary, employ
one person for each fire district to collect
aud impound all animals of the dog kind
liable to be impounded.
"Thst it shall be lawful for any person to
arrest and take up any and all animals of the
dog kind, that are not licensed or muzzled as
herein required, that may be found uncared
for straying or running at large in any of
the streets, alleys public landings, market
spaces or commons of the city, provided the
animals is conveyed forthwith to the pound !;
and for each animal so arrested and delivered
at the pound, the party delivering it shall be
entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five
cents, payable from the City Treasury. And
it shall be unlawful for any person to arrest
or take up any animal of the dog kind other
than those contemplated in this section.
THAT all animals of the dog kind may be
: released from pound, by the owner making
n demand therefor to the Pound Master, OF
= other person having charge thereof proving
o ownership and paying the expense charge OF
4 one dollar, which sum is to be accounted for
by the Mayor and paid into the City Treas
ury. All animals of the dog kind, which
may have remained in pound for forty-eight
hours, without being claimed and released
by their owners, shall be put to death by
drowning, or if the animal is worthy and
valuable shall be sold at public outcry tc
the highest and best bidder, at twelve
81 o'clock NJ, next succeeding the forty-eight
st hour term and the proceeds of such sale
p shall be accounted for as above provided.
& THAT any peason or persons offending
y against any of the provisions of this 0rdi-
a, nance, shall, for each violation, upon convic-
ID ton before the Police Court of the city ol
& Cincinnati, be fined in any sum not exceed
ing 500, together with costs of prosecution
or be imprisoned not more than twenty
~ days, or both at the discretion of the Court"
!. All previous ordinances on the subject are
" repealed, and this is to take effect from and
= after the first day of October.
CINCINNATI AID AssoCIAT1oN.-The Gin
:" cinnati Aid Association, to which the atten
A. tion of our readers has already been directed
i has recently made O summary of part of it
as doings since its organization, which show
to that with comparatively small expenditure
,ft of money, but through great outlay of tint
ed and attention on the part of some of its mem
r. bers, has already been able to accomplish
rs much for the benefit Of the people and of tn
in city.
p- After careful and thorough preparation
sr- opened an Office under the supervision of a
Executive Council, at the South east corne
of Fourth and Plum, (2O3 Foupth-street), o
l., the 9th day of May last. That office ha
o. and competent person is in constant al
~ tendance.
mt To the Office all sorts OF persons, of variou
Ill occupations and callings, have resorted TO
be advice, information and assistance.
nd During the four months ending the lst G
A1ao ho1
ployment, in the city and country, for abou
er- thirteen hundred persons. 1t has sent man
on men to the recruiting stations, and theme
ts into the army-others as teamsters, mt
chanics and laborers, have, through the &C
vice at the Office of the Executive Council
attached themselves less directly, to th
te- army. Women and some men have been o.
M sisted to find occupation in the city-an
W. some hundreds have been sent to the couI
lg; try to find homes on the farms and in fam
of- lies.
J. Through the active and efficient co.operI
is ton of the Childrens Aid Society, quite
8 number of the children Of destitute paren
ISL in the city have been adopted into the fam
at lies of people residing in the country, ar
ess the prospects are that much good can still
done in this regard. By means of advc
the sufferings of large number of the POI
9th have been mitigated, and many partial
an. helpless persons have been protected fro
ldV VIC nll0o Vi ILO uOoik
N.Y. n,n All this has been done as will be seen
axff the following statement, with a compaI
to AZ lively small expenditure Of money; and
'" more funds are placed in the hands Of t
Association, its power and usefulness W
ard be proportiOnally increased.
+ha To those who feel an interest in the woI
'A' ings of the Association, or who wish to knt
- hOsp it proposes to use whatever money
'" entrusted to its care, as well as to all p
NJ sons, the Association extends a cordial
1S;s Vitation to all, at its Office, at any and at
times.
,oro The following is statement of donatic
oie to the Cincinnati Aid Association from
40 organization to date:
Printing Constitution, cards, checks, &c.... $2j
Engraving, electroty ping and blocking cards,
ite- checks, Constu tution, &c..... 70
Blank ~
Stationery
)hu Card board and ~
Manufacturing checks for bread, meat, &c,..
L. Office furniture, SEAL &c...,...., 43
W Services OF
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