Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-05-10
AN ACT
For the Protection of Sheep and Taxing Of Dogs
in the county Of Blair.


in the county Of Blair.
SECTION l. BE atenacted 6y the Senate
and House Of Representatives Of The Com.
nsontUeaAh Of Pennsylvania Gn GeAeral
RSsen,bly met, and 1t IS hereby enncfedJy
The authority OF the sam,e, That from and
after the passage of this act, it shall be
the duty of the commissioners of the coun-
ty of Blair, and they are hereby required
to cause an accurate return to be taken an
nualiy by the assessors of the several town.
ships and boroughs within the said county
of Blair, Of all dogs upwards ofone M onth
of age, owned or possessed by any person
or persons within their respective town.
ships or boroughs, particularly noting the
number owned or possessed by each per-
son and kept about any one house; and
when the said commissioners shall have SO
ascertained the number OF dogs aforesaid ,
they shall levy and cause to be collected
annually, from every person or persons
owning and possessing one dog, fifty cents
for every second dog kept about the same
house, one dollar and fifty cents, and for
every additional dog, two dollars and fifty
cents, by the collectors Of the several town.
ships and boroughs, at the same time and
in the same manner the county rates and
levies are collected, for which TIE said eel
leetors shall de allowed five per centum
out of the money so collected and paid in
to the county treasury; and it shall be TIE
duty of the county treasurers to keep sep.
arate accounts of the money arising from
the tax on dogs, aud the said money shall
be and is hereby appropriated as a fund
for remuneratipg the inhabitants of said
county for any loss they shall sustain after
the passage Of this act by sheep being de-
stroycd by a dog or dogs.
SECTION 2. That every deg kept or
staying about any house shall be deemed
sufficient evidence Of ownership to author
izo the assessor to return the person in.
habiting said house as the owner or pos
SCISSOR of such dog; any penson sending hi'
or her dog from house to house, Or from
place to place, in order to evade the said
tax, or to evadc the rates above, the frs
dog ehall pay double the rate of tax there
fore; and every dog not returned shall
be deemed to have no owner asd may be
lawfully killed by any person seeing him
run at large.
SECTION 3. That when any iphabitan
of the counties aforesaid shall have Aad
any sheep destroyed by dog or dogs, he
or she may apply to the appraisers ap'
pointed by this act, and they, or any tw(
Of them, are hereby authorized and re-
quired to view and ascertain the amoun
of damage sustained by the owner of sucl
sheep destroyed as aforesaid; and wher
they shall have ascertained the legality o
the claims and the damages SO sustained
they or any two of them shall certify the
same under their hands and seals to the
commissioners of the proper county, whc
shall draw their warrant on the copnty
treasurer for the amount SO certified, t.
be paid out of the fund arising from thC
tax on dogs; but if there shall not be suf
fcent money in the treasury belonging t.
said fund, then the said warrant shall b.
kept by the person in whose favor it shall
have been drawn, and be paid cut Of thu
first money that shall come into the trei
sury belonging to the said fund.
| SECTION 4. That the persons elected Il
audit and settle the accounts Of the super
yisors Of the highwsysin the several town