Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-30
ORDINANCE.
Be 4 ordained by ae General Council Of ae City

BE IL ordained by The General Council OF The City
Of Memphis:
SECTION L The owner or possessor of a dog
or dogs shall pay an annual tax OF 81 for each
male dog and 81 for each female dog, owned
CIR possessed by him OF her, which tax shall
be paid to the City Tax Collector on or before
the first day OF June Of each year, and the
City Tax Collector shall report TO the Comp
troller monthly, the amount of taxes re-
ceiyed from this source and pay the same
into the City Treasury to the credit OF the Dag
Fund, n Separa e account OF which shall be
kept by the Comptroller and Treasurer. On
the payment of the tax aforesaid the City
Register shall register the dog on which the
said tax is paid ar stamp ON the collar of
the dog thus registered, the letters q. T.. p,
and the year of the registry.
Sec. 2. Previous to registering any dog, the
owner or posSessor thereof shall procure and
or leather collar, at least one inch wide, upon
which the name of the owner or possessor
shall be engraved or impressed ; and the
City Register stall not register any dog until
the tax thereon is paid and a ollar as here
In required, Is procured for said dog.
Sec. 3. During the months OF June, July,
muzzled In q perfect and secure manner,
with a wire muzZle; and II dur
ing these months any dog shall be
found running atlarge without q muzzle, and
out of the inclosed premises of the owner or
possessor thereof, the said owner OF pOSsessor
shall be dued in a sum not less than Ave nor
more than ten dollars for each time such dog
may be fonnd running at larga,to be collected
as other ines.
Sec. 4. Whoever shall suffer to be and re-
main in aud about the premises inhabited
or occupied by him or her, any dog not reg
istered and cOllared as aforesaid, shall forfeit
and pay a sum not lessthan i've or more than
ten dollars, to be collected as other fines.
Sec. ). The Sanitary Sergeant shall appoint
and deputtse one or more special deputies,
who shall be approved by the Mayor and
be sworn before him TO faithfully discharge
the duties assigned him or them by this or
dinance. The said special deputies shall dur
ing the months of June, July, August and
September, commencing ON the first day OF
the first month named, in each year, destroy
all dogs fould running at large not registered
and muzzied, and they may adopt any mode
to accomplish this that they may hin
proper; and the dogs so destroyed shall be
Immediately removed by such special depu-
ties to the dredge boat, where they shall be
counted by the Sanitary Sergeant, and the
number 90 counted BY him shall be daily GER
titled for to the special deputy killing the
same, aud also to the Mayor at his office;
Provided. That all dogs iOnnd running at
lai ge from and after the first day of August,
1870, without a collar, as required by this or
dinance,may be taken up and putin a pound,
to be provided by the city Tor that purpose /;
and il not called for within five days after
such impoundlng, and the tax as fixed by
Section l of this ordinance paid as therein
required, and an additional fee OF one dpilar,
one-halI which shall 90 10 tae city and one
half TO the special deputy taking up and i'm
5Pp Uaha'n dep Satg SSsi p pns 20 death a ali sue ~
dogs so remaing after i've days, as required
by this ordinance,
sec. D. Inc special deputies snail De paid
twenty-five dollars per month for their ser
vices, and in addition fifty cents for each dog
slain, destroyed or impounded, the number
70 be sworn to at the end of each month be-
fore the Mayor, and all sums thus paid, to-
gether with the salary OF tn special deputies,
shall be charged TO the dog fund, and such
deputies shall be required 10 remove all dogs
thus slain, to the dredgR-bOat, or Without the
city limits, without additional charge,
Seq. 7. Any special deputy. aforesaid, who
shall destroy any dog GoliaFed aud muszled,
during the months aforesaid. or shall bring,
or cause to be brought, any dog into the city
for the purpose of destroying the same, or
shall entice any dog out of the inclosed prem
ises of the owHer or possessor, or shall seize
or modest any dog while held or led by any
person, or shall remove from any dog Tie
muZzle or collar with Yhirh sBGh dog is pro-
vided. or shall throw or cause 20 be thrown
or place any puiSnnOUs substance in any pri-
vate Enclosure, shall forfeit and pay a sun of
not less than five nor more than twenty dol
lars.
SEES If any owner or possessor of a fierce
or dangerous dog permit the same to go at
large in the city TO the danger or annoyance
of the inhabitants, he shall fOTtetF aud pay
for the Arst oAense !, sum not exceeding i've
dollars; for the second o~tlense, q sum not ex-
ceeding ten dOltarsi for the third OffenSe, a
sum not exceeding twenty dollars; and upon
a third conviction for the same Odense, the
sanitary Sergeant shall Immediately cause
the dog, upon account of which the cOnvic-
ton takes place, to be slain. Provided, that
If any such dog while AZ large shall bite or
wound any person, such dog shall be hume
diately slain.
Sec. q. 4fgnY owner az possesS0r of a female
dog perMli her to run at large at any time
while in heat, he or she shall forfeit and pay
ten dollars; and IL shall be the duty of the
Sanitary Sergeant and mis- deputies to cause
any female dog, running at large at such
times, to be slain.
Sec. 10. The word "dog," wherever Vsed "a
this ordinance without qualification, Is IN
doG.
Sec. II. In addition TO the affidavit required
by the ordinance, no deputy shall receive his
fees for destroying dogs until he shall pro-
dpce the Sanitary S~efgeantS certificate OF the
number of dogs thus slain or destroyed.
Passed first reading, rules being suspended.
Passed second reading by Board, July 20, 10.
Passed first reading by Council. Passed &c
ond reading by Council, July Goth, 20, by q
suspension of the rules.
Approved July %, 1870.
JOHN JOHNSON, Mayor.
Attest: L. r. RIoHARns. CITY Rssisler. Iy&8