Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-26
ORDINANCE.

Be il ordained By The General Council Of the Gig
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 So for each female dog, owned
or possessed by him or 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 81 all report TO the Comp
troller monthly, the amount Of taxes re-
ceived from this source and pay the same
into the City Treasury to the credit OF the g
Fund a separa e account OF which shall be
Kept by the G, mptrOiler and Treasurer. Cu
the payment Of the tax aforesaid the City
Register shall register the dog on which the
said tax is pal M q stamp ON the collar OF
the dog thus registered, the letters e. T. P,
and the year o. the registry.
Sec. . Previous to registering any dog, the
owner or possessor thereof shall procure and
put around the neck OF such dog a metallic
OF leather collier, at leastOns inch Wide,upOn
which the lame of the OWn-r or pOssessoF
shall be engraved or impressed and the
city Registsrs all not register any dog until
the toy thereon is paid and a collar, rs here
in rsquiref I, is procured for said dog
Sec. 3. During the months or June, July,
August and September, all dogs shall be
muzzied in a perfect and secure manner,
with a W re uuzEle; and il dur
ing these months any dog shall be
found running at large without a muzzle, and
ont of the inciosed premfs. = Of the owner or
possessOr thereof, the 5 id owner OF possessOT
shall be fined in a sum not less than i've nor
more tn II ten dollars for each time such dog
may be found running at larg 10 be collected
as other fines.
sec. 4. Whoever hall suffer TO be and re-
main in and about the premises inhabited
or coupled by him or her, any dog not reg
istered and eollared az aforesaid, shall forfeit
and pay a sum not less than i've or more h
ten dollars, to be collected as other fines.
Sec. 3. The Sanitary Sergeant shall appoint
and deputise 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 his or
dinance. The said special deputies hail dur
ing the months of JuDe July, August and
| Eanfem har rn n mHnc Uu on the first nQU a.
the first month named, in each year, destroy
all dogs fOun running at large not registered
and muZZled, and they may adopt any mode
to accomplish this that they may think
proper; and the logs so destroyed shall be
immediately removed by sucl special depu-
ties to the dredge boat, where they shall be
counted by the Sanitary Sergeant, and the
number so counted by BIN shall be duly GER
titled for to the special deputy killing the
same, and also to the Mayor at his Office
PrOUided, That all dogs found running at
large from and after the hrst day of August,
1876, without a collar, as required by this or
dinance,may be taken up and putin a pound,
to be provided by the city rOr that purpose
aud If not called for within five days alter
such i~mpoundlng, and the tax as fixed by
Section l OF this ordinance paid as therein
required, and an additional fee OF one dollar,
cne-half which shalt go to : e city and O. e
half to the special deputy taking up and i'm
pounding said dog, the p~ound-keeper. OF
special deputy, shall put to death All such
dogs so remaing after i've days, as required
by this ordinance.
Sec. 6. The special deputies shall be paid
twenty-five dollars per month for their ser
vices, and in addition hfty cents for each dog
slain, destroyed or ~tmpounded, the number
to be sworn to at the end of each mQpth be.
fore the Mayor, and all sums thus paid, to-
getber with the salary OF th- special deputies,
shall be charged to the dog fund, and such
deputies shall be required 10 remove all dogs
thus slain, to the dredge boat, or without the
city limits, without additional charge.
Sec. T. Any special deputy aforesaid, WING
shall destroy any dog cOllared and muzZled,
during the months aforesaid. or shall bring,
or cause to be brought. any dog into the city
for the purpose OF destroying the same, OF
shall enIice any dog out of the inclosed prem
ises OF the owner or possessOr, or shall seize
or modest any dog while held or led by any
person, or shall remove nom any dog the
muZZle or collar with which such dog is pro-
vided, or shall throw or cause to be thrown
or place any poisonous substance in any pri
vate inelosurs, shall forfeit and pay a sun OF
not less than i've nor more than twenty dol
lars.
s G e. If owner or pOssessor of a fierce
or dangerous dog permit the same to go al
large in the city to the danger or annoyance
of the inhabitants, he shall forfeit and pay
for the nrst Otlense a sum not exceeding qVt
dollars; for the second Oftense, a sum not ex'
ceeding ten dollars; for the third Offense, q
sum not exceeding twenty dollars; and upon
a third con viction Tor the same O1ense, the
Sanitary Sergeant shall Immediately cause
the dog, upon account Of which the 0nvic
ton takes place, TO be slain. Provided, tina
If any such dog while 81 large shall bite OF
wound any person, sueh dog shall be lmlne'
diately slain.
sec y. llany owner or pOssessOf OF q Ieula.t
dog permit her TO run at large at any time
while in heat, he or she shall forfeit and pay
ten dollars; and ib shall be the duty of tht
Sanitary Sergeant ana his deputies to causI
any female dog, running at large at sucf
times, to be slain.
Sec. 10. The word dog wherever used in
this ordinance without qualification, is IL,
tended 10 mean a female as well as 2 mals
dog.
Sec. II. In addition TO the AFFIDAVIT require
by the ordinance, no deputy shall receive his
fees for destroying dogs until he shall pro
duce the Sanitary Sergeant'sc certificate OF the
number of dogs thus slain or destroyed.
Passed first reading, rules being suspended
Passed second reading by Board, July 20, 20
Passed first reading by Council. Passed &c.
ond reading by Council, July 10Th, 70, by q
suspension of the rules.
Approved July p, 1870.
JOHN JOHNSON, Mayor.
Attest: L. 4. city keglster. iY2