The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-15
AN ORDINANCE
CONCERNING DOGS.

SECTION /. Be it ordained By tie City Council OF
tie city Of Rock Island
That an annual tax one dollar 81 .Oo) on each
male dog. and five dollars $500 each female
! dog owned or kept within the corporate limits of
said CITY, is hereby declared payable to said city for
each municipal year on the first day of July of each
calender year, by the owner keeper of such dog
or bitch. ANY person owning or keeping such dog
(of the age of four months more) within the city
limits, at any time during such municipal year for
period Of two weeks or more, shall pay said tax to
day of August of the calender year.
SEC q It shall be the duty of the City Marshal
to demand and collect the dog tax before the first
day of August Of each year. and deliver in lieu of
receipt thereof, metallic plate having the letters c.
actershan signify that the city tax is paid for the
municipal year beginning in the calender year in
dicated. The owner or keeper of any dog upon
which the dog tax is paid aforesaid, shall affx in
permanent manner to 6 strap or band around the
that that the he same can be- readily seen by the ocer o
said city All dogs mot known to the City Marshal
as having the dog tax paid hereon) found running
at large in the city without the metallic plate attach
ed as aforesaid. are hereby declared public nuf
stroyed, according to the provisions of this ordi
SIC g. The City Clerk shall purchase supply
of the metallic plates aforesaid in such number as
the City Council shall direct, and shall from time
time furnish the same to the City Marshal taking
receipt Therefore and the City Marshal shall
for the manner of disposing of the same when re-
qured by the City Council, and shall keep list of
the time when paid and shall report the same
monthly, to the city Council.
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within the corporate limits of said city unless
curely muzzled, when dangerof hydrophobia shall
Mayor Of said CITY, and any owner or keeper of such
dog or bitch who shall voiate the provisions of this
all dogs found running large within the corporate
limits Of said city, without being securely muzzled,
shall be killed OF stfmmarily disposed of. :
SEC. g.. No bitch while in heat. shall be suffered
to at large within the corporate limits Of said
city and any owner or keeper thereof, violating the
provisions of this section shall be subject to a pea
atty of not less than three. than dollars
SEC. 6. The City Marshal shah cause all dogs
kept within corporate limits of the city, and running
at large, upon which no tax has been paid by tue
visions of this ordinance to be killed or Summarize
disposed of. The provisions of this section shall
not apply to the dogs of non-residents that are tenn
porarll IN the city for period of two weeks or less
where the owner OF such dog is known to the City
Marshal,
SEC. Z. Any person neglecting or refusing to nav
the dog tax within the time aforesaid shall be fined
the amount of said tax, and the sum of twentv-ive
cents each day the said tax remains unpaid after
afixing of said plates TO any dog without having
paid the tax thereon or afxing any plates of for,
mer year. with intent TO defraud the city thereby
shall be punished BY fine not exceeding ten dol.
lars t$10.eol and costs OF suit
SEC. 8. The City Marshal shall be allowed for |
services rendered fifteen per cent of dog collect
ed, also fifty cents for eaee dog killed and buried by
said City Marshal or his deputy, said claim te be
verified by affidavit stating the time when each dog
was killed and the place where the same was buried
The City Marshal shall post printed notices in diff
ferent parts of the city. between the ist and 18th
days of July notifying all persons owning dogs to
pay TO him the tax thereon before the LIST day
Of August aud the penalties for neglectng SO to do
shall be held and construed to mean all animals az
the canine species, both male and female when not
Sec. 10. All ordinances and parts of ordinance
heretofore existing in conflict with the provisions
Of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Rock Island, Ills, June 10. 1881.
tApproved) HENRY CARSE, Mayor
RoBERT KoEnLER Clerk. 1sdst