The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-17
OfIicial Proceedings of the Police
Jury.
finn fisssod from Inst Wo>kl


(Continxed from Last Week.)
Be it ordained by the Police jury of
Grant parish, Ia, That the following is
hereby adopted as the Stock, Fence and
Ferry Law of this parish:
sropK, FENCE AND FERRY LAW.
Sec. 1. No Stallion over the age of two
and half (21<) years shall DO permitted
to run at large under q penalty to the
owner thereof of SO for the first offense,
and SIS for the second offense, recovera-
BILE before the district court by indict-
ment or information, with costs; and all
fines so collected shall be turned over to
the parish treasurer and by him placed
in the public school fund.
Sec. 2. No hogs shall be permitted to
run at large along the river front of ward
one, Of Grant parish, said law extending
from the upper line of ward one to the
mouth of Bayou Darro for a distance of
one mile from Red river, under penalty
of S6 for the first offense, and SO for the
second offense, recoverable before the
magistrate Of ward one according to law,
with costa and all fines 90 collected to be
paid tb the parish treasurer for the bene-
at of the public schools.
Sec. 3. ALI hogs 30 running at large
shallbe held responsible for the payment
of said fine and costs, and it shall be law
full for any person finding said hogs run
ming at largo to take them up and i'm
pound them, and immediately report to
the Justice of the peace of said ward,
whose duty it shall be to institute suit at
once. In case no owner of the hogs be
found then the Justice shall order the
constable to sell the same at public auc-
ton after ten days advertisement by pos
ting notice of the time and place at the
court house door and two other public
places in the ward; and, in case said
hogs shall not sell, then the justice shall
order the constable to kill them.
Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to allow
any notoriously vicious cattle, known to
gore and hook, to run at large in the par
ish of Grant, without saving their horns
of to within not less than three inches
Of their heads; and any persons refusing
or neglecting to saw of the horns or
keep mp such cattle, after having been
notified in writing or before competent
witnesses, shall be subject to prosecution
before the district court, by Indictment
or information, and upon conviction shall
be fined not less than ten nor more than
one hundred dollars, and costs, or be i'm
prisoned in the parish jail not less than
ten nor wore than sixty days, OF both at
the discretion of the court, and shah be
held liable for damages in such sum 40
the court may assess for any injury in
hicted by such animals upon man O.
beast.
Sec. s. It shall be unlawful for the
owner or owners of any dog or dogs to
allow the same to run at large, when
known to chase. bite, kill, main, or other
wise ravage, worry and injure sheep, hogs.
or other property, Any person or persons
violating this ordinance BY Allowing any
such dog or dogs to run at large. shall be
deemed guilty Of . misdemeanor, and
subject to persecution before the district
cou<< ~ indictment or information, and
upo6 conviction shall be fined not less
than ten nor exceeding one hundred dol
Dars, and costs, or be Imprisoned not ex-
ceedjng thirty days, or both at the dis
crtticn Of the court. 1t is specially pro
Evided that said fine and imprisonment
shall not be bar to the court awarding
damages to the ,qwfier of any sheep On
lambs 90 killed ofmaimed to the amount
of ten times the value Of the sheep OF
lambs 80 injured, or fiyl times the value
of any hog, pig, on other property 80 In
jured, a. Is providodin sections 5, and
7 Of the Acts Of the General Assembly Of
1856. suthosizing and empowering the