The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-09-26

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an annual dog tax, and prescribing reg
ulations governing dogs in said city:
Be it ordained by the Common Coun- !
Gil of the City of Skagway:
SECTION /.
All owners or persons having in
charge any dog permitted to run at
large, within the city limits, shall with
in thirty days after the first publication
Of this ordinance, and hereafter on or
before the first day of September of
each year, register the same with the
city pound master, who shall keep a
book for that purpose, and it shall be
the further duty of such person 20 pay
the pound master annually a tax of 81
on each male and "a on each female OF
the dog kind, so owned, kept or har-
bored by him, which shall entitle such
| person to receipt from the pound mas
! ter designating the owners name, the
number of the license, and also a metal
tag with a number stamped thereon,
corresponding with the number of the
license receipt, which tax shall be worn
about the neck of such dog.
SECTION 2.
ANY person may take up, and it shall
and take up and place in the city pound
all dogs kept. owned or harbored within
the city limits, whose owners, keepers
or harborers have failed to comply with
this ordinance, or who shall have failed
to paw or reLew the license as herein
provided, and the pound master shall
keep all dogs so brought to the pound
and shall contine the same within the
pound, from which they shall not be re-
leased until the owners pay the pound
master the tax as specified in Section l
and penalty Of 81 per head and the
further sum of $3.50 per head for every
day or part of day that they shall have
remained in such pound.
SECTION 3.
1t shall be the duty of the pound mas
ter to keep suitable book OF records of
all dogs received in the pound, the names
of the persons who bring them
and the names of the owners, if known.
He shall take proper care of the dogs
while in his custody, shall deliver them
to the owners, upon sand owners paying
to him the penalty and costs as herein
fixed, and shall take upon such book or
record from persons claiming or redeem
ing as owners, receipts for all dogs de.
claimed or redeemed within four days
from the time of impounding same, may
be killed or otherwise disposed OF by the
pound master, and if killed shall be, by
the pound master, properly buried in
some suitable place outside the city lin
it's, and any person who shall hinder or
modest the pound master, or any other
person, who may be engaged in seizing,
killing any dog or removing the carcass
in conformity with this ordinance, shall,
upon conviction in any court OF compe-
tent jurisdiction, be fined not to exceed
the sum of twenty five dollars, or be inn
prisoned not to exceed ten days for each
offense.
SECTION 4.
No slut or female dog in time of heat,
no habtually vicious dog or mad dog,
shall be permitted to run at large with
in the city limits, and it shall be lawful
for any person to kill any such dog run
ming at large, whether wearing collar
duly numbered or not; and the owner or
person permitting any such dog to run at
large, upon conviction thereof shall be
liable to fine of not less than twenty
five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
SECTION 5.
The annual time for issuing licenses
as herein provided, and the time when
all and each license shall expire, shall
be on the first day of September of each
year. No license shall be issued for u
less time than one year; provided, that
a person applying for license at any
Whenever the ex-officio mayor of the
city shall deem il advisable for the pre-
vention of hydrophobia, he may issue
his proclamation requiring all dogs IN
the city limits to be confined or to be
muzzled, as he may deem best, for such
time as he may in his proclamation des-
/ ignate, and during the time so designa-
ted, it shall be unlawful for any dog to
go at large or unmuZzled, as the case
may be, contrary to the terms of such
proclamation.
SECTION Q.
It shall be the duty of the auditor and
clerk, at least one wC5n before the dog
tax shall become-tiue, to deliver to the
! noRF sdiEfa. master blank receipts and tags
secutively numbered. The said re-
bts shall be countersigned by the
itor and clerk, who shall before de-
ering the same, charge the pound.
ster with the same at the rate of $2
"a 81 as provided; provided, that the
bundmaster shall receive credit for all
hused tax receipts upon his final set
ement with the city.
SECTION 10.
This ordinance shall take effect and
e in force from and after it's date of
pproval and publication for at least
nee week for three consecutive
Eeeks in a newspaper of general circu-
alton in the city of Skagway.
Passed by the Common Council of the
ity of Skagway this 18th day Of Aug-
st, A. ID. 1900.
Approved August Is, 1900.
JOHN HIsLoP,
Ex-Oficio Mayor.
Attest: JOHN w. Troy, City Clerk.
Date of first publication. September 5.