The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-09-05
Ordinance No. |.

An ordinance requiring all dogs with ln the City of Skagway, District of Alaska, to be registered; providing for an annual dog tax, and prescribing reg : ulatlons governing dogs in said city:
 Be it ordained by the Common Coun- Gil of the City of Skagway:
 SECTION I.
 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 70 pay the pound master annually a tax of $2 on each maleand $4 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 nnmberof the license, and also a metal tag With number stamped thereon, corresponding with the number of the license receipt, which tax shall be worn about the neck of such dog.
 SECTION ?.
 
 Any perso may take up, and it shall be the duty of the pound master to seize 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 pat or rei-ew the license as herein provided, and the pound master shall keep all dogs so brought to the pound and shall confine 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 and penalty of $l per head and the further sun ot $0.50 per head for every day or part of day that they shall have remained in such pound.
 SECTION 3.
 It shall be the duty of the pound mas ter to keep a 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 sad 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 livered, provided tn; t all dogs not 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 lim- it's and any person who shall hinder or modest the pound master, or any other parson who nav ba anuo0a1 in sai1ipn 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 i'm prisoned not to exceed ten days for each offense.
 SECTION A.
 No slut or female dog in time of heat, no habitually vicious dog or mad dog, shall be permitted to run at large with in the city limits, and it shall be lawfuI 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.
 
 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 a less time than one year; provided, that q person applying for a license at any Whenever the ex-officio mayor of the city shall deem 1t 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 9.
 It shall be the duty of the auditor and clerk, at least one week before the dog tax shall become due, to deliver to the poundmaster blank receipts and tags consecutively numbered. The said re- ceipts shall be countersigned by the auditor and clerk, who shall before de- livering the same, charge the pound master with the same at the rate of $2 and $4 as provided; provided, that the poundmaster shall receive credit for all unused tax receipts upon his final set clement with the city.
 SECTION TO-
 This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after it's date of approval and publication for at least once week for three consecutive weeks in newspaper of general circu- lation in the city of Skagway.
 Passed by the Common Council of the City of Skagway this 18th day of Aug ust. A. D. l900
 Approved August Is, 1900.
 JOHN HISLoP,
 Ex-Officio Mayor. Attest: JOHN w. TROY, City Clerk. Date of first publication. August 1T,