The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-01-25
THE DOG LAW.
ITS REQUIREMENTS,
The One important General
Law
PASSED BY LEGISLATURE.
Operative Only When Recommended
by Grand Jury i'm Each
County.
PASSED BY LEGISLATURE.

The one measure of general interest
passed by the last legislature is the law
taxing dogs under penalty of death.
At the last minute it did what it could
to render the law in operative by adding
that it should not go into effect until
recommended by the grand jury in
each county.
AS Cobb Superior court will be in
session next week, we publish the bill,
so they can consider whether it is advis-
able to pass it or not. Marietta has dog
law, and if the bill is passed the town
will lose that much revenue.
The following is the act in full:
Section |: Be it enacted, etc, That
from and after the passage of this
act, each person, firm or corporation
owning or keeping a dog shall pay an
annual tax of 81 for each male and $3.50
for each female dog owned or kept
which was four months old or over on
the first day of January of the year in
which the tax is to be paid.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
on the first day of January of each year,
the ordinary of each county shall open
a book to be known as the Register of
Dogs" in which shall be entered the
name of each person, firm or corpora
ton owning or keeping dog and de-
string to register him, the sex of the
dog, the date of registering, the amount
of tax paid-or, If the dog is not four
months old, that fact shall be subject
to public inspection.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That il
shall be the duty of the ordinary OF
each county, on the first day of Janu-
airy of each year, to provide a sufficient
number of brass checks not less than
one and one-half inches wide and two
inches long, with slots near the end by
which they may be fastened to a collar
and in which are stamped or engraved
the word registered, and the year in
which checks is to be delivered to the
person. firm or corporation owning or
keeping dogs, for each dog when the
same is registered and the tax paid. :
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That
said ordinaries on the first day of JAN
uary of each year shall also procure
checks of like description to those
above, on which shall he engraved the
word puppy" and the year in which
be delivered to each person, firm or
corporation owning or keeping dogs for
each dog under four months old, on the
first day of January Immediately prece-
ding when said puppy is registered as
above required, and the ordinary is paid
10 cents for each one registered and the
actual cost of the check.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That
when u dog has on collar with a
proper check it shall be evidence that
he has been registered as above re-
quired.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted That all
dogs shall be registered and said tax
paid annually to the ordinaries of the
several counties by the first day of
March of each year-and every dog
found without collar required by law
Of La a ~ han ha
put to death as hereafter set forth
unless the dog is registered as provided
in the next section.
Sec. Z. Be it further enacted, That il
shall be the duty of the constables in
each militia district during the month
of March of each year to catch and i'm
pound at his residence every dog in his
district which has no collar as above
provided, and Immediately notify the
owner, if known, and shall keep said
dog for forty eight hours, during which
time the owner or keeper thereof may
register said dog on condition that he
will make affidavit before the ordinary
that no was Providentially prevented
from registering said dog prior tC
March first Of that year and shall ther
register and pay the tax on said dog
as required by law-or shall simply
register him and pay for the check anC
fees if the dog was under four months
old on January first Immediately pre-
ceding. The party shall also pay tt
the ordinary 25 cents for SAID affidavit
and to the officer impounding so cent
for his fee. But in the event the tai
and fees are NOT paid, as above, thu
impounding officer, after the dog ha