Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-07-13
Cruelty to Animals.

was done TO prevent the wanton
cruelty 10 animals which is prac-
ticed in this community. Hardly
day passes that someone is not
a witness to .teamsters cruelty
beating their horses. the driving
of horses with sore backs or ami
mails that are lame and decrepit.
There is a law against this kind
of business but the officers seem
to pay no attention to it. and it
strikes us that it would be good
idea to organize Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
An Act of the Legislature, APP
proved March 7, 1873, says:
Section /. Any three or more citizens
porate as a body corporate under the
general laws for interpretations in this
State, for the purpose of preventing
cruelty to animals, may avail themselves
of the privileges and benefits of this Act;
| provided that the corporate body first
| forming as aforesaid in any county shall
be the only one so entitled to the bene-
fits and privileges of this Act in said
county.
| Section H. All sheriffs, constables, po-
lice and peace officers are empowered to
make arrests for the violation of any of
the provisions OF this Act, and are here
by also empowered to make arrest with
out warrant for the violation of any
provision of this Act which by this Act
is denominated a misdemeanor, when
said misdemeanor is committed in the
presence of said officers
Section 5. All members and agents,
and all local and district officers of each
or any of the societies so incorporating,
as shall by the trustees of said societies
be duly authorized in writing, approved
by the county Judge of the county, and
sworn in the same manner as are con-
stables and peace officers, may make ar
of this Act in the same manner as is pro-
vided herein for other officers; provided,
that all such members shall, when max
ing such arrests, exhibit and expose
suitable badge, to be adopted by said
society All persons resisting said spec
tally appointed officers, as such, shall be
punished for said resistance in the same
manner as is provided for the punish
ment of resistance of other officers.
Section 6. Every person who shall
overdrive overload, torture, torment, or
deprive of sufficient and necessary sus-
tenance, or numerically or cruelty beat
or mutilate any living creature, shall, on
conviction, be deemed guilty of INSIDE
meanor. Every person who shall, by
his act or neglect, naliciously MAIN,
wound, injure, torture, or cruelty beat
any animal belonging to himself or to
another, shall, on conviction, be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor
Every owner, driver, or possessor of any
manned or diseased horse. mule, OK or
COW or other domestic animal who shall
permit the same to go loose in any
street, alley or vacant lot of any town or
city for more than three hours after
knowledge thereof, shall, on conviction,
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor;
provided. this shall not apply to owner
keeping such animal, belonging to him,
on his own premises with proper care.
Every sick, disabled, infrm or crippled
horse, OK, mule, COW, or other domestic
animal which shall be abandoned on
the public highway, or in any open
space in any city or town may, after due
search by a peace officer of said society,
and no owner can be found therefor, be
destroyed by such officer, and it shall be
the duty of all police and peace officers
to cause the same to be done on informa-
ton of such fact of abandonment of such
creatures.
Section 7. Every person convicted of
any misdemanor under this Act shall be
punished as is by law provided for the
punishment of misdemeanors
In connection with this matter
we would suggest that the women
of the community take up the
matter of organizing Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
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