The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-20
WILL APPOINT
A DOG CATCHER
RED JACKET VILLAGE COUNCIL
HOLDS SPECIAL MEETING
AND DECIDES TO
TAKE ACTION.

AT special meeting of the Red
Jacket village council held last ever
ing, II was decided to appoint an Of
ncial dog catcher as soon as possible,
whose duty IL will be 10 impound all
CANNES not properly licensed and
tagged.
The license fee for each male dog is
one dollar. and each female dog two
dollars. The dog catcher will be en-
powered to impound all dogs not hav-
ing the necessary license tags. and be-
fore the dogs are restored To their own
ors the owners will be compelled to
pay 80 cents impounding fees To the
dog catcher, and the regular license fee
OF one or two dollars as the case may
be.
Following is the ordinance relative
TO the licensing OF dogs, which il is in
tended TO enforce:
ORDINANCE NO. 40.
An Ordinance Relative TO Licensing
of Dogs.
The Village of Red Jacket Ordains:
Section l. That il shall be unlawful
for any person to own or keep any dog
over three months old within the viii
lage OF Red Jacket unless he shall OBJ
tain an annual license for each dog so
kept or owned. Such licenses shall be
obtained Of the Village Clerk upon APP
plication therefor and upon the pay
ment OF fee of one (sl.OO) dollar for
each license so issued for any male
dog and two $4,000 dollars for each
license so issued for any female dog.
All such licenses shall expire on the
first day of April of each year and
shall be annually renewed, but when
issued in the first instance for a period
OF less than one year, pro rata
amount OF the fee aforesaid shall be
paid therefor but in no case less than
fifty cents for any male dog or one
Gl00) dollar for any female dog. All
moneys so paid to the Clerk for such
licenses shall be paid TO the Village
Treasurer and by him credited to the
general fund.
Sec. ?. Each dog for which license
is obtained as aforesaid shall wear
collar upon which or upon tag at
tached thereto shall be marked the
number Of the license and the name
of the person to whom such license
was issued.
Sec. 3. Dogs for which such license
have not been obtained shall not be
suffered or permitted to run at large
within said village. and the marshal or
any police officer or Waterman of said
village is hereby authorized and ii
shall be his duty to seize and impound
any dog found so at large I'm which
case the same proceedings shall be
taken as are provided with reference
TO the impounding of other animals,
and i'm case such dog shall not be re-
deemed aud released and can not be
sold, the marshal is hereby authorized
and it shall be his duty to destroy the
same.
Sec. T. Any dog known TO be vicious
or which shall, at the time, act or
conduct itself in vicious manner,
which shall be found at large within
said village, whether licensed or not
may be forthwith killed or destroyed
by the marshal or by any other person
on the order or direction of the mar
shall
Sec. 5. Any person in any manner
violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall, upon conviction there
Of be punished by "a fine of not more
than five $500 dollars together with
the costs of prosecution, and i'm de-
fault Of the payment of such fine and
costs shall be imprisoned in the COM
mon Jail of the county of Houghton or
the village Jail for term not exceed
ing ten days, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment, in the discretion of the