Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-23

Seventh ward. 126 Sixteenth ward q. ~
Eighth ward. S94 Naiisburg section ~
Ninth ward ..... 70
About seventeen years ago the COM
mon council decided to charge a license
fee of 50 for male dogs and IS for fe-
male. The opposition of dog owners
brought about a lowering of the fees
to 81 and SO respectively. In a test
case, however, it was judicially de
cided that the license fee was Illegal.
Since then efforts have been made to
collect only the tax
While Mr.. Courier was discussing the
question City Treasurer Elmer A. Day
mentioned the fact that prior to seven
years ago the dog tax was given no
~esnecial consideration. About that time,
nLwever. he said. the tax commits
sioners called a conference and gave
instructions that extra efforts should
be made to make all owners pay for
their dogs.
What Tax Law Requires.
The tax is levied under the laws OF
New Jersey of 1896. The exact laws is
as fuli0w&:
Chapter t56-A supplement - an
act entitled IAN act providing for the
licensing of dogs" approved March 10,
1898.
l.. Instead of passing the annual reso-
luton provided by the first section of
the act to which this is a supplement-.
any city or other municipality having
power to pass ordinances may in its
discretion pass an ordinance fixing the
amount of the annual license fee to be
paid by the owner OF dogs; and when
the fee is so fixed by ordinance ii shall
remain in force until such ordinance
is altered or repealed. and no such an
nual resolution shall be necessary to
2. The city or municipality NAV pre-
scribe that the license fee provided by
said act may be assessed and collected
either at the same time and in the
same manner that the other taxes are
assessed and collected or at such other
time and in such other name as the
council or other governing body may
provide by ordinanc or resolution, and
may in the same manner by its council
or governing body provide for the APP
pointment of dog Wardens or other
agents to levy, assess and collect such
license fees. and to register and tag
dogs. and may provide for the COM
%pensation of such wardens OF agents
and may appropriate and apply said
fees to any lawful purpose. of the
government of said city or municip-
ality. Approved April 9. 1896.
Attacking the Board of Health and
asserting that every method of mis-
representation and subtearfuge was
being used to Dust the Humane So
ciety from its present position as col
lector OF Newark's stray dogs, DR..
Janes~C. Corlies. president Of the or
ganization, laughed at What he called
the "dog scare"
THE Board of Health is back of all
this, or, to be perfectly definite, DR..
Chandler. He wants TO get the power
into his own ha~ds. He tried to get
the Common Council to turn the mat
ter over to the Board Of Health. The
Council wouldn't do it. The Legisla-
ture was appealed to, and the measure
was promptly killed.
Nov false reports and lying state
ments are being resorted to, so that
the Board of Health will have q lever
to use in Selling the power Of the
Humane Society o has.
Mr.. Chambers assertion that there
are $1,000 dogs running loose in New
ark is false. There is not quarter Of
that number. We ought to know. our
men picked up 5000 dogs last year, and
the streets were so free.
W can prove absolutely from the
Board of Health's own reports that
1853 of the dogs which bit more thar
200 persons last year We're pet dogs /
We wen TO the houses and took the
dogs away to be observed. Not one Of
those dogs was mad, and Of the other
100 cases of dog bite only one dog was
found to be mad.
Then again, these dog-scare tactirs
are more dangerous than the actual
dogs. In England. where there is NJ
Pasteur Institute, no case of rabies had
been reported for four years.
Furthermore, If the Board of Health
gets control Of the dog situation in
Newark. the annual appropriation will
jump from $500 to $4,000 within a
ear"
Hereafter in Orange the owners Of
dogs running at large will be subject
TO a fine Of so. The police officials
have already summoned a number Of
owners who are known to allow their
animals out of leash and yard.
Rabid Dog Killed In NutIeS,
Mayor John p. Lux, of Nutley. is
sued a proclamation recently that for
thirty days all dogs in the town had to
be muzzled, and the police were or
dered to capture and take all unmuz-
zled dogs to the town pound.
This was DONE said Mayor Lux
TO an Evening Star reporter today, ito
find out how many of the dogs were in
fected with hydrophobia. You see a
dog cut loose in the town a short time