The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-10
HOG ORDINANCE PASSED
HOGS MAY BE KEPT IN CITY UN-
DER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
CITY Tax Tax Assessors Elected by
Council Tuesday Night. Eleventh
Avenue Will Be Widened.

I Avenue VIII Be Widened.
The mayor and council met in reg
ular monthly session Tuesday night,
and an unusual amount of business
was taken up and disposed of.
The hog ordinance, which was up
for the second reading, was read and
voted on as follows: For passage,
Councilmen Hollingsworth, McLen-
den and Brim. Against passage,
Couicilmen Morris and Weaver. The
ordinance which was declared adopt
| ed reads as follows:
City Ordinance.
| Be it ordained by the Mayor and
| City Council of Dawson, and it is
hereby ordained by authority of the
same, that Section 209 of the ordi-
nances of the city of Dawson be re-
pealed and the following ordinance,
to be known as Section No. 209 of
! the Code of the City of Dawson, be
substituted in it's stead:
Sec. 209 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
keep any hog or hogs in any pen, lot
or other enclosure within the limits
of the city of Dawson unless such
pen, lot or other enclosure be not
less than 200 yards from the resi-
dence of any person other than the
owner of such hog or hogs; or in an
enclosure containing not less than
two acres of land or more, and said
enclosure is not to be divided off into
smaller plats containing less than
Of or n
plat, or is it to be connected with
any barn, lot, pen, or other en-
closure; and in said enclosure of not
less than two acres or more OF land
may be kept one SOW and pigs; or on
said two acres of land may be kept
not more than two hogs per acre, and
in said enclosure no hog WalloWS
shall be allowed, no pens shall be
built in same, and no hogs shall be
permitted to run at large in the City
of Dawson. And all enclosures in
which hogs may be kept in the City
of Dawson shall at all times be main
tanned in a clean and sanitary cOndi-
ton, and such premises shall at all
times be open to inspection of the
police or sanitary officers of the City
of Dawson.
Any violation of any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall subject
the owner of the hog or hogs to be
punished as is provided in Section
100 of the Code of the City of Daw-
son. Passed at regular meeting of
the City Council of Dawson, Ca, held
this April Z, 1914.
F. NJ. McNULTY, Mayor.
R. E. BELL, Clerk.
A representative of the j. B. Nc
Crary Co., of Atlanta, appeared be-
fore council and outlined a PROPOSE
ton for paving the streets of Daw-
son. Permission was given the Nc
Crary Co. to send an engineer to
Dawson and, if possible, work up a
paving contract with the property
owners, in which case the mayor and
clerk are authorized to sign the con-
tract for the city.
Messrs. G. S. Crowell, F. NJ. Jen-
nings and Charles Deubler were
elected tax assessors for the present
year, the salary to be the same as
heretofore, viz: $50 each, and SO
additional to the one who acts as
clerk to the board.
A report by Chairman Brim makes
it possible to widen Eleventh avenue,
Mr.. F. NJ. Jennings having accepted
$35 for small strip of land from
the forth side of his lot for the pur-
pose The Standard Oil Co. agreed
to donate II feet of its land for the
same purpose.
A petition was read from the resi-
dents of the Paschal addition asking
that electric lights be furnished this
neighbOrhood. The matter was re-
ferred to the chairman of water and
lights, and he was instructed to look
into the cost of making this extern
sion.
A report from the city treasurer
shows that the city has on hand
$5,SO6.74, which is the largest sum
of money available at this season in
years