The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-12-01
ALL DOGS ARE NOW
UNDER QUARANTINE
Throughout the Townships
ofLaUrence, Pau Pau,
Columbia, Arlington.
IN EFFECT TILL JANUARY "a
Sheriff Posts Notices EStab-
lisaing the Quarantine.
Heavy Penalties.


Sheriff Beattie received notice last
Saturday, and instructions from the
State Live Stock Sanitary commission
to place all the dogs in quarantine
for period of sixty days in the town
ships of Lawrence, Paw Paw, Colum-
bia and Arlington. Notices of the
quarantine were posted last Monday,
and the same will be in effect until
January oath, 1917. Following is the
notice posted by the sheriff, which
gives the reasons and full details Of
the quarantine. All dog owners IN
the townships affected, should read
the same carefully. The notice is
signed by the three members OF the
aforesaid commission
Whereas, Act 1872, Session Laws Of
1885, makes it the duty Of the State
Live Stock Sanitary commission to
protect the domestic. animals of the
State from all contagious and infect
ious diseases of malignant character
and,
Whereas, The fact has been estab-
lished that a dog supposed to be affect
ed with the contagious disease known
as Rabies, or Hydrophobia, has been
at large in the townships of Lawrence
and Columbia in the County of Van
Buren, and is known to have bitten
several other dogs, and come in con-
tact with many perhaps as yet un-
known; now,
Therefore, it is ordered, that all
dogs owned or kept in the townships
of Lawrence, Paw Paw, Columbia
and Arlington and in the city of Paw
Paw and in the villages of Lawrence
and Breedsville, in the county Of Van
Buren, State Of Michigan, shall be
kept securely chained for a period of
sixty days from date, and no dogs can
be used for hunting in said quarantine
townships until January 25th, 1917.
(5641) Sec. Is, of the Michigan
Live Stock Laws provides the penalty
for violating the above quarantine,
and reads as follows:
(564D Sec. Is, Any person who
shall wilfully violate, disregard or
evade, or attempt to violate, disregard
or evade any Of the provisions of this
act, or who shall wilfully violate, dis
regard any of the rules, regulations,
orders or directions of the Live
Stock Sanitary commission establish
ing or governing quarantine, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined
in any sum not less than ten dollars
and more than one hundred dollars,
or to be imprisoned in the county Jail
not less than ten nor more than ninety
days, or both such fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the court.
The Michigan State laws as amend
ed in 1915 further provide that said
commission shall also have power to
declare and enforce a quarantine on
dogs in any district of this state in
WHICH Cnefe Is an outbreak Ol TdDleS,
hog cholera, hoof and mouth disease,
or any other contagious or infectious
disease among live stock; and may
order that all dogs in said district
shall be securely chained or otherwise
confined. Any dog found at large in
contravention of the terms of such
quarantine or order may be killed. 1t
shall be the duty Of the sheriff of each
county in the district affected and of
his deputies, constables and other
municipal police officers to see to it
that such quarantine and orders are
enforced. Any officer killing a dog
persuant to the provisions of this act
shall not be subject to any liability
therefor.
We, the undersigned members of
the Michigan State Live Stock SAM
tary commission, hereby call upon the
Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff of Van
Buren county, and all constables to
enforce this quarantine in said town
ships in Van Buren county.