Askov American., 1942-02-26

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in and for said county, at the
court house in the village of Pine
City on Wednesday, November
IL, l941 at ten o'clock in the fore
noon or as soon thereafter as
counsel can be heard, you make
known to the said court how you
shall have executed this writ and
that you have then and there
this writ.
Witness the Honorable Alfred
P. Stolberg, judge of the district
court aforesaid at Pine City,
Minnesota this 4th day of Novem-
ber, 1941"
BY the court, William Mista,
Clerk of district court.
On December 2, 194l, the board
OF county commissioners adopted
resolution putting Chapter 410, the
Laws of 1899 into effect.
Section 2 of said act provides that
the county commissioners shall pre-
scribe fee which shall not be less
than $l.00 nor more than $500 for
each dog over six months of age. The
board discussed the matter of fees
at great length and decided that in
order to obtain enough funds to pay
the expenses of administration and
leave balance in the livestock in
demnity fund, the fee should be So
for the first year, at least. Consider
ing the number of dogs licensed to
date, the wisdom of this action has
been proven. Only slightly more
than one-third of the dogs reported
in the county by the assessors for the
year l94l have been licensed If it is
held that administration costs neces-
sary to administer this law is legal
charge against this fund, there would
not be much money left to pay
damages with a 81 fee.
From the above it will be seen that.
the county board was careful not to
rush into this matter, and that they
adopted this resolution only after be-
ing ordered to. do so by the court.
They certainly do not deserve to be
criticized for their action by either
side, and especially by those who
signed the petition compelling them
to put the law into effect.
did receive letters from the ma
jority of the counties in the state rela-
tive to dog licenses and was sur
prised to learn that no other county
board had, up to that time, been
petitioned to put this law into effect.
And since this law was sponsored
and lobbied through the legislature
by such organizations as the Mime
sofa Farm Bureau, Minnesota Live
Stock Association of st. Paul, Min
nesota Sheep Breeders Association
and others, it seems strange to me
that no effort has been made to put
this law into effect in other counties
of the state. Can it be possible that
Pine county dogs are the only bad
dogs in the state?
wish to call your attention to
Section 16 OF, this act which reads as
follows:
''This act is supplemental to all
other laws relating to dogs not
expressly referred to herein, and
to all laws relating to taxation of
dogs as personal property, and
shall not be construed as to modi-
fly, repeal or in any wise affect
any part of provision of any such
laws not expressly repealed here
in or to prevent municipalities
from prohibiting, licensing or
regulating the running at large
of dogs within their respective
limits by law or ordinance now
or hereafter provided"
I received many requests from
signers of the petition to have their
names withdrawn from the petition.
To those people want to say that
the time to have done this was before
the petition was presented to the
board and not at this late date.
J. E. THERRIEN,
County Auditor.