Year: 1862

dogs, and defining the duties OF town


ship officers in certain cases.


SECTION |. Be It enacted by the Gen
erui Assembiy Of the State Of lopa,
That every owner or keeper of a dog
shall on or before the 18th day Of May,
1862, and each year thereafter, cause it
to be registered numbered and described
in the Office of the clerk of the township
where said owner or keeper resides, and
shall pay to said clerk for said registry
the sum Of one dollar for every male dog
and three dollars for every female dog,
aud shall receive from said clerk certf-
cate of registry, number and description
of said dog, which certificate shall be
prima tacin evidence Of the proper reg
istry of said dog in any township of the
State. The township clerk shall receive
for every certificate SO issued twenty cents
from the funds accruing under the pro.
visions of this section


Sec , The township clerk shall keep
an account Of the amount received and
paid out under the provision Of this act,
which account shall always be open to
the inspection Of any citizen of the town.
ship and shall annually on the FIRST Mon
day of June, post in some conspicuous
place in his township, a list of all dogs
for the current year, and shall also furn-
ish copy thereof to each constable in
! the township


. SEC. 3. There shall be collar placed
upon the neck of each dog registered un-
der this act, by the owner thereof; said
collar may be leathern or metallic, and
shall not be less than one inch wide, with
the number and year made plain upon
the same, either by engraving, or punch
ing with holes, or sewing with thread of
a color different from the collar All dogs
caught without collar on, specified in
this section, shall be considered nui-
sance, and shall be destroyed as set forth
in section Sth of this act.


Sec. 4. Any person placing collar
on any dog not registered, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not exceeding ten
dollars


SEC. ). The township clerk of each
township shall be required to give bond
in the sum of twice that amount of mon
ey that will be likely to come into his
hands by the provisions of this act, which
amount shall be fixed by the trustees
said bond shall be approved by the town.
ship trustees, and filed with them for the
use of any ono injured by the improper
acts Of said clerk


Sec. 6. Any person owning, keeping,
or harborng dog over the age of three
months, not registered according to the
provisions Of this act, shall be guilty Of
misdemcanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined FIVE dollars, to be
collected as other fines. If before judg-
ment the defendant cause his dog to be
registered as required by the provisions
of this act, and pay all costs up to tho
time of pleading said registry, it shall be
bar to any further prosecution for that
offence.


SEC. 7. Any person who shall mali
ciously kill any registered dog, shall upon
conviction thereof be punished by fine
not exceeding fifty dollars, and shall also
be liable to the owner for all damages.
Sec. 8. Any person may, and every
police officer, constable, or marshal, shall
kill or cause ODE destroyed all dogs going
at large and not collared and registered
ccrding to the provisions of this act
officers shall receive twenty five cents for
each dog SO destroyed, to be paid out of
the funds accrulng under the provisions
Of this act


Sec. 9. 1t shall be lawful for any per.
son to kill any dog caught in the act of
worrying, manning or killing any sheep
or lamb, or other domestic animal or any
dog attacking or attempting to bite any
person outside Of the enclosure of the
owner, and the owner shall be liable to
the party injured for all damage done by
his dog.


SEQ. 10, The township trustees Of
each township shall require all dogs over
three months of age not registered &C
ccrdlng to the provisions Of this act, to
be destroyed, aud shall enforce all penal
ties herein provided, and any officer who
shall neglect to perform the duties i'm
posed upon him by this act, shall be pun.
ished by fine not exceeding ten dollars
upon each conviction.


SEC. II. All funds received for the
registry Of dogs except so much as is
necessary to defray the expenses of reg
istering aud killing dogs as provided in
sections | and 8 of this act, are hereby
set apart as a school fund to be paid to
the township district treasurer, and d.
vided among the several sub bdstricts in
the township as other school funds are
apportioned: Pyopidel, That in any
township where there is a city organiza-
tion or Independent sub-district, the
township clerk shall pay into the city
school treasury or treasury of the iude-
pendent district its share Of such appor-
tloument.


SEC II. All fines and forfeiturcs i'm
posed as penalty for a violation Of any
Of the provisions of this act, or neglect
of any duty imposed by the same, sha |
b, prosecuted for by complaint of any
citizen before a justice of the peace hav
! ing jurisdiction, and no mere technical
objection to the form of the information
shall be allowed to defeat prosecution so
commenced


/ SEC l3. This act being of immedi-
ate importance, shall take effect from and
after its publication in the State Register
/ Des Moines Times and Iowa Homestead
and Farmer, newspapers published in the
city of Des Moines, or any two Of them
RUSH CLARK,


Speaker of the House of Reps


JNO. r. NEEDHAM,
President of the Senate.


Approyed March Goth, 1862.