Year: 1877

censed provided said license be recorded by the clerk
of the city town where such dog is kept


Sec 6. The listers OF the cities and towns shall an
nualy take list of all dogs owned kept in their re-
spective cities the first 0ay of April with
the owners keepers, and return the same 10
the city clerk OF before the fifteenth day OF
May following. Any uwner or keeper of a dog who
shall refuse give just and true answer or shall an
falsely the listers relative tn the ownership
thereof shall be punished by fine uf not less than
dollars to lie paid into the city or town treasury


Sec I. Mayors of cities and the chairman OF select
men Of towns shall annually within ten days from the
fifteenth day Of May issue warrant TO one or more
police officers or constables directing them proceed
forthwith to kill cause to be killed all dogs within
their respective cities towss ot licensed AMI coli
Jared according the provisions OF this act and To en
complaint against the or keepers thereof,
and any person may and every poicer and constable
shall kill to be killed all such dogs whenever
or wherever found. Such officers other than those
employed under regular pay shall receive Que dollar
for each dog destroyed from the treasures OF their
cities or towns All bills such services shall be app
proved by the msyor chairman of the selectmen Of
the city in which said ss are DESTROYED and
shall be pad rom moneys receises nnaer ths pfyls-
ions Of this act Such warrant shall be in the follow
ing form as near as may be:


State of Vermont, To constable of the town
county SIS. or police of city:
By the authority OF the State Of Vermont you are
hereby commanded forthwith to kill or cause to be
killed all dogs not duly licensed and colared according
to the provisions of entitled act concerning
dogs and for the protection of sheep and other dOmes
tic ANIMALS, approved A. d. 1875, and are
further required to make and return complaint against
the owner or keeper of any such dog.


Hereof fail not and due return make of this warrant
with your doings thereon within sixty days from the
date hereof stating the number of dogs killed and the
names of the owners keepers thereof and whether
all unlicensed dogs in SAID town or city have been
killed, and the names Of persons against whom
plants have been made and returned against all per-
sons who have failed to comply with the provisions Of
said act.


Given under my hand at aforesaid
this day of d.


Mayor of or chairman of selectmen of
~.
named in the preceding section shall have
been .ssued shall return the within sixty days
from The date thereof to the mayor chairman of
ectmen issuing the same, and shall state in his said
return the number of dogs killed and the of the
owners or keepers thereof and whether all unlicensed
dogs in his city town have been kleda the
of persons against whom complaints have been made
under the provisions Of this act. and whether
plants have been entered against all the persons Who
have failed to comply with the provisions of tins


Sec; Z; Gay jS tfaHsinit caTffhcsafaa
regularly subscribed and to Of the fact of the
issue of the warrant named in section seven and
whether the has been duly executed and retnrn-
ed agreeaby the provisions of this act TO the state
attorneys of their respective counties whose duty lt
shall be prosecute all such city or town officers as
fail to comply with the provisions OF this act


Sec TO- Whoever suffers loss by the worrying,
manning killing of his sheep lanhs fowls or other
domestic animals by dogs, may inform the mayor 0f
the city the chairman of the seectmen of the town
wherein the damage done, who shall proceed TO
the premises where the damage was done and deerm-
inc whether the was inflicted by dogs, and II SO,





said amount to the board of aldermen or seecmen OF
SAID city before the first day of Decem-
ber provided, however that if III the opinion of said
mayor chairman of selectmen the amount OF said
| damages shall exceed the OF twenty dollars he
shall appoint disnterested persons who with the
said mayor chairman Of seectmen shall appraise
the of such damage and return certificate OF
the same to the board of aldermen or selectmen Of
said city or before the first dav of Decem-
ber The board of aldermen selectmen of said city
or town shall, during the month Of December examine
all such bills and when any doubt exists may summon
the appraisers and all parties interested and make
such examination they may think proper and shall
issue an order upon the OF the city town
| in which the damage was done for all or any part
thereof as justice and equity may require And sad
board oil aldermen selectmen shall transmit to the
treasurer of said city before the thirty
first day of December, the aggregate amount of all
such orders issued by them. The appraisers shall
ceive from the city or tywn treasurer out of The mon
received under the provisions of this act the sum
of one dollar each for every examination made by them
prescribed in this section, and the mayor CHAIR
man of selectmen acting IN the shall receive
twenty cents per mile way for his necessary travel
in the case The treasurer shall annually, the first
Wednesday of January, pay all such orders in full if
the gross amount received by him and not previously
paid under the provisions Of this sufficient
therefor, otherwise, he shall divide such amount pro
| rata among such orders full dis barge thereof.


The owner of sheep lambs or other domestic animals
worried manned or killed by dogs shall have his cleo
ton whether to proceed under the provisions of this
section under the provisions of nine OF chap
hundred and four of the general statutes. but
having signified his election by proceeding in either
mode he shall not have the other remedy. In the alb
sickness of the mayor Of the city chairman
of the selectmen of the town in which the damage
done 1t shall be the duty of any of the aldermen
of said city of the seectmen of said town no may
| be duly informed Of damage supposed to have bees
done by dogs discharge forthwith the duties imposed
by this section upon the mayer or chairman Of select
| men. ft


Sec H. Any city or town officer refusing wilfuly
negectng to perform the duties herein imposed upon
him. shall be punished bya fine not exceeding
hundred dollars TO be paid into the State treasuTery
| Any person aggrieved by such refusal neglect
the part of any city town officer may report the
forthwith to the States attorney Of his cunn.y


Sec. IL The treasurer of any city or town may and
when ordered by the board of aldermen seiectEen
shall bring action Of tort against the owner
keeper of any dog concerned in doing damage Sheep
lambs other domestic animals IN said city town,
which damage the board Of aldermen or selectmen
have ordered to be paid to recover the full amount
thereon to the Of said city town. All fines and
penalties provided in this act may be recovered on
complaint indictment, before any couit of compe-
tent jurisdiction in the county where the offence
committed Moneys received by the treasurer OF any
city under the provisions Of this act and not
expended in accordance with its provisions may be
applied to any city or town expenses.


Sec IL. That part of chapter 83 of the general
statutes which relates the taxation of dogs hereby
repealed


Approved November g. 1879.