174; FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. OH. 323. 1878. tag, issued by the collector aforesaid, attached, and shall impound the same; and if, within forty-eight hours, the same are not redeemed, by the owners thereof, by the payment of two dollars, they shall be sold or destroyed, as the poundmaster may deem advisable; and any sale made by virtue hereof shall be deemed valid to all intents and purposes in all the courts of the District of Columbia. D°H¤ with ***58 Sec. 4. Any dog wearing the tax-tag hereinbefore provided for shall
- ’)Q0;;,,§,’°'“°““1 be permitted to run at large in the District of Columbia, and shall be
' regarded as personal property in all the courts of said District; and any person injuring or destroying the same shall be liable to a civil action for damages, which, upon proof of said injuring or killing may be awarded in a sum equal to the value usually put upon such property by persons buying and selling the same, subject to such modification as the particular circumstances of the case may make proper, I¤.i¤1‘i¤¤ by d<>s¤- Sec. 5. Any person owning any dog so recorded in the collector’s office shall be liable in a civil action for any damage done by said dog to the full amount of the injury inflicted. D¤s-¢¤llM¤- Sec. G. It shall be the duty of any person owning or possessing a dog to place, or cause to be placed and kept, around the neck of such dog, a collar, on which shall be marked and engraved, in legible and durable " characters, the name of the owner or possessor, and the letters **D. C.", _ _ and to which collar must be attached the insignia or tax-tag furnished 0”“°'“°¤ °f· by the District tax-collector, in accordance with the first and second sections of this law, under the penalty of not less than five nor more U¤l¤Wf¤l vw ¤f· than ten dollars; and if any person shall put, or cause to be put, a collar, with the insignia or tax-tag, around the neck of any dog owned or possessed by any person or persons residing in the District, without having obtained a license for keeping such animal, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than nve nor more than ten dollars for each and every offense. M“”l°”· SEO. 7. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the Commissioners that there are good reasons for believing that any dog or dogs within the District are mad, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to issue a proclamation requiring that all dogs shall, for a period to be defined in the proclamation, wear good, substantial muzzles securely put on, so as to prevent them from biting or snapping; and any dog going at large during the period defined by the Commissioners without such muzzle shall be taken by the poundmaster and impounded, subject to _ the provisions of section three. I R°';‘°"‘“g "°1‘ Sec. S. Any person who shall remove, or cause to be removed, the "r’ ° °‘ collar and insignia or taxtag from the neck of any dog, or entice any properly licensed dog into any inclo ure for the purpose of taking off its collar or insignia, or shall for such purpose decoy or entice any animal out of the inclosure or house of its owner or possessor, or shall Molwlng Md seize or molest any dog while held or led by any person, or shall bring ‘]°g‘ any dog into the District for the purpose of taking up and killing the same, shall forfeit and pay a sum of not more than twenty dollars. D*mH¤*'°¤¤ d°g¤· Sec. 9. if any owner or possessor of a fierce or dangerous dog permit the ame to go at large in the District of Columbia, to the danger or annoyance of the inhabitants, he shall forfeit and pay, for the first oifense, ten dollars; for the second, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; and upon a third conviction for the same offense, the Commissioners shall immediately cause the dog, upon account of which the conviction takes place, to be slain and buried. Ropeals. Sec. 10. That all acts or parts of acts now in force in the District of Columbia inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 19, 1878.
