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CAP. XXI.

A By-law Relating to Dogs, and the Taxing thereof.

BE it enacted by the City Council of the City

of Charlottetown, as follows :——

I. The owner or keeper of any dog or bitch How register. within the City of Charlottetown shall report in ed writing to the City Clerk, at his office in the said city, the name of such dog or bitch, in order that the same may be registered in a book to be kept for that purpose ; and hereafter whenever a person may become owner or keeper of any dog or bitch within the said city. he shall report the fact in writing, as hereinbefore directed, in order to have the name of‘the owner or keeper and the name of the dog or bitch registered.

2. A tax of one dollar shall be annually paid for each dog or bitch within the said city by the $221?” t" owner or keeper thereof to the City Collector at the office of the City Clerk, on or before the first day of July in each year;-and upon the owner or keeper neglecting or refusing to pay the tax herein imposed. he shall be prosecuted for the same; and it shall be recovered in a summary way, with costs, in the City Police Court of the Stipendiary Magistrate, and on non-payment thereof, the party convicted shall be confined in the common jail of the said city for ten days.

3. The owner or keeper of a dog or bitch Collar who has paid such tax, shall affix thereon a