ORDINANCE NO. 16.

An Ordinance in Relation to Restraining Dogs from Running at Large.

Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Browning, Missouri, as follows:
SECTION 1. Every person, who shall own or keep a dog or dogs, in the city of Browning, shall pay to the city of Browning the sum of one dollar per year for each and every dog and two dollars for every female dog owned or kept by them, as a tax hereon.
SECTION 2. The tax herein required shall be due to the city of Browning on the first day of May of each year.
SECTION 3. Every person, who shall own or keep a dog or dogs in the city shall pay to the City Collector the tax herein required on the first day of May of each year and the City Collector shall issue his receipt to each person with the number of the receipt thereon which number shall compare with a number on a tag, which the owner of the dog shall at all times keep on the dog. He shall keep a duplicate of every such receipt used by him, on file in his office and deliver one to the City Clerk and one to the City Marshal.
SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal to kill each and every dog found running at large for more than two days in the city of Browning without having on a collar with the number of the receipt issued for such dog thereon, and he shall receive a fee of fifty cents for every dog he shall so kill, to be paid out of the city treasury.
SECTION 5. Every person who shall fail or refuse to comply with the requirements of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in violation thereof be fined in the sum of not less then one nor more then one hundred dollars.
SECTION 6. This ordinance to be in force from and after June 10th 1896.
Passed and approved this day of June, 1896.

C. M. THORNTON, City Clerk
F. M. HAYMAKER, Mayor