318 APPENDIX. 



CHAPTER 88. 



Protection of Sheep, Lambs, and other Domestic Animals, against Dogs. 



Skct. 52. Every owner or keeper of a dou shall annually on or before 

 the thirtieth day of April, cause it to be registered, numbered, described 

 and licensed for one year from the first day of the ensuing May, in the 

 pflice of the clerk of the city or town wherein he resides ; and shall 

 cause it to wear round its neck a collar distinctly marked with its owner's 

 name and registered number, and shall pay for such license one dollar 

 for a male dog and five dollars for a female do"r. 



Skct. 53. The clerk shall issue the license, and receive and pay the 

 money therefor into the city or town treasury, retaining to his own use 

 ten cents for each license. The treasurer shall keep an accurate and 

 separate account of all sums received and paid out under the provisions 

 of this chapter relating to dogs, which account shall at all times be open 

 to the inspection of any voter of the place. 



Skct. 54. The clerk shall annually, within one week after the first 

 day of May, post in some conspicuous public place a list of all dogs 

 licensed for the current year ; and shall furnish a copy thereof to the 

 chief of police of the city, or one of the constables of the town ; and 

 shall also, from time to time, furnish said officers with a list of such dogs 

 as are subsequently licensed during the year. 



Skct. 55. Any owner of a dog may at any time have it licensed 

 until the first day of the ensuing May, upon paying the sum as provided 

 in section fifty-two ; but such license shall not exempt him from the 

 penalty of the following section, on complaint made prior to issuing the 

 license. No new license for the current year shall be necessary upon 

 the removal of a licensed dog into another city or town, unless required 

 by some by-law passed under section sixty-seven. 



Skct. 56. Whoever keeps a dog contrary to the provisions of this 

 chapter shall forfeit ten dollars, to be recovered by complaint, to the use 

 of the place wherein the dog is kept. 



Sect. 57. Whoever wrongfully removes the collar from or steals a 

 dog, licensed and collared as aforesaid, shall be punished by fine not 

 exceeding fifty dollars ; and whoever wrongfully kills, maims, entices, or 

 carries away such a dog, shall be liable to its owner for its value in an 

 action of tort. AY r hoever distributes or exposes any poisonous substance, 

 with intent that the same shall be eaten by any dog, shall be punished 

 by tine not exceeding fifty nor less than ten dollars. 



Skct. 58. Any person may, and every police officer and constable 

 shall, kill or cause to be destroyed all dogs going at large and not 

 licensed and collared according to the, provisions of this chapter ; and 

 such officers, when not otherwise paid for their services, shall receive 

 from the city or town treasury fifty cents for each dog so destroyed by 

 them. 



Sect, 59. Every owner or keeper of a dog shall forfeit to any 

 person injured by it double the amount of the damage sustained by 

 him, to be recovered in an action of tort. 



Sect. GO. Any person may kill a dog that shall suddenly assault 

 him while he is peaceably walking or riding without the enclosure of its 



