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at large in any district or community, the County Commissioners 

 shall be required to employ someone to kill any unlicensed dogs in 

 such community. 



Section 6. That it shall be the duty of every person owning or 

 having in charge any dog or dogs, to at all times confine such dog 

 or dogs, to the limits or of his own premises or the premises on which 

 such dog or dogs is, or are, regularly kept: Provided, That nothing 

 in this act shall be construed to prevent the owner of any dog or 

 dogs, or other person or persons having such dog or dogs in his or 

 their charge from allowing such dog or dogs to accompany such 

 owner or other person or persons elsewhere tlian on the premises on 

 which such dog or dogs is, or are, regularly kept. 



Any persons violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than two nor more than 

 fifty dollars, one-half of such fine to be payable to the officer or other 

 person furnishing the evidence upon which such owner or other 

 person having such dog or dogs in his charge is convicted of such 

 violation. 



REPORT OF MEMORIAL COMMITTEE UPON THE DEATH 

 OF GENERAL JAMES A. BEAVER. 



It is not given to very many of the sons of man to win high title 

 as a commander of valiant warriors, distinguished consideration as 

 an executive statesman and general commendation as an adminis- 

 trator of justice from the Appellate bench of his native State. To 

 have richly earned the right to wear the several titles of General, 

 Governor and Judge in so important a civic body as Pennsylvania, 

 and to have worn each of them so worthily as to have won the gen- 

 erous approbation of his fellow-citizens, places the life of the man 

 whose accomplishments these were, almost as far above eulogy as 

 it is beyond criticism, and lays upon him who has been called to 

 pronounce its memorial a difficult though gracious task. Such a 

 man was James Adams Beaver, and such were his achievements. If, 

 however, the recital of these successes or even their most extended 

 amplifications were to be the limit of the memorialist's work, it 

 would be but illy done ; for the character of which they were, at once 

 the sequel and the exponent, furnishes the larger and richer field of 

 exploration. 



Large as James A. Beaver may have loomed in official life, he was 

 larger as a man; a manly, courageous, just, kindly man, of wide in- 

 telligence and broad views ; of strong faith, bright hope and abound- 

 ing charity, as exemplified by his work; and from his early youth to 

 his last day, a man who w^alked uprightly before his God. While yet 

 in his very early manhood he set for himself a worthy purpose, es- 

 tablished reasonable standards of living, strengthened his self-con- 

 trol and found pleasure in such self-development as would enable 

 him to be of service to his fellow men. 



