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SEC. 4209. [Pounds.] The trustees of any township may pro- 

 cure or construct an inclosure or pound, wherein animals taken up under 

 the provisions of this chapter may be confined; and the trustees may 

 appropriate from the township funds an amount not exceeding one hund- 

 red dollars for that purpose. If the trustees of any township fail to build 

 or erect such pound or inclosure, any owner or lessee of land in the 

 township where the stock is found running at large, contrary to law, 

 may detain or keep the same in any field, pen or stable, which shall be the 

 same in effect as though the stock were impounded in a pound erected by 

 the township trustees, but no stock running at large, contrary to law, 

 shall be taken up and confined in any private inclosure where township 

 pounds have been provided according to law. 



(4109-1) SEC. i. [Pounds in incorporated villages.] The 

 council of any incorporated village may procure or construct an inclosure 

 or pound wherein animals taken up within the said incorporated village, 

 under the provisions of section 4207 and 1692 of the Revised Statutes, 

 may be confined, and like notices shall be given and like proceedings 

 shall be had in such cases as are required by section 4207, Revised Stat- 

 utes ; and the council may appropriate from the general fund of such in- 

 corporated village an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars for said 

 purpose. 



(4209-3) SEC. 2. [Duties of pound-masters; release of im- 

 pounded animals.] That any pound-master so appointed finding an 

 animal mentioned in section 4202 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, at 

 large, contrary to the provisions of the chapter of which said section 4202 

 is a part, on view or information shall take up and confine the same within 

 the pound under his charge, forthwith giving notice thereof to the owner 

 of such animal, if known, and if not known, by posting a notice describing 

 such animal therein at the gate of such pound, and if said owner does not 

 appear and claim his property and pay all charges for taking up, advertis- 

 ing and keeping the same within ten ( 10) days from the date of said notice, 

 such animal or animals so taken up and confined may be proceeded with 

 under the laws regulating estrays ; the mere act of any such animal running 

 .at large in or upon any of the places mentioned in said section 4202 shall 

 be prima facie evidence that such animal is running at large contrary 

 to the provisions thereof, buiif it be proven that such animal escaped from 

 the owner or keeper thereof, without his knowledge or fault, then it shall 

 be given up to the owner or keeper thereof upon payment at the rate of 

 fifty cents ($.50) per day of twenty-four hours for keeping the same 

 from the date of taking up until surrendered to the owner. And if any 

 poundmaster so appointed shall take any animal named in section 4202 

 out of an inclosure where the same has been placed by the owner, or shall 

 wilfully neglect to perform any of the duties above required, he shall, 

 upon conviction, be fined not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or 

 imprisoned not more than twenty (20) days or both. 



(4209-4) SEC. 3. [Fees.] Any of said pound-masters taking 

 up any such animal shall be entitled to charge and receive from the owner 

 or keeper of such animal the fees prescribed by section 4208 of the Revised 

 Statutes of Ohio. 



