LAWS AS TO DOGS AND CATS. 255 
LAWS FOR DOGS. 
If any one's dog is found chasing a goat, 
the owner of that dog shall pay a fine of one 
dollar and a half ; one dollar to the owner of 
the goat or goats, and the other half to the 
informer. If a dog kills, or otherwise injures 
a goat, the owner of the dog so offending must 
pay the damage ; but should suspicion rest on 
no particular dog, the owners of dogs generally 
must pay the damage. The foregoing law is of 
no effect when the goat or goats are upon culti- 
vated ground. Persons who have fowls or hogs 
in the bush may take dogs to hunt them ; but 
should the dogs commit damage during the hunt, 
the person taking the dogs to hunt must pay the 
damage. 
LAWS FOR CATS. 
If any person under the age of ten years 
shall kill a cat, he or she shall receive corporal 
punishment. If any one, between the ages of ten 
and fifteen, kill a cat, he or she shall pay a fine 
of twenty-five dollars ; half the fine to be given 
to the informer, the other half to the public. All 
masters of families convicted of killing a cat 
shall be fined fifty dollars ; half the fine to be 
given to the informer, the other half to the 
public. 
If a fowl be seen trespassing in a garden, 
the proprietor of the garden is allowed to shoot 
and keep it, while the owner of the fowl is 
obliged to return the charge of powder and shot 
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