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(2) The owner of any such dog or animal who permits the same to go at large, after having information or reasonable ground for believing it to be in a rabid state, or to have been bitten by a dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
(3) It shall be lawful for any police constable to destroy any dog which is found straying or wandering about during the day-time without any owner and not wearing either a collar with the name and residence of the owner inscribed thereon or a current licence badge; and any such constable is hereby further authorised to destroy any dog which is found straying or wandering about between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
17.(1) If it appears to a magistrate on complaint that any dog is dangerous and is not kept under proper control, the magistrate may make an order that the said dog be either destroyed or kept under proper control.
(2) Such order may be made either against the owner or against the person appearing to have the custody of the dog.
(3) If the person against whom the order is made fails to comply therewith, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for every day on which he fails to comply therewith.
18. No person, other than a person acting in obedience to lawful authority, shall discharge any cannon or other firearm of greater calibre than a common fowling-piece within three hundred yards of any dwelling-house to the annoyance of any inhabitant thereof; and every person who, after being warned of the annoyance by any inhabitant, so discharges any such firearm, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
19. Every person who within the Colony or in the harbour or waters thereof, commits any of the following offences shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months:
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SUMMARY OFFENCES.
No. 1 of 1845.
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(2) The owner of any such dog or animal who permits the same to go at large, after having information or reasonable ground for believing it to be in a rabid state, or to have been bitten by a dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three
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(3) It shall be lawful for any police constable to destroy Stray dogs. any dog which is found straying or wandering about during the day-time without any owner and not wearing either a collar with the name and residence of the owner inscribed. thereon or a current licence badge; and any such constable is hereby further authorised to destroy any dog which is found straying or wandering about between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
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(2) Such order may be made either against the owner or against the person appearing to have the custody of the dog.
(3) If the person against whom the order is made fails to comply therewith he shall be liable to a penalty not exceed- ing ten dollars for every day on which he fails to comply therewith.
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