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An Ordinance to prevent animals from rurring at large within
certain limits of the Town of Edmonds.
Be it ordained by the Council of the Town of Edmonds.
SECTION 1: Bulls and vicious cows, horses (excepting draft
horses and draft mules) swine, sheep, goats and other animals of
such species, shall not be permitted to run at large within the t�d�
following limits of the Town of Edmonds: towit:
Beginning at apoint at the low water mark west of and opposite
of the section lin-e betweer sections 23, 24, 25, 26, Township 27, ,
Range 3 East; thence East on said Section line to the Northwest `6n n�
corner of the Northwest Quarter of the -,ortheast (quarter of Section
26; thence South 60 rods; thence East 160 Rods, thence North 80 4M4
Rods, thence East 160 Rods, thence North 160 Rods, thence West 1604
Rods, thence North 160 Rods, thence. -West 160 Rods, thence North
80 Rods, thence West to love water line; thence Southwesterly along
the low water line to place of begin ing.
SECTION 2: The Torn Marshal or any public officer of sand
Town shall take up and impound any and all of the aforesaid d4l�l /
animals found running at large within the limits described in
Section One of this Ordinance and for each day or part of a day
that any such animals shall be impounded, the owner thereof shall
pay to the Town Marshal fifty cents for the care and keeping of
each animal, and the further sum of fifty cents as 'Impounding fee.
SECTION 3: If at the expiration of two days the amount so
due shall not be paid, the Town Marshal shall proceed to give at
least five days' notice to be published in the official newspaper
of the Town of the time and place, when and where he will expose
the said animal or animals for sale by public auction, at which
time and at which place he shall at public auction expose the said
animal or animals for sale, and out of the proceeds thereof he
shall pay all the expenses aforesaid and all other necessary ex-
penses, and he shall pay the residue to the Town Treasurer. The
said notice shall describe the said animal or animals with cer-
tainty, and shall state to whom, if anyone, the said Town Marshal
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supposes the
owner's name
be stated in
Town Marshal
notice shall
sale.
said animal or animals belong, and if said owner or
is wholely unknown to said Marshal, that fact shall
said_ngtice. If such owner shall be known to the
and can be found within the.Town, a copy of such
be served upon him at least one day prior to said
SECTION 4: The Town Marshal shall file with the Clerk within
five days after such; sale, a report in writing setting forth all
the above matters tojaching any such sale.; such report shall be
signed by said Marshal and said report shall be conclusive of the
facts therein stated,.
SECTION 5: For all services not provided for in this Ordi-
rfr�.�• Oaace the town -Marshal shall be allowed the usual fees for similar
services payable out of the proceeds of said sale.
SECTIOA 6: The owner of such animal or animals may have the
same delivered to him at any time before thesale by paying all
accrued expenses; or at any time after such sale"on application
to the Town Council,isuch owner shall be entitled to a warrant
on the Treasurer for any surplus of such sale which may have been
paid to the said Treasurer.
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SECTION 7: The owner of any such animal or animals, may re-
deem the same at anytime within thirty days after the sale, by
paying to the purchaser thereof, the full amount paid by him for
such animal and in addition thereto, one percent per month on the
amount so paid.
Passed by the Dour -oil this 19th day of July 1895.
Attest: :J.H.Dowd, Clerk. C.T.Roscoe, Mayor.
The above Ordinance submitted tothe City Attorney this 5th
day of July 1895. J.H.Dowd, Clerk.
Town of Edmonds,,ss
I, J.H.Dowd, Clerk of the Towr of Edmonds, in the State of
Washirgton, ao hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing
copy of Ordwra7ce 'cumbered 51, entitled, "An Ordinance to prevent
animals from running at large within certain limits of the Town of
Edmonds" with the original thereof as passed by the Council, and
that the same is a full,.true and correct copy. of said Ordinance
and of the whole thereof. I further certify that the same was
published according to law it the weekly"Edmonds Lyre" or the
26th day of July 1895. J.H.Dowd, Clerk.