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dollar a day for each and every clay such dog shall be harbored, to be
recovered as other fines and penalties are now recovered.

The County Commissioners shall not later than April the fifteenth
of each year appoint and designate some suitable person who has already
been appointed constable as dog-catcher, whose special duty it shall be to
carry out the provisions of this Act, and the person so appointed is hereby
clothed with all the authority of a county constable and with all the
authority of a police officer in said First Precinct, and for the purpose of
protecting himself in the discharge of his duties. He is hereby required
to report promptly all such violations of the provisions of this Act as may
come to his knowledge, and to take all proper steps to enforce its provi-
sions. He shall be the authorized agent of the County Commissioners in
demanding license fees from the owners and harborers of dogs as pre-
scribed by this Act, on all sums collected by said constable as said dog-
catcher. He shall be entitled to a commission of twenty per cent, and on
all fines collected on his complaint, he shall be entitled to one-half and the
other one-half shall be disposed of as hereinafter provided for every dog
caught within the precinct limits without a license number attached to
it and impounded by the dog catcher in the pound until killed or released
under the provisions of this Act. He shall upon a certificate of the justice
of the peace having criminal jurisdiction in said precinct be paid the
sum of twenty-five cents for every dog killed after being impounded as
aforesaid. The owner or harborer of any dog impounded claiming the
same shall pay the dog-catcher the license fee as hereinbefore set forth,
and a fine of five dollars to be disposed of as hereafter provided, after
which said owner or harborer shall be permitted to remove said dog from
the pound, provided, however, it shall always be competent for said owner
or harborer to prove in mitigation of said license fee and fine that said
dog had been licensed to be within said precinct, and that the license num-
ber had been lost or taken from the collar of said dog without fault of the
owner. If any license number is lost from the collar of any dog, it shall
be the duty of the owner or harborer to obtain a duplicate at once from
said dog-catcher at a cost of ten cents. It shall be the duty of said dog-.
catcher to provide suitable license numbers for the enforcement of this
Act, expenses of obtaining the same to be deducted from the license fees,
and said dog-catcher shall be at the police station in Brooklyn one day
in each week from three P. M. to eight P. M., and at the police station
at Curtis Bay one day in each week from three P.M. to eight P. M.
to issue licenses and to receive the fees for the same. And he shall give
timely notice of the day he will be at said station houses by hand-bills.

All moneys received from license fees and from fines shall, after deduct-
ing the part due said dog-catcher, be paid over to the fire companies in
said precinct in the following proportions: One-half to the Brooklyn Fire
Company; one-quarter to the East Brooklyn Fire Company, and one-
quarter to the Curtis Bay Fire Company, to be applied by said fire com-
panies to their own proper use.