THE DOG TAX.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 13, 9 February 1870, Page 5

THE DOG TAX.

To Ihe, Editor of the, Cromwell Aroosjo j : J ! | Sir, —My object in bringing this subject betyftj j the notice of your readers is not to endeavo*#fM v get the Dog Nuisance Ordinance f simply to raise my voice against the injustice g and oppression to which, in common with eV&N other shepherd in the Province, 1 am subjA&SHlj through having to pay an annual tax for jheinj ,i allowed to keep a sheep-dog. Now, Sir, I nmiri tain that a shepherd might with equal justice hi I " compelled to pay a tax for the use of | arm, for a shepherd without a good dog is 'of in'i use to Ida employer. It is all very wcHiiijWi 1 doubt, to place some restriction upon j keeping useless dogs ; but it is admitted oii hands that sheep-dogs are indispensable J flock-owner. Why, then, is it that such tmitx ,i animals as sheep-dogs are placed on the uchhi I ' level as the most useless ours ? I ho | some right-thinking member of the. Provincial I .{huiucil will endeavour, at its next session: !.! special clause inserted in tho Dog » s Ordinance, exempting all sheep-dogs frouf JUijb taxed.—l am, &o , James W. Morvcn Hills Station, February (>, ' j