Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     In the New Jersey calender Tuesday was “sheep day,” so called because upon one day in each year the township committees are in session to receive complaints from farmers and sheep-owners. These complaints state the number and value of the sheep which have been killed by dogs during the year. These losses are paid according to an act passed in 1846, from a fund obtained by taxes upon dogs owned in the township. Should this fund be insufficient to pay these damages, it is divided among those injured in equitable proportions, according to their respective losses.-Persons are taxed fifty cents for one dog above the age of six months, and one dollar for every additional dog owned by them; but the people may at their annual town meeting levy any addiitional tax on dogs, not exceeding $5 on each.