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Show County Commissioners Issue Orders for Straying Livestock The growing number of accidents on county roads and highways duo to tho straying of animals, has resulted in the board of county commissioners sending out orders to supervisors of tho various road districts to rigidly enforce en-force an ordinance which calls for the Impounding and disposal of any animal found at large upon any road within tho county limits. The ordlnanco gives tho road supervisors super-visors authority to take any stray animal ani-mal into custody and after holding for a five-day period to sell the anl-malto anl-malto satisfy the penalty provided In the ordinance and the relmburso the county for costs and expense. Owners of tho animals may claim them within the five-day poriod and re-possess them by paying a penalty of $1 a head, according to the ordlnanco ordln-anco The ordinance prohlbts the grazing, picketing or running at large of cattle, horses, sheep, mules, goats or swine upon any public road or highway of Weber county. It also sets forth the fact that tho ownors of the animals aro entirely responsible for accident resulting from straying. |