In Jail for Dog Tax

New York, 1895

Gustave Ritchenbach, a farmer, living at West Hills, near Huntington, was taken to the county jail in Riverhead Wednesday morning in default of $5 dog tax and $8.25 costs. A tax is levied on dogs in the town of Huntington, but great difficulty has always been experienced in its collection. Recently the town authorities agreed to rigidly enforce the tax. The amount realized by this tax is used to reimburse farmers whose sheep get killed presumably by dogs.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page number.