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- **Posted:** 2025-03-07T14:01:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** City of Toronto Archives (@toronto_archives) — https://gondola.cc/toronto_archives

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#OnThisDay 175 years ago, the newly-created Township of Scarborough passed its first ten by-laws. 

Top priorities for the council, after appointing some officers and establishing a property tax, were two problems: loose livestock, and loose morals. Here are some excerpts from the early legislation.

By-Law 2: "Be it enacted by the Municipality of Scarborough that from and after the passing of this By-Law, all and every Bull unruly, or Breechy Cattle, Horses, Rams, Boars, and Swine ... without a ring or wire in the nose, running at large on the public highway or trespassing, shall be liable to be impounded..."

By-Law 3: "[I]t shall not be lawful for any person or persons, other than a Licensed Innkeeper, to sell any beer, ale, cider, or other manufactured beverage, in a less quantity than one quart, no part of which shall be drunk on the premises of the person selling the same..."

By-Law 5: "[S]tationary pounds should be erected in the Township at such places as will afford an opportunity to the Inhabitants of impounding Animals..."

By-Law 7: "A By-Law for imposing a Tax on the Owners, possessors, and Harbourers of Dogs"

By-Law 8: "[A]ny person or persons who shall exhibit any Wax figures, Wild animals, Puppet Shows, Wire-dancing, Circus riding, Mountebank or Juggling, in this Township without first obtaining a license ...shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum of five pounds and Costs..."

Image: some "Breechy Cattle" crossing the Don River, 1916.
Fonds 1548, Series 393, Item 13430.

#OTD #ScarbTO #TOHistory #TorontoHistory #TorontoArchives #ByLaws

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