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Due to the Fencing Laws, which stated that all crops must be fenced but not livestock, Southern planters were unable to ever successfully sue a yeoman farmer for his livestock's trampling of their crops inside the fence. However, to appease the planter voting population, a tax was levied on dogs in South Carolina. The planter class figured that since they were the source for most of the South's GNP, this tax would force the yeomen to either contribute to the cause or move away from their estates, hence taking their loose livestock with them. After many saw that this was a good source of income for public state property (16th section land, etc.), most Southern States adopted the same dog tax law prior to 1860.

-info from Univ. of Mississippi Center for Southern Studies

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