ORDINANCES

OF THE

TOWN OF WASHINGTON,

NORTH CAROLINA.

NEW BERN, N. C.
RICHARDSON PRINTING COMPANY

1903.

 
ORDINANCES.

The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Washington do
enact that for the government of said Town the following
ordinances shall be and remain in force from the first
day of June, 1902, until the same are amended or repealed,
to wit:

CHAPTER I.

RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BOARD.

SECTION. SECTION.
Board to meet monthly. 10. Elections, how made.
Order of Business. 11. Conduct of members during
Mayor to decide questions of session.
order. 12. Restriction on debate.
Previous question. 13. Order when questions are put.
. Motion to adjourn. 14. Precedence of motions.
. Money appropriations and or- | 15. When questions divisible.
dinances at regular meetings | 16. Amendments and substitutes.
only. 17. Reports from Committees.
Reconsideration when allowed | 18. Petitions read by Clerk, ete.
Ordinances, when in force. 19. Duties of the Chief of Police
Standing Committees. at meetings.

Section 1. There shall be a regular meeting of the Com-
missioners at the Town Hall, on the first Monday in each month.
The Mayor or a majority of the board may call aspecial meeting
in case of emergency, but no business shall be transacted at such
meeting except that for which it may be called. ‘Three mem-
pers of the board shall constitute a quorum. If a quorum fail
to attend, the meeting shall stand adjourned to a day agreed on
by a majority of members present.

Sec. 2. Whenever a regular meeting shall be organized the
order of business shall be as follows: Calling Roll of Members.
Reading Proceedings of last regular and special meeting, if any.
Reception of Petitions. Reports. of Committees. Reports of
Officers. Unfinished Business. New Business. Auditing Bills.
Reading Minutes. Adjournment.

If the board desires any matter to be the special business of

a future meeting the same shall have precedence at such meeting.

 
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A proposition may not be entertained by the Mayor until it is
recorded; and the propounder, when required by the Mayor or by
any member, shall reduce the same to writing. : ‘

Sec. 3. The Mayor shall preserve order, decide all questions
of order, and appoint the committees, standing and special; but
any member may appeal to the board from the decision of the
mayor upon any question of order, and on such appeal no com-
missioner shall speak more than once without leave nor longer
than three minutes. Py

Sec. 4. The previous question may be called at any time
by a majority of the members present, : :
be called by any member.

Sec. 5. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order and
shall be decided without debate. ;

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Che ayes and noes may

Sec. 6. No proposition to appropriate money, to alter or
repeal any ordinance or rule of the board, to enact any new or-
dinance or to establish any new rule shall be made or decided at
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any other than a regular meeting, except by a unanimous vote.

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Sec. 7 No question decided by the board shall be again

brought forward at any > ; '
ght rward a any subsequent meeting except upon a

motion made by some member who yoted with the majority. A
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motion to. reconsider a vote shall not be in order except at the

same or succeeding adjourne sati .

Ing % journed meeting to that at which the vote
was taken: provided that a vote or question may be reconsidered
at any time by a vote of two-thirds of the board

ard.

Sec. 8. Every ordinance sh; :
Sec. 8. J ance shall be in force from and after
its publication for ten days unlessa longer or fuller notice be

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ordered.

Sec. 9. The standing ittees :
_ See. The bg ding Sani eee shall be as follows: viz:

ra ana;r > “inanee, Sanitary * a
Fire Department, nance, Sanitary, Police, Streets and’ Pumps,
Lights, Wharves and Docks, Ordinances and Licenses, Cemeteries
; 8.

See. 10. All elections by the board shall be made by ballot
if required by any member, and a majority of the votes of all the
members present shall be necessary to make an election or
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Sec. 11. After the mayor has taken the chair no member
shall continue standing except to address the chair.

Sec. 12. Speakers shall rise to address the chair and shall
confine themselves to the point in debate.

Sec. 13. When the mayor is putting any question the com-
missioners sball remain in their seats and shall not hold any
private discourse.

Sec. 14. When a question is under consideration no motion
shall be received except as follows: 1. To lay on the table. 2.
To postpone to a time certain. 3. To postpone indefinitely. 4.
To refer to a committee. 5. To amend. 6. To divide. And
motions for any of these purposes shall have. precedence in the
order named.

A motion to adjourn and to lay on the table shall always be
in order, and shall be decided without debate, and of them the
motion to adjourn shall have precedence; but no motion to ad-
journ or to table shall be entertained while the board is voting,
or immediately succeeding the same; (some intervening business
must have been transacted.)

Sec. 15. If a question under discussion contains several
distinct propositions the same shall be divided at the request of
anv member, and a vote taken separately; but a motion to strike
out and insert shall be indivisible.

Sec. 16. All amendments shall be considered in the order
in which they are moved. When a proposed amendment is under
consideration, a motion to amend the same may be made. No
further amendment to such second amendment shall be in order;
but when an amendment to an amendment is under consideration
a substitute for the whole matter may be received. No propo-
sition on a subject different from the one under consideration
shall be received under color of a substitute.

Sec. 1%. The reports of all the committees shall be in
writing and shall be received as a matter of course without mo-
tion for acceptance. All reports recommending or requiring any
action or expression of opinion by the board shall be accom pa-
nied by a corresponding resolution.

 
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Sec. 18. Applications and petitions to the board shall be
read and laid on the table as a matter of course, subject to any
motion which a commissioner may think proper to make. All
such applications and petitions shall be presented through the
clerk of the board.

Sec. 19. The chief of police shall attend all meetings of
the board at the hour appointed, and remain in attendance until
the close of the session, unless otherwise ordered. He shall
bring in or cause to be sent for, absent members, under the di-
rection of the mayor, and shall further obey all orders of the
mayor or presiding officer in enforcing order and decorum.

 

   

 
  
  
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
    
    
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
  

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CHAPTER II.

POLICE ORGANIZATION.

SuCTION. SECTION.

1. The police force 8. Resisting an officer.

2, The mayor. | 9. Sick policeman.

3. The chief of police. | 10. Special policemen.

4. Police. '11. Police duties at Town Hall.
5. May summon posse. (12. Uniform.

6. May enter house. /13. Detective.

7. Duties at fire, etc. | 14. Policeman drinking.

Section 1.. The police organization for the town shall con-
sist of the mayor, the chief of police, and as many policemen as
the board of commissioners shall from time to time provide.

Sec. 2. The mayor shall have the general control of the
police department and may at any time suspend from duty any
member of the police force without pay until the next meeting
of the commissioners, when the case shall be disposed of by the
board. And during such intervals of suspension the mayor shall
have power to appoint a substitute and to call a special meeting
for the purpose of qualifying such substitute, if necessary.

Sec. 3 The Chief of Police shall be elected at the first
regular meeting in May of each year. He shall be Chief of
Police, and under the direction and control of the mayor and
police committee, shall superintend and regulate the department.
[t shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to collect all fines and
costs imposed by the mayor. He shall pay over to the treasurer
weekly the amount received by him. He shall further perform
all the duties imposed upon him by law and by the ordinances
of the town, or which may hereafter be imposed. His salary
shall be fixed by the board, and he shall be subject to suspension
by the mayor until a regular meeting of the board, and then to
removal] for cause, two-thirds of the board concurring.

Sec. 4. Policemen who may be provided to assist the chief
of police shall be elected for twelve months, subject to sus-
pension as provided in the second section of this chapter and to
removal from office for cause at any regular meeting of the
board. It shall be the duty of the chief ‘of police and his assist-
 

 

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ants to suppress all disturbances of the quiet and good order of
the town, and to arrest all offenders against the same, to prevent
as far as possible injury to the town property and to the streets
and sidewalks, and to report to the mayor any repairs needed, to
report complaints of any disorderly houses or houses of ill-fame
in the town, to ascertain if spirituous liquors are retailed by any
person in the town, other than those authorized by law, and re-
port the same.

Sec. 5. Policemen have authority if resisted in the execu-
tion of their duties to summon a sufficient number of men to aid
them in enforcing the law; and if any person so summoned shall
refuse to assist, the policeman is hereby directed to report the
same to the mayor who shall proceed against them as the law
directs.

Sec. 6. Whenever the town police shall have good reason
to believe that a person who has committed, or who is in the act
of committing a violation of law or ordinance, is upon avy
premises in the town, they shall have power to enter the same
without warrant for the apprehension of such person; and if
necessary to Summon a posse to aid them; and all persons so

summoned shall have like power,

Sec. % Upon the occurrence of a fire, the policemen shal]

be present to preserve order and to protect property under the
direction of the mayor, or in his absence, under the direction of
the chief of police. They shall not enter into any house or yard
except in pursuit of a fugitive or to suppress disorder. No
policeman shall participate in any political or other public
meeting while on duty. They are also forbidden to frequent
liquor houses except in the legitimate discharge of their duties.
A failure to conform to the provisions of this ordinance shall
subject the offender to immediate suspension and ultimate re-
moual from office, according to previous ordinances of this chap-
ter, sections 2 and 4. They shall secure in jail or in the police
guard rooms all persons who shall make a disorderly noise in a
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the good order of the same, violate the ordinances of the town or
the laws of the State.

Sec. 8. Any person who shall assault, oppose, ridicule, re-
sist or in any manner abuse an officer of the town or member of
the police while in the discharge of his duty, shall upon con-
viction be fined twenty dollars or imprisoned for thirty days,
with or without labor j

Sec. 9. When any member of the police force shall be un-
able from sickness or other unavoidable cause to perform his
duty, he shall notify the mayor, who is hereby authorized to em-
ploy a substitute for the particular occasion, the expenses of the
said substitute to be deducted from any amount due the said
policeman. x

Sec. 10. On public occasions when in the mayor’s judg-
ment it may be necessary, he shall be authorized to appoint and
commission special policemen to take charge of such localities
as may be designated, for the preservation of order and decorum;
provided the expense on this account shall be passed upon by
the commissioners, and provided the mayor shall be authorized
to withdraw any authority granted under this ordinance and ap-
point other officers

Sec. 11. If either night or day policeman sleep on his post
or absent himself from the same during his hours of service, or
if the chief of police or auy policeman be found intoxicated
while on duty, they shall be subject to suspension or dismissal
from service.

Sec. 12. The uniform of the Chief and each member of
the police shall be a dark blue frock coat and pants, with brass
buttons and the letter P. engraved thereon, a dark blue or black
hat, and the metalic. badge now in use, which badge shall be
worn on the breast of the coat,

when he may deem it expedient.

The above uniform shall always
be worn whenever said officer shall be on duty unless otherwise
ordered by the police committee, :

Sec. 13. Whenever in the opinion of the mayor it shall be
proper and necessary to employ a secret detective, the mayor
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twenty-five dollars shall be incurred, without a previous vote of
the board of commissioners.

Sec. 14. Any policeman who shall while on duty be found
intoxicated, or who shall enter any saloon other than on official
business, or who shall while in such saloon take any drink or
participate in any game, or do any other act not consistent with
his official position shall be subject to suspension or dismissal
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CHAPTER IIL.

STREETS AND PUMPS.

ECTION.

Duty of chief of police. SECTION.

Footways and gutters. 31. Depositing trash, Waste pa-

Cellar doors. per, etc. on streets.

Wells pumps and cisterns. 2. Loitering on the streets.

Encroachments on streets. 3. Erecting platforms over gut-

Obstructions on streets. ters.

Wood and coal on streets. | 34. Moving vessels or boats.

Shade trees. 5. Grape skins,etc. on sidewalks.

Hitching horses. 36. Slops or garbage to be covered.

Rubbish on streets. . Leaky water pipe or hydrant.

Removing loam, etc. 8. Carts or drays not to stand on

Sidewalks. certain streets.

Speed of loaded carts. . Moving houses.

Fast driving, etc. . Baby carriages in single file.

Vehicles not to be stopped on . Bicycles, riding on sidewalks.

sidewalks, etc. . Parades.

16. Playing games and throwing . Not to solicit trade on side-
stones, etc. walks.

17. Injury to bridges and lamps. | Disarranging streets.

18. Vehicles not in use. . Telegraph and telephone poles

19. Injury and improper use of | 46. Advertisements on telegraph
wells and pumps. etc. poles.

20. Firing arms, etc. . Signs across sidewalks.

21. Signs and lamp posts. . Posting pictures, etc.

22. Chief of police on working . Throwing glass on streets, etc.
streets. 50. Use of sidewalks.

23. Bills examined. 51. Protecting pumps from abuse.

24. Offal, garbage, etc., in the . Pouring fish or beef pickle in
docks. street.

25. Shells to be thrownon wharf. Advertising and bill posting.

26. Not in dock or harbor. Gates.

27. Vehicles cutting into ditches. Gutters.

28. Coops, Booths, Stands and Opening oysters.
Stalls. Camp fires.

29. Gutter pipes and drains. Union Alley and Whitecar’s

30. Ditches and holes on sidewalks | Lane.

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Section 1. The chief of police shall employ and superin-
tend all the laborers required by the town to work upon the
streets and other public works. He shall report to the Town
Clerk weekly the time that each employee has worked, the cost
of the labor and material and all other expenses incurred by him
on account of the town. He shall further perform all the duties
imposed upon him by these ordinances or which shall hereafter
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Sec. 2. Every occupant of a lot on any street shall keep
the footway clean and the gutter open and free from obstruc-
tions as far as such lot extends. If any rubbish, dirt, filth or
other thing be placed. or left without lawful authority on such
footway or in such gutter, the occupant of the lot shall remove
the same. If five hours elapse after notice by the chief of
police, by the mayor or by one of the policemen without removal,
the occupant shall upon proof of the same be fined three dollars.

Sec. 3. Every owner of a house on a street which has a
cellar door, vault or pavement of stone or brick, shall keep the
same in repair. If he shall, after being notified to do so by the
mayor, a member of the street committee or by the chief of
police, fail for the space of five days to repair the same, he shall
be fined five dollars. And every day which shall elapse there-
after until the repairs are made shall constitute a distinct of-
fense. If there be several owners of such house it shall be suffi-
cient to give the notice to any one of them; if the owner be a
non-resident the notice may be given to his agent or to the occu-
pant of the house.

Sec, 4. If any person shall throw filth or rubbish of any
kind into the public wells, or in any manner injure the public
pumps, he shall be fined five dollars or imprisoned ten days.

Sec. 5. No citizen of Washington shall encroach upon the
streets by erecting any piazza, porch, stoup, paling, chimney or
other obstruction. Any one violating this ordinance shall be
subject to a fine of fifty dollars,

Sec. 6. No brick, stone, wood or other substance obstruct-
ing the streets shall be suffered to be in the same. And no
person shall place in any street or alley or upon sidewalks, boxes,
vasks, barrels or other obstructions; provided, however that
building material, earth and other obstructions of like character
may be, by permission of the mayor, in writing, allowed under
such restrictions as he may prescribe. Every person offending
against these provisions shall, upon conviction, be fined five dol-
lars for each and every offense, and a like sum for each and every
day that such obstructions are permitted to remain.

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Sec. 7. No wood or coal shall be allowed to remain on the

streets or foot-ways obstructing the same for a longer period than
five hours after said wood or coal shall have been delivered. to
the person ordering the same. For a violation of this section a
fine of two dollars shall be imposed upon the party or parties
ordering the same, for each day the coal or wood may remain on
the street or foot:-way.

Sec. 8. The citizens may plant trees in front of their lots
on the line dividing the foot-way from the street, and if any
person shall destroy, cut or disfigure such trees without permis-
sion from the commissioners or mayor, he shall pay a fine of five
dollars upon conviction.

Sec. 9. No person shall fasten a horse or other animal to
the street trees of the town or any fence enclosing public
grounds, or grounds of public institutions. For a violation of
this section persons upon conviction shall be fined one dollar.

Sec. 10. All persons are prohibited from depositing any
dirt taken from any cellar or other place, upon any of the streets
of the town without permission of the mayor. A violation shall
subject the offender to a fine upon conviction of ten dollars.

Sec, 11. No person shall remove any sand or dirt from the
street, or loam or clay from any public lot of the city, to a point
either within or without the limits of the corporation. The of-
fender shall be fined three dollars for each and every offense. It
shall be the duty of the officers of the town to report to the
mayor any breach of this section immediately.

Sec. 12. No person shall lead, ride or drive any horse or
other animal upon any foot-way, except such part of it as lies
directly between the carriage way and the entrance to an ad-
jacent lot, and only for the purpose of going into and out of said
lot. Nor shall any one place on the foot-way of a public street,
any wheel barrow, hand cart, hand carriage or any other vehicle
except iu passing directly across . the foot-way into or out of a
house or lot. Offender shall be fined two dollars for each offense:
provided, nothing in this section shall prevent the use on such
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Sec. 13. No person shall drive any loaded dray, cart or
wagon in a public street out of a walk, nor shall the driver of
any vehicle on the street, wantonly with his whip or otherwise,
annoy others, or suffer his vehicle to stand or pass on any busi-
ness street without holding the reins, except in the case of a
wagon, cart or dray while delivering or receiving a load. When
vehicles meet, each shall go to the right; when going in the same
direction one passes another it shall pass to the left, and the
driver passed shall give way for the purpose. Any person of-
fending against the provisions of this section shall be fined two
dollars for each offense.

Sec. 14. No person shall ride or drive a horse or other
animal or vehicle on any street faster than at the rate of eight
miles per hour, nor break any horse or other animal in any street.
For each offense the person convicted shall pay a fine of five
dollars.

Sec. 15. No person shall stop any vehicle on a foot-way or
common crossing for foot passengers. For doing so, he shall be
fined one dollar, And for every five minutes he shall remain
after being warned to leave, he shall be regarded as committing
a distinct offense. Provided, the driving of a cart or wagon on
the foot-way to deliver wood or coal shall not be deemed a viola-
tion of this section, if the same be delivered without delay, and
the vehicle removed from the foot-way as soon as the load is
delivered.

Sec. 16. All games of every description, the throwing of
stones, shot or missiles on the streets and side walks of Washing-
ton are forbidden, and every person offending against this section
shall be fined two dollars for each and every offense.

Sec. 17. Any person who shall injure a bridge or other
property belonging to the town, or place obstructions in any cul-
vert, drain or sewer, public or private; or injure any of the town
lamps or lamp posts, shall be fined upon conviction, ten dollars.
And if he fails to repair the injury or remove the obstruction for
five hours after notice from the mayor or a member of the street
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such repair or removal shall constitute a distinct offense.

Sec. 18. No wagon, cart, carriage, buggy or other vehicle
shall be permitted to stand in any street when not in use by the
owner. The offender shall be fined one dollar upon conviction
for each offense.

Sec. 19. No person shall put or allow tubs or barrels to
stand or do the cleaning thereof at the public pumps. Neither
shall any one wash articles, nor water, nor wash animals about
the public pumps. The offender against the foregoing part of
this section shall be fined two dollars upon conviction. If any
person shall wilfully or negligently by nnreasonable or violent
use or otherwise, injure any public well or pump in the town, he
shall pay a fine of five dollars. And the town police are instruc-
ted to use special diligence in carrying this section into effect.

Sec. 20. Any person who shall shoot off a gun or other
fire arms, or shoot any rocket, pop-cracker, or other fire-works,
or any combination of gun powder or other explosive material in
any street or foot-way; or shoot off any gun or other fire arm
charged with ball or shot or any other deadly thing, within two-
hundred yards of any habitation within the town, except in cases
of necessity, shall be fined ten dollars for each offense, one-half
to go to the informer; provided, nothing herein centained shall
prohibit the exhibition of fireworks authorized by the mayor on
occasions of public rejoicing.

Sec. 21. Any person who shall injure or deface any sign
or sign post belonging to another, or any lantern, lamp or lamp
post, or the works cr machinery of another, or pollute any well
of water belonging to another, shall pay a fine of ten dollars
upon conviction.

Sec. 22. Neither the chief of police nor the street commit-
tee shall enter upon any work except ordinary repairs without
the consent of the board.

Sec. 23. No account for work by contract shall be allowed
until the work so contracted for shall be examined by the mayor,
or by a skilled committee appointed for the purpose, who shall
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contract. A mechanic appointed by the board shall take charge
of the town pumps and keep them in order; and in ease there be
no such appointment the chief of police, under the advice of the
committee on pumps, shall employ a competent mechanic to at-
tend to the same until an appointment is made by the board.

Sec. 24. No offal, garbage, rubbish or other refuse matter
of any kind whatever shall be thrown inte the doek at the foot
of Market street, or into any other slip or doek in or about the
town, and if any one be guilty of a violation of this section he or
she shall be subject to a fine upon conviction of five dollars.

Sec. 25. The shells of oysters and clams opened at or on
the wharves or in the town docks, whether by boatmen or others,
shall be deposited for the use of the town on the wharves where
opened, as a compensation for wharfage; any person violating this
section shall be fined one dollar.

Sec. 26. It shall be unlawful to throw shells opened as afore-
said in section 25, into the docks or into the waters of the har-

bor, and the doing so shall subject the offender to a fine of two
dollars for each and every offense,

Sec. 27. Vehicles shall not be run so close to the drains
and ditches of the town as to ent into them, or break down
their margins. Any person who offends against this section shal]
be fined two dollars.

Sec. 28. No person shall erect or place any stand, stall or
booth, rack or coop, or any other thing of like nature to be used
for the sale of any kind of merchandise, truck poultry or any
article of sale whatever on any street or streets of the town of
Washington; and any booths, stalls, racks, coops or stands, tables
or any building erection or place of like nature used or to be
used as aforesaid now situated or placed on the street or streets
of said town shall be considered an obstruction, and the police-
men are authorized to remove the same; and any person owning
such stand, booth, stall, table or other place above mentioned, or
selling at the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
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Sec. 29. All gutter pipes or drains of any kind running
from any building or lot in the town of Washington emptying in-
to the streets of said town shall empty into the ditch lying be-
tween the street and sidewalk, and any person or persons owning
any building or lot in the said town from which any gutter pipe
or drain does empty on the sidewalks as aforesaid, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined five dollars
for each day said gutter pipe or drain is allowed to remain in
violation of this ordinance.

Sec. 30. No person or persons shall be allowed to dig or
open any ditch or hole of any kind upon the streets or sidewalks
of this town without first getting the permission from the mayor.
Any one guilty of this offense shall be subjected to a fine of five
dollars or ten days imprisonment.

Sec. 31. No waste paper, or other trash shall be set fire to
or burned, or thrown or otherwise deposited upon the sidewalks
or public streets of the town, except the sweepings which shall
be placed in a box, barrel, or some other suitable receptacle, and
placed in front of the lot or building; and where it is impracti-
cable to open any package of merchandise in the stores the side-
walks shall be used for that purpose; all letters, trash, nails or
strippings shall immediately be cleaned up and deposited in said
barrels, boxes, or other receptacle; which shall be placed on the
streets only on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
each week; and in no event shall there be any nails left there or
ubout the place where said packages of merchandise are opened.
Any person violating this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of
two dollars.

Sec. 32. All persons assembling and loitering upon the
streets of the town in sufficient number or in such manner as to
be an obstruction to the streets, sidewalks or crossings, or an
annoyance to persons engaged in business enterprises, shall dis-
perse when ordered by any policeman. Failing to obey such
order, shall, on conviction, be subject to a penalty of ten dollars.

Sec. 33. That no person shall erect or maintain any plat-
form over the gutters or drains within the town limits, provided,

 
 

 

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that this shall not prevent the erection of a foot bridge of the
width of three feet over gutters in front of door-ways or gate-
ways, and bridges of the width of eight feet for wagon crossings,
when such may be required. Provided further, that this shal]
not be construed to prevent the board of commissioners from
granting special permission for the laying of piping of sufficient
dimenisons to allow the free passage of water, which said piping
shall be covered with earth so as to make a crossing even with
the street. Any person violating this ordinance shall be fined
ten dollars for each and eyery offense.

Sec. 34. That it shall be unlawful for the officer or party
in command of any boat or vessel lying in any one of the public
docks of the town to refuse and neglect to move the said vessel
or boat upon being commanded to do so by any officer of the said
town. Any person violating this ordinance shall be subject to a
fine of ten dollars for each offense.

Sec. 35. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or
place any grapes or grape skins, orange or banana peels upon any
of the sidewalks of the town. Anyone violating this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of ten dol-
lars or ten days imprisonment.

Sec. 36. ‘Vhat it shall be unlawful for any person or per-
sons to carry or convey through the public streets or passways of
the town, any slops or garbage, if the same be contained in an
uncovered receptacle. Any person violating this ordinance shall
be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each and every offense.

Sec. 37%. That it shall be unlawful for any person to main-
tain any water pipe or hydrant upon the public streets if the
same be in a leaky condition, and any person who after ten hours
notice to repair the same shall fail to do so, shall upon convic-
tion be liable to a penalty of two dollars for each day that the
said leak may continue thereafter, each day constituting a separ-
ate offense.

Sec. 38. It shall be unlawful for any cart, dray or transfer
to stand on Mainstreet from Market street to Gladden street, and
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ing or unloading, and any such cart or dray so standing, the
driver of the same, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of five dol-
lars for each offense.

Sec. 39. No person shall be allowed to use the streets of
the town for the purpose of moving any house or houses, except
by permission from the mayor, under a penalty of fifty dollars
for each and every offense.

Sec. 40. That baby carriages, carts and such other vehicles
as are permitted on the sidewalks of the town shall be kept in
single file when there are two or more together, so that there
shall not be two or more abreast on sidewalks, either while said
vehicles are in motion or stationary. Any violation of this ordi-
nance shall subject the offender toa fine of one dollar or ten days
imprisonment.

Sec. 41. That no person or persons shall be allowed to use
any of the sidewalks of the town for bicycle riding. The use of
said sidewalks as above specified shall subject the offender to a
fine of five dollars for each offense.

None of the streets of the town shall be used at night for
bicycle riding unless the bicycle so ridden displays a signal light,
and in addition is provided with signal bell, horn or whistle, by
means of which all persons shall be made aware of the approach
of the bicycle rider, by ringing the bell or repeated blast of the
signal horn or whistle. Any violation of this provision shall

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($2.50). All persons, when using the streets for bicycle riding,
shall, when turning the corner of the streets, ride very slowly

and give notice of approach by ringing the signal bell or repeated

blasts of the signal horn or whistle. Failing to comply with the
requiremeuts of this provision shall subject the offender to a fine
of two dollars ($2.00).

Sec. 42. It shall be unlawful to use the sidewalks or streets
of the town for parades of any kind, without first getting per-
mission from the mayor. Any person violating this ordinance
shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00), or be im-
prisoned for thirty (30) days fur each offense.

 
 

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Sec. 43. It shall be unlawful for any person having a fixed
place of business within the corporate limits, their agents, or em-
ployees, to solicit trade or customers on the sidewalks of the
streets of the town, under a penalty of ten dollars for each of-
fense. Provided, that this ordinance shall not apply to owners,
agents and employees, who solicit trade immediately in front of
their respective places of business.

Sec. 44. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation
to disarrange any street or sidewalk of the town without re-
placing said streets or sidewalks in as good condition as it was
previons to said disarrangement. Failure to do so for twelve
hours after being notified shall subject the offender to a fine of
ten dollars; and each day thereafter that said street or sidewalk
remains unrepaired as aforesaid shall constitute a separate of-
fense under this section, and a like fine shall be imposed.

Sec. 45. It shall be unlawful for any telegraph, electric or
telephone pole to be erected in the city limits unless the same be
painted a uniform color from the ground up said pole a distance
of eight feet, and any pole that has been or may be erected that

is not painted in thirty days shall subject the offender to a fine of
ten dollars. and each and every day said pole shall remain un-
painted after the expiration of said thirty days, shall constitute
a separate violation of this ordinance.

Sec. 46. It shall be unlawful for any person to place on any
telegraph, electric or telephone pole advertisements of any kind.
Anyone violating this ordinance, shall upon conviction be fined
five dollars.

Sec. 47. That any person who shall erect, keep or maintain
any sign across any street or sidewalk in the limits of the town,
shall upon conviction be fined ten dollars; unless such sign shall
be placed above the awning or shed,

Sec. 48. That any person who shall post or cause to be
posted any picture advertising a public exhibition or perform-
ance on any fence, building or other structure on the streets of
the town without first obtaining the consent of the mayor, shall
be fined ten dollars.

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Sec. 49. That no glass of any kind shall be thrown or
otherwise deposited upon the sidewalks, streets or alleys of the
town. Any one violating this ordinance shall be fined five
dollars.

Sec. 50. Merchants, hucksters and others using the side-
walks on Main, Market and Water streets, or either of them, to
display their goods or for any other purpose, are forbidden to
place any goods, merchandise, boxes, barrels, packages or other
obstruction on said sidewalks, provided, it shall not be unlawful
to use that portion of the sidewalk next to the store and not
more than two feet from the store. Any person violating this
ordinance shall be fined $5, or imprisoned twenty days.

Sec. 51. No mule, horse or cattle shall be watered within
twenty feet of any pump in the town, nor shall any clothes, meat,
fish, vegetables or ice be washed or rinced within forty feet of
any pump in the town, nor shall any person drink from the
spout of any pump, nor shall any person sit or lounge on or
around any pump. Any person violating this ordinance shall be
fined $5.

Sec. 52. All persons are prohibited from emptying or pour-
ing fish or beef pickles, or placing other offensive matter in the
streets or open lots of the town. Any person violating this ordi-
nance shall be fined $5.

Sec. 53. All persons are forbidden to advertise by posting
the goods, wares, exhibitions or performances of another within
the town, but they may secure the services of the town bill
poster, whose authority it is to post or have control of the post-
ing of such advertisements. Any person violating this ordinance
shall be fined $5.

Sec. 54, All gates erected on a line with the side walks of
the town shall be so hung as to swing on the inside of the lot:
When any gate situated on a line with the side walks of the town
shall be repaired, such gate shall be made to open ou the inside
of the lot. The owner or occupant of any lot violating the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction be fined five dol-
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Sec. 55. All buildings now standing or hereafter to be
erected in the town shall have gutters so placed upon such build-
ings as to prevent the dripping from the roofs thereof upon the
side walks of the town. A violation of this ordinance shall sub-
ject the owner of such house to a penalty of ten dollars.

Sec. 56. The opening of oysters upon the streets or side
walks of the town is forbidden. All persons violating this ordi-
nance shall be fined five dollars for each offense.

Sec. 5%. Fire shall not be carried through the streets of
the town nor any camp fire be allowed within the corporate
limits of the town within 100 feet of any building except upon
special permission of the mayor. A violation of this ordinance
shall be punishable by a fine of $5.

Sec. 58. No person shall enter Union Alley or the White-
car Lane, or enter Main street from said Alley or Lane, riding or
driving faster than a walk. Any person violating this ordinance
shall be fined ten dollars.

CHAPTER IV.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION. | SECTION.

| 6. Chief Fire Dept., salary and
Governed by its own rules. duties. .
Wagons subject to Mayor, etc. | 7. Right of way.
Co-operation of pokice. | . Interference with department.
Driving over hose. | 9. Chief and assistants vested
Chief Fire Dept., power. | with police power.

| 10. Guard in time of fire.

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Section. 1. Until other regulations be established the con-
duct of the fire department in drilling for exercise, and in the
order of proceedings in all alarms of fire, shall be governed by
their own private by-laws and rules. :

Sec. 2. At all other times the horses and wagons belonging
to the department with the drivers thereof, shall be subject to
the order of the mayor, who may employ them in any manner he
may think proper under the chief of police, within the jurisdic-
tional limits of the town, in the business connected with the
government thereof.

Sec, 3. Upon the occasion of a fire the police force, except
the officer on duty at the Town Hall, shall hasten to the place
of the fire, and there under the direction of the mayor, or, in his
absence, under the chief of police acting in concert with the
chief of the fire department, take charge of and guard all prop-
erty which may be exposed, or which may be put in their custo-
dy; to detain all suspicious or disorderly persons, and to do what-

ever may be lawfully done to protect the property and rights of

citizens and preserve the public peace,

Sec. 4. ‘That any person who shall drive on or over the fire
department hose while in use at fires, or otherwise, shall, upon
conviction, be fined five dollars, ($5.00).

Sec. 5. The chief of the fire department shall be the head
of the department and shall assume the direction and manage-
ment of all fires, and of the arranging and working of the fire
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Sec. 6. The chief of the fire department shall be paid such
salary as may be annually agreed upon by the board of commis-
sioners and he shall have and exercise supreme control over ‘the
entire department at all times. He shall see that all orders and
regulations of the board of commissioners are rigidly enforced.
He shall see that proper discipline is maintained and observed by
the officers and men, and shall report moathly the number of
men on duty and the condition of the horses and fire apparatus
and equipments. He shall visit the department as often as prac-
ticable and see that everything is kept in good condition.

Sec. 7%. In the event of an alarm of fire the apparatus of
the fire department shall have the right of way in and upon the
streets, lanes, alleys, squares and crossings of the town. No per-
son shall obstruct or neglect to make way for any of such appa-
ratus under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense.

Sec. 8. That it shall not be lawful to congregate in the
streets, lanes or alleys next to the fire so as to interfere with the
department under a penalty for each offense of ten dollars.

Sec. 9. That the chief and his assistants, the foreman of
each fire company be and they are hereby vested with police
powers in so far as to make arrests within the town during the
existence of any fire.

Sec. 10. That in case of a fire it shall be the duty of the
chief of police in case of the removal or exposure of property to
summon a detail of citizens not of the fire department to guard
all such exposed property, and to do whatever may be lawfully
done for the protection of such property and to preserve the
public peace.

 

CHAPTER V.

DISORDERLY HOUSES, DRUNKENNESS, GAMING
TABLES, ETC.

SECTION. SECTION.
Disorderly and bawdy houses. | 7. Obscenity.
. Police may demand admission | 8. Soliciting.
. Cursing and indecent ex-| 9. Renting bawdy houses.
posures and drunkenness. 10. Renting bawdy houses by
. Riot and disorders. agent. .
. Granting liquor license, etc. | 11. Lewd women forbidden street.
Loud noise at night. '12. Closing hours for saloons.

Section 1. Every person who shall keep a disorderly house
or house or ill fame within the town limits, or any person know-

ingly renting a house for the above purposes, or any person who
shall have rented a house to any person or persons who shall use
the heuse for disorderly purposes or as a house of ill fame, and
who upon 15 days notice shall not eject such tenant from the
said property and thereby discontinue the said disorderly house
or house of ill fame, shall be fined upon conviction ten dollars,
or imprisoned ten days, and each day after the expiration of said
notice shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. All adult
persons living in such house or houses shall be considered the
keepers thereof, and shall be subject to the penalty of this
section.

Sec. 2. If the occupant of any house shall “i Fuse to open
the doors and give entrance to an officer of the town or member
of the police demanding admission, for the purpose of suppress-
disorderly conduct therein, he or she shall pay a fine of ten
dollars.

Sec. 3. Every person found guilty of loud and boisterous
cursing and swearing in any street, house or elsewhere in the
town, and every person found drunk in the streets, alleys or in
any public place of the town, disturbing the peace thereof, or
violating the rules of decency, or any person found drunk and
down in the streets of the town, shall be fined on conviction five
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Sec. 4. If any person shall commit a breach of the peace,
or engage in any riotous or disorderly conduct within the limits
of the town, he shall pay upon conviction a fine of twenty dollars
provided, this section shall not be construed to relieve the mayor
from the duty of binding over the offenders according to law, if
the offense is one not properly triable before the mayor’s court.

Sec. 5. Be it ordained, that no license for the sale of beer,
wines or spiritous liquors of any kind whatsoever shall be granted
to any person except upon application in person at the regular
meeting of the board, the parties furnishing satisfactory recom-
mendation of good moral character. And no person or persons
to whom such license is granted shall allow any person other
than the proprietor or clerk to enter his bar room on Sunday.
And for every violation of this ordinance there shall be a fine of
twenty-five dollars. And any policeman seeing any person or
persons other than the proprietor or clerk going into or coming
out of a bar room on Sunday, and failing to report the same shall
be discharged.

Sec. 6, Any person who shall be found guilty of loud hal-
looing or screaming, or making any loud or extravagant noise,
except in case of fire, in the town in the day or night time, shall
be fined three dollars.

Sec. 7% Any person who shall indecently expose him or her
self in any <7. ce to view, and do any obscene act in any public
place, or \'sa i obscene Janguage, or make obscene marks or
drawings on any fence or wall in a public place, or cut or dis-
figure the street walls or fences, or affix advertisements or bills
to houses, walls or fences without leave of the owners, shall for
a violation of any one of these provisions pay a fine of five dol-
lars for each offense.

Sec. 8.. Any woman who shall be found on the streets or
alleys soliciting male persons, drinking, sitting on the streets in
front of bar rooms, or lounging about the market house or bar
rooms, or conducting herself in a forward or improper manner,
shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and, upon conviction shall
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Sec. 9. That any person owning any house within the town
limits who shall rent said house to any person to be used as a
bawdy house by women of ill fame or who shall permit any such
house to be occupied by any person as a bawdy house for a
longer time than the current term after information as to the
purpose for which such house is being used shall be fined fifty
dollars.

Sec. 10. That any person acting as agent of the owner of
any house within the town limits who shall rent said house to
any person to be used as a bawdy house by women of ill fame or
who shall permit any such house to be occupied by any -person
as a bawdy house for a longer time than the current term after
information as to the purpose for which such house is being used
shall be fined fifty dollars.

Sec. 11. No female person known to be a lewd woman
shall be allowed upon the streets of the town after ten o’clock at
night. Nor shall any such women solicit men on the streets of
the town, either during the day or night, or loiter upon the
streets, and conversations with men or boys on the streets of the
town shall be prima facie evidence of such soliciting. Any vio-
lation of this ordinance shall subject the offender to a fine of ten
dollars.

Sec. 12. All drinking saloons, liquor shops, barber shops
connected with such drinking saloons, or liquor shops, shall be
closed at 12 o’clock midnight and remain closed between the
hours of 12 midnight and 4 a.m. The penalty for a violation
of any section of this ordinance shall be a fine of five dollars or
imprisonment for twenty days.

 
 

 

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CHAPTER VI.

OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD’S DAY.

SECTION. | SECTION.

1. Games and plays forbidden. 4. Duty of police.

2. Abetting disorder, drunken-| 5. Violation of Sunday law.

ness. | 6 Restaurants, etc.
3. Stores, etc., to be closed. ' 7, Shoe shining.

Section. 1. No person shall be allowed to play at any game
on Sunday in the streets or in any public saloons for eating or
drinking, or in any house or grounds for sporting. A violation
of any one of these provisions shall subject the offender to a fine
of five dollars. And the proprietor of such saloon, keeper of a
billiard or other gambling table, pins alley, or ten pins alley or
other sporting grounds, who permits a game to be played at his
table or place on Sunday shall upon conviction be fined ten
dollars.

Sec. 2. Any person who shall be present on Sunday aiding
or abetting at any unlawful or disorderly assembly, or who shall
be found drunk on the streets shall pay a fine of five dollars for
every such offense.

Sec. 3. Any person who shall keep open any store or shop
on Sunday, for the purpose of buying, selling and transacting
business except in cases of necessity, shall pay upon conviction a
fine of ten dollars. But drug stores and apothecary shops may
be kept open at all times.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of one policeman under the
direction of the mayor to go around at least once a month for
the purpose of apprehending persons offending against the pro-
visions of this chapter of ordinances, or who may be found vio-
lating any of the ordinances of the town or laws of the State;
and for the purpose of detecting and bringing to justice all per-
sons offending against the peace and good order of society.

Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any saloon or place of
business where intoxicating liquors are sold or at any other place
where merchandise is sold (except drug stores and ice houses) to
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the proprietor or clerk thereof, and if such proprietor or clerk,
or any one in control of such place shall allow any one to enter
other than the proprietor and clerk; or if any way connecting
with such place shall be found open, and persons seen passing in
or out, it shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon conviction, the
proprietor or the one in control of such place shall be fined ten
dollars for each offense.

Sec. 6. No restaurant or oyster saloon run in connection
with a liquor saloon, or in the same building, or upon the same
premises on which liquor is sold shall be kept open.on Sunday
for the sale of oysters. Any person selling oysters on Sunday as
herein prohibited shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars for each
offense upon conviction.

Sec. 7. The shining of shoes on the streets or sidewalks of
the town on the Sabbath day is forbidden. Any person violating
this section shall be punished by a fine of five dollars for each
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CHAPTER VIL

NUISANCES.

SECTION. | SECTION.

1. Tanyard, slaughter houses &| 8, Penning cattle, etc., in city.
distilleries. | 9. Refuse from gas plant.

Stagnant water in cellars. 10. Hogs.

Dead animals. }11. Guano.

Privies. | 12, Cleanly premises.

Police to examine yards, and/13. Slaughtering cattle.
privies. 14. Dealers premises.

Kitchen slops. | 15. Damaged meats.

Hog stys. 16. County jail refuse.

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Section 1. No tanyard nor slanghter house shall be estab-
lished within the limits of the town without permission of the
commissioners. And all persons violating this section shall pay
a fine of twenty-five dollars, and if the tanyard or slaughter
house be suffered to remain for ten days after notice from the
mayor or town commissioners to remove the same, every day after
said term of ten days shall constitute a distinct offense, and for
each day the establishment shall be so suffered to remain, the
offender shall pay a fine of ten dollars.

Sec. 2. Stagnant water in cellars or other places shall be
removed upon notice by the chief of police or mayor, and the
failure to remove for twenty-four hours after notice shall subject
the offender to a fine of five dollars, and each subsequent day it
shall be allowed to remain shall constitute a distinct offense.

Sec. 3, It shal] be the duty of every occupant of a town lot
to remove from the same any dead animal or other nuisance
which may happen to be thereon, without the limits of the city,
at least one hundred yards from the bounds thereof, and from
any public road, and if it be a large animal to bury the same.
A failure to perform the duties of this section shall subject the
offender to a fine of ten dollars,

Sec. 4. No privy shall hereafter be constructed nearer than
ten feet to any public street or alley, or nearer to a neighbor’s
residence than it is to the owner’s, if that can be avoided. The
sink shall not be more than two feet deep. Tenants shall cleanse
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May, June, July, August and September shall have a sufficient
quantity of lime, ashes or other deoderizer thrown into them to
prevent them from becoming offensive; and filth removed from
them shall be deorderized with coperas, chloride of lime or other
disinfectant before they are carried away. A violation of any of
the provisions of this section shall subject the offender to a fine
of five dollars for each and every offense. And in case of new
privies put up in violation to this section the offender shall be
subject to a fine of five dollars, and each week he suffers it to re-
main after notice from the chief of police or a policeman to re-
move it, shall constitute a distinct offense, and shall subject the
offender to a like penalty.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the policemen, under the
direction of the mayor, or commissioners, to investigate the con-
dition of privies, back yards and other places in the town, when
the commissioners may require it. And any privy, yard, or other
place found in a bad or filthy condition, the owner, or tenant of
such premises shall pay a fine of five dollars ($5.00), and two
dollars for each day such nuisance shall continue.

Sec. 6. No person shall be allowed to convey out of his or
ber kitchen, dish water or other Slops into any of the streets of
the town; and no person shall be allowed to throw filth of any
kind, or conduct the same by drains into the streets, ditches or
gutters of the town. A violation of any of the provisions of this
section shall subject the offender to a fine of five dollars for each
and every offense.

Sec. 7. No hog sty shall be located within twenty-five feet
of any public street within the town; the offender against this
provision shall be subject to a fine of five dollars. And all such
stys wherever located shall be regularly cleansed and kept free
from offensive ordors. A failure to comply with this require-
ment shall subject the offender to a fine of two dollars. And
each day after notice it remains out of order shall be a distinct
offense.

Sec. 8. That no cattle, sheep or goats shall be penned with-
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to those who keep one or two milch cows. A violation of this
ordinance shall subject the offender to a fine of five dollars.

Sec. 9. That no refuse matter or waste from any gas mak-
ing plant shall be permitted to be turned or dumped into any of
the streets, gutters or drain ways of the town, nor shall any such
refuse or waste matter be permitted to accumulate upon any
premises within the corporate limits of the town, so as to be of-
fensive to the citizens thereof. The violation of any provision of
this ordinance shall subject the offender upon conviction to a fine
of $25.00 for each offense; and each day that such waste or refuse
is permitted to accumulate on any premises as aforesaid, or
turned or dumped into the street, gutters or drain ways as afore-
said, shall constitute a separate offense and be punished as such.

Sec. 10. That no person shall be permitted to keep any
hog or hogs within the corporate limits of the town between the
1st day of May and the 1st day of October.

Any person violating this ordinance shall be fined ten dol-
lars.

Sec. 11. No guano or manipulated fertilizer shall be landed
for storage within the corporate limits of the town between the
first day of May and the first day of November of any year, pro-
vided that small quantities on hand and in store prior to May
1st may remain in storage, Unless objection is made by the citi-
zens, when the mayor may order their removal. Any person
violating this ordinance shall be fined $5.00.

Sec. 12. Persons owning or occupying houses or lots in the
town are required to keep them in a cleanly condition. They
shall have their premises, especially their privies, cleaned and
limed, and shall sprinkle lime freely in the cellars and under the
houses, and in all damp places. All hog pens and pounds shall
be kept clean and must not be allowed to become offensive. Per-
sons owning vacant lots, their agents or representatives are re-
quired to keep them in cleanly condition. Any person violating
this ordinance shall be fined $10.

Sec. 13. No goat or cattle shall be slaughtered for market
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cleaned on the wharves, streets or lots of the town, except for
the use of families in said town, and no dead fish or offal thrown
in the river. Any person violating this ordinance shall be fined
$5.00.

Sec. 14. All dealers in meats, fish, oysters, hides or other
articles subject to rapid decay, are required to keep their premises
clean and free as possible from bad odor, and no green hides shall
be cured within the corporate limits of the town between April
Ist and November Ist. Any person violating this ordinance
shall be fined $5.00.

Sec. 15. No person shall sell or offer to sell any damaged
or spoiled meats, fish, oysters or clams within the town limits.
Any person violating this ordinance shall be fined $25.00.

Sec. 16. All slops or refuse from sinks at the county jail
or places in the town that have the said slops or refuse removed

by wagons, carts or otherwise, to remove the same at least three
times-a week, and its removal must be made between the hours
of 10 o’clock p. m., and 4 o’clock a. m, Any person violatir
this ordinance shall be fined $25.00, ;

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CHAPTER VIII

DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS.

SECTION. | SECTION,
| 6. Penalty for suffering animals

Dogs taxed. | to go at large.
Penalty for not giving in. 7. Dogs and sluts.

. Gatherings of dogs, etc. | 8. Driving cattle.

. Animals not allowed to go at| 9, Permitting bitches to run at

large, etc. | large.

Disposition of the sale money, | 10. Tax on dogs.

Section 1. It shall be the duty of every person at the time
of giving in the annual list of taxable property of the town, or
at such other time as may be provided by the board of commis-
sioners, to declare on oath the number of dogs or sluts he may
own, or which may belong to any one boarding or residing in his
family.

Sec. 2. Should any person fail to give in his dog or slut in
the manner prescribed, and pay the tax for the same as provided
in the town charter and ordinances he shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be fined upon conviction five dollars or im-
prisoned ten days; and each dog or slut omitted shall constitute
a distinct offense.

Sec. 3. All gatherings of dogs and sluts in the public
streets or alleys disturbing the quiet and good order of the same
are hereby declared to be nuisances, and it shall be the duty of
police officers to abate the same by killing the sluts, if necessary.

Sec. 4. No horse, pony, bull, oxen, cow, calf, mule, hog,
goat, sheep, geese or ducks, shall be allowed to roam at large or
to remain for the purpose of pasturage or to graze upon any of
the streets or open lots or grounds within the corporate limits of
the town. It shall be the duty of the police to impound such,
and to sell the same at the court house door to the highest bid-
der, after five days notice at police head-quarters, unless the
owner shall have reclaimed them by paying to the chief of police
one dollar and all expenses of impounding them; and one dollar
shall be collected as often as any of these animals shall be per-
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Sec. 5. The money arising from the sale of any one of said
animals over one dollar and expenses shall be paid to the owner,
or if the owner cannot be found, to the town treasurer. If the
animal belongs to non-residents they may be redeemed by the
payment of 25 cents each and the expense of impounding them,
and all monies received from such sale over and above 25 cents
each and expenses, shall in like manner be paid to the owner if
he can be found, and if not, to the city treasurer.

Sec. 6. Any person permitting any of the animals enumer-
ated in the fourth section of this chapter to run at large upon
any of the streets of the town shall be fined upon conviction two
dollars for each offense.

Sec. % Any dog or slut which shall be found on any
premises for five successive days, shall be deemed the property of
the owner, or if said premises be tenanted, of the occupant of
the premises on which said dog or slut shall be found.

Sec. 8. No cattle of any kind that may be brought to the
town for sale shall be allowed to be driven through any street of
the same without having one rope on fore foot and one on head

and end of said ropes to be carried by some person not less than
21 years old, except when two are securely tied together, and
then only two men with ropes as stated. Any one guilty of the
above offense shall be fined upon conviction five dollars for each
and every offense.

Sec. 9, If the owner of any bitch or bithes shall permit
the same to run at large in the town unaccompanied by some
adult person such owner or owners shall be punished by a fine as
hereinafter provided ; and if any bitch be found so running at
large for whom no owner can be found, the mayor, upon infor-
mation had, shall declare said bitch a nuisance and order said
bitch destroyed. ‘The police shall be charged with the execu-
tion of this ordinance, Any person violating this ordinance
shall be fined $5.00.

Sec. 10. That a tax shall be levied on all dogs owned with-
in the corporate limits of the town, to-wit: A tax of one dollar
on each male dog, and a tax of two dollars on each female dog,

 
 

 

 

 

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which shall be due and payable on the Ist day of June, 1902,
and on the Ist day of June each year thereafter. ‘The owner of
the dog shall on or before the said 1st day of June of each year
list said dog with Town Clerk giving name and description of
the dog and name of owner, and shall pay said tax to Town Clerk
who will receipt for same.

CHAPTER IX.

CEMETERIES.

$s

ECTION. SECTION.

Name and uses of. 14. Fast driving prohibited.
Sexton of each. 15. Deposit of filth.

To dig graves. 16. Earth not to be moved.

To enforce regulations. | 17. Not to be used as play ground.
Sexton’s duties and salaries. | 18. Repair of vaults.

Record and report burial. 19. Purchase of lots.

Fees allowed. 20. Mayor to make deed.

No persons but sexton to dig. | 21. Exhuming bodies.
Interference with private lot. | 22. Sexton, police powers.
Removing or defacing mem’Is. | 23. Fences and hedges.

Injury to shrubs or flowers. | 24. Burial permits.

No person to pass over walls. | 25. Permits as to the burial of
Shooting in, dead.

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Section. 1. The graveyard usually called “Oakdale” shall
be used exclusively for the burial of white persons; and the
cemetery called , Shall be used exclusively for the
burial of colored persons.

Sec. 2. There shall be appointed at the regular May meet-
ing of the commissioners in each and every year, a sexton to take
charge of the Oakdale cemetery, and a sexton to take charge of
the cemetery.

Sec. 3. Fach sexton shall have the digging of all the
graves in his cemetery at such prices as may be established, as a
part of his compensation. He shall dig them due east and west
and five feet deep.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the sexton to see that all
the laws concerning the cemetery are duly observed ; and in case
of violation to report the same to the mayor.

Sec. 5. The sextons shall keep their respective cemeteries

in a neat and clean condition, performing all the work which
they may be directed to do by the board, and give their whole
time to work in the cemetery: And for this they shall be paid
respectively in addition to fees allowed herein,......---+dollars
from the town treasury.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of each sexton to keep a book
in which the name, age, disease of deceased and date of burial in
their respective cemeteries shall be recorded, defining as near as
possible the spot where each body is buried, and each sexton shall
make a report thereof to the board of commissioners at their
regular meeting in November in each and every year.

Sec. 7. The following fees shall, be allowed the sextons,
to-wit: For digging a plain grave and filling up the same, one
dollar and fifty cents; children not over ten years of age, half
price; for digging box grave and filling up the same two dollars;
children of ten years and under, half price; vault grave, three
dollars; working on private lots in cemetery, to be paid by the
owner, twelve and a half cents an hour or one dollar per ‘day.

Sec. 8. No person other than the regular appointed sexton
shall dig any grave or dig up any sod in the cemeteries, except
on lots which have been purchased as private burial lots. Any
person violating this provision shall be fined upon conviction ten
dollars.

Sec. 9. No person shall dig any grave, put any fence, grave
stone or board, make or construct anything, or dig up any sod on
a private burial lot, except under the direction and by the con-
sent of the owner thereof. A violation shall subject the offender
to a fine of ten dollars for each offense.

Sec. 10. No person shall remove the stakes or boundary
stones froma burial lot, nor any board, grave stone nor other
memorial or monument which may have been erected at any
grave; nor deface, injure or desecrate any such board, stone or
memorial in any manner. Offenders shall pay a fine of ten dol-
lars for each offense.

See. 11. No person shall cut or in any other manner injure
or destroy any tree, shrub or plant, or wantonly injure or destroy
any flower, either wild or cultivated, in the cemeteries. Offender
upon conviction shall pay a fine of ten dollars.

Sec. 12. No person shall pass into or out of either ceme-
tery over the walls or fences, but must pass through the gates.
Offenders shall be fined two dollars for each offense.

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Sec. 13. No person shall discharge any fire arms in either
cemetery. If this provision shall be violated the offender shall
pay upon conviction a fine of ten dollars for each offense.

Sec. 14. No person shall drive, ride or lead and horse or
horse and vehicle in the cemeteries faster than a walk. Penalty
upon conviction a fine of five dollars.

Sec. 15. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited
any filth or unclean or offensive matter in either cemetery. The
offender upon conviction shall be fined ten dollars.

Sec. 16. No person shall excavate any earth in either ceme-
tery, or remove the same therefrom, except by the consent or
under the direction of the board of commissioners, or of the sex-
ton, or of some other officer legally authorized by the said com-
missioners. ‘The offender shall pay a fine of ten dollars upon
conviction for each offense.

Sec. 17. It shall be unlawful for persons of any age to use
either cemetery as a play ground, and it shall be the duty of the
sextons to prevent such use. If after being ordered by the sex-
ton to desist, they shall continue, it shall be his duty to carry

them before the mayor, who shall fine such as are found guilty,
five dollars each.

Sec. 18. If any of the vaults or other places for the inter-
ment of the dead in either of the cemeteries shall get out of re-
pair or out of order in any respect, it shall be the duty of the
sexton to inform the owner thereof, and if he cannot be found
or do not attend to it when notified, the sexton shall inform the
mayor who shall take such action upon it as he may deem ad-
visable.

Sec. 19. All persons desiring to purchase lots in the ceme-
teries must apply to the town clerk, and make cash. payment
therefor according to valuations arranged by the board of com-
missioners.

Sec. 20. Upon the payment of the sum above required, the
mayor and town clerk shall make a deed for said lot, and the
clerk of the board shall enter in a book kept for that purpose,
the date of the deed, the description and price of the lot, and to
whom sold.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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See. 21. No dead body shall be exhumed from either of
the cemeteries except in the months of November, , December,
January, February, March and April, and then only by permis-
sion of the mayor or board. Penalty, a fine of twenty dollars
upon conviction.

Sec. 22. The sextons above named shall have within their
respective cemeteries, the power and authority of policemen, and
may arrest any person for violation of the ordinances of the town
or regulations of their respective cemeteries. And the same au-
thority shall be exercised by their legally appointed assistants.

Sec. 23. No fence shall be erected or hedge grown in Oak-
dale cemetery over three feet in height, except archways which
shall be granted by cemetery committee. Any person or persons
violating this ordinance shall upon conviction be fined $5.00.

Sec. 24. The sextons of town cemeteries shall require be-
fore opening any grave for burial in their cemetery a burial per-
mit signed by the town clerk, who shall issue said permit on a
certificate of death, giving name, age, cause of death, place of
death and date of death, signed by the attending physician, and
the undertaker mark the same accomplished, with date, sign as
sexton, and return at once to town clerk.

Sec. 25. No interment of the dead shall be made in the
corporate limits of the town of Washington, N. C., nor shall the
clerk issue the permit for any such burial; nor shall the body of
any person dying within the corporate limits of the town be re-
moved therefrom without a permit from the town clerk, and
permit shall be given by the clerk, where there has been an at-
tending physician without a certificate from said physician, and
if no physician attends, the certificate shall be signed by attend-
ing nurse, and one witness to said death, stating cause of death.
And no dead body shall be exhumed within the corporate limits
of the town and removed therefrom without a permit of the clerk.
Every violation of this ordinance and every person in any way
participating in its violation shall be fined fifty dollars.

 

CHAPTER X.

PAYMENT OF MONEY.

SECTION. SECTION.
1. Order of board, etc. 4. Bill
2. Warrants must state claims,

etc.
Clerk to retain stubs.

approved by auditing
committee.
5. Presentation of bills.

Section 1. No money shall be paid out of the town treas-

ury unless by order of the board

of commsssioners in meeting
assembled; and then only by a w

arrant issued by the clerk of the
board, signed by him and countersigned by the mayor.

a:
Sec. All warrants shall state upon their face the nature

of claims for which said warrants

Sec. ; e
ec. 3. ‘The clerk of the board shall in each case and every
case retain in a

are drawn.

book kept for that purpose, a stub or duplicate
of every such warrant issued.

Sec. 4. That no bill against the town shall be allowed un-

til the same shall have been carefully inspected by the auditing

committee, and by such committee approved.

Sec.

5. All bills against the town shall be presented to the
town clerk on or before the 25th d: ay of each month, and by him

placed in the hands of the ch; airman of the auditing committee
before the last day of the curre

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CHAPTER XI.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

SECTION. SECTION.

1. Infectious persons brought in. | 3. Hospital and removal.

2. Infected coming in. | 4. Medicines, etc.

Section 1. No person without first obtaining for that pur-
pose the permission of the mayor or the board of commissioners,
shall knowingly bring or allow to be brought or shall connive at
the bringing into the town any person in his or her employment,
or under his or her management or control, afflicted with small
pox, yellow fever or other mortal disease of a contagiou or infec-
tious kind, and every person offending against this ordinance
shall forfeit and pay twenty-five dollars, and all expenses and
charges incurred by the town corporation on account of such
afflicted person so brought into the town.

Sec. 2. If any such afflicted person shall come into the
town without permission as aforesaid, he shall for such offense
forfeit and pay twenty-five dollars. And the offender against
the provisions of either of the foregoing sections (1 and 2) in
any respect, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined upon
conviction twenty dollars.

Sec. 3. The board of commissioners shall have power to
remove from the corporate limits of the town to a hospital or
other place without the town, any person who may be afflicted
with small pox, yellow fever or other mortal disease of an infec-
tious or contagious character. And it shall be their duty to do
so, whenever in the judgment of the board such removal may be
necessary and expedient to prevent the further spread of the dis-
ease. Any person attempting by threats or force to prevent a
removal to the hospital of any person ordered to be removed
thither, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars upon conviction.

Sec. 4. All applications for medicine by the poor of the
town, authorized by the board of commissioners, shall be made
to the mayor, and he shall countersign the prescriptions and
keep a suitable book in which the names of all such appli-
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CHAPTER XI.

FIRE DISTRICT AND FIRE ORDINANCES.

SECTION. SECTION.

Fire district. 9. Sheds.

Character of buildings. 10. Awnings.

Altering and repairing. 11. Stove pipes used in buildings.
Thickness of walls, etc, 12. Connecting with fire district.
Powers of building committee. | 13. No trees to be planted in fire
Flues to be inspected. district.

Additional building restric- | 14. Inflammable oil.

tions. 15. Matches.
Sheds. 16. . Powder.

Section 1. That the territory within the boundaries here-
inafter defined in this section shall be and constitute the Fire
District of the town of Washington, and whenever the term “Fire
District” shall be used in any ordinance or resolution of the
commissioners of the town of Washington, the same shall be
construed to apply to the territory within such boundaries as
follows, to-wit:

Beginning on Main street at the easternmost corner of the
lot now occupied by Mrs. Mary EF, Tayloe, being lot No. 39

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Respass ‘Town, and runs with a line of that lot to the river, and
with the river to Union alley, and thence to a point south 30
West 60 feet from the south side of Water street, thence south
60 east parallel to Water street to Bonner street, thence up Bon-
ner street, northwardly 125 feet on the north side of Water
street, thence north 60 west to within 60 feet of Market street,
thence north 30 east to the line dividing the lots fronting on
Main street from those fronting on Second street, thence north
60 west to the line of Mrs. Mary EB. Tayloe’s lot, and thence to
the beginning. ‘ :

Also beginning on the south side of Main street between
Gladden street and Van Norden street, at the western line of the
territory just above described, and running with the south side
of Main street to Bridge street; thence with Bridge street to the
Pamlico river; and thence with the Pamlico river back to the
western boundary of the territory above described, and with said

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Sec. 2. That within the limits above set out, no building
shall be built or rebuilt unless the said building be of brick or
stone. That no building in said boundaries shall be in any wise
repaired or altered by which its size shall be increased, unless the
said repairs or additions shall be of brick or stone. ‘hat every
violation of this ordinance, or any provision thereof, shall subject
the offender to a fine of $50.00, and each day such building shall
be allowed to stand shall constitute a new offense punishable by
a fine of $50,00.

Sec. 3. That no person shall within the said limits build
any building, or in any wise alter any building or repair any
building by which its size shall be in any wise increased, without
first submitting the plans and specifications of said building, or
repairs or alterations to a committee, to be known as the Build-
ing Committee, which shall consist of the mayor, chief of the
fire department of the town, and three others selected by the
board of commissioners for that purpose, and without first obtain-
ing a license to erect said building or to make said alterations or
repairs. That every violation of this ordinance, or ahy provision
thereof, shall subject the offender toa fine of $50.00, and each
day that such building shall be allowed to stand shall constitute
a new offense punishable by a fine of $50.00. ,

Sec. 4, That the said committee shall not have the power
to grant such license, unless the plans and specifications shell
show and the walls be built of the following thickness. For a
single story building not less than twelve inches, for a two story
building the walls of the first story not less than seventeen inches
and the second story not less than thirteen inches. For a three
story building, the lower walls not less than seventeen inches,
the second story not less than seventeen inches, and the third
story not less than thirteen inches, and all buildings or blocks of
buildings having partitions in them, shall have fire walls of not
less than twelve inches for at least every sixty by ninety feet and
these fire walls shall run above the roof with sufficient parapets.

Sec. 5. That the said committee shall have the power to
make such alterations in the plans and specifications of said

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buildings as shall make them safe. That every violation of this
ordinance, or any provision thereof, shall subject the offender to
a fine of $50.00, and each day that such building shall be allowed
to stand shall constitute a new offense, punishable by a fine of
$50.00.

Sec. 6. That the chief of police shall within the last ten
days of each month personally visit and inspect all flues in all
buildings within said limits, and shall condemn and tear down
all which may be found unsafe, and shall make at each monthly
meeting.a written report to the board of commissioners.

Sec. 7. ‘Uhat outside of the boundaries above described and
within that part of the town described as follows: Beginning on
the river at Bridge street, running with the river to Bonner
street, and with Bonner street to Third street, and with Third
street to Bridge street, and with Bridge street to the beginning,
no building of any kind shall be erected or in any wise enlarged
until plans and specifications shall have been filed with the said
committee and a license to erect said building or make said
alterations be obtained. ‘hat every violation of this ordinance
or any provision thereof, shal] subject the offender to a fine of
$50.00, and each day that such building shall be allowed to stand
shall constitute a new offense, punishable by a fine of $50.00,

Sec. 8. That no sheds shall be built or erected over any of
the streets or sidewalks of the town, any person violating this
provision shall be fined $50.00.

Sec. 9. That all sheds now across the side walks of the
town shall be torn down within thirty days of this date. Any

person keeping or maintaining a shed across any of the streets of
this town on and after October 19th, 1900, shall be fined $50.00.

Sec. 10. That the plans of any awning to be erected in
front of or on the side of, any building shall be submitted to
said committee and a license to erect the same shall be first ob-

tained. Any person erecting an awning without obtaining such
license shall be fined $50.00.

Sec. 11. Whenever any stove pipe used in any building
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wall, partition, floor or ceiling, said stove pipe shall be enclosed
with brick where it passes through such wall, partition, floor or
ceiling, and shall be separated from contact with such wall, par-
tition, floor or ceiling by brick work not. less than 4 inches in
thickness; and such stove pipe shall not be permitted to be
nearer to any wood work in such building than 2 inches at any
one point. Any violation of this ordinance shall subject the
offender to a fine of ten dollars, and a stove pipe used in any
building in violation of this ordinance shall be thrown down by
the policemen of the town.

Sec. 12.. That no wooden building or structure other than
of brick or stone shall be in any way directly or indirectly at-
tached to or connected with any building or structure now stand-
ing or hereafter to be erected or constructed within the limits or
territory designated and known as the Fire District, in the town

of Washington, or connected with the land within said territory.
Any violation of this ordinance shall subject the offender to a
fine of fifty dollars upon conviction and each day such condition

shall be permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense.

Sec. 13. No trees shall be planted or set out upon the
streets of the town within the territory known as the Fire Dis-
trict. No trees shall be planted or set ont in any other part of
the town except after first obtaining permission of the board of
commissioners through the mayor. Any violation of this ordi-
nance shall be punished by a fine of $5.00.

Sec. 14. ‘That no person or persons shall be permitted to
keep within the corporate limits of the town more than two
barrels of inflammable oil at any one time upon the same premi-
ses. Any violation of this section shall subject the offender to a
fine of $50.00, and each day said oil in excess of the quantity
herein provided shall be permitted to remain on any premises
shall constitute a separate offense,

Sec. 15. All persons keeping matches for sale, either in
paper boxes or otherwise, are required to keep the same enclosed
in tin cans, glass jars or wood boxes, Any person violating this
ordinance shall be fined $5.00.

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Sec. 16. No person shall keep on hand at any one time in
any building situated in the corporate limits of the town, and
within 100 feet of any other building more than 75 pounds of
powder, under a penalty of $10, for each and every day this ordi-
nance is violated.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHAPTER XIII.

MARKET HOUSE.

SECTION. SECTION.
4. No person to rent more than
1. Restricting sales to Market one stall, etc.
House. 5. To whom rented.
Renting of stalls. 6. Penalties.
Cleansing stalls. 4

Section 1. From and after the 1st day of March, 1901, it
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or
offer to sell at retail, any fresh beef, pork or mutton or other
kinds of fresh meat at any place within the corporate limits of
the town of Washington other than in the Market Honse, built
for said town: Provided, nothing herein shall be construed to

Loafers etc., not allowed.

prevent persons from bringing in beef, pork, mutton or other
fresh meat to the town of Washington and selling same uncut:
Provided further, that fresh beef may be sold by the quarter
elsewhere than in the Market House.

See. 2. That all stalls in the Market House built for the
town shall be rented at public auction to the highest bidder on
the 3rd Monday in May of each year. Provided, that when a
stall is rented by the year, the renter may at the time upon giv-
ing bond for two years rental at the same price, retain the said
stall for the second year at the same rental. No stall shall be
rented for less than the rental fixed by Board and in the event
that the said public renting of any stall shall fail to bring as
much as amount fixed by board, then the same shall be struct off
to the town of Washington. AJ] rents shall be payable monthly
in advance.

Sec. 3. That all stalls shall be washed ont once every day
and thoroughly scoured at least once each week. That all stalls
shall be open at all times to the inspection of the keeper of the
market or chief of police, and shall be kept in a clean condition.
That all stalls shall he closed from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m., Saturday
excepted, and dealers are permitted to deliver their cut meat till
8 a. m., on Sundays. That so far as may be the four stalls next
the river shall be reserved for the sale of fresh fish. But no

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oysters shall be opened in any of the stalls, nor any accumula-
tion of shells be permitted, in, around or about said Market
House.

Sec. 4. That no person shall rent more than one stall un-
less there are no occupants for all of them.

Sec. 5. The town clerk may rent out the vacant stalls to
any person doing a market business and for market purposes
only, at a rental per week or month at a rate not less than that
fixed by the board. The said stalls so rented shall be kept
cleanly and when vacated shall be left in same condition, and no
license will be required from any person doing business in the
Market House. ‘

Sec. 6. ‘l'hat any person, firm or corporation violating see-

tion one hereof shall be fined $50.00 for each and every offense,
and $5.00 for each and every offense of the violation of sections
3, 4, and 5 hereof.

Sec. 7% That no loafers be allowed in or around the Market
House, that no boxes, chairs, coops or other articles be allowed
in the passage ways of the Market House. That no lond noises
or crying of wares be allowed in Market House. ‘That no bushes,
beef bones, beef heads, tripe or vegetables, or any other animal mat-
ter be thrown or allowed to lay around the Market House under a
penalty of $5.00 for each and every offense.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHAPTER XIV.

RAILROADS AND TRANSPORTATION LINES.

SECTION. | SECTION.

1. Jumping on or off trains, etc. | 3. General regulations.

2. Congregating and soliciting. | 4. R. R. ordinance.

Section 1. No person shall jump off or on any of the cars
or engines of the several railroads entering the town while the
same are in motion and within the corporate limits of the town
except employees of the several companies operating the said
roads and persons who have actually taken passage on the said
cars. Any person violating this ordinance shall be fined $10.00.

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any persons to congregate
around the depots of the several railroad and steam boat lines
doing business in the town, in such a manner as to obstruct the
free ingress and egress of persons having business with the said
corporations or their passengers.

It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit the carriage of
any passenger or his baggage from any of the depots or wharves
of the town in a voice Jouder than that of an ordinary conversa-
tion, or for any person to touch the person or baggage of a pas-

aos

senger entering or leaving the depots or wharves for the purpose

of soliciting the employment by said person except at the request
of the passenger himself, or some one for him. Nor shall any
person enter the depots or steamboats arriving in the town for

the purpose of soliciting the carriage of any passenger or his
baggage for hire, except by express permission of the agent of
said company then and there given. Any person violating this
ordinance shall be fined $5.00.

Sec. 3. No railroad company shall blow any whistle or
ring any bell within the corporate limits of the town except
when the cars or engines cf said companies are actually in motion
or stopping. That railroad companies operating their roads
within the corporate limits of the town shall be required to ring
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the streets of the town and at no other time, and not during the
reversing or making up of their trains. No engine nor train of
cars shall be run at a greater rate of speed than six miles an
hour within the corporate limits of the town. Nor shall any
engine, car or train of cars be permitted to remain on or across
Main or second streets for a longer period than four (4) minutes;
nor shall they attempt to cross either of said streets without giv-
ing due notice by flagging in the center of the street. Any com-
pany violating this ordinance shall be fined $10.00.

Sec. 4, Atlantic Coast Line ordinance, Minute book 189...
page W.& P.R. R. Co, ordinance, Minute book 190...

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CHAPTER XV.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION. | SECTION.
1. Communication with prisoners| 3, Light ordinance.

2. Inflammable oil. | 4. Water works ordinance.

Section 1. Whenever any person is imprisoned in the town
Guard House pending a trial by the proper official, no person
shall communicate with such prisoner without permission of the
mayor or a member of the police force. Any person violating
this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of five dollars upon
conviction.

Sec. 2. No kerosene or other highly inflammable oil shall be
kept or stored in any building or on any premises within the cor-
porate limits of the town in larger quantities than one hundred
gallons at one time.

Sec. 3. Gas light ordinance, Minute book 189... p. .....0...

Sec. 4. Water Works ordinance Minute book 1901 p-

CHAPTER XVI.

WHARVES AND DOCKS.

. | SECTION.
Swimming from wharves. | 4. Lumber worked up on docks.

Vessels, boats and flats at} 5. Fire on boats.

docks. 6. Oysters opened on public docks

Fire-wood on wharves. 7. Sunken boats.

Section 1. Swimming from the wharves of the town be-
tween 6 a.m. and 9 p- ™., is hereby forbidden. Any person
violating this ordinance shall be fined $3.60.

Sec. 2. No vessel, boat or flat shall lie at the wharves or
any of the public docks, other than market boats and wood flats,
and those only when loading or unloading, or selling their car-
goes, provided the owner or owners, or captain of said boat or
vessel shall not have received orders from the mayor or police to
remove the same.

Sec. 3. Fire-wood, lumber or material of any kind shall
not remain on said wharves a longer time than 24 hours.

Sec, 4. No lumber or other material shall be worked by
any person on any of the said wharves without the permission of
the mayor or police.

Sec. 5. Fire shall not be permitted after sunset on board
of any,boat or flat lying at the public docks, except in cabins or
some other securely covered place.

Sec. 6. Oyster boats occupying or selling at the public
docks shall deposit the shells upon the wharves or piers, and any

one who shall refuse to do so shall be prohibited from using said

docks and piers.
Sec. 7 No sunken boats or flats shall lie in any of the
docks of the town, and it shall be the duty of the police to have

them removed at the expense of the owner or owners.

 
 

 

 

 

 

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INDEX TO CHAPTERS.

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Rules for the Government of the Board.... Pages 3

Police Organization .
Streets and Pumps...,
Fire Department

Disorderly Houses, Drunkenness, &c

Observance of the Lord’s Day.

Nuisances

Dogs and other animals
Cemeteries

Payment of Money

Infectious Diseases

Market House.....
Railroad and Transportation Lines.

Miscellaneous .

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