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 FOR REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING THE GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE 
 ' CITY OF PAXTON, IN THE COUNTY OF FORD, AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 WuHereas, It is expedient that the general ordinances of the 
 said City of Paxton should be consolidated, revised and arranged 
 in appropriate chapters and sections, and that an index to the 
 whole should be made; therefore, 
 Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton in Man- 
 ner Following—That ts to Say: 
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 by ae CHAPTER I. te 
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 (¥, ADDITIONS. 
 Be Section. 
 Q 1. How laid out. 
 \O 2. Penalty. 
 > be 3. When lands may be platted in different manner. 
 % 4. Plat to be approved by City Council. 
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 SEC. 1. How Laid Out. Any additions which may be made to the 
 city or any lands adjoining to or within the same which may be laid out) 
 = into lots oz blocks shall be so laid out, surveyed and platted that the blocks 
 _ or other subdivisions shall conform to the regular blocks of the original town 
 \ or with the regular blocks of the additions composing the original town or 
 adjoining such lands or additions proposed to be laid out, and the streets and 
 alleys shail correspond and conform to the previously established streets 
 
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 and alleys with which they connect and shall continue the same. The plat 
 thereof shall be submitted to the city council for approval or rejection. 
 
 SEC. 2. Penalty. Any surveyor or other person who shall survey or 
 plat any addition to the city or any lands adjoining or within the same into 
 blocks or other subdivisions with the streets, alleys or blocks laid out con- 
 trary to the preceding section, or any owner of any such lands or additions, 
 or agent of such owner causing the same to be done shall be subject to a 
 penalty of not less than one hundred dollars, and such owner or his agent 
 shall be subject to an additional penalty of not less than fifty dollars for 
 each lot sold by him. 
 
 SEC, 3. When Lands May Be Platted in Different Manner. When any 
 person may wish to lay out or plat any additions or lands adjoining or within. 
 the city in any other manner than is here prescribed he shall apply to the 
 city council designating the manner in which he proposes to lay out and plat 
 such additions or lands, and upon the approval thereof by the City Council 
 such lands or additions may be laid out and platted and shall not be deemed 
 a violation thereof. 
 
 SEC. 4. Plat to Be Approved by the City Council. If the city coun- 
 cil shall approve any map or plat of any addition or subdivision submitted to 
 it as herein provided, a certificate of such approval must be endorsed upon 
 said map or plat, signed by the mayor and attested by the City Clerk with 
 Seal. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ANIMALS. 
 Section. j 
 1. Animals shall not run at large. 
 Impounding. M 
 
 3. Manner of trial and procedure. 
 
 4. Proceedings against unknown owners, 
 5. Trial, Execution, Ete. 
 
 6. Fees. ‘ 
 
 7. Geese or ducks. 
 
 8. Horses to be securely haltered. 
 
 9. All animals must be securely fastened. 
 10. Dogs must be muzzled. 
 
 11. Who shall be considered keeper or owner of dogs. 
 12.) "Dorwlax. , 
 
 13. City Marshal to collect taxes and keep register. 
 
 14. Dogs shall be killed. 
 
 15. Dangerous dogs. 
 
 SEC. 1. Animals Shall Not Run At Large. No animal of the species 
 of cattle, horse, mule, sheep, Swine, goat, goose or duck shall be allowed to 
 run at large or shall be herded or staked upon any street or alley or upon 
 any unenclosed lot or place without the consent of the person having control 
 of such lot or place, nor shall any of such animals be left standing without 
 
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 being securely fastened or guarded, or allowed to stand or be driven upon 
 any sidewalk except when driven on any public or private crossing within the 
 corporate limits of the city of Paxton, and no person driving or leading any 
 of said animals along any street or alley in said city shall allow any of said 
 ‘animals to go upon any yard lawn, enclosed lot or upon that part of the street 
 Which may be parked out. 
 
 Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined 
 not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offense, 
 
 SEC. 2. Impounding. The City Marshal shall and any other person 
 may take up and impound all such animals found running at large in the City 
 of Paxton, and the City Marshal shall receive any such animal taken up by 
 any other person and impound the same in the City Pound, and in case such 
 animal running at large is impounded by any person other than the city 
 marshal, such person shall immediately notify the city marshal of such im- 
 pounding, and the city marshal shall provide suitable sustenance for each ani- 
 mal impounded under the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 3. Manner of Trial and Proceedings. When any impounded ani- 
 mal is not redeemed within twenty-four hours after the same is impounded, 
 the City Marshal shall forthwith make complaint before a police magistrate or 
 some justice of the peace against the owner or possessor of such animal, if 
 known and thereupon a summons shall be issued as in other cases for the 
 violation of ordinances of said city, and upon return of such summons or the 
 defendant having appeared, it shall be the duty of the magistrate to inquire 
 whether the defendant has been guilty of permitting such animal to be at 
 large, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, and if the defendant be 
 found guilty judgment shall be rendered against him for the penalty, the im- 
 pounding fee and cost of sustenance herein prescribed and the cost of suit, 
 and an order shall be entered that the animal shall be sold to satisfy said judg- 
 ment in case the same shall not be paid forthwith. 
 
 SEC. 4. Proceedings Against Unknown Owners. In every case in which 
 the owner or owners of every such animal or animals is unknown to, and 
 cannot upon diligent inquiry be ascertained by the officer so confining the 
 same, it shall be the duty of such officer to make and file with the police 
 magistrate of said city or any justice of the peace of said county an affidavit 
 as aforesaid, further setting forth that the owner or owners of such animal 
 or animals cannot be ascertained, and thereupon such magistrate or justice 
 of the peace shall issue a Summons in the usual form against such unknown 
 owner or owners under the style of “unknown owner or owners of the fol- 
 lowing described animal (as the case may be), to-wit: (Describing the same), 
 “which summons shall be returnable the same as other summons in Civil cases 
 and said justice or magistrate shall thereupon issue and cause to be posted 
 in three public places in said city, a nctice setving forth the filing of said 
 affidavits the issuing of said summons, ard the time of the return of same; 
 and that unless the defendant or defendants in such summons then appear 
 and defend such suit, judgment will be rendered against him or them and 
 the property so taken up will be sold to satisfy the same, which notices shall 
 be posted up at least five days prior to the return day of such summons. 
 
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 SEC. 5. Trial, Execution, Etc. The justice or police magistrate issuing 
 such notice shall enter the case upon his docket as follows: “City of Paxton 
 vs. the Unknown Owners of (here describe animals), and upon the day set 
 for trial and the return of the notice executed as above set forth, like pro- 
 ceedings shall be had as in the case of personal service or appearance, pro- 
 vided that where the owner or owners are unknown and served by notice only 
 no general execution shall issue upon said judgment against defendant, but 
 the execution shall be special and against the animal or animals impounded. 
 
 SEC. 6. Fees, There shall be allowed the city marshal of said city the 
 following fees for services under the provisions of this ordinance. For tak- 
 ing up animals and putting them in the pound as follows: For each hog 
 twenty-five cents, for each goat, goose or sheep, ten cents. For all other ani- 
 mals, fifty cents. 
 
 For providing feed and sustenance for impounded animals the following 
 fees shall be allowed for each day or part of day. For each hog, sheep or 
 goat twenty-five ents. For each goose or duck ten cents. For all other ani- 
 mals fifty cents. 
 
 For the serving of summons or the giving of notice such fees shall be 
 allowed the marshal as are provided by law for the service of Summons or 
 giving of notice by constables. 
 
 For selling any impounded animal under order of sale rendered by any 
 police magistrate or justice of the peace, the following fees shall be allowed: 
 
 For selling hogs sheep and goats twenty-five cents. For selling geese 
 and ducks ten cents each. For selling all other animals fifty cents each. 
 
 The police magistrate or justice of the peace shall be allowed in all 
 cases under this ordinance the same fees for docketing suits, issuing process 
 of all kinds and for other services rendered, such fees as are now provided by 
 Statute in civil cases for like services, to be taxed and collected as now pro- 
 vided by ordinance or statute. 
 
 SEC. 7. Geese or Ducks. All sections of this ordinance wherein geese 
 or ducks are not specifically mentioned, shall be construed to apply to the 
 taking up and impounding of geese and ducks as well as other animals. 
 
 SEC. 8. Horses to be Securely Haltered. It shall be unlawful for any 
 person to drive mules or horses through the streets or alleys of the city of 
 Paxton, unless they are securely haltered, and controlled and led or driven by 
 some person having charge thereof. 
 
 Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than three dol- 
 lars nor more than twenty dollars for each offense. | 
 
 SEC. 9. All animals must be Securely Fastened. No animal shall be 
 left standing upon any street or alley in said city unless securely fastened. No 
 animal shall be so fastened that the rope or other fastening may extend across 
 or interfere with the travel upon any street or sidewalk. No animal shall be 
 hitched to any tree or fence in said city without the permission of the owner 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC, 10. Dogs Must Be Muzzeled. No animal of the dog species shall 
 run at large within the limits of the city of Paxton between the first day of 
 

 
 
 
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 June and the first day of October of each year unless securely muzzeled with 
 wire muzzles. 
 
 The owner or keeper of such dog violating the provisions of this sec- 
 tion shall be fined not less than two dollars nor more than ten ‘dollars for 
 
 each offense. 
 
 SEC. 11. Who Shall Be Considered Keeper or Owner of Dog. Any dog 
 that is allowed to stop at or be around any residence or any place of business 
 shall be considered as being kept by the person having control of such place 
 of business. 
 
 SEC. 12. Dog Tax Two Dollars Per Annum. Every person owning 
 possessing, keeping or harboring any dog within the limits of the city of Pax- 
 ton shall within fifteen days after the first day of June in each year, or within 
 fifteen days after having first come into possession or control of any dog within 
 said city, upon which a city tax has not been paid, shall pay to the city marshal 
 a tax or fee of two dollars for each dog so owned, possessed, kept or harbored 
 by him, and shall cause such dog to be registered in the office of the city mar- 
 shal for taxation. 
 
 Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be fined 
 not less than three dollars nor more than ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 13. City Marshal To Collect Taxes and Keep Register. It shall 
 be the duty of the city marshal to collect all dog taxes or fees and to issue re- 
 ceipts therefor and he shall also keep a correct record of all such taxes col- 
 lected and shall register each dog upon which tax shall be paid, in a register 
 provided for that purpose, giving a brief description of the dog, the name of 
 the owner and date upon which tax was paid. 
 
 SEC. 14. Dogs Shall be Killed. The city marshal is hereby authorized 
 and empowered and it is hereby made his duty to shoot, kill and destroy all 
 such dogs that may be found running at large in said city in violation of the 
 provisions of this ordinance, and all dogs upon which the tax or license fee 
 has not been paid, provided, that the mayor may appoint some person to as- 
 sist or act in said marshal’s place in enforcing the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance. 
 SEC. 15. Dangercus Dogs. Any owner or keeper of a vicious or dan- 
 gerous dog or bitch, who shall permit the same to run at large, to the danger, 
 annoyance or damage of any person within the City of Paxton, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a nuisance, and shall be subject to a penalty of not less than 
 three dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars; and upon such con- 
 viction the City Marshal or any policeman shall destroy, or cause such dog 
 or bitch to be destroyed. ; 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BOUNDARIES. 
 
 SEC.:1. The boundaries of the corporate limits of the City of Paxton 
 shall be as follows, viz: 
 
 “All the territory included within the following limits, to-wit: Com- 
 mencing at the Northwest corner of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast 
 Quarter of Section Seven (7), Town Twenty-three (23), Range Ten (10) 
 East of the Third Principal Meridian; thence East to the Northeast corner 
 of the Southwest Quarter (SW) of the Northeast Quarter (NEY) of Sec- 
 tion Hight (8), Town Twenty-three (23), Range Ten (10) Hast of the Third 
 Principal Meridian; thence South to the Southeast corner of the Northwest 
 Quarter (NW%) of the Southeast Quarter (SE) of Section Seventeen (17), 
 Town Twenty-three (23), Range Ten (10), thence West to the Southwest 
 corner of the Northwest Quarter (NW%) of the Southeast Quarter (SH) 
 of Section Highteen(18), Town Twenty-three (23), Range Ten (10) Hast of 
 the Third Principal Meridian; thence north to the place of beginning.”—Ses- 
 sion Laws of 1869, Vol. 4, p. 350. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH. ee 2% 
 
 Section. SNS tee 
 1. Membership. of pie 
 2. Orders executed by marshal or police.—Duties. ' é 
 3. Temporary hospitals. 
 
 4. May provide medical attendance. 
 
 5. Physician to report contagious diseases. 
 
 6. Quarantine. 
 
 7. Penalty for refusal to comply with orders. 
 
 8. Unlawful for person having contagious diseases to be upon the 
 streets. 
 
 9. Selling diseased meat. 
 
 10. Adulterated milk and provisions, penalty. 
 11. Sale of poisons by druggists—penalty. 
 12. Animals shall be drawn when slaughtered. 
 
 SEC. 1. Membership, At the first regular meeting of the City Council 
 in each fiscal year, or as soon thereafter as the same can be done, the Mayor, 
 by and with the advice and approval of the City Council, shall appoint a repu- 
 table physician of the City of Paxton as a member of the Board of Health of 
 said. city, and said physician so appointed, together with the Mayor and the 
 Health Committee shall constitute the Board of Health of said City of Paxton, 
 and the Mayor shall be chairman thereof; or in the absence or inability of the 
 
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 Mayor to act as Chairman, then the chairman of the Health Committee shall 
 be chairman of the Board of Health. 
 
 SEC. 2.. Orders Executed by Marshal or Police—Duties. The orders 
 of said Board of Health shall be signed by the Mayor or presiding member 
 who shall cause the same to be executed by the Marshal or any police officer of 
 said City. Said Board shall exercise a general supervision over the health 
 of the City and shall make diligent inquiry into all matters affecting the same. 
 They shall cause all nuisances to be abated or removed which they deem pre- 
 judicial or obnoxious to the public health or comfort, and may make such san- 
 itary regulations as they may deem necessary or expedient to prevent the in- 
 troduction or spreading of any contagious, malignant, infectious or pestilen- 
 tial disease. 
 
 SEC. 3. Temporary Hospitals, They shall submit to the City Council 
 a system of quarantine whenever in the Board of Health’s opinion it is neces- 
 sary. The Board of Health may, when the sanitary condition or the perserva- 
 tion of the public health of said City shall render it necessary, establish such 
 temporary hospitals and provide such necessaries therefor, as the public exi- 
 gency may require. 
 
 Said Board shall be authorized to employ nurses and assistants for such 
 hospital or hospitals as may be deemed necessary, and shall see that all per- 
 sons so employed by them faithfully perform their several duties. 
 
 SEC. 4. May Provide Medical Attendance, Etc. The Board of Health 
 may cause any person within the city having any contagious, infectious, or 
 pestilential disease, to be removed to some safe and proper place, either with- 
 in or without the corporate limits of said City, where danger from contagion 
 will be avoided, and shall provide suitable medical and other attendance for 
 such person at his own expense, if he is able to pay for same, and if not, at 
 the expense of the City; but if by law it falls upon the County of Ford or any 
 municipality to provide for the nursing and medical aid of such person, and 
 said County or municipality fails or neglects so to do, the Board of Health 
 may supply the same at the expense of the City, and if necessary, suit to re- 
 cover such outlay shall be brought in the name of the City against said County 
 or municipality. 
 
 If any such person, being a resident of the City, shall refuse to be re- 
 moved as above required, or if his condition be such in the opinion of his at- 
 tending physician, that removal would be attended with danger to his life, 
 then such measures shall be taken by the Board as may be deemed most ad- 
 visable to prevent the spreading of the disease or pestilence. 
 
 SEC. 5. Physicians to Report Contagious Diseases. Every physician 
 of the City of Paxton who shall have any patient or patients therein sick with 
 any contagious, infectious or pestilential disease, shall forthwith make report. 
 thereof in writing to the Mayor or Board of Health, stating the name and loca- 
 tion of such patient, together with the name and character of the disease. 
 
 Every physician who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions 
 of this section, shall be liable to a fine of not less than Three ($3.00) Dollars 
 nor more than Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars. 
 
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 SEC. 6. Quarantine. It shall be the duty of the Board of Health upon 
 receiving such notices, to take such measures as are authorized by law to 
 protect the health of the inhabitants of said City, and for that purpose they 
 may order any house, building or other premises to be cleaned and disinfected, 
 closed or quarantined, or may prohibit any person from leaving the prem- 
 ises or visiting the same, and may make any and all regulations as it shall 
 deem meet and proper for the purpose of preventing the contagion or infec- 
 tion of any disease. 
 
 SEC. 7. Penalty for Refusal to Comply with Orders of the Board. Any 
 person who shall hinder or resist the Board of Health, or any member thereof, 
 or any sanitary policeman in the discharge of their duties, or who shall wil- 
 fully neglect or refuse to comply with the orders or regulations of said Board 
 of Health duly made in the discharge of its duties, shall be subject to a pen- 
 alty of not less than Three (3.00) Dollars nor more than Two Hundred ($200) 
 Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8 Unlawful for Persons Having Contagious Diseases to be Upon 
 the Streets, Etc. It shall be unlawful for any person having any contagious, 
 infectious or pestilential disease to go about or upon any street or to be in 
 any public place in the said City of Paxton while in a condition to communi- 
 cate such disease to another, and it shall be unlawful for any person to bring 
 into said City of Paxton any person having such contagious, infectious or pes- 
 tilential disease or to bring into said City any clothing, bedding or other ar- 
 ticle or thing infected with such disease and any person who shall violate any 
 provision of this section shall be fined not less than Three ($3.00) Dollars 
 nor more than Tyenty-five ($25.00) Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. Selling Diseased Flesh, Fish or Fowl—Penalty. Any person 
 who shall sell, expose or offer for sale, within the city, any sick or diseas- 
 ed animal, poultry or fish; or the flesh of any diseased animal, fowl or fish; 
 ‘or any tainted or spoiled meat, or unsound or unwholesome provisions what- 
 ever, to be used or eaten for human food, shall, upon conviction, be fined not 
 less than ten dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars in each case; and the 
 city marshal or any police or health officer, may seize, take and destroy any 
 such meat, food or drink, so exposed or offered for sale. 
 
 SEC. 10. Adulterated Milk—Bread and Provisions—Penalty. Any per- 
 son who shall, within the city, sell, expose or offer for sale, any milk adulter- 
 ated with water, chalk or other substance, or milk from diseased cows; or 
 any adulterated and unwholesome bread, butter, lard, cheese, or other provis- 
 _lons, or any decayed and unwholesome vegetables, for human food, shall, upon 
 conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars, nor more than two hundred dol- 
 lars for each and every such offense. It shall be the duty of all police officers, 
 and of the health officer, to strictly enforce the provisions of this and the pre- 
 ceding section; and for that purpose they shall have power and authority to 
 enter all places where any of said mentioned articles of food or drink may be 
 sold or offered for sale, and to take samples thereof, and cause the same to be 
 analyzed or otherwise satisfactorily tested. . 
 
 SEC. 11. Sale of Poisons by Druggists—Penalty. Any druggist, phar- 
 maceutist or other person who shall, in said city, by himself, clerk or servant, 
 
CITY OF PAXTON Il 
 
 sell or deliver any arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or 
 other substance or liquid commonly recognized as a deadly poison, without 
 having the name of the drug, and the word “poison” plainly printed or written 
 upon a label attached to the bottle, box or package containing the same;or who 
 shall deliver any of said poisons to any person under the age of fifteen years, 
 or to any person without satisfying himself that such poison is to be used for 
 a legitimate purpose, shall, in each and every case, be subject to a penalty 
 of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars; PROVIDED, 
 that nothing in this section contained shall apply to the sale or delivery of 
 any of said poisons as a medicine, upon the prescription of any reputable phy- 
 sician. 
 
 SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, 
 within the limits of the city of Paxton to sell, offer or expose for sale, any 
 animal, used for food purposes, refrigerated or otherwise, which has not 
 been properly drawn and prepared by removing the viscera (bowels-entrails) 
 at the time of slaughter. | 
 
 Any person, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of 
 this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convicticn 
 thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 CITY COUNCIL. 
 Section, 
 1. Meetings of council. 
 2. Standing committees. 
 3. Duty of committees. 
 4. Of finance. 
 5. Of streets and alleys. 
 6. Of sewerage and drainage. 
 7. Of health. 
 8. Of fire, water and electric lights. 
 9. Of ordinance and printing. 
 10, Of City Property. 
 11. Of License. 
 12. Contracts not authorized by Council forbidden. 
 13. Order of Business. 
 
 SEC. 1. Meetings of Council. A regular meeting of the city councn 
 shall be held on the first Monday evening of each month during the year. 
 Special meetings may be called by the mayor, or by any three members of 
 the council, whenever in his or their discretion, it may be deemed necessary ;, 
 in which event it shall be the duty of the city marshal to cause each member 
 of the council to be personally served with a notice of such special meeting, 
 or by leaving a copy thereof at his usual place of business or residence. Said 
 notice shall state the object of such meeting, and no business shall be trans- 
 acted at any special meeting except such as is stated in said notice. 
 
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 SEC. 2. Standing Committees. It shall be the duty of the mayor, at the 
 beginning of each year for which members of the city council are elected, 
 to appoint the following named standing committees, the first named member 
 of each committee to be the chairman thereof, and each committee to consist 
 of not less than three members, viz: 
 
 First—Committee on Finance. 
 
 Second—Committee on Streets and Alleys. 
 
 Third—Committee on Sewerage and Drainage. i i 
 
 Fourth—Committee on Health. . 
 
 Fifth—Committee on Fire, Water and Electric Lights. feat 
 
 Sixth—Committee on Ordinance and Printing. 
 
 Seventh—Committee on City Property. 
 
 EHighth—Committee on License. — 
 
 Ninth—Committee on Parks. 
 
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the standing committees to keep a close 
 watch over'the affairs of their respective departments, and to promptly in- 
 vestigate and report in writing upon all matters referred to them by the 
 council; and perform such other duties as may be from time to time assigned 
 them. 
 
 SEC. 4. The committee on finance shall have charge of all matters 
 pertaining to the financial condition of the city, audit and examine the treas- 
 urer’s report; receive estimates from the other committees for annual appro- 
 priations, and prepare and present the annual appropriation ordinance, and 
 shall report to the council, at each regular meeting thereof, the amount of 
 expenditures made in each regular meeting thereof, the amount of expendi- 
 tures made in each department of appropriations, and the balance unexpended, 
 
 SEC. 5. The Committee on streets and alleys shall have charge of and 
 direct all improvements on the public thoroughfares, the opening, laying out, 
 widening, extending anc vacating the same, and of keeping the same ina 
 proper and safe condition. ; 
 
 SEC. 6. Sewerage and Drainage. The committee on sewerage and 
 drainage shall have charge of all matters pertaining to sewers and drains. 
 
 SEC. 7. Health. The health committee shall have charge and super- 
 vision of all matters pertaining to the health and sanitary conditions of the 
 city and shall be members of the board of health. 
 
 SEC. 8. Fire, Water and Electric Light. The committee on fire, water 
 and electric lights shall have general supervision over the fire department, 
 water supply of the city, and all improvements and machinery belonging 
 thereto and of the lighting of all streets and public places of the city. 
 
 SEC. 9. Ordinance and Printing. The committee on ordinance and 
 printing shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the printing and pub- 
 lication of ordinances, reports, ete., and the furnishing of stationery and 
 blanks to the different officers and departments of the city, and the making 
 of contracts pertaining to the same. 
 
 SEC, 10. City Property Committee. The City Property committee 
 shall have charge of all buildings and grounds, belonging to or occupied by 
 the city, and the preservation, repair and improvement of the same. 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 13 
 
 SEC. 11. License. The committee on license shall investigate all 
 applications for license for dram shops, billiard and pool halls and bowling 
 alleys together with the bonds therefor, and shall examine the sufficiency 
 of such bonds and the sureties thereon, and particularly in regard to the 
 qualifications of applicants, as prescribed by the ordinance, and the fitness 
 and propriety of the place where the business is to be carried on. 
 
 SEC. 12. Contracts not Authorized by the City Council Forbidden. No 
 committee of the city council, nor any member of said council, or other 
 officer of said city, shall expend or contract for the expenditure of any money 
 belonging to the said city, or incur any liability on the part of the city for the 
 improvement of any street, sidewalk, alley, building or other property belonging 
 to or under the control of said city, unless authorized so to do by ordinance 
 or resolution of the city council. 
 
 SEC. 13. Order of Business. The order of business at all regular 
 meetings:-of the city council shall be as follows: / 
 
 1. Reading of minutes of preceding regular and special meetings. 
 Report of standing committees. 
 
 Report of special committees. 
 
 Report of officers. 
 
 Presentation of claims and accounts. 
 
 Ordinances, petitions and communications to the council. 
 Unfinished business. | 
 
 . Miscellaneous business. 
 
 Where no special rules of order have been adopted by the city council 
 Robert’s Rules of Order shall govern all its proceedings. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CITY OFFICERS. 
 Section. 
 
 1. Elective Officers. 
 
 2. Appointive Officers. 
 
 3. Mayor’s Bond. 
 
 4, Shall sign commissions. 
 
 5. Preside at meetings of council. 
 6. Supervise conduct of officers. 
 7. Grant Licenses. 
 
 8. Sign contracts. 
 
 9. Appoint appointive officers. 
 10. Call citizens to enforce law. 
 11. Supervision of police. 
 
 12. Other Duties. 
 
 SEC. 1. Elective Officers. The elective officers of the said City of Pax- 
 ton shall be: A mayor, Hight Aldermen, a City Clerk, a City Attorney, a City 
 Treasurer and a Police Magistrate. 
 
 SEC. 2. Appointive Officers. There is hereby created the offices of 
 
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 a City Marshal, a Night Policeman, a Superintendent of Streets, a Health 
 Officer, a Public Engineer, and a City Collector. Said officers are to be appoint- 
 ed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council, and each officer shall 
 hold his office for the term of one year unless removed and until his successor 
 shall ke appointed and qualified. 
 
 SEC. 3. The Mayor of the City of Paxton, shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute a bond to the said City of Paxton in the penal sum 
 of Three Thousand Dollars-with such surities as the City Council shall approve, 
 conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the office and ac- 
 cording to the Statute in such case made and provided. 
 
 SEC. 4. Shall sign commission. The mayor shall sign all commis- 
 sions, licenses and permits granted by authority of the City Council, except 
 as otherwise provided, and such other acts and deeds as by law or ordinance 
 may require his official signature. 
 
 SEC. 5. Preside at Meetings of Council. The Mayor shall preside at 
 all meetings of the City Council, preserve order and direct the general course 
 of business. 
 
 SEC. 6. Supervise Conduct of Officers, Etc. The Mayor shall supervise 
 the conduct of all officers of the corporation, inquire into all reasonable com- 
 plaints made against them or any of them, and cause all their neglects or 
 violations of official duty to be promptly corrected or reported to the proper 
 tribunal for trial and punishment. He shall have power, whenever he may 
 deem it necessary, to require of any of the officers of said City, to exhibit all 
 their official books and papers in any wise pertaining to the affairs of their 
 said office and to the City. 
 
 SEC. 7. Grant Licenses. The Mayor shall grant licenses for the pur- 
 poses authorized by this ordinance to all persons duly qualified according to 
 ordinance, as he may deem proper, unless the City Council shall otherwise des- 
 ignate and provide, and he may revoke the same for cause. 
 
 SEC. 8. Sign Contracts. The Mayor shall sign all contracts author- 
 ized to be entered into by the City. Council, and shall see that the same 
 are faithfully performed. | 
 
 SEC. 9. Appoint Appointive Officers—Fill Vacancies. The Mayor shall 
 appoint, by and with the advise and consent of the City Council, all officers 
 of said City whose appointment is not otherwise provided for by law; and 
 whenever a vacancy shall occur in any office, which by law or ordinance he is 
 empowered and required to fill, he shall, within thirty days after the happen- 
 ing of such vacancy, communicate to the City Council the name of his appoin- 
 tee to such office for their approval. 
 
 SEC. 10. Call Citizens to Enforce law. The Mayor is authorized to call 
 upon any male inhabitant of said City, above the age of eighteen years, to 
 aid in enforcing the laws of this state or the ordinances of said City. 
 
 SEC. 11. Supervision of Police. The Mayor shall exercise general su- 
 pervision over all Police officers and shall remove any police officer who shall 
 fail to properly perform his duties, reporting the fact of such removal, and his 
 reasons therefor, to the City Council at its next regular meeting thereafter. 
 
 SEC. 12. Other Duties. In addition to the above and foregoing, and to 
 
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 the duties imposed upon him by the Statutes of the state of Illinois, the Mayor 
 shall perform all such other duties, pertaining to his office as are or may be 
 required of him by the ordinances of said City. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 CITY CLERK. 
 Section. 
 
 1. Bond. 
 
 2. Office hours. 
 
 3. Attend meetings—Keep Journal, Issue notices. 
 4. Deliver papers etc. to committees. 
 5. Prepare licenses, commissions, etc. 
 6. Record Ordinances. 
 
 7. Preserve books, papers, etc. 
 
 8. Collect money due city. 
 
 9. Report to council each meeting. 
 10. May appoint deputies. 
 
 11. Keep record of bonds. 
 
 12. Other duties. 
 
 SEC. 1. City Clerk—Bond. The City Clerk, before he enters upon the 
 duties of his offices, shall execute a bond, payable to the City of Paxton in 
 Ford County, Illinois, in the penal sum of Two Thousand Dollars, conditioned 
 that he shall faithfully perform the duties of his office, pay over all moneys 
 received by him in his official capacity, and, at the expiration of his term of 
 office turn over to his successor all books, papers and other property belong- 
 ing to said city. 
 
 SEC. 2. Office Hours. The Office of the City Clerk shall be at the 
 City Hall, and he shall keep his said office open for at least two hours each 
 day for three preceeding (Sundays excepted) and two days succeeding each 
 regular City Council meeting. 
 
 SEC. 3. Attend Meetings, Keep Journal, Issue Notices Etc. The City 
 Clerk shall attend all meetings of the City Council and shall keep in a suitable 
 book to be styled the “Record of the City Council,” a full, complete and faith- 
 ful record of its proceedings. He shall issue and cause to be served upon the 
 aldermen, notices of all special meetings of the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 4. Deliver Papers, Etc., to Committees, and Other Papers to Prop- 
 er Officers. Said Clerk shall, without delay upon the adjournment of the City 
 Council, deliver to the several committees of that body, and to the officers 
 of the corporation, all petitions, communications, reports, resolutions, orders, 
 claims and other papers referred to such committees or officers by the City 
 Council. He shall also, without delay, deliver to the Mayor all ordinances 
 or resolutions, in his charge, which may require to be approved or otherwise 
 acted upon by the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 5. Shall prepare licenses, commissions, etc.—attest same with 
 seal. Said clerk shall prepare all commissions, licenses, permits and other 
 
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 official documents required to be issued by him, under the laws of the State 
 of Illinois and the ordinances of the City and shall attest the same with the 
 corporate seal; and he shall in like manner, attest all deeds for the sale of 
 real estate owned and conveyed by the City. He shall keep a record, in a 
 suitable book, of each license or permit granted, showing the date and expir- 
 ation, to whom and for what purpose the same is granted, the fee paid for the 
 same and location of the place of business for which such license or permit 
 is issued. , 
 
 SEC. 6. Record Ordinances. He shall record, in a book to be kept for 
 that purpose, all ordinances passed by the City Council, and at the foot of 
 the record of each ordinance so recorded shall make a memorandum of the 
 date of the passage of such ordinance and also of the publication of such 
 ordinance if it has been published. 
 
 He shall also keep a complete index in such record book of all ordi- 
 nances recorded by him, and when any such ordinance is repealed he shall 
 note such fact, in red ink, on the margin of the record page opposite each 
 section so repealed, together with the record page of the repealing ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 7. Preserve books, papers, etc. To carefully preserve in the 
 vault in the City Building all books, records and papers belonging to the City - 
 and all bills upon which money has been or may be paid by the City. 
 
 SEC. 8 Collect 'money due City. To collect all moneys due the 
 City for licenses, permits and water rates. 
 
 SEC. 9. Report to Council each Meeting. To make a report to the 
 City Council at their first regular meeting in each month, of all business 
 done by him in his official capacity during the preceeding month. 
 
 SEC. 10. May Appoint Deputies. He may, when necessary, and upon 
 being authorized by the City Council, appoint a deputy, who, during the 
 temporary absence or disability of the Clerk, shall be empowered to yerform 
 all duties of the City Clerk. Provided, however, the City Clerk shall be liable. 
 and responsible for the acts of such appointee. 
 
 SEC. 11. Records of bonds issued by City. Said clare shall keep in 
 his office, in a book or books kept expressly for that purpose, a.correct list of 
 all the outstanding bonds of the City, showing the number and amount of 
 each, for and to whom the said bonds of the City are issued; and when 
 any City Bonds are purchased or paid, or cancelled, said book or books 
 shall show the fact and in his annual report he shall describe, particularly, 
 the bonds sold during the year, and the terms of sale, with each and every 
 item of expense thereof. 
 
 SEC. 12. Other duties. In addition to the foregoing duties, the City 
 Clerk shall perform all such other or further duties, pertaining to his office, 
 and the ordinances of the City of Paxton. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 CITY TREASURER. 
 Section. 
 Bond. 
 Moneys and accounts. How kept. 
 Paying out money. 
 Report to City Council. 
 Special funds. 
 Warrants lost or destroyed. 
 City money kept separate from private. 
 Report delinquent officers to Clerk. 
 Books of accounts. How kept. 
 Annual Report. 
 Other duties. 
 
 Po CONOR wr 
 
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 SEC. 1 Bond of. The City Treasurer shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute a bond to the City of Paxton, Ford County, 
 Illinois, in a penal sum not less than the amount of the estimated City 
 tax and the special assessments for the current year, with at least two 
 good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the City Council, conditioned 
 for the faithful performance of the duties of the office, and the payment 
 of all moneys received by him, according to law and the ordinances of said city. 
 
 SEC. 2. Moneys and accounts. How kept. Said Treasurer shall receive all 
 moneys belonging to the corporation, and shall keep a separate account of 
 each fund of the corporation, and the debits and credits belonging thereto. He 
 shall give to every person paying money into the City Treasury a receipt 
 therefor, specifying the date of payment, and upon what account paid; and he 
 shall file copies of such receipts with the City Clerk at the date of his 
 monthly reports. 
 
 SEC. 3 Paying Out Money. Said treasurer shall pay all money ex- 
 pended by said City only on the presentation of orders properly executed. 
 
 SEC. 4. Report to the City Council. .Said Treasurer shall make a re- 
 port to the City Council, at their regular meeting in every month, showing all 
 business done by him in his official capacity, and file the same in the office 
 of the City Clerk on the first day of each month, said report to include a 
 statement showing; the amount on hand at the beginning of the month 
 for which said report is made, and the amount of each of the respective 
 funds; the amount received during said month, from what source, from whom 
 received, the date of receipt and in which fund placed; the amount paid out, 
 to whose order, date of payment and from which fund paid; the amount 
 of each of the respective funds, and the total amount on hand at the expira- 
 tion of each month. 
 
 SEC. 5. Special Funds. He shall keep as a special fund all moneys 
 received by him on any special assessment or on any special tax to be ap- 
 plied to the payment of the improvement for which the assessment or special 
 tax was levied, and such money shall be used for no other purpose what- 
 ever, unless to reimburse the City for money expended for such improvement. 
 
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 SEC 6. Warrants lost or Destroyed. When any City Warrants shall 
 be lost or destroyed, so that it cannot be presented to the treasurer for 
 payment by the person entitled thereto, such person shall apply by petition 
 to the City Council for relief, and the Council may order the Clerk to issue 
 a duplicate warrant to the person so entitled to payment upon his filing an 
 affidavit to the loss or destruction of the original, and giving bond or security 
 to the City to refund the amount of such warrant, and pay all costs, in case the 
 original or lost warrant should be presented, and said City be compelled to 
 pay the same. 
 
 SEC. 7. City Money kept Separate from Private Money. Said treasurer 
 shall keep all moneys belonging to the corporation in his hands separate 
 and distinct from his own moneys, and he is hereby expressly prohibited 
 from using, either directly or indirectly the corporation money or warrants 
 in his custody and keeping, for his own use and benefit, or that of any other 
 person or persons whomsoever; and any violation of this section shall sub- 
 ject him to removal from office by the City Cuncil. 
 
 SEC. 8. Report Delinquent Officer to Clerk. It shall be the duty of 
 the treasurer to report to the City Clerk ,whose duty it shall be to imme- 
 diately report to the City Council, any officer authorized to receive money 
 for the use of the City who may fail to make a return of the moneys re- 
 ceived by him at the time required by the Statute of this state or by the or- 
 dinances of said City. 
 
 SEC. 9. Books and Accounts—How Kept. Said treasurer shall keep 
 his books and accounts in such manner as to show with entire accuracy all 
 moneys received and disbursed by him for the City stating from whom 
 and on what account received, and to whom and on what account paid out, 
 and in such way that said books and accounts may be readily investigated and 
 understood; and the same together with all files and papers of his said 
 office, shall be at all times open to examination by the mg or the Finance 
 Committee of the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 10. Annual Report. Said treasurer shall, annually, before the 
 Ist day of May of each year, make out and file with the City Clerk a full and 
 detailed account of all receipts and expenditures of the corporation as shown 
 by his books, and of all his transactions as such treasurer during the preced- 
 ing year and he shall, in such report, show the state of the City Treasury at 
 the close of such year, which report the Clerk shall cause to be published with- 
 out delay, and present the same to the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 11. Other Duties. And to perform such other duties as may be 
 enjoined on him by the Statutes of this State and the ordinances of the City of 
 Paxton. 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 CITY ATTORNEY. 
 Section. 
 
 Who eligible. 
 
 Bond. 
 
 Prosecute and defend suits. 
 
 Advise on matters of law. 
 
 Collect fines and judgments. 
 
 Prosecute violations of ordinances. 
 
 Shall not prosecute malicious complaints. 
 May appeal from justice court. 
 
 Monthly report. 
 
 May appoint attorney to act in his absence. 
 Other duties. 
 
 FS SOLO EY SP Ce 09 pe tet 
 
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 SEC. 1. Who Eligible. No person shall be eligible to the office of City 
 Attorney unless he be a licensed Attorney of this state. 
 
 SEC. 2. Bond. The City Attorney shall, before entering upon the duties 
 of his office, execute a bond with security, payable to the City of Paxton in 
 Ford County, Illinois, in the penal sum of One Thousand Dollars, conditioned 
 for the faithful performance of the duties of the said office and to pay all 
 moneys collected by him on behalf of the City to the City Treasurer, said bond 
 and surety to be approved by the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 3 Prosecute and Defend All Cases—Clerk to furnish Copies of 
 Papers, Etc. Said Attorney shall prosecute or defend; on behalf of the City, in 
 all cases in which the interests of the corporation are involved; and the City 
 Clerk shall furnish him with certified copies of any ordinance, bond or other 
 papers, in his keeping, necessary to be filed or used in any suit or proceedings. 
 
 SEC. 4. Advise on Matters of Law. He shall, when required, advise 
 the City Council or any City Officer in all matters of law in which the inter- 
 ests of the corporation are involved, and he shall draw such ordinances, bonds 
 and contracts, or examine and approve the same, as may be r:yuired of him 
 by the Mayor, the City Council or any Committee thereof, or any of the officers 
 of said City. 
 
 SEC. 5. Collect Fines and Judgments. He shall cause execution to be 
 issued upon all judgments recovered in favor of said City and see to their 
 prompt collection. 
 
 SEC. 6. . Prosecute Violation of Ordinances. He is hereby charged with 
 the prosecution of all actions for violations of the ordinances of said City and 
 with the conducting of all proceedings of any litigation on behalf or against 
 said City or an appeal therefrom. He shall institute and prosecute an action in 
 every case where there has been a violation of a City Ordinance when instruct- 
 ed to do so by the Mayor, the City Council , or the chief officer of any depart- 
 ment of the City government; or upon the complaint of any other person, when 
 in his judgment, the Public interests shall require that the same be prosecuted. 
 
 SEC. 7. Shail Not Prosecute Malicious Complaints. He shall not be re- 
 quired to prosecute any suit or action arising under the ordinances of the City, 
 when, upon investigation of the same, he shall become satisfied that the com- 
 
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 plaint was instituted maliciously or vexatiously, and without probable cause; 
 and he shal] be authorized to discontinue any such suit or proceeding on such 
 terms as may seem to him just and equitable. 
 
 SEC. 8. May Appeal from Justices’ Court. An appeal may be taken by 
 the City Attorney from the judgment of any police magistrate or justice of the 
 peace, to the County or Circuit Court of Ford County, Illinois, in any case 
 where such judgment has been given against the City, when, in his opinion, 
 the public interest may require it; but no appeal or writ of error shall be taken 
 by said Attorney, on behalf of the Corporation, to any higher Court, unless the 
 same shall be authorized by the Mayor or directed by the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 9. Monthly report. Said Attorney shall make a report in writing 
 to the City Council, at their regular meeting in each month, showing all busi- 
 ness done by him, in his official capacity, during the preceeding month. 
 
 SEC. 10. May Appoint Attorney to Act in His Absence. In case of the 
 temporary absence or inability of the City Attorney to attend to the duties of 
 his office, he may, with the approval of the Mayor, appoint or employ some 
 competent Attorney to act in his place. But the City of Paxton shall not be 
 liable for any compensation to such attorney without an agreement with the 
 Mayor or the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 11. Other Duties. Said Attorney shall perform such other duties 
 as may be enjoined upon him by the statutes of this State or the ordinances of 
 the City of Paxton. 
 
 CHAPTER X. a 
 
 PUBLIC ENGINEER. ; ; aa 
 Section. Se 
 
 1. Appointment. 
 
 2. Make plans, surveys, grades, etc. 
 
 3. Designate grade and fix boundaries. 
 4. Keep records of office. 
 
 > Vyas 
 
 SEC. 1. Appointment. There shall be appointed annually by the mayor, 
 with the approval of the city council, a public engineer. Such appointment 
 shall be made at the first regular meeting in May of each year or as soon 
 thereafter as is practicable. The said engineer shall, before entering upon 
 the duties of his office, take and subscribe to the oath of office similar to that 
 taken by other city officers. 
 
 SEC. 2. To make Plans, Surveys, Grades, Etc. The public engineer 
 shall, when required by the mayor, the city council or any of its committees, 
 make out plans, estimates and specifications for any public work which may — 
 be ordered or proposed by the city council. He _ shall, under the ~ 
 direction of the proper committee, also superintend the construction of all 
 public work. He shall, when required by the city council, make surveys 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 21 
 
 of the grades or boundaries of streets, alleys or sewers, and prepare plats and 
 profiles thereof and report the same to the city council for their approval. 
 
 SEC. 3. Designates Grades and Fix Boundaries. Said engineer shall 
 designate by proper lines and stakes, the grade for all sidewalks for persons 
 desiring to build the same and shall upon request of the city council, locate 
 and fix all street, alley and lot boundary lines where the same are not fixed 
 or are unknown. | 
 
 SEC. 4. The said engineer shall preserve in his office all records and 
 _ plans of survey and all books, papers and writings pertaining to his office. He 
 shall make out and keep a diagram or plat of all the grades, sewers and drains 
 and boundaries of streets and alleys established by the city council, correct- 
 ing the same when any grade shall be changed, and adding thereto when any 
 new grade, sewer, drain or boundary shall be established, and he shall record 
 in a suitable book the profiles and notes of all surveys of grades, sewers, 
 drains and boundaries established, and shall preserve the original papers 
 relating thereto, and shall otherwise keep a systematic record of all the 
 transactions pertaining to the department, which records shall be une prop- 
 erty of the city of Paxton. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 STREET SUPERINTENDENT. 
 Section. 
 Oath, Bond. Wenae 8 
 Superintend improvements and repairs. , 
 Repair sidewalks. 
 Keep snow and ice and etc., from sidewalks. 
 Cut weeds. 
 Brand tools. 
 Oversee. 
 Receive prisoners. 
 Keep list of tools and time of persons employed. 
 Make complaint. 
 11. Monthly report. 
 12. Water supply. 
 13. Other duties. 
 
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 SE Oo ae ie en oS es 
 
 SEC. 1. Oath—Bond. The Superintendent of Streets of said City, 
 shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and sign the oath pre- 
 scribed by law for City Officers and shall execute a bond to the City of Pax- 
 ton in the penal sum of One Thousand Dollars with such sureties as the City 
 Council shall approve, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties 
 of his office and the payment of all moneys that may be received by him ac- | 
 cording to law and the ordinances of said City. 
 
 SEC. 2. Superintend Improvements and Repairs. He shall superintend 
 all improvements and repairs ordered by the City Council or the Committee on 
 Streets and Alleys. 
 
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 SEC. 3. Repair Sidewalks. To repair all sidewalks, where the needed 
 repairs are slight and a new sidewalk is not required, and to keep the same in 
 good condition and repair. 
 
 SEC. 4. Keep Snow, Ice and Mud from Sidewalks. To Keep, as far as 
 practicable, all crossings on streets and alleys free from mud, ice or snow;and 
 to remove, when necessary, the snow from sidewalks and to keep the same at 
 all time in good condition for travel. 
 
 SEC. 5. Cut Weeds. To cut down and destroy, on or before the first 
 day of August of each year, all Jimson weeds, cockleburrs, ragweeds, birdocks 
 or other weeds growing upon the streets and alleys of said City. 
 
 SEC. 6. Brand Tools. To brand all tools belonging to the City, used 
 on the streets and alleys, and to see that the same are returned to the tool 
 house each night. And he shall be responsible for the same. 
 
 SEC. 7. Oversee. To oversee and direct all persons in the employ of 
 the City, at work on the streets and alleys. 
 
 SEC. 8 Receive Prisoners. To receive from the City Marshall such 
 persons confined in the Calaboose as may be required to labor; to return them 
 to the City Marshal at the City Tool House, and to have charge and control of 
 them during their hours of Jabor. He shall cause such persons to faithfully 
 and diligently labor while under his control, and for the purpose of preventing 
 their escape he is hereby clothed with Police power. He is hereby authorized 
 to use all necessary means to prevent the escape of such persons while under 
 his control. 
 
 SEC. 9. List of Tools—Time of Persons Employed. He shall keep a 
 full and correct list of all tools, implements and other property in-his charge, 
 belonging to said City, and a complete account of the time of all persons em- 
 ployed under his supervision. 
 
 SEC. 10. Make Complaint. To see that all ordinances of said City in 
 regard to streets, alleys, sidewalks or crossings are enforced, and to make 
 complaint against any person violating the same. To exercise a watchful care 
 over the town wells, watering troughs, city pumps, hydrants, and water pipes, 
 and should the same leak or burst or become unclean or out of repair, to at 
 once notify the fire and water committee of such fact, and shall, under the 
 direction of such committee, proceed at once to clean or repair the same, and 
 shall have such assistance as such committee shall deem necessary. 
 
 SEC. 11. Monthly Report. To make report to the City Council on the 
 first Monday of each month, showing all business done by him in his official 
 capacity during the preceding month. Said report shall include a statement 
 showing the names of all persons employed under him, the time worked, the 
 ae and locality of labor performed and amount due each person for such 
 abor. 
 
 SEC. 12. Water Supply. To see that there is no unnecessary waste of 
 the City Water Supply. 
 
 SEC. 13. Other Duties. To faithfully perform such other duties as may 
 be prescribed by ordinance, or by any resolution, or order passed by the City 
 Council, or by the laws of the State of Illinois. 
 
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 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 POLICE MAGISTRATE. 
 Section. 
 
 to Bond: 
 2. Monthly report. 
 3. Justices, Magistrates—Payment of fines to Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 1.. Bond. The Police Magistrate shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute a bond with security, payable to the City of Paxton 
 in the penal sum of Two Thousand Dollars, conditioned according to the Stat- 
 ute of the State of Illinois in such case made and provided, to be approved by 
 the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 2. Monthly Report. It shall be the duty of the Police Magis- 
 trate of said City to file in the office of the City Clerk, on the first day of each 
 month, a complete and corect report of all business done by him in his official 
 capacity, relating to said City, during the preceeding month. Said report shall 
 show the amount of fines assessed, amount of fines collected, amount paid 
 over to him and the maner in which each and every case to which the said 
 City is a party, is disposed of. 
 
 SEC. 3. Justice’s—Magistrates—Payment of Fines to City. It shall be 
 unlawful for any justice of the peace, police magistrate, or other officer with- 
 in the said City to retain any fine, or any part thereof, but all fines shall be 
 paid by said officers within thirty days of the collection thereof, into the City 
 Treasury in cash. And in no case shall any fine or any part thereof, be held or 
 retained by such officer in liquidation to any fees due from the City to any 
 such officer. And any officer of the City of Paxton failing or refusing to pay 
 into the City Treasury any of the moneys as above set forth shall upon con- 
 viction be fined not less than one Dollar nor more than two Hundred Dollars 
 and their said office shall be declared vacant by the City Council. 
 
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 GHAPTER ACh 
 CITY MARSHAL. 
 Section. 
 
 1. Term of office. ; 
 2. When and how appointed. vas 
 3. Bond. 
 4. Management and control. . 
 5. Duties. 
 6. Execute process. 
 t. Arrest. 
 8. Attend meetings of City Council. 
 9. Collect Dog tax. 
 10. Examine Buildings. ; ‘eg ae i 
 
 11. Abate cause. } 
 12. Keeper of calaboose. eek ise : 
 13. Powers of constable. ‘TD 
 
 14. Deliver prisoners to Superintendent of streets. 
 15. Hours of duty. 
 
 16. To remain in City. 
 
 17. Cause for discharge. 
 
 18. To make monthly report. 
 
 19. Keep record of his office. 
 
 SEC. 1. Term of Office. The City Marshal of said City shall be the chief 
 of the police department, and shall hold his office for the term of one year and 
 until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. 
 
 SEC. 2. When and How Appointed. The City Marshal shall be appoint- 
 ed by the Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the City Council on 
 the first Monday in May of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be. 
 
 SEC. 3. Bond. He shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, 
 execute a bond to the City of Paxton, in Ford County, Illinois, in the penal 
 sum of One Thousand Dollars with such surities as the City Council shall ap- 
 prove, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and 
 the payment of all moneys that may be received by him according to law and 
 the ordinances of said City. 
 
 SEC. 4. Management and Control. He shall, in subordination to the 
 Mayor, have the full management and control of the police department, and 
 all regulations and orders therof shall be promulgated through him. All sub- 
 ordinate officers and members of the police department shall be subject to 
 such rules and regulations as shall, from time to time, be prescribed by said 
 Marshal with the concurrence of the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 5. Duties. He shall devote his entire time to the discharge of the 
 duties of his office and shall be charged with the preservation of the peace, 
 order, safety and cleanliness of the City, and with the duty of protecting the 
 rights of person and property, and enforcing of all ordinances of the City 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 6. Execute Process. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal to 
 execute all processes, issued by the police magistrate or any justice of the 
 peace, in any case, suit, or proceeding wherein the City is plaintiff or defen- 
 dant. 
 
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 SEC. 7. Arrest. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal to arrest, with 
 or without warrant, any or all persons who may be found in the act of violat- 
 ing, or may reasonably be expected of having violated, any of the ordinances 
 of said City, or any criminal or misdemeanor law of the State of Illinois and 
 immediately take them before the proper tribunal for trial; provided, that in 
 case any person so arrested under the provisions hereof is too much intoxicat- 
 ed, or in case for any reason it should be impracticable to proceed with the 
 trial of any such person so arrested it shall be lawful for the Marshal to con- 
 fine such person or persons in the City Calaboose or County Jail until such 
 drunken person shall become sober, or it shall become practicable for such 
 
 case to be tried. 
 SEC. 8. Attend Meetings of City Council. It shall be the duty of the 
 
 City Marshal to attend all meetings of the City Council and prepare the Coun- 
 cil Chamber in which the meeting is to be held. 
 
 SEC. 9: Collect Dog Tax. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal to 
 collect all dog taxes imposed by said City of Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 10. Examine Buildings. It shall be the duty of the City Mar- 
 shal to examine, under the direction of the Mayor or Committee on Fire and 
 Water, every house, store, shop or other building or premises and all places 
 used for the keeping and storing of ashes, chips and any and all other com- 
 bustible materials. Z 
 
 SEC. 11. Abate Cause. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal to re- 
 move or abate any cause from which danger by fire may be apprehended at 
 the cost of the party whose duty it may be to remove or abate the same. 
 
 SEC. 12. Keeper of Calabocse. The City Marshal shall be the keeper 
 or custodian and shall have the care and control of the City Calaboose and of 
 all persons confined therein, and shall report to the Committee on City prop- 
 erty any needed repairs on the Calaboose. 
 
 SEC. 13. Powers of Constable. The City Marshall, for the purpose 
 of executing his duties of office shall possess the power and authority as Con- 
 stable of Common law, under the Statutes of the State of Illinois. 
 
 SEC. 14. Deliver Prisoners to Superintendent of Streets. The City Mar- 
 shal shall deliver to the Superintendent of Streets, at the City Tool House, 
 each work day at seven o’clock a. m., all persons confined in the Calaboose 
 who may be required to labor, and return such persons thereto at noon. He 
 shall again deliver to such superintendent all such persons at one o’clock p. m., 
 and return them again to the Calaboose at six o’clock p. m. 
 
 SEC. 15. Hours of Duty. The City Marshal] shall be on duty from 
 seven o’clock a. m. to seven o’clock p. m., of each day and such other times as 
 the Mayor shall direct; or, in case the Mayor shall be absent from the City, 
 such times as may be directed by any three of the Aldermen. 
 
 SEC. 16. To Remain in the City. The City Marshal shall at no time 
 absent himself from the City without the Consent of the Mayor, or in case of 
 the Mayor’s absence any three of the aldermen. 
 
 SEC. 17. Cause for Discharge. It shall be a sufficient cause for the 
 removal and discharge of such City Marshal if he shall use any abusive, ob- 
 scene, violent, or profane language towards any City officer and upon his con- 
 viction, before any Court having jurisdiction, of a violation of any ordinance 
 
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 of this City, he shall be at once removed from his office by the Mayor, who 
 shall report such removal with the reasons therefor, to the Council at its next 
 meeting. 
 
 SEC. 18. To Make Monthly Report. The City Marshal shall, on the 
 first Monday in each month, make a written report to the City Council, showing 
 ‘the Number of Arrests made by the Police force during the preceeding month, 
 the name of each person arrested, the Policeman making the arrest, the offense 
 charged, the Magistrate before whom tried, the disposition of the case, the 
 amount of fine imposed, if any and the amount of fine collected if any. He 
 shall also report the names of persons in the Calaboose if any. 
 
 SEC. 19. Keep Record of His Office. The City Marshal shall keep a 
 Record Book properly indexed, of the Police Department, and of all persons 
 arrested or committed by the Police, showing the time and place of each arrest, 
 the offense for which the same was made, the Magistrate or Court before whom 
 such person was tried, and the disposition of each case. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 NIGHT POLICEMAN AND SPECIAL POLICEMAN. 
 
 Section. _ 
 1. Appointment. 
 2. Duties. 
 3. Mayor to appoint. 
 4. Commission. 
 
 SEC. 1. Appointment. There is hereby created the office of night 
 policeman. The term of said office shall be for one year. The said night police- 
 man shall be appointed by the mayor by and with the advice and consent of 
 the city council. : 
 
 SEC. 2. Duties. The said night policeman shall be on duty regularly 
 from seven o’clock p. m, to seven a. m. of each day, during which time he 
 shall devote his entire time and attention to the discharge of the duties of 
 his office according to the ordinances of the city, and the rules and regula- 
 tions of the police department. He shall to the best of his ability, preserve 
 order, quiet and peace throughout the city, and enforce all the ordinances 
 of the city. He shall report to the mayor and the city marshal all persons Known 
 or suspected to be gamblers, receivers of stolen goods, thieves, burglars or 
 disorderly persons, and also all unlawful or disorderly houses or places 
 within said city, coming to his knowledge, as well as all violations of the laws 
 of the state or the ordinances of the city, reported to him, or of which he may 
 be cognizant; and when it shall come to the knowledge of such policeman 
 that any city ordinance has been violated he shall forthwith cause a complaint 
 to be made before a police magistrate or justice of the peace within the city, 
 and the proper witnesses to be subpoened and evidence procured for the 
 successful prosecution of the offender. 
 
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 SEC. 3. Mayor to Appoint. The Mayor may appoint, at any time when 
 in his judgment it may be necessary, such number of special policemen as 
 may be required. Special policemen shall not be appointed for a longer time 
 than thirty days at one time, and shall receive as compensation the sum of 
 One and Fifty one-hundredths Dollars for each days’ service. 
 
 SEC. 4. Commission All policemen appointed under this ordinance 
 shall be commissioned by the. Mayor and shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his said office, take and subscribe to the usual oath of Office. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 CITY COLLECTOR. 
 Section. : 
 Appointment. 
 Bond. 
 Duties. 
 Pay special taxes to Treasurer. 
 Make return of delinquent taxes. 
 Keep book of account. 
 
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 SEC. 1. Appointment. There is hereby created the office of city col- 
 lector of special taxes and special assessments. The term of said officer 
 shall be for one year and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. 
 The said collector of special taxes and special assessments shall be appointed 
 annually by the mayor by and with ibe consent and advice of the city council. 
 
 SEC. 2. Bond of Collector. Said collector shall, before he enters upon 
 the duties of his office take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law for city 
 officers and shall execute a bond to the city of Paxton in the penal sum of 
 five thousand dollars with such sureties as the city council shall approve, 
 conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as such collector and 
 the payment of all moneys received by him according to law and the ordi- 
 nances’ of said city. 
 
 SEC. 3. Duties. It shall be the duty of said collector to collect all 
 special taxes and special assessments which are or may be levied or assessed 
 by virtue of any ordinance of said city for the making of any local improve- 
 ment, and he is hereby authorized and instructed to receive and receipt to 
 any person or persons against whose property special assessments or taxes 
 are levied, as aforesaid, the amount of his or their tax or special assesments 
 less such discount as is or may hereafter be authorized by contract for mak- 
 ing such improvement, and the laws governing the same. 
 
 SEC. 4. To Pay all Specia! Taxes to Treasurer. Said collector shall 
 pay over to the city treasurer all moneys collected by him as fast as the 
 same shall be received, taking the treasurer’s receipt therefor. He shall at 
 the end of each fiscal year make out and file with the city clerk a full state- 
 ment of all moneys collected by him during the preceding fiscal year in the 
 manner as is required by law. 
 
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 SEC. 5. Make Return of Delinquent Taxes. It shall be the duty of 
 the city collector on or before the tenth day of March each, year, to make a 
 report or reports in writing to the county collector of Ford county or other 
 officer authorized by the general revenue laws of this state to apply for 
 judgment and sell lands for taxes due the county and state, showing all the 
 lands, town lots and real property on which he shall have been unable to col- 
 lect said special taxes or special assessments due and unpaid thereon, which 
 report or reports shall be accompanied by the oath of said collector, that the 
 ‘list or lists are a correct return and report of the lands, town lots and real 
 property on which the said special taxes or special assessments levied by 
 authority of the city of Paxton remain due and unpaid, that he is unable to 
 collect the same or any part thereof and that he had given the notice or 
 notices required by law. . 
 
 SEC, 6. To Keep Books of Account. Said collector shall under the 
 direction of the finance committee, keep books of account which shall show 
 all receipts and moneys collected by him, and other matters pertaining to. his 
 Office, such books and accounts to be kept in a clear and methodical manner. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 FISCAL YEAR. 
 
 SEC. 1 The fiscal year of the City of Paxton Illinois, shall commence 
 on the first day of May and close on the 30th day of April of each year. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIL. i aa, 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. ; 
 
 Section. [i See 
 
 Creation. : 
 Mayor and Chief to supervise. 
 Mayor may remove members. 
 Appointment of Chief and Assistant. 
 Vath and Bond. 
 Chief and Assistant at head of department. 
 Chief to keep record. | , ris 
 Absence of Chief, Assistant shall act. eo WE aaa 
 Members to wear uniform. 4 oth Bate 
 10. No person to use apparatus. | Bis ge: 
 11. Members may arrest. se 
 12. Resisting or obstructing members. as 
 13. Compensation. Eola 
 14. Free use of City Water. aa ee 
 15. Repair to scene of fire upon alarm given. 
 16. No minor shall be member. 
 17 May remove apparatus from City. 
 
 ERS ec neal tah oe Be 
 
 SEC. 1. That there is hereby established a Fire Department of the City 
 
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 of Paxton, and it shall embrace a chief, assistant chief, and not less than ten 
 nor more than twenty members organized and to be organized by permission 
 of the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 2. The Mayor in conjunction with the Chief shall have and exer- 
 cise a general supervision of the Fire Department and property. And shall 
 make such rules and regulations for the government of the Department, con- 
 sistent herewith, as shall be necessary for its efficient organization and 
 operation. 
 
 SEC. 3. The Mayor may for cause remove any member of the Depart- 
 ment subject however to an appeal to the Council, except the Chief and As- 
 sistant Chief. 
 
 SEC. 4. The office of Chief and Assistant Chief of the Fire Department 
 of the City of Paxton is hereby created. The said Chief and Assistant Chief 
 shall be appointed or elected by the members of the said fire department in 
 manner as provided in the regular constitution and by-laws enacted by the said 
 fire department and shall hold their respective offices for a term as provided 
 .in said constitution and by-laws, provided that the said appointment or 
 election of tne said Chief and Assistant Chief as. aforesaid shall be subject 
 to the approval of the Mayor and City Council of said City. 
 
 SEC. 5. They shall, each before entering upon the duties of his office 
 be sworn to the oath required of other City officers, and execute a bond to 
 the City, in the penal sum of $500.00 with sureites to be approved by theMayor, 
 conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties. 
 
 SEC. 6. The chief and in his absence the Assistant chief shall be at 
 the head of the Fire Department, and shall act under the _ direction 
 of the Mayor, and _ shall have full command and control over’ such 
 department, and the members thereof. He _ shall have the care and 
 custody of all fire apparatus belonging to the Department and shall attend in 
 person, take command of the organization, and see that the several members 
 perform their respective duties at any and all Fires within the City of Paxton. 
 With the assent of the Mayor and any two aldermen, he may order the tearing 
 down or destruction and removal of any building or buildings deemed neces- 
 sary to check the progress of any fire. 
 
 SEC. 7. Said chief shall cause to be kept in some suitable book a com- 
 plete and accurate record of all the transactions of the Fire Department and 
 Fires within said City, and of all property belonging to the same and shall 
 annually make a written report to the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 8. In case of the temporary absence or disability of the Chief 
 the Assistant Chief shall exercise the power and perform the duties of the said 
 Chief and on the expiration of his office the Chief shall deliver to his successor 
 all property and appurtenances belonging to such department or appertaining 
 to his office. 
 
 SEC. 9. Each member of the Fire Department while on duty when prac- 
 ticable, shall, wear an appropriate badge to be furnished him by 
 the City, and upon any member ceasing to be connected with said Fire De- 
 partment the said Badge shall be returned to the Chief. 
 
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 SEC. 10. No person without the consent of the Chief and the sanction 
 of the Mayor shall use any apparatus belonging to the Fire Department for 
 any private purpose whatsoever under a penalty of not less than three nor more 
 than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 11. Any member of the Fire Department of the City during the 
 progress of any fire, may arrest any person found stealing any property or 
 wilfully injuring or breaking any Fire apparatus or hose or resisting or ob- 
 structing any member of the Fire Department in discharge of his duty, or 
 otherwise conducting himself in a riotous or disorderly manner. And such 
 offender shall be retained in custody until he can be brought before the 
 proper Magistrate, when upon conviction of any such offense, he shall be fined 
 not less than three nor more than One Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 12. Any person who shall wilfully resist, obstruct, or hinder 
 any member of the Fire Department in the performance of his duty at any 
 Fire or shall wilfully or maliciously injure, break or deface any Hydrant, 
 hose, hose cart or Fire apparatus shall, upon conviction, be fined in either 
 case not less than three Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 13. Compensation. The City of Paxton shall pay to the fire de- 
 partment organized under this ordinance the sum of Two Hundred Dollars 
 per annum as compensation to the members thereof for services rendered. 
 Said sum of two hundred dollars shall be payable semi-annually, one hundred 
 dollars on the first Monday of May and one hundred dollars on the first Mon- 
 day of November of each year. Said sums are to be paid by, orders drawn on 
 the proper fund in the City treasury, payable to the Chief of said department 
 and to be appropriated to the use and benefit of the members of said fire de- 
 partment as the majority of the members thereof may direct. As further 
 compensation, all regular and active members of said fire department shall 
 be exempt from any poll taxes or street labor for the same during such mem- 
 bership. 
 
 SEC. 14. Free use of City Water. That active members of the Paxton 
 fire department, not exceeding twelve in number, shall be allowed: the use 
 of one City Water hydrant or faucet for domestic purposes only, the member 
 or members so taking is to bear all expense of intsalling the same. 
 
 The chief of said department shall on the first day of each quarter, 
 make out his certificate countersigned by the secretary of said fire depart- 
 ment, of the names of the members desiring to avail themselves of the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance, which certificate shall state that the member des- 
 ignated will use the water only for purposes herein prescribed, that he is 
 an active member of said fire department in good standing. Said certificate 
 thus executed shall be received by the City Clerk, in full payment from 
 said member for the water rate for the current quarter. 
 
 Any member failing to present said certificate to the City Clerk within 
 ten days after the first day of each quarter, or who shall use the water for 
 any other purpose than herein designated, or permit others to use the same, 
 or allow any waste thereof, shall be denied the privileges of this ordinance. . 
 Provided that each such taker shall at all times be subject to the rules reg- 
 ulations and general water ordinances of the City of Paxton. 
 
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 SEC. 15. Upon any alarm of fire within said City the said Fire Com 
 pany under command of the proper officer shall as speedily as possible repair 
 to the place of the fire with their appropriate apparatus and there work and 
 manage the same under the direction of the officer in command. Upon such 
 alarm given each member shall repair immediately to his fire apparatus. 
 
 SEC. 16. No person shall be a member of any such company who is 
 under the age of twenty-one years unless he shall first file the written consent 
 of his parent or guardian in the office of the City Clerk. 
 
 SEC. 17. It shall be lawful for the Chief, by and with the consent 
 of the Mayor, or in his absence of the chairman of the Fire and Water Com- 
 mittee, upon receiving any call for assistance in extinguishing any fire that 
 may occur without the Corporate limits of the City of Paxton, to remove 
 to the location of such fire any part of the fire apparatus belonging to said 
 fire department, provided that there shall always be retained at the regular 
 fire station sufficient of said apparatus to insure protection against any 
 fire that may at any time occur within said City. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 FIRE LIMITS. 
 Section. 
 
 Fire Limits. 
 
 Manner of construction. 
 
 Prohibits recovering of frame buildings. 
 Prohibits removal of buildings. 
 
 City Council may remove old buildings. 
 Nuisance. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 City Marshall to inspect buildings. 
 Penalty for failure to abate. 
 
 eS ee Ce 
 
 SEC. 1. Fire Limits. That all that portion of the City of Paxton 
 bounded on the North by Holmes street, on the east by Railroad avenue, on 
 the South by Center street and on the west by Taft street. shall be known as 
 and shall constitute the Fire limits of the city of Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 2. When Wooden Buildings May be Constructed. No wooden 
 building shall be erected or placed or repaired within the fire limits of the 
 City of Paxton, without permission first had and obtained from the City Coun- 
 cil, Any application for such permission shall be made in writing to the City 
 Council and shall state the location of said building, its size, height and the 
 use for which it is to be used, and where repairs are to be made shall state 
 particularly the kind and extent of such repairs. Such application shall be 
 referred to the Committee on Fire Water and Electric Lights and shall be pub- 
 lished by such committee, one week in some paper published in the City of 
 Paxton. No action shall be taken upon such application until the next regular 
 
 meeting of the City Council. 
 SEC. 3. Manner of Construction. No wooden or frame building or 
 
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 - gtructure of any kind or description shall be erected or placed within that por- 
 tion of the fire limits of the City of Paxton lying between the alley running 
 North and South through same west of Market street, and the main track 
 of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. And all buildings which shall or 
 may be hereafter erected or placed within said last mentioned boundaries 
 shall have outside or party walls not less than one foot in thickness, provided 
 that buildings one story in height, adjoining other buildings having out side- 
 walls of brick or stone, and where such walls are not used as party walls, may 
 be built with walls not less than eight inches in thickness; provided further 
 that the City Council may for good reasons shown, grant to any person 
 applying therefor a permit to erect or place a ware house, store room, coal 
 house or other out buildings to be used for storage purpose only in the rear of 
 any business building now erected, or which may be erected hereafter within 
 said last mentioned boundaries, which said ware house, store room, coal house 
 or other out building may be constructed of wood and shall not be more than 
 twelve feet in height from foundation thereof, and shall have the outside walls 
 veneered with brick or covered with iron or other fire proof material,and shall 
 also have a fire proof roof. And provided further the City Council may grant 
 permission to persons erecting two story buildings to construct the front wall 
 of the second story thereof of wood and cover the same with iron. 
 
 SEC. 4. Prohibits Recovering of Frame Buildings. It shall be unlawful 
 for any person or persons, company or corporation to cover or re- 
 cover any building now erected or hereafter to be erected within the said fire 
 limits of the city of Paxton excepting buildings used exclusively as dwellings 
 with any shingles, boards planks or other combustible material whatever, 
 but all such buildings shall in all cases be covered with metal, tile, slate or 
 some other equally good fire proof material. 
 
 SEC. 5. Prohibits Removal of Buildings. No wooden. building or part 
 of any building within the fire limits of the City of Paxton, except buildings 
 used exclusively as dwellings, shall be enlarged nor shall any wooden build- 
 ing be removed to any place within said fire limits of the City of Paxton, 
 nor shall any wooden building within the said fire limits be removed to any 
 other place within the same. . 
 
 SEC. 6. City Council may remove old Buildings. That the said City 
 Council may direct that any and all buildings within said fire limits of the 
 City of Paxton, when same shall have been damaged by fire, decay or other- 
 wise to the extent of fifty per cent of their value shall be torn down or re- 
 moved; and for the purpose of ascertaining such damage by fire, decay or 
 otherwise, the Mayor of the said City of Paxton by and with the consent of 
 the City Council, upon the application of any free holder or of any member 
 of the said City Council of said City of Paxton, shall appoint three disinterest- 
 ed persons who are residents of the said City of Paxton, as commissioners 
 to estimate the damage by fire, decay or otherwise, of any buildings within 
 the fire limits of the said City of Paxton, so alleged or charged in such ap- 
 plication, to have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise, to the extent 
 of fifty per cent of the value thereof, and such commissioners shall thereupon 
 make an estimate of damage to such building by fire, decay or otherwise, and 
 make report thereof in writing to the City Council, which said report shall 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 33 
 
 be filed with the City Clerk at least ten days before the date of the regular 
 meeting of the said City Council at which action thereupon is taken. And 
 the said City Clerk shall give at least five days’ notice to the owner or own- 
 ers of such building in writing that the report of said commissioners has been 
 filed in his office and that action will be had thereon at the 
 ‘next regular meeting of the said City Council at which time and place such 
 owner may appear and show cause why such report should not be approved 
 by the said City Council. If the said report of said commissioners shall be 
 approved, and any such building shall be so found to have been damaged 
 by fire, decay or otherwise, to the extent of fifty per cent of the value, the 
 City Council shall thereupon direct: That such building shall be removed 
 or torn down within such time as the said City Council shall then and there 
 direct, and the City Clerk shall serve notice of such action, of the City 
 Council, upon the owner or agent of such building by delivering such notice 
 to him in person or by depositing the same in the Postoffice, properly stamped 
 and directed to his last known postoffice address, in and by which notice the 
 said owner of such building shall be notified that he has been ordered and 
 directed to tear down and remove such building out of the fire limits of the 
 said City, within the time prescribed by such action of the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 7. Nuisance. Every building or part thereof which shall be erect- 
 ed or placed or repaired, enlarged or removed in violation of the preceeding 
 sections of this ordinance and every building which is allowed to remain or 
 stand within the fire limits of the City of Paxton, in violation of Section 6 
 of this ordinance is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and shall be abated by 
 the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 8. Penakty. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
 of this ordinance either as owner, agent, contractor or laborer in the erection, 
 placing, removing, repairing or enlarging of any building or who shall as 
 owner neglect or refuse to tear down or remove any building which has been 
 ordered torn down or removed as provided for by Section 6 of this ordinance 
 shall, upon conviction, thereof be fined not less than ten Dollars nor more than 
 two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. City Marshal to Inspect Buildings. The city marshal shall, 
 when ordered by the Mayor or fire and water committee, carefully inspect 
 and examine any and all buildings or premises within said city, and cause 
 all defective chimneys, flues, . stoves, stovepipes, furnaces, ash houses or other 
 places in which fire may be used or kept, and which he may deem unsafe or 
 dangerous from any cause, to be immediately repaired, abated or placed in a 
 safe condition. 
 
 The city marsha] or the fire and water committee shall have authority © 
 to enter any and all buildings and premises within said city for the purpose 
 of making such inspection and examination, and he or they shall notify the 
 ‘owner of such defective property to immediately repair, abate or cause the 
 same to be placed in a safe condition. That in case the owner or occupant 
 of such building or premises shall neglect or refuse so to do, he or they shall 
 without delay, cause the same to be done. 
 
 SEC. 10. Penalty. In case the owner or occupant of any building or 
 
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 premises, after being notified as provided in section 9 of this ordinance, shall 
 fail to comply with the terms of such notice, such owner or occupant shall 
 be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each 
 offense, and shall also be liable to the City of Paxton for all necessary ex- 
 penses incurred in causing such building or premises to be placed in safe 
 condition; the same to be recovered in an action of debt before any court 
 having jurisdiction. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 LICENSE.. 
 Section. 
 1. Licenses. 
 2. Co-partnership under one license. 
 3. Amount of license fees. 
 4. When due and payable. 
 5. Penalty for violation. 
 6. Itinerant merchants. 
 7. Application in writing. 
 8. License fee. 
 9. Penalty for violation. 
 10. Subject to ordinance of city. 
 11. Terms defined. 
 12. How issued. 
 13. Where Mayor declines to issue. 
 14. No longer term than one year. 
 15. Not transferable without consent. 
 16. To be kept in place of business. 
 17. In case of death. 
 18. City Clerk to keep record. 
 19. Clerk to notify of expiration. 
 20. Fees paid before delivery. 
 21. Cigarettes. 
 22. Not to sell tobacco to minors. 
 
 SEC. 1. Licenses. It shall be unlawful for any person to be engaged in 
 or carry on any business, occupation or pursuit hereinafter mentioned in this 
 chapter,within the limits of the City of Paxton, without first having obtained a 
 license therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. . 
 
 SEC, 2. Co-Partnership under one License. Any number of persons 
 doing business in co-parinership, at any one place, shall be required to pay 
 but one license fee therefor: PROVIDED, that if more than one kind of bus- 
 iness or pursuit hereinafter mentioned, shall be conducted or carried on by 
 the same person or firm at the same time, a separate license fee shall be 
 paid for each, according to the rate prescribed. 
 
 SEC. 3. Amount of License Fee. There shall be taxed and collected 
 of and from the persons engaged in or carrying on the different branches of 
 business, occupation or pursuits hereinafter in this section mentioned, res- 
 pectively, license fees at the rates following, to-wit: 
 
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 First. General auctioneers shall pay a license fee of ten ($10.00) Dol- 
 lars per annum or three ($3.00) Dollars per day. 
 
 Second. Ball or pin alley or bowling alley keepers shall pay seventy- 
 five ($75.00) dollars per annum. 
 
 Third. Billiards, bagatelle, pool, pin-pool, pigeon hole, and like table 
 keepers or proprietors shall pay a license fee of one hundred ($100.00) dol- 
 lars per annum. 
 
 Fourth. Exhibitors of natural or artificial curiosities, not herein other- 
 wise provided for, shall pay a license fee at the rate of ten ($10.00) dollars 
 per day. 
 
 Fifth. There shall be taxed and collected of and from persons engaged 
 in or carrying on the business of peddling the sum of three ($3.00) per day. 
 
 Sixth. Insurance agents or brokers, representing corporations, com- 
 panies or associations not incorporated under the Laws of the State of Illi- 
 nois, engaged in the business of effecting fire insurance in the City of Paxton, 
 shall pay to the City Treasurer, the sum of Two Dollars upon the One Hundred 
 Dollars of the net receipts of his or their agency in the said City of Paxton, 
 and at that rate upon the amount of all premiums which, during the year end- 
 ing on every first day of July, shall have been received for any insurance 
 effected or agreed to be effected in said City, by or with any such corporation, 
 companies, or essociations: PROVIDED, that the moneys arising from such 
 tax or license rates shall be applied to the maintenance and support of the Fire 
 Department of said City. 
 
 Seventh. Keepers of fruit, candy, popcorn, peanut, or lemonade stands 
 on the sidewalk, shall pay a license fee of five ($5.00) Dollars per week or one 
 i$1.00) per day. 
 
 Highth. Keepers of shooting galleries or places for target shooting 
 shall pay a license fee of five ($5.00) Dollars per month. 
 
 Ninth. Proprietors or managers of circular swings, merry-go-rounds, 
 flying dutchman, or other similar device not otherwise provided for, shall pay 
 
 - for license for the first day five ($5.00) Dollars and two ($2.00) dollars for each 
 
 day thereafter. 
 
 Tenth. Proprietors or managers of circuses and menageries or other 
 like shows, shall pay twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each day. Side shows, 
 with any circus, shall pay ten ($10.00) dollars for each side show. 
 
 | Eleventh. Proprietors or managers of wild west shows, shall pay a 
 license fee of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per day, and any other show under 
 canvas shall pay a license fee of five ($5.00) dollars per day. 
 
 Twelfth. Proprietors or keepers of roller skating halls, shall pay a 
 license fee of five ($5.00) dollars per month. 
 
 Thirteenth. Fortune tellers, palmists, clairvoyants shall pay a license 
 fee of ($20.00) per week, no license to be issued for less than one week. 
 
 Fourteenth. Any person, company or corporation desiring, either by 
 himself, itself, agent, or servant, to engage in or carry on the business of the 
 sale of cigarettes, cigarette paper, cigarette tobacco, or any article pertaining 
 thereto, shall pay the sum of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per annum as a 
 
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 license fee to engage in or carry on the sale of any one or all of the above 
 mentioned articles. . 
 
 Fifteenth. Any person, persons, company or corporation who shall re- 
 ceive by carload lots, or in other bulk, quantity or quantities, fruits, vege- 
 tables, and other farm produce, and who shall sell farm produce at retail, 
 and who shall sell, barter or dispose of the same from the cars or in retail 
 quantities taken from the original consignment, shall first procure a license 
 therefor and shall pay for such license the sum of ten ($10.00) dollars. 
 
 Sixteenth. Proprietors or managers of theaters, operas, minstrels, con- 
 certs, dramatic readings, lecturers, panoramas, tableaux and other shows or 
 amusements not otherwise provided for, shall pay for license the sum of five 
 ($5.00) dollars per night: PROVIDED, that proprietors or leasees of opera. 
 houses or theatres may pay a license fee of thirty ($30.00) dollars per annum, 
 in lieu of all separate license fees for shows or amusements given in such 
 opera house or theater during the period of such licnse, and PROVIDED 
 FURTHER, that no license fee shall be taxed or collected for any such show 
 or entertainment given exclusively for charitable, educational or benevolent 
 purposes. 
 
 SEC. 4. License Fees—When due and payable. All license fees, un- 
 less otherwise provided by ordinance, shall become due and payable on the 
 first day of May in each and every year, or upon the commencing of any bus- 
 iness or occupation upon which such license fee is imposed by ordinance. In 
 all cases the license fee shall be reckoned for an entire year, except such 
 licenses as are reckoned and payable by the day or week, or-month, as imposed 
 by ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 5. Penalty for Violation. Whoever shall engage in, or carry on 
 any business, occupation or pursuit, required to be licensed under the pro- 
 visions of this article, or by any ordinance of the City of Paxton, without hav- 
 ing first obtained such license, shall, where no other penalty is provided, upon 
 conviction, be fined not less than three ($3.00) dollars nor more than two 
 hundred ($200.00) dollars, and to a like further fine for each day, after the 
 first conviction, that he shall continue any such business or occupation without 
 obtaining such license. 
 
 SEC. 6. Itinerant Merchants. It shall not be lawful for any intinerant 
 merchant or transient vendor of merchandise, either by himself or as agent 
 or clerk for another, to set up, maintain or carry on, or aid or assist in setting 
 up, maintaining or carrying on within the City of Paxton, any temporary store 
 or establishment for the sale or disposition by auction or otherwise, of any 
 stock of goods, wares or merchandise without having first obtained a license 
 for so doing, as hereinafter provided. - 
 
 SEC. 7. Application in Writing. Any itinerant merchant or transient 
 vendor; or other like person, wishing to set up, maintain or carry on such 
 temporary store or establishment, shall make written application therefor, 
 to the Mayor, stating the nature and amount of such stock or lot of goods, 
 wares or merchandise, the place to be occupied by him, and the time he wishes 
 to continue such establishment or business, and upon the payment by such 
 

 
 ‘CITY OF PAXTON 37 
 
 person into the City Treasury of the license fee hereinafter specified, the City 
 Clerk may issue to said person a license in due form for the time and place 
 mentioned in said application, which license shall be senes by.Mayor and 
 attested by the clerk. 
 
 SEC. 8. License Fees. Any person applying for a Tees as required 
 in section six of this ordinance shall pay a license fee of five ($5.00) dollars 
 for one day, ten ($10.00) dollars for one week, twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for 
 one month, and seventy-five ($75.00) dollars for three months: PROVIDED, 
 that uo iicense shall be granted under the provisions of this ordinance for a 
 longer period than three months without renewal. 
 
 SEC. 9. Penalty for Violation. Whoever shall violate any of the pro- 
 
 visions or requirements of the foregoing sections in relation to intinerant 
 
 merchants or transient vendors of merchandise shall, upon conviction, be fined 
 in any sum not less than five ($5.00) dollars nor more than two hundred 
 ($200.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 10. Subject to Ordinauces of City. All persons who may be licens- 
 ed under this ordinance shall be subject to and goverened by all general and 
 special ordinances of said City o. Paxton, now in force or that may hereafter 
 be passed and in force in relatii a to any such licenses or the business con- 
 nected therewith. 
 
 SEC. 11. Terms Defined, fhe terms “itinerant merchant and transient 
 vendor of merchandise” as used herein, shall be construed to mean any per- 
 son or persons not permanently \vansacting business within the City, or whose 
 stock in trade shall not have becn legally assessed for taxation in the annual 
 assessment of other property in said City of Paxton, for State, County and 
 City purposes. 
 
 SEC. 12. How Issued. Auy person desiring a license for any purpose, 
 under the ordinances of said City, shall make written application therefor 
 to the Mayor, stating his name, the purpose for which the license is desired, 
 for what length of time, and the place where his business or occupation is to 
 be carried on; and when a bond is required to be filed before being licensed, 
 he shall name his proposed sureties on the bond in his application. If theMayor 
 shall grant the application, he shall so endorse the same, together with the 
 amount of license fee fixed by ordinance in the case. Upon the filing of the 
 application so endorsed with the City Clerk, and the presentation to him of a 
 receipt from the City Treasurer showing payment of the sum so specified and 
 required, or the payment to said City Clerk of such sum in lieu of the payment 
 to the City Treasurer, and upon filing the proper bond if bond is provided for 
 such license, approved by the Mayor the City Clerk shall issue to the appli- 
 cant a license for the purpose and time therein specified. 
 
 SEC. 13. Where Mayor Declines to Issue. The Mayor shall receive all 
 applications for licenses and may grant the same in all cases upon the terms 
 and conditions specified by ordinance. But if, in any case, he shall decline 
 to grant an application for license for any purpose, or for the transfer of a 
 license, he shall communicate such application to the City Council at the next 
 ensuing regular or adjourned meeting thereof for its action thereon. 
 
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 SEC. 14. No longer term than one year. No license shall be granted 
 for a longer term than one year, and all licenses, unless otherwise provided 
 by ordinance, shall expire on the last day of April next following their issue. 
 Every license shall be signed by the Mayor, attested by the City Clerk under 
 the corporate seal, and countersigned and registered by the City Clerk; and 
 no license shall be valid until signed and countersigned as aforesaid, nor shall 
 any person be deemed to be licensed until the same shall have been issued to 
 him in due form. 
 
 SEC. 15. Not Transferable without Consent—Authorized for one location 
 only. No license shall be assignable or transferable nor shall any person be 
 authorized to do business or act under such license but the person to whom 
 it is granted, or at any other place than that specified therein without the 
 consent of the Mayor and City Council to be certified thereon by the Clerk; 
 nor shall any license authorize any person to act under it at more than one 
 place at the same time, or at any other time than is therein specified. Who- 
 ever shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed to be acting 
 without license, and shall be subject to the same penalty as is prescribed for 
 person doing business without license. 7 
 
 SEC. 16. To be kept in place of business. Every person to whom a 
 license may be issued, under any ordinance of the City of Paxton, shall forth- 
 with place and keep the same conspicuously posted in his office or place of 
 
 business; and any person failing or neglecting to so place and keep his license 
 shall incur a penalty of not less than three Dollars nor more than twenty- 
 
 five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 17. In case of Death. In case of death of any person licensed 
 under any ordinance of said City, before the time limited in his license shall 
 have expired, his copartner (if any he has) or his legal representative may 
 continue to act under such license for the unexpired term thereof, subject, 
 however, to the conditions imposed upon the person to whom the same was 
 originally issued. | 
 
 SEC. 18. City Clerk to Keep Record. The City Clerk shall keep a li- 
 ense record, in which he shall enter the name of each person licensed, for 
 what business or purpose licensed, the place of his business, date of license, 
 nuluber of the same, the amount paid for each, and the time of the expiration 
 thereof. He shali, at the first regular meeting of the City Council in each 
 month, report to the City Council in writing, the number of licenses issued 
 during the preceding month, to whom issued, the amount received by the City 
 for each license, and the location of the persons licensed; and he shall annual- 
 ly at the close of each fiscal year, make out and submit to the City Council a 
 full and complete abstract of all licenses issued during the preceeding year, 
 with the amounts received by the City of Paxton for each license. 
 
 SEC. 19. City Clerk to Notify of Expiration. It shall be the duty of 
 the City Clerk, by notice in writing, to give notice to all persons whose licens- 
 es have expired, or who, by any ordinance of the City Council, are required to 
 procure a license for their business, trade or occupation, and are acting with- 
 out a license. The notice may be served by the City Marshall or any Police 
 Officer. 
 
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 SEC. 20. Fees Paid—Before Delivery. No license shall be delivered to 
 any person applying therefor until all fees due from him thereon are paid; 
 and no person shall be considered as licensed, although. his license may 
 have been issued until such payment and actual delivery of the same. 
 
 SEC. 21. No person, or persons, firm or corporation shall sell or keep 
 for sale within the corporate limits of the City of Paxton, any cigarette or 
 cigarettes, without having first obtained a license therefor from the City 
 Clerk of said city under a penalty of not less than twenty-five Dollars for each 
 offense. e 
 
 SEC. 22. No person or persons, firm or corporation within the corpor- 
 ate limits of the city of Paxton, shall sell, buy for, or furnish any cigar, cig- 
 arette, or tobacco in any form to any minor under the age of sixteen years, 
 unless upon the written order of his parent or guardian. Any person or per-, 
 sons, firm or corporation upon conviction of violating any of the provisions of 
 this section of this ordinance, shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars nor more 
 than One Hundred Dollars for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER. XX. 
 
 LIQUORS. 
 Section. . 
 Unlawful to sell. 
 Mayor and City Council to grant license. 
 
 Bond to people and to city required. 
 
 Application for license. 
 
 Clerk to issue. 
 
 Person refused license not to be interested in dramshop. 
 Selling on Sunday forbidden. 
 
 Duty of Police Officers. 
 
 License may be revoked. 
 
 10. Dramshop open at what hours. 
 
 11. Must keep orderly -house. 
 
 12. Drinking to excess—Gaming forbidden. 
 
 18. License suspended upon conviction. 
 
 14. Employment of minors—Selling to intoxicated person. 
 15. Minors forbidden in saloon. 
 
 16. Selling to habitual drunkard forbidden. 
 
 17. License not transferable. 
 
 18. Shifts or devices forbidden. 
 
 19. Windows kept so interior of room may be seen. 
 
 20. No person shall give or sell to minor or drunkard. 
 
 Oe ne ae ee eid 
 
 SEC. 1. Unlawful to Sell. No person shall, within the City of Paxton, 
 by himself, his agent, his servant or clerk or otherwise, sell barter, exchange, 
 deliver or. in any way dispose of for money or gain or any thing of value 
 or anything intended to represent value, any vinous, fermented, spiritous, 
 malt, mixed or other intoxicating liquors which last named terms shall in- 
 clude and embrace within its meaning what is known as hard cider, in any 
 quantity whatever, to be carried away from the place of delivery or to be 
 
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 drank upon the premises, or in or upon any adjacent room, yard, building 
 or premises or place of public resort, without a license therefor in accordance 
 with the requirements hereof, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five 
 dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 2. Mayor and City Council to Grant License. The mayor by and 
 with the consent of the city council, may grant license to such person or 
 persons as may apply therefor to him in writing, to retail intoxicating, malt, 
 vinous, mixed or fermented liquor, in any quantity less than one gallon, upon 
 such person or persons paying into the city treasury a sum at the rate of twelve 
 hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly in advance, and entering into 
 bonds in the manner required in the following section of this ordinance: Pro- 
 vided, That no license shall be granted under the provisions of this ordinance 
 to any minor or non-resident of the city, or to any person or persons who keep 
 or operate a restaurant or eating room in connection with their place of bus- 
 iness, nor any person or persons whose place of business where said liquors © 
 are to be retailed has any door or openings connecting it with any restaurant 
 or eating room. In case any person or persons after having been granted a 
 license in accordance with the provisions of this chapter of this ordinance, 
 shall keep, have or operate a restaurant or eating room in connection there- 
 with, or shall connect his place of business by any door or opening with any . 
 restaurant or eating room, the mayor shall immediately revoke said license 
 so granted to such person or persons. 
 
 SEC. 3. Bond to People and to City Required. Before a license shall 
 be granted to keep a dramshop for the sale of intoxicating malt, vinous, mixed 
 or fermented liquors under the provisions hereof, the person or persons apply- 
 ing for such license shall execute a bond in the penal sum of three thousand 
 dollars, payable to the People of the State of Illinois, with at least two good 
 and sufficient sureties freeholders in the county in which the license is to be 
 granted, to be approved by the mayor and city council, conditioned that the 
 person to whom such license is granted shall pay to all persons all damages 
 that they may sustain, either in person or property or means of support by 
 reason of the person so obtaining any such license selling or giving away 
 intoxicating liquors, as required by law. And such persons shall also execute 
 a bond to the city of Paxton, in the sum of one thousand dollars liquidated 
 damages, signed by at least two freeholders of the County, each to the value, 
 over and above their homestead exemptions, of at least the penalty of the bond 
 as sureties, to be approved by the City Council, and conditioned that the 
 person to whom such license is granted shall obey and observe all laws and 
 ordinances now in force or such as may hereafter be in force regulating and 
 governing keepers of dramshops. And any breach of its conditions shall work 
 a forfeiture of the whole penalty thereof, the amount of which shall be recovy- 
 ered before any court having jurisdiction. 
 
 SEC. 4. Application for License. Any person desiring a license under 
 the ordinances of the city to keep a dramshop for selling intoxicating, malt, 
 vinous, mixed or fermented liquors in any quantity, shall make a written ap- 
 plication to the mayor, stating the length of time for which he desires such 
 license, the place where his business is to be carried on, and the names of the 
 persons who will become his sureites on the bonds required by ordinance. And 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 4l 
 
 
 
 upon filing of such application, it shall be the duty of the mayor to receive 
 and present the same at the next meeting of the city council, and the city 
 council, may in its discretion grant the same upon the terms and conditions 
 specified by law and the ordinances of the city. If the application be granted, 
 the mayor shall endorse the grant thereof on such application together with 
 the amount taxed for such license. 
 
 SEC. 5. Clerk to Issue. Upon the filing of the application so indorsed 
 as aforesaid in the city clerk’s office, together with the bonds aforesaid, condi- 
 tioned as aforesaid with such securities and approval as aforesaid and the 
 approval thereof by the city council endorsed thereon, and upon paying to 
 the city clerk the amount required for such license, a license to retail intoxi- 
 cating, malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors at the place named in the 
 application, shall be issued to such applicant in the general form and manner 
 prescribed by the ordinance of said city for other license. 
 
 SEC. 6. Person Refused License not to be Interested in Dramshop. No 
 one who shall be refused license shall become or be directly or indirectly 
 interested as clerk,agent,servant or otherwise in the operation of any dramshop 
 within the city. And if upon the application of any person for a license to 
 keep a dramshop as aforesaid, it shall appear to the mayor and he shall be sat- 
 isfied that such application is made for the benefit of any other person who 
 is not entitled to a license under the provisions of this ordinance, he shall 
 refuse to grant the same. 
 
 SEC. 7. Selling on Sunday Forbidden. No keeper of a dramshop 
 licensed under the provisions hereof to retail intoxicating, malt, vinous, 
 mixed or fermented liquors, shall, on Sundays, keep open or suffer or permit 
 to be kept open any part of his place of business, nor shall on Sunday in any 
 manner sell or deliver any intoxicating,malt,vinous,mixed or fermented liquors 
 . or suffer or permit any such liquor to be used or drank at his place of busi- 
 iness, or in any place adjacent thereto under his control, under a penalty 
 of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 . SEC. 8. Duty of Police Officers. The city marshal and policemen shall 
 see that the provisions hereof are strictly observed and enforced and shall 
 prosecute all violations of the same, and any person may make complaint of 
 any violation, before the police magistrate and have the offender prosecuted 
 as in other cases, and it shall be the duty of the city marshal and all police- 
 men to arrest or cause to be arrested and prosecuted without delay all persons 
 who may be found intoxicated or riotous in any public place. 
 
 SEC. 9. License May be Revoked. Any keeper of a dramshop licensed 
 under the ordinances of this city, who shall permit lewd women, prostitutes, 
 vagrants, mendicants, common drunkards or minors to loiter about or remain 
 in his said dramshop or in any place connected therewith or under his control; 
 or if any such dramshop keeper, shall violate any of the provisions of the or- 
 dinances of this city for the government or regulation of dramshops, his 
 license may be revoked by the city council for any of the causes aforesaid. 
 And it shall not in any case be necessary that he shall have first been pro« 
 ecuted or convicted therefor before such revocation. Provided, that in case 
 
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 of such revocation, such keeper shall be repaid the license aioe if any, ad- 
 vanced on the unexpired term of his license. 
 
 SEC. 10. Dramshop Open at What Hours. No keeper of a dramshop 
 shall keep open or suffer to be kept open his place of business, or sell any 
 liquor therein, or therefrom, or suffer any person not belonging thereto Or» 
 connected therewith, to remain in any part thereof, before the hour of five 
 o’clock in the morning, or after the hour of ten o’clock and thirty minutes sharp 
 in the evening of each day. Any person violating this section or any part 
 thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 11. Must Keep Orderly House. No keeper of a dramshop licensed 
 under the provisions hereof to retail intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed or fer- 
 mented liquors, shall suffer any violent, tumultuous, offensive or disorderly 
 conduct or obscene, profane or unseemly language, quarreling, fighting or other 
 disturbance in or about his place of business, or in any place adjacent thereto 
 under his control, to the annoyance, disturbance or vexation of others, under 
 a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 SEC. 12. Drinking to Excess—Gaming Forbidden. No keeper of a 
 dramshop, licensed under the provisions hereof to retail intoxicating, malt, 
 vinous, mixed or fermented liquors as aforesaid, shall, by himself, his clerk 
 or servant, suffer or permit any person to drink to excess on his premises, 
 nor shall suffer or permit any species of gaming in any part thereof, or in any 
 place adjacent thereto under his control, under a penalty of not less than ten 
 dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 13. License Suspended upon Conviction. Whenever: any person 
 licensed to keep a dramshop, as aforesaid, shall be convicted of violating any 
 ordinance of the city concerning, regulating or governing. keepers of dram 
 shops or retailers of liquors, the license of such keeper shall stand suspended 
 from the date of such conviction during and until all fines and penalties 
 thereby imposed and costs thereto pertaining shall be fully paid and satisfied 
 or until an appeal therefrom is regularly taken and perfected. And when- 
 ever any person licensed under the ordinances of this city to retail intoxicat- 
 ing, malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors as aforesaid shall have been 
 convicted a second time before any court of competent jurisdiction of violat- 
 ing any of the provisions of the ordinances of this city concerning, regulating 
 or governing the keeping of such dram shops, the license of any such person 
 so convicted shall stand suspended until such judgment of conviction shall have 
 been duly reversed or set aside and upon final confirmation of such judgment, 
 in addition to the penalties thereby imposed, the holder of any license granted 
 under this ordinance, when so convicted, shall forfeit such license and all fees 
 advanced therefor to the city and shall thereafter be wholly disqualified for 
 holding any further license under this ordinance and the city council shall 
 not thereafter grant to any such person any further license for such purpose. 
 
 SEC. 14. Employment of Minors—Selling to Intoxicated Person. No 
 keeper of a dramshop licensed under the provisions hereof, to sell intoxicating, 
 malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors, shall employ any minor as a servant 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 43 
 
 or clerk in his business, nor shall sell, give or deliver any intoxicating, malt, 
 vinous, mixed or fermented liquors to any minor or intoxicated person, nor 
 shall harbor or entice, or suffer any intoxicated person or minor to remain 
 or loiter in or about his place of business, under a penalty of not less than ten 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. . 
 
 SEC. 15. Minor Forbidden in Saloon. Any minor who shall loiter or 
 idle in any saloon or place where any intoxicatig liquors are sold, or shall play 
 at any game or drink any intoxicating liquor therein, shall for either offense be 
 fined not less than three dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 SEC. 16. Selling to Habitual Drunkard Forbidden. No keeper of a dram- 
 shop licensed under the provisions hereof, shall sell give or deliver any in- 
 toxicating, malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors to any habitual drunkard 
 or any habitually intoxicated person, after having been notified by the parents 
 or other relative or person interested, that he is an habitual drunkard or hab- 
 itually intoxicated person, and requesting such retailer or other person, not to 
 sell give or deliver him any such liquors under a penalty of not less than twenty 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 17. License not Transferable. No license granted under the or- 
 dinances of this city for the sale of intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed or fer- 
 mented liquors shall be assignable or transferable, nor shall any person be 
 authorized to do business or to act under such license but the person to whom 
 it is granted, or at any other place than the place specified therein without 
 the consent of the Mayor with the approval of the city council. Whoever shall 
 violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed as acting without a 
 license and be subject to the same penalties as is prescribed for acting without 
 a license. 
 
 SEC. 18. Shifts or Devices Forbidden. The giving away of intoxicating, 
 malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors or any other device or shift 
 to evade the provisions or requirements of this chapter of this ordinance are 
 hereby declared to be within the meaning and intent and shall be deemed 
 violations hereof. 
 
 SEC. 19. Windows Kept so Interior of Dram Shop May be Seen. Every 
 keeper of a dram shop shall, during the times when by law or the ordinances 
 of the city his place of business is required to be kept closed, so arrange his 
 ‘windows and screens as to, enable persons on the street to have sufficient 
 view of the interior of such dram shop, to enable them to determine whether 
 such place is being kept closed according to law. Any keeper of such dram 
 shop failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be fined not less 
 
 ‘than three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 20. No Person Shall Give or Sell to Minor or Drunkard. It shall 
 be unlawful for any person within the city of Paxton, to sell, deliver or give 
 away to or in any manner, either as agent or otherwise procure for any 
 minor under the age of twenty-one years or any habitual drunkard or any 
 habitually intoxicated person or any person when intoxicated any intoxicating, 
 malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors, under a penalty of not less than ten 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 MISDEMEANORS. | 
 
 Section. | Me ere 
 Assault and Battery. ee 
 Disturbing the Peace. oy Sd 
 
 Challenge to fight—Profane Language. ee 
 Unlawful assemblies. Let ae aes 
 Owners of property not to permit. ! 
 Disturbing religious or public meetings. we ope 
 Funeral procession. Pear a el hy 
 Throwing stones, ete., in public places. 
 
 Climbing on vehicles, etc. 
 
 Carrying or flourishing dangerous weapons. ie 
 11. Drunkenness. Me eat 
 12. Language and conduct. 
 13. Mashing. . 
 14. Indecent exposure. . a4 lisa (holy Mane 
 15. Obscene Publications. . Et 
 
 16. Lewd plays and performances. | 
 
 17. Cock fighting, etc. 
 
 18. Gaming House. Meee 
 19. Inmates of gaming house. 
 
 20. Gaming in public streets. 
 
 21. Lottery prohibited. 
 
 22. House of illfame. 
 
 23. Owner of premises not to permit use for bawdy house. 
 24. Inmates of bawdy house. 
 
 25. Enticing females to enter. 
 
 26. Cruelty to animals. 
 
 27. Obstructing officers. 
 
 28. Expectorating. 
 
 29. Penalty. vi todd 
 30. Malicious destruction of property. el 2.) 
 31. _Defacing or injuring trees, fences, etc. 
 32. Disturbing peace on Sundays. 
 
 33. Disturbing religious worship. 
 
 34. Vagrants, prostitutes. 
 
 35. Loafing or loitering. 
 
 36. Pilfering. 
 
 37. Bringing paupers into City. 
 
 38. Jumping on trains. 
 
 SO 9 TID ore Go OP 
 
 SEC. 1. Assault—Assault and Battery. Whoever shall commit an as- 
 sault or an assault and battery, upon the person of another, or shall be guilty 
 of an affray, within the limits of the City of Paxton, shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not less than three dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 2. Disturbing the Peace. Whoever shall disturb the peace of the 
 City or the quiet of any private family or person therein, by loud or unusual 
 noises, or by violent and tumultuous carriage, or by shouting, cursing, quarrel- 
 ing, challenging to fight or fighting, or any other disorderly conduct, shall, 
 upon conviction, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hund- 
 red Dollars. 
 
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 SEC. 3. Challenge to Fight—Profane Language. If any person shall, 
 within said City, challenge another or others to fight, or shall threaten or tra- 
 duce another, or shall use any profane, obscene or offensive language, or in- 
 dulge in any conduct towards another or others tending to provoke a disturb- 
 ance or breach of the peace, the person so offending shall, upon conviction, 
 be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 SEC. 4. Assemblies for Unlawful Purposes. Any two or more persons 
 who shall, within the City, assemble together for any unlawful purpose, or who, 
 being assembled, shall act in concert to do an unlawful act against the prop- 
 erty of the City, or to the person or property of another, or against the peace 
 or to the terror of citizens or other persons, or who shall make any movement 
 or preparation therefor shall, upon conviction, be severally subject to a fine of 
 not less than three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 5. Owners of Premises Shall Not Permit Unlawful As- 
 semblies. Whoever shall Knowingly or wilfully suffer or permit any assem- 
 blies for the purpose of committing any unlawful act or breach of the peace, or 
 any riotous, offensive or disorderly conduct in or upon any premises owned or 
 occupied by him or under his control within said City shall, on conviction, be 
 fined not less than Five Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 6. Disturbing Religious Worship—Public Meetings. Whoever 
 shall, in said City, interrupt or disturb any congregation or assembly met for 
 the purpose of religious worship, or for any lawful purpose, by making any 
 loud or unusual noise, or by rude and indecent behavior, or by obscene dis- 
 course or conduct shall, on conviction, be fined not less than three Dollars 
 nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 7. Funeral Procession. Whoever shall wilfully interrupt or dis- 
 turb any funeral procession, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than Three 
 Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8. Throwing Stones, Etc., In Public Places. No person shall pur- 
 posely, carelessly, recklessly or heedlessly cast or throw any stone, brick, clod 
 or other missile from or into any public place, or at any house or person, within 
 the City, under a penalty, in each case, of not less than One Dollar nor more 
 than One Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. Climbing on Vehicles While in Motion. Whoever shall climb 
 upon or into any wagon, carriage, buggy, cart, sleigh, sled or other vehicle 
 while the same may be in motion or attach another sled or other vehicle to 
 any such vehicle, without the consent of the owner or driver thereof, shall,upon 
 conviction, be fined not less than One Dollar nor more than Twenty-five Dol- 
 
 laren: 
 SEC. 10. Carrying or Flourishirg Concealed Dangerous Weapons. Who- 
 
 ever shall, within said City, wear or carry concealed about his person any 
 pistol, revolver, slung-shot, metallic knuckles bowie knives, dirk, razor, black- 
 jack, or other dangerous or deadly weapons; or whoever shall display or flour- 
 ish any such weapon in a boisterous or threatening manner, shall, upon 
 conviction, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred 
 Dollars for each offense, provided, that the provisions of this section shall not 
 
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 be held to apply to any policeman, constable or other peace officer, while in 
 the discharge of his duty, nor to any person summoned by any such officer to 
 aid him in making an arrest or in preserving the peace. 
 
 SEC. 11. Drunkenness. Whoever shall be in a state of intoxication or 
 drunkenness in any public place, or place open to public view within the City 
 of Paxton, or in any private house or place, to the annoyance of any person, 
 shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two 
 Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 12. Language and Conduct. Whoever shall use any profane or 
 obscene language in any public place in said City, loud enough to be heard 
 by any persons passing thereby or when any boy, girl or woman may be 
 sufficiently near to hear the same; or shall be guilty of any disorderly conduct 
 or behavior, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor 
 more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC 13. Whoever shall accost or force his attentions upon any 
 lady against her will, or shall conduct himself in the manner commonly 
 known as “mashing” upon any street or in any public place in the City of Pax- 
 ton, shall upon conviction be fined not less than Three dollars or more than 
 Fifty Dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 14. Indecent Exposure of Person—Dress, Etc. Whoever shall, in 
 said City, make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or shall appear 
 in any public place, or place exposed to public view, in clothing not belonging 
 to his or her sex, or in an indecent or lude dress or in a state of nudity, or 
 shall be guilty of any other indecent or lude act shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 15. Obscene Publications—Drawing Pictures, Etc. Whoever shall 
 bring or cause to be brought into said city for the purpose of sale or exmfiibi- 
 tion or shall keep, sell, offer or expose for sale, or shall give away or offer to 
 give away or have in his possession with or without intent to sell or give away, 
 any obscene and indecent book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, lithograph, engrav- | 
 ing, daguerreotype, photograph, model, cast, instrument or article of indecent 
 or immoral use or shall advertise the same for sale or write or cause to be 
 written, or print or cause to be printed, any circular, hand bill, card, book, 
 pamphlet, advertisement or notice of any kind, or shall give information. orally, 
 stating when, how, or of whom, or by what means the said indecent or ob- 
 scene articles or things hereinbefore mentioned can be purchased or other- 
 wise obtained, or shal] manufacture, draw and expose, or draw with intent t@ 
 sell, or to have sold, or print any such articles, shall, upon conviction be fined 
 not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars, 
 
 SEC.16. Lewd Plays and Performances. Whoever shall exhibit or per- 
 form, or assist in exhibiting or performing in said city any obscene, inde- 
 cent or lewd play or other such representation, or shall knowingly permit 
 the same to be exhibited or performed in any building owned or controlled 
 by him, shall, upon conviction, in each case, be fined not less than three 
 Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 17. Cock Fighting, Dogs or other Creatures. Whoever shall keep 
 or use, or in any way be connected with or interested in the management 
 
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 of or shall receive money for the admission of any person to any place kept 
 or used for the purpose of fighting or baiting any cock, dog, bull or other 
 creature, and every person who shall engage, encourage, aid or assist therein, 
 or who shall permit or suffer any place to be so used, and every person 
 who shall visit such place so used or shall be found therein shall be fined not 
 less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 18. Gambling House. Whoever shall, within the City of Paxton, 
 set up, keep, maintain or support any gambling house or room, or place used 
 for the practice of gaming or playing for money, property or other thing 
 of value or shall knowingly permit any building or premises owned or con- 
 trolled by him to be used for such purpose, shall, upon conviction, be fined 
 not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 19. Inmates of gaming house. Whoever shall, within the City of 
 Paxton, be an inmate of any gaming house or room within said City, or shall 
 be in any way connected therewith or shall frequent or visit the same, or 
 be found therein; or whoever shall, within the City, play for any money or 
 other valuable thing at any game with cards, dice, billiards, pool, wheel of 
 fortune, or any other instrument or device whatsoever; or whoever shall be 
 upon any such game when played by others, shall, on conviction, be fined not 
 less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 20. Gaming in Public Streets. Whoever shall, within the limits 
 of the City of Paxton, set up or expose in any of the streets, avenues or any 
 other public places, any table, wheel of fortune or device of any kind what- 
 soever, upon or by which any game of chance or hazzard can be played or shall 
 play at or upon any such table or device shall, upon conviction, be fined not 
 less than three dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 21. Lottery Prohibited. Whoever shall, within said City, set un, 
 run or maintain any lottery, or shall sell or dispose of for gain any ticket, 
 chance or share in any lottery, or shall sell or attempt to dispose of any article 
 of property dependant upon any chance, by dice, lot, numbers, or other 
 device, or shall promote or be in any way connected with any such lottery or 
 such game of chance; or whoever shall knowingly permit any such lottery, 
 business or enterprise, to be carried on in any building or premises owned 
 or controlled by him, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than three nor more 
 
 than Two Hundred Dollars. . 
 
 SEC. 22. Houses of Ill Fame or Assignation. Whoever shall within 
 the City of Paxton, or within three miles of the outer boundaries of said 
 City, keep or maintain, directly or indirectly, any bawdy or disorderly house, 
 house of ill fame or of assignation, or place for the practice of adultery, 
 
 - shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Two 
 
 Hundred Dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 23. Owner of Premises not to Permit use for Bawdy House. 
 Whoever shall, within said City, or within three miles of the outer bounda- 
 ries of said City, knowingly lease, let or permit any building or premises, 
 owned by him or under his control, to be used in whole or in part as a bawdy 
 house, or house of assignation, or place for the practice of adultery, shall, 
 
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 upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than Two 
 Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 24. Inmates of a Bawdy House. Whoever shall, within said 
 City of Paxton, or within three miles of the outer boundaries thereof, be an 
 inmate or an occupant of, or shall frequent or be found in any Bawdy House 
 or House of Assignation, or place used for the practice of adultery, shall, 
 on conviction, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hun- 
 dred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 25. Enticing Females to Enter. Whoever shall, within said City 
 entice, influence or persuade any female to enter or frequnt any Bawdy 
 House, House of Ill Fame or of assignation or place used for the practice 
 of adultery shall, upon conviction be fined not less than Twenty-Five Dol- 
 lars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 26. Cruelty to Animals. Whoever shall, within said City, inhu- 
 manly, unnecessarily, or cruelly beat, injure or otherwise abuse any dumb 
 animal or overload any horse or other animal or animals, or cruelly work 
 old and infirm animals or fail to provide any animal in his charge with 
 proper food, drink and shelter or in any manner or wise whatsoever shall 
 cause any animal needless and useless suffering, shall, upon conviction be 
 fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 27. Obstructing Officers. Whoever within said City, shall, wil- 
 
 fully resist, any officer, or person legally authorized in the discharge of his. 
 
 duty or shall aid, abet or encourage any such resistance, hindering or ob- 
 structing; and whoever shall in any manner aid in the escape from any jail 
 or calaboose of any person committed thereto; or whoever shall supply or 
 attempt to supply any person so committed with any weapon or with any 
 intoxicating liquor; or whoever shall hold any communication or conversa- 
 tion with any person confined in the Calaboose except by the consent of and 
 in the presence of the City Marshal shall, upon conviction be fined not less 
 than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars: Provided any regu- 
 lar practicing attorney at law of this State may see and consult with such 
 prisoner if he is the Attorney for such prisoner. 
 
 SEC. 28. Prohibiting Expectorating or spitting upon public walks and in 
 public buildings, etc. No person within the corporate limits of said city of Pax- 
 ton, shall spit or expectorate upon the floor of nor upon or against the 
 floor of any Public Building or any approach or entrance thereto; nor upon 
 against or in any car, cab, carriage or other vehicle, when in use for the 
 carrying of passengers; nor upon or against any Public Walk or Public or 
 private way for foot passengers, nor upon or against the floor of any other 
 part of any church, school house, passenger depot, Public Hall, Court House 
 or Court Room, nor upon or against the floor or other part of any store, shop, 
 office, dwelling tenement, or other private room or dwelling, or building 
 against the consent of the owner, agent or occupant thereof, nor on or about 
 the doorway, stairway or approach to any Public or private place. 
 
 SEC. 29. Any person found guilty of violating any of the terms: and 
 provisions of this chapter where no other penalty is provided, shall be fined 
 not less than One Dollar and not more than two Hundred Dollars for the first 
 
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 offense, and not less than Three Dollars or more than Two Hundred Dollars 
 for each succeeding offense. 
 
 SEC. 30. Malicious or Negligent Destruction of Property. Whoever 
 shall willfully, maliciously or negligently break, deface, injure or destroy 
 any property of the State, County or City, or any private property, shall, on 
 conviction, be fined not less than Five Dollars nor more than Two Hundred 
 Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 31. Defacing or Injuring Trees, Fences, Gates, Etc. Whoever shall, 
 within said City, cut, injure, remove or destroy any fruit, ornamental or shade 
 tree, or the boxing around the same, or any fence, railing gate, post or sign, 
 upon any Public Ground, sidewalk or private premises against the consent 
 of the owner or occupant thereof, or who shall trespass upon any premises 
 or Public Grounds, or injure, take away or destroy any tree, shrub, fruit, 
 plant, vegetable, or other thing which may be therein for ornament or util- 
 ity, shall on conviction be fined not less than One Dollar nor more than 
 Two Hundred Dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 SEC. 32. Disturbing Peace. Whoever shall, within said City, disturb 
 the peace and good order of society by labor, (works-of necessity and charity 
 excepted), or by amusement or diversion on Sunday shall, upon conviction, 
 be fined not less than One Dollar nor more than two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 33. Disturbing Religous Worship. Whoever shall, on Sunday, 
 purposely or heedlessly interrupt any congregation met for religious purpose 
 or any lawful assembly, within said City, shall, for each offense, on convic- 
 tion, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than Two Hundred 
 Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 34. Vagrant Defined—Prostitute, Etc. Any person able to work 
 and maintain himself or herself in some lawful calling, not having visible 
 means of support, who shall live idly without employment, and without any 
 fixed place of abode, or shall stroll about the streets begging from house to 
 ‘house, or frequent drinking saloons or shall otherwise lead an idle or pro- 
 fligate life; or any person upon whom shall be found any instrument or device 
 for picking locks, pockets, or for the commission of burglary, or other device 
 used by cheats and swindlers, without being able to give a good account of 
 his or her possession of the same, or any person who shall trespass upon pri- 
 vate premises in the night time, or habitually sleep in out houses, stables, 
 lumber yards, R. R. depots:or cars; or any prostitute, bawd or lude woman, 
 or inmate of a bawdy house or house of ill fame, who shall be wandering 
 about the streets, plying her vocation; and all habitual night walkers, or 
 persons loitering or strolling about the streets of the City at late and unusual 
 hours of the night, without being able to give a good and satisfactory ac- 
 - count for so doing; and all lude, wanton and licentious persons in speech 
 or behavior; common railers and brawlers, shall be deemed vagrants within 
 the meaning of this section, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than 
 One Dollar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 35. Loafing or Loitering. Whoever shall, in said City, be found 
 loafing or loitering at the corners of streets, or in the vicinity of any place 
 of amusement, hotel, hallway, stairway, or other business place or private 
 
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 premises; or in and about the depot or depot platform unless such person 
 shall have lawful business at such depot or depot platform, and shall refuse 
 to disperse or vacate such place when requested to do so by any person in 
 possession of any portion of the premises, who is annoyed or aggrieved there- 
 by or by any police officer, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than One 
 Dollar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 36. Pilfering. Whoever shall, within the City of Paxton, unlaw- 
 fully take and carry away any personal property or thing of value belonging 
 to another, from any store, shop, house, vehicle, or any place where such 
 thing may lawfully be with intent to deprive the owner thereof of his prop- 
 erty therein, shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 37. Bringing Paupers in City. Whoever shall, knowingly send, 
 bring or leave any pauper in the City of Paxton, such pauper not belonging 
 thereto, or shall aid the same, or shall supply with means or assist any such 
 pauper, or person likely to become a pauper to come into or remain in the 
 City, in order that he or she may become a charge upon the corporation, shall, 
 upon conviction, be fined not less than Three Dollars nor more than One 
 Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 38. Jumping on Trains. No person, either minor or adult shall, 
 within said City of Paxton climb, jump, stand upon, step, cling to, or in any 
 way attach himself to any locomotive, engine or car, either standing or in 
 motion upon any part of the track or side track or Y, of any R. R., unless 
 in so doing he shall be acting in compliance of law, or by permission, under 
 the lawful rules and regulations of the Corporation then owning and man- 
 aging such Railroad. . 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 NUISANCES. AS tea 
 Section. ie eae em 
 When premises nuisance—notice. 
 Manure heaps—offensive matter in streets. 
 Storing gun powder, kerosene, etc. 
 Offensive cellar, vault, drain, etc. 
 Dead animals. 
 Slaugtering prohibited. 
 Unsafe or insecure buildings. 
 
 Keeping jackass within fire limits. 
 Breeding mare, etc. 
 Penalty. 
 
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 SEC, 1. When Premises-a Nuisance—Notice. Any building or prem- 
 ises, or part thereof, within the City of Paxton, which may be nauseous or 
 offensive to any person or family, or to persons passing along any street or 
 alley near there, or which may be in such condition as to be detrimental or 
 
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 injurious to the Public health or comfort, shall be deemed a nuisance; and 
 any owner, occupant or agent of such premises who shall neglect or refuse 
 to abate such nuisance, after notice to do so by the Health officers or any 
 member of the Police force, shall be subject to a fine not less than one Dol- 
 lar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars, and to a further fine of One Dollar 
 for each day after the first conviction that he shall fail to abate such nui- 
 sance, 
 
 SEC. 2. Manure Heaps—Offensive Matter in the Streets, Etc. Who- 
 ever shall suffer to accumulate on any premises owned or controlled by him 
 any heap or stack of manure so as to emit noxious, disagreeable or offensive 
 smells to the annoyance of any person; or whoever shall place any such ma- 
 nure or the contents of any privy vault or other offensive matter, in or upon 
 any street, alley, Public grounds or unenclosed grounds shall be deemed guilty 
 of a nuisance, unless such person shall remove the same within forty-eight 
 hours after being notified by the City Marshal or police officer so to do. 
 
 SEC. 3. Storing gun powder, kerosene, etc. The keeping or storing 
 of gunpowder to exceed five pounds at any one time or place except in tin 
 cans or cases, or of more than fifty pounds in any manner; and the storing 
 of more than 50 gallons of kerosene or gasoline except in a building entirely 
 disconnected from any other building, or in any manner of more than four 
 barrels at any one time or place, in said City, within 100 feet of any residence 
 or business building is hereby deelared to be a nuisance. 
 
 SEC. 4. Offensive Cellar, Vault, Drain, Etc. Whoever shall suffer or 
 permit any cellar, vault, drain, pool, privy, grounds or premises controlled 
 by them to become from any cause nauseous, foul or offensive or injurious 
 to the Public Health shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance. 
 
 SEC. 5. Dead Animals. Whoever shall suffer the carcass of any dead 
 animal, which at its death was controlled by him, to remain unburied in said 
 City for more than twenty-four hours after death shall be guilty of a nui- 
 sance. And no animal of the species of horse, cow, sheep, dog or swine shall 
 be buried in said City, except by permission of some member of the health 
 committee. 
 
 SEC. 6. Slaughtering Prohibited—Permits. The slaughtering of any 
 animal of the cattle, sheep or swine species, or the rendering of any tallow 
 or lard within said City is hereby declared a nuisance. Provided, This section 
 shall not apply to the slaughtering of any animal or the rendering of any 
 tallow or lard for private use or consumption; Provided further, That per- 
 mits for the slaughtering of such animals may be issued by the Mayor or 
 Health committee. 
 
 SEC. 7. Unsafe or Insecure Buildings. Whoeves shall erect or main- 
 tain any unsafe or insecure building or structure, within the said City, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and any owner or person controlling such 
 Building or structure, allowing the same to remain in suca condition, after 
 being notified that the same is unsafe or insecure, by the City Marshall, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a separate offense under this section each day that he 
 shall allow the same to so remain. 
 
 SEC. 8. Barb Wire. Whoever shall erect or maintain any barb wire fence 
 
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 within three feet of any public side walk in said city shall be deemed guilty 
 of a nuisance; and for each day the owner or person controiling the property 
 on which the said barb wire fence is located, after being notified by the City 
 Marshal to remove the same, shall allow the same to remain in violation of 
 this ordinance, such owner or person controlling the same, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a separate offense under this section. 
 
 SEC. 9. Keeping Jackass within fire limits. Whoever shall keep,main- 
 tain or stand any Jackass within the fire limits of said City shall be deemed 
 guilty of a nuisance. , 
 
 ‘SEC. 10. Breeding Mares, Etc. The covering or breeding of any mare 
 by any stallion or jackass within fifty feet of any public street in said city is 
 hereby declared a nuisance. 
 
 SEC. 11. Any person violating any of the provisions of Section One to 
 Ten inclusive of the foregoing ordinance on nuisances above enumerated shall 
 be fined not less than three Dollars nor more than Two Hudred Dollars, And 
 any person who shall fail to remove or abate any such nuisance after being 
 notified by the City Marshal so to do, within twenty-four hours after being 
 so notified, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than three dollars nor more 
 than twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 POOL AND BILLIARD HALLS AND TEN PIN ALLEYS. 
 Section. ’ 
 
 1. No person shall keep without license. 
 
 Rooms to be closed Sundays. 
 
 No person under age of eighteen to play. 
 
 Shall keep orderly house. 
 
 Shall forfeit license for second violation. 
 
 Keep rooms open for inspection. 
 
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 SEC. 1. No Person Shall Keep Without License. No person shall 
 keep within the City of Paxton any pool and billiard, bagatelle or pigeon hole 
 table or any ball or ten pin alley to be used or played upon by others for hire 
 or gain, without first having obtained a license therefor, under a penalty of 
 not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars for each and 
 every offense. The fees to be paid for such license are to be those fixed by 
 the license ordinance of the City of Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 2. Rooms to be Closed Sundays. All billiard and pool rooms and 2 
 
 ten pin alleys within said City shall be closed on Sundays and on week days 
 they shall be closed by ten o’clock and thirty minutes in the evening of each 
 day and shall be kept closed until five o’clock in the morning of the following 
 day.. 
 
 Any person violating any one or more of the provisions of this section 
 shall for each offense be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than two 
 hundred dollars. 
 
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 SEC. 3, No Person Under Age of Eighteen to Play. No keeper of any 
 pool or billiard room or ten pin alley within the City of Paxton shall permit 
 any person under the age of eighteen years to play at any game upon any 
 table or alley kept by him, nor shall he permit any such person to frequent 
 his place of business or loiter or remain therein unless upon the written con- 
 sent of the parent or guardian of such person, nor suffer or permit any rio- 
 tious or disorderly conduct on his premises. For any violation of any of the 
 provisions of this section, the person so violating the same shall be fined not 
 less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every 
 offense. 
 
 Provided, that if the parent or guardian of any minor shall give to the 
 keeper of any pool room, billiard room or ten pin alley written notice not to 
 allow such minor to play at billiard, pool, bagatelle, pigeon hole or ten pins 
 in such room or alley in his place of business, then it shall be unlawful for any 
 such keeper to allow any such minor to play at any such game in his place of 
 business, and for every violation of this provision such keeper shall be fined 
 not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 4. Shall Keep Orderly House. Any and all persons keeping a 
 pool room, billiard room or ten pin alley within said city, shall keep an orderly 
 and well governed house or place of business, and such keeper shall not permit 
 any fighting, quarreling, loud, profane or vulgar talking or other disturbance 
 of the peace in or about his place of business, nor allow any intoxicated per- 
 son to remain in or about such place of business, nor allow the exhibiting, 
 drinking, selling, giving away, treating with or the taking of orders for any 
 spiritous, malt vinous or intoxicating liquors, nor shall the proprietor or pro- 
 prietors, or any employee in such place of business be in a state of intoxica- 
 tion or engage in the exhibition, drinking, giving away, selling, treating with 
 or the taking of orders for any spiritous, malt, vinous, or intoxicating liquors, 
 nor shall such liquors be kept, stored or allowed to remain in or upon the 
 premises controlled by any keeper of such pool room, billiard room or ten pin 
 alley, nor shall the proprietor or proprietors or any employee or visitor in 
 any such place of business, play at cards or with dice, or with any other device 
 commonly used in games of chance for money or other valuable consideration, 
 and any person found guilty of violating any one or more of the provisions of 
 this section shall be fined not less than five dollars and not more than two 
 hundred dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 SEC. 5. Shall forfeit License for Second Violation. Any person who 
 shall keep a pool room, billiard room, ten pin alley, bagatelle or pigeon hole 
 table in said city under the provisions of this ordinance and who shall have 
 obtained a license under this ordinance, who shall have been convicted for a 
 second time of the violation of any of the provisions of any of the sections of 
 this chapter shall upon such conviction, in addition to the penalty imposed 
 for the first violation, forfeit his license and all fees paid therefor to the | 
 city: 
 
 SEC. 6. Keep Rooms Open for Inspection. It shall be the duty and 
 shall be obligatory upon the keeper of any pool room, billiard room, bagatelle 
 or pigeon hole table or ten pin alley in said city, to allow any police officer or 
 any other city officer, absolute freedom at any time, to enter his place of busi- 
 
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 ness for the purpose of inspecting the conditions existing therein, and any 
 person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less 
 than five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 POUCA 
 Section. 
 
 1. Every able bodied citizen work streets. 
 2. Superintendent of streets to give notice. 
 3. Penalty for failure to work. 
 
 SEC. 1. That every able bodied male inhabitant of said city (except 
 those exempt by law from poll tax), above the age of twenty-one years and 
 under the age of fifty, shall be required to labor on the streets and alieys of 
 said city, under the direction of the Superintendent of Streets, two days in 
 each and every year; PROVIDED, That such labor may be commuted at 
 seventy-five cents per day; in which case the commutation money shall be paid 
 to the Superintendent of Streets, who shall give a receipt for the same. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the Superintendent of Streets, shall, between the first 
 day of June and the first day of September, of each year, serve written notice 
 upon each person so liable for street labor; which notice shall specify where 
 he shall report for labor, what implement he shall bring, and the time when 
 he shall so report; which time shall not be less than three nor more than ten 
 days from the time of the service of such notice. 
 
 SEC. 3. Any person who shall fail to pay such commutation money 
 within the time specified in said notice, or shall fail to report for work ac- 
 cording to the terms of such notice, or shall fail to diligently work under the 
 orders of the Superintendent of Streets the time required, shal] be liable to 
 a fine of three dollars for each day’s failure. PROVIDED, The person may 
 appear by substitute, who shall be an able-bodied man, acceptable to the Sup- 
 erintendent of Streets. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 PUNISHMENT. 
 Section. 
 
 1. Court may commit to calaboose. 
 2. Person committed may be compelled to work. 
 3. Person escaping may be rearrested. 
 
 SEC. 1. That any court, trying any person for violating any ordinance 
 of said city and imposing a fine or penalty on said person for violating the same 
 shall enter, as a part of his judgment in the cause, that said defendant shall 
 
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 stand committed to the calaboose of said city, until such fine or penalty and 
 all costs shall be fully paid, or otherwise lawfully discharged. And if any 
 person shall fail to pay said fine or penalty entered against him, together 
 with all costs, the court imposing such fine or penalty shall issue an order or 
 mittimus committing such person to the calaboose until such fine or penalty, 
 together with all costs, shall be fully paid, or otherwise lawfully discharged. 
 PROVIDED, That no imprisonment shall be for a longer term than six months 
 for any one offense. 
 
 SEC. 2. That every person, so committed under section one of this 
 ordinance may be compelled, under the direction of the Superintendent of 
 Streets, or other officer of said city, to work at such work as his or her 
 strength will permit, not exceeding ten hours in any one day. And for each 
 ten hours the person shall diligently and faithfully work, they shall be allowed 
 a credit of fifty cents on such fine or penalty and costs. 
 
 Such persons shall be returned to the calaboose at noon and at night, 
 by the officer having them in charge. The officer having them in charge shall 
 upon demand give such person a statement, showing the time he has worked; 
 and upon the same being presented to the court imposing such fine or penalty, 
 the court shall enter a credit on said fine or penalty and costs of fifty cents for 
 each ten hours so worked. Every person committed to the calaboose who 
 shall fail to work as aforesaid shall receive a credit upon such fine or penalty 
 and costs, of twenty-five cents for every twenty-four hours he shall remain in 
 said calaboose. 
 
 SEC. 3. If any person while at labor or out of the calaboose for that 
 purpose, shall escape before his fine or penalty and all costs, are fully paid 
 or worked out, or without having remained in the calaboose the length of the 
 time required by this ordinance, he or she may be arrested and caused to work 
 or serve out the remainder of the fine or penalty imposed and all costs. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 Section. 
 i. Speed of cars. 
 Cars obstructing street. 
 Locomotive whistles. 
 Railroad crossings and bridges. 
 City may build crossings and recover cost. 
 Flagman, gates, etc. 
 Lights on the cars at night. 
 Penalty. 
 
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 SEC. 1. Speed of Cars. No railway company, railrvad engineer, rail- 
 road conductor or other person shall run any locomotive, freight or passenger 
 car, or any trains of cars upon or along any railroad track, side track or 
 switch within the corporate limits of the City of Paxton at a greater rate of 
 speed than ten miles an hour. . 
 
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 SEC, 2. Cars Obstructing Street. No railroad company, railroad en- 
 gineer, train conductor or other person shall cause or allow any locomotive, 
 car or cars, or train of cars, to stop in or remain upon any street or railroad 
 crossing within said city in such manner as to obstruct or hinder the free 
 and safe passage over such crossings for teams and foot passengers for a 
 longer period than ten minutes. 
 
 SEC. 3. Locomotive Whistles. No railroad company, locomotive en- 
 gineer or fireman shall cause or allow the whistle of any locomotive engine 
 to be sounded within the coroporate limits of said city, except necessary 
 crossing and brake signals, and such as may be absolutely necessary to pre- 
 vent injury to persons or other casualty or accident. 
 
 SEC. 4. Railroad Crossings and Bridges. All railroad companies whose 
 tracks and right of way now or may hereafter enter or pass through the 
 corporate limits of said City, shall respectively construct, repair and maintain 
 good, safe and sufficient culverts, crossings and bridges, with good and easy 
 approaches thereto to the full width of their respective right of ways on all 
 public alleys, streets, sidewalks and highways where their respective tracks 
 or right of way pass along, across or over any alley, street or highway 
 within said city. 
 
 SEC. 5. City May Build Crossing and Recover Cost. In the case of 
 the failure or refusal of any railroad company to construct or ‘repair any 
 crossing, culvert or bridge within fifteen days after being duly notified so to 
 do, the city council may order such crossing, culvert or bridge to be constructed 
 or repaired, as may be needed, at the expense of the city, and such company 
 shall be liable to the city, in an action of debt, for the cost thereof. 
 
 SEC. 6. Flagman, Gates, Etc. Any railroad company, corporation or 
 person operating any line of railway, whose track or tracks cross any of the 
 following named streets in said city of Paxton, viz: Market, Holmes, State, 
 Pells, or Center streets, shall station, keep and maintain at its own expense, 
 at each of the intersections of its track or tracks with any of the above 
 named streets, a reliable and competent flagman, or any such railroad com- 
 pany or person so operating, may in lieu of such flagman erect, maintain and 
 operate at its own expense at each of the intersections of its track or tracks 
 with the above named streets, on either side of its track or tracks, gates of 
 the style and kind usually erected by railroads at street crossings in cities 
 and cause the same to be lowered upon the approach of any car, train or loco- 
 motive and raised again upon the passing of such car, train or locomotive. 
 Such railroad company or person so operating shall also cause to be erected 
 at each of the intersections of its track or tracks with any of the above named 
 streets, an electric bell which it shall cause to be rung upon the approach of 
 any car, train or locomotive to within six hundred feet from such intersection 
 and to cease again upon the passing of any such car, train or locomotive. The 
 said flagman shall be on duty or the said gates shall be operated from seven 
 o’clock A. M. to ten o’clock P. M. of each day. 
 
 And it is further ordained that the City Council may require any rail- 
 road company or person so operating within said city to provide flagman or 
 gates and bells as above described at any of the intersections of its track 
 
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 or tracks with any other of the streets of said city, by adopting a resolution 
 to that effect, stating the time when the said flagman, gates and bells shall 
 be provided. The Mayor of said City shall within ten days from the passage 
 of such resolution, cause to be served upon such railroad company or person 
 named therein, a certified copy thereof, leaving the same with any agent, 
 officer or employee of said company.’ 
 
 Any railroad company or person so operating who shall violate any of 
 the provisions of this section, or who shall fail or refuse to comply with any 
 such resolution within the time specified therein shall be fined not less than 
 twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars and shall be subject 
 to a like penalty for each and every ten days after the expiration of the time 
 so fixed for the compliance therewith. 
 
 SEC. 7. Lights on Cars at Night. Every locomotive engine, railroad 
 car or train of cars running in the night-time on any railroad track in said 
 city shali have and keep, while so running, a conspicuous light on the forward 
 end of such locomotive, car or train of cars, If such engine, car or train of 
 cars be backing, it shall have a conspicuous light in the rear car or engine, 
 so as to show the direction said engine or car is moving. 
 
 SEC. 8. Penalty. Any railroad company or person, who shall of them- 
 selves or by their agents or employees, violate or fail to observe any of the 
 foregoing provisions of this chapter, or any agent, engineer, conductor or other 
 employee of any such railroad company, who shall violate or fail to observe 
 the same, shall for each violation or failure to observe the same, where no 
 other penalty is provided, be fined in a sum not less than three dollars nor more 
 than two hundred dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 RIDING BICYCLES ON SIDEWALKS. 
 Section. 
 
 1. Sidewalks along paved streets. 
 
 2. Unlawful to ride on sidewalk without license. 
 3. City clerk to issue. 
 
 4. -Conditions of license. 
 
 SEC. 1. Sidewalks along Paved Streets. That it shall be unlawful for 
 any person to ride any bicycle or tricycle upon any sidewalk within the cor- 
 porate limits of the City of Paxton that lies within, parallel with and along 
 any street the roadway of which is paved. 
 
 SEC. 2. Unlawful to Ride Sidewalk without License. That is shall be 
 unlawful for any person to ride a bicycle or tricycle upon any sidewalk within 
 the corporate limits of the City of Paxton without first having obtained a 
 license to do so; provided, any person who shall obtain such license as herein- 
 after specified, shall have lawful right to ride a bicycle or tricycle upon any 
 sidewalk within said City, excepting upon those sidewalks lying along paved 
 streets as mentioned in section one of this ordinance, subject however to the 
 
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 provisions and restrictions of this ordinance and the conditions of such 
 license. 
 
 SEC. 3. City Clerk to Issue. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to 
 issue such license to any person applying therefor, upon the payment by each 
 such applicant into the city treasury of the sum of $2.00. The said license shall 
 be issued for the term of one year, dating from January list to January list 
 of each year, and shall have printed on the face mtu a section four of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 4. Conditions of License—Penalty. Any person who shall ride 
 a bicycle or tricycle upon any sidewalk within said City of Paxton, under 
 and by authority of any license granted under this ordinance, shall not so 
 ride upon any sidewalk lying within, parallel and along any street the roadway 
 of which is paved, nor shall any such person so ride at a greater rate of speed 
 than six miles an hour, nor shall any such person so ride upon any sidewalk 
 at any other time than during hours of daylight. Each person so riding under 
 any such license shall, upon meeting or passing any pedestrian who may be 
 using the same sidewalk, dismount from his machine until such pedestrian 
 is safely passed. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall for the first offense be fined not less than three dollars nor 
 more than ten dollars, and for the second offense shall be fined a like sum 
 as for the first offense and shall in addition thereto forfeit to the City his 
 license granted under this ordinance. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 SALARIES. ; 
 Section. Pee 2 
 1. Mayor’s salary. Silt 
 2. Compensation of Aldermen. 
 3. City Clerk’s salary. 
 4. City Attorney’s salary. 
 5. City Treasurer’s salary. j 
 6. Street Superintendent’s salary. 
 7. City Marshal’s salary. 
 8. Salary of night policeman. 
 9. Compensation of city collector. 
 10. Compensation of Public Engineer. 
 
 SEC. 1. Mayor’s Salary. Tne mayor of the City of Paxton shall receive 
 an annua] salary of one hundred and fifty dollars payable in a install- 
 ments. 
 
 SEC. 2. Compensation of Aldermen. The aldermen of said city shall — 
 each receive for his services the sum of three dollars per night for each 
 meeting of the council actually attended by him, payable monthly. 
 
 SEC. 3. City Clerk’s Salary. The City Clerk shall receive an annual 
 salary of three hundred dollars payable in monthly installments. . 
 
 SEC. 4. City Attorney’s Salary. The city attorney shall receive an 
 
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 annual salary of three hundred dollars payable in monthly installments, and 
 all reasonable charges for expenses, when required to be outside the city on 
 business pertaining to the duties of his office. 
 
 SEC. 5. City Treasurer’s Salary. The city treasurer shall receive an 
 annual salary of fifty dollars. 
 
 SEC. 6. Street Superintendent’s Salary. The superintendent of streets 
 ef said City shall receive a salary of forty-five dollars per month payable 
 monthly. 
 
 SEC. 7. City Marshal’s Salary. The city marshal shall receive a salary 
 of forty-five dollars per month, payable monthly, which shall be in full com- 
 pensation for all fees or charges for services rendered said City. 
 
 SEC. 8. Salary of Night Policeman. The night policeman shall receive 
 a salary of forty-five dollars per month payable monthly. 
 
 SEC. 9. Compensation of City Collector. The city collector of special 
 taxes shall receive as compensation for all services rendered, one per cent 
 on all special taxes collected and paid into the city treasury by him. 
 
 SEC. 10. Compensation of Public Engineer. The public engineer shall 
 receive as compensation for his services such sum or sums as shall be de- 
 termined from time to time by the city council. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 SEWERS AND DRAINS. 
 Section. 
 Engineer to keep maps. 
 Manner of connecting with. 
 Application for connection. 
 No person shall open or uncover catch basin, 
 Drains connected with cess pools. 
 No person shall throw obstructive matter in sewer. 
 Penalty. 
 
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 SEC. 1. Engineer to keep maps: It shall be the duty of the City Engin- 
 eer to keep in his office a map or maps upon which shall be platted and shown 
 all public drains and sewers built, owned or controlled by the said City, 
 showing the location of the different drains, sewers and overflows and their 
 dimensions, openings, inlets, catch basins and connections. 
 
 SEC. 2. Manner of Connecting with: The drainage of all private prop- 
 erty into the public sewers or drains shall be effected by lateral sewers, pipes 
 or house drains made of the best quality of vitrified earthenware pipe, true in 
 form and strong in material, and laid strictly in accordance with the direc- 
 tions as hereinafter provided. Before any connection shall be made with any 
 such public sewer or drain, the owner or party in control of the property to 
 be drained shall make application as hereinafter provided to the street sup- 
 erintendent of said city for permission to tap any such public sewer or drain, 
 and all such connection shall be made in strict accordance with the terms of 
 
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 the permission so granted by said street superintendent for such purpose. Any 
 person who shall construct or use or cause to be constructed or used, any 
 drain, cesspool or water closet pipe in a different manner from that ordered 
 by the said street superintendent, or in violation of the City ordinances in 
 relation thereto, shall be subject to a fine of not less than three dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars for each offense, which said fine shall be recoverable 
 against the person or persons so constructing or using said sewer, drain or 
 pipe, or their employers, and the owner of the premises in which said work 
 is constructed or used, shall be deemed and considered as authorizing such - 
 construction or use and liable to such penalty. 
 
 SEC. 3. Application for Connecting with Sewer. Any person desiring 
 to make any connection with any such public sewer or drain shall first make 
 a written application to said street superintendent for permission so to do, in 
 which application such person shall state where such connection is to be made 
 and the purpose for which the same is to be used. And all such work shall 
 be done subject to the inspection and approval of said street superintendent. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the street superintendent to grant written per- 
 mits to persons who may desire to so connect with any such sewer or drain 
 when such person shall have fully complied with the conditions of this ordi- 
 nance. He shall prescribe the mode of piercing or opening the sewer or 
 drains, and the form, size and material of the connections to be made there- 
 with. | 
 
 SEC. 4. No Person shall open or uncover catch basin, etc. ,No person 
 shall uncover for any purpose any public sewer or drain, or open any manhole 
 or catch basin, unless and except under the supervision and direction of the 
 street superintendent, nor shall any person do or cause to be done any injury 
 of any kind, or in any manner interfere or tamper with any man-hole, catch 
 basin, outlet pipe or any other appliance or part of said sewer or drains. 
 
 Any person violating this section or any part thereof, shall be subject 
 to a fine of not less than three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 SEC. 5. Drains Connected with Cess pools, Etc. No sewer, tile pipe 
 or drain of any character which is directly or indirectly connected with any 
 cess pool, privy vault, water closet, or other depository for decayed, foul or 
 putrid matter, or which shall extend at a distance less than two feet from the 
 wall of any such cess pool, privy vault, water closet or other such depository 
 so as to permit any solid substance or matter from such cess pool, privy vault, 7 
 water closet or other such depository to be discharged into such sewer or 
 drain, shall be in any manner, directly or indirectly, connected with or be 
 permitted to empty into any public sewer or drain built, owned or controlled 
 by the said City of Paxton. 
 
 ‘Any person who shall use, construct or maintain or who shall cause to 
 be used, constructed or maintained any sewer or drain contrary to the pro- 
 visions of this section shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than 
 one hunderd dollars for each offense, and the owner of the premises upon which 
 any sewer or drain is used, constructed or maintained in violation of this 
 section, shall be deemed and considered as authorizing such use, construction 
 
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 or maintainance and shall be liable to the penalty therefor. 
 
 SEC. 6. No Person shall throw obstructive matter in sewer. No person 
 shall be permitted to place, throw or in any manner deposit in any sewer, tile, 
 drain, pipe, catch basin or other receptacle which is in any manner, directly 
 or indirectly connected with any public sewer or drain owned or controlled 
 by the said City of Paxton, any butcher’s offal, garbage, dead animal or other 
 obstructive matter or material. Any person violating any of the provisions 
 of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not less than three hoatay nor 
 more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 8. Penalty. Any person violating any part of this ordinance, or 
 causing the same to be done, where no other penalty is prescribed, shall, for 
 
 every such violation, be subject to a penalty of not less than one dollar, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 SIDEWALKS. 
 Section. 
 
 Sidewalks to be brick, stone, cement, etc. 
 Width and grade of sidewalks. 
 
 Laying walks contrary to grade. 
 
 Sidewalks to be uniform and in line. 
 Sidewalks out of line or grade, a nuisance. 
 Old and unsafe sidewalks, a nuisance. 
 Cellar ways, etc., in sidewalks forbidden. 
 Entrance to areaways, openings, etc. 
 Awnings. 
 
 Merchandise, signs, etc. 
 
 11. Delivering or receiving goods on sidewalks. 
 12. Hitching teams so as to obstruct. 
 
 13. Gates opening outward. 
 
 14. Obstructions to sidewalks. 
 
 15. Specifications. 
 
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 SEC. 1. Sidewalks to be of Brick, Stone, Cement, Etc. All sidewalks 
 hereafter laid or contsructed in said City shall be made of good, sound stone, 
 brick, cement, or such other material as may be prescribed by ordinance or 
 approved by the city council. All said sidewalks shall be constructed upon 
 a good and sufficient base of sand or gravel or other substance approved by 
 ‘the city council and shall be constructed under the direct supervision of the 
 street superintendent and subject to the approval of the street and alley com- 
 mittee of said city. Any person who shal] construct, lay or relay any side- 
 walk, of any material other than brick, stone, cement or other material pre- 
 scribed by ordinance, without the consent of the city council first had and ob- 
 tained, or shall lay or construct such work or sidewalk with an inferior or 
 unsuitable quality of material, shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more 
 than one hundred dollars and such sidewalk, constructed in violation hereof, 
 
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 shall be deemed a nuisance, and may be taken up or removed by the street 
 superintendent. 
 
 SEC. 2. Width and grade of Sidewalks. All sidewalks hereafter to be 
 constructed within said city of Paxton shall be laid or constructed to the — 
 grade established by the city therefore. Where no grade has been established, 
 the sidewalk shall be laid or constructed to such grade as may be fixed by 
 the city engineer. All persons desiring to build a sidewalk in front of their 
 premises shall first apply to the city engineer for the grade for the same; 
 and it is hereby made the duty of such city engineer, to designate by proper 
 lines and stakes, for all persons desiring to build sidewalks, the grade estab- 
 lished for such street or sidewalk, and if there be no such grade established 
 by the city council, then he shall designate and fix a temporary grade for 
 the purpose aforesaid. 
 
 SEC. 3. Laying Walks Contrary to Grade. If any person shall build 
 or assist in building any sidewalk where no grade has been established, with- 
 out first obtaining a grade therefor from the city engineer, or contrary to any 
 grade which may be fixed by said engineer, or shall build or assist in building 
 sidewalk contrary to any grade which may have been or may be established 
 by the city council, or contrary to any of the provisions of this chapter, or 
 contrary to any ordinance hereafter passed, providing for any walk, he shall in 
 either case, be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each offense, and to 
 a penalty of one dollar for each day he shall fail to remove or reconstruct the 
 same, after notice from the city engineer or other officer of the city to remove 
 or reconstruct the same. 
 
 SEC. 4. Sidewalks to be uniform and in line. All sidewalks hereafter 
 laid or constructed in this city upon any one side of any street shall be laid 
 and constructed of uniform width, and in a uniform line the whole length 
 of such side of the street. Any person desiring to build a sidewalk or pave- 
 ment in front of his premises, where there is no ordinance locating and fixing 
 line of the same, shall apply to the city engineer for the proper location and- 
 line of such sidewalk; and it shall be the duty of such engineer, upon such 
 application, to locate for such person such proposed sidewalk. 
 
 SEC. 5. Sidewalks out of line or Grade—a Nuisance. Any sidewalk 
 that may be hereafter laid or constructed, which shall be constructed con- 
 trary to any grade established by the city council, or contrary to any grade 
 fixed by the city engineer, or which shall be constructed or located contrary 
 to the lines or width prescribed therefor by any ordinance of the city, or con- 
 trary to the line or width prescribed therefor by the city engineer, are 
 nereby declared to be a nuisance, and the said city engineer is hereby author- 
 ized to remove or take up the same. 
 
 SEC. 6. Old and Unsafe Sidewalks, a Nuisance. Whenever any side- 
 walk shall become dilapidated, and out of repair to such an extent as to be 
 dangerous or unsafe for the passage of persons walking over the same, and 
 to such an extent that the same cannot be economically repaired, then such 
 sidewalk shall be considered a nuisance, and it shall be the duty of the street 
 superintendent to take up or remove the same. 
 
 SEC, 7. Cellar ways, Etc., in Sidewalks Forbidden. No cellar-ways, 
 
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 window openings or the approaches thereto, shall ih whole or in part be built,- 
 
 erected or maintained in or upon any sidewalk, street or alley of said city, 
 or on any part thereof without permission of the City Council] first had; and 
 any person who shall violate this section shall be subject to a penalty of not 
 less than three dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars, and to a like 
 penalty for each day. he may suffer or permit such obstructions or encroach- 
 ments in or upon the sidewalks, streets or alleys fronting or adjoining his 
 premises after being duly notified to remove the same. 
 
 SEC. 8. Entrance to Area-Ways, Openings, Etc. When entrances to 
 areas and basements are constructed outside the inner line of a sidewalk and 
 on the premises abutting thereto, such entrances, stairs or steps shall be 
 securely protected by sufficient iron railings, and no open space next to any 
 building shall be allowed except the same is securely protected by iron rail- 
 ings or covered with suitable iron gratings at all times except when in actual 
 use in the daytime. Any person constructing or maintaining any such area- 
 way, opening o1 entrance contrary to the provisions of this section, either as 
 owner or occupant of said premises, shall be subject to a fine of not less than 
 three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and shall 
 be further subject to a like penalty for each twenty-four hours the same is 
 allowed to so remain after being convicted of a violation hereof. 
 
 SEC. 9. Awnings. All awnings in said city of Paxton shall be covered 
 with cloth, leather or other light and pliable substance, and shall be securely 
 attached to the building or buildings and properly supported without posts, 
 the frame work of which shall be elevated at least eight feet at the lowest 
 point thereof above the sidewalk, and shall not project over the sidewalk to 
 exceed three fourths of the width thereof, and no such awning shall be con- 
 structed or repaired either wholly or in part of wood; and any person who 
 shall erect any awning contrary to the provisions hereof, or refuse or neglect 
 forthwith to remove any awning erected contrary to the provisions hereof, 
 shall be subject to a penalty of not less than five dollars and not to exceed 
 one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 10. Merchandise, Signs, Etc. No clothing, goods, wares, merchan- 
 dise, signs, boxes or other article or thing whatever shall be placed in front 
 of any store, shop, office, or other place in said city, on or above the sidewalk, 
 or in or upon any alley, so as to occupy more than three feet next to the 
 buildings or premises on such sidewalk or alley or of the space above the 
 sidewalk or alley. And all signs, articles or other things that may be hung 
 out or placed above the sidewalk, shall be so placed or hung that the lowest 
 part of such articles or things shall be at least seven feet and six inches 
 above the top of the sidewalk; nor shall any owner or occupant of any lot 
 or premises lease the space aforesaid, or permit or allow the same to be used 
 or occupied except for uis own business; nor shall such space be used for 
 
 selling any article or thing whatever. Any person who shall violate the pro- 
 
 visions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars for every 
 forty-eight hours the same shall remain after being requested to remove the 
 same by any officer of the city. 
 
 SEC. 11. Delivering or Receiving Goods on Sidewalks, No person or 
 persons receiving or delivering goods, wares or merchandise in said city shall 
 
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 place or keep upon, or suffer to be placed or kept upon, any sidewalk in said 
 city any goods, wares or merchandise which he or they may be receiving or 
 delivering, without leaving a passage way clear upon each sidewalk where 
 such goods may be, at least four feet wide, for the use of foot passengers; 
 and no person receiving or delivering such goods. shall suffer the ‘same to be 
 or remain on such sidewalk (subject nevertheless to tue forégoing restrict- 
 ions) for a longer period than twelve hours. Any person violating any of 
 the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay to said city a sum not less 
 than three dollars, nor more than ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 12. Hitching Teams so as to Obstruct Sidewalks. Whoever shall 
 fasten or leave any team or beast of burden in such a manner as that the 
 team, the vehicle, the animal, the harness or anything belonging thereto, 
 shall be an obstruction to the sidewalk, shall be subject to a penalty of not 
 less than one dollar and not exceeding ten dollars in each case. 
 
 SEC. 13. Gates Opening Outward. All gates opening upon any public 
 street shall be so constructed as that no part of such gate shall swing over 
 or above the street or sidewalk upon which it opens, unless such gate be so 
 constructed or hung that it is self shutting; and whoever shall erect, keep 
 or maintain any gate in violation of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 
 nuisance and be fined not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 SEC. 14. Obstructions to Sidewalks. The owner or occupant of any 
 premises within said city shail, at all times, keep the sidewalk along such 
 premises open, safe and passable for foot passengers passing over the same. 
 For each failure so to do or for any obstruction or injury to such sidewalk 
 not specially designated and otherwise provided for in this chapter, such 
 owner or occupant shall be subject to a penalty of not less than three dollars 
 and not more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 15. Specifications for Cement Sidewalk. All public cement side- 
 walks hereafter constructed within the said City of Paxton shall be made 
 to conform substantially to the following specifications, viz: 
 
 Size: No public walk shall be made less than four feet in width. 
 
 Grades and Line: The sidewalks shall be laid to grades and line 
 as given by the City Engineer. 
 
 Materials—Cement: The cement used for concrete and mortar shall 
 be the best quality of Portland cement. 
 
 Gravel: The gravel used for concrete shall be clean, sharp and 
 free from clay or loam. i ; 
 
 Sand: The sand used for concrete or mortar shall be clean, sharp, 
 and free from loam, clay or vegetable matter. 
 
 The sand used for the finishing or wearing coat shall be thoroughly 
 screened. 
 
 Stone: The stone used for concrete base shall be limestone crushed 
 to pass a 1-inch ring. | 
 
 Stone screenings if used for the wearing coat shall be granite or quartz 
 screenings perfectly free from dust, and of the sizes that will pass a sieve 
 having 1%, inch meshes. 
 
 Foundation: The foundation shall be excavated or filled to the depth 
 
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 of 8 inches below the top of the finished sidewalk, and the sub-grade formed 
 parallel to the surface of the walk. If the walk is brought to sub-grade by 
 filling, the material used for said purpose shall be spread in layers not to 
 exceed 3 inches in thickness and thoroughly tamped. 
 
 Upon the sub-grade shall be spread a layer of clean, coarse sand or 
 fine gravel.or cinders to the depth of 4 inches which layer shall be thoroughly 
 consolidated by tamping or rolling. 
 
 If cinders are used for said layer great care shall be taken in tamping, 
 to break up the larger clinkers and work the finer material in around the 
 coarser pieces. 
 
 Forms: The edge of the walk shall be marked by a 2-inch by 4-inch 
 scantling securely staked in position with its top face in the plane of the 
 top of the finished walk. These scantlings shall be blocked up so as accu- 
 rately to maintain the longitudinal grade of the walk, and shall be so se- 
 curely staked that they will not be crowded out by the tamping of the 
 concrete. 
 
 Concrete Base: The base shall consist of a layer of concrete 3 inches 
 thick. 
 
 _ For gravel concrete the proportions shall be one part of Portland cement 
 and seven parts of clean, sharp gravel. Stone concrete shall be composed of 
 one part Portland cement, 3 parts sand and 6 parts of unscrened broken lime- 
 stone; the stone crushed to pass a 1-inch ring. 
 
 Mixing of Concrete—Gravel Concrete: The gravel and cement shall 
 be thoroughly mixed dry, and then water will be added in the proper pro- 
 portion and the mass be turned and thoroughly mixed until each particle of 
 gravel is completely covered with mortar. The concrete thus prepared will 
 be immediately placed in the work. It shall be spread and thoroughly com- 
 pacted by ramming until moisture appears on the surface. 
 
 Stone Concrete: The sand and cement shall be thoroughly mixed dry 
 and then made into a mortar of the proper consistency. Broken stone 
 free from dirt and drenched with water but containing no loose water in the 
 heap, shall then be added to the mortar in the given proportions. The con- 
 crete will then be turned and mixed until each piece of stone is completely 
 covered with mortar. The concrete thus prepared shall be immediately plac- 
 ed in the work. It shall be spread and thoroughly compacted by ramming 
 until free mortar appears on the surface. 
 
 All mixing by hand shall be done on suitable platforms. 
 
 Machines for the mixing of the concrete may be used if working sat- 
 isfactorily. In tamping the concrete, particular care shall be taken that the 
 same is well consolidated along the outer edges and showing well filled 
 voids, after the forms are removed. The upper surface of the concrete base 
 shall be made exactly parallel to the top of the finished walk. 
 
 Joints: The Concrete base shall be formed in separate blocks, 4 to 5 
 feet square. This may be accomplished by inserting transverse partitions be- 
 tween the side forms and then construct the walk in alternate blocks or 
 by cutting through the concrete base before it is set, leaving the so-formed 
 
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 space open. When the width of the walk requires the division of the walk 
 into more than one row of blocks the joints shall be made to meet and be 
 continuous across the entire width of the walk. 
 
 Wearing Coat: The wearing or finishing coat for sidewalks shall be 
 composed of 1 part by bulk of Portland cement and 2 parts of perfectly 
 clean and sharp, coarse sand. Granite or quartz screenings that will pass a 
 sieve having 1% inch meshes may take the place of the sand if used in the 
 same proportion. 
 
 The thickness of the wearing coat shall be 1 inch. 
 
 The same brand of cement shall be used for concrete base and wearing 
 coat. 
 
 The cement and sand or screenings shall be thoroughly mixed dry to 
 a uniform color and then sufficient water shall be added and the mass well 
 mixed into a mortar. 
 
 This mortar is to be applied to the concrete base before the same 
 has begun to set in order that the two layers may firmly unite. The mortar 
 shall be brought to a uniform thickness by drawing a template, cut to the 
 proper shape, longitudinally along the top of the forms. 
 
 When the cement in the wearing coat begins to set, it is to be rubbed 
 smooth and hard with a trowel, sufficient pressure being employed to force 
 the top and bottom layers into close contact and particular care must be taken 
 to consolidate the edges of the blocks. 
 
 In doing this work much care must also be taken in guarding against 
 depressions in the surface. No depressions in the surface exceeding % of 
 an inch will be allowed and should any depressions of greater depth be found 
 on any part of the work such part will be rejected. While completing the 
 troweling, the wearing coat shall be separated into blocks to correspond ex- 
 actly with the blocks made in the concrete base. The joints and edges to 
 be properly rubbed down and finished smoothly. | 
 
 Protection of Work: After the wearing surface has been finished the 
 walk must be protected from the direct rays of the sun and from strong 
 winds by covering with canvas, straw. or other suitable material for at least 
 24 hours after completion. If the weather is dry and the walk exposed to 
 the sun, the work shall be kept moist by sprinkling. 
 
 The forms shall not be removed until the cement has set so hard that 
 there is no danger of injuring the edge of the walk in removing them. 
 
 In closing work at night, the concrete as well as finishing coat shall 
 be finished up to a joint. 
 
 No patching of defective blocks after the cement has begun to set will 
 be allowed. 
 
 Temperature: No Concrete walk shall be laid when the temperature 
 at any time during the day or night falls below thirty-two (32) degrees 
 Fahrenheit. 
 
 Transverse Slope: Cement walks built along the side of streets shall 
 have a transverse slope towards the street of 4% inch per foot from the inner 
 edge to the center line of the walk, and % inch per foot from the center line 
 to the outer edge of the walk. 
 
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 Cement walks built in public parks shall have a crown of % inch 
 per foot of half width of walk. 
 
 Cement Crossings: Cement walks across driveways, alleys or improy- 
 ed streets shall have a foundation of cinders, sand or gravel to a depth of 
 4 inches. The concrete base shall be made of 1 part by bulk of best Portland 
 cement and 5 parts of clean sharp gravel. The thickness of the base to be 
 6 inches. 
 
 If broken stone is used for the concrete it shall consist of 1 part by 
 bulk of best Portland cement, 2 parts of clean sharp sand and 4 parts of un- 
 screened broken stone crushed to pass a 1l-inch ring. The thickness of this 
 base to be six (6) inches. : 
 
 The wearing coat for crossings shall consist of 1 part by bulk of Port- 
 land cement and 1% parts of clean sharp, coarse sand. Quartz or Granite 
 screenings may take the place of the sand. The thickness of the wearing 
 coat shall be 2 inches. Crossings shall have a width of 5 feet, the first 6 inches 
 on each side having the top surface inclined outwards at a slope of % inch 
 to the inch. 
 
 Surface of Crossing: The surface of the crossing shall be roughened 
 or finished with V shaped grooves 1 inch wide and % inch deep running 4 
 inches apart along the crossing. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 STREETS AND ALLEYS. 
 
 Section. 4 
 1. Not to be excavated without permit. 1 hos gas 
 2. How excavation to -be filled, etc.,—penalty. 
 3. Excavation left open—Penalty. 
 4. Removing earth without permit—Penalty. | 
 5. Building, ete., encroaching upon street. 
 6. Contractor not to obstruct without permit. 
 7. Contractor to give bond to pay damages. 
 8. Building encroaching not to be repaired. 
 9. Building encroaching upon notice—Cast. 
 10. Building not to be moved along street without permit. 
 lis cBond: 
 12. No obstruction allowed.—Penalty. 
 3. Liability for damages. 
 14. Obstructing crossings. 
 15. When street obstructed by teams—Penalty. 
 16. Alleys and gutters to be kept clean. 
 17. Leaving cellar door open, ete. 
 18. Obstructing street with fuel, ete. 
 19. Throwing ashes, etc., in streets. 
 20. Throwing paper in streets. 
 21. Permit to open paved street—How refilled. 
 22. Hauling stones, etc., through street. | 
 23. Superintendent to remove obstructions. 7s she 
 24. Speed for driving in streets. . 
 25. Leaving animals unhitched. pies 
 26. Automobiles, ete., shall stop. 
 27. Brick pavements crossed by engines, planked. 
 28. Width of tires. 
 29. Drivers meeting turn to right. 
 30. Balls, kites, and baloons prohibited. 
 31. Games, exhibits on streets and sidewalks. 
 32. Public buildings,—Doors to open outward. 
 33. Parades,—Permits may be granted. 
 34. Permit may be refused. 
 35. Penalty for violation. 
 
 SEC. 1. Not to Be Excavated Without Permit. Penalty. No person 
 not authorized by city council or by ordinance shall make ‘any excavations 
 in any street, avenue, alley, sidewalk or public ground within the city of Pax- 
 ton without first having obtained the permission of the mayor or superintend- 
 ent of streets, and in case of an excavation in any paved street, avenue or 
 alley such permission shall be in writing. 
 
 Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall upon conviction 
 be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, 
 provided, that this section shall not apply to any person making an excavation 
 for the purpose of connecting any private drain or sewer with any public 
 sewer or of connecting any private drain or sewer with any public sewer or 
 of connecting any privte water main with a public water main under a written 
 permit from the superintendent of streets or other proper officer. 
 
 SEC, 2. Excavations to be Filled up. How. Injuries to be Repaired 
 
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 and Penalty. Any person making or causing to be made any excavation or 
 ditch for any purpose in any street, avenue alley or sidewalk, shall without 
 any unnecessary delay cause the same to be filled up to the proper level of 
 such street, avenue, alley or sidewalk, and shall from time to time, if necessary 
 repair the same until the earth is completely settled, and the surface thereof 
 conforms to the proper level or grade. Any person taking up or removing 
 any paved or planked street, avenue, alley or sidewalk, or any bridge or cul- 
 vert, for any purpose, or negligently breaking or injuring the same, shall, 
 without delay, cause such paved or planked street, avenue, alley or sidewalk, 
 or bridge or culvert, to be repaired and placed in the same condition as 
 before the breaking or injuring thereof. Whoever shall violate or fail to 
 comply with the requiremnts of this section shall incur a penalty, in each 
 case, of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and 
 the superintendent of streets shall forthwith cause such filling up or repairs 
 to be made and completed, and the cost and expense thereof may be collected 
 of the person whose duty it was to do the same, and recovered by a sep- 
 arate suit in the name of the city. 
 
 SEC. 3. Excavation Left Open—Penailty. Any contractor for any pub- 
 lic work or any other officer or person making any excavation in any street, 
 avenue, alley or sidewalk of the city, who shall leave the same open and 
 unprotected by red lights and otherwise, in the night time, so as to endanger 
 the safety of persons or animals passing thereby, shall be liable to a fine of 
 not less than three dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for every such 
 neglect. 
 
 SEC. 4. Removing Earth, Etc. Without Permit—Penalty. Whoever 
 shall, for any purpose, dig, remove or carry away any earth, gravel or sod, 
 from any street, avenue, alley or public ground, without the express per- 
 ‘mission of the city council, or of the street and alley committee thereof, shall 
 forfeit and pay a penalty of one dollar for each and every load so removed 
 or carried away; and any officer of the city who shall use, sell or dispose 
 of any earth, gravel or sod from any street, avenue, alley or public ground, 
 for his own private gain or benefit, shall be subject to a penalty of not less 
 than Twenty-five Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 5. Building, Etc. Enroaching Upon Street. No person shall 
 make or cause to be made any building, enclosure, bridge or arched way ex- 
 tending upon, over or across any street, avenue, alley or sidewalk. within said _ 
 city, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dol 
 lars for each offense, and a further penalty of five dollars for every day that 
 he shall allow such building, enclosure, bridge or arched way to remain after 
 being notified to remove the same by the street superintendent or city 
 marshal. 
 
 SEC. 6. Contractor Not to Obstruct Without Permit. Penalty. No 
 contractor, builder or other person shall encumber or obstruct any street, 
 alley or sidewalk in the city with building or other like materials, without 
 a written permit from the city council, mayor or other proper officer therefor; 
 nor shall except in case of necessity and for a short time encumber or obstruct 
 more than one-third of any street or alley or one-half of any sidewalk, nor shall 
 
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 such obstruction continue in any case longer than may be necessary in the 
 diligent erection of such building, or the prompt execution of the work. Who- 
 ever shall violate any of the provisions of this statute shall be subject to a 
 fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and to a further 
 fine of three dollars for each day after the first conviction-that he shall con- 
 tinue in such violation. 
 
 SEC. 7. Contractors to Give Bond to Pay Damages For, Etc. Penalty. 
 Any owner or agent of any real estate, or any contractor or builder, who may 
 be about to commence the erection of any building or the alteration or im- 
 provement of any building in front of or abutting upon any street or avenue 
 of the city and when the construction, alteration or improvement of any such 
 building will interfere or be likely to interfere with the free passage through 
 or over the street, avenue or sidewalk by reason of any excavation in or near 
 the street or sidewalk, or by placing in and upon the same of any building 
 material shall, before commencing any such work, execute an indemnifying 
 bond to said city in such reasonable sum, and with surety or sureties, as may 
 be fixed by the mayor, to answer and pay all damages for any injury that 
 may result to persons or property from any such interference with or ob- 
 struction of such street or sidewalk. Any owner, contractor or builder who 
 shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall, upon 
 conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8. Building, Etc. Enroaching on Street, Etc. Not to be Re- 
 paired, Etc. Penalty. No building, fence, fixture or other erection or inclo- 
 sure heretofore erected or built, and enroaching in whole or in part upon any 
 street, avenue, alley or sidewalk of the city, shall be repaired or rebuilt, under 
 a penalty to the offender of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hund- 
 red dollars. 
 
 SEC. 9. Building encroaching on Street, Etc. To be Removed thir- 
 ty Days After Notice at Cost of Owner. The owner of any building or of any 
 inclosure heretofore erected or built, an encroaching in whole or in part 
 upon any street, ayenue, alley or sidewalk within the city, who shall not re- 
 move the same within thirty days after being notified in writing to do so by 
 the street superintendent or the city engineer, shall be subject to a fine of 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and to a further 
 fine of ten dollars for every day after the first conviction, that he shall fail 
 or refuse to comply with such notice, and the city council may order and direct 
 the city marshal to take down and reméve such obstruction or encroachment 
 upon any street, avenue or alley, and the cost and expense of such taking 
 down and removal may be collected by suit in the name of the corporation, 
 against the person or persons causing or erecting such encroachment or ob- 
 struction. 
 
 SEC. 10. Building Not to Be Removed Along Street, Etc. Without 
 Permit. Penalty. No person shall remove or cause to be removed, any build- 
 ing through or along any street, avenue or alley in the city, without a written 
 permit from the superintendent of streets therefor, nor shall, in removing 
 such building unnecessarily encumber or obstruct any street, avenue or alley, 
 nor for a longer time than may be necessary in the prompt and diligent 
 
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 removal thereof, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense, and a fur- 
 ther penalty of five dollars for every day that such building shall unnecessarily 
 remain upon any street, avenue or alley. 
 
 SEC. 11. Bond. It shall be the duty of the mayor, city council or 
 street superintendent before granting the permit to remove any building 
 along any street or alley of said city, to require a bond to be given to the 
 city of Paxton by the person receiving such permit, in such sum as shall be 
 sufficient, conditioned that the person receiving such permit shall repair all 
 damage which may be done to any street, alley or sidewalk, or which may 
 result to any private party in any manner whatsoever by reason of said 
 removal. 
 
 SEC. 12. No Obstruction Allowed, Except, Etc. Penalty. Whoever 
 shall place, throw or leave cause to be placed, thrown or left, any obstruction 
 or incumbrance in or upon any street, avenue or alley, except as authorized 
 by ordinance, shall be liable to a fine of not less than three dollars nor more 
 than twenty dollars, and to a further fine of one dollar for every two hours 
 that he shall not remove such obstruction or incumbrance after being noti- 
 fied to do so by the superintendent of streets or any member of the police force. 
 
 SEC. 13. Liability for Damages. Any person who shall place or leave 
 or cause to be placed or left, any encroaciment, obstruction or encumbrance 
 in or upon any street, avenue, alley or sidewalk, shall, in all cases, be liable 
 to the city and to private persons for all injury or damages arising therefrom. 
 
 SEC. 14. Obstructing Crossing—Penalty. Whoever shall obstruct any 
 street or alley crossing by unnecessarily stopping thereon with any team, 
 animal or vehicle, so as to inconvenience or incommode persons passing or 
 crossing the same, shall incur a penalty of not exceeding five dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 SEC. 15. When Street, Etc., Obstructed by Teams, Etc.—Penalty. When 
 any street, avenue or alley shall be obstructed by a press of teams, vehicles, 
 animals or persons, the mayor or city marshal, or any police officer of the 
 city, may give such orders and directions as shall be deemed necessary to 
 abate the obstruction; and whoever shall neglect or refuse to obey such or- 
 ders or directions shall be subject to a penalty of not exceeding three dol- 
 lars. 
 
 SEC. 16. Alleys and Gutters to be Kept Clean—Penalty. It shall be 
 the duty of every person owning any lot or parcel of land adjoining any public 
 or private alley in said city, to keep the same clean and in an inoffensive con- 
 dition, and also to keep the gutter in front of the premises owned or occupied 
 by him, under his control, free from filth or other offensive matter that may 
 prevent the flow of water therein. Any person failing or neglecting to comply 
 with any provision of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not ex- 
 ceeding five dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 17. Leaving Open Cellar Door, Etc.,—Penalty. Whoever shall 
 leave open, or permit to be left open, any cellar door, basement entrance, 
 vault, cistern, well, ditch, or other like pit or hole, on or adjoining any street, 
 avenue, alley or sidewalk, within said city, without securing or protecting 
 the same so as not to endanger the safety of persons or animals passing 
 
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 thereby from falling therein, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five 
 dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense and shall also be liable 
 for all damages or injuries to persons or property arising from any such neg- 
 lect, and for any damages that may be recovered against the city in conse- 
 quence thereof. ‘ 
 
 SEC. 18. Obstructing Street, Etc., With Fuel, Etc.—Penalty. No per- 
 son shall obstruct or encumber any street, avenue or alley of the city with any 
 merchandise, fuel or other articles longer than may be necessary in the dili- 
 gent removal of the same, under a penalty of two dollars for each offense, 
 and a further penalty of one dollar for every two hours that he shall permit 
 such merchandise, fuel or other articles to remain after being notified to re- 
 move the same by the superintendent of streets or any member of the police 
 force. ; 
 
 SEC. 19. Throwing Ashes, Etc. in streets, Etc.—Penalty. No person 
 shall throw, place or leave, or cause or permit to be thrown, placed or left 
 any ashes, dirt, filth or rubbish in or upon any street, avenue, alley or side- 
 walk in said city, in front of or adjoining any building or premises owned or 
 occupied by him, or subject to his control, under a penalty of not less than 
 two dollars nor more than ten dollars in each case; and a further penalty 
 of one dollar for every two hours that such person shall permit such ashes, 
 dirt, filth or rubbish to remain, after notice to remove the same by the su- 
 perintendent of streets, the health officer or any policeman. 
 
 SEC. 20. Throwing Paper in Street, Etc—Penalty. No person shall 
 throw, place, leave or cause to be thrown, placed or left in or upon any street, | 
 avenue, alley or sidewalk of said city, any paper or card, handbill, dodger, 
 advertisement, notice or waste paper, under a penalty of not less than one 
 dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 21. Permit to open Paved St.—How opening to be Refilled—Penalty 
 No permit shall be granted by the Mayor or other city officer, as.provided by 
 ordinance, to any person, persons or company, to open any paved or improved 
 street or alley within said city, unless the party applying therefor shall have 
 first deposited with the city treasurer a sum of money not less than twenty 
 dollars or sufficient to cover the cost of replacing said opening in as good 
 condition as before being made. Every such opening shall be refilled or re- 
 placed by the city, and the actual cost and expense thereof shall be borne 
 and paid by the person, persons or company for whom the same was made. 
 Any violation or failure to comply with any of the provisions of this section 
 shall subject the offender to a fine of. not less than fifty nor more than one 
 hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 22. Hauling Stones, Etc. Through the Streets—Restriction— 
 Penalty. Any person or persons who shall be engaged in hauling or drawing 
 stone, mortar, ice, earth, ashes, manure, shavings, garbage or rubbish in or 
 through the streets or avenues of said city shall draw or carry the same in 
 tight boxes or dump beds or barrels and when drawing or carrying any of 
 the aforesaid articles in case the same fall into the street or be scattered 
 in any street or alley, shall cause the same to be forthwith taken up and re- 
 moved, and for any violation of any of the provisions of this section, he or 
 
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 they shall incur a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than ten 
 
 dollars for each offese; Provided that in hauling dimension stone and ice no 
 tight box shall be required. 
 
 SEC. 23. Street Obstructions, Etc. The superintendent of streets is 
 duly authorized and it is made his duty to order any article or thing whatso- 
 ever,which may encumber or obstruct any street, alley, sidewalk or other pub- 
 lic place in said city, to be removed; if such article or thing shall not be re- 
 moved within twenty-four hours after such order shall have been made and 
 given to the person in charge thereof, or to the person who caused the same, 
 as the case may be, or if the person in charge thereof cannot readily be 
 found, or if no person be in charge thereof, the superintendent of streets 
 shall cause the same to be removed to some suitable place; and the owner 
 of any such article or thing so removed, or the person causing the same, as 
 the case may be, shall pay to said city all the costs and expenses of such 
 removal. 
 
 SEC, 24. Speed for Driving. No person shall run, race, ride or drive 
 any horse, mule or other animal, or team or automobile or horseless carriage 
 on any street or alley in the city of Paxton at a greater rate of speed than 
 ten miles per hour, nor shall any person heedlessly ride or drive any such 
 animal, team, automobile or horseless carriage so that the same or any ve- 
 hicle thereto attached shall come into collision with any other animal or ve- 
 hicle, or shall strike any person upon any street or alley in ,said city. 
 
 Any person guilty of the violation of any of the provisions of this 
 statute shall be subject to a penalty of not less than three dollars nor more 
 than ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 25, Leaving Animals Unhitched. Whoever shall within said City 
 leave any horse or mule, or any team attached to any vehicle, in any street, 
 alley, or other unenclosed place, without the same being securely fastened or 
 guarded shall, upon conviction be fined not less than three dollars nor more 
 than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 26. Automobiles, Etc. shall stop. Whenever any horse or team 
 driven or ridden by any person upon any street or alley within the city of 
 Paxton, is about to become frightened by the approach of any automobile, 
 motorcycle or other conveyance of similar type, it shall be the duty of the 
 person driving or conducting such automobile, motorcycle or conveyance, to 
 cause the same and all machinery thereof to come to a full stop until such 
 horse or horses or team shall] have. passed, and the driver of such automobile, 
 motorcycle or conveyance shall render all aid necessary by leading such horse 
 or team safely past such vehicle, and the person who shall fail or neglect to 
 comply with the provisions of this section shal] be liable to a fine of not less 
 than five dollars nor more than ane hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 27. Brick Pavements Crossed by Engines must be Planked. No 
 person shall by himself, his agent or servant drive any traction or portable 
 steam engine upon, along or across any brick pavement or along or across 
 or upon any sidewalk crossing within the corporate limits of the city of Pax- 
 ton without using four strong, sound, hard wood planks each to be not less 
 than twelve feet long, one foot wide and two inches thick, two of said planks 
 
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 to be kept constantly under the wheel of said engine while being driven along 
 or across or upon any pavement, sidewalk or crossing. Any person who 
 shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine 
 of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 28. Width of Tires. No person shall by himself, agent or servant 
 haul or drive any loaded vehicle along or across any paved street within the 
 corporate limits of the City of Paxton, unless the tires of the wheels of such 
 vehicle shall equal one inch in width for each ton of such load. Any person 
 who shall violate the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than 
 five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 29. Drivers Meeting, Turn to Right. In all cases of persons 
 driving vehicles by animal power or mechanical power and meeting each other 
 in such vehicles in any street or alley of this city, each person so meeting 
 shall turn his vehicle to the right of the center of the street, so that each 
 may pass the other without interference or accident. Any person failing to 
 comply with the requirements of this section shall, upon conviction be fined 
 not less than One Dollar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 30. Ball, Kites, and Baloon Prohibited. Whoever shall in said City 
 play any kind of ball or raise or fly any kite or balloon upon Market street 
 in said City between Holmes and Center Street, shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not less than One Dollar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 31. Games, Exhibits, on Streets and Sidewalks. No person shall, 
 within said City, engage in any game, sport or amusement, or exhibit any 
 animal or machine or do any thing else in the streets or upon the sidewalks 
 of said City which will have a tendency to frighten horses or interfere with 
 teams and vehicles or persons passing along the streets or sidewalks, under 
 a penalty of not less than One Dollar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 32. Public Buildings—Doors to Open Outward. All Public Build- 
 ings in process of erection at the time of taking effect of this ordinance or 
 hereafter to be erected or constructed in said City, which may or shall be used 
 for churches, school houses, opera houses, theatres, lecture rooms, town 
 halls, hotels, or for any purpose whereby a collection of people may be assem- 
 bled together for religious worship, amusement, instruction, or otherwise, shall 
 be so built and constructed that all doors leading from the main hall or 
 audience room where said collection of people may be assembled, or from 
 the principal room which may be used for any of the purposes aforesaid 
 shall be swung upon their hinges as to open outward, and that all means of 
 egress for the public from the main hall or principal room, and from the 
 building, shall be by means of doors which shall open outward therefrom. 
 Any owner, agent or trustee of any such building, who shall fail or refuse 
 to comply with the requirements of this section shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not less than Fifty Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 SEC. 33. Parades—Permits may be Granted. It shall be unlawful for 
 any circus or theatrical organization, to parade or march in upon or along 
 the streets or sidewalks of said City at any time of the day or night, without 
 first having obtained the consent of the Mayor or in case of his absence from 
 the City, from the acting Mayor or any three of the aldermen, a permit in 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 75 
 
 writing for the same, which permit shall designate in and upon what streets 
 the parade may pass, and the nature and character of the procession. 
 
 SEC. 34. Permit may be Refused. The official or officials to whom 
 application is made shall have power to issue or refuse to issue such permits 
 as he may deem proper for the best interests of the City. 
 
 SEC. 35. Penalty for Violation. Each and every person being in any 
 such parade, for which no permit has been given shall, on conviction, be fined 
 not less than One Dollar nor more than Twenty-Five Dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 
 WATER. SUPPLY. 
 Section. . i 
 Water rates. 
 Meter rates. 
 May be sold to be hauled. 
 Permission must be obtained to use water, 
 Pipes must be kept in repair. 
 Water takers forbidden to supply others. 
 Hours for sprinkling. 
 Sprinkling rules. 
 Additional charges for sprinkling. 
 Payment of rates. 
 Water to be turned off if dues not paid. 
 12. Connections with mains. 
 lg scat: Ofs: 
 14. Penalty. 
 15. Marshal and City Clerk to enforce rules. 
 16. Special rates. 
 
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 SEC. 1. Water Rate. The following rates per annum shall be charged 
 for the use of city water in the city of Paxton. The minimum rate for any 
 person using city water, whether measured by meter or otherwise, shall be 
 six dollars. 
 
 NE PCG oo aa s areicla ss id's evs sees eee de tee tap ee pea ie ale $6 00 
 MOCEOTE TT LICTELGUIE CLAUCOE: soiree oh cide a ware etctes giatelislerd $2 00 
 Bakeries, Special ” 
 Rare Pere CTE: CHGIT 5 gcse once o5te 8 5 ainie eevee ww alain s 0 ema sale wee ems $8 00 
 TAT LAETOLI IT eas ake is ates are'k garden ies em 0 « $2 00 
 PMPRLOCHN GS SE UDIIG: ONO LUD. Go... aes cave eee ores eeeetnseccuce $10 090 
 Ba TTL IO CILD ote aie choke ats sretel ral ee fas ares nite $7 00 
 SemEM EL ITIP CL VELUGI ls hls ors ais nc diya winks we sles cp cele wielwlee bya pie e Kielewe $4 00 
 RINE PRR E OCS LE OTIS cal o. che set callie" s Minsw oe iniec oy og winselg Wie tle wha © sue eles $6 00 
 NN Fg ba a 0k Fikes nh @ Sigh cia win eh mine aie.e 80,8 10 ye Hs $6 00 
 ParUINne Ouse, DCT TOO ........ cece cscewecenesaseeseene dence $1 00 
 mMmrIrate in be lOSS Loalle. oes e ee cocs out e een eee. $8 00 
 RETR TINECES LCITIOUOE cos 5's, cgi ie Shae aN SR Al ve Biot sere wie a we ele tn we $6 00 
 Cigar manufactories, five workmen or I€SS...........+eeeeeeeees $6 00 
 Pose LALO GW OLR T  taate e ine Seta ss ayccn aise Cees 50 
 ro ee a it dren ald aed vee daleiars Gees bce meae e $6 00 
 
 Fountain Spittoons, special 
 
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 Drug Stores 0 6s 8 ea A reese ew aie ss oa ees $6 00 
 Fountains, Special . 
 Halls and Theaters, Special 
 Hotels, Special 
 
 Laundries, Special 
 
 Livery Stables, Special 
 Meat Markets, Special 
 Green House, Special. 
 
 Offices. or Sleeping Rooms 2.0... vs0..0s ses ess os os og seen $6 00 
 Printing Offices with steam PpowePr............cisceccwnnecrovsece $15 00 
 Printing Offices without steam power. .........s0s. > osetlan tenia $6 00 
 Residences, private, one hydrant... .. 2... 24... sce cs os eee $6 00 
 For each additional hydrant not otherwise provid- 
 Cd FOr ec 0 SS As Oa shoe tt $2 00 
 Sprinkling lawns, gardens and streets, for first 50 feet.......... $5 00 
 Each’ additional front f00t.o... .. .a = (see $ 05. 
 
 Provided for the sprinkling of streets along corner lots frontage 
 shail be charged on each street. 
 
 Restaurants, Minimtim=. 2.0. 600.0 600. 5. wee bee $8 00 
 Maximum © oh isis dec seh cle ue See ‘5 SB Wee $30 00 
 
 Sanne MINMTMUM 60d os vn ese pb ws Wine Sie es a ink ints ooh Sse en $10 00 
 Maximum (oo Sees sis kone eis yo tena $20 00 
 
 Stores; occ s ee'e Dyess Se wlbvele Sin SiFieed a ey Glide g's Ge keel ¥ ollie «an $6 00 
 
 Steam Engines, Special 
 
 Soda Fountains 0.05.5 die ca cis hee wie Se alc aw $5 00 
 
 Urinals, Special 
 
 Water. Closets, Public, per bowl... . ..')< va stne sls aeons Ge $10 00 
 
 Water Closets, Private,’ per: DOW)INAGa Sukie desc far heen ee See ot SaMOO 
 
 No application shall be received from any person or persons desiring 
 water for less than one year. 
 
 SEC. 2. Meter Rates. The following rates shall be paid by persons 
 taking city water who use meters. 
 
 When the monthly consumption is less than 5,000 gallons, abe 
 cents per thousand gallons. 
 
 When the monthly consumption exceeds 5,000 salons and less than 
 20,000 gallons, twenty cents per thousand gallons. 
 
 When the monthly consumption is more than 20,000 gallons, fifteen 
 cents per thousand gallons. 
 
 SEC. 3. Water may be sold to be hauled in the city for two cents per 
 barrel. To be used outside the city 2% cents per barrel. 
 
 SEC, 4. Permission must be obtained to use water. No person shall 
 take any water from any public or private hydrant, street, washer, house, — 
 pipe, fountain, cistern, street reservoir or. fountain basin which shall have 
 been filled in whole or in part from the city water works, except by permis- 
 sion of the Committee on Fire, Water and Electric Lights, or shall in any 
 way use or take any water for private use which is furnished by city water 
 works, unless such person shall first pay for same and receive a permit from 
 said Committee so to do. 
 
 SEC. 5. Pipes must be kept in Repair. Persons taking water must 
 keep their service pipe connected with main or supply pipes, and all fixtures 
 connected therewith in good repair, and protected from frost at their own 
 expense, and must prevent all unnecessary waste of water. 
 
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 SEC. 6. Water takers forbidden to supply others. Water takers will 
 not be allowed to supply others with water except by special permit from 
 the Fire, Water and Electric Light Committee of said City and if found doing 
 so without a permit, the supply will be stopped and the water rent paid for- 
 feited in addition to other penalties imposed. 
 
 SEC. 7. Hours for Sprinkling. Sprinkling streets, sidewalks and lots 
 is restricted to two hours per day, and such sprinkling shall be done at no 
 other ‘time than between the hours of five o’clock P. M. and eight o’clock 
 P. M. of each day, unless otherwise provided for by special contract in writ- 
 ing with the Fire, Water, and. Electric Light Committee. 
 
 SEC. 8. Sprinkling Rules. In sprinkling streets and sidewalks, each 
 water taker shall confine himself to the front of his premises and one-half of 
 the width of the street in front thereof, unless a special contract is made to 
 use more water. 
 
 Hose larger than three-fourths inch will not be permitted to be used 
 for such purposes except by special contract. 
 
 Sprinkling without a nozzle or with an opening greater than one-fourth 
 inch is strictly forbidden. 
 
 SEC. 9. Additional charges for excessive sprinkling. The regular 
 water rule for street, sidewalk and lot sprinkling is based upon such use only 
 for dust laying and sprinkling purposes fairly applied, and any excessive or 
 unreasonable use of water for such purpose is prohibited. 
 
 No hose or hydrant shall be used when out of order, or suffered to run 
 when not in use. 
 
 SEC. 10. Payment of Rates. All water rates, except where water is 
 taken temporarily, shall be paid quarterly in advance, on the first days of 
 June, September, December and March of each year. Meter rates shall be 
 paid quarterly on the above days. All water rates shall be collected by the 
 City Clerk; Provided, that ay discount of ten per cent shall be allowed upon 
 all water rates maturing quarterly, if the same shall be paid on or before the 
 tenth day of the month in which the same becomes due. 
 
 SEC. 11. Water to be turned off if dues are not paid. If any person 
 shall neglect to pay water rates when due, or shall use or permit any use of 
 water not authorized by this ordinance, or suffer or cause any waste of the 
 water supply, the Mayor or the Fire, Water and Electric Light Committee 
 may cause the water to be immediately turned off, and the same shall not 
 again be turned on until all unpaid rates, and damages, if any, shall be paid, 
 together with the further sum of One Dollar ($1.00) for turning on and off 
 the water. 
 
 SEC. 12. Connections with mains, All connections with water mains 
 shall be made by such persons only as may be designated by the Mayor, or 
 Fire, Water and Electric Light Committee, and oniy upon the written per- 
 mission of said Committee, and no person shall turn on the water to any 
 premises except by direction of some member of said Committee. 
 
 SEC. 13. Cut offs. All water takers shall provide at their expense 
 suitable cut offs, satisfactory to the Fire, Water and Electric Light Committee, 
 and cause same to be placed in the street at the curb in front of his premises, 
 
13. ORDINANCES OF THE 
 
 so that the water may be shut off from said premises when desired by such 
 Committee. 
 
 Such cut off must be protected by a box leading from the same to the 
 surface of the ground with an iron cover, on which is marked the word 
 “Water”, the whole to be subject to approval of said Committee. 
 
 SEC. 14, Penalty. Any person violating any of the foregoing rules or 
 regulations in relation to water, shall be fined not less than three nor more 
 than ten dollars. 
 
 SEC. 15. Marshal and City Clerk to enforce rules. It is hereby made 
 the duty of the city marshal, superintendent of streets and city clerk to see 
 that the above rules and regulations are faithfully observed, and to make a 
 complaint against: any person violating the same. 
 
 SEC. 16. Special Rates. If any water is supplied by the city, and the 
 rate to be paid for the same is not herein definitely established, the Fire, 
 Water, and Electric Light Committee shall fix the rate. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXITI. 
 
 WARDS. acs Ken 
 Section. . ; 
 1. Four Wards. 
 First Ward. Hy. bs 
 Second Ward. | | s 
 Third Ward. ; 
 Fourth Ward. ae 
 Two Aldermen in each ward. ke: 
 Election of aldermen. : 
 Repealing Section. 
 
 CSS OL ee 
 
 Passed and adopted August 7th, 1893. 
 AN ORDINANACE 
 Entitled An Ordinance creating Four Wards in the City of Paxton, fixing 
 their respective numbers, limits, boundaries and area, providing that 
 there shall be two aldermen in each ward, and providing for the elec- 
 tion of one alderman in the First Ward, one alderman in the Second 
 
 Ward, and one alderman in the Third Ward and Two aldermen in the 
 
 Fourth Ward, and repealing all other ordinances in relation to wards 
 
 in conflict with this ordinance. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. There shall be four wards in the City of Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 2, The first ward of the City of Paxton shall be all that portion 
 of said city north of the Center Line of Center Street and East of the Main 
 track of the Illinois Central Railroad extending within said lines to the 
 present city limits on the north and east. - 
 
 SEC. 3. The Second Ward of the City of Paxton shall be all that por- 
 tion of said City North of the Center Line of Pells Street and West of the 
 Main track of the Illinois Central Railroad extending within said lines to the 
 present city limits on north and west. 
 
 SEC. 4. The Third Ward of the City of Paxton shall be all that por- 
 tion of said city South of the center line of Pells Street and west of the main 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 79 
 
 
 
 track of the Illinois Central Railroad, extending within said lines to the 
 present city limits, on the south and west. 
 
 SEC.5, The Fourth Ward of the City of Paxton shall be all that portion 
 of said City South of the center line of Center Street and East of the main 
 track of the Illinois Central Railroad extending within said lines to the 
 present city limits on the south and east. 
 
 SEC. 6. There shall be two aldermen in each ward of the City of 
 Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 7. There shall be elected at the next annual-City Election occur- 
 ing after the passage of this ordinance, in the then First Ward, one alderman 
 for the term of two years, in the then Second Ward, one alderman for the 
 term of two years, in the then Third Ward, one alderman for the term of 
 two years, in the then Third Ward, one alderman for the term of two years, 
 and in the then Fourth Ward one alderman for the term of one year and 
 one alderman for the term of two years. 
 
 SEC. 8. All ordinances, parts of ordinances, or amendments to ordi- 
 nances in conflict with this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Passed and adopted this 4th day of Feb. A. D. 1901. 
 
 Approved, W. T. PATTON, Mayor pro tem. 
 Attest: D. C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 Deposited in my office this 5th day of Feb. A. D. 1901. 
 D. C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 
 GENERAL PENALTY—REPEAL—TIME OF TAKING EFFECT, ETC. 
 
 Section. 
 
 1. General penalty. 
 2. Repealing Clause—Proviso. 
 3. Time of Taking Effect. 
 
 SEC. 1 General Penalty. Any person, company or corporation violat- 
 ing any of the foregoing provisions of this ordinance, where no other fine or 
 penalty is provided for the breach thereof, shall be subject to a fine not less 
 than three dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 2 Repealing Clause—Proviso. All public or general ordinances 
 or parts thereof, not included within this ordinance, are hereby repealed, so 
 far as they contravene: or conflict with the provisions of this ordinance: 
 PROVIDED, That no right, debt, obligation or liability accrued or incurred, 
 or any fine, penalty or forfeiture imposed or assessed, or any suit or action 
 instituted and pending under any such ordinance, shall be released, discharged 
 or annulled, or in any wise affected by such repeal; but the same may be pros- 
 ecuted, recovered, completed and enjoyed in the same manner, and as fully 
 
80 ORDINANCES OF THE 
 
 
 
 in all respects, as if such ordinances, or parts thereof, had remained in full 
 force and effect. 
 
 SEC. 3. Time of Taking Effect, Etc. That the foregoing ordinance, 
 and all of its provisions herein, shall constitute and be denominated the 
 revised ordinances of the City of Paxton, and shall be printed and published 
 in book form, to be styled “Revised Ordinances of the City of Paxton, Illinois” 
 and the division into chapters and sections of said ordinance is hereby rati- 
 fied and confirmed, and the same shall upon publication as aforesaid be prop- 
 erly indexed; and this ordinance shall, when the certificate of the mayor and 
 the city clerk, under the corporate seal of the city shall have been affixed 
 thereto and when the same shall have been publishd as required by law, be 
 in full force and effect, and shall be received in all courts and places of judicial 
 investigation without further proof. 
 
 SEC. 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after 
 its passage, approval and due publication. 
 
 Passed this 5th day of March, A. D. 1906. 
 
 Approved this 5th day of March, A. D. 1906. 
 
 A. J. LAURENCE, Mayor. 
 EDWARD M. GRAYSON, Clerk. 
 
CITY OF PAXTON 81 
 
 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 COUNTY OF FORD, SS ; 
 CITY OF PAXTON, 
 
 I, Edward M. Grayson, city clerk of the City of Paxton, Ford County, 
 Illinois, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance entitled, “An ordinance 
 for revising and consolidating the general ordinances of the City of Paxton, 
 in the County of Ford and State of Illinois,’ was passed and adopted by the 
 city council of said city, at a regular meeting thereof, on the 5th day’ of 
 March A. D. 1906; that the same was duly signed and approved by the 
 mayor of said city, and was duly deposited in the office of the City Clerk of 
 said city on the 5th day of March, A. D. 1906; that the foregoing is a true 
 and correct copy of said ordinance, and that the same is printed and published 
 in book or pamphlet form under the direction and by the authority of the 
 city council of said city. 
 
 In witness whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the said 
 City of Paxton this 5th day of March A. D. 1906. 
 
 City of Paxton EDWARD M. GRAYSON, 
 
 CORPORATE SEAL : 
 Ford County, Ill. City Clerk. 
 

 
cAPPENDIX 
 
 SPECIAL 
 LAWS AND ORDINANCES 
 
 IN FORCE IN THE CITY OF PAXTON 
 

 
APPENDIX 83 
 
 SPECIAL LAWS AND ORDINANCES IN FORCE IN THE CITY OF PAXTON. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE 
 
 Granting permission to erect telephone poles and suspend wires thereon 
 in the streets and alleys of the City of Paxton, for the purpose of supplying 
 telephone service to the citizens thereof, and prescribing the places for 
 erecting said poles. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That permission is hereby granted to C. H. Langford of said 
 City to erect telephone poles and suspend wires thereon in the streets and 
 alleys of the City of Paxton, subject to the foliowing limitations and under 
 the following regulations and to provide a central office or exchange for the 
 purpose of supplying a telephone service for such of the citizens of the City 
 of Paxton as shall desire to erect private telephones or avail themselves of 
 the use of such telephone exchange service. 
 
 SEC. 2. Said poles shall be erected in the streets of said City only in 
 cases where it is impracticable to reach the premises desired by using the 
 alleys of said City, and when so erected in the alleys they shall be placed 
 close to the edge of the same and when erected in the streets they shall 
 be close to the sidewalk line of the same. And in all cases said poles shall 
 be erected and said wires suspended under the supervision of the Committee 
 on Streets and alleys of the said City of Paxton, and no poles shall be placed 
 in any of said streets or alleys until their locations thereof shall have been 
 specifically designated by said Committee on Streets and Alleys. 
 
 SEC. 3. Nothing in this ordinance shall be constructed as granting to said 
 Langford any franchise in said streets and alleys or any exclusive right to 
 erect telephone poles therein, nor shall the granting of this permission in any 
 manner prevent or restrain the City Council of said City of Paxton from 
 granting like permission to any other person, company or corporation, nor 
 from requiring the change of location, or the entire removal of any of said poles 
 or wires from any of said streets or alleys wherever they shall in any manner 
 interfere with the proper use of said streets and alleys, or they shall deem 
 it for the best interest of said city so to do. 
 
 Passed and adopted April 2nd, 1894. F, E. BONNEY, Mayor, 
 Attest: David C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 Deposited in my office this 2nd day of April 1894. 
 David C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 The above ordinance appears of record on pages 360 and 3861 of the 
 original Ordinance Record Book of the City of Paxton, 
 On the margin of page 360 of the record of above ordinance appears 
 
 the following: 
 For value received the within permit and all right, title and interest 
 
86 APPENDIX 
 
 of the Paxton Electric Co., in and to the same is hereby transferred and 
 assigned to the Central Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Paxton, Ills. 
 Paxton, Illinois, June 5th, 1902. 
 The Paxton Electric Co. 
 By C. H. Langford, Pres. 
 On the margin of page 361 of the record of the above ordinance ap- 
 pears the following: | 
 For value received I hereby assign, transfer and set over to the Pax- 
 ton Electric Company of Paxton, IIl., all my right, title and interest in and 
 to the within Franchise or license. Paxton, Ill. Sept 21st, 1900. 
 C. H. Langford. (SEAL). 
 
 AN ORDINANCE 
 
 Providing for the appointment of an Inspector of Electric Light and 
 power current, prescribing his duties and fixing his compensation. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. That the officer of Inspector of Electric Light and Power Cur- 
 rent is hereby established. 
 
 SEC, 2. The said Inspector shall be appointed by the Mayor with the 
 approval of the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the said Inspector to provide himself 
 with a standard watt meter, capable of measuring correctly the quantity of 
 electric current used by any consumer of such in the City of Paxton, and when 
 called upon by any such consumer, he shall at once make an examination 
 and test as to the correctness of registry of the electric meter or meters in- 
 stalled in the premises of such consumer and report thereon, both to the 
 consumer and to the person, persons, firm or corporation supplying electric 
 current registered by such meter or meters. 
 
 He shall have such other duties as may be determined upon from time 
 to time by the City Council of the City of Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 4. The said Inspector shall derive all compensation for his ser- 
 vices from fees. He may charge and collect the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) 
 for each examination, test and report upon each meter; should the meter 
 tested prove to be registering within 2 per cent. of correct or should it register 
 a less amount than actually consumed, then the fee for such test shall be paid 
 by the consumer; should it appear that the meter tested registers more than 
 2 per cent. above the actual amount consumed, then and in that case the 
 person, persons, firm or corporation supplying such electric current, shall 
 pay the said fee. 
 
 The Inspector may refuse to make any examination or test until his fee 
 is paid, but he shall return all fees collected from the injured party as soon 
 as the same is determined. 
 
 Passed and adopted this 4th day of February 1901. 
 
 W. T. PATTON, Mayor pro tem. 
 Attest: D. C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
 Deposited in my office this 5th day of Feb. 1901. 
 D. C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
APPENDIX 87 
 
 AN ORDINANCE 
 
 Granting license to C. H. Langford, his successors or assigns to erect, 
 operate and maintain electric lights within the corporate limits of the City 
 of Paxton. : 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1 That license is hereby granted to C. H. Langford, his succes- 
 sors or assigns to erect, operate and maintain electric lights within the cor- 
 porate limits of the city of Paxton, to erect the necessary poles and suspend 
 the necessary wires in the streets, alleys and such grounds as the City of 
 Paxton controls. 
 
 SEC. 2. Said poles shall be erected and said wires suspended under 
 the direction of the Street Superintendent of said City or of its committee 
 on Streets and Alleys so as not to unnecessarily interfere with the use of said 
 streets, alleys and public grounds. 
 
 SEC.3. The electric light plant, hereinbefore contemplated shall be 
 installed and ready for furnishing light to consumers, on or before, one year 
 from the date of the taking effect of this ordinance, otherwise, the license 
 granted by this ordinance shall be revoked and considered of none effect and 
 void; but the said C, H. Langford, his successors or assigns shall have the 
 right to extend said electric light plant as hereinbefore provided at their 
 option. 
 
 SEC. 4. The duration of time for which this license is granted is twen- 
 ty-five (25) years from the date of the taking effect of this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 5. Should the City of Paxton at any future time grant license to 
 any other person, persons, or corporations, to erect, operate and maintain 
 electric lights, cr should the said City at any future time, elect to run an 
 electric light plant of its own, he, they or it shall have the privilege of 
 using the poles erected by the said C. H. Langford, his successors or assigns, 
 for the suspension of his, their or its electric light wires upon the payment 
 of a reasonable rental to the said C. H. Langford, his successors or assigns, 
 said rental to be determined as follows: 
 
 The said C. H. Langford, his successors or assigns, shall select one 
 person, the Finance Committee of the City of Paxton shall select another 
 person, and if these two, so selected shall be unable to agree upon a fair ren- 
 tal, then the said two shall select another person, whose decision shall be 
 final; or the said City, person, persons, or corporations, by paying a pro rate 
 share of the cost of installing said poles, shall own absolutely a correspond- 
 ing interest in the same. 
 
 SEC. 6. It is further provided that in granting this license the said 
 City only guarantees and grants the use of its streets, alleys and grounds 
 for the uses of said electric light plant, as hereinbefore provided, and does 
 not grant the use of the same for any purpose that may cause damage to 
 person or property, but the said C. H. Langford, his successors or assigns, 
 shall furnish a bond to the said City of Paxton in the penal sum of Five 
 Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars, conditional, that the said C. H. Langford, his. 
 successors or assigns, shall save the said City harmless from any claim for 
 damages that may arise by reason of damage to any person or property, 
 
88 APPENDIX 
 
 through or by means of said electric light plant; said bond shall be given 
 before construction commences on said electric light plant.. —| 
 
 Passed.and adopted August 18, 1890. ¥d 
 IRA®B; BLACKSTOCK, Mayor pro tem. 5 
 
 Attest: —H. H. Kerr,, City Clerk. ae =) g.i2 le ere br oS 
 
 . Deposited in my office, Aug. 18, 1890. 
 H. H. Kerr, ‘City ‘Clerk. 
 
 Accepted by me this 18th day of August, 1890. 
 Lehi y & Langford. 
 ‘On page 244 following this ordinance, “appears the following: 
 
 _ Paxton, Ills., Sept. 21, 1900. 
 For value received I hereby assign, transfer, and set over to The Pax-; 
 ton Electric Company of Paxton, Illinois, all my right, title and interest in, 
 and to the foregoing franchise or license recorded in this record on pages 
 241, 242 and 243, Cs H. Langford. . (SEAL) 
 
 Amending an Ordinance entitled granting license, to C. H. Langford, 
 his successors, or assigns to erect, operate and maintain lectric lights within; 
 the corporate limits of the City or Paxton, passed and adopted by. the, City: 
 Council of the City of Paxton, August 18th, 1890, a Ng anys 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council.of the City of Paxton... - ~ 31 
 
 That an ordinance entitled an Ordinance granting license to C. H. Lang- 
 ford, his successors or assigns, to erect, operate and maintain electric lights 
 within the: corporate limits of the City of Paxton passed and adopted by the’ 
 City Council of the City of Paxton, August 18th, 1890, be and the same is 
 hereby amended: by striking out all of ‘the letters, words and figures ‘of? 
 Section 4 of said ordinance and in lieu-thereof inserting the. following: e 
 
 In consideration of the furnishing to the’ City of Paxton by the ‘said 
 C. H. Langford, his successors or assigns without: charge‘ during the <con- 
 tinuance of this franchise, of all proper and necessary electric light for the’ 
 City Buildings of the City of Paxton, the rights granted under this ordinance 
 to erect, operate and maintain a system of electric lights shall be déemed 
 the right’ to erect, operate and maintain an electric power system as well 
 dnd the rights and powers*granted under this ordinance shall extend through! 
 and’ be operative for a Lege of ae! iD hee ae Sue after hee 3rd, 
 A. Die 1899; 
 
 Passed and adopted June 2nd, A. D., 1902. M. H. CLOUD, Mayor. ‘ 
 
 © Attest: Dy C. Swanson, City Clerk. Bain 
 
 Filed in my office June 3rd, A. D., 1902. ~ D. C.’Swanson; a 
 
 att Clerk. 
 Aechoted ‘June 4th,: 1902. ny 
 
 The. Paxton Electric Co. »(SEAL) on ©.: H? Langford (SEAL): t 
 
 hase 
 
 4 
 
 3! 
 
 | AN ORDINANCE: 
 Granting the right to certain ‘persons, their representatives and _as-, 
 signs to lay, operate and maintain a system of pipes and conduits in the streets, 
 
 a 
 
APPENDIX 89 
 
 avenues and alleys and public places in the City. of Paxton, for conveying 
 steam and hot water to private consumers. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. The right and permission-are hereby granted to the Paxton 
 Eleetric Company, its representatives and-assigns, to enter upon and con- 
 struct, lay, operate and maintain in the streets, avenues, alleys and public 
 places of the City of Paxton, a system of pipes and conduits with all nec- 
 essary branches, cut-offs,.and man holes for conveying steam-and hot water 
 to private consumers within said City, and to re-enter upon such streets, 
 avenues, alleys and public places from time to time as may be necessary for 
 the maintenance, operation, repair and renewal of such system or any portion 
 of the same. 
 
 , SEC.’2, The’ authority, right and permission herein granted are sub- 
 ioc to the following terms, restrictions and conditions: 
 
 (A) ‘This ordinance shall become inoperative and of no effect if the 
 rights granted hereunder shall at any time be assigned to any person, per- 
 sons, firm or corporation other than the direct successor or assigns of the 
 electrical and steam plant of the Paxton Electric Company. 
 
 (op) When the parties to whom the foregoing rights are granted their 
 representatives or assigns, shall enter upon any street, avenue, alley or public 
 place for the purpose of constructing or repairing, any portion of their system, 
 they shall prosecute as soon as possible as the work progresses, leav- 
 ing the street, avenue, alley or public place at the same grade, and in the 
 Same position and conditions it was found by them at the time of entry, all 
 work shall be performed under the direction of the Committee on Streets and, 
 Alleys of the City of Paxton. 
 
 (C) The holder or holders of the rights granted by this ordinance 
 shall not enter upon Market Street between Holmes and Center Streets in 
 said City for the purpose of excavating at more than three places, and then 
 only for the purpose-of crossing said Market Street to connect the different 
 parts of said system of pipes and conduits. — 
 
 j This ordinance shall extend to and be operative for a period of 30 
 
 years, unless sooner terminated under the terms hereof. 
 
 + .,..(D)} -The holder or holders of the rights hereby granted shall be liable 
 to the City of Paxton and to,private persons for all damage or injury caused: 
 by or arising from the use or occupancy of any street, avenue, alley, sidewalk, 
 
 or public place by him, or them, for the purpose aforesaid, and such holder 
 or -holders.shall at all times hold the City harmless of and from all claims 
 for damages, arising from or by reason of, the entry or occupancy of the 
 streets, avenues, alleys, or public places and liability for the same, and de-. 
 fend all. the actions for the enforcement of such claims, and shall pay all 
 
 judgments obtained as a result of, said actions. 
 ‘ And for the purpose of carrying this Section into effect the Paxton 
 Blectric Company shall. give their bond in the penal sum of $2,000.00 payable 
 to the City of Paxton. 
 
99 APPENDIX 
 
 The holders shall furnish steam or hot water for heating the City build- 
 ing the entire time of this franchise. 
 
 SEC. 3. Any person or persons who shall cut, injure, or destroy or dis- 
 place any of the steam or water pipes, conduits, drain pipes, connections, 
 valves, or meters or other appliances, fixtures or properties of the party or 
 parties to whom the foregoing rights or privileges are granted, their repre- 
 sentatives or assigns, used in or in connection with their steam and hot 
 water system, or unnecessarily or unreasonably impede or interfere with the 
 regular working of said system, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding 
 one hundred ($100.00) Dollars or imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days. 
 
 SEC. 4. The provisions of this ordinance shall be accepted by the 
 persons to whom the rights and privileges herein set forth are granted, their 
 representatives or assigns, or by an agent duly authorized to act for them, 
 said acceptance is to be in writing and duly executed and is to be filed with 
 the City Clerk. 
 
 SEC. 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the 
 provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. : 
 
 Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Paxton, IIl., 
 July 3rd, A. D.. 1899. J. P. MIDDLECOFF, Mayor. 
 
 Attest: David C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
 Deposited in my office this 3rd day of July A. D. 1899. 
 
 David C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 This ordinance accepted. 
 
 The Paxton Electric Company. (SEAL). 
 By C. H. Langford, President. (SEAL). 
 The above ordinance appears on pages 508, 509, 510 and 511 of the 
 Original Ordinance Record book of the City of Paxton. . 
 
 AN ORDINANCE. 
 
 Amending an Ordinance entitled “An ordinance granting the right to 
 certain persons, their representatives and assigns to lay, operate and main- 
 tain a system of pipes and conduits in the streets, alleys and avenues and 
 public places in the City of Paxton, for conveying steam and hot water to 
 private consumers,” passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of 
 Paxton; ‘July; 3rd; GAD. 1k39. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1, That an ordinance entitled “An Ordinance granting the right 
 to certain persons, their representatives and assigns to lay, operate and 
 maintain a system of pipes and conduits in the streets, alleys, avenues and 
 public places in the City of Paxton for conveying steam and hot water to pri- 
 vete consumers, passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Pax- 
 ton, July 3rd, A. D. 1899, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out 
 all of the words, letters and figures of paragraph “C” of Section 2 of une 
 said ordinance, and in lieu thereof inserting the following: 
 
APPENDIX 91 
 
 
 
 “C” The said Paxton Electric Company, its successors and assigns 
 shall not enter upon Market Street between State street and Pells street and 
 Center street and between the sidewalk curbing lines of said Market street 
 for the purpose of excavating at more than six points and then only for the 
 purpose of laying branch or service pipes across said Market street and for 
 the purpose of insuring the permanency of the repairs of the pavement be- 
 tween the sidewalk curbing lines of said Market street. The said Paxton 
 Electric Company, its successors and assigns, hereby agrees to fill all trench- 
 es that may be opened by said company, its successors or assigns, in or upon 
 said brick pavement, with a good quality of cement concrete, and to restore 
 to its original condition and to maintain equal to the balance, any portion of 
 pavement or sidewalk that may be disturbed by said Company, including a 
 space of 18 inches on either side of the trenches, and for the purpose of car- 
 rying this paragraph into effect, the said Paxton Electric Company shall 
 enter into a bond with the City of Paxton in the penal sum of $5,000.00 condi- 
 - tioned upon the faithful performance of the agreement in this paragraph 
 mentioned. 
 
 Passed and adopted by the City Council on the 4th day of June A. D. 1900 
 
 / J. P. MIDDLECOFF, Mayor. 
 
 Attest: D. C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
 Deposited in my office June 4th, 1900. 
 
 The above amendment appears of record on pages 521, 522 and 523 of 
 the original Ordinance Record Book of the City of Paxton. . 
 
 Following the above amendment on page 523, appears the following. 
 
 Paxton, Illinois, June 30, 1900. 
 
 We, the undersigned, hereby accept the terms and conditions of the 
 ordinance passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Paxton, July 
 3rd, 1899 and recorded on Pages 508, 509, 510 and 511 of this Record, together 
 with the amendment thereof passed and adopted by the said City Council 
 June 4th, A. D. 1900, and recorded on pages 521, 522 and part of 523 of this 
 Record. The Paxton Electric Co., 
 
 By C. H. Langford. Mer. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE. 
 
 Amending an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance granting the right to 
 certain persons, their representatives and assigns, to lay, operate and main- 
 tain a system of pipes and conduits in the streets, avenues and alleys and 
 public places in the City of Paxton for conveying steam and hot water to 
 private consumers, passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of 
 Paxton, Illinois, July Third, A. D., 1899, and an ordinance amending an ordi- 
 nance entitled, “An ordinance granting the right to certain persons, their 
 representatives and assigns to lay, operate and maintain a system of pipes and 
 conduits in the streets, alleys, avenues and public places in the City of Pax- 
 ton, for conveying steam and hot water to private consumers passed and 
 adopted by the City Council of the City of Paxton, Illinois, on the Fourth 
 day of June, A. D., 1900. 
 
92 APPENDIX 
 
 Be it Ordained by the City Council, of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That an ordinance entitled “An ordinance granting the right 
 to certain persons, their representatives and assigns, to lay, operate and 
 maintain a system of pipes and conduits in the streets, alleys, and avenues 
 and public places in the City of Paxton, for conveying steam and hot water 
 to private consumers passed and adopted by the City Council of the City 
 of Paxton, July 8rd, A. D., 1899, and an ordinance amending an ordinance 
 entitled “‘An ordinance granting the right to certain persons, their represen- 
 tatives and assigns to lay, operate and maintain a system of pipes and con- 
 duits in the streets, alleys, and avenues and public places in the City of 
 Paxton for conveying steam and hot water to private consumers passed and 
 adopted by the City Council of the City of Paxton on the Fourth day of June, 
 A. D., 1900, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all the words, 
 letters and figures of Paragraph “B,” Section 2, of said ordinance, and in lieu 
 thereof inserting the following: 
 
 “B.” When the parties to whom the foregoing rights are granted, their 
 representatives or assigns shall enter upon any street or avenue for the pur- 
 pose of constructing any portion or part of their system, they shall prosecute 
 the work with due diligence, and shall close all trenches and holes as soon 
 as possible as the work progresses, leaving the street or avenue at the same 
 grade, and in the same position and condition as it was found by them at 
 the time of entry thereon. . 
 
 All work shall be performed under the direction of the Committee 
 on Streets and Alleys of the City of Paxton and shall be commenced and 
 completed between the dates of May 1st, and October ist, in each year; 
 PROVIDED, that the above dates shall not apply to the laying of pipes to 
 and from private or public dwellings and connecting same with the main pipes 
 in any street, alley or avenue or wherever they may be placed, or to making 
 any necessary repairs to any part of the said system. 
 
 Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Paxton, Illinois, 
 January 6th, A. D., 1902. B. F. MASON, Mayor pro tem. 
 
 Attest: D.C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
 Deposited in my office this 7th day of January, A. D., 1902. 
 
 D, C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 
 Amending an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance granting the right to 
 certain persons, their representatives and assigns, to lay, operate and main- 
 tain a system of pipes and conduits in the streets, avenues, and alleys and 
 public places in the City of Paxton for conveying stéam and hot water to 
 private consumers, passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of 
 Paxton July srd, A. D., 1899 and as amended by ordinance passed by the City 
 Council of the City of Paxton June 4th, A. D. 1900, and as amended by ordi- 
 nance passed by the City Council of the City of Paxton, January 6th, A. D. 1902. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 That an ordinance entitled an ordinance granting the right to certain 
 persons, their representatives and assigns to lay, operate and maintain a 
 systein of pipes and conduits in the streets, avenues, and alleys and public 
 
APPENDIX . 93 
 
 
 
 places in the City of Paxton, for conveying steam and hot water to private 
 consumers, passed by the City Council of the City of Paxton July 3rd, A. D. 
 1899, and as amended by ordinance passed by the City Council of the City 
 of Paxton, June éth, A. D., 1900, and as amended by ordinance passed by the 
 City Council of the City of Paxton, January 6th, A. D., 1902, be and the 
 same is hereby amended by adding to Sec. 2 the following, which shall be 
 designated as paragraph “E:” 
 
 The rights granted under this ordinance shall extend through and be 
 operative for a period of thirty (80) years from and after July 38rd, A. D. 1899. 
 
 Passed and adopted June 2nd, A. D. 1902. 
 . M. H. CLOUD, Mayor. 
 Attest: D. C. Swanson, City Clerk. 
 Deposited in my office June 3rd, 1902. D. C. Swanson City Clerk. 
 Accepted June 4th, 1902. The Paxton Electric Co. (SHAL). 
 
 By C. H. Langford, Pres. (SHAL). 
 
 AN ORDINANCE. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE granting permission to the Lafayette, Bloomington & 
 Mississippi Railway Company the use of Holmes street, in the town of Pax- 
 ton for railroad purposes, and releasing the right of way over said street, 
 and for other purposes. 
 
 Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of the Town of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That the Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Com- 
 pany be and they are hereby granted the right to enter upon and build their 
 railway upon said street, in said town of Paxton, county of Ford and State 
 of Illinois, making, west of Market street, in said’town, only such deviation 
 from the center of said Holmes street as may be necessary to reach the 
 center of said street at the point where its line of survey first enters upon it. 
 
 SEC. 2. The said railway company shall restore or cause to be restor- 
 ed said street to as good a state of repair as is possible, after the construc- 
 tion of their railway upon it, and make and keep in repair a good and suffi- 
 cient wagon road on each side of said railway for the entire distance which 
 it shall traverse said Holmes street west. of said Market street. 
 
 SEC. 3. That after crossing said Market street said railway company 
 shall have the right to deviate their track to the south side of said Holmes 
 street and to cross all streets and alleys necessary to make the exit from 
 said town of Paxton, on the line of their survey, east of and beyond the 
 limits of said town;provided, that wherever said railway shall be built 
 upon the center of any street, a good and sufficient wagon road shall be con- 
 structed upon each side of said railway, and where it shall pass one side 
 of any street, the said railway company shall construct a good and suffi- 
 cient wagon road as near the center of said street as the position of their 
 railway track will permit, and the streets, alleys and highways which shall 
 be crossed by the track of the said railway company shall be provided with 
 good and sufficient crossings, planked between the rails and planked at the 
 
94 APPENDIX 
 
 approach at each side; and said railway company shall plank such portions 
 of such streets as their track shall pass over within the corporate limits 
 as the President and Trustees of the town of Paxton may direct, and pro- 
 vide at the crossings of all streets, alleys and highways over or across 
 which their tracks shall pass, sufficient water courses under their tracks at 
 all points deemed necessary by the President and Trustees of said town for 
 the proper drainage of the streets, 
 
 SEC. 4. The said railway company shall construct and keep in repair 
 all wagon roads, crossings, water courses, plankings, etc., mentioned in the 
 foregoing sections at their own expense, and shall in all respects so construct 
 their tracks, side-tracks, turnouts and switches as to interfere as little as 
 possible with the necessary travel upon and use of such streets, alleys and 
 highways. 
 
 Passed July 11th, 1870. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE dedicating a portion of Holmes street to the Lafayette, 
 Bloomington & Mississippi Railway for Switch and general Railroad 
 purposes. “fl 
 
 Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of the Town of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That all that portion of Holmes street east of the Illinois 
 
 Central Railroad and embraced between the east side of Washington street 
 and the east side of Vermilion street, lying and being south of the main track 
 of the Lafayette, Bloomington and Mississippi Railway be and the same is 
 hereby dedicated to said railway company for switch and general railroad 
 purposes. 
 SEC. 2. That said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway 
 Company be, and they are hereby granted the right to enter upon and build 
 all necessary curvatures for said switch purposes, on and across said Ver- 
 milion street and on said Holmes street west of said east line of Vermilion 
 street, not to extend west beyond the center of block six (6), original town, 
 east of the Illinois Central Railroad. 
 
 SEC. 3. That the provision of this ordinance shall not be construed 
 so as to release said railway company from keeping and maintaining good 
 and sufficient crossings at the intersections of streets with the switches to 
 be constructed by said railway company at the point above specified, as pro- 
 vided by former ordinances. 
 
 Passed December 18th, 1874. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE granting the right-of-way on a portion of Holmes street 
 and on Railroad Avenue, and on the alley next east of said Railroad Avenue 
 to the Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Company, for the 
 purpose of side-track and switch. 
 
 Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of the Town of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That the right-of-way be and the sameshereby is granted to 
 the Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Company to lay and con- 
 struct a side track and switches along the north side of Holmes street and 
 
APPENDIX 95 
 
 across Market street and Railroad Avenue and the alley next east of said 
 
 Railroad Avenue, to be connected with the main track of the Lafayette, Bloom- 
 
 ington & Mississippi Railway at some convenient points between the east line 
 
 -of the alley next west of Market street and the west line of Vermilion street. 
 
 Provided, the north rail of said side track west of Market street, shall be 
 
 laid at least ten feet from the north line of said Holmes street. 
 
 SEC. 2. That the said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway 
 Company shall properly construct and plank and keep in repair at their 
 own expense, the crossings of the streets and alleys above mentioned in sec- 
 tion 1st of this ordinance, by their side track; and shall also, at their own 
 expense, construct and keep in proper repair, sufficient water courses under 
 their track at all points deemed necessary by the President and Trustees of 
 said town, for the proper drainage of the said streets and alleys. 
 
 SEC. 3. The said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Com- 
 pany shall construct and keep in repair good and sufficient wagon roads along 
 said Holmes street, between the main track and side-track, and also south of 
 the main track of their said railway for the entire length of said side-track, 
 by filling with dirt to the level of their track, or by planking of the same, at 
 the option of the President and Trustees of said town and their successors in 
 office. 
 
 SEC. 4. That nothing contained in this ordinance shall be so con- 
 strued as to release said railway company from any obligation or require- 
 ment under the ordinance granting the right-of-way to said railway company 
 to construct its road over and on Holmes street in the said town of Paxton, 
 adopted April 11th, 1870, of which the following is the caption, to-wit: 
 “An ordinance granting permission to the Lafayette, Bloomington & Miss- 
 issippi Railway Company the use of Holmes street in the town of Paxton for 
 railroad and other purposes, and releasing the right over said street.” 
 
 Passed July 2d, 1872. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE dedicating portions of Holmes street to the Lafayette, 
 Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Company and Illinois Central Railroad, 
 for depot and general railroad purposes. 
 
 Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of the Town of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That all that portion of Holmes street lying and being east of 
 the main track of the Illinois Central Railroad, and south of the main track 
 of the Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway, and the west line of 
 Railroad Avenue, be and the same is hereby dedicated to the Lafayette, 
 Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Company and the Illinois Central Railroad 
 Company for the location of a depot and for general railroad purposes. 
 
 _ SEC. 1. That seventeen and one-half feet in width, of Holmes street, 
 lying south of the center of the main track of the Lafayette, Bloomington & 
 Mississippi Railway and east of the west line of Railroad avenue, and extend- 
 ing east of the west line of Vermilion street, be, and the same is hereby 
 dedicated to the said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Company 
 on which to lay a platform and for general railroad purposes; provided, said 
 platform shall not be laid at an elevation higher than the track of said 
 railway. 
 
96 APPENDIX 
 
 
 
 SEC. 3. That the said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway 
 Company are hereby granted the vight-of-way across all streets and alleys 
 with their wye(Y) from the side-track of the Illinois Central Railroad to main 
 track of Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway, substantially as the 
 said wye (Y) is now located. 
 
 SEC. 4. That ali that portion of Holmes street lying north of the 
 main track of the Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway and be- 
 tween the west line of Vermilion street and the east line of Washington 
 street, be and the same is hereby dedicated to the Lafayette, Bloomington 
 & Mississippi Railway Company for general railroad purposes. 
 
 SEC. 5. That the said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway 
 Company, be, and the said company are hereby granted the right to enter and 
 erect upon said Holmes street, all buildings necessary for depot purposes, 
 and to enter, lay and construct upon said Holmes street said platform, for the 
 purpose and within the limits specified in sections one and two of this or- 
 dinance. . 
 
 SEC. 6. But nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as permit- 
 ting cars to remain across or on any of the streets from Railroad Avenue to 
 Vermilion street, inclusive, longer than ten minutes at any one time, nor with- 
 out an interval of at least ten minutes. 
 
 SEC. 7. That the said Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway 
 Company shall properly construct and plank and keep in repair, at their 
 own expense, all crossings of streets and alleys mentioned in this ordinance, 
 by their tracks, switches and wyes (Ys); and shall also, at their own expense, 
 construct and keep in proper repair, sufficient water courses under their 
 tracks, switches and wyes (Ys) at all points deemed necessary by the Presi- 
 dent and Trustees of said town, for the proper drainage of the streets and 
 alleys. 
 
 Passed July, 7th, 1872. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE granting the right to construct an elevator siding or switch 
 on Holmes street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That permission and authority be, and the same is hereby 
 granted and given to the Lake Erie & Western Railway Company to construct, 
 lay down and maintain an elevator siding, turn-out or switch along and upon - 
 the following route in the city of Paxton, to-wit: Beginning about fifty feet 
 west of the west line of Market street on Holmes street at the main track 
 of the line of said company, thence extending east on said Holmes street 
 along the north side of said main track across said Market street in said 
 city, thence north-easterly diagonally, to a point on the north line of said 
 Holmes street two hundred feet east of the place of beginning. 
 
 SEC. 2. The permission and authority hereby granted and given is 
 upon the express condition that said railroad company shall erect and main- 
 
APPENDIX 97 
 
 tain good and sufficient sidewalks and road crossings on the streets crossed 
 by such elevator siding, turnout or switch, that the said railway company 
 will forever indemnify and save harmless the City of Paxton against and from 
 all damage, judgments, decrees and costs which it may suffer, or which may 
 be recovered against city for or by reason of, or growing out of, or resulting 
 from the passage of this ordinance, or the failure of said railway company to 
 keep and maintain good and sufficient sidewalk and road crossings upon said 
 streets at the place or places crossed by it with said elevator siding, turn- 
 out or switch and that said railway company shall be subject to all the 
 general laws and ordinances of said city of Paxton that may now or hereafter 
 be in force. 
 
 SEC. 3. That this ordinance shall be in force from and after its pas- 
 sage. , 
 
 Passed November 8th, 1882. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE granting the right to construct a siding or switch track 
 on Holmes street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That permission and authority be, and the same is hereby 
 granted and given to the Lake Erie & Western Railway Company to con- 
 struct, lay down and maintain a siding and switch track along and upon the 
 following route in the city of Paxton, towit: Beginning between Market street 
 and the side track on the west side of the Illinois Central Railway Company 
 m Holmes street, at the main track of said Lake Erie & Western Railway 
 sompany, thence extending westerly on said Holmes street on the south 
 side of said main track across said Market street and to continue westerly 
 across Taft street to some point between Taft and American streets where 
 it is to join the main track. 
 
 SEC. 2. The permission and authority hereby granted and given is 
 upon the express condition that said Railway Company shall erect and main- 
 tain good and sufficient sidewalks and crossings on the streets crossed by 
 such siding or switch track; that said Railway Company will also make 
 and maintain good and sufficient wagon crossing the entire length of said 
 siding or switch track, and also on the main track from Market to Taft streets, 
 so that a team with a wagon may cross with ease at any point on said side 
 or switch track and also over the main track between said streets; that the 
 said Railway will forever indemnify and save harmless the City of Paxton 
 against and from all damages, judgments, decrees and costs which it may 
 suffer or which may be recovered against said city resulting or growing out 
 of the passage of this ordinance or of the failure of said Railway Company to 
 keep and maintain good and sufficient sidewalks and road crossings upon 
 said streets at the place or places crossed by it, with said siding or switch 
 track, or said wagon crossings between Taft and Market streets, and that 
 said Railway Company shall be subject to all the general laws and ordinances 
 of said city of Paxton. 
 
 SEC. 3. That this ordinance shall be in force from and after its pas- 
 
 sage. 
 Passed September 1st, 1884. 
 
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 AN ORDINANCE granting to the Illinois Central Railroad Company permis- 
 sion to construct and maintain a switch track across State street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Paxton: 
 
 SEC. 1. That permission and authority is hereby granted and given to 
 the Illinois Central Railroad Company to_construct and maintain a switch 
 track across State street at a point between its main track and the west line 
 of Railroad Avenue, not nearer to the west line of Railroad Avenue than 
 twenty feet. ; 
 
 SEC. 2. The permission and authority hereby granted and given, is 
 upon the express condition that said Illinois Central Railroad Company shall 
 erect and maintain sufficient sidewalks of the width ‘now or hereafter re- 
 quired by the City Council of the City of Paxton, across said switch track on 
 both sides of State street, and that said Illinois Central Railroad Company . 
 will also make and maintain a good and sufficient wagon crossing, the entire 
 width of said State street, where said switch track crosses said street, so that 
 teams may cross said switch track with ease at any point on said State 
 street. Said switch track to be constructed on a level with the present grade 
 of said State street; and if the grade of said State street shall hereafter be 
 changed by the City Council of the City of Paxton, at the point where said 
 switch track crosses said street, the said Railroad Company shall at once 
 upon such change of grade being ordered by said City Council, raise or 
 lower its said switch track so as to conform to the grade of oF street 
 as so changed and be on a level therewith. 
 
 SEC. 3. If, in construction of said switch or the maintaining thereof, 
 the said Illinois Central Railroad Company shall violate or neglect to comply 
 with any of the conditions of section two of this ordinance, the right to 
 construct or maintain such switch track across said State street, shall from 
 the time of such failure or neglect be forfeited by said Railroad Company. 
 
 Passed July 19th, 1886. 
 
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 ACCOUNTS Page Sec. 
 mreneurer to keep: separate account... o.oo eee eek. 17—— 2 
 Bee treasurer, NOW) KEDE se. 4 cen eee be kes Soe eee 18—— 9 
 meeerOlector tO keep: DOOKSOf-. . ui. Joie cue cc cae ce ues 27——- 6 
 
 ADDITIONS 
 TELE ON IN Soe heal a PTB cor oh a SUPT iow) Pane KIER aaa Aabadinng 90" s—— 1 
 I oh iL. es, «Beste apah a fle cde ae ee Sa Week a Pretec Ne bab a 6 ars 4——_ 2 
 When lands may be platted in different manner.......... | ccm 
 aero. DS approved. by. City Council... osc... cue a es 4———. 4 
 
 ALDERMEN 
 
 : IGA. C IRA WAITTS Sorc raeh iy Goes Goals ve BES oe ook eda es 79—— 6 
 IC IISILT SOL etre iCe Rais teh ie Gh whe oo tea Ee ees 88 beanies 58—— 2 
 Three may call special meeting of council................. 11——- 1 
 
 ANIMALS 
 I ere ELT US LATO he essa siete ech CSS ere ak eee 4 ] 
 SEIRS A TUS et ck). che erated Os Higa yet aanisne dae Wie Riked oobi a oie wie es weed 5—— _ 2 
 Manner of trial and proceedings................ mo ae Bt 5—— 3 
 Proceedings against unknown owners ................4. .. 5— 4 
 POM ATs | HIKCQOIILION | HCC costs ac 8 des ckewaty ste adnia"Wl etel Mo. aaa: 6—— 5 
 REARS REL ICN) De S90) Pee eter e ye! oF Fx ole: Kiel vl oki orertratel Song tee wag eaters 6—— 6 
 IIT. NICER PLC Cine Ake Sh Pincrs ayer e oe PED ak + eA? Wd Ul Dace Ha ditldlane Xie 6—— 7 
 eer eee at - DG. SCOUTC]Y: NAILETEG «6 fe cl hac oie ccelere bee bese seacleus 6——- 8 
 
 ; All animals must be securely fastened...............:.... 6—— 9 
 SAME Cam a TE OU ht 40 Mg ine Bee PS iy ee a ari fe apne 6——10 
 PERO NST OF cOWNET OL) COS eis noes clas cine elwlty Ui wiptee eres 7——11 
 Peet as CWO. OOWUars | DET ANNUM 8s ie ad SORE EA i—-12 
 Seen orshal tO. collect. :dOm tax. cil. 6. See ee ea ee scat 13 
 MET ROETIC LLL GINGA. OO cer: vw Be cil Wu ad oPeldcep ana wvutie wie. d doko ke et Ag 7——14 
 eae he TIUIRATICES verre tices Oe ac eer d oivie weiss toon 4 ai 7——15 
 IMMER L CUBES LAS TTD LTRS 9) 5 eat Us Sates e as ek olen Sig alia otles Oeiw WO aha a ole artes eres 48——26 
 Peer INA ONIMAIS SUNNILCHO fii ss iete csjace ce nae Scere bao hiwne 173-——25 
 ERCP ALS 1. TULSA CG oro es ockno os ia atein eS as dpe kOe cMeOIaa he YS 51 5 
 Hitching animals so as to obstruct sidewalk................ 64 12 
 
102 INDEX 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 APPOINTMENTS Page Sec. 
 OF-Citye Marshals 2S... s. Fia Heise inten a ae ore 24-——— 2 
 Of ~ Public -Bngineer yo. s. as «eae 6 one 2 spe oe oe nore 20—— 1 
 Of Street” Superintendent... «3... 64). bs ose oe es oe Lak ee 13—— 2 
 Of City. Collector nae ia ses wen = Fin ocala et aes alge ee 27—— 1 
 Of “Night: Policeman: 2s. So oo ee ole ons poeceyn sls chee 26—— 1 
 Of sHealth). OfF Cente. sveesteeees sales e's ele & sto he kal 8— l 
 Of .Special “Police yi ccs vc ee eii eins wed xe ole © bse ate ns a 27—— 3 
 Of Standing Committees ........ "Jedd eb elle Ulta 12 eo 
 AREA WAYS 
 Not to be constructed without permit: ....... 2. :coneeemee 62 7 
 HWentrance “to 2s Sse ee ae Veg eek ole eed © eke ab hes een 63—— 8 
 ARREST 
 Duty» of City -Marshal) tov... wes ss aes 2 cece ies cece 25—— 7 
 Firemen. may during fir@ 2.1... .°2 +s ssa sis 6 's,8-6 ate 3s ae 30——11 
 Of “persons escaped: from custody. .s: /:.,t..c. 2 ee ee 55—— 3 
 ASSEMBLAGES 
 Unlawful prohibited’ 7s {vy 2c gh cies bees a ee he ee cs 45—— 4 
 Owners of premises -not: to” permit... 0’)... 5.27 ae ee 45—— 5 
 ASSAULT—AFFRAY 
 Prohibited” 2s ce. Pe hate ocala hs le meee ete ee 44 ] 
 ATTORNEY—CITY ~ 
 Who Hligible: s.0 25. 5 oo Pes sine eaten ate otto ate oe 19—— 1 
 Bond Of 3 ais cian Coca 's os Wie lece ee Whe ecare ia Ronse ae eee eee nea 19—— 2 
 Prosecute: and -defend suits. 2.0. sc5.9. 2ocas eee oe eee ce 19—— 3 
 Advise on ‘matters: OPAAW & 0. aos ee eee Jn) tees + = 19—— 4 
 Collect fines and judgments... ois. ssc. 0 oe ee eee A 19—— 5 
 Salary “of. (6.60% da\sbee se dca. s vale bese cee nee . 56—— 4 
 Prosecute violations | of. ordinance... 0.0% Sue. eee . -19—— 6 
 Shall not prosecute malicious complaints................... 19—— 7 
 May. appeal from” Justice :CourtBiv. 014% is et ee 20—— 8 
 Monthly  TeOpOrt «ic 0s ous sw Fe 0 Sie ee = aoe Boe wie be elle coe teen 20—— 9 
 May appoint. attorney. to act... ....<.). aos eas sue hen 20——10 
 AUCTIONEERS 
 Shall secure’ license. «. 0. os. 16 sce sk reelo ec een se accep ae 34——_ 1 
 Amount’ of license’ f@e@ oi. 3.35 oc are csi sok nce epee eee 35 3 
 Penalty. for acting: without... .<.)0)e sis ois clete 36—— 4 
 AWNINGS | 
 Construction, material; height, ete: <2. 222.67: Sia eee 6383—— 9 
 Penaity. for . violation..".u2 0. 4 oa. aod cs ee 63—— 9 
 BADGES 
 Miremen’ to» Wears 2c Nae eds Sans oe i 29—— 9 
 BALL PLAYING IN: STREET 2oa04 oo vs si nme ae tees ce eee 74-30 
 BAW DY—HOUSES 
 
 Prohibited keeping» of Sori. US en ee 47———_22 
 

 
 INDEX 
 BAWDY-HOUSES—Continued. Page Sec 
 Miaier Of. premises OCCUPIEd: DY¥t ct vcugee ecco cs cceeu cleee. 47——23 
 MIRO ICRA EA Mie Cae Re REUTER See Ve eons ot tue es 48——24 
 Se LCiialed tO! ‘CULEH SP ae nee e es dee ek: «ce edt Oo cee 48——25 
 fee wah — (See, Billiards) io. seeil. oom Aide haw cee cece ewardean 52—— 
 BICYCLES 
 Mospinowalks, alone paved streets. . 2.00... 6. wc wcewle ese cetces 57—— 1 
 mroenned, tor riding’.on side wallks ois. ak eck os were ols ness 57—— _ 2 
 SEE PBEM EO), TSENG: ota eg aie el tana oa cee 4 a ee kiana g bee Nee, 58—— 3 
 Conditions of license, rate of speed, etc.............cceeces 58—— 4 
 BILLIARD HALLS 
 monperson, to: keep without license... 002 6.00. ou oe lav ceee de 52—— 1 
 TED Ae ClOSECH SUNORYS 1 5 aia aera aed aia uw ows! BAPRelai a oho eee 52—— 2 
 No person under age of eighteen to play................. 53—— _ 3 
 Se OTOCTIY ~NOUSG ces cet cc da wccee ec ucsiewkcacs 53—— 4 
 Mme eGCONse LOT VPOIALION (otile'n aie ie'elets clele'e's tere aelavaccts to nets 538—— 5 
 Rooms to be kept open for inspection .................... 538—— 6 
 TELE CONSE LOC oe con; o'sde ee shen dvegaie dee Ce hind Ook wiehdin ote ocghaed 35—— 3 
 PMMIUPE PIU OTIIOICA | ex coc ti oon ec aia aos ent ahale, aeauate seats oats a's 53—— 4 
 BOARD OF HEALTH 
 METAR OE nck) oc 9h, pie 2) Scans is) » a SLI, ware bg woe OR ie 8 S88 Gules 8s—- 1 
 - Orders executed by city marshal or police................ 9——- 2 
 MMR IE TECOTTILCE So aos ten. o cicdaty sinc alela state eo Ciotain’e &ahwiepal elibers. 9——- 3 
 Maseoroviae medical attendance, «.. 62 cei ds cose cnn nec cece 9—— 4 
 Physicians to report contagious disease............-..0e.- 9——- 5 
 IE ED et doe hd kia 14. Wo pedy «sdk 4) Poel <haih-dom eee elas, an whe chated fee 10—— 6 
 Ore Telia) CO COMPLY .:. cia idea © 0.0) si0che ww ace dive aie ecele a elens 10—— 7 
 Unlawful for person affected on streets......... ent: Se 10—— 8 
 Selling diseased flesh—Penalty................cceccceeecs 10—— 9 
 meer tac FIN OF PLOVISIONS x. « <4, fo id da ol hate, cosine es «oun sdena’ 10——10 
 rosie DY. ATUSzIStS —. .. i. wa. «\ciis tle ws oie ale pene wee ane 10——11 
 nr Ge? DO. OTA WIHL etic a Nile cs < cave. cea clwia sa ore glee mere ie 11——12 
 BONDS 
 CE ia Pete sce cd a fee ets oc tau Bm ia led wabN ake ee haeete 14———_. 3 
 RE A! 22) oui Soe Se Soa Ad a6) 6 4 0 GUM at Nid Nm «oleate Vara apa ane gee 17——. 1 
 MECCA ag We eal cog so 5's aah oie bSaila''a «gal Wiel Sal a We Bietala seelele Miacatapeaa eos 2i-——— 2 
 REMOVE SR SENN cor wn ac dm Bin fags dew Me 0ce tos 4 spas) ode ei aiein: chbahiats melas 24——. 3 
 MCINTIRE SOIR CTACE. oun cs chee each oo < teak Pale 4 dete) scale aee «wes 3 1 
 EEE MORSE NGTITILOTIGGIIL. .7> is a's s'diace aie fe csieeieane © oes ies 21——__ 1 
 ET CU TLCS TNE gr ors so avis. a ate ai tlieheta eke nels held! theca aluprilobi aide 'siacs 19——- 2 
 PM TRIV OC GIEE EY 00, x x t di'e a oo. ¥ #94e.0'e, dF sla aah EPP OCIA ee Rae cee 15—— 1 
 NE NTE ees. Oe Wher y er diate Wiaptatht a, ag) eh Pyvacabila al ¢ fe ei acahe & 29—— 5 
 TCI ELLOS ICO DCT yo ginnctdieicle 2's) gaia tintin se He audiete dh aiele ale, Sole Be 40—— 3 
 AMER E MIE SCR ES Y fg tev a's calico ars ae Oe oP OOO CLS pelaa eae 8s— 1 
 

 
 104 INDEX 
 
 BUILDINGS Page Sec 
 Wooden prohibited “within fire: limits.:.....:) .....5,-.-.09 pee 31——- 2 
 Manner 2of.. Gonstruction.2.........» > -slss > 2s heads +a ae 31——- 3 
 Frame, not: -to..bé6: recovered ... <.iss \< swschests mes mies 2 so ie ee 32—— 4 
 Rebuilding within sfire Vimlts ..3 ..5%.:..sme ree see 32—— 5 
 Old ‘Buildings. removed by: City, Council. .°.5..."%4 sen eee 32—— 6 
 Old. ‘buildings } nuisance)... ese ss eee 0. 2 vole 2 eiede is ee 33—— 7 
 City “Marshal to <INSDCCL.. 2). 0c 0c sce tale biele oie ib eee 33— 9 
 Located “An VStreeten tes so ahs sn aco pobie seth ea iels Siete te een 69—— 5 
 Not to be moved along street without permit............... 70——10 
 Unsafe. or “insecure, a niisanee..3 6.0.2.5 ..5 66 2 ps eat eee 51——- 7 
 
 CELLARS 
 Cellarways in sidewalk forbidden.:......2....5..s. 5. s9=aee 62—— 7 
 Offensive cellar: a, nuisance. . -#2..es .!- 50) ee ee oe eee 51—— 4 
 
 CIRCUS—LICENSE POR! moO. wa ae soe ea ee ob 3 
 Parades upon streets unlawful, etc................. oe ae 74——_33 
 
 CERTIFIGATRUOFP CLBRK 6 y42 55 oie oe cuss eee ieee eee 81——_ 
 
 ' CITY COUNCIL 
 
 Meetings of .cciecesi sie. t eke ees ect cb bt 6 ones see ee 11——- 1 
 Standing" Committees -Ofy,.4.55.50 his 6. 5s + eo tee ole 0% a etalon 12—— 2 
 Duty of Committees, . 00... stalvieele ws © ocbetereta > eke ee 12—— 3 
 Of; -PUNANGO.: .. 0.5.65 > a soe Bole DS ote eee eee eee ee .12—— 4 
 Of ‘streetssand  alleys.4 <i 5c. Sm aie eerste oes nae eee 12—— 5 
 Of ‘sewers: and’ ‘drainkee sy)... sc... 6 «snk eee eee a eee 12——- 6 
 Of "Healthy fey oe es ay Sy cane ee 12—— 7 
 Of. Fire,’ water ‘and’ Electric Lights. 4).% i.4. +s es sen. eee 12——- 8 
 Of ordinance and “prittine . Sy i.e. esse te eee eee 12——- 9 
 Of Oity: Property) Fo... e408 ak a ek be be be ee 12——-10 
 Of ‘License’? io ire fee i a sb seis s Seen oles ee ee 13——11 
 Contracts not authorized by Council forbidden............. 13——12 
 Order: of business: Of fois. cigs oe eee eee eee 183——13 
 To confirm ‘appointments City Officers. ...%...<..-. sme 13—— 2 
 
 CITY OFFICERS 
 Elective, Officers: 0-054. 2... 64 ua 2 See bo es ea es ee ee 13—— 1 
 Appointive. Officers: 7... 2:8) 5 24 Vina kes see eres teen an 13—— 2 
 
 CITY CLERK 
 Bond! 088.4. USS Ree eee 0 an leh eeu ee 15—— 1 
 Officé® Hours’ Sse ol) Oa eae obese ook. eee 15——_ 2 
 Attend: meetings, keep. journal, ete. 22,0... /)25..%.... oe 15—— 3 
 Deliver ‘papers, ¢étc.;\to committees. /ff.420...22.-5.. eee 15—— 4 
 To prepare licenses, commissions, ete...%..../......50 en 15—— 5 
 Record: "Ordinances $y \hsane he see ee ee 16—— 6 
 Preserve’ books, papers, ete . fs5o2.. 3 eee ee 16—— 7 
 To. collect : moneys wdiec ity! ces le eee 16—— 8 
 Report’ to"Council é¢ach’ meeting. |. Sel eee 16—— 9 
 May Vvappoint® deputies\ sib, stiaees ee ae ee a 16——10 
 
INDEX 105 
 
 
 
 CITY 
 
 CITY 
 
 CITY 
 
 CLERK—Continued. Page Sec. 
 SOMITE tis OG DOTIS wevelviedt labalove:statalsieverdse\chavevedelaessavensid ep Sve 6 40's 16—-11 
 MTT LEAS ay Ades wuler sala aid athe, Where: dares ao doo eels 8) oa O64 sialiies es 16——12 
 NT EME rears pero Pe eg Per gh ore aia ab EES Soa ae he cies 58—— 3 
 TREASURER 
 ET Marte, oe a 2S cel OO Gee we ae eee he aH Bele eledlnd Seas 17—— 1 
 meee ACCOUNTS, how Kapt fice sd sec. ce ad aces teeee ene 17—— 2 
 MMOLE THOME Yt Fae Petree a, « oN ted tite te oe ule 17—— 3 
 Mate COM TUY COUNGCIE (ge cde che deuce Gee cdbce ten dade 17——- 4 
 PEE TIENO Ss HOW.) KODt #3 ).)P ach ee cas a o's avn eaee vee bee's 17—— 5 
 es OF CESTYOY CU Pus a bay cle cece: oven diss a alaee'ye ws 18—— 6 
 Meemmanoney to be Kept S€parate . vic. s ce ee ccc cece tees 18—— 7 
 Report delinquent officers to clerk ...............c cee eee 18—— 8 
 Peed ACCOUNTS, HOW KEP. os. lee sere sles Baw wee oe we 18—— _ 9 
 SM ON Udit oo cad fect atators, hd Pal rath’ & As Sa der wie aly eck 8 6 toda’ ors 18——10 
 TE CS Snood ay ne ee eS O reda aluca avai A One 6 Bo a: 6 Klapdhe cars os 18——11 
 TIME th Arion, fc hd ene e or trel tra GO RA ed Ure vie'k ssi biehh we dette 59—— 5 
 Bema’. (See Attorney) foe. See es Oc ee ees cuwee 19—— 1 
 ENGINEER 
 ISL SL RM te oh Ps RetaEE OW cieceoe gi a afi vel Che cd olen: tie ole cu ele ee 20—— 1 
 Sete  DIANS.. SUTVEYS, BIAdes, ClCi i... oss cc we ce tees 20—— 2 
 RIEINT 2 I O90 So fa ated cs dere coaeie conte: 605 eels so Wa eo 21——- 
 Meee TCCOLIUS OL SUTVEYS SW OLCs Seccecc cs ccc cas ccc eeclecces 21—— 4 
 Noa a Ln aa SAO INE Se mie chu tne tal sna wiatel aie eo cikala whoo a a 59——10 
 MARSHAL 
 TEIN ICSE Al 8 ret or Our aia RW CRY OSE ow Sd c cle tat tes ene cereale Fs 24—— 1 
 SMEMEEIENC. CHOW  SPDOINLE — ee occ) hated elec elevcie vi dis taste oe elecnes 24—— 2 
 CEL, TaN, yh US AAS Nab MIAR AINA OMAN R Cas ern ote cl ats: « 24——- 3 
 OO LICE) CODA TLAMOTIG «eich lc wlan le nia to/etaelinate wee Vidiwle segue 24——- 4 
 a I oe SA ee en CCS Cee ee ee Pe 24——- 5» 
 ERSTE MSS, oS Corin ieee a toce.s WRI Bla a eal te a elel one's «diet we 24——- 6 
 EE ee er ik a ei Wee We ots Sh GAC Oe a As ree} 
 MIO LINES (OL COUNCIL £2 wie 3057 vlesei vin whale < oft cleld ob Ale omleras 25—— 8 
 EL OP CSL a hy Sich fhe gids Sica old aigietele'es elle’ ys calhe ees « 25—— 9 
 TERESA L0 BELT TPET FS Pt eee tas rae "te BT sea wie aha aie seatniaibetels 25——10 
 ENA OTe ITO hie Os Gin hace + nto Pie oe ald eel grate el aeio ain’ ales 25——11 
 PEER TEE AIL LIOORE bigs. fates diarers APR ce oe; dale: oa'dj ya @ aaw a ale a) yar he 
 MPR VEEDOWOIS OL CONSUADIC 2 .o\5 ccc tis de Gare sla N vleleleele a eee 25——13 
 MTSE OLISOTICTS EO ¢ WWOTK «(orc ccciclahcbesorctais’elatelctunatetesalateletate slece a's 25——14 
 RE MOLY art ie ee a ER KAT iN RO oe ae 25——15 
 OS ENUETE, CG Raga 23 fk A OES ta Rea Rede oe peice a RF 25——16 
 SUEMEIR TOT LISCUATZ OS 0h wan wens wooeera es dk ee A MAL ck a 25——17 
 Ee ET OTLUDLY PO DOLU cae cere hie els vis ols a ave iw Slee eh ee Ba% 26——18 
 RE LYS ECE Oe LAS CTL CP TS c Ficra<0 PONG, ox’ Meera che mais eo homeo bi a swab 26——19 
 
 MMMM CY OU AD cons ERE loro ede car akc: Peat ee fe! c- ale) duwig [o! Pe deeiledagsiiasst «ei sed 59—— 7 
 
106 INDEX 
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 CITY: ‘PRINTING 0/02 50S 6 RS oS Se wa ate wat om wees Mee. bree eee 
 COMMISSIONS uw ons Gs pete eielnus in Suedale’s sip GUeusla tet elnino gre ite tne ary ene me 27——_ 4 
 Mayorto. sion isc seh he sacs + beak knees eee re 14——— 4 
 COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, STORING OF, NUISANCE........ 51——_- 8 
 COMMITMENT 
 Court. may commit .to -calaboose-,......1 a5 s)-eu seen 54—— 1 
 Person committed compelled .to- work......<..0..5 0.suee ae 55—— 2 
 Person escaping may be re-arrested ............... eee eee 55—— 3 
 COMMITTEES OF © CIDY -COUNGID. «stot. acon ais a, cee ein eee en 12—— 2 
 CONCEALED WEAPONS, CARRYING |. 25 20 G. Rs. teas eee 44——10 
 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES . 
 PHYSICIANS 10 “TECDOIG. Sts ee eee Seed Ebb hae ak bone hoe 9——- 5 
 Person ‘having not ‘allowed on ‘streets... 2.0... 0.0. smeeee 10—— 8 
 CONTRACTS 
 Not authorized by ordinance forbidden.................... 18——12 
 Mayor. to Sign, 2225. vs yee o bie b Saree Wet eo alee ees ose 14——- 8 
 CROSSINGS 
 Cars’ obstructing .54 oc 5 ov sath watered pte seree e 56—— _ 2 
 Railroad companies “to” CONSEruCt.. «st. esos ee eee eee 56—— 4 
 City may: build and -recovér -Cost: 2.4.3 «ee at eee ee ..56— 5 
 Plagman : cates. ss so a bs 0 wie oe 6 oie ore ee ee 56—— 6 
 DANGHROUS “DOGS hig oi. oR ce es he ee tease te ae sk ae 7——15 
 DEAD ANIMALS, A’ NUISANCE 2.4 292. oe eee ee eee 51——- 55 
 DOGS 
 Must; be, muzzled. ....% cae + oe sielw ulese sume a cncce ere 6——10 
 Who: Keeper sy, 3 005 5 2 2255 Ses orale tek aie an eae 7—-l11 
 DOR, CK oem spi sace ese Hondo. sh, acd apn lg ERAT ep UR Uae re Ea ee i—-12 
 Dangerous, ,a~ nuisance... 2+. eiimbn cua es can eee 7——-15 
 Dogs'to, be Killed Oo... Vo aa. ois ae ee \. 00 oe ee eee i= 
 DOORS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS TO OPEN OUTWARD........ 74——32 
 DRAINS »(See: sewers and drains). >..00. 7) 4,-2.0. 6a be ee 59—— 
 DRAMSHOPS: (See: liquors):7) 7 Paes bert ole ee ek 39— 
 DRUGGISTS, SALE OF “POISONS BY... 255540.... eee 10——11 
 DROUNKENNESSS oy 25% o03 buhay Mee ee i pe ae nee 46——11 
 Drinking | ‘to. excess.5 ok eee re eee 42——_12 
 Selling ‘to: Habitual Drunkards.12.) J.sesk ee eee 483——16 
 selling to. Intoxicated:pérson i: 24.) cae poe ee 43——20 
 DISTURBING PEACE sich hohdsel.cetiteame oe eee 44 2 
 On= Sunday. 2 Fa liy Poe Sere en ne Ce 49 32 
 
 
 
 
 
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 EVIDENCE, MARSHAL AND POLICE TO SECURE.............. 26—— 2 
 EXCAVATIONS LHFT OPEN, PORRIA Paths Wr eee AB soe ak Oe ial oba b 69—— 3 
 PM TICUS 1D DOW. ita Oty He ee ele u ead wa ihe dete eee ecw as 68——_ 2 
 Peeereees: WithOUt PETMIt; DENAIEY ©... cic cc's oe wc ele ce estas ecers 69—— 4 
 Preemo ronA LING ON SIDEWALKS, HTC... ow. eect ewes 48——28 
 EXHIBITION 
 Indecent of Person...... Wh cet dy at eS kei to ie Sas PR eh 46——14 
 Mn VislOr - NOTLOTINANCCS ©. iva owe ccs cee eediocecdees 46——15 
 EXPENDITURES NOT INCURRED WITHOUT COUNCIL...:...13——12 
 Peeriesivia MATERIALS ‘f22u. 050. cca cade SCI Oh a ee: 51 3 
 0S a a a SR a Re a A ea 73——24 
 FEES 
 NEN ST TNR COST i alt fale. wie tave do dye! hea eid WaNK "es So hala Btw dh al avtheee 6—— 6 
 iaemcice. Magistrate not to be retained..........0....6.... 23 3 
 een POON Se NAT 11) AU VATCE oes o6 o's a erelec o wierd eleehsietateicrs ones 39—20 
 FINANCES 
 ETA Te ee eno aco a one eke, Lat din Web ie kimk e kes 12-—— 2 
 ER Ra RL ot tes REC. nat Suche Wh Pkg hand Seo, eel eeav ele Seiten 12——- 4 
 FINES 
 ETRE ert Es eens a Se Ree As a ce este v2 kG AER vg ae ak 19—— 5 
 MEERA COS ALY PLO@surer s,s). 905 2 Ws bes aici baile ww ed wie oo are 23 3 
 FIRE ARMS 
 AGS TST SAAB Cd 0a ts B01 Fn a 45——-10 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT 
 a A ei Sel nS ie ee i a a Ras voN = Pane tage By Pek 1 | 
 era CNlel COP SUPCPVISG. . 1.05 6. cee elses eke eet km eteles 29—— 2 
 Reamer TEMOVe MOEMPET se ed ce ea ac ce eee de eee 29-——- 3 
 mpooni ment, of Chief and. Assistant... 00. 5000.0 .05. ee 29—— 4 
 ON) SOE Ne BRT) 0 0) a coe ot op ed eae ee ee bebe tee e ete weees 29—— 5 
 Chief and assistant at head of department................. 29—— 6 
 ete PLE T CCOL Df trace ora oa ca or ane 4a taba won wsece cela e.n. aie olpeeld.e's 29—— 7 
 Deel ee iol ASSIStAINT tO ACU esis. cis ee acc cea c slat ee ene 29—— 8 
 RRR the EROS 132, LE CB 4 bok acl osnn'd a caena on c.4.o uefa G8 sualéres¢ s/albidtws. 29—— 9 
 No person to. use apparatus without permit......../........ 30——-10 
 Members may arrest ..... EN Pel TRS tk EN En dented EERE a at 30 11 
 ERENT Rise TIPOINGTs . ain sete ae oe ee as OU CHET ee baw aws 30——12 
 NBER CES SULIT s (0s LIVGIMOD ne 521... noah Ov alcve eee etre bh oak aide bee als 30 3 
 Mempere: to have free use of Waters... dos cc ceaccc cadences 30 14 
 weuoerepair to. scene ol fire upon alarm: «...06 0 ce ce ee owes 31——15 
 EIGN. AIRE DOL-TIOTIEDEL on Seed Savi dha ire Eade rivieke Bae tig ovine b% ot 16 
 Peewee aR Ged ppAratiic Outside: CILF years co Cae ae ee es destamals 31——17 
 
 FIRE LIMITS 
 0 Sa TE aT gy PIECE A oe SO ROS A ce hs 31—-—— 1 
 
108 INDEX 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 FIRE LIMITS—Continued. Page Sec. 
 Construction .of; wooden’ buildings +: s.4 es oe .31——- 2 
 Manner. -of  ‘constrivetion 7.2% vas. eb bie oie 0 jeu eae le po 31—— 3 
 Not ,.to recover frame “bnildings: ooo st  oe 2 oe ne eee 32—— 4 
 Not, to remove ‘frame building /5; 7.5 00.s 25 ee 32——_ 5 
 Council .may remove: old buildings... . 02235 is .4...5 55h 32—— 6 
 Building in ‘violation, a nuisance’... aes sea | ee 33—— 7 
 Penaltyfor. ‘violation... 5 $.40%.3.. 5.54 ese bees ee te eee 33—— 8 
 City. Marshal to inspect buildings <<... 34%. sun. > eae See 33 9 
 Penalty for refusal to COMDIY : ... = s.\le sien ome ace bdr 33——10 
 
 FISCA Ey OY WAR, | 0% ose RS Sees ee a eee eo eee en 28—— 1 
 
 FLAGMAN .AT STREET CROSSINGS.............eeecesesaeese 56—— 6 
 
 FOODS, (‘UNWHOLBSOME 530.0 f... oe so) ba bose eee 10——10 
 
 GAMING HOUSE: i. cosas cute co 5.c%s ee pe > peo ble ous oon one 47——-18 
 jhibsst:\0:\- Re 0) GAA AAR RRA ASMA AP TR A NR 47——-19 
 In “public ‘streets 4. fais es oo sb ass ois oy wictes Ste eins ot ee ee 47——20 
 Lottery “Prohibited. -.°..%'7.'.'. Gi. as ote 5 ose eter ype ene 47——21 
 
 GARBAGE 
 Throwing ‘ashes: in “Street «0... ie ..70)e a ele aiereter els ate eee 72——_19 
 Throwing paper: in: stréeh-:.0. Gee. can wale via ele te 72——20 
 Throwing “into -S@Wer, CU. oo/. aes nates ete ites 61——. 6 
 
 GASOLINE, (STORAGE OR) oie vs sas ob ace tee ease eet 51——- 3 
 
 GATES OPENING OVER SIDEWALKS 3.24.5 -50-04blaeoe ae 64 13 
 Railroads‘:to maintain 0 :..so0 0) eee ee eee 56——=6 
 
 GRADES, OF “SIDE WALKS* 3.5... 5) eee eth, 6 62——"2 
 Engineer to establish® . .¢ sis. da .v55.os oo cn See eee 20—— 2 
 Laying’ walks contrary.to G5 5.560 oss cee eee 62——- 3 
 
 GUNPOWDER, STORAGE (OF fk sy hid ota tcc ee 51——- 8 
 
 HANDBILLS, .THROWING ON STREETS... 22. a oe oe eee 72——20 
 
 HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS (see peddlers).................... 35—— 3 
 
 HEALTH DEPARTMENT (See board of health).................. s8—— 
 
 HORSES TO’ BE) HALTHRED = oo fo ole ce oe ea 6—— 8 
 To. be. securely. fastened» 22s 2a seuss cee eee 6—— 9 
 Hitching so as to obstruct sidewalk so... 5.7 3... ane 64——12 
 
 HOSPITALS, BOARD OF HEALTH MAY ESTABLISH.......... 9 3 
 
 HOUSE OF ILLFAME’ (See Bawdy House):.....2..40 2% ux eee 47——_22 
 
 HYDRANTS. - (See -water supply) 7 <4). «; ss cane ee ee 75—— 
 
 IMPRISONMENT } 4 54 Seviv'es so ts auch oe ee ie ee 54——._ 1 
 
 INDECENT. EXPOSURE, (DTC. ds.get nua nee. Le ee eee 46——14 
 
 INSPECTOR OF ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CURRENT... .86—— 
 
 INSURANCE, LICENSE TO FOREIGN COMPANIBS........... 35 3 
 
 ITINERANT: MERCHANTS © .c)br att ec eicie eed ee 36—— 6 
 
 License’ fees -ofiiuws-duknice keane ae Le eee ...01—— 8 
 
INDEX 109 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ITINERANT MERCHANTS—Continued. Page Sec. 
 BEG VEDLOT Se VICMAGIONY oS i.0j ee koe eRe a eee ed via dale catia 37 g 
 EPC TITER Sy 0 oss viGed le ohne oy ed Cad Jee Bal Pil aed. wy Gee iM 37 a Ma 
 
 LABOR 
 mrieoners may be required to Work: 2... sb. ches wae cceeee es 55——- 2 
 ITED SPECT STO) Lhe LEX ara AE Gece dt rere dndut decd basta alone the 54——_ 1 
 EPSE A ee TITOULDICOU el, eo ist cd dea ad lek sa Oe he ee ee 49——32 
 
 IES EN TIC STALE LIA es Soe cs aie ove w aresete Ca Gialeih a Cele ee edca ciate els 34——_ 1 
 memmerimership under one license’... ...0-ce+acdeecscccecuce 34 rh 
 DEOL PHOCNSG TOCR ie ee a edie o's, Geral atacdutie ale deta alu ese et 34——._ 3 
 ED) TVG VLG ee ck nid kl a cop Rede A Sard 0 deaths boreal dis ase whe bea 36 4 
 III LE ACL LCE too cen Sp ete eek SPARS © lela Richer de OM eh Ble 36 5 
 REE PEROT 1 00) Cea Me as gt bm Soe 3 gare GY Wow dig ahes gos rdnesda tare ace, ale 36—— 6 
 MEST MLL VG NY CE LIN cnt ow socteTe occ dias e Woke aie of soe & « eh ondgee ela hahe tw 36—— 7 
 ENTE ir NNO ce Fae a etl d wig g GedeaIG the ae AOE Ob bie Swi 8 
 SET OT a VLOLA CLONE on oin 8 otc ate a, 8re dere alae iehecs ¢ Gud aieb cowl Se .ch< 37——_ 9 
 ReeNeT Ty SOTCINGNCOS vOL CILY 2. sence sb oo bx 10 wrntote Withee leuwlewe. Bye 10 
 TST TLCS) SPS heh ST wad ccutanal covey av'y ele ae viahele outs 6 pom arated a Ble ee’s 37 ak 
 EES Sore Na Ro PRT aie hace Ud ale lk ad boc Oa da boa bee 37 12 
 meme ayor. declines tO 1SSUG.. ....80e 6 Healed owed ew elae dle ee Od 13 
 mame Voneer term than .OnGs year... 4. .6. ds ce be Bak dee. 38——14 
 Reneironsiecrable without consent .....5... 0. ec eck ces 38——15 
 memeerODL iN DIACE OL “DUSINGESS . 2. ke vos ce ee ce ws 38——16 
 ETT PR ale Sd» eh eer ce er a ea 38——17 
 Et REC TOCOT UC yi. c cyetcisdn a's > acacc.d oc 6 6 cos Gite Slave a ale seers 38 18 
 emmener tO. Nnotiiv Of GXpiration.:. 06. cece ew ck ccc ce nacd 38 19 
 DE eet OT SS CCLIVOLY. oat ss alae wie getens eee amaneeeonaen. 39—-—20 
 Pemeeremne cizarettes for: Sale. coo oe ede oe PO 39——21 
 Rel TOUACCO. LO. MINOr sm. ob os nde woe tele eee eee CaaS 39—22 
 
 LIQUORS AND LIQUOR DEALERS 
 IS TE Yas BON Song CTOs eo ois ag leis, ote, vnceleiettiels Gait ood OR be eu 39—— 1 
 Mewor ands, ©ouncil may grant license.:.is.ee0s6s. oe ee 40—— _ 2 
 feenrepDeopio,and City required «32.0.6 6. 8. hee hk ceca 40—— 3 
 DMUINETIA ITS TOONS s 2 oy oc sikh dee ote oa ea eee. eu O ee 40—— 4 
 TE Ee ci ae Ai aw hile ote d nee ORDER ORCL Oe Me 41—— 5 
 Person refused license incompetent... 0.0.00 coe ee eel 41——- 6 
 SMOESCHT SesliNG ¥< TOT DIGGOM Vacclawscte s Pols ot aw eee cM aes 41——- 7 
 PeemOe er Oolce With, reference: tO. 6nd sdiee desert ec eke css 41——- 8 
 Meee ODS Oper. at. WORC NOULS.. woes cescacscewdepcasestuces 42——10 
 DEC OTC Ve NOUSG< ays a edl oe vd hed atau et eee eae re hee. 42——11 
 Drinking to excess; gaming’ prohibited *.. v.62: 42——_12 
 Sreeuse. stispended upon conviction... 0.f560 nbs odee. coe reece 42 ia 
 EE WCAT OTTO Ss & sobs) 20 ed che Doe a amie setae Min etek ces 42——14 
 Dmtee PIT DICUEN (ill SALOON: «05 ood cldietatelecclatelstatcete slatdeeee cee 43 dys" 
 meme. tocbabitual drunkards forbidden: 3)... 0.50.00... 0. oe ' 3 16 
 
 eres OTs (ranstorable (2 vp care. meee hos Cee eee heels: 43-17 
 MO eeOr UGviCeS, LOTDIGHMOD |) a5 voce cine eres eee kw u ere ne 43 18 
 
 
 
110 INDEX 
 
 LIQUORS AND LIQUOR DEALERS —Continued. ) Page Sec. 
 Windows of dramshop,. how, kept. ....0....555 0s seins eee 48——19 
 No person to séll’to’ minor .or drunkard, etc... <i... s.r 43——20 
 LOTTERIES =PRO HEB THD iy. so ws iotn stots bes fo to tole slle yao cal oer bee 47——21 
 MAPS AND PLATS (See additions) .............cerceseee te eeeee 3—— 
 MANURE ACCUMULATIONS A NUISANCE. «250°... 0.52. tape 51——- 2 
 MARSHAL, CITY = (see: ‘City (Marshal)... 50..5..%%. 25 een eee 24—— 
 MAYOR 
 Bonds -Of postin ahve ebeleteiebelotohete wis )s d aiale ceo tekyaie eas hig ee 14——- 8 
 Shall. sign - cOMMISSIONS: 9 yl ky. fs wee be oe ale ee 14—— 4 
 Preside -at ‘meetings: of Gouncil-. 2). coe ses se ot oie ee 14——- 5 
 Supervise conduct of Officers, Htc...... ale, wietteeieie + 5 5c 14——- 6 
 Grant. LICENSES 65 38)..60 vo he's eins Mb bis pute etn le hoe yb a fetete an ee een nn 14—— 7 
 SiS CONTTACEES | eK oes ieee cele a eu phe ee tel bah te ee te 14——- 8 
 Appotnt’ appointive officers: (or... Fas eld oe oe 14—— 9 
 Call. citizens -to »enforce law  )o. Svea sds os ee ee 14——10 
 Supervise . PONCE =o ea ae oe os te fe wwe etn 14——_11 
 Chairman Board of health) ou es 8s—— 1 
 SAlATY. = OLS Fe ite te gete setae tatiaNet sold cheb! ol et et catia eveth eats ketene iS pee sot 
 May -call-special meeting: of ‘council. .2 a8. on oo eee 11—— 1 
 May: supervise fire department. f.04..5 0. 2.21033 29—— 2 
 MEATS, DISEASED, ‘SALE OF PROHIBITED... .ccue- oe eee 10—— 9 
 MBEETINGS “OPRe@COUNCI Be fe or e-i% sia atk icie's Cee bimene es eee 11——- 1 
 MENDICANTS) (see vagrants)". 32.cts's a0 e+e cee eusieic crehe cee ie 49——_34 
 MINORS 
 Forbidden to play or loiter in pool halls..........5.2%...0%. 53—— 3 
 Employment, of in saloon: forbidden<s. i+..21 60. See eee 42——_14 
 Forbidden .in. saloon |. 3.640025 532. ye eee eee 43——15 
 Sale of Jiguor:to forbidden... 2% 5 20 4eo ee ee 483——20 
 MISDEMEANORS 
 “- Assault‘ and “battery. :....0 Swot cee ee te ee A Art 
 Disturbing the «peace. 2 ei. se ee 44——- 2 
 Challenge .to fight, profane. language... ....2. /0)..2 5,8 45—— 3 
 Unlawful \assemblies—.5). 3.2 2.200 5. bien oe 45—— 4 
 Owners of premises shall not permit.................. ....45—— 5 
 Disturbing religious worship,, Etc. -<.. i/s2.0 20) eee 45——. 6 
 Funeral - procession s:28)...\..054 5 ae Os «cd aes oy ort a 45—— 7 
 Throwing’ stones,: Bte. ets an. . oes eee ee 45——- 8 
 Climbing’ on vehicles ..)..0.55...5.. 2.5...) eae eho CR eee 45——. 9 
 Carrying or flourishing dangerous weapons................ 45——-10 
 DrIiMhenness ey eee eee eae La eld Sona MENG SEE. RES PA Cee 46——11 
 Language’ and conduct ...35.5.0.. oo4 Ae eee ee 46——12 
 MASHING GS ke ce Seo as Pee oe ok ae a Oki eee fe See 46——-13 
 Indecent’ exposure: of person, .ete.) -F)<)-.45 5.9.) 46——14 
 Obscene: publication, drawings’ -.0.<.". 2 cAissoc, fe. 46——15 
 
 Lewd plays and performances 
 
INDEX 
 MISDEMEANORS -—Continued. Page Sec 
 Mockignitine. dogs or Other Creatures .f. . o.esies ct cc eee cee 46 Le 
 EUS GUO RST oat See PM Sh tg el RPE UN Dar Ud Para Pee BERN rar a ae ae 47——-18 
 nae ACE aL TH ET Py LOTITO 7s are UR reas cate, ae alece udp Wretee clk ese 47——-19 
 ETT CAMR TTI TID EEG BLT COLE*. ro oteictg se iuchi’s s, 4.0 cha dc’ al tavern ch siels.ccese > 47 20 
 SUPT ICOM OTOL fh 8 Ai olaie ne a Mraiais axe dua alo kawenc a. 8's, Fens 47——21 
 Meee sre tl Tames Or: ASSignatlon i .t cio ceca eens « 47——22 
 Sener e)) SPE ses NOt tO. PErmity. 25.0 Ak os cece ee as cele 47 23 
 PE MELO e, WCE TLOTLSE hot nonce Oe xlnen Miers alele ae © we eles 48——24 
 EAE Tale LOT eRntGr 44", cee cn wala alata eed eactceemes 48——25 
 EEE WME CH OeeTV LIT ELAS 2, ek tes AU eth ele Sk nk blk ene hae hd cee ee 48——26 
 SPCC a Po TITLC OT S71 6/5, 675 Pe eee Gee Bo BRAT AL Hay cae Scle wletalated 48——27 
 Sra PTONTDICE Mh, 0 tofu) hes! he tel opti eta sales with aoe level able os 48——28 
 REE EE SERIES ELT © 8.22 FNP ce hel hata et awe at globe Lava los ebiapocara eMese Yate 48——29 
 DTA er CeSlruCliOn Ol, DIOPOLey v csie oo a stale dials cles eteners See ee 49 3 
 ementred tT: 13) {UTI VtTCOS! | CLG sire Seed oak wo Phe ealpd deletvieie © ols 49 31 
 SCTE NOBCS 5 OT) A DUNUAY.) fo ot he ites 8 Mla do eis ole Vor t.e ete ds 49 32 
 ET SL Leet LOTS EW OPS LD): (coy level a eaters toga chase: aiedern Sa chelee’s a 49 33 
 PI TeMUGUINCO: -DTOSLILULLGS ~ is. iie)e ee leintd chslc.ccewishe a Waveccierne« 49 34 
 ETT TA Eats on. / 4 den, coy) he. Oh cece ae aol rs Saat BK erepsge: ayecelaers 49 35 
 RS rac Tc ata he th a a She cv ek edie s bral oe cablarace) Sake 0% 50 36 
 eT ECMEE PEM ATS D9 «EITC CTL Vig ac’. evie Laie lined Oi Rial hs bale, Wiebe ws voy wiboneh ook 50 37 
 TRE ELINA RITES Soke ek oe al yc lec SA rd eee oe Scot Reel niece ace ofa 50——38 
 MN LC Derk) ITE LS are an en ecu one ais ars phere d 8 aq et ne 11——12 
 EET) UVAITCT bea da oh, aie ceSi> a pie) Bale aa 8 2 44 4 0 Albi MO Rats oka ee oak 713 24 
 NOTICES 
 RT ONTO. LY 2 CLOL i a 0-s sya a tame ee Sed Ste cccs cis cules § 15 5 
 ME OEE VER VO IILY WET ONAN (tc e Seictee elie cae aw cv de See ewes 24——- 6 
 NUISANCES 
 Meee reiiises: a “NUISANCE 146s kee ac eee Pee CUPL e ees 50—— 1 
 Manure GAA Des CNLONELVE INALLOE Asc tutes Grete or ke oro ele Mea ae 51——- 2 
 IE ART RC TIC LT POCO) 4c geen cake cee aR Coe ie COE CWO otee 51——- 3 
 SU GRC ars VAUILS GUCyy nceicc dec es cc che uiee tw rete bth ded. 51—— 4 
 MERRY AATICL ISON E CO oe rn AP o's ose & 6 & wre ete Ek won ele RRS as 51——- 5 
 TET ICP NTTUN TIC OC ro waa x c's o ote dle het eas oe dec eee Mites 51——- 6 
 Terr -PIEECULE DILILGINGS , «6s Ws nn daandodeeBes ote teense atk 51——- 7 
 IY DEOMI aye See CA sd, oh oro hd ds ODD ANE Hw RRO A CIE Ree 51——_- 8 
 Serre.  Aeknseein Le limits: MOS aeee ani ed teeaiaa sete 52 9 
 RD Oe TREAT CL SLL) oe ae os ny i'n oe wdc A allie Ok late SERRE RS eke ee § 52——10 
 menaiLy for violation .:.i........ Pate a kikeihs dak een e dees « 52——11 
 MEET BIVICA TIONS — oc O02 i vc ce ce cielne oleic Wa bee dues Cale 46——15 
 eal Tt TYLA NACI cel. Bo. ele 9id edie aero ole Galetiilina areleec 46——16 
 Rr en LCI CET ALS HYD iy ch ele « sade od eheieany ohached are) ew eo bee dure Ge woes 46 13 
 UE SST DES BLY S87 UA) So Te aa 64——14 
 ROME Co emROME Perea Gers akc, Slate Oe <u: cn'e agus aided Soca oie GB eee! 8 oie 8 71——14 
 TM MCU Fa sree Se Ut ot Rae Wee Wowk owe adie a ole A woiact 7i——15 
 Re CELL NULL EUS se of pir eoe 48 «cone Ah Gh ks) bo be Hass Seah eo ph eae eete TE Maly a Pa hee 61——- 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 OFFAL (see Garbage) Page Sec. 
 OFFICGERS—Hlective 3 sev ck sea + hiss tie aes Ae ee silk ieee kot te ee 13—— 1 
 APPOINtiVe "Se REE thi ot eee pale a ein pee 13—— 2 
 Salaries Of Jeet woe tescets bie vb se whe Fb aoe uate ats hak ia fea 58—— 
 ORDINANCES, CLERK TO RECORD...........6.s-20eees csc umen 16—— 6 
 PARKS, COMMITTBE ON) 2... 2 's5 oso tisislees scenes 0 oie » eine ate ae eee 12—— 2 
 PEDDLERS, LICENSE 2O8.3 os. vc.) peace ee a's abo 016 Reh eee 35—— 3 
 PENALTY, GENERAL .3......5 ¢ sah +. oe to 9le's ee air ee 79—— 1 
 PESTILENCE—(see Contagious disease)..............s0e00ss see 9—— 5 
 PIN AJgIE Yok 2 ehh cara toe er ores Tg aba Sle S tock jaite'onp beatae ene 52—— 1 
 PLATS—(see. additions) . 54 sais wie has ae le eee era 5. Ae ee 3—— 
 PHYSICIANS, MEMBER BOARD HHALTH : 2.00 te eee s8—— 1 
 To report contagious: disease \... Sos os5 Sens tee ee se eee 9—— 5 
 POLL “TAR 2. 265s ee eee ree keke 2 el ibe \n ba im estee idpar (nD. ota le <> tee 54—— 1 
 POISONS; ._SALE .OF BY. DRUGGISTS 605200050 10——11 
 POLICE,’ NIGHT: “APPOINTMENT £205 fcc6 coca» so olels os state 26—— 1 
 Duttés:" Of AS oe ee ss oe aoe eae ae 26—— 2 
 Mayor ‘to “appoint: sd Soe oe eis ee ee so ook ee 26—— 1 
 Specia es RG hoee eyetane se te alee aad ie inans oa ae a 31-46 
 Commission’ °c on so oe 0 ae ho wi bie Boe bo aeiie is re ies 27—— 4 
 Mayor<t0: Controls dy os. ees evs ek Ss et oie eee ee 14——11 
 POLICE "MAGISTRATH (uo cn ccc «oa = cre ene me ee eae 23—— 
 Bond... OE acs. a dich o's ce 0's 0 eb w oib oie oe we BE Rec e en 23—— 1 
 Monthly ‘report «2. i... eis coe ah ster apes Sie gstenere, ounce eae 23 
 Payment of fines to city treasurer .............. Bein soit» Se 23—— _ 3 
 POWDER, “Storage Of 5 ose. oo we bap eee ets ee ne 54—— 3 
 PRINTING, GOMMITTEEH AON (oi cnxci..5,.hc.5.5 «ete ee inte ccoe ls i eae 12—— 9 
 PRIVIES; ‘OFFENSIVE; A, NUISANCE S2i22-. 3 8-eeeee oo ea, eee 51——- 4 
 PARADES; PERMITS. FOR. 4... jodie cen ee ee ee 74——33 
 PROCESS TO BE SERVED BY MARSHAL. 34 ..3..9: 2 eee 24——- 6 
 PROSTITUTES: €S8@€6) V@e@rants) © che cieccso cess neko ee ...49—34 
 PAUPERS, BRINGING, INTO” CITYor. onc here ae ee 50——37 
 PILEFEERING | | x. cic.ese 5 easels jose 9 ess on ve ueie ap bo coun. VRUNER I ns tee cae 50——36 
 POUNDS, «(see canimals): Fos 2.1.22 w ts ip cols bok eae ec a {—— 
 PROPERTY, CITY COMMITTEE. ON. 2). 208%" fale.ics Seek eee 12——10 
 Malicious ‘destruction ‘of ) 25...12.)...c.<i.ascsemsicle alee, sn 49——_30 
 PUBLICATION, OBSCENE v.22) 2555.5 0e2 shennan ee eee 46——15 
 Of ordinance: 4\. 10. TNFR EA stole hata ce ee eee se 80—— 3 
 PUNISHMENT 
 Court may. commit to calaboosei..... 2.236 oneal ee 54—— 1 
 Person: -committed to“ workiyvsi.. one .omee ee e 55——._ 2 
 Person. escaping ; to. be rearrested, (23.22.25... cee eee 55—— 3 
 QUABRAN DEN ED eh a. Sees WF We Rie eatin ies cee ti En oe 10—— 6 
 
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 INDEX [13 
 RAILROADS Page Sec.. 
 EET CASSO LY LTA RA Ga aK URN 5 Sree eA wow e oibtald Rare eens 55 1 
 BO AGTRICLIN ET SSLTOOLS! Ri 4 ON Uh ak CRRA Ss bees Ue PORE es 56—— 2 
 PORTILLO WIKSEICG 27. Fale Hout cule al ac tales ants Be Suet ea 56— 3 
 ner eR LIC LM ThE TELS acta cde eke: & ak eacacue oXk a UNE AL Oe che tek 56—— 4 
 mee may build crossings and recover COSst....<.s6ccc.s er eeec 56—— 5 
 DTU EPTLOS AV OLG ie. 5 Fo sh bolas ore eho g ol etel«. edd duo Feces ora ea swe 56—— 6 
 EIS Cat ALOT ONU: 3c so avibeodie 4 6b ake ene's oa artis herd dimes tudes 5/—— 7 
 TVET TS VLC LEER OTE ooo aa: ¢ doll Sms ere shea eae hand & hale e ele Rok 57—— 8 
 RECORDS 
 MII KALOUEROOIN Ucar che iia eal cedi herder de Glare cee ace Fae make as 16—— 7 
 TIC SD rs oc reteiha atic suis lelofalar e's © ava.e aye't es Fie, OS eRe T tes! stoi Nay neane 1 
 STAR) SG EME SAT, AUS eee Ge hea s «cee Cea cen 16——11 
 SEM) (LO. ROOD. (OL OULOG as at cues ee sey ace held bese ais 26——19 
 Baie, tneineer tO preserve, Of office .... 0.000556. d ee ca es 21——_ 4 
 RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLIES, DISTURBANCE OF................. 45——. 6 
 REPORT 
 EEE IOLU ALC. hr Ae ata es tes 6 4 verde eos wieis wate ¥en goa 8 a 23——— 2 
 PEN EMAL OSY PES ates, are a goa ta cae a ¢ le a ata oho 6 87h a Gal hs Oe, 2 26——18 
 EIT L Be erro Re C2, Oy back www kein 0¥ 8 6s a ews de wes oe 17——_ 4 
 Reet SA TGA Pe DOT Ut oe ss ee G12 4 8k LA ee woe es 0k ee 18——10 
 Bee ITS. COMI LLCS Wei eiie sala. no ole Caikis bales alee os 7 sees 12 3 
 Se Fe CEC TT CSS). Sire) ctctahe ake fete din oa 'e. 8 cc as OW eed aie widbtcelaiefe ese 48 27 
 eT TFC) LIN CL Loc oldies, hcsc/alcle WV dhacale ple thal e arte k diciece etal 5.4 13 1s 
 SALARIES 
 MRS fc ec8 21s hE R al gh Hie asthe o/h, 6%, 5 d-t'o ere eters brain «'e mdee 58——_ 1 
 MIE LTT he) lt Sats ee teeta s cree: cial aee Sled Gs Gees Gav lea deeb ale’ 58—— 2 
 MIRE LG IC So tei ees a OCS Be ee « qe irtimaie nw ote wae ew cele eG 58—— 3 
 ELASTIC Yes eon doa, Soacete Glee coeigheth eens «aM cc eele le ek 58—— _ 4 
 OUTIL oa chy PN Oc, oa dice OC elt eee a ce wen eects 59— 5 
 DEEP STOTT INEM CCI Uy. . oe ee Cee toes knee’ dda sce ecewn acne 59—— 6 
 RI PETALS Ske peter aes og eoae es ax doe ¥.a.8-0 ee aes Glae «Dea 59—— 7 
 TE LC TIE Titty) Gee nik cca hele ec aia) ea cans eee TR OM aN: 59——  8.. 
 STL OCLOT Cie a cle ae a oy Sara aie ts ates cine Rake Pe MES CEA: 59— 9 
 EP etPOO Tet) oe aie ai cle he a aye < Sack ee aa CG 6 sae eke wed ak 59——10 
 SALOONS—(see liquor or liquor dealers) .........5.......00.8. 39 
 SEWERS AND DRAINS 
 ETT aT ESAC OOD SMS. fo coc Pet cle aida oh aa v's galeareale Paes 59—— 1 
 Peer eeote CONNCCINE. Will tic l vc cdearecesaega tees eeaws 59—— 2 
 DPRCe Eth tt CONNECTION... obs hd ceee te hee te eee secede es 60——_ 3 
 Par sOietG. OCH CAtCHDASIN (te. S267 Sac eeeee cee cod eee tae 60—— 4 
 Pras connected with cesspools t.ih. heed lee oe i asc 60—— 5 
 mreeirictive,matter not .to«be: thrown into. ol. oy. see 61——- 6 
 MERTON LOY PVA) LAOTIAN .e Para haces BOO eo ek bea eeeae 61——- 7 
 
114 INDEX 
 Page Sec. 
 SHOWS =-CIRCUSHES . 0.00. bo. 2c ee are ete ¥ nigtecae pv wince 0’ wha olin/ee te 35—— 3 
 WAld S West. ir es ie ese ie «bye 0 ote ls ba lala erent Sate ie ed 35— 3 
 Theatres, Operas and other amusements..............5.6. 36—— 3 
 SIDEWALKS 
 To be’ of bricks stone Or Cement... ok. ces one a 8 61—— 1 
 Width: ahd) Tage wee Ee is wos tena es oe oo ole pe 62—— 2 
 Laying walks contrary to grade... occ. os oc tks oc. eis eee 62—— 3 
 To. be: uniform sand’ in lines iiacs. fs. rhs + 5 © ele eee 62——- 4 
 Walks out of line’ nuisance... ...0..... 2% so... 5 «+ cle ernie 62—— 5 
 Old; and ‘unsafe, a  nuisance:.... i... ...5. 645) 66 se 62-—— 6 
 Cellarways in. walks forbidden. ......%.......bs> . +s seen 62—— -7 
 Entrance: to area. ways, OPeNINgS ....). 23.2.5 5 6+ oo 0 eee 638—— 8 
 AWHINGS® oi. oc eile ost cota eee nye mee i ae ce Sienna cc ne 638—— 9 
 Merchandise, .SI2@ns,: @tC .5.5 6c. ignm © oles we atte ehh ese iae ee 63——10 
 Delivering or receiving goods on sidewalks................. 638——11 
 Hitching teams. so. as: ‘to obstruct... i: i > ssa. ke 64——12 
 Gates opening Outward ...246.042. 605 sop lesa: oe eee 64——-18 
 Obstructions to walks ©. 55.5 sist os se ee oe pan 64——14 
 Specifications fOr so. 5... os doce hee kc oka Pets one ele 64——15 
 Riding’ bicycles on sidewalks: ...%. 5... i0 ay s bc eee 57— 1 
 SIGNS, “AWNINGS, “EETCs 7) oo 5.05 ona Sow civic. oes ete is Sr 63——10 
 SLAUGHTERING: FORBIDDEN. (J... 5.0.0! so ae oe eet ee 51——- 6 
 SPHOCIATARD LOE ss: ey. ect vin saat nate a te en aoe 5 er 27——- 3 
 STREETS AND ALLEYS 
 Not to, be excavated without permit........Jr..e..ss eae 68—— 1 
 How.-excavattion to. be “filled... ds... . sc2. 2. sgn ee G68—— 2 
 Excavation: left..open  s4 03s Ss25% Seed can ns 6 oe ee 69——_ 3 
 Removing earth from: .).s% occas ov boleleuele » sce Oe eb 69—— 4 
 Buildine encroaching upon 12... .486..50...86. eee 69—— 5 
 Contractor snot. :to, obstruct.-. 3.05 ws. 2.) ss 2 ee 69——. 6 
 Contractor, to; give ‘bond .. 423... 3.2.55 wikis. . eee 70—— 7. 
 Building encroaching not.to. be repaired..........ecee.nue 70—— 8 
 Building to be ‘removed upon notiGe ......4...25.) tae 70—— 9 
 Building not to be moved along without permit............. 70——10 
 Bond» for’ TEMOVIN Ee as no's = 6 Spiess ales Bn be ee 71——11 
 No obstruction; allowed «225 5%1.5 0.55.8 ee fk 71——12 
 Liability. for ;damages- 3... 0700.8 7i6 2.5 Pe eee, ee 71——-13 
 Obstructing "crossings «N05. cos ths ose Bett Oe 71——14 
 When street obstructed: by. teams ...... 5.2... «4s ee 71——15 
 Alleys and. gutters to be kept clean.......4 344. 0:52 71——16 
 Leaving cellar door open’) s.) 4.6... ssc + b% hp sa 71——17 
 Obstructing streets with fuel, ete. .1.3.0.0n..ene on lee 72——-18 
 Throwing :rubbish’ wpo0n® <7) 0 Ss. sak oc Selisrsue eke es ee 72——-19 
 TATOWINE: PAPET UPON Ss .4) vee kw dine op S cela Waa 72——20 
 Permit ‘to open. paved. street... 32s. /...csat se eee 72 Pa | 
 
 
 
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 STREETS AND ALLEYS—Continued Page Sec. 
 Piero ss StOneSs -EtC. oe ds Oe oe ee mee isighote a ere hele «ee te 22 
 ECOL TIUICUORS | iio. belsic eliaicter eee aye ieee eels See eM Ke I Be Ce 23 
 UMMP POCO E SS CT LU AID Sh omc: cre Geol che etal feito Aree CoWareratan a whe Ow dices 73——24 
 PIER ATINN ASS UNNILCN OG, wc eae Ce bee bebe che lw hd eho ores 73 25 
 SeIEUN IGS LOSRLOD,. OLC air esha vane cea ea 6s kas Geom 73 26 
 Brick pavement crossed by engine, how...............-.000. 3 27 
 ES ERD OS SAA ny KA sk A Ea Gh este tL bh koa ea 74 28 
 SE APE ARE TODAY PAST Li eo, '. Wade ha aS e dels aias'le ors Gack Make oie iv eles 74——29 
 foamentcen, Or, street prohibited ©. 6.4 sic occ os, lel gy ais nw eiettete dae 74 30 
 Peet, GLC... ON :Stre@bic ec verdes. cb dea esiew ogee dite de 74 Sa 
 Pate buildings, doors to open outward. 22... deci ee es 74 32 
 RIE ETE ETIC LOT Mette hs. sie Ae ha eue ere a PRO Coe ee on Pee 74 ae 
 PRM INI TOME LOTELULCVIN we oboe x bo pray cre 7c 8 ONG bok aa ae wine Siete s cle ate 15 OD 
 
 SUNDAY 
 SMS RR RCeRE TAT OO CLOG OG <r ce heen dc a vhs g Slee die a ge So ee bee 52—— 2 
 STEER Coa 11s CLOW as Soe oe ay a as ic ate ogee 0 ood Adee ws ee 41——- 7 
 EEE Ce COCO OUT tot et al ss Oe gic Nave odiein g hekee Caden 49 32 
 
 ee ESSTOSECS SALRIER @ FLEES Beit Ss i Oe RP ae 35 53 
 
 I vo zig Gee ete Oe ars 65} oa c Sedo Roe oF Chan Ne. 36—— 3 
 
 I ESC) Ye LING OW Pierce 5 cic Ss 'elea + oes ete we claps cates ee 49 Sal 
 
 IRIE sl ss erase er IS a ore dons 2 ss! Seats d os tapelan Ole halve e * atéousye 49——3 
 
 Peres ote By PROVISIONS. S.. cic ch Soi oe eee ee ee ee eee 10——10 
 
 0 Net rr gs he pic Sede od dig Sb ek we ave 49——_34 
 
 eee) 1 tt COR TIRAS<... ee erode « PE. ON re. 74 28 
 
 WARDS 
 I Tr iar: NE eS ad aly ok Soil Saye ar elatw. cial 0 wa Atos 78—— 1 
 ERE LP detest ean ES ME Sal) Uy cydg te. nhahRegims Ralf shyt ap esiny olny, he 78—— 2 
 ST a arate 2 a Sy ge ng a ee RR ee ee 18-—— 3 
 REE Py waste Pet Meet ee eo ae wees a Olay ten hs che En te dee hays onah s ‘,.78—— 4 
 EME LECT AUG et ET cotta alta! sna wy. aih a 'sAajiacis, © Alsi acm, crac jae eae 79—— 5 
 MEM AIOTINGN: 111. GACH ©) WAT Oo od oie on ok af ke die Sg oe aye Ke 79—— 6 
 Pereettor, OF AIGCTMEN (2 Pi cae eee cele ce eee ewe es 79—— 7 
 
 WATER SUPPLY 
 
 MRR en kee ont ge cle adie eb ee hE ee se AE eye eee 75—— 1 
 MOAT Ca ON iret al Stk cir Deer sie Sodte fe Uke has Sa WOM Res even ie oe 76—— 2 
 CTT UC)? FICE OAL PO Ce) oo iat rare iare oul ate: oe sow Riele da ek ee Co wes 76—— 3 
 Bearer snot used without. permission ~. 20. oie. buen cee c's 76—— 4 
 Prpeasmust be kept in repair. oo...) 6. cee ee Bay IR OR ee ere 76—— 5 
 Water takers forbidden to supply others..............0..008 eet G 
 See LOT TOO DEIN RING! 22 op 05s cts cars eeias os Copco eee 77—— 7 
 RPEMENS RCT UG ahs aca aee o sitei dey eee Com Lee eee ee dae 7i——__ 8 
 
 Maditional. charges for sprinkling 2.0050)... ce eee wlcs se ce TI 
 
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 WATER SUPPLY—Continued. Page Sec. 
 Payment “of rates: ys. ives obe o es ek leis brie e yp hob eualo eer fh; 10 
 Water turned off if rents NOU: pala. 7280.5. ves eee ee 77——11 
 Connections “with i Mains coseca tae tete Pe ate iele aes Av ekane 77——12 
 Gt OPEB oes ean. RS slacecise © abe eralh ois BERING o havea phat EZ ge fie 138 
 Penalty Se Oe Oe ie cla chveoens. eiaee ui aie es ate, 0 Great Retain kel ee 78—14 
 Marshal and City Clerk to enforce rules.......<...... baiearen 78——15 
 DP DSCIAL PATO” OIA 5 intesclele ele aie sein acolo ce e's steals tere e tape ts (- tte 78——16 
 
 WINDOWS OF DRAMSHOP TO BE KEPT SO INTERIOR CAN 
 
 BEY SHEN aise ee MELEE TROD Se ti 43——19 
 
 WOODEN “BUILDINGS — (see bulldings) ov... 6.. a. vic so cts = seein eee 31—— 2 
 Old “dilapidated, a “nuisance” wo ie. ei. icc cis bw > opie eme  ieee 33—— 7 
 Council” May. .TOEMOVEe "> os ia ss os sso soit ye en eee dee gn 32—— 6 
 
 YAR,  HISCAQ os ores oot ae ae a ota te cat ath See atic ase iets nce 28—— 1 
 
 APPENDIX Page 
 
 Télephone’ Franchise -to0° C) He Langford... osc.2 1 eee rect 85 
 
 Transfer of Telephone Franchise’... 0350. yoo aches aie cee 86 
 
 Inspector: of; Blectric > Currents “...-5 oisie cc 'pis pce wee ole Ler ee pve Sie 
 
 Electric. Light’ Franchise to. C.. H. Luangford..... 0%. ...n sss. eee 87 
 
 Transfer Hlectric Light Franchise 2... 5.2 sss seiats ok cus eee sc ce 88 
 
 Amendment.Blectric Light Franchise... ....... 2.5% o.n00f se wee. 88 
 
 Franchise for laying steam and hot water pipes...................ce.- 89 
 
 Amendment to Hot water pipe Franchise............. + 6 Wale ss» ec 90 
 
 Amendment to’ Hot. water pipe Franchise....<2..73 2. 4 0.....00 ee 91 
 
 Amendment to Hot. water pipe Franchise..........:.0.5 soe eee 92 
 
 Granting use of Holmes street to .L..B. & Mi R.-Ri. 3c... soe 93 
 
 Dedicating portion Holmes St. to L. B. & M. R. R........ * 5 une tua Sos ae eee 94 
 
 Granting right.of way_in Holmes St. to L. B’& M, R.-Ro.... eee eee 94 
 
 Dedicating ‘portion Holmes St.:to L. B. & Mo Re Riy. 2 eee 95 
 
 Granting right to construct elevator siding in Holmes St.............. 96 
 
 Granting right to construct switch; in’ Holmes St.......:.:..< nue eee 97 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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