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 GENERAL ORDINANCES. 
 
 No. 4133. Passed December 7, 1888. 
 
 To annex Territory to the Twenty-eighth Ward. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the territory bounded and described as follows, 
 to-wit: That part of Section Fifteen (15) in Millcreek Township, 
 Hamilton County, Ohio, and formerly within the limits of the 
 village of Avondale, in sain inty, described as follows: Com- 
 mencing in the south line of Section Fifteen (15) at a point 
 which is the southeast corner of the Zoological Gardens ; thence 
 along the east line of the Zoological Gardens northwardly to Forest 
 Avenue ; thence westwardly along said Forest Avenue to the west 
 line of the Cincinnati and Spring-Grove Narrow-Gauge Railroad ; 
 thence northwardly along the said west line of said railroad, with 
 the courses and distances thereof as projected and partly construct- 
 ed, to the easterly line of the Carthage Turnpike; thence south- 
 wardly along the said easterly line of the Carthage Turnpike with 
 the courses and distances thereof to the said south line of Section 
 15; thence eastward ly along said south line of Section 15 to the 
 place of beginning, be annexed to and made part and parcel of the 
 Twenty-eighth Ward of the said city of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances heretofore 
 passed that are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance 
 be repealed. 
 
 NO. 127. Passed October 2, 1891. 
 
 To annex Territory to the Twenty- eighth Ward. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That the annexation to the city of Cincinnati of the 
 territory hereinafter described to be a part of the Twenty-eighth 
 Ward is hereby authorized, viz. : That part of Section Fifteen 
 (15) in Millcreek Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, beginning at 
 
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 the intersection of the east line of Carthage Turnpike, with the 
 south line of Section Fifteen, thence west with the south line of 
 Section Fifteen to the middle of the Carthage Turnpike, thence 
 northwardly along the middle of the Carthage Turnpike to the 
 south line of Fisher Avenue, thence eastwardly with the south 
 line of Fisher Avenue to the east line of Carthage Turnpike, 
 thence southwardly with the east line of Carthage Turnpike to the 
 south line of Section Fifteen, the place of beginning, being the 
 east one half of the said Carthage Turnpike, from the south line 
 of Section Fifteen to Fisher Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the corporation counsel is hereby authorized to 
 prosecute the proceedings necessary to effect such annexation. 
 
 No. 822 . Passed August 10, 1894. 
 
 Declaring- the intention of the City of Cincinnati to annex the con- 
 tiguous municipal corporations of Avondale, Clifton, Linwood, 
 Riverside, and "Westwood to the corporate limits of said city. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That its intention is hereby declared to annex to the 
 corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati the following municipal 
 corporations lying within the county of Hamilton, and located 
 contiguous to the said city of Cincinnati, viz. : The villages of 
 Avoudale, Clifton, Linwood, Riverside, and Westwood, according 
 to their respective boundaries as now established by law and the 
 records of Hamilton County, to which reference is hereby made 
 for a more particular description. 
 
 Sec. 2. That upon the passage of this ordinance it shall be the 
 duty of the mayor of the city of Cincinnati to cause this ordinance 
 to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in two 
 newspapers published and of general circulation in Hamilton 
 County ; and if there be any objection to or remonstrances against 
 the proposed annexation, the same shall be filed with the clerk of 
 the Board of Legislation of said city, and said clerk shall present 
 the same at the next regular meeting of the board, and the board 
 will hear all objections and remonstrances, and finally determine 
 the same by ordinance. 
 
 1 ^ 0 . 830 . Passed September 21, 1894. 
 
 Disposing of the objections to and remonstrances against the annex- 
 ation of the municipal corporations of Avondale, Clifton, Linwood, 
 Riverside, and Westwood to the corporate limits of the City of 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Whereas , On the 10th day of August, 1894, an ordinance was 
 passed by the Board of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati, 
 declaring the intention of said city to annex the municipal corpora- 
 
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 tions of Avondale, Clifton, Lin wood, Riverside, and Westwood to 
 the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati ; and 
 
 Whereas, The mayor of the city of Cincinnati has caused said 
 ordinance to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks 
 in two newspapers published and of general circulation in the 
 county of Hamilton; and 
 
 Whereas, Certain objections to and remonstrances against the 
 proposed annexation have been filed with the clerk of the Board 
 of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati, and by said clerk presented 
 to said board at its next regular meeting ; and 
 
 Whereas, Said board is now fully advised of the reasons pre- 
 sented against the annexation of said municipal corporations, and 
 has heard all persons desiring to be heard on said subject : Now, 
 therefore — 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That in the opinion of said board the objections to 
 the annexation of the municipal corporations of Avondale, Clifton, 
 Lin wood, Riverside, and Westwood to the corporate limits of the 
 city of Cincinnati, and the remonstrances against the same, do not 
 constitute valid objections to said annexation, and this board hereby 
 determines that the same are not well taken. 
 
 !N"0. 84:1. Passed October 5, 1894. 
 
 To annex the contiguous municipal corporations of Avondale, Clifton, 
 Linwood, Riverside, and Westwood to the corporate limits of the 
 City of Cincinnati, and to fix the time for holding an election to 
 determine whether said municipalities shall be annexed. 
 
 Whereas, On the 10th day of August, 1894, an ordinance was 
 passed by the Board of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati, 
 declaring the intention of said city to annex the municipal corpo- 
 rations of Avondale, Clifton, Linwood, Riverside, and Westwood 
 to the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati under and by 
 virtue of certain acts of the General Assembly of the State 
 of Ohio ; and 
 
 Whereas, The mayor of the city of Cincinnati on the 21st day 
 of August, 1894, caused said ordinance to be published once a week 
 for four consecutive weeks in two newspapers published and of 
 general circulation in the county of Hamilton ; and 
 
 Whereas, Certain objections to and remonstrances against the 
 said proposed annexation were filed with the clerk of the Board of 
 Legislation of the city of Cincinnati, and thereafter presented to 
 said Board for consideration ; and 
 
 Whereas, The said board at its next regular meeting, after due 
 notice, heard said objections and remonstrances, and determined 
 that the same were not well taken : Now, therefore — 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the municipal corporations of Avondale, Clifton, 
 
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 Linwood, Riverside, and Westwood are hereby annexed to the city 
 of Cincinnati, subject to the election provided for by law ; and the 
 time for holding said election to determine whether said munici- 
 palities shall be annexed is hereby fixed on Tuesday, the 6th day 
 of November, 1894. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances inconsistent herewith be and the 
 same are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 43. Passed July 6, 1897. 
 
 Annexing- certain Territory to the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the annexation to the city of Cincinnati of the ter- 
 ritory hereinafter described be and the same is hereby authorized. 
 
 Tract No. 1 — Beginning at the northeast corner of Section No. 3 
 of Millcreek Township ; thence south along the west line of Section 
 No. 3, Millcreek Township, a distance of six hundred feet ; thence 
 east a distance of four hundred and thirty-one and thirty- eight 
 hundredths feet; thence south a distance of five hundred and fifty- 
 eight feet ; thence east a distance of three hundred and seventy-two 
 feet, more or less, to the west line of C. C. Bragg’s 50 . 75-acre traot ; 
 thence south along said west line, being the present corporation 
 line of the city of Cincinnati, a distance of eighteen hundred and 
 twenty-eight feet, more or less, to the south line of C. C. Bragg’s 
 50. 75 -acre tract; thence east along said south line a distance of 
 eight hundred and nine and sixteen hundredths feet to the east 
 line of C. C. Bragg’s 50.75-acre tract; thence north along said 
 east line to the north line of said C. C. Bragg’s 50.75-acre tract, 
 being the north line of Section 3, Millcreek Township, and the cor- 
 poration line of the city of Cincinnati ; thence west along said 
 north line of Section 3, Millcreek Township, and the corporation 
 line of the city of Cincinnati to the northeast corner of Section 3, 
 Millcreek Township, and the place of beginning. 
 
 Trad No. 2 — Beginning at a point in the east line of Reading 
 Road, where the same intersects the south line of Section 10, Mill- 
 creek Township, being the present corporation line of the city of 
 Cincinnati ; thence northeast along the northeast line of Reading 
 Road to a point north of Hopkins Avenue, directly opposite the line 
 that divides Lots 23 and 22 and 20 and 21 of Joseph W. Blachley’s 
 farm subdivision ; thence northwest crossing the Reading Road and 
 continuing on said lot-line before described to Blachley Avenue ; 
 thence in a westerly and southerly direction along the northeast 
 line of Blachley Avenue to the southwest side of Paddock Road ; 
 thence south along the southwest side of Paddock Road to a point, 
 said point being 220 feet from the west line of Reading Road at 
 
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 right angles; thence southwest following the dividing line between 
 Lots 33 to 39 and 23 to 30 of Rose Hill Park subdivision, Avon- 
 dale, by Robert Mitchell, to the south line of Section 10, Mill- 
 creek Township, and the corporation line of the city of Cincinnati; 
 thence east along the south line of Section 10, Millcreek Township, 
 and the corporation line of the oity of Cincinnati to the east line 
 of the Reading Road, the place of beginning, and the corporation 
 line of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the corporation counsel of the city of Cincinnati 
 is hereby authorized to prosecute the proceedings necessary to effect 
 such annexation. 
 
 No. 281. Passed June 10, 1892. 
 
 To regulate ale, beer, and porter houses and shops, taverns, and other 
 houses for public entertainment. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any girl or girls, woman or 
 women, to be employed, or to render service of any description 
 whatsoever, either with or without compensation, in any ale or 
 porter house, or in any room or place in which ale, beer, porter, 
 wine, or liquors are sold, as a waiter, bar-tender, or in any capacity 
 which shall render it necessary for her to render service of any 
 kind whatsoever in any room where said ale, beer, porter, wine, or 
 liquors are sold or kept for sale ; provided, that this ordinance 
 shall not prevent any proprietor of such place or places from 
 employing his wife or any female member of his family in his 
 assistance in such place or places. 
 
 Sec. 2. Every person employing any girl or girls, woman or 
 women, or permitting or suffering any girl or girls, woman or 
 women, to render service with or without compensation in such 
 place or places, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, shall 
 on conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than five dollars 
 nor more than twenty-five dollars for every day such person or 
 persons shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to render service 
 in violation of this section ; and every girl or woman who shall be 
 so employed in such place or places, or who shall render service 
 therein, contrary to the provisions of said sections, shall on con- 
 viction thereof be fined in any sum not less than five dollars nor 
 more than twenty-five dollars for every day such girl or woman 
 renders service as aforesaid. Nothing herein contained shall make 
 such employment unlawful where such drinks are sold with, or as a 
 part of, a meal in any regular dining-room or restaurant. 
 
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 1 ^ 0 . 551 . Passed June 23, 1893. 
 
 Providing’ for the removal of dead animals and animal offal from 
 
 dwelling’s, hotels, stock - yards, slaughter - houses, streets, and com- 
 mons of the City of Cincinnati for a period of ten years. 
 
 Whereas, On the 24th day of February, 1893, the Board of 
 Legislation of the city of Cincinnati passed a resolution directing 
 the city clerk to advertise for sealed proposals for the removal of 
 all dead animals and animal matter and offal from the dwellings, 
 boarding-houses, hotels, stock-yards, slaughter-houses, streets, alleys, 
 and commons of the city for a period of ten years, in accordance 
 with specifications duly adopted by said Board of Legislation ; and 
 
 Whereas , By said specifications proposals were invited for the 
 removal and disposition of dead animals and slaughter-house 
 offal ; and 
 
 Whereas, After due advertisement bids were received March 30, 
 1893, in pursuance of said advertisement, said resolution, and said 
 specifications, for the removal and disposition of dead animals and 
 slaughter-house offal ; and 
 
 Whereas, The following proposal was made by John Jones, refer- 
 ring to Proposal Two (2) of said specifications, viz.: The under- 
 signed will make no charge to the city for the removal of dead 
 animals and slaughter-house offal from the streets and all other 
 places within the city ; neither will he pay any thing for the privi- 
 lege of remoying such dead animals and slaughter-house offal from 
 the streets and all other places within the city ; but he will remove 
 such dead animals and slaughter-house offal from the city and all 
 other places within the city in consideration of the award to him 
 of the privilege so to do ; and 
 
 Whereas , Said proposal so made as aforesaid by the said John 
 Jones was the lowest and best proposal made for the removal and 
 disposition of said dead animals and slaughter-house offal : Now, 
 therefore — 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation, That the said 
 proposal of the said John Jones be and the same is hereby accepted 
 upon the terms and conditions set forth in said specifications and 
 proposals, as follows, viz.: 
 
 First — The said John Jones shall within ten (10) days after the 
 passage of this ordinance enter into a contract with the city of 
 Cincinnati, the Board of Administration acting for and on behalf 
 of the city in the making of the same, and being hereby fully 
 empowered thereunto, binding himself, his heirs, executors, adminis- 
 trators, successors, and assigns, for and during the full term of ten 
 (10) years from and after the making of said contract, to enter upon 
 the performance thereof within one hundred and twenty (120) days 
 from the date of the signing of the same, to remove all slaughter- 
 house offal daily in covered wagons of such character as shall be 
 
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 approved by the Board of Administration, but which character 
 after it has been once approved is not to be changed without the 
 consent of both the said Board of Administration and the said 
 John Jones, his heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and 
 assigns ; to immediately provide for the removal and to promptly 
 remove in covered wagons, in such manner as will least offend the 
 sight or smell, any animal dying from disease, condemned, or unfit 
 for food, or which has been killed by accident, upon receiving notice 
 thereof ; to cause the removal of carcasses and dead animals and 
 slaughter-house offal to be made at such hours as shall be prescribed 
 by the Board of Administration, and in such manner as will least 
 offend the sight or smell ; and to cause all dead animals and slaughter- 
 house offal so removed under the contract entered into between the 
 said city of Cincinnati and the said John Jones to be taken beyond 
 the city limits to be disposed of. The said John Jones, his heirs, 
 executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, shall have the 
 right to the use of a w r harf free of any costs whatever to the said 
 John Jones, his heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and 
 assigns, to be designated and provided by the Board of Adminis- 
 tration for all wharf purposes connected with the performance of 
 the contract, should such be required. This right, however, shall 
 not be construed to cover or include the use of a wharf-boat. 
 
 Second — In consideration of the agreement of the said John 
 Jones to so remove and dispose of said dead animals and slaughter- 
 house offal, the said city of Cincinnati shall bind itself by said con- 
 tract to grant to the said John Jones, his heirs, executors, adminis- 
 trators, successors, and assigns, for the period of ten (10) years 
 from the date of signing said contract, the privilege and right of 
 removing and disposing of all dead animals, animal matter, and 
 slaughter-house offal from the streets and all other places within 
 the city of Cincinnati, upon the terms and conditions set forth and 
 prescribed herein. 
 
 Third — The said John Jones shall enter into a bond within ten 
 (10) days from the time when this ordinance shall take effect in the 
 sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), with at least two 
 good and sufficient sureties, who will qualify as owners of real 
 estate of the value double the amount of said bond, conditioned 
 that the said John Jones, his heirs, executors, administrators, suc- 
 cessors, and assigns, will faithfully carry out said contract. 
 
 226. Passed March 25, 1892. 
 
 To regulate public ball-rooms, dance and concert halls. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That it shall be unlawful for any young girl a minor to enter any 
 public ball-room, dance-hall, or concert-hall without having some 
 
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 lawful business, or accompanied by a parent or guardian ; and if any 
 minors frequent such place as ball-room, dance-hall, or concert-hall, 
 it shall become the duty of the police to arrest all such persons, 
 and on conviction thereof they shall be fined not more than ten 
 dollars nor less than five dollars, and for any subsequent offense 
 shall upon conviction or convictions thereof be fined not more 
 than twenty-five dollars nor less than ten dollars, or be imprisoned 
 not more than ten days, or both. 
 
 Sec. 2, The keeper or persons having in charge any ball-room, 
 dance-hall, or concert-hall, who shall knowingly permit any minor 
 except members of his own family to enter said ball-room, dance-hall, 
 or concert-hall, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less 
 than twenty -five dollars, or be imprisoned not more than twenty 
 days, or both ; and it shall be the duty of the mayor and superin- 
 tendent of police to see that this ordinance is enforced. 
 
 "NO. 3964 . Passed August 17, 1887. 
 
 Providing* for the regulation of bootblacks. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That no boy or boys or other persons known as boot- 
 blacks shall ply their trade or business in any streets, avenues, 
 parks, or other public spaces of this city without a permit from the 
 mayor, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the mayor is hereby authorized to grant permits 
 in writing to the class of persons known as bootblacks to ply their 
 trade or business in the streets, avenues, parks, or other public 
 spaces of this city. No permit shall be issued to any applicant 
 until the parent or guardian of said applicant or some other 
 person shall give to the mayor satisfactory assurance of the good 
 character of such applicant. All permits granted under this ordi- 
 nance shall last for a period of not more than one year, and may 
 be renewed annually. 
 
 Sec. 3. That each person receiving such permit as provided for 
 in the foregoing section shall forthwith present the same to the 
 superintendent of police, whose duty it shall be to supply such 
 persons with a badge and number made of metal, said badge to be 
 and remain the property of the city of Cincinnati, and shall be 
 returned to said superintendent of police at the expiration of the 
 time for which said permit was granted, or at any time should said 
 permit be revoked ; the superintendent of police shall indorse such 
 number upon the permit, and cause a record to be made of the name 
 of each person to whom a permit is granted, with his place of resi- 
 dence, the business he is permitted to pursue under this ordinance, 
 and the number with which he is supplied. The superintendent of 
 police on issuing each and every permit, including renewals, shall 
 
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 collect a fee of ten cents from each person to whom the badge and 
 number herein provided for are issued. Said tax as herein provided 
 for shall be paid into the city treasury in the same manner as license 
 fees. 
 
 Sec. 4. That each person to whom a number and badge are 
 issued under the preceding section of this ordinance shall while 
 plying his business wear said badge on the front of his hat or cap, 
 or on the breast of his coat, so that the same may be plainly seen. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the mayor may revoke the permit herein provided 
 for, and it shall be deemed sufficient cause for such revocation that 
 the person whose permit is revoked has while enjoying said permit 
 been guilty of using indecent or profane language, or of commit- 
 ting any act of a disorderly or dishonest nature, or has, if a minor, 
 been visiting or loitering around saloons, or in any case if seen 
 intoxicated on the streets or public thoroughfare while wearing 
 said number or pursuing the vocation of bootblack. 
 
 Sec. 6 That any violation of or failure to comply with the 
 provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not to 
 exceed ten dollars and costs, in default of which the offender be 
 committed to the House of Refuge. 
 
 A RESOLUTION. Passed September 30, 1887. 
 
 Authorizing: bridgre over and across Hazen Alley. 
 
 Besolved, That the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company be and 
 they are hereby authorized and granted the right to build a bridge 
 over and across Hazen Alley, between Henry Street and McMicken 
 Avenue, for the purpose of connecting their property situated on 
 both sides of said alley, upon condition that said company will re- 
 move bridge within thirty days after receiving notice so to do from 
 the Board of Public Affairs; said bridge to be at least twenty-five 
 feet above the alley, and to be built under direction and to the 
 satisfaction of the Board of Public Affairs and the inspector of 
 buildings. 
 
 N“0. 54 . Passed September 9, 1890. 
 
 Granting- to the Roth - Meyer Packing: Company permission to erect 
 a bridg-e across Espanola Alley, connecting 1 building’s on either 
 side thereof. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincin- 
 nati, That permission be and the same is hereby granted to the 
 Roth -Meyer Packing Company to erect a bridge not exceeding 
 seventy (70) feet in width across Espanola Alley, between Louisa 
 Street and Freeman Avenue, for the purpose of connecting their 
 buildings on either side of said alley. Said bridge to be not less 
 
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 than sixteen (16) feet above the curb of said alley, and said 
 bridge to be built so as not to obstruct or interfere with ordinary 
 travel through said alley. 
 
 I7o. 599. Passed August 4, 1893. 
 
 To authorize and permit the Cincinnati Abattoir Company to con- 
 nect their buildings on Alabama Avenue by constructing bridges 
 across said Alabama Avenue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That the Cincinnati Abattoir Company be and it is hereby author- 
 ized and permitted to connect its buildings on the south side of 
 Alabama Avenue with its buildings on the north side of Alabama 
 Avenue by constructing three (B) bridges across said Alabama 
 Avenue ; one bridge to be constructed at a point not more than 
 twelve (12) feet west of Johnston Street, another bridge at a 
 point not more than sixty (60) feet west of Johnston Street, and 
 another bridge at a point not more than two hundred and thirty 
 (230) feet west of Johnston Street. Said bridges to be not less 
 than sixteen (16) feet above the surface of said avenue over which 
 they are to be built, and to be without any uprights or supports in 
 the roadway of the avenue, and according to plans which must first 
 be approved by the chief engineer of the Board of Administra- 
 tion and the inspector of buildings as to security and safety. 
 
 I7o. 473. Passed March 10, 1893. 
 
 To authorize and permit the J. A. Fay & Egan Company to connect 
 their buildings at the corner of Front and John streets by con- 
 structing a bridge across John Street, north of Front Street, and 
 one across Front Street, west of John Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That the J. A. Fay & Egan Company (a large manufacturing 
 company doing business at Front and John streets, and using in 
 their said business the buildings at the northeast corner, the north- 
 west corner, and the southwest corner of said streets) be and it is 
 hereby authorized and permitted to connect its said buildings at 
 said corners by constructing a bridge across John Street at a point 
 not more than sixty (60) feet north of Front Street, and another 
 bridge across Front Street at a point not more than forty (40) feet 
 west of John Street ; said bridges to be not less that thirty (80) 
 feet above the surface of said streets over which they are to be 
 built, and to be without any uprights or supports in the roadway of 
 the street, and according to plans which must first be approved by 
 the chief engineer of the Board of Administration and the inspector 
 of buildings as to security and safety. 
 
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 No. 716. Passed January 5, 1894. 
 
 Granting" to the A. Sander Packing Company permission to erect a 
 bridge across Espanola Alley. : 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the A. Sander Packing Company, of Cincinnati, O., its successors 
 and assigns, to erect a bridge not exceeding fifty (50) feet in width 
 across Espanola Alley, between Louisa Street and Freeman Avenue, 
 and to maintain the same for the purpose of connecting its build- 
 ings on either side of said alley ; said bridge to be not less than 
 twenty-three (23) feet above the curb of said alley, and said bridge 
 to be built so as not to obstruct or interfere with the travel through 
 said alley. 
 
 No. 247. Passed November 21, 1898. 
 
 Authorizing the erection of bridges across Summer Street, connecting 
 second, third, and fourth floors of buildings of the Anchor Buggy 
 Company. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the Anchor Buggy Company is hereby authorized 
 to erect and maintain bridges over and across Summer Street for 
 the purpose of connecting the second, third, and fourth floors of 
 four-story brick buildings used in their business on the east and 
 west sides of said street, north of South Street. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said bridges shall be each not more than twelve feet in 
 width. The bridge connecting the second floors of said buildings 
 shall be erected at a height of not less than thirteen feet above the 
 surface of said Summer Street. 
 
 Sec. 3. These bridges shall be constructed upon plans to be ap- 
 proved by the inspector of buildings and by the chief engineer of 
 the Board of City Affairs. 
 
 NO. 256. Passed December 27, 1898. 
 
 To authorize erection of bridge over and across Clearwater Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That permission is hereby granted to John Hoffmann to erect and 
 maintain a bridge over and across Clearwater Street, at a height of 
 not less than twenty feet above the surface of said street, to connect 
 buildings on the northwest and southwest corners of Clearwater and 
 Baymiller streets, under the direction of and to the satisfaction of 
 the inspector of buildings and chief engineer of the Board of City 
 Affairs. 
 
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 No. 218. Passed August 15, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the construction of, repair of, alteration in, and addition 
 to buildings ; to provide for the construction and erection of eleva- 
 tors and fire-escapes in and upon buildings ; to provide for the 
 removal and repair of insecure buildings ; and to provide for the 
 appointment of an inspector or inspectors of buildings. Amended 
 as to Section 2 by Ordinance No. 240, passed October 24, 1898, and 
 Ordinance No. 274, passed February 27, 1899 ; and as to Sections 
 55, 62, 66, 69, and 71 by Ordinance No. 269, passed February 13, 
 1899. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1. That the mayor of the city of Cincinnati shall appoint, 
 subject to the confirmation of the Board of Legislation, an inspector 
 of buildings, who shall be a resident and an elector of the city of 
 Cincinnati, and who shall have been an architect or builder of 
 at least five years’ experience next preceding his appointment, 
 who shall hold said office for the term of one year next suc- 
 ceeding the date of his appointment and until his successor is 
 duly appointed and qualified. Such inspector of buildings shall 
 receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000), payable 
 monthly, and he shall receive no other compensation whatsoever, 
 and he shall devote his entire time solely to the duties of his office, 
 and shall not be interested in any branch of the architectural build- 
 ing or any other business. All fees prescribed by this ordinance 
 shall be paid to the city treasurer upon the order of the inspector 
 of buildings. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said inspector of buildings shall have one assistant, who 
 shall act as deputy inspector of buildings, who shall be a resident 
 and an elector of the city of Cincinnati, and have had at least five 
 years’ experience as an architect or builder, whose salary shall be 
 fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) a year, payable semi-monthly, and 
 who shall be appointed by the inspector of buildings, subject to the 
 confirmation of the Board of Legislation, for the term of one year. 
 Said inspector of buildings shall have seven additional assistants or 
 deputies, who shall be residents and electors of the city of Cincin- 
 nati, and have had at least five years’ experience in some branch 
 of the building trade, and shall be appointed by the inspector of 
 buildings, subject to the confirmation of the Board of Legislation, 
 one of whom shall act as examiner of plans and clerk, and whose 
 salary shall be twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum ; the 
 other assistants shall each receive a salary of eleven hundred dollars 
 ($1,100) per annum, payable semi-monthly. All assistants shall 
 serve for the term of one year from the date of their appointment. 
 Each of such assistants shall devote his entire time and attention 
 exclusively to the duties of his office, and shall not be engaged in 
 any branch of architectural building or other business. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 13 
 
 Sec. 3. That before entering upon his office the inspector of 
 buildings shall take an oath to faithfully and impartially perform 
 the duties of his office, and shall execute a bond to the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), with two or 
 more sureties to be approved by the mayor, conditioned for the 
 faithful performance of his duties. Each of said assistants shall 
 execute bonds to the city of Cincinnati in the sum of five thousand 
 dollars ($5,000), to be approved by the mayor, conditioned for the 
 faithful performance of his duties. 
 
 Sec. 4. That said inspector of buildings shall file a monthly 
 report, under oath, with the mayor, on or before the tenth day of 
 each month, for the month preceding, showing the number of per- 
 mits issued and moneys received ; he shall also report annually, on 
 the first day of May, to the county auditor every new building 
 erected, with a pertinent description thereof, the name and number 
 of the street where located, and all improvements made upon old 
 buildings in the city of Cincinnati ; he shall also keep a record of 
 the number, description, class, size, and cost of every building or 
 structure erected in the city during his term of office for which 
 permits were issued, and shall report the same to the Board of Legis- 
 lation annually. 
 
 Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of said inspector of buildings 
 appointed under the provisions of this ordinance to inspect any 
 building or structure which may be in the course of construction or 
 alteration within the limits of the city, and to see that each build- 
 ing or structure is being constructed or altered according to the 
 provisions of this ordinance and all statutes and ordinances in force 
 in this city. If the said inspector is served with a written notice 
 by the owner, architect, contractor, or contractors of any building 
 or structure to inspect said building in progress of construction or 
 alteration, he shall do so promptly. 
 
 (a) The inspector of buildings shall when requested furnish 
 preliminary information relative to the application or interpretation 
 of any of the provisions of this ordinance, when the same is needed 
 in the preparation of plans. 
 
 Sec. 6 . It shall be the duty of the inspector to inspect any 
 building or structure reported or believed to be unsafe or in unsani- 
 tary condition, and if so found to require the same to be put into 
 safe and sanitary condition without unnecessary delay. In any case 
 where the public safety requires immediate action the inspector may 
 enter upon the premises with such assistance as may be necessary, 
 and cause any structure to be made secure without delay, and the 
 passerby protected at the expense of the owner of such property. 
 
 Sec. 7. When any person or persons or corporation shall be de- 
 sirous of erecting, repairing, changing, or altering any building or 
 structure within the limits of the city of Cincinnati, except in case 
 of repairs for maintenance not affecting the construction, sanitation, 
 or other vital features of the building or structure, he or they shall 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 make application at the office of the inspector for a permit to do so, 
 and shall furnish the inspector with a written statement, on blanks 
 for the purpose, of the location, intended use, and approximate cost 
 of the proposed building or structure, together with the plans and 
 specifications of the same, which shall be delivered to the inspector, 
 and remain in his custody a sufficient length of time to allow the 
 necessary examination to be made, and the inspector shall also 
 thereafter have access to the drawings and specifications when 
 necessary. If it shall appear to the inspector that the laws and 
 ordinances of the city are complied with, he shall give the permit 
 asked for upon the payment of the fee hereinafter prescribed, and 
 the inspector shall then stamp the plans and specifications, which 
 stamp shall state that the plans and specifications have been duly 
 examined and approved. After having been stamped, the plans and 
 specifications shall not be altered without the approval of the in- 
 spector in any of their essential structural points during the progress 
 of the work for which they are intended: 
 
 The fees for building permits shall be as follows : The sum of 
 one dollar for the permit, and an additional sum of one cent for 
 each and every hundred cubic feet of contents of said buildings or 
 structures, and for additions to buildings and structures, and for 
 alterations to old buildings or structures the cost of which is one 
 thousand dollars or over, the^um of two dollars per one thousand 
 dollars or fractional part thereof to be charged in addition to the 
 sum of one dollar for the permit. For alterations to old buildings or 
 structures, the cost of which is less than one thousand dollars, the 
 sum of one dollar for the permit only will be charged. And for all 
 buildings of the nature of sheds there shall be charged one dollar for 
 the permit and an additional sum of one half cent for each and 
 every hundred cubic feet of contents of said shed. 
 
 Sec. 8. Blank forms for the detailed statement as herein re- 
 quired shall be provided at the office of the inspector, which the 
 applicant for a permit shall fill out, and the owner or his agent shall 
 sign the agreement contained in said statement, to the effect that he 
 will construct the proposed building or structure in accordance with 
 the plans and specifications which shall be submitted therewith, and 
 it shall not be lawful to proceed to construct, alter, or repair any 
 building or structure within the limits of the city of Cincinnati 
 without such permit. 
 
 (a) There shall be a board, to be known as the Board of Refer- 
 ence of the Department of Buildings, and this board shall consist 
 of three members — one an architect, one a civil or construction 
 engineer, and one a builder — and each to be appointed by the 
 mayor, with the approval of the Board of Legislation. Members 
 of the board of reference are to be subject to discharge by the 
 mayor for malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office. The 
 members of the board of reference are each to serve for the term of 
 one year from and after the date of their appointment, or until their 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 15 
 
 respective successors are appointed and qualified. Each member 
 of the board of reference shall take an oath to faithfully perform 
 his duties, and shall also furnish bond to the amount of five thousand 
 dollars ($5,000). The board of reference shall have such use of 
 the office of the inspector and the services of his clerk as they may 
 require. 
 
 (6) The inspector shall pass on questions arising under this ordi- 
 nance ; but in case of dissatisfaction with a decision of the inspector 
 the question may be referred to the board of reference, and a decision 
 of a majority of the board shall decide the question at issue. 
 
 (c) Each member of the board of reference shall be paid a fee 
 of five dollars and all necessary expenses by the party referring a 
 question to them ; said fees to accompany the reference. 
 
 Sec. 9. Permits issued by the inspector shall be subject to revo- 
 cation should he be convinced that the work done under the same is 
 proceeding in violation of law. Revocation of a permit shall be in 
 writing, and shall be served on the owner, superintendent, or con- 
 tractor in charge of the work, or posted on the property ; and from 
 and after such revocation of the permit until the same is duly with- 
 drawn work op or in said structure or building shall cease. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any person, firm, or corporation, either as owner, 
 contractor, or architect, or any agent, trustee, officer, or employee 
 of any person, firm, or corporation, who violates or authorizes a 
 violation of any provision of this ordinance, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and be subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of one 
 thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court or judge imposing 
 the same. 
 
 Sec. 11. In this ordinance the following terms shall have the 
 meanings respectively assigned to them : 
 
 (а) “ Public buildings ” means every building used as a church, 
 college, school, theater, public hospital, public hall, or for any pub- 
 lic assemblage or use. 
 
 (б) “Buildings of the warehouse class’’ shall comprise build- 
 ings used for the storage of merchandise, or in which machinery 
 for manufacturing purposes is operated. 
 
 (c) “Buildings of the dwelling-house class” shall comprise all 
 buildings except public buildings and buildings of the warehouse 
 class. 
 
 (d) “External wall” means every outer wall or vertical in- 
 closure of any building not being a party wall. 
 
 (e) “ Party wall ” means a wall that separates two or more build- 
 ings, and is used or to be used jointly by said separate buildings. 
 
 (/) “Division wall” means a wall that separates one part of 
 any building from another part of the same building, and is not a 
 bearing wall. 
 
 (g) “ Division bearing wall ” means a division wall that carries 
 or sustains the weight of floor or roof. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Qi) “ The base of a wall ” means the course or level immediately 
 above the foundation wall. 
 
 (i) “Footing course” means a projecting course or courses 
 under any foundation. 
 
 (j ) By “cement mortar” is meant a mixture of cement and 
 sand properly tempered with water. 
 
 (k) By “ fire -limits” is meant the fire - limits of the city as 
 established, from time to time, by the proper authorities. 
 
 Sec. 12. Plastering on wrnoden lath shall not, for the purposes 
 of this ordinance, be considered as an incombustible covering ; and 
 m order that plastering on metal lath may be considered as an in- 
 combustible covering on wooden construction or wooden furring, 
 suitable fire checks shall be introduced. 
 
 Sec. 13. All buildings or structures hereafter erected within 
 the fire-limits of the city of Cincinnati shall be inclosed with walls 
 constructed of brick, stone, or other incombustible material. No 
 wooden building shall be removed to any lot within the fire- 
 limits where it would be in violation of law to build such wooden 
 building. 
 
 Sec. 14. The following buildings and structures are exempt 
 from the provisions of the preceding section, unless in any particu- 
 lar case and under existing circumstances the risk incurred thereby 
 would be extra hazardous: Buildings not exceeding twelve feet in 
 height, and with walls and roofs covered externally with incombus- 
 tible material ; isolated elevators for the storage of coal or grain, and 
 having walls and roofs covered with incombustible material ; and 
 isolated privies or sheds not exceeding ten feet in height. 
 
 Sec. 15. The foundations of all buildings and structures shall 
 rest upon solid natural ground, concrete, or other solid and approved 
 substructure. 
 
 Sec. 16. Whenever any old building shall, in the opinion of 
 the inspector, be torn down, burned down, or otherwise destroyed 
 to an extent exceeding two thirds the cubic contents of such build- 
 ing, the rebuilding thereof shall be treated as the erection of a new 
 building ; and shall be made throughout to conform to the regula- 
 tions and provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 17. External, division bearing, and party walls shall be 
 made of the thickness shown in the following tables, arranged ac- 
 cording to the height and length of the walls up to one hundred 
 feet in height, and for additional heights the walls must be propor- 
 tionally increased in thickness as approved. 
 
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ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 19 
 
 Walls of steel skeleton or other approved special construction 
 are not to be regulated by the thickness called for in the tables ; 
 but throughout such buildings shall be constructed in accordance 
 with the rules of recognized authorities and the best engineering 
 practice. 
 
 ( а ) Walls built of stone not having smooth and level beds and 
 squared ends shall be not less than one fourth thicker than called 
 for by the foregoing tables. 
 
 (б) The height of a topmost story shall be measured from the 
 level of its floor up to the underside of the ceiling joist or “collar” 
 beams forming a tie to the roof, or up to the vertical height of the 
 rafters when the roof has no such tie, and the height of any other 
 story shall be the clear height of such story. 
 
 (c) The height of every external, party, and division bearing 
 wall shall be measured from the base of the wall to the level of the 
 top of the topmost story, but in no case higher than the actual 
 top of the wall. 
 
 ( d ) Walls are deemed to be divided into distinct lengths by 
 intersecting wajls, and the length of a wall is measured from one 
 intersecting wall to another ; provided that such intersecting walls 
 are not less than two thirds the height and thickness of the wall 
 they are considered to divide, and of proper proportionate length. 
 
 (■ e ) Walls not having intersecting walls at the ends must have 
 the ends otherwise made secure laterally. 
 
 (/ ) Division walls shall not be less than two thirds the thick- 
 ness of the party or external walls of the same heights and lengths, 
 but never less than nine inches thick, except where not more than 
 twelve feet high, or where approved special construction is used. 
 
 ( g ) If the recesses or openings in a wall unduly weaken same, 
 the thickness of such wall shall be proportionally increased or other- 
 wise strengthened as approved. 
 
 ( h ) Recesses and chases for elevators, pipes, etc., may be made 
 in walls, provided that in party and external walls backs of recesses 
 and chases shall not be less than eight inches thick, and in division 
 walls not less than four inches thick, and chases and recesses shall 
 be of such width and so spaced as not to unduly weaken the wall, 
 or the wall shall be proportionally increased in thickness or other- 
 wise strengthened as approved. 
 
 ( i ) If the center of any external or party wall is not more 
 than twenty-five feet distant from the center of any other external 
 or party wall to which it is tied at each floor and the roof, the 
 length of such wall is not to be taken into consideration, and the 
 thickness of the wall will be found in the column marked “A” in 
 the tables. 
 
 (j) If any story exceeds in height sixteen times the thickness 
 prescribed for the walls of such story in the tables, the thickness of 
 the walls shall be proportionally increased, or the walls otherwise 
 strengthened as approved. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 ( fc ) No story inclosed with wall less than thirteen inches in thick- 
 ness shall be more than fifteen feet in height, except to be of ap- 
 proved special construction. 
 
 (?) Walls constructed of brick, stone, or other such material 
 shall be solidly put together with good mortar and properly bonded. 
 
 (?n) Strong cement mortar must be used for the foundations of 
 buildings more than three stories in height. 
 
 ( 11 ) Footings, piers, posts, columns, joists, girders, trusses, and 
 other structural parts or features of buildings shall conform in 
 size and strength to the rules and requirements of recognized 
 authorities. 
 
 (o) In all cases materials used in buildings must be of good 
 standard quality as to strength. 
 
 Sec. 18. Should it be desired to add to the height of a build- 
 ing or structure already erected, even though in such case the rules 
 as to thickness of walls would not be strictly complied with, the 
 same may be done in a safe manner as approved by the inspector. 
 
 Sec. 19. Whenever any owner shall be about to erect or alter 
 the external walls of a building within five feet of the line of a 
 traveled street, said owner shall, when so directed by the inspector, 
 cause the portion of said site of said building bordering on said 
 street to be inclosed by a suitable fence, located at least seven feet 
 from the line of such building ; and if such fence shall prevent 
 passage on the sidewalk, shall lay and maintain a suitable sidewalk 
 around the same ; also, where deemed necessary for the safety of 
 the public, the sidewalk must be temporarily roofed over as the 
 inspector may direct. 
 
 Sec. 20. Scaffolding, staging, hoists, and such other appurte- 
 nances of building operations must be amply strong and secure for 
 the purposes intended. 
 
 Sec. 21. When the owner of any lot or land digs or causes to 
 be dug any cellar or other excavation, he shall protect the adjacent 
 streets and alleys, and also the adjoining property, and due notice 
 must be given the owner or occupant of adjoining property at all 
 likely to be affected by such excavation. The owner of adjoining 
 property shall allow such access to his property as may be necessary 
 for any required shoring and underpinning, and such work shall be 
 done with all reasonable dispatch. 
 
 Sec. 22. Proper foundation walls, piers, posts, or columns, and 
 their footings of masonry, concrete, or other approved material, 
 shall be provided for the support of buildings and structures. 
 Foundation walls built of brick or of stone, with smooth, level beds 
 and squared ends, shall be at least four inches thicker than the base 
 of the wall of the story next above them, and for each additional 
 twelve feet or fraction thereof in depth below the first twelve feet 
 every foundation wall shall be increased four inches in thickness, and 
 foundation walls and area walls shall also in all cases be sufficiently 
 heavy or rigid to resist the thrust of the surrounding ground. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 21 
 
 Foundation walls built of stone not having smooth, level beds and 
 squared ends must throughout be still four inches thicker than 
 above prescribed. The bottom of foundation or footings of ex- 
 ternal walls or piers shall be at least three feet below the ground 
 surface exposed to frost, and all walls and piers shall begin at least 
 six inches below .the level of the excavation of the cellar. 
 
 Sec. 23. Any person desirous of utilizing the space under the 
 sidewalk abutting his property shall construct sufficient retaining- 
 walls to support the roadway and sidewalk, and cover such space 
 with a strong and suitable sidewalk. No plain surface of glass or 
 iron greater than two and a half inches in diameter shall be placed 
 in any sidewalk. Doors in sidewalks shall close down flush with 
 same, and shall not extend beyond the property line more than one 
 third the width of the sidewalk. 
 
 Sec. 24. In buildings with walls faced with cut stone, terra 
 cotta, pressed brick, or any such material, the facing shall have a 
 backing of brick or other masonry of the thickness specified for 
 walls where no facing is used, unless the facing is bonded thoroughly 
 into the backing in an approved manner, in which case the facing 
 may be taken into consideration in measuring the thickness of the 
 wall. 
 
 Sec. 25. Outside the fire-limits, frame buildings veneered with 
 brick, terra cotta, or such material, if not more than three stories 
 in height, may be erected, and the veneering must be properly 
 secured. 
 
 Sec. 26. External and party walls above the ground floor shall 
 be securely anchored, at least every eight feet, to each tier of joists 
 by means of approved anchors, and the anchorage must be made 
 continuous between walls. Walls not carried up together must be 
 anchored, at least every six feet in their height, by good and suffi- 
 cient metal anchors. 
 
 Sec. 27. No smoke-flue of brick shall be built with less than 
 a four-inch inclosing wall, and shall be lined with terra-cotta fire- 
 clay lining, or carefully pointed on the inside. Flues must be 
 plastered on the outside where within two inches of any woodwork. 
 All brick surrounding smoke-flues must be laid with thoroughly 
 slushed beds and joints. Chimneys where there are no smoke flues 
 shall be built solid unless otherwise permitted by the inspector. 
 
 (а) In the construction of fireplaces no finished jamb or back 
 shall be less than eight inches thick, and a brick arch or sufficient 
 metal bar shall be provided over the opening to support the breast. 
 
 (б) Hearths of open fireplaces shall be of tile or other incom- 
 bustible substance, shall rest on brick trimmer arches or other 
 approved fire-proof support, and shall not be less than eighteen 
 inches wide in front 6f the breast. 
 
 (c) The above requirements for smoke -flues, fireplaces, and 
 hearths are not obligatory in cases provided for the exclusive use of 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 gas or electricity for heating purposes, in which cases special provi- 
 sions shall be permitted, with the approval of the inspector. 
 
 ( d ) Chimney- tops shall extend through the roof not less than 
 four feet, and must in all cases be made rigid and secure. 
 
 (e) Every chimney not forming part of a wall shall rest upon 
 the ground or other sufficient and approved foundation or support. 
 
 (/) Flues and smoke-stacks shall in all cases be constructed in a 
 manner and of material approved as to strength and safety. 
 
 Sec. 28. In no building shall any timber or woodwork be placed 
 within five inches of the inside face of a smoke-flue. Timbers in 
 party walls and. from opposite sides shall be separated from each 
 other by approved fire-resisting material. Joists built into walls 
 shall have the ends properly beveled. Every header over six feet 
 long in floors constructed to carry more than one hundred pounds 
 per square foot of surface shall be hung by means of approved 
 metal hangers. 
 
 Sec. 29. In the fire-limits, party walls and walls along or within 
 three feet of adjoining property lines must be carried not less than 
 two feet above the roof at all points, and be properly coped. 
 
 Sec. 30. Buildings of the warehouse class, and also all factories, 
 lodging, tenement and apartment houses, and hotels more than two 
 stories in height shall have in the roof a suitable opening as an exit in 
 case of fire. Such exit shall have a cover or door covered on the 
 exterior with incombustible material and secured in place, but not 
 locked, and the exit shall be made accessible by means of a suitable 
 ladder or stairs properly secured, and shall be kept ready for use at 
 all times. Skylights on roofs shall be protected by means of suit- 
 able guard-railing when deemed necessary by the inspector. 
 
 Sec. 31. Weather-covering of roofs within the fire-limits shall 
 be of non-inflammable material and appendages, such as sky-lights, 
 dormer-windows, cornices, gutters, mouldings, eaves, parapets, bal- 
 conies, bay-windows, towers, spires, ventilators, turrets, lantern 
 lights, and erections on roofs, if not wholly fire-proof, shall be 
 properly covered with approved incombustible material. 
 
 Sec. 32. In the- erection of buildings in blocks of two or more, 
 the said buildings shall have division or party walls entirely con- 
 structed of incombustible material, and said walls shall extend up 
 at least to the underside of roof boards. 
 
 Sec. 33. Frame buildings to be used for tenement - houses, 
 lodging-houses, apartment-houses, or hotels shall not be more than 
 three stories in height, and all buildings for such purposes shall 
 have partitions constructed of brick or other fire-resisting material 
 at least sufficient to subdivide the floor-space in any story into areas 
 not greater than two thousand square feet. 
 
 Sec. 34. Buildings shall be provided with proper rain-water 
 conductors, and where rain-water is discharged to the street gutter 
 it shall be through a drain underneath the sidewalk. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 23 
 
 Sec. 35. Within the fire-limits, openings in walls of buildings 
 in the warehouse class, located opposite any other building having 
 openings, and not more than thirty feet distant, and openings in 
 party walls of buildings of the warehouse class, shall be provided 
 with approved fire-resisting doors, shutters, or windows. 
 
 Sec. 36. (a) Stationary boilers, heating-furnaces of all kinds, 
 also every oven, vat, or stove used for heating or manufacturing 
 purposes, shall be set on suitable fire-resisting material, and all ex- 
 posed woodwork or other combustible material must be thoroughly 
 protected. 
 
 (6) Hot-air conductors built in between timbers or other com- 
 bustible material must be thoroughly insulated. 
 
 (c) Every ceiling constructed of combustible material over a 
 steam-boiler, heater, or furnace, or the breeching or smoke-pipe 
 thereof, must be properly protected. 
 
 Sec. 37. Where elevators are inclosed within shafts, the shafts, 
 together with the doors thereof, shall be constructed of or covered 
 on both faces with fire-resisting material, and the shaft must extend 
 through and at least two feet above the roof. 
 
 (a) The roof over an inclosed elevator shaft shall have a sky- 
 light of sheet glass at least one half the area of the shaft ; such 
 glass to be protected from falling, in case of breakage, by means of 
 suitable wire screen. All exposed elevator openings through floors 
 shall be protected by safety rails and gates. 
 
 Sec. 38. The inspector shall make regulations for the inspection 
 of elevators with a view to the safety of the passengers and of those 
 operating or using the elevators. 
 
 (a) It shall be the duty of the inspector to inspect all elevators 
 every six months, and the fee for such inspection shall be two 
 dollars in each case for each elevator, which amount shall be paid 
 to the inspector by the person, firm, or corporation operating said 
 elevator before granting the certificate which shall certify that 
 inspection has been made and the condition of elevator approved, and 
 no elevator shall be operated within the city of Cincinnati without 
 such certificate. 
 
 Sec. 39. All buildings occupied by twenty -five or more persons, 
 and of three or more stories in height, shall be provided with one 
 or more suitable fire-escapes, and of such number, material, con- 
 struction, and location as may be approved by the inspector, unless 
 the stairways are direct and inclosed with walls constructed of or 
 covered with incombustible material. 
 
 Sec. 40. Every building used for public entertainments or gath- 
 erings shall have suitable and ample means of exit, and ample space 
 for the use of the audience in leaving the building. 
 
 Sec. 41. Every auditorium accommodating three hundred per- 
 sons or less shall have at least two exits, and when accommodating 
 from three to five hundred persons not less than three exits ; and 
 no doorway of exit for the use of the public shall be less than five 
 
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 feet in width, and for every one hundred persons additional or 
 fraction thereof to be accommodated in excess of five hundred per- 
 sons twenty inches additional exit capacity shall be provided. 
 
 Sec. 42. Distinct and separate places of exit shall be provided 
 for each gallery above the first. A common place of exit may 
 serve for the main floor of the auditorium and the first gallery, the 
 latter to be provided with two independent staircases. Not less than 
 two independent staircases with direct exterior outlets shall be pro- 
 vided for galleries above the first gallery, and shall be located on 
 the opposite sides of the same, and the latter staircases shall be in- 
 closed up to the floor to which they lead, and the inclosure shall be 
 constructed of or covered with incombustible material. 
 
 Sec. 43. In buildings — other than those used exclusively for 
 church purposes — containing a room or rooms, each with a seating 
 capacity of two hundred or more, the walls and ceiling of such room 
 or rooms, and of all corridors, stairways, and rooms adjoining 
 thereto or connecting therewith, together with the ceiling directly 
 under said places, shall be properly protected with approved incom- 
 bustible material. 
 
 Sec. 44. Carpenter-shop and storage-rooms for theatrical pur- 
 poses shall be separated from the other portions of a theater by 
 means of incombustible walls, floor, and ceiling, and the doors be 
 made self-closing. 
 
 Sec. 45. The roof over the stage of a theater, opera-house, or 
 public hall shall have skylight or lanterns equal in area to at least 
 one tenth of said roof, and the whole shall be arranged, by an ap- 
 proved device, to open automatically in case of fire. 
 
 Sec. 46. All passageways, corridors, aisles, and stairways of 
 buildings for public purposes shall be in proportionate arrangement 
 to the seating capacity of the house, and there shall be not more 
 than twenty seats between aisles, and no aisles shall be less than 
 three feet wide. 
 
 Sec. 47. All exit doors of buildings for public purposes shall 
 open outwardly. 
 
 Sec. 48. In buildings for public gatherings or entertainments, 
 stairways returning directly upon themselves shall have a landing 
 of the full width of both flights, and in depth not less than the 
 length of the steps ; stairs turning to an angle must have a proper 
 landing without winders ; and where two side flights connect with 
 one main flight, the width of the main flight must be equal to the 
 aggregate width of the side flights ; and also inclosed staircases 
 shall have on both sides a strong hand-rail, firmly secured to the 
 wall, and the passage leading from any stairs shall not be less than 
 the width of the stairs with which it communicates. 
 
 Sec. 49. In a theater or opera-house the wall between the stage 
 and the auditorium shall be constructed of incombustible material, 
 and shall be carried through and above the roof at least twenty- 
 four inches, and doorways in said wall shall not exceed twenty-one 
 
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 superficial feet each, and shall have doors constructed of or covered 
 with incombustible material, and said doors shall be self-closing. 
 
 (a) The proscenium or curtain- opening shall have a curtain of 
 incombustible material, operated by an approved device. 
 
 ( b ) Partitions inclosing and separating dressing-rooms and the 
 ceilings of same shall be constructed of or covered with incombus- 
 tible material. 
 
 Sec. 50. All stage-lights shall be protected in an approved 
 manner. 
 
 Sec. 51. Every exit of a theater and opera-house, and also of 
 other buildings for public gatherings, where deemed necessary by 
 the inspector, shall have over the same on the inside the word 
 “Exit” in large and legible letters. 
 
 Sec. 52. Every portion of a cellar to be occupied as a living 
 or sleeping-room shall be properly drained, lighted, and ventilated, 
 and shall be at least 7J feet in clear height, and not less than 3| 
 feet of the height shall be above the surface of the ground adjoin- 
 ing or nearest thereto. 
 
 Sec. 53. Every living- or sleeping- room hereafter constructed, 
 except in the roof, shall be at least 7J feet high in the clear in 
 every part »of the same, and such rooms constructed in the roof 
 of any building shall be at least feet in clear for a space one 
 half the area of the room. 
 
 Sec. 54. No building four stories or less in height, to be used 
 in whole or in part as a tenement-house, lodging-house, apartment- 
 house, or hotel, and located on an inlot, shall' cover more than 
 ninety per cent of the lot above the first story, and for each addi- 
 tional story the portion of the lot to be reserved for air and light 
 shall be increased two and a half per cent. 
 
 (а) Every room in such building used as a sleeping- or living- 
 room shall be properly lighted and ventilated. 
 
 (б) Light- and air-shafts for living- and sleeping-rooms shall be 
 at least fifteen square feet in area for two-story houses, increased at 
 least five square feet for each additional story, and never less than 
 three feet wide in the clear. Shafts common to two houses shall be 
 double the above areas. 
 
 Sec. 55. Every building shall be properly connected with the 
 public sewer when such sewer is provided, and the drain to the 
 sewer shall be supplied with a suitable main trap, which shall be 
 properly ventilated through the roof on the house side of the trap 
 by means of a suitable pipe of not less diameter than the trap, and 
 all connections with the drain to the sewer shall be made on the 
 house side of the main trap. The main trap shall be accessible for 
 cleaning, and be provided with a suitable air-tight clean-out. Pro- 
 vided , however, that in the repair or alteration of a building here- 
 tofore constructed, the cost of which does not exceed one half the 
 original cost of the building, said main trap may be ventilated by 
 means of a five-inch pipe of approved material, and carried to a 
 
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 point two feet above surface of ground against wall of building ; 
 this pipe to have a cast-iron Y and return bend with the opening 
 downward connected with the same for air inlet. The upper end of 
 the Y must be connected with down -spout, the same to extend to 
 highest gutter of building, the opening of which shall be at least 
 three feet from any window or other opening. Where there is no 
 down-spout conveniently accessible on such building heretofore con- 
 structed, then the said air inlet or vent from house - trap shall 
 be not less than four inches in diameter, and carried up on inside or 
 outside of building above highest point of gutter. If on inside 
 of building, the pipe shall be of cast iron; if on outside, of cast 
 iron or copper, joints to be made air- and water-tight. 
 
 Sec. 56. Rain-water conductors connected with drain to sewer 
 or vault shall be separately trapped. 
 
 Sec. 57. Where there is no city sewer accessible a covered 
 water-tight vault shall be provided, and where an overflow is desired 
 from same the overflow shall be suitably filtered, and all connections 
 with a vault shall be trapped as provided for sewer connections, and 
 vaults shall be properly ventilated. 
 
 Sec. 58. In outlying districts suitable vaults may be built that 
 are not water-tight, with the approval of the inspector. 
 
 Sec. 59. At any time the city shall construct a sewer which is 
 accessible to abutting property, all systems of drainage shall be 
 connected directly to same within a period not exceeding six months, 
 and all permits for vaults or any other system of drainage shall 
 become null and void. 
 
 Sec. 60. Underground drains shall be of vitrified stoneware, 
 cast iron, or other suitable and approved material ; and if the ground 
 on which any drain is to be laid is not sufficiently solid, in the 
 opinion of' the inspector, such drain shall be supported in an ap- 
 proved manner. Drains shall be laid with suitable fall, and joints 
 and connections of same shall be made tight, and shall also be 
 smooth inside. 
 
 Sec. 61. The connection between a foundation drain and house 
 drain shall be provided with a suitable back-pressure trap. 
 
 Sec. 62. Cesspools must be properly trapped. 
 
 (a) Where cesspools are used for cellar drain, the same are to 
 be provided with a permanent water seal. 
 
 Sec. 63. Grease traps of an approved kind must be properly 
 provided on the kitchen and pantry sink wastes of hotels and 
 restaurants. 
 
 Sec. 64. No steam-exhaust or blow-off pipe for a steam-boiler 
 shall connect with any soil- or waste-pipe, or directly with any 
 house drain. 
 
 Sec. 65. Every fixture having a waste-pipe shall be properly 
 trapped, and the trap protected from siphonage by means of suitable 
 vent-pipes, or in special cases, with the approval of the inspector, 
 other approved appliances may be used. 
 
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 Sec. 66. Every soil-, waste , or vent-pipe must be cast iron, 
 lead, copper, brass, or other approved material. 
 
 (a) Soil- and vent-pipes must extend at least two feet through 
 the roof, except where a down-spout is used as a vent-pipe, as pro- 
 vided for in Section 55 of this ordinance; but in no case shall said 
 soil- or vent-pipes, other than a down-spout used for ventilating, as 
 provided in Section 55, open near a window or air-shaft which ven- 
 tilates living- or sleeping-rooms. 
 
 ( b ) Soil- and vent - pipes must be of proper proportionate size 
 throughout, and never less than four inches in diameter above the 
 roof, and the end must be properly screened with a copper wire 
 basket securely clamped to pipe. 
 
 (c) No vent-pipe shall be used as a waste- or soil-pipe except in 
 buildings heretofore constructed where a down-spout is used as a 
 vent-pipe, as provided in Section 55 of this ordinance; but in such 
 case said down-spout when used as a vent-pipe shall not be used 
 for carrying off any water except such as naturally falls upon the 
 roof of such building and is drained into said pipe. 
 
 Sec. 67. The minimum diameter of soil - pipe permitted for 
 water-closet is three inches. A vertical waste-pipe into which two 
 or more kitchen sinks discharge must be at least two inches in 
 diameter, with 1^-inch branches to fixtures, and other waste-pipes 
 must be of proper proportionate size. 
 
 Sec. 68. No room-vent or smoke flues shall be used to ventilate 
 any trap or soil-pipe. 
 
 Sec. 69. The joints of all pipes must be made secure, and must 
 be successfully subjected to the water-pressure test in the presence 
 of the inspector. 
 
 (a) All joints in the iron drain-pipes, soil-pipes, waste-pipes, and 
 vent-pipes must be caulked up with oakum and molten lead. All 
 connections of lead pipe with iron or brass pipe must be made with 
 brass ferrule or nipple of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the 
 hub of the iron pipe and caulked with oakum and molten lead ; the 
 lead pipe must be attached to the ferrule or nipple by a wiped joint. 
 All connections of lead pipe must be wiped joints. When any soil-, 
 vent-, or drain-pipe is to be increased or reduced, a proper increaser 
 or reducer fitting is to be used ; tail-end pieces shall not be used for 
 that purpose. 
 
 Sec. 70. Waste-pipes from dip safes shall be run to some place 
 in open sight, and in no case shall any such pipe be connected 
 directly with a drain-, waste-, or soil-pipe. Waste-pipes from refrige- 
 rators or other receptacles for provisions shall not be conneted with 
 a drain-, waste-, or soil-pipe. 
 
 Sec. 71. All water-closets shall be supplied with water from 
 suitable tanks, except that water-closets under special circumstances 
 may be arranged to receive their supply directly from the main, 
 with such fixtures as shall be approved by the inspector. 
 
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 (a) Catch-basin water-closets may be constructed and used, and 
 they may be connected with and their contents discharged into any 
 city sewer. They must be constructed substantially on solid ground, 
 and built of brick or sewer-pipe. If built of brick, the walls and 
 bottom shall be at least nine inches thick, the brick to be hard 
 burned and laid in cement mortar, and the entire interior of basin 
 shall be plastered with cement and must be water-tight. If built 
 of sewer-pipe, all joints must be laid in cement mortar and water- 
 tight, and have a nine-inch concrete bottom. All catch-basins must 
 have a proper supply of water to allow them to be flushed out clean 
 to the bottom. They must be constructed so that the contents shall 
 not pass into the sewer without a sufficient supply of water passing 
 into the sewer at the same time. The drainage for roof-, surface-, 
 and waste-water, except waste from water-closets, may be connected 
 with and discharged into this catch-basin, and the roof-, surface-, 
 and waste- water from the house — but not water from water-closets 
 — may be used for flushing them. These catch-basins may be used 
 for a privy or water-closet. All pipes discharging into these catch- 
 basins must either enter same just above the water-line or bottom of 
 basin to prevent stirring up contents of said basin. Each catch- 
 basin shall be ventilated by a pipe or flue, and connected under 
 seats constructed of proper material, which shall not be less than six 
 inches in diameter, and shall be extended at least five feet above roof 
 of house over catch basins, provided such catch-basin is located to 
 exceed fifteen feet from any building having windows or other 
 openings facing same. Otherwise said vent-pipes must be carried 
 not less than three feet above window-tops or other openings of any 
 adjoining buildings. Rain-water conductors connected with catch- 
 basins must be separately trapped when same opens immediately 
 beneath or within three feet of a window or air-shaft. Otherwise 
 traps on down -spouts leading to catch-basins may be left out to assist 
 in ventilating catch-basins. This applies to catch-basins only. 
 
 Sec. 72. Every compartment containing a plumbing fixture 
 must be properly ventilated to the open air by means of a window, 
 shaft, or flue. 
 
 Sec. 73. No open area, railing, steps, show-window, or any 
 portion of a building or structure shall project over a street or alley 
 under ten (10) feet above the level of the curb-line opposite the 
 center of such projection. 
 
 (a) But bases, columns, pilasters, capitals, corbels, mouldings, 
 sculpture, and other decorative features, which are part of the con- 
 struction, may project eight (8) inches beyond the building -line 
 below the said ten (10) feet. 
 
 ( b ) Above the said ten (10) feet, oriels, balconies, turrets, 
 towers, or other projections of a building or structure, other than 
 pilasters, cornices, and mouldings, shall not project beyond lines 
 drawn from the intersection of the party-lines and building-line at 
 an angle of 22J degrees with the latter, and shall not begin less 
 
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 than three (3) feet from a party-line, and in no case shall project 
 to a distance greater than one fourth the width of the sidewalk ; 
 and, except in case of balconies, shall not exceed twenty (20) feet 
 in width. Where there are two or more such projections, an inter- 
 mediate space of not less than five (5) feet shall be left. 
 
 Sec. 74. All electrical wiring and apparatus within or attached 
 to any building must be made safe and secure as against danger 
 from fire and danger to human life, as approved by the inspector. 
 
 Sec. 75. All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with 
 this ordinance shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 4:220. Passed June 28, 1889. 
 
 To regulate the construction of buildings. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That all applications for the use of streets or other spaces 
 belonging to the city for the purpose of depositing building mate- 
 rial thereon shall be made to the inspector of buildings, subject to 
 the approval of the Board of Public Affairs, describing the ground 
 and the length of time of such intended occupation. Permits for 
 the use of streets and other public spaces shall not be granted for 
 a longer time than four months, but may be renewed from time to 
 time at the discretion of the inspector of buildings, subject to the 
 approval of the Board of Public Affairs, such renewal not being for 
 more than four (4) months at one time. Material shall not be de- 
 posited nearer the street -car tracks than four (4) feet, and the 
 outside line of material so deposited shall not extend into the street 
 further than one third the width of said street ; the gutter to be 
 kept clean and free of all obstruction ; the permit to specify the 
 ground occupied, which must be in front of the premises to be built 
 upon, unless more space is absolutely required. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to erect and use any derrick or 
 hoisting apparatus that exceeds twenty (20) feet in height on any 
 street or sidewalk of the said city for the purpose of erecting, 
 changing, or repairing any building or structure within the limits 
 of the said city, except a special permit be issued by the inspector 
 of buildings, approved by the Board of Public Affairs ; said per- 
 mit to be issued under such conditions as may be required by the 
 inspector of buildings and Board of Public Affairs. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever any person or persons or corporation shall be 
 about to erect, change, or repair any building within five feet of the 
 line of a traveled street, said person or persons or corporation shall 
 build and maintain a temporary sidewalk (or bridge if there is an 
 area under permanent sidewalk) not less than four (4) feet wide, 
 nor more than six (6) feet wide, contiguous to the lot-line of the 
 premises on which the building is to be erected. This sidewalk (or 
 
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 bridge) shall be constructed in such manner as the inspector of 
 buildings shall direct, and when the said building is one story high 
 shall be roofed and provided with barricades so as to completely 
 protect the passerby. 
 
 Sec. 4. That any person, firm, or corporation, either as owner, 
 contractor, or architect, or any agent, trustee, director, officer, or 
 employee of any person, firm, or corporation, who violates or author- 
 izes a violation of any provision of this ordinance, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and be fined not less than five dollars nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with 
 this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 429. 
 
 Passed January 6, 1893, as amended July 7, 1893, 
 by No. 580, and October 18, 1897, by No. 84. 
 
 To provide for the appointment of a Superintendent and other em- 
 ployees for the new City Hall. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained, by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the mayor of the city of Cincinnati be and he is 
 hereby authorized to appoint, as soon as practicable, a superin- 
 tendent, subject to the approval of the Board of Legislation, to 
 care for the new City Hall, who shall serve for a period of two 
 years, unless sooner removed, or until his successor is appointed, at 
 a yearly salary not exceeding eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800), 
 payable monthly, and who shall give bond. for the faithful perform- 
 ance of his duties to the city of Cincinnati in the sum of five 
 thousand dollars ($5,000). 
 
 Sec. 2. The superintendent shall be the custodian of, and with 
 the approval of the mayor shall furnish and provide, all the supplies 
 that are necessary for the proper management of the new City 
 Hall, subject and according to the laws and ordinances relating 
 thereto. 
 
 Sec. 3. The mayor shall appoint a chief engineer at a yearly 
 salary not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ; three assistant engi- 
 neers at a yearly salary of not exceeding one thousand dollars each ; 
 six firemen at a yearly salary of not exceeding nine hundred dollars 
 each ; six watchmen at a yearly salary of not exceeding nine hundred 
 dollars each ; seven elevator men at a yearly salary of not exceeding 
 seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; thirty-one janitors and jani- 
 tresses in all, the number of each to be determined by the mayor as 
 he may deem necessary. The salaries of the janitors shall not exceed 
 seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, and of the jani- 
 tresses not to exceed four hundred and twenty dollars each per 
 annum. The salaries herein provided for shall be payable semi- 
 monthly on pay-rolls duly signed by the superintendent and approved 
 by the mayor. In case of emergency the superintendent may detail 
 any of said employees to temporarily help out and aid the other 
 
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 employees without increase of pay. The employees herein provided 
 for shall wear such uniform or badge of office or employment as 
 shall be designated by the superintendent, and the same shall be 
 secured by them at their own expense. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person or persons appointed under any sections of 
 this ordinance may be removed at any time by the mayor. 
 
 No. 620. Passed August 25, 1893. 
 
 To authorize the Mayor to appoint an Electrician for the City Hall. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the mayor of said city be and he is hereby author- 
 ized and empowered to appoint an electrician for the City Hall. 
 
 Sec: 2. The salary of said electrician shall not exceed one 
 thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum, and he shall perform, in 
 addition to the duties of electrician, such other duties as the 
 superintendent of the City Hall may direct. 
 
 • NO. Til. Passed November 17, 1893. 
 
 Prescribing: rules and regulations for the protection and control of the 
 
 City Hall. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That the following rules and regulations be and they are hereby 
 established for the protection and control of the City Hall : 
 
 1. The building will be opened to the general public between 
 the hours of 8 A. m. and 4 p. m. daily, except on Sundays, holidays, 
 or when special occasions may require its being closed. 
 
 2. No idlers, loungers, or disorderly persons will be permitted 
 to stand or remain in or about the building; nor shall any riotous 
 or disorderly conduct, or loud talking, or use of threatening, pro- 
 fane, or indecent language, be permitted in or about the building, 
 either by officials, employees, or visitors. 
 
 3. No person or persons shall be permitted to play at any game 
 of chance, nor do any obscene or indecent act whatever, within or 
 around the building. 
 
 4. No person shall be permitted to expose any thing for sale ; 
 nor shall any hawking, peddling, soliciting, except for any chari- 
 table purpose, or begging of any kind be allowed within the build- 
 ing or on the sidewalks surrounding it. 
 
 5. No person shall post or otherwise affix any bill, notice, or 
 other paper upon the exterior, or on any wall, door, or window 
 within the building, or in any way to deface the same ; nor shall any 
 one distribute circulars, handbills, or petitions of any description 
 within or around the building. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person violating any of these rules and regulations 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof in the Police Court shall be fined in any sum not exceeding 
 ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 NO. 4061. Passed April 6, 1888. 
 
 To amend Section 5 of an Ordinance to regulate the City Auditor’s 
 (Comptroller’s) Office. 
 
 Be it ordained, That Section 5 of an ordinance to regulate the 
 city auditor (comptroller’s office), passed July 23, 1856, be amended 
 to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 5. Before entering upon his duties of his office he shall 
 take an oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United 
 States, the constitution and the laws of the state, and the ordinances 
 of the city. The assistants shall take similar oath or affirmation. 
 The auditor shall give bond, with not less than three good and 
 sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the City Council, in the 
 penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars, for the faithful per- 
 formance of the duties of his office, which bond shall be filed with 
 the city clerk. His principal assistant shall give bond in the sum 
 of ten thousand dollars to the satisfaction of the Council, and said 
 bond shall be filed with the city clerk. The assistant comptroller 
 shall receive the sum of $2,500 per year for his services. 
 
 No. 45. 
 
 Passed June 26, 1891, as amended by Ordinance 51 
 as to Sections 1 and 2, passed July 26, 1897. 
 
 To regulate the City Auditor’s Offioe, to provide for his assistants, to 
 fix their salaries, and to define their powers and duties. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the city auditor shall keep his office open for the 
 transaction of general business from 8 : 30 a. m. to 4 : 00 p. m. every 
 day (Sundays and holidays excepted), and that he or one of his 
 assistants shall be present at all meetings of the Board of Legisla- 
 tion, and at any meeting of any of its committees when notified in 
 writing to do so. 
 
 Sec. 2. The city auditor shall have power to appoint, subject 
 to confirmation by the Board of Legislation, the following assistants, 
 at salaries to be fixed by him, and at rates not to exceed the follow- 
 ing amounts per annum : 
 
 One assistant, not to exceed $3,000 per annum. 
 
 One book-keeper, not to exceed $1,800 per annum. 
 
 One assistant book-keeper, not to exceed $1,200 per annum. 
 
 One assessment clerk, not to exceed $1,800 per annum. 
 
 One assessment clerk, not to exceed $1,500 per annum. 
 
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 Two assistant assessment clerks, not to exceed $1,200 per annum. 
 
 Two record examiners, not to exceed $1,200 per annum. 
 
 One license clerk, not to exceed $1,200 per annum. 
 
 Two license clerks, not to exceed $1,000 per annum. 
 
 Two license clerks, not to exceed $900 per annum. 
 
 Two notice clerks, not to exceed $900 per annum. 
 
 One department examiner, not to exceed $1,500 per annum. 
 
 One assistant department examiner, not to exceed $1,200 per 
 annum. 
 
 Two assistant department examiners, not to exceed $1,000 per 
 annum. 
 
 One general clerk, not to exceed $900 per annum. 
 
 One messenger, not to exceed $600 per annum. 
 
 Sec. 3. The assistant auditor, in case of the absence or sickness 
 of the auditor, shall perform the duties of the office, and in case 
 of the absence or sickness of the auditor or his assistant, the book- 
 keeper shall perform the duties of the office. 
 
 Sec. 4. The subordinates shall give bond for the faithful per- 
 formance of the duties pertaining to their respective positions, in 
 accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, the ordinances of 
 the city of Cincinnati, and the rules and requirements of the city 
 auditor’s department, in sums as follows : Book-keeper, $10,000 ; 
 assistant auditor, $10,000; assessment clerks, $10,000 each; and 
 all other assistants, $3,000 each. 
 
 Sec. 5. The city auditor and his subordinates shall confine 
 themselves exclusively to the business of the city, and shall per- 
 form all the duties heretofore or that may hereafter be required of 
 them, in accordance with and under the provisions of all laws and 
 ordinances with reference to that department. 
 
 NO. 157. Passed January 8, 1892. 
 
 To reg-ulate the salary of the Chief Clerk of the Board of Admin- 
 istration. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincimiati , That the salary of the chief clerk of the Board of 
 Administration shall be fixed at a sum not to exceed three thou- 
 sand dollars ($3,000) per annum. The amount of compensation for 
 such services to be fixed by the Board of Administration within 
 the limits above described, in accordance with the provision of Sec- 
 tion 2212 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances and resolutions heretofore passed 
 inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 712. Passed December 29, 1893. 
 
 To regulate the salary of the Chief Engineer of the Board of Admin- 
 istration. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the salary of the chief engineer of the Board 
 of Administration shall be fixed at a sum not to exceed five thou- 
 sand dollars ($5,000) per annum. The amount of compensation for 
 such services to be fixed by the Board of Administration within 
 the limits above described, in accordance with the provisions of 
 Section 2212 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances and resolutions heretofore passed 
 inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 2. Passed May 1, 1891. 
 
 Providing for the appointment of an Assistant City Clerk and fixing 
 
 his salary. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the city clerk be and he is hereby authorized and 
 empowered to appoint one assistant, and that the salary of said 
 assistant city clerk be and the same is hereby fixed at the sum of 
 two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum. 
 
 Sec. 2. That Ordinance No. 4059, entitled “An ordinance 
 fixing the salary of assistant city clerk,” passed April 6, 1888, be 
 and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 615. Passed August 18, 1893. 
 
 Providing for the appointment of an additional assistant in the City 
 Clerk’s Office and fixing the salary thereof. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the city clerk is hereby authorized to appoint one 
 additional assistant for his office, at a salary of twelve hundred 
 dollars ($1,200) per annum, subject to confirmation by this board. 
 
 Sec. 2. The duties of said additional assistant shall be such as 
 shall be prescribed by the city clerk, as he may, from time to time, 
 think proper. 
 
 Sec. 3. The appointment under this ordinance shall be for a 
 term of one year, and shall be made annually. 
 
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 No. 3934:. Passed April 22, 1887. 
 
 To amend Section 2 of “An ordinance to provide for the City Solicitor’s 
 Office and prescribe his duties,” passed July 9, 1856, as amended 
 May 27, 1870, and May 5, 1871. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That Section 2 of “An ordinance to amend an ordinance to 
 provide for the city solicitor’s office and prescribe his duties,” passed 
 July 9, 1856, as amended May 27, 1870, and May 5, 1871, be and 
 the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 2. His salary shall be four thousand dollars ($4,000) per 
 annum. He shall also have power to appoint three assistant solici- 
 tors, subject to confirmation. The first assistant shall receive a 
 salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum; the 
 second assistant a salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per 
 annum ; and the third assistant a salary of eighteen hundred dollars 
 ($1,800) per annum. 
 
 Sec. 3. That Section 2 of the ordinance to provide for the city 
 solicitor’s office and prescribe his duties, passed July 9, 1856, as 
 amended May 27, 1870, and May '5, 1871, be and the same is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 ]STo. 1 . Passed May 1, 1891. 
 
 To provide for the Corporation Counsel’s Office and to define his duties. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the corporation counsel shall keep the office 
 assigned to him in the City Buildings open from 8:30 A. m. to 4:30 
 p. m. every day (Sundays and holidays excepted), and also during 
 all meetings of the Board of Legislation ; and the corporation 
 counsel or one of his assistants shall be present at all meetings of 
 the Board of Legislation, and at meetings of any of its committees 
 when notified in writing of such meetings. 
 
 Sec. 2. He shall have power to appoint, subject to confirmation 
 of this board, one assistant at a salary of three thousand dollars 
 ($3,000) per annum, one assistant at twenty-two hundred dollars 
 ($2,200) per annum, one assistant at two thousand dollars ($2,000) 
 per annum, one title examiner at sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600) 
 per annum, which shall include all services as notary public in city 
 cases, one stenographer at seventy-five dollars ($75) per month, and 
 one messenger at ten dollars ($10) per week. 
 
 Sec. 3. The corporation counsel and his assistants shall confine 
 themselves exclusively to the business of the city, and shall not, 
 under any circumstances, engage in cases before court or practice 
 their profession, except for the benefit of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
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 The corporation counsel shall perform all the duties heretofore re- 
 quired of the city solicitor, and be subject to all laws and ordinances 
 heretofore made with reference to the city solicitor. 
 
 No. 158. Passed January 8, 1892. 
 
 To authorize the Corporation Counsel to appoint an additional assistant 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation, That the 
 corporation counsel be and he is hereby authorized to appoint 
 an additional assistant, subject to the confirmation of the Board 
 of Legislation, at a salary of two thousand two hundred dollars 
 ($2,200) per annum. 
 
 No. 276. Passed February 27, 1899. 
 
 To authorize the Corporation Counsel to appoint an additional 
 stenographer. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the corporation counsel be and he is hereby author- 
 ized to appoint, subject to the confirmation of the Board of Legisla- 
 tion, an additional stenographer, at a salary of seventy-five dollars 
 per month. 
 
 Sec. 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after the earliest period allowed by law. 
 
 NO. 301. Passed July 1, 1892. 
 
 To authorize the Inspector of Building's to appoint an assistant to 
 act as “Inspector of Fire-escapes.” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the inspector of buildings of said city be and he is 
 hereby authorized to appoint an assistant in his office, who shall act 
 as “inspector of fire-escapes,” at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars 
 ($1,500) per annum, and to hold his office during the pleasure of 
 said inspector of buildings. Said inspector of fire-escapes shall be 
 a competent and experienced mechanic of such trade or profession 
 as shall, in the opinion of the inspector of buildings, be of greatest 
 service to the department. (Void : See Steinkamp case, Supreme 
 Court.) 
 
 NO. 4:216. Passed June 21, 1889. 
 
 To fix the salary of the Mayor’s Clerk at $2,000 per annum. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the salary of the mayor’s clerk be and the same is 
 hereby fixed at two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum. 
 
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 No. 781. Passed May 11, 1894. 
 
 To authorize the Mayor to appoint a Private Secretary and to repeal 
 certain ordinances therein named. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the mayor of said city be and he is hereby author- 
 ized to appoint a private secretary in his office, who shall act as a 
 stenographer and perform such other duties as may be assigned by 
 the mayor, at a compensation not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars 
 per annum. 
 
 Sec. 2. That an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to fix the 
 salary of the messenger of the City Building,” passed May 1, 1869, 
 and an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to authorize the mayor to 
 appoint an assistant clerk and stenographer,” passed April 11, 1893, 
 be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 4345. Passed March 5, 1890. 
 
 Fixing 1 the salary and term of office of the Sergeant-at-arms of the 
 Common Council of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the salary of the sergeant-at-arms of the said Common 
 Council be fixed at the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) 
 per annum, said officer to be elected for a term of two years.* 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances heretofore 
 passed inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 155. Passed March 14, 1898. 
 
 Providing- for furnishing 1 and care of a horse and buggy for the 
 Sergeant - at - arms. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That an allowance of four hundred dollars per annum 
 be made to the sergeant at-arms of this board for furnishing, care, 
 and expense of a horse and buggy for the use of said sergeant-at- 
 arms ; said allowance of four hundred dollars to be paid out of the 
 incidental fund of this board in monthly installments. 
 
 Sec. 2. All ordinances or part of ordinances conflicting here- 
 with are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 200. Passed February 5, 1892. 
 
 To provide for the appointment of an Assistant Sergeant-at-arms. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the sergeant at-arms of the Board of Legislation 
 shall have authority, immediately upon his appointment, to appoint 
 
 "•Term now fixed at three years by statute; appointment by President of the 
 Board of Legislation. 
 
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 an assistant sergeant-at-arms, who shall serve for the same term for 
 which the sergeant -at - arms is appointed, and who shall perform 
 such duties as the Board of Legislation and sergeant -at -arms may 
 direct. Such assistant sergeant - at - arms shall receive a salary of 
 twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, payable monthly 
 upon vouchers to be approved by the city clerk. f 
 
 Sec. 2. That the ordinance passed May 1, 1891, entitled “An 
 ordinance providing for the appointment of an assistant sergeant- 
 at-arms of the Board of Legislation,” is hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 454. 
 
 Passed January 13, 1893, and approved over 
 mayor’s disapproval February 3, 1893. 
 
 Amending 1 an ordinance to provide for the appointment of an Assistant 
 Sergreant - at - arms, and prescribing 1 certain duties which he shall 
 perform. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 
 Sec. 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 200 of the Board 
 Legislation of the city of Cincinnati, passed February 5, a. d. 
 1892, and approved February 26, a. d. 1892, being as follows : 
 “Section 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the 
 city of Cincinnati, that the sergeant-at-arms of the Board of Legis- 
 lation shall have authority, immediately upon his appointment, to 
 appoint an assistant sergeant-at arms, who shall serve for the same 
 term for which the sergeant- at-arms is appointed, and who shall 
 perform such duties as the Board of Legislation and sergeant-at- 
 arms may direct ; such assistant sergeant-at-arms shall receive a 
 salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, payable 
 monthly, upon vouchers to be approved by the city clerk” — be and 
 the same is hereby amended so as as to read as follows : Section 1. 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the city of Cincin- 
 nati, that the sergeant-at-arms of the Board of Legislation shall 
 have authority, immediately upon his appointment, to appoint an 
 assistant sergeant-at-arms, who shall serve for the same term for 
 which the sergeant-at-arms is appointed, and who shall perform 
 such duties as the Board of Legislation, city clerk, and sergeant-at- 
 arms may direct. Such assistant sergeant-at-arms shall receive a 
 salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, payable upon 
 vouchers to be approved by the city clerk. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said original Section 1 of said Ordinance No. 200, as 
 above amended, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, that said assistant sergeant-at- 
 arms shall perform the duties of custodian of records, under the 
 direction of the city clerk, and shall in such capacity be responsible 
 to the city clerk for all records and documents in the city clerk's 
 department. It shall be his duty to take receipts for all documents 
 
 fSee Ordinance No. 454 following. 
 
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 that the city officers or their assistants may require, and may be 
 allowed by the city clerk to use for purpose of copying- or of com- 
 parison, and to cause their return to their proper places in the file- 
 boxes. It shall also be his duty to attend, as the city clerk may 
 direct, to the safe custody of all books of record in said office, to 
 place such books before those who may have authority to examine 
 them, and to return them to their proper places. 
 
 NO. 4060. Passed April 6, 1888. 
 
 To amend an ordinance providing- fQr the appointment of an Assistant 
 
 City Treasurer. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That Section 1 of an ordinance passed May 6, 1864, providing for 
 the appointment of an assistant city treasurer, be amended to read 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. The city treasurer shall have power to appoint an 
 assistant, subject to the approval of the City Council, who shall 
 be required to give bond in the sum of one hundred thousand 
 dollars, satisfactory to the said Council. And the said assistant city 
 treasurer shall receive for his services the sum of twenty -five 
 hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 NO. 4102. Passed August 17, 1888. 
 
 To g-ive the City Treasurer power to appoint a License and Assess- 
 ment Clerk. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That the city treasurer shall have power to appoint a license and 
 assessment clerk, subject to the approval of the Common Council ; 
 and the said license and assessment clerk shall receive for his 
 services the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum. 
 
 No. 164. Passed January 29, 1892. 
 
 Creating- the office of Book-keeper of the City Treasurer’s Office, and 
 authorizing- the appointment and fixing- the salary thereof. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the office of book-keeper of the city treasurer’s 
 office is hereby declared a necessity, and is therefore created. 
 
 Sec. 2. The city treasurer is hereby authorized to appoint such 
 book keeper, subject to confirmation by the Board of Legislation. 
 
 Sec. 3. The salary of such book-keeper so appointed and con- 
 firmed shall be two thousand dollars per annum. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 266. Passed June 3, 1892. 
 
 Fixing- the salary of the Assistant Paymaster of the City Treasurer’s 
 
 Office. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the salary of the assistant paymaster of the city 
 treasurer’s office be and the same is hereby fixed at the sum of 
 eleven hundred dollars per annum ; and all ordinances or parts 
 of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 3962. Passed July 22, 1887. 
 
 To provide for the appointment of a Transcript Deputy Clerk of the 
 
 Police Court. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the clerk of the Police Court be and he is hereby 
 authorized to appoint one transcript deputy at a salary of one 
 thousand dollars per year; said appointment to be subject to the 
 approval of Council. 
 
 Sec. 2. That an ordinance, entitled “An ordinance to provide 
 for the appointment of a copyist for the clerk of the Police Court,” 
 passed May 28, 1886, as amended December 24, 1886, be and the 
 same is hereby repealed, and the said office of copyist is abolished. 
 
 NO. 4067. Passed May 4, 1888. 
 
 Creating- the office of Interpreter of the Police Court, and prescribing- 
 his duties and fixing- compensation. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the office of interpreter of the Police Court of 
 Cincinnati be and the same is hereby created. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said interpreter of the Police Court of Cincinnati shall 
 be appointed by the mayor, and his term of office shall be one 
 year, beginning on the first day of February, 1888, and each year 
 thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said interpreter to attend at all 
 sessions of the Police Court, and interpret faithfully the evidence 
 given in all city cases where necessary in said court. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the compensation of said interpreter of the Police 
 Court for city cases be fixed at the sum of fifty dollars per month, 
 payable by the city treasurer on the warrant of the city comptroller. 
 Said compensation to be in lieu of all fees or perquisites that may 
 be allowed by reason of such service as interpreter. 
 
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 No. 29. Passed May 29, 1891. 
 
 Providing- for the appointment of a Wharfmaster and Wharf-reg-ister. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That the mayor be and he is hereby authorized and 
 empowered to appoint annually one wharfmaster and one wharf- 
 register, and the said wharfmaster and the said wharf-register shall 
 qualify in the manner now provided for qualification of said officers, 
 and they shall each receive the salary now fixed by ordinance for 
 the said officers respectively, and shall perform all the duties now 
 required or hereafter fixed upon for said officers. 
 
 Sec. 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here- 
 with are hereby repealed. 
 
 'NO. 42. Passed July 12, 1897. 
 
 To abolish the office of Wharf-reg-ister, and to require the Wharfmaster 
 to perform the duties heretofore performed by the Wharf-reg-ister 
 without additional compensation. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the office of wharf-register of the city be and the 
 same is hereby abolished. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the duties heretofore required of and peformed by 
 the wharf-register of the city be and the same shall hereafter be 
 performed by the wharfmaster of said city without any additional 
 compensation than that now paid to the wharfmaster of the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict 
 herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 60. Passed August 16, 1897. 
 
 To authorize the Wharfmaster to employ a Messeng-er. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That the wharfmaster be authorized to appoint a mes- 
 senger to perform such duties as he may direct, at a salary not to 
 exceed five dollars per week. 
 
 NO. 4081. Passed April 6,1888. 
 
 To make the City Clerk Stationery Storekeeper for all the Departments 
 
 of the City. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the city clerk, in addition to the duties now required 
 of him by law, shall perform the duty of stationery storekeeper for 
 all the departments of the city government. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Sec. 2. As such storekeeper he shall provide the necessary 
 stationery for all the departments of the city, which shall include 
 all forms, blanks, blank -books, record - books, writing-materials, 
 and other articles which may be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 3. In providing the stationery necessary for the different 
 departments he shall, so far as practicable, receive bids from parties 
 dealing in and manufacturing such articles, and shall award con- 
 tracts for furnishing only to the lowest bidder. 
 
 Sec. 4. He shall, on the first day of every month, present to 
 the heads of the different departments suitable blanks, on which 
 they shall make requisitions upon him for the stationery necessary 
 for their departments during the current month, and no money 
 shall be paid out of the city treasury for stationery except through 
 the city clerk. 
 
 Sec. 5. As compensation for his services under the provisions 
 of this ordinance the city clerk shall, in addition to the salary now 
 allowed by law, be entitled to receive the sum of six hundred 
 dollars per annum. 
 
 !N*0. 4 : 189 . Passed March 15, 1889. 
 
 To provide for the labeling- and marking- of convict-made g-oods, wares, 
 and merchandise manufactured by convicts in penitentiaries, prisons, 
 etc., and also to provide for the marking-, stamping-, and labeling- of 
 g-oods, linens, cloths, and other wearing- apparels having been laun- 
 dried or washed and ironed in the City Workhouse. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That all the goods, wares, or merchandise made by convict 
 laborers in any penitentiary, prison, reformatory, or any place 
 where convict labor is employed, shall before being exposed for 
 sale within the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati be 
 branded, labeled, or marked. 
 
 Sec. 2. The brand, label, or mark hereby required shall con- 
 tain the words “ Convict made,” followed by the year and the name 
 of the penitentiary, prison, reformatory, or other establishment in 
 which it was made, in plain English lettering. The brand or mark 
 shall in all cases where the nature of the article will permit be 
 placed upon the article itself, and only where such brand or mark 
 on the article itself is impossible shall be placed upon the box or 
 other covering of the same, or shall be attached to the article as a 
 label. The label shall be placed upon the most conspicuous part 
 of the article ; and the articles that are marked shall be marked or 
 branded in the most conspicuous place. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to expose for sale in 
 the city of Cincinnati any such convict-made goods, wares, or mer- 
 chandise, or to have the same in his possession for the purpose of 
 
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 selling the same, or to offer the same for sale without the brand, 
 mark, or label required by this ordinance, or to remove such mafk, 
 label, or brand. 
 
 Sec. 4. That all cloths of all descriptions, and all linens of all 
 kinds, and all wearing apparel of all kinds having been given to 
 any laundry who operates and washes any cloths, linen, apparel, or 
 other goods by city convict labor, shall before sending the same out 
 to be delivered to the owner mark or stamp each and every article 
 with the words “ Laundried in the City Workhouse ” in indelible ink. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both, 
 at the discretion of the court. 
 
 No. 240. 
 
 As passed March 25, 1892, and amended as to Sections 
 12 and 15 by No. 812, passed July 13, 1894. 
 
 To regulate and restrain dogs from running at large in the city, and 
 repealing all ordinances in conflict herewith. 
 
 Nullified by act of the General Assembly of April 19, 1898. 
 (93 0. L., p. 128.) 
 
 NO. 778. Passed May 4, 1894. 
 
 To regulate the transportation of dangerous explosives through the 
 streets of this city. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of 'the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 carry or transport through the streets of this city gunpowder, giant- 
 powder, dynamite, nitro - glycerine, or other dangerous explosive 
 in any vehicle other than a vehicle with springs, and which said 
 vehicle is labeled on both sides thereof in large letters with the 
 name of the explosive being carried or transported therein. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person offending against any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court, be 
 fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 NO. 4042. Passed February 24, 1888. 
 
 Restricting the unauthorized use and occupancy of the streets, alleys, 
 lanes, and public grounds of the City of Cincinnati for the purpose 
 of conducting, conveying, or distributing electricity, 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1 . That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, or 
 corporation to enter upon, use, or appropriate any portion of the 
 streets, alleys, lanes, or public grounds of the city of Cincinnati, 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 for the purpose of laying, stringing, or maintaining any conduits, 
 cables, wires, or other conducting mediums, for the purpose of 
 transmitting, conducting, or conveying electricity for light, power, 
 or other purposes, either under, over, or above the surface of the 
 streets, alleys, lanes, and public grounds of the city of Cincinnati, 
 unless such person, company, or corporation shall have first obtained 
 authority to do so by an ordinance of the Common Council of the 
 city of Cincinnati permitting and authorizing the occupancy of the 
 streets, alleys, lanes, and public grounds of said city for such pur- 
 pose ; and distinctly providing the manner, form, and extent of 
 such authorized occupancy. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person, or the executive officer of any company 
 or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance 
 shall, upon conviction thereof in the Police Court of the city of 
 Cincinnati, be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars or more 
 than five hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution. 
 Each day’s continuance of such use or violation of any of the pro- 
 visions herein shall be considered a distinct offense. 
 
 NO. 732. Passed January 26, 1894. 
 
 Prescribing- the terms and conditions under which the business of tele- 
 phone, teleg-raph, burg-lar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and 
 signaling purposes may be engaged in within the corporate limits 
 of the City of Cincinnati, by any person, company, or corporation 
 securing permission by special ordinance so to engage, and to repeal 
 Ordinance No. 683, passed November 17, 1893. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 Whenever permissson is by ordinance granted to any person, com- 
 pany, or corporation to engage in the business of telephone, tele- 
 graph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling 
 purposes, it shall be under the following expressed terms and con- 
 ditions. 
 
 Sec. 1. A grant to occupy the streets, lanes, and public 
 grounds of the .city of Cincinnati for the purpose of erecting and 
 maintaining poles, wires, fixtures, brackets, and supports for the 
 necessary wires thereon shall be for such period of time as the Board 
 of Legislation shall determine at the date of the passage of any 
 special ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. No excavation or hole shall be made in any street, 
 alley, or public place for the purpose of erecting poles or fixtures 
 for supporting telephone, telegraph, messenger-call, burglar-alarm, 
 or signaling wires, without first obtaining a permit, issued under 
 authority of the Board of Administration, by the city electrician, 
 approved by the city engineer. 
 
 Sec. 3. No pole or fixtures shall be erected in any street, alley, 
 or public place until it has been inspected by the city electrician 
 and approved by the Board of Administration. 
 
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 Sec. 4. All wires other than those used for electric -light and 
 power purposes strung over house-tops must be tagged with suitable 
 tags, to be approved by the Board of Administration, in such a 
 manner that it will be impossible to remove the tags without de- 
 stroying them or the fixture to which they are attached, plainly 
 marked with name of owner thereon. 
 
 Sec. 5. When a line is so long that its destination can not be 
 plainly seen from the point of tagging, an additional tag must be 
 placed on the wire to facilitate tracing. 
 
 Sec. 6. All wires put up after the passage of this ordinance 
 other than those used for electric-light and power purposes are to 
 be put up so as not to hang lower than thirty feet from the ground. 
 
 Sec. 7. No guy or stay -wire shall be put up so as to come 
 nearer than ten feet from the ground. 
 
 Sec. 8. Poles to be of uniform height, and wires to be kept of 
 uniform height along the street or in running to buildings. 
 
 Sec. 9. Wires of one company running along the streets or over 
 buildings must not be nearer than three inches for insulated and 
 six inches for bare wire to the wires of another company using wires 
 of the same character. 
 
 Sec. 10. All wires strung over house-tops must not be attached 
 to fixtures carrying electric-light or power wires, and must be at 
 least eighteen inches from all such wires. 
 
 Sec. 11. All wires must be securely fastened, stretched tightly, 
 and attached to insulators with a tie of the same kind of wire. 
 
 Sec. 12. No poles or fixtures on streets or fixtures on house-tops 
 must be erected or allowed to remain, except such as are absolutely 
 necessary for the maintenance and safety of the wires. 
 
 Sec. 13. Whenever any wires cross an electric street railway 
 trolley-wire, special care must be taken that the wires and fasten- 
 ings each side of the crossing are of such strength, size, and mate- 
 rial, and that the wire is fastened in such a manner as to leave no 
 liability of the wire coming down or getting in contact with the 
 trolley- wires. 
 
 Sec. 14. All wires running to buildings are to be removed at 
 the time of their disuse as far as the first pole or fixture to which 
 they are attached. 
 
 Sec. 15. All dead or disused poles, wires, fixtures, etc., must 
 be removed from streets or house-tops within fifteen days after they 
 are dead or abandoned, except where it is positively known that 
 they are to be used again within ninety days. 
 
 Sec. 16. All wires on house-tops not tagged, after the ex- 
 piration of ninety days after the passage of this ordinance, will 
 be considered dead and abandoned, and will be ordered taken 
 down. 
 
 Sec. 17. All guy or stay - wires must be removed the same as 
 dead wires when they become unnecessary for the maintenance of 
 
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 the lines. Under no circumstances are wires with loose ends to be 
 left hanging from any pole, fixture, building, or other object. 
 
 Sec. 18. Any person, company, or firm making any alterations, 
 additions, or extensions to poles, wires, or fixtures shall quarterly 
 file with the Board of Administration a statement and plan show- 
 ing the nature and locality of such alterations, additions, or 
 extensions. 
 
 Sec. 19. Within ninety days after the publication of this ordi- 
 nance complete plans and maps of each and every route, showing 
 all wires, poles, pole-lines, and fixtures used for fire and burglar- 
 alarm, messenger-call, and signaling purposes, shall be filed with the 
 city electrician by the person or company operating such route, and 
 no change shall be made in such wires, poles, or fixtures without 
 a permit therefor from the Board of Administration, as set forth 
 in Section 1. 
 
 Sec. 20. The Board of Administration reserves the right to 
 order all wires of this class in the general subway when said sub- 
 way is built. 
 
 Sec. 21. Any existing companies at the time of the passage of 
 this ordinance, upon filing a written acceptance of the same with 
 the Board of Legislation and complying therewith, shall receive 
 from said board a license to transact its business for a period of 
 twenty -five years from date. 
 
 Sec. 22. Each person, company, or corporation receiving a 
 grant under the provisions of this ordinance shall be required to 
 pay into the city treasury quarterly, on the first day of January, 
 April, July, and October in each and every year, for said license 
 and franchise a sum equal to one dollar a mile per annum on all 
 wires run over house-tops or on poles in the streets and alleys of 
 said city north of Liberty Street, extended east and west to city 
 limits; two dollars a mile per annum south of Liberty Street, ex- 
 tended east and west to city limits, to Eighth Street, extended east 
 and west to city limits ; four dollars a mile per annum south of 
 Eighth Street, extended east and west to city limits, to Second 
 Street, extended east and west to city limits; and two dollars a 
 mile per annum south of Second Street, extended east and west to 
 city limits, to Ohio River. 
 
 Sec. 28. Any person removing or attempting to remove, or 
 destroying or attempting to destroy, the tagging of wires as pro- 
 vided for herein, or interfering therewith, except in the regular 
 performance of duties as employees of the company owning such 
 wire, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 
 thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or im- 
 prisoned in the Workhouse not exceeding thirty days, or both fined 
 and imprisoned. 
 
 Sec. 24. The ordinance passed November 17, 1893, entitled 
 “An Ordinance, No. 683, prescribing the terms and conditions 
 
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 under which the business of telephone, telegraph, burglar - alarm, 
 fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling purposes may be en- 
 gaged in within the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati by any 
 person, company, or corporation securing permission by special ordi- 
 nance so to engage,” be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 53. Passed September 5, 1890. 
 
 Giving fire - engines, hose - carts, hose - wagons, ladder - wagons, and 
 salvage - corps wagons the right of way in going to fires. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati, That 
 all fire-engines, hose -carts, hose - wagons, ladder- wagons, and 
 salvage -corps wagons going to fires shall have the right of way 
 through the streets in preference to all street cars and vehicles of all 
 descriptions. 
 
 NO. 491. Passed March 81, 1893. 
 
 Authorizing the Board of Fire Trustees to contract with the City and 
 Suburban Telegraph Association for the use of telephone switch- 
 board and its equipment, and for rental of all telephones, trans- 
 mitters, magnet-bells and battery-boxes, and exchange service for 
 the use of the Cincinnati Fire Department for the term of ten years. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Board of Fire Trustees be and they are hereby 
 authorized to enter into a contract with the City and Suburban 
 Telegraph Association of the city of Cincinnati for the use of one 
 switch-board of the latest improved type, with full equipment for 
 sixty metallic circuit lines, with one long distance transmitter and 
 one head telephone, all complete, for the use of the fire department 
 for the term of ten years, and for the rental of all the telephones, 
 transmitters, magnet-bells, and battery-boxes with backboards com- 
 plete, and exchange service necessary to equip all engine-houses, 
 offices, and residences of officers and trustees of the Cincinnati Fire 
 Department for said term of ten years. 
 
 Sec. 2. The rental of the switch-board and all telephones, trans- 
 mitters, and necessary equipments shall not exceed seven hundred 
 and fifty dollars per year. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 NO. 818. Passed July 27, 1894. 
 
 To provide for the erection and maintenance of public watering- 
 fountains for man and beast. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That public wateriug-fountaius for man and beast be 
 established at or near the following-named places in said city, to-wit : 
 
 One at Front and Butler streets ; 
 
 One at Park and Second streets; 
 
 One at Wood and Fifth streets ; 
 
 Two. at City Hall ; 
 
 One at Court-house ; 
 
 One at Flower-market ; 
 
 One at East McMicken Avenue, near Vine Street ; 
 
 One at Broadway and Court Street; 
 
 One at Gilbert Avenue, opposite Effluent-pipe Street ; 
 
 One at St. Francis de Sales Church ; 
 
 One at Vine Street, top of hill ; 
 
 One at McMicken Avenue and Browne Street ; 
 
 One at Colerain Avenue and Spring-Grove Avenue; 
 
 One near Fairmount Woolen Mills; 
 
 One at Eighth Street and S!ate Avenue; 
 
 One at Warsaw and Glen way avenues ; 
 
 One at Sixth Street and State Avenue ; 
 
 One at Reading Road and Mount Gregory Street ; 
 
 One on Pearl Street, between Plum and Elm streets ; 
 
 One at Public Landing ; 
 
 One at Eastern and Delta avenues ; 
 
 and at such other places as shall be from time to time designated 
 by resolution of the Board of Legislation. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the mayor shall purchase public watering- 
 fountains for man and beast, or have same constructed, and locate 
 them at said places under his direction, and shall have same sup- 
 plied with water by the Waterworks of said city, the cost of the 
 necessary pipe and connections to be paid, as hereafter provided 
 herein, as part of the cost of said public watering-fountains for 
 man and beast, and the Board of Administration are authorized 
 and directed to supply water to same free of charge. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the mayor shall appoint some competent man, at 
 a salary not to exceed two dollars per day, to manage and supervise 
 said public watering -fountains for man and beast, and keep them 
 clean and in good condition and repair, and see that same are not 
 injured or damaged in any way. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person injuring or damaging any of said public 
 watering-fountains for man and beast shall be deemed guilty of a 
 
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 misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be fined not to exceed 
 twenty-five dollars and the cost of prosecution. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the city auditor be and he is hereby authorized 
 and directed to draw, and the city treasurer to pay, warrants on 
 the General Fund to cover the cost of such construction and main- 
 tenance of said public watering-fountains for man and beast, upon 
 receiving properly-approved vouchers therefor from the mayor. 
 
 IT O. 265. Passed May 27, 1892. 
 
 Providing- for the disposition of vegetable g-arbag-e in a mode not 
 injurious to health or comfort for a period of ten years, 
 
 Whereas, On the first day of April, 1892, the Board of Legis- 
 lation of the city of Cincinnati passed a resolution directing the 
 city clerk to advertise for sealed proposals for the removal of dead 
 animals, animal offal, and vegetable garbage from dwellings, hotels, 
 stock-yards, slaughter-houses, streets, and commons of the city for 
 a period of ten (10) years, in accordance with specifications duly 
 adopted by said Board of Legislation ; and 
 
 Whereas, By said specifications proposals were invited for the 
 disposition of vegetable garbage alone in a mode not injurious to 
 health or comfort; and 
 
 Whereas, After due advertisement bids were received May 2, 
 1892, in pursuance of said advertisement, said resolution, and said 
 specifications, for the disposition of vegetable garbage in a mode not 
 injurious to health or comfort; and 
 
 Whereas, The following proposal was made by Isaac M. Simonin, 
 viz. : “I will agree to erect, operate, and maintain a plant for the 
 scientific and sanitary disposition of the vegetable garbage of the 
 city, and dispose of the same in a mode not injurious to health or 
 comfort, and in accordance with the printed specifications, for the 
 following graduated yearly payments, covering the entire period of 
 the contract, the city delivering the garbage : First year, fifteen 
 
 thousand dollars ($15,000) ; second year, seventeen thousand dollars 
 ($17,000) ; third year, nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000) ; fourth 
 year, twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000) ; fifth year, twenty-two 
 thousand dollars ($22,000); sixth year, twenty -three thousand 
 dollars ($23,000) ; seventh year, twenty - four thousand dollars 
 ($24,000); eighth year, twenty -five thousand dollars ($25,000); 
 ninth year, twenty -six thousand dollars ($26,000); tenth year, 
 twenty -seven thousand dollars ($27,000) ;” and 
 
 Whereas, Said proposal so made as aforesaid by the said Isaac 
 M. Simonin was the lowest and best proposal made for the disposi- 
 tion of vegetable garbage in a mode not injurious to health or 
 comfort : Now, therefore — 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the said proposal of the said Isaac M. Simonin be 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 and the same is hereby accepted upon the terms and conditions set 
 forth in said specifications and proposal as follows, viz. : 
 
 First — The said Isaac M. Simonin shall within ten (10) days 
 after the passage of this ordinance enter into a contract with the 
 city of Cincinnati, the Board of Administration acting for and on 
 behalf of the city in the making of the same, and being hereby 
 fully empowered thereunto, binding himself, his heirs, executors, 
 administrators, and assigns, to receive from the city of Cincinnati, 
 at such point or points as may be agreed upon and designated in 
 said contract, all the vegetable and kitchen garbage that may be 
 collected and delivered by the city at such point or points, the same 
 to be unmixed with ashes or other refuse matter, for and during the 
 full term of ten (10) years from and after the making of said con- 
 tract ; the city agreeing on its part to prevent the dumping during 
 said period of all such garbage at other places, and further agreeing 
 to so collect and deliver as aforesaid all such garbage. 
 
 Second — The said Isaac M. Simonin shall bind himself, his heirs, 
 executors, administrators, and assigns, by said contract to dispose of 
 all such garbage so delivered to him as aforesaid in a mode not 
 injurious to health or comfort ; such delivery of garbage not to be 
 commenced, however, until the necessary plant, apparatus, arid 
 facilities for the disposition of the same have been provided by the 
 said Simonin, and notice thereof and of his readiness to receive the 
 same ; the said Simonin to bind himself, however, to complete the 
 construction and operation of said plant with all possible dispatch, 
 and no greater sum shall be paid for the first of said contract than 
 the proportion of said year during which he receives and disposes 
 of said garbage bears to the whole sum of $15,000. 
 
 Third— In consideration of such disposition of said garbage by 
 the said Isaac M. Simonin, the city shall bind itself by said contract 
 to pay to him, his heirs, executors, administrators, successors, or 
 assigns, in such installments as may be agreed upon, the following 
 sums of money, viz.: For the first year, fifteen thousand dollars 
 ($15,000) ; for the second year, seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000); 
 for the third year, nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000) ; for the 
 fourth year, twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000); for the fifth 
 year, twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000); for the sixth year, 
 twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000) ; for the seventh year, 
 twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) ; for the eighth year, twenty- 
 five thousand dollars ($25,000) ; for the ninth year, twenty-six 
 thousand dollars ($26,000); for the tenth year, twenty-seven thou- 
 sand dollars ($27,000). 
 
 Fourth — The said Isaac M. Simonin shall enter into a bond 
 within ten (10) days from the passage of this ordinance in the sum 
 of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), with at least two sureties 
 who will qualify as owners of real estate of the value of double the 
 amount of such bond, conditioned that he will faithfully carry out 
 said contract. 
 
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 No. 3974. Passed September 28, 1887. 
 
 To provide for the erection of the Garfield Statue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati 
 (a majority of all the members elected to each board concurring), 
 That permission is hereby granted to erect the Garfield statue at 
 the intersection of Race Street and Garfield Place ; and permission 
 is also granted to open Race Street at above-named point for the 
 purpose of erecting the pedestal of said monument. The entire 
 work to be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the 
 Board of Public Affairs. 
 
 No. 103. Passed January 16, 1891. 
 
 Prohibiting- public exhibitions or illustrations of Hypnotism or 
 
 Mesmerism. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati , That it 
 shall be unlawful for any person or persons to give a public exhibi- 
 tion or illustration of the effects of hypnotism or mesmerism upon 
 any human subject, and any person or persons giving such public 
 exhibition or performance illustrating the effects of hypnotism shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine 
 in a sum not to exceed $500, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty 
 days, or both fine and imprisonment, upon conviction thereof in the 
 Police Court; and the beginning of such exhibition or illustration 
 of the effects of hypnotism herein provided against shall subject the 
 person or persons so beginning the exhibition or illustration of hypno- 
 tism or mesmerism to the penalty herein provided. 
 
 No. 4274. Passed October 11, 1889. 
 
 Prohibiting the deposit in the streets, alleys, or public places of ice 
 that has been used on dead bodies. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That it shall be unlawful to deposit upon any of the streets, alleys, 
 or other public ways or places of the city any ice that has been 
 used upon dead bodies ; and any person found guilty of so doing 
 shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding 
 twenty -five dollars for each and every offense. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 492. Passed March 31, 1893. 
 
 To accept the bequest of Joanna Peters of a thousand-dollar United 
 States four per cent bond, for the use of an Asylum for Inebriates 
 when established. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas, Joanna Peters, under the fourth section of her last will 
 and testament, has bequeathed to the city of Cincinnati “a bond 
 of the United States of America of one thousand dollars, bearing 
 interest at four per cent per annum, to be held in trust, with all 
 its interest and income, and to be with its said interest invested and 
 reinvested at interest from time to time as may become necessary 
 or advisable until such time as there shall be founded and estab- 
 lished in the city of Cincinnati or its vicinity an asylum for inebri- 
 ates, by whatever name such asylum may be called, and when such 
 asylum shall be founded and established in said city or its vicinity, 
 then to pay over and apply to the support of such asylum the pro- 
 ceeds of said thousand-dollar United States four per cent bond, and 
 all its increase from interest or otherwise which may have been 
 accumulated by investing and reinvesting the money resulting from 
 said bond, as in said clause directed.” 
 
 Now, then, the city of Cincinnati hereby accepts said bequest 
 upon the conditions stated, and designates the Sinking Fund 
 Trustees as the custodian thereof, for the uses and purposes above 
 set forth. 
 
 No. 61. Passed July 31, 1891. 
 
 To regulate the management of the City Infirmary, City Burying- 
 ground, and the granting of outdoor relief to the poor. 
 
 Whereas , In accordance with the act of the General Assembly 
 passed March 26, 1891, entitled “An act supplementary to and 
 amendatory of Title 12 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio,” the Board 
 of Administration heretofore appointed in conformity with said act 
 shall have all the powers and perform all the duties heretofore con- 
 ferred upon and required of the Board of Infirmary directors in 
 cities of the first grade of the first class : Therefore 
 
 Sec. 1. Beit ordained by the Board of Legislation (a majority of 
 the members elected thereto concurring), That the said Board of 
 Administration shall have the charge of the City Infirmary, city 
 burying-ground, and the granting of outdoor relief to the poor, 
 with power to do all acts which may be necessary for the prudent 
 and efficient management of the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the Board of Administration be and it is hereby 
 authorized and instructed to inter in the city burying-ground the 
 body of every indigent person who may die in either of the insti- 
 
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 tutions of the city sustained by private contributions or public 
 charity ; provided, that whenever the friends of the deceased fur- 
 nish a private burial place they may do so, in which event they 
 shall only provide coffin and hearse. 
 
 Sec. 3. All appointments of officers and employees necessary for 
 the prudent and efficient management of said City Infirmary, city 
 burying-ground, and the granting of outdoor relief to the poor 
 shall be made by a majority of the said Board of Administration ; 
 and said officers and employees shall be governed in all respects by 
 the rules, regulations, and directions of said board, and shall hold 
 their offices during the pleasure of said board ; provided, however, 
 that all nurses and employees of the Infirmary shall be recom- 
 mended for appointment by the superintendent thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. Neither the members of said board nor the officers or 
 employees appointed by them shall be interested, directly or indi- 
 rectly, in the profits of any concern, contract, or job for work or 
 services to be performed, or for any materials to be furnished for 
 any of the aforesaid departments, nor shall they be entitled to any 
 perquisites or extra compensation besides their salaries, fixed by law 
 or by the board, for any duties performed or work done in their 
 official capacity. 
 
 Sec. 5. All the male officers appointed by them shall take an 
 oath of office before they enter upon their duties. 
 
 Sec'. 6. The board shall provide against imposition from paupers 
 not properly entitled to public relief, and from paupers not properly 
 belonging to this city ; they shall not admit them into the City 
 Infirmary, except in very extreme cases, but take necessary measures 
 to prevent their settlement ; and, if necessary, provide for their 
 removal to their legal homes. 
 
 Sec. 7. The board shall annually, on or before the first day of 
 February, and at such other times as the Board of Legislation may 
 ordain, submit to the mayor and the Board of Legislation a full, 
 accurate, and detailed report of the condition of their finances, in 
 so far as the management of said City Infirmary, city burying- 
 ground, and the granting of outdoor relief to the poor are concerned, 
 showing the receipts, disbursements, and number of applications 
 granted. 
 
 Sec. 8 . All moneys levied or in any way received for the pur- 
 pose of the City Infirmary, city burying-ground, or the granting of 
 relief to the outdoor poor, as also all moneys received for articles 
 sold from the different institutions, shall be paid into the city treas- 
 ury ; and shall be placed to the credit of the City Infirmary ; and 
 all such moneys shall be exclusively appropriated for the purpose 
 aforesaid, and shall not be paid out except on an order signed 
 by at least two members of said board, and countersigned by 
 their clerk. 
 
 Sec. 9. For the purpose of carrying into practical operation the 
 several provisions of this ordinance, the said board shall prepare 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 such rules and regulations for the management of the City Infirm- 
 ary, city burying-ground, and the granting of outdoor relief to the 
 poor as they may deem expedient ; also defining the duties of their 
 officers, and the transaction of business at the city office of said 
 infirmary. Said rules and regulations shall be posted conspicuously 
 about the halls and corridors of the said City Infirmary and the 
 city office of said City Infirmary. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any patient discharged from the Commercial Hospital, 
 and by the board of trustees of said hospital, or by two members 
 thereof, certified to be entitled to admission to the infirmary, shall 
 be admitted on such certificate without further examination or cer- 
 tificate by said board. 
 
 Sec. 11. That “An ordinance to regulate the management of 
 the City Infirmary, city burying-ground, and the granting of out- 
 door relief to the poor,” passed April 15, 1864; an ordinance 
 “ Providing for the burial of indigent persons,” passed September 
 1, 1852; an ordinance “To provide for the appointment of over- 
 seers of the poor, and to fix their compensation,” passed March 20, 
 1875 ; an ordinance “Authorizing the board of directors of the 
 City Infirmary to inter indigent persons in the city burying-ground,” 
 passed December 6, 1867 ; also all by-laws and rules and regulations 
 in force before the passage of this ordinance, are hereby repealed, 
 and this ordinance shall be in full force and take effect on and after 
 the earliest period allowed by law. 
 
 Sec. 12. Provided, however, that the present members of Board 
 of Infirmary Directors shall until the expiration of their respective 
 terms of office serve, without change of compensation, in conjunc- 
 tion with the Board of Administration, and not otherwise, in the 
 management of the affairs of such infirmaries, having powers and 
 votes equal in all respects to the powers and votes of the members 
 of the last aforesaid board in all matters pertaining thereto, and 
 none other. 
 
 No. 102. Passed January 16, 1891. 
 
 To facilitate the collection of license fees. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That the owners of all vehicles used upon the streets of the city, 
 except cabs, hacks, sulkies, buggies, and carriages, shall be required 
 to exhibit in a conspicuous place upon each side of each vehicle for 
 which annual license fees are required by law to be paid a tin-tag 
 sign, to be furnished by the city comptroller, indicating the year 
 for which such license has been taken out. 
 
 Sec. 2. The city comptroller is hereby required to furnish with 
 every license issued for every such vehicle used upon the streets of 
 the city two tin tags, having printed or painted thereon the year 
 for which said license has been taken out. 
 
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 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the comptroller within six 
 months preceding any year to advertise for sealed proposals to fur- 
 nish such quantity of tin-tag signs as may be estimated by him will 
 be required during the succeeding year ; to contract for their deliv- 
 ery with the lowest and best bidder, and pay for the same from the 
 office fund of the comptroller. 
 
 Sec. 4. The owner of any vehicle violating the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall be fined not less than twenty -five dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars for each day upon which such vehicle shall 
 be used upon the streets of the city without exhibiting such tin tags. 
 
 No. 163. Passed January 22, 1892. 
 
 Imposing 1 a lioense of twenty-five dollars per annum upon itinerant 
 
 photographers. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the Oity of Cincinnati , 
 That any person or persons engaged in the business of taking pho- 
 tographs or pictures, not being the owner of a regular photograph 
 gallery located within the city of Cincinnati, and regularly carrying 
 on business in such gallery, shall be required to pay a license fee of 
 twenty-five dollars, the said license to be good for the term of one 
 year from its issue, and to be issued by the mayor of the city. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons carrying on said business of taking 
 photographs or pictures for profit without the license provided in 
 the preceding section, other than such persons as own and operate 
 a regular photograph gallery within the said city of Cincinnati, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof in the Police Court of the city shall be fined in any sum 
 not exceeding fifty dollars. 
 
 No. 246. Passed November 14, 1898. 
 
 To license transient dealers and persons who temporarily open stores 
 or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 open stores or places for the temporary sale of goods, wares, or 
 merchandise in the city of Cincinnati without having first obtained 
 a license therefor in the manner described herein ; provided, that 
 this ordinance shall not apply to persons selling by sample only, 
 nor to any agricultural articles or products offered or exposed for 
 sale by the producer. 
 
 Sec. 2. Before any transient dealer or person who opens a store 
 or place for the temporary sale of goods, wares, or merchandise - in 
 the city of Cincinnati shall engage in such business, he shall apply 
 to the auditor of such city for a license to engage in such transient 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 business, or the temporary sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, 
 stating in his application the particular kind of temporary business 
 in which he proposes to engage. The auditor shall issue to the 
 applicant for such license a certificate, stating the particular kind 
 of license for which application has been made. Said certificate 
 shall be delivered to the city treasurer, who shall, upon receipt of 
 the sum of three hundred dollars ($300), give a certificate of pay- 
 ment to said applicant. Upon the presentation of said certificate 
 to the auditor of said city, he shall issue a license to said applicant 
 to engage in such business, which license shall be good for the term 
 of one year from the date of its issue. 
 
 Sec. 3. The auditor shall have the authority to revoke such 
 license at any time. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one 
 hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars ; and each day that such 
 store or business is conducted without such license shall be held to 
 constitute a separate offense. 
 
 Sec. 5. Ordinance No. 1155, passed January 18, 1897, entitled 
 “An ordinance to license transient dealers and persons who tempo- 
 rarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchan- 
 dise,” and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict 
 herewith, are hereby repealed. 
 
 !N"0. 4285. Passed October 18, 1889. 
 
 Presenting- terms and conditions under which the business of electrical 
 illumination may be eng-aged in within the corporate limits of the 
 city of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corporation securing 
 permission by special ordinance to so engage. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That whenever permission is by ordinance granted to any person, 
 company, or corporation to engage in the business of electrical 
 illumination, it shall be under the following expressed terms and 
 conditions : 
 
 The grant to occupy the streets, lanes, and public grounds of 
 the city of Cincinnati for the purpose of erecting and maintaining 
 poles, masts, towers, brackets, and supports, with the necessary 
 wires thereon, shall be for such period of time as Council shall 
 determine at the date of the passage of any special ordinance. 
 
 No grant shall be made to thus occupy the side of any street, 
 lane, alley, or public place, whereon poles, masts, towers, brackets, 
 or supports have already been erected for the maintenance of tele- 
 graph or telephone wires, unless both sides of said street, alley, 
 lane, or public place are already so occupied, or upon any other 
 street, lane, alley, or public grounds in such manner as to interfere 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 with, obstruct, or inconvenience any person in his or her right to 
 the free use of such streets, lanes, alleys, etc. 
 
 And all poles, masts, towers, brackets, and supports, whenever 
 and wherever erected, shall be of sufficient height to carry any 
 wires placed thereon above and clear of all obstructions growing 
 out of the character of the buildings adjoining such lines, or the 
 nature of the business carried on therein ; and in no case shall they 
 be attached to the eaves or roofs or tops of houses without the con- 
 sent of the owner thereof, properly authenticated to the Board ot 
 Public Affairs ; and no poles, masts, towers, brackets, or supports 
 shall be of less height than thirty feet. 
 
 And whenever it shall be necessary to cross the line of any 
 existing electric-light, telegraph, or telephone lines it shall be at a 
 distance of not less than three feet therefrom, unless absolutely 
 necessary, and then only on permission in writing being granted by 
 the Board of Public Affairs on the recommendation of the city 
 electrician. 
 
 That it shall not be admissible to occupy any main street with 
 such poles, masts, towers, or supports, where it is practicable to 
 penetrate any district or supply the occupants of any one square 
 by erecting and maintaining such supports in the alleyways of such 
 city, or when such occupation shall obstruct said alleyways, then 
 by acquiring the right to occupy such portions of private property 
 abutting thereon as may be necessary for the maintenance of such 
 posts, masts, towers, and supports in such manner as may be deter- 
 mined by the Board of Public Affairs. 
 
 That all such posts, masts, towers, brackets, and supports carry- 
 ing electric-light or power wires when erected shall be painted a 
 bright red, or such other color as the Board of Public Affairs may 
 determine, in order that the character of the wires carried thereon 
 shall be understood. 
 
 All poles now standing or hereafter erected for the support of 
 electric-light or power wires shall be marked with the name or 
 initials of the company owning them at a point five feet from the 
 ground. If a pole be used by more than one company, each cross- 
 arm, or if necessary each wire, must be marked or labeled so as to 
 indicate the owner. 
 
 That the person, company, or corporation erecting any such 
 lines of poles, masts, towers, or supports shall, upon the payment 
 to them of a fair proportion of the original cost of erection of the 
 portion to be so occupied and possessed, and a monthly rental 
 equivalent to a fair proportion of the cost of erection and mainte- 
 nance of the portion to be so occupied and possessed, permit any 
 other person, company, or corporation to occupy and possess equal 
 rights and privileges thereon, if said poles have not already a full 
 complement of wires — same to be determined by the city electrician. 
 
 And whenever two or more persons, companies, or corporations 
 are supplying or propose to supply electricity for any purpose what- 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 soever within the same territory, they shall be required to jointly 
 use and occupy the same poles, masts, towers, or supports upon the 
 conditions hereinbefore recited ; and no wires or electrical conduc- 
 tors of any character or kind shall be maintained in any other 
 manner than that herein provided. 
 
 The exact location and the erection of all poles, masts, towers, 
 or supports proposed to be erected by any persons, company, or 
 corporation shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Public 
 Affairs, which shall have the right to order and enforce a change 
 of location of any poles, masts, towers, or supports. And the occu- 
 pation of any new streets hereafter opened shall be upon a plan to 
 be submitted by said persons, company, or corporation, and approved 
 by the Board of Public Affairs. 
 
 And whenever it may become necessary to string wires or elec- 
 trical conductors to any point not on the main line, and where it is 
 impracticable to erect and maintain the posts, masts, towers, or 
 supports required herein, the same shall be done only upon special 
 permission being granted by the Board of Public Affairs, upon a 
 plan approved by the chief engineer of said board, and which plan 
 and approval shall be filed with said application. 
 
 Any ordinance granting authority to any person, company, or 
 corporation to go into operation under the provisions of this general 
 ordinance shall distinctly specify and indicate the maximum price 
 at which electricity is to be supplied to public and private con- 
 sumers for either lighting or power purposes. 
 
 All conducting wires, excepting trolley-wires for electric rail- 
 ways, must be covered with a durable weather-proof insulation, 
 embracing not less than two coatings. Permits to string wires will 
 be granted only after the approval of samples submitted to the 
 electrician or the board, and no other wires than those thus ap- 
 proved by samples may be strung. 
 
 Where wires enter a building they must be incased in continu- 
 ous pieces of hard insulating tubing, so inclined as to oppose the 
 entrance of water, and the outer end of this tubing must be sealed 
 with some plastic insulating material in such manner as to exclude 
 all moisture. 
 
 In running along walls all wires shall be rigidly attached to the 
 same by non-conducting fastenings, and shall not hang from pro- 
 jecting insulators in loose loops; all arc light wires shall be placed 
 at not less than one foot and all incandescent- light wires at not less 
 than six inches apart, and whenever they approach any conduct- 
 ing body capable of furnishing a ground connection they must be 
 rigidly secured and separated from the same by some approved non- 
 conductor. The distribution of electricity by the alternating or 
 transformer system shall be under the supervising control of the 
 Board of Public Affairs, and all companies using said system shall 
 conform strictly to all requirements of said board. 
 
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 The use of porcelain knobs as insulators on the outside of build- 
 ings is prohibited, except in dry places, where an approved special 
 insulation must be used on the wires. 
 
 Wires must not be so placed as to render it easily possible for 
 water to form a cross-connection between them. 
 
 Wires must be fastened to insulated supports by insulated tie- 
 wires. The use of iron tie-wires is prohibited. All tie-wires must 
 have an insulation equal to that of the conducting wires. 
 
 All joints in wires must be secured by making from five to seven 
 turns on each side of cross, or by using an improved metallic sleeve. 
 All joints must be insulated with not less than four layers of durable 
 water-proof tape, and then covered with friction tape, which shall 
 be fastened with a few turns of small insulated copper wire. 
 
 Wires must be tightly stretched, and never allowed to sag to 
 such an extent as to be capable of coming into swinging contact 
 with each other, with signs or other neighboring objects. The 
 spacing of poles should be so determined as to facilitate the observ- 
 ance of this rule. 
 
 Overhead wires, between which there is a difference of potential, 
 must not be less than one foot apart, and must swing clear of for- 
 eign contact between their insulated supports. No electric-light or 
 power wires on cross-arms shall be less than one foot distant from 
 the pole or other central support. 
 
 Wires over roofs must be at least seven feet above flat roofs at 
 the point of lowest sag, and one foot above the ridge of other roofs. 
 
 Service wires must run horizontally from street mains to build- 
 ings, except on special permission granted by the Board of Public 
 Affairs on the recommendation of the electrician. 
 
 Where angles occur in a line, subjecting the supports to in- 
 creased strain, guard -irons must be placed at the outer ends of 
 cross-arms. Guard-wires must also be placed wherever their pres- 
 ence would prevent telephone, telegraph, or other wires from coming 
 into accidental contact with electric-light wires. The cost of such 
 guard-irons and guard-wires shall be borne by the person or company 
 making the last construction. 
 
 All guy-wires, whether run by telegraph, telephone, or electric- 
 light companies, must be kept at a distance of not less than six 
 inches from electric-light wires, or otherwise be thoroughly insulated 
 at points in danger of contact with such wires. 
 
 Wires for arc lighting must enter and leave a building through 
 a suitable and approved cut- out switch, which is to be placed on the 
 building or neighboring pole in a position easily accessible to police, 
 firemen, and inspector. 
 
 Arc lamps must be so placed as to leave a clear space of not less 
 than nine feet between lamp and the sidewalk. 
 
 All wires must be so strung as to leave a clear space of not less 
 than twenty feet at the point of lowest sag between the wire and 
 the surface of the sidewalk or street. 
 
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 All circuits must be provided with some approved device for 
 declaring or detecting ground connections. Tests for grounds must 
 be made at least three times each day. When a ground connection 
 occurs it must be found and remedied without delay. 
 
 The insulation resistance on all circuits must be maintained at a 
 standard approved by the consulting electrician of the Board of 
 Public Affairs, and every facility for testing circuits shall be ac- 
 corded said electrician and his assistant. 
 
 Loops, wires, and poles no longer in use, and of which there is 
 no immediate prospect of further use, shall be removed. 
 
 Immediately after the erection of any wiring or other outdoor 
 construction for electric light or power, the company or person 
 erecting the same shall notify the city inspector of electric con- 
 structions or the Board of Public Affairs that said work is ready for 
 inspection, and no use shall be made of such wiring or its appurte- 
 nances for the purposes aforesaid until approved by the inspector. 
 
 Every lineman and lampman must wear a badge in plain sight, 
 indicating his number and the company or person by whom he is 
 employed, and in case of fire this badge shall serve as a pass to 
 admit the wearer within the fire-lines. 
 
 The fire department of the city shall erect in the station of every 
 electric-light or power company, at the latters expense, a suitable 
 gong connecting with the fire-lines, by which shall be indicated the 
 location of all fires. On the occurrence of a fire in any district in 
 which any company has wires, such company shall forthwith send 
 a man prepared to remove wires under the direction of the fire 
 department. 
 
 Any and all persons, companies, or corporations operating under 
 this ordinance shall be required to adopt the most modern and 
 approved devices for the protection of users of electric light against 
 injury to persons or property, and shall be held responsible for any 
 damages, whether to life or property, which may result from the 
 construction, maintenance, or operation of their plant, and shall 
 hold the city harmless from any liability for damage done to life or 
 property. 
 
 Any person, company, or corporation organized or continuing in 
 operation after the passage of this ordinance shall, whenever directed 
 so to do by the Board of Public Affairs, carry all wires through 
 underground conduits, and shall hold the city harmless in the 
 matter of any claims for damages on account of being required to 
 so carry wires underground, and where the light is carried to posts, 
 towers, or brackets, shall do so through tubes to within six inches 
 of where the light is exposed. 
 
 Any grant made under the provisions of this ordinance shall 
 not be transferable by sale of stock or otherwise until the company 
 goes into operation as herein provided, and any person, company, 
 or corporation which does not personally or through their own agents 
 go into operation within six months after being authorized so to do, 
 
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 and be prepared to supply at least fifty arc or five hundred incan- 
 descent lights (and those furnishing power only shall be prepared 
 to furnish one hundred horse power) within six months, shall forfeit 
 all the rights and privileges previously acquired. 
 
 Any person, company, or corporation desiring to engage in the 
 business of lighting by electricity under the provisions of this gen- 
 eral ordinance shall, as a condition precedent to the consideration 
 of such application, execute a good and sufficient bond in the sum 
 of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned to carry out and faithfully 
 execute all the provisions contained in this ordinance, and also con- 
 ditioned to save the city harmless from any liability accruing through 
 injury to life or property in the construction, maintenance, and 
 operation of said business; and further, that they will promptly 
 pay to the treasurer of the city of Cincinnati, on the first days of 
 January, April, July, and October of each year, the sum of one 
 half of one per cent on the gross receipts from every source, either 
 directly or indirectly connected with the supply of electricity for 
 either light or power purposes. Said bond shall be approved by 
 the solicitor as to form and by the Board of Public Affairs as to 
 sufficiency. 
 
 The quarterly payments of one half of one per cent of gross 
 receipts shall be paid into the city treasury, and placed to the credit 
 of the Street-repairing Fund. 
 
 Any person, company, or corporation desiring to operate under 
 the provisions of this ordinance shall first deposit with the city 
 treasurer a sum sufficient, in the judgment of the Board of Public 
 Affairs, to defray the cost of restoring the pavements removed to 
 their former condition. 
 
 Poles must not be deposited on the street more than two days 
 previous to their erection. 
 
 A violation of any of the conditions of this ordinance, or refusal 
 on the part of any company or person to make such alterations and 
 repairs in their present or future constructions as may be demanded 
 in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed 
 a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the Police Court of the 
 city of Cincinnati shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred 
 nor more than five hundred dollars for the first offense, and for a 
 second offense shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more 
 than five hundred dollars and imprisoned at the City Workhouse 
 not longer than sixty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
 Such violation shall also operate ipso facto as a revocation of all per- 
 mits, rights, and franchises granted to the company or person held 
 guilty of such violation or refusal. 
 
 The Board of Public Affairs shall be clothed with police authority 
 to enforce any of the provisions of this ordinance, and shall be 
 authorized in case of a persistent and continuous violation of the 
 requirements of this ordinance, and in cases of dangerous necessity 
 said board is authorized to instruct the police or its inspector to cut 
 
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 out lights or to cut out the current in the locality concerned, and to 
 enforce the discontinuance of all rights until the provisions of this 
 ordinance are complied with. 
 
 All interior wiring shall comply with and conform to the rules and 
 requirements of the Underwriters Association of Cincinnati. 
 
 No. 4:34:4:.* Passed March 5, 1890. 
 
 Accepting- the bid of the Brush Electric Light Company of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, for lighting streets, alleys, avenues, parks, and public places 
 and ways of the city of Cincinnati with electric light. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the bid of the Brush Electric Light Company of Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, for lighting the streets, alleys, avenues, parks, and 
 public places and ways of the city of Cincinnati with electric light 
 for the sum of fifty-nine dollars and ninety -eight cents ($59.98) per 
 lamp per year, said bid being opened on December 16, 1889, by the 
 Committee on Light, be and the same is hereby accepted, and con- 
 tract for lighting said city as aforesaid is hereby awarded to the 
 said the Brush Electric Light Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 2 The Board of Public Affairs is hereby authorized to 
 contract with the said company in accordance with said bid, and in 
 accordance with the specifications and ordinances under which said 
 bid was made, received, and opened, for the time and in the manner 
 provided in said specifications. 
 
 NO. 256. Passed May 18, 1892. 
 
 Accepting the bid of the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company of Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, for lighting by electricity the streets, alleys, lands, lanes, 
 squares, and public places of the city of Cincinnati, and granting a 
 franchise for electric lighting and power purposes, as provided for 
 in the specifications under which said bid was received. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the bidf of the Cincinnati Edison Electric Com- 
 pany for lighting by electricity the streets, alleys, lands, lanes, 
 squares, and public places of the city of Cincinnati, said bid being 
 opened on April 12, 1892, by the Committee on Light of the Board 
 of Legislation, be and the same is hereby accepted, and the contract 
 for lighting said city as aforesaid is hereby awarded to the said the 
 Cincinnati Edison Electric Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 * This became void through a decision of the Superior Court, which held that the 
 Board of Aldermen had rejected the bid in once indefinitely postponing the ordi- 
 nance. The action of that board in subsequently reconsidering and passing the ordi- 
 nance was not regarded by the court as a legal step. 
 
 t Eighty-four dollars and ninety cents ($84.90) per lamp per year. 
 
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 Sec. 2. The Board of Administration is hereby authorized and 
 directed to contract with the said company in accordance with said 
 bid, and in accordance with the specifications under which said bid 
 was made, received, and opened, for the time and in the manner 
 provided in said specifications. 
 
 Sec. 3. A franchise is hereby granted to said Cincinnati Edison 
 Electric Company to construct and maintain, during the term of 
 twenty (20) years from the date of the passage of this ordinance 
 accepting their said bid, lines for conducting electricity for power, 
 light, and general electrical purposes through the streets, alleys, 
 lands, lanes, squares, and public places of the city of Cincinnati, 
 and to erect and maintain all necessary fixtures, poles, posts, towers, 
 and abutments necessary to enable said Cincinnati Edison Electric 
 Company to furnish electricity for commercial light, power, and 
 general purposes, as provided in said specifications, under which 
 the said bid of said company was made, and subject to all the 
 restrictions therein contained. 
 
 NO. 453. Passed February 3, 1893. 
 
 Directing- the Board of Administration to discontinue g-as-lig-hting- and 
 other lig-hting- in the territory lig-hted by electricity under the con- 
 tract with the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That whenever any street, alley, land, lane, square, or 
 public place in this city is lighted by electricity under the con- 
 tract entered into with the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company on 
 the 31st day of May, 1892, all other lighting at the expense of the 
 city of such street, alley, land, lane, square, or public place in 
 proximity to electric lights erected by said company shall be dis- 
 continued. It shall be the duty of the Board of Administration to 
 notify all other persons or companies furnishing gas, gasoline, or 
 electric lighting at the expense of the city of the passage of this 
 ordinance, and also notify them from time to time to discontinue 
 such lighting at any place whenever any electric light is furnished 
 in its proximity under said contract with the Cincinnati Edison 
 Electric Company ; and as nearly as practicable all other public 
 lighting within a distance of three hundred feet shall be discon- 
 tinued. 
 
 SPECIFICATIONS 
 
 For lig-hting- by electricity the streets, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, and 
 pubiic places of the city of Cincinnati, under which the Cincinnati 
 Edison Electric Company bid and is now operating-. 
 
 I. To the party to whom the contract is awarded for furnishing 
 electric lights to the city of Cincinnati under these specifications a 
 
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 franchise will be given to construct and maintain, during the term 
 of twenty years from the date of the award, lines for conducting 
 electricity for power, light, and general electrical purposes through 
 the streets, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of the 
 city of Cincinnati, and such franchise will provide for the erection 
 of the necessary fixtures, including such poles, posts, piers, and 
 abutments as may be necessary to enable said party to furnish elec- 
 tricity for commercial light, power, and general purposes, subject to 
 the right of the Board of Legislation and mayor, by an ordinance 
 duly enacted at any time, to order said wires to be placed under 
 ground : Provided , that when so ordered to be placed under ground, 
 the party to whom the contract has been awarded shall be entitled 
 to receive such additional compensation as may be equitable for 
 the additional investment or expenditure of money required in the 
 construction or providing of and the changing to underground sub- 
 ways or system, which additional compensation shall be determined 
 by a committee of arbitrators, composed of three disinterested per- 
 sons, citizens of Ohio, but not of Hamilton County, one of whom 
 shall be selected by the mayor of the city of Cincinnati, one by the 
 contracting party, and the third by these two. The board of arbi- 
 trators so constituted to have referred to it all questions in dispute, 
 and after a full hearing, at which all parties shall have the right to be 
 present, shall by the determination of the majority of the arbitrators 
 so selected decide as to the amount of compensation paid to the 
 contractor, which compensation shall in no case exceed the actual 
 cost of such transfer and construction, due regard being had to the 
 other uses to which portions of such underground construction may 
 be put; and either party shall have the right, at intervals of two 
 years from the date of the first award of such arbitrators, to de- 
 mand a resubmission as before to fix such additional compensation for 
 underground construction during the ensuing two years : Provided , 
 that if a common subway is constructed, either by the city of Cin- 
 cinnati or some company authorized by the city, the contractor 
 under these specifications shall be entitled to and shall receive as 
 extra compensation under the contract granted in accordance with 
 these specifications such sum or sums on account of the rental for 
 the use of conduits in such common subway as the board of arbitra- 
 tors heretofore provided for shall determine. The expense of any 
 arbitration shall be borne equally by the parties to the contract. 
 
 II As a condition precedent to the opening of any proposals 
 for electric lighting under these specifications, any party desiring 
 the consideration of his bid shall at the time of depositing such bid 
 deposit with the city clerk a “certificate of deposit” — not certified 
 check — of any reputable bank in the city of Cincinnati, showing a 
 deposit of the sum of $50,000 to the credit of the city of Cincinnati 
 for the use and benefit of said city, and no bid shall be opened or 
 considered which is not accompanied by the certificate of the city 
 clerk that said deposit has been made within the time specified. 
 
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 Such deposit, so made, being with the distinct understanding and 
 agreement that, in case the party so depositing be awarded a con- 
 tract in strict accordance with the provisions of these specifications, 
 when such contract is executed by said bidder, and a bond given 
 as required by these specifications, with sureties satisfactory to the 
 city, and the contract and bond approved by the officers of the city 
 empowered to so approve, then said deposit or certificate shall be 
 returned to the bidder; but in case such award is made to the 
 party so depositing, and such party for a period of thirty days 
 neglects or refuses to enter into a contract on the basis of these 
 specifications, then in such case the money so deposited shall pass 
 to and become the property of the city of Cincinnati, not by way 
 of penalty, but as a consideration for the loss of time and expense 
 incurred by the city in consequence of such failure to consummate 
 and execute the contract thus awarded ; and the city treasurer 
 of the city of Cincinnati shall thereupon indorse such certificate of 
 deposit, and collect the money represented by such certificate, and 
 pay the same into the city treasury. The certificates of deposits 
 made by unsuccessful bidders under these specifications shall be 
 returned them immediately upon the awarding of the contract to 
 the party who shall make the successful bid, or upon the rejection 
 of all bids. 
 
 III. The period for which the contract for electric-lighting for 
 the city of Cincinnati shall be made shall be eleven years from date 
 of execution of said contract. 
 
 IV. Any award so made to any such party shall be absolutely 
 unassignable, either by sale, transfer, or partnership arrangement, 
 but must be carried out and be continuously operated by and for 
 the benefit of the party to which said award is made ; and if at 
 any time it can be shown that there has, either directly or indi- 
 rectly, been any transfer, or that the party to whom such contract 
 was awarded is not directly carrying the same out in good faith, 
 and receiving all the benefits and bearing all the responsibilities of 
 such operation, then the contract shall cease and determine, and 
 become null and void ; and if so avoided, the Board of Legislation 
 may proceed at once to advertise for proposals for a new contract, 
 and order suit to be commenced for damages for the breach of said 
 contract. 
 
 V. The territory to be lighted by the contractor under these 
 specifications shall be the present limits of the city of Cincinnati 
 and such additions as may be made thereto during the life of the 
 contract. Within twelve months from the date of contract there 
 shall be lighted, under these specifications and said contract, the 
 streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati included within Court Street on the north, the river on the 
 south, Eggleston Avenue and Broadway on the east, and Central 
 Avenue on the west ; with the right reserved on behalf of the city 
 to order the lighting of additional and contiguous territory and 
 
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 streets at such times as it may deem proper so to do after the first 
 described territory has been fully lighted ; and it is provided that 
 for each and every day’s delay in the fulfillment of the obligation 
 to have the first described territory lighted within twelve months 
 from the date of the contract, the parties to whom said contract 
 may be awarded shall forfeit for each day’s delay beyond the period 
 named the sum of fifty dollars ; such sum so forfeited to be paid 
 into the city treasury as compensation for damages herein admitted 
 to be incurred. And in said territory, and such additional territory 
 as may hereafter be designated by the Board of Legislation, the 
 wires used in executing the contract under these specifications shall 
 be placed under ground, or in subways or conduits, whenever all 
 electric-light wires in such territory are ordered under ground or 
 into subways by the proper authorities, and in accordance with the 
 provisions contained in Article I of these specifications, by the pro- 
 visions of the laws of the State of Ohio, or in what is known as 
 Ordinance No. 4285, purporting to have been passed October 18, 
 A. d. 1889, which is hereto attached and made a part hereof, so far 
 as not inconsistent with the other provisions of these specifications. 
 
 YI. The territory remaining outside of the First District, and 
 also alleys within the territory described as the First District, shall 
 thereafter be lighted by electricity as the streets, alleys, lands, lanes, 
 squares, and public places may be designated by the Board of Legis- 
 lation or its successors, with the approval of the mayor, for such 
 electric-lighting. The contract in every case shall cover contiguous 
 territory, and the lighting shall be uniform in character, and be for 
 the period of eleven years from the date of the original contract. 
 All public buildings and parks shall be lighted upon the same 
 terms whenever such lighting is ordered by the proper authorities 
 having charge thereof respectively. 
 
 VII. The streets, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, and public places 
 so designated shall be lighted with arc lamps commercially known 
 as 2000 candle power, and shall be operated with not less than 460 
 watts per lamp. 
 
 VIII. In the territory named as the First District, and over 
 such contiguous territory as may thereafter be designated by the 
 Board of Legislation, lamps shall be placed at all street intersec- 
 tions where the squares measure less than four hundred feet in 
 length, unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Administration ; 
 but where the squares measure more than four hundred feet in 
 length one lamp shall be placed at the street intersection and one 
 at an intermediate point. No lamp shall be hung under this con- 
 tract until the exact location thereof has been approved by the 
 Board of Administration, except where the Board of Legislation 
 has fixed the location thereof : Provided , that the Board of Admin- 
 istration shall locate lamps immediately upon receiving a request 
 from the contractor so to do, and in accordance with the provisions 
 of these specifications. Along all suburban roads lamps shall be 
 
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 hung approximately at 600 feet apart, and so hung as to be as near 
 as possible in the center of said streets. or as directed by the Board 
 of Administration. All such lamps shall be lighted every night in 
 the year, upon a schedule to be provided by the Board of Adminis- 
 tration, which shall provide for a total yearly lighting of not less 
 than 3,760 hours. All lamps shall be hung at a uniform height, 
 which shall be not less than eighteen feet from the surface of the 
 street, except when they are suspended across the roadway, in 
 which case they shall not be less than twenty -five feet from the 
 surface of the roadway. Lamps shall be placed on top of posts or 
 suspended from neatly -constructed iron brackets where lamps are 
 placed upon the sides of the streets. Said brackets to be not less 
 than three feet in length, and attached to or placed on top of the 
 posts as may be directed by the Board of Administration, or shall 
 be hung in the center of the streets, at the option of said board. 
 All posts shall be of ornamental design, either wood or iron, or iron 
 and wood, known as combination posts, to be approved by the 
 Board of Administration, and to be painted from time to time, and 
 all poles shall be smooth, straight, clean-shaven round wooden poles. 
 Any pole, post, or support which may be broken, or shall be found 
 in such condition as to be dangerous to the public, shall be immedi- 
 ately removed, and be replaced by a perfectly secure one, but no 
 default on the part of the Board of Administration to require such 
 removal shall relieve the contractor in case of accident to persons 
 or property by reason of such defective poles or supports. 
 
 IX. All construction, lighting, extinguishing, and keeping in 
 repair shall be done at the expense of the contractor, the intent and 
 meaning of these specifications being that the city shall be at no 
 expense beyond the sums provided to be paid in the contract, as 
 drawn in conformity with these specifications, and any street, lane, 
 or public place contiguous to territory already lighted shall upon 
 order of the Board of Legislation, approved by the mayor, be 
 lighted within a period of ninety days after the passage of any 
 such order. 
 
 X. The most approved globes and hoods must be used on the 
 lamps to protect them from inclement weather, in order that their 
 reliability may be of the highest order attainable, and free from 
 changes from extreme low to extreme high temperature. 
 
 XI. Should the lamps at any time prove to be below the standard 
 fixed, a deduction proportionate to the decrease in candle power 
 shall be made by the Board of Administration from the price or 
 prices to be paid under the contract, such measurement to be on 
 the basis of 460 watts per lamp. 
 
 XII. The Board of Administration shall have the right at any 
 time, through a competent electrical expert of practical experience, 
 to examine and test the plant, electrical appliances, and lamps of 
 the contracting party, and the contractor under these specifications 
 shall have the right to appoint an electrical expert on his part, to 
 
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 be present at and witness the test made by such expert appointed 
 by the Board of Administration, and in case of any difference of 
 opinion the contractor shall have the right to call for the appoint- 
 ment of a disinterested party, to be selected by the two experts 
 already appointed on behalf of the Board of Administration and 
 the contractor, and the decision of any two of the three so ap- 
 pointed, as to the quality and quantity of light furnished, shall be 
 final and binding ; and if it be found that the contracting party has 
 negligently or willfully failed to comply with the requirements of 
 the Board of Administration, or failed to place in proper position 
 the character of lamp required by these specifications, such con- 
 tracting party shall forfeit all compensation from date of such 
 default on the number of lamps found to be deficient in quality and 
 quantity of light, and until such works, appliances, and lamps are 
 brought up to the standard required by these specifications. And 
 in case of accident to the plant or any part of the system, whereby 
 the supply of electricity within any circuit is reduced below the 
 demand, the streets and public places must be given the preference 
 over light and power contracted to private parties or corporations. 
 All outage shall be reported by the police to the Central Lighting 
 Station. The contractor under these specifications shall have one 
 hour after the report reaches the station in which to repair and 
 renew any lamp reported as out. If the lamp shall not be lighted 
 within an hour after reported at the station to be out, the policeman 
 noticing same shall keep account of the number of hours said lamp 
 is allowed to remain out, which outage shall be reported to the 
 superintendent of the police, who will report same to the Board of 
 Administration. Said board’s action, after granting a hearing to 
 the contractor, shall be final, and unless the fault was that of the 
 city an amount equal to the contract price per lamp for the time of 
 such outage shall be deducted. 
 
 XIII. If in the opinion of the Board of Administration the 
 contractor is violating any of the conditions of the contract made 
 under these specifications, or attempting to execute the same in bad 
 faith, the Board of Administration shall notify the contractor, and 
 direct him to immediately remedy the defects or violations com- 
 plained of, and if said contractor shall not, within five days there- 
 after, comply with all reasonable requirements of said Board of 
 Administration, and take such measures as shall, in the judgment 
 of said board, insure a satisfactory performance of contract obliga- 
 tions, then said board shall have the right, by and with the consent 
 of the Board of Legislation, to at once provide for lighting tem- 
 porarily with gas, gasoline, or electric light any part or all of the 
 territory embraced in said contract, until a new contract shall be 
 made by the proper parties ; and any excess of cost or any damage 
 to the city caused by reason of such failure of the contractor to 
 comply with the terms of the contract shall be paid to the city by 
 
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 said contractor. Provided, however, that if the contractor under 
 these specifications shall claim he is carrying out his contract in 
 good faith, and that there are no laches on his part, said claim shall 
 be duly investigated by the board of arbitration, appointed in the 
 following manner : One party to be- named by the Board of Admin- 
 istration, one party to be named by the contractor under these 
 specifications, these two jointly to name a third ; and the board of 
 arbitration so constituted shall have submitted to it all the testi- 
 mony with regard to such claim of default, and after full hearing, 
 at which all parties shall have the right to be present, the majority 
 decision shall be binding upon the city and the contractor. 
 
 XIV. It shall be further provided in any such contract, based 
 upon these specifications, that all payments shall be made upon the 
 certificate of the chief engineer of the Board of Administration, 
 approved by said board within the first five days of each and every 
 month during the continuance of said contract ; and it is further 
 provided that the contractor shall not be entitled to demand or 
 receive payments for any services rendered or work done not pro- 
 vided for in these specifications until all the requirements of the 
 same have been complied with, and the chief engineer has given his 
 certificate to this effect ; provided that should the contractor under 
 these specifications proceed to a partial lighting of the city in the 
 First District provided herein, or any subsequent district ordered 
 to be lighted by the Board of Administration or Board of Legisla- 
 tion, said contractor shall be entitled to receive payment for the 
 number of lamps in operation. 
 
 XV. Any party which may be awarded a contract under the 
 provisions of these specifications shall, as a condition precedent to 
 signing the same, deposit as security for the performance of the 
 contract one hundred thousand dollars, in securities of the United 
 States, state of Ohio, or city of Cincinnati, with the Sinking Fund 
 Trustees of Cincinnati, Ohio, or file with the Board of Administra- 
 tion a good and sufficient bond, in the penal sum of one hundred 
 thousand dollars ($100,000), signed by at least four freeholders, 
 resident of the county of Hamilton, state of Ohio, who shall in the 
 aggregate qualify under oath as owners of real estate in Hamilton 
 County, Ohio, worth the sum of one hundred thousand dollars 
 ($100,000) over and above all debts, liabilities, and incumbrances, 
 and none of whom shall qualify for less than ten thousand dollars, 
 and conditioned that such contractor shall faithfully perform such 
 contract according to all the terms thereof and the conditions and 
 provisions of these specifications, and that said contractor will not, 
 either directly or indirectly, transfer, assign, or sublet the same to 
 or permit the services to be rendered by any other person, firm, or 
 corporation. Such bond and contract to be approved by the cor- 
 poration counsel as to form and by the Board of Administration as 
 to its sufficiency. Said bond shall be renewed at any time upon 
 
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 demand of the Board of Administration. Should the party to whom 
 said contract is awarded, and who enters into the same, fail to com- 
 mence lighting under the terms of this contract before the end of 
 the first year in accordance with these specifications and his contract, 
 in such case it shall be understood and agreed that at the option of 
 the Board of Legislation the party with whom the contract is so 
 made and his sureties shall become and be indebted to the city of 
 Cincinnati in the amount of said deposit or bond of one hundred 
 thousand dollars ($100,000), not by way of penalty, but as a con- 
 sideration for the loss of time and expense incurred by the city in 
 consequence of the failure to carry out the contract thus awarded ; 
 but nothing herein contained shall be construed or held to mean 
 that said contractor or his sureties shall be released from their 
 liability under said bond for the faithful performance of this con- 
 tract for the full term thereof. 
 
 XVI. All bids shall state price in writing and in figures per 
 lamp per year, be under seal, and addressed to the Committee on 
 Light of the Board of Legislation, care of the city clerk, and be 
 delivered to the city clerk at his office on or before 12 o’clock M. of 
 the day upon which proposals are to be received, and shall be opened 
 by said committee, or so many of them as may be present, between 
 12 m. and 1 p. m. on said day, in the presence of all bidders who 
 may choose to be present. The bids shall be in strict conformity to 
 these specifications, and shall be subject to the provisions of what is 
 known as the general electric-light ordinance No. 4285, purporting 
 to have been passed October 18, 1889, as to the mode and manner 
 of lighting, so far as not inconsistent with these specifications, and 
 said Ordinance No. 4285* is hereby attached and made a part of 
 these specifications, so far as not inconsistent with the provisions 
 above stated. 
 
 XVII. Bids under these specifications will be received from 
 companies incorporated under the laws of Ohio, or parties who shall 
 state their intention to become incorporated under the laws of this 
 state, if awarded a contract, and who shall furnish in their bid the 
 incorporated title under which they shall be known, with the list 
 of their proposed incorporators, and the amount of their capital 
 stock, or private parties who may express an intention to carry out 
 the contract, if awarded them under their own names and as such 
 private parties, but no transfer or assignment shall be allowed or 
 permitted to any parties or corporations not specified as the ones for 
 whom the bid may be made. 
 
 The right is hereby reserved to reject any or all bids. 
 
 *See pages 56-62. 
 
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 71 
 
 AN ORDINANCES Passed October 9, 1891. 
 
 Granting: Oohen & Co. the right to have and maintain electric wire 
 across Sixth Street, between Elm and Race streets, 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That Cohen & Co. be and they are hereby granted the right to have 
 and maintain electric wire across Sixth Street, between Race and 
 Elm streets, in said city, said wire to remain as now located. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and 
 limitations contained in General Ordinance No. 4285 so far as the 
 same are applicable, and the grant herein shall be for a period 
 of five years. 
 
 A RESOLUTION. Passed August 3, 1894. 
 
 Making certain changes in the electric-lighting districts. 
 
 Be it resolved by the Board of legislation , That the lighting dis- 
 tricts heretofore established by the Board of Legislation be changed 
 in the following particulars, to-wit : 
 
 1. The lamp located at the intersection of Windsor Street and 
 Park Avenue is hereby transferred from the Sixth District to the 
 Gilbert-avenue and Eden-park District. 
 
 2. Court Street, between Broadway and the south end of Gilbert 
 Avenue, is hereby transferred from the Sixth District to the Gilbert- 
 avenue and Eden-park District. 
 
 3. The lamp located at the intersection of Eighth Street and 
 Glen way Avenue is hereby transferred from the Ninth District to 
 the Second District. 
 
 A RESOLUTION. Passed December 12, 1890. 
 
 To light Gilbert Avenue from its intersection with East Court Street 
 to McMillan Street. 
 
 Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati , That 
 the Board of City Affairs be and it is hereby authorized and directed 
 to contract for the lighting by electricity of Gilbert Avenue, from 
 its intersection with East Court Street to McMillan Street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 516. Passed April 28, 1893. 
 
 Directing 1 the Cincinnati Edison Electric Light Company to light with 
 electricity Eden Park, and Gilbert Avenue from Court Street to 
 McMillan Street, and Windsor Street from Gilbert Avenue to 
 Kemper Lane. 
 
 Whereas , Eden Park, and Gilbert Avenue from Court Street to 
 McMillan Street, and Windsor Street from Gilbert Avenue to 
 Kemper Lane, are now being lighted with electricity at a cost of 
 $144 per year by the Brush Electric Light Company ; and whereas , 
 there is an existing contract between the city and the Cincinnati 
 Edison Electric Light Company for such electric lighting at $84.90 
 per annum : Therefore — 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That it is deemed necessary by the said board that said Eden Park, 
 and said Gilbert Avenue from Court Street to McMillan Street, and 
 Windsor Street from Gilbert Avenue to Kemper Lane, be lighted 
 by electricity under the said contract with the said Cincinnati 
 Edison Electric Light Company, and the said The Cincinnati Edison 
 Electric Light Company is hereby directed, under the supervision 
 of the Board of Administration, to place electric - light lamps in 
 Eden Park, and on Gilbert Avenue from Court Street to McMillan 
 Street, and on Windsor Street from Gilbert Avenue to Kemper 
 Lane, and to supply electric light thereto, in accordance with the 
 terms of said contract and specifications between said company and 
 the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. And the Board of Administration is hereby authorized 
 and directed to terminate the lighting of said park and of said 
 streets by the said Brush Electric Light Company. 
 
 No. 608. Passed August 11, 1893. 
 
 Designating the territory to be lighted with electricity by the Cincin- 
 nati Edison Electric Company under the existing contract, and to 
 be known as the Second District.* 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company be and 
 is hereby directed to light with electricity, under the supervision of 
 the Board of Administration and in accordance with the terms of 
 the existing contract, within ninety days from the passage of this 
 ordinance, the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of the 
 city of Cincinnati included within the following territory, to be 
 known as the Second District, viz. : Between the Ohio Elver on the 
 south, Central Avenue on the east, Eighth Street on the north, and 
 State Avenue on the west. 
 
 *For First District see Clause V of Specifications. 
 
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 73 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Administration is hereby authorized and 
 directed to terminate the lighting of any or all streets in said 
 Second District now being lighted by gas, gasoline, or electricity 
 by any other party, company, or corporation. 
 
 No. 647. Passed September 29, 1893. 
 
 Designating- the territory to be lighted with electricity by the Cincin- 
 nati Edison Electric Company, under the existing contract, to be 
 known as the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,, and 
 Ninth Districts. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company be and 
 it is hereby directed to light with electricity, under the supervision 
 of the Board of Administration, and in accordance with the terms 
 of the existing contract, within three months from the passage of 
 this ordinance, the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places 
 of the city of Cincinnati included within the following territory, to 
 be known as the Third District, viz. : Between Court Street on the 
 south, Central Avenue on the west, Findlay, McMicken Avenue 
 and Liberty Street on the north, Hunt Street and Broadway 
 on the east. 
 
 And within six months from the passage of this ordinance the 
 streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of said city included 
 within the following territory, to be known as the Fourth District, 
 viz.: Between Eighth Street on the south, Freeman Avenue on the 
 west, Central Avenue on the north, and Central Avenue on the east. 
 
 And within nine months from the passage of this ordinance 
 the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of the city of 
 Cincinnati included within the following territory, to be known as 
 the Fifth District, viz. : Between Liberty Street and McMicken 
 Avenue on the south, Browne Street on the west, corporation line 
 on the north, and Hunt Street on the east. 
 
 And within twelve months from the passage of this ordinance 
 the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of said city 
 included within the following territory, to be known as the Sixth 
 District, viz. : Between the Ohio River on the south, Eggleston 
 Avenue, Broadway and Hunt Street on the west, corporation line 
 on the north, Woodburn Avenue on the east. 
 
 And within fifteen months from the passage of this ordinance the 
 streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of said city included 
 within the following territory, to be known as the Seventh District, 
 viz. : Between the Ohio River on the south, Woodburn Avenue on 
 the west, corporation line on the north, corporation line on the east. 
 
 And within eighteen months from the passage of this ordinance 
 the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of said city 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 included within the following territory, to be known as the Eighth 
 District, viz. : Between Harrison Avenue and Central Avenue on 
 the south, corporation line on the west, corporation line on the 
 north, and Browne Street on the east. 
 
 And within twenty-one months from the passage of this ordi- 
 nance the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places of said 
 city included within the following territory, to be known as the 
 Ninth District, viz. : Between the Ohio River on the south, corpo- 
 ration line on the west, Harrison Avenue on the north, Freeman 
 and State avenues on the east. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Administration of said city are hereby 
 ordered, upon the lighting of any of said districts by electricity, to 
 discontinue the lighting of said district with gas, gasoline, or other 
 material. 
 
 No. 161. Passed April 4, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the lighting- of certain territory of the City of Cincinnati 
 with electricity, and to annex said territory to the Third and Fourth 
 Electric-lighting Districts. 
 
 Whereas , In ordinances of the Board of Legislation of the city 
 of Cincinnati, heretofore passed, designating territory to be lighted 
 with electricity by the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company under 
 the contract between said city and said company, the strip of 
 territory bounded by Findlay Street, Central Avenue, McMicken 
 Avenue, and Colerain Avenue has been omitted from all the electric- 
 lighting districts contiguous thereto; and 
 
 Whereas, There has been presented to this board a petition from 
 citizens residing or conducting business or manufacturing within that 
 territory, asking for lighting therefor with electricity : Therefore — 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company is hereby 
 directed to light with electricity, under the terms of its contract 
 with the city of Cincinnati, the territory bounded by Findlay Street 
 on the south and southeast, McMicken Avenue on the north and 
 northeast, Central Avenue and Colerain Avenue on the southwest 
 and south, and McMicken Avenue on the west. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the territory bounded on the south and southeast 
 by Findlay Street, on the northeast and north by McMicken Ave- 
 nue, on the west and northwest by the bridge over Miami and Erie 
 Canal, known as “ Mohawk Bridge,” and on the southwest and south 
 by Central Avenue, is hereby annexed to the territory known as 
 the Third Electric-lighting District; and the territory bounded on 
 the southeast by said bridge, on the north and northeast and on 
 the west by McMicken Avenue, and on the south and southwest by 
 Central Avenue and Colerain Avenue, is hereby annexed to the 
 territory known as the Fourth Electric-lighting District. 
 
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 17 ( 3 . 679 . Passed November 17, 1893. 
 
 Granting to the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Company the right to 
 occupy the public ways and grounds of the city of Cincinnati for 
 the purpose of supplying electricity for public and private purposes. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the Oity of 
 Cincinnati , That the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Company be 
 and it is hereby authorized and empowered for a period of twenty- 
 five years from and after the passage of this ordinance, and there- 
 after until the same shall be purchased by the city of Cincinnati as 
 hereinafter provided, to acquire, construct, erect, maintain, and 
 operate in and upon the streets,, avenues, and public ways and 
 grounds of the city of Cincinnati, the conduits, poles, wires, and 
 electrical appliances necessary to the business of supplying the city 
 of Cincinnati and its inhabitants with electricity for any and all 
 purposes, at a maximum price, during the ten years next ensuing, 
 of twenty cents per one thousand watts ; and in all other respects 
 agreeable to and in conformity with the conditions and provisions 
 of General Ordinance No. 4285, passed October 18, 1889. 
 
 Sec. 2. If at any time during the said period of twenty-five 
 years or thereafter the city of Cincinnati shall elect to purchase 
 the works, distributing plant, and other property and assets of the 
 Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Company, as provided for under 
 the ordinance entitled “An ordinance to provide for lighting the 
 city of Cincinnati with gas,” passed June 16, 1841, said city shall 
 have the privilege of purchasing, in the same manner and form, the 
 entire electrical generating and distributing plant, with its build- 
 ings, machinery, lines, structures, and electrical appliances used by 
 said company for supplying the city and its citizens with electric 
 light, heat, and power. 
 
 1 ^ 0 . 1160 . Passed January 25, 1897. 
 
 To detach from the Sixth Electric - lighting District the lighting of 
 the Kenton-street Bridge, and to order the lighting of said bridge 
 by electricity 
 
 Whereas, The city of Cincinnati recently constructed a bridge 
 upon Kenton Street, which street is located within the Sixth Light- 
 ing District for electricity ; and 
 
 Whereas, There was created by ordinance a lighting district for 
 the east side of Gilbert Avenue, Eden Park, and Windsor Street, 
 which said district lies to the east of the Sixth District and to the 
 east of the Kenton-street bridge; and 
 
 Whereas, It is desirable to light the approaches to said bridge 
 with electricity : Therefore — 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That so much of Kenton Street upon which is located 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 the bridge recently constructed by the city of Cincinnati be and 
 the same is hereby detached from the Sixth Lighting District, and 
 that the same be attached to the lighting district composed of the 
 east side of Gilbert Avenue, Eden Park, and Windsor Street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company, which has 
 entered into a contract with the city of Cincinnati to light the city 
 according to districts, as the Board of Legislation may establish, at 
 $84.90 per lamp, be and the same is hereby ordered to light said 
 bridge by locating a light at each approach, and that the same be 
 done immediately upon the passage of this ordinance. 
 
 No. 237. Passed October 24, 1898. 
 
 Repealing 1 certain portions of an ordinance entitled “ An Ordinance, 
 No. 647, designating 1 the territory to be lig-hted with electricity by 
 the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company under the existing 1 con- 
 tract, to be known as the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, 
 Eighth, and Ninth Districts.” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That whereas the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company 
 has failed to light the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Districts men- 
 tioned in the ordinance herein referred to, therefore those portions 
 of the ordinance entitled “An Ordinance, No. 647, designating the 
 territory to be lighted with electricity by the Cincinnati Edison 
 Electric Company under the existing contract, to be known as the 
 Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Districts,” 
 passed September 29, 1893, which designates certain territory 
 therein described as the Seventh District, Eighth District, and 
 Ninth District, and the direction therein given said company to 
 light the said districts, or any of them, with electricity, be and the 
 same are hereby repealed. 
 
 I7o. 864. Passed December 7, 1894. 
 
 Granting to the firm of Rheinstrom, Bettman, Johnson & Co. the 
 right to have and maintain not more than six electric-light wires 
 across West Cheapside Street and East Cheapside Street, between 
 Ninth and Court streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the firm of Rheinstrom, Bettman, Johnson & Co. 
 be and they are hereby granted the right to have and maintain not 
 more than six (6) electric-light wires across West Cheapside Street 
 and East Cheapside Street, between Ninth and Court streets, in the 
 city of Cincinnati ; said wires to be strung from the building in 
 which their office now is to the building in which their warerooms 
 ow are (which building is known as Nos. 303 and 305 Broadway 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 77 
 
 Street), and to such adjoining premises as may hereafter be used 
 by them in the conduct of their business, and provided that the 
 electric current transmitted over the aforesaid wires is to be used 
 exclusively by the said firm of Rheinstrom, Bettman, Johnson & Co., 
 and by no one else ; and no current to be sold by them to any 
 other person or persons. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and 
 conditions of the General Ordinance No. 4285 so far as they are 
 applicable, and the grant herein shall be for the period of ten 
 years. 
 
 !N"0. 302. Passed July 15, 1892. 
 
 To regulate the price which the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Com- 
 pany may charge for gas furnished to the citizens and public 
 buildings of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That for the period of ten (10) years from and after 
 the passage of this ordinance the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke 
 Company may charge for gas, of not less than sixteen (16) candle 
 power, furnished to the public buildings and to the citizens or 
 private consumers of the city of Cincinnati, at the rate of one dollar 
 and ten cents (SI. 10) for each one thousand (1,000) cubic feet of 
 gas so furnished, subject, however, to a discount of ten (10) cents 
 per thousand cubic feet for prompt payment; and said The Cincin- 
 nati Gas Light and Coke Company shall in no event during said 
 term of ten (10) years charge more for gas furnished to said public 
 buildings or individuals than the price herein specified. And the 
 ordinance passed February 28, 1887, entitled “An ordinance to 
 regulate the price which the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Com- 
 pany may charge for gas furnished to the citizens and public 
 buildings of the city of Cincinnati,” is hereby amended and modified 
 so as to fix the price for gas so furnished at the price herein specified 
 during the remaining years, or the unexpired portion of said term 
 of years, in said ordinance of February 28, 1887, which remaining 
 years are to be considered as and to be part of the term stipulated 
 in this ordinance ; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be 
 construed as a waiver by the city of Cincinnati of its right to obtain 
 possession of the works of said company at the expiration of said 
 term of ten (10) years, as provided by contract therewith. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 4:89. Passed March 24, 1893. 
 
 To authorize the Cincinnati G-as Light and Coke Company to erect and 
 maintain gas-conduit connections over and across Front and Rose 
 streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Company be 
 and it is hereby authorized and empowered to erect and maintain 
 gas conduits at two points over and across Front Street, between 
 Rose and Park streets, and one over and across Rose Street, north 
 of Front Street. 
 
 The structure supporting said conduits to be placed at a height 
 of not less than twenty feet above the street over which they shall 
 pass, and to be built so as to leave the roadway between curb-lines 
 entirely free and unobstructed, and to be of such form and strength 
 as to meet the approval of the chief engineer of the Board of 
 Administration. 
 
 MARKETS. 
 
 Amendments to ordinances found in Coppock & Hertenstein, pages 316 
 
 to 330 ; and additional ordinances of Board of Legislation of years 
 
 1887-1899. 
 
 Sec. 1. As finally amended; see Ordinance No. 71 of Board of 
 Legislation, passed October If., 1897. 
 
 The buildings and spaces used as public markets shall hereafter 
 continue to be used and occupied as such, viz.: 
 
 Fifth Street from the west side of Main to the east side of 
 Vine Street, to be designated as Fifth-street Market-space. 
 
 Pearl Street from Main Street to Sycamore Street on both sides, 
 Pearl Street from Sycamore Street to Broadway on north side only, 
 400 feet north and south of Pearl on Broadway, to be designated 
 as Pearl-street Market-space. 
 
 Sixth Street from east side of Race Street to Mound Street, and 
 Mound Street from Sixth Street to Fifth Street, and Fifth Street 
 from Mound Street to Stone Street, to be designated as Sixth-street 
 Market- space. 
 
 Court Street from Main Street to Freeman Avenue, and Walnut 
 Street from Ninth Street to Canal Street, to be designated as Court- 
 street Market- space. 
 
 Elder Street from Vine Street to Elm Street, and Elm Street 
 from Findlay Street to Green Street, and Race Street from Green 
 Street to Findlay Street, to be designated as Findlay Market- space. 
 
 Wade Street from John Street to Cutter Street, also on Cutter 
 Street south to Clinton Street and north to Liberty Street, to be 
 designated as Wade -street Market-space. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 79 
 
 South side of Bluerock Street from Apple Street to Colerain 
 Avenue, and Colerain Avenue to Hoffner Street, and Apple Street 
 from Bluerock Street to Palm Avenue, to be designated as Bluerock- 
 street Market-space. 
 
 Sec. 3. As finally amended by Ordinance of Board of Legislation, 
 No. 24 . 9 , passed November 28, 1898, taking effect February 5, 1899. 
 
 The rents of stalls in the market-houses of the city of Cincinnati 
 shall be as follows : 
 
 Sixth-street Market-house 
 
 $100 00 per year. 
 
 Pearl-street Market house 
 
 100 00 
 
 u 
 
 Court- street Market-house 
 
 75 00 
 
 (< 
 
 Findlay Market 
 
 36 00 
 
 (t 
 
 Wade- street Market 
 
 25 00 
 
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 Bluerock-street Market 
 
 25 00 
 
 it 
 
 For the prompt payment of said rents within five days after the same 
 become payable a discount of twenty-five per cent shall be made. 
 And the rents of each outside bench arid stall of the various 
 
 market-houses of the city shall be as follows: 
 
 Sixth street Market $20 00 per year. 
 
 Pearl-street Market 20 00 “ 
 
 Court-street Market 25 00 “ 
 
 Findlay Market 15 00 “ 
 
 Wade- and Bluerock -street Markets. . 5 00 u 
 
 And the owners or occupants of benches, stands, or wagons in the 
 different markets shall provide their benches or stands with a suit- 
 able- vessel, tub, or barrel to hold all of the refuse matter which 
 accumulates at their stands, and they shall remove the same after 
 markets close. 
 
 Sec. 4. As finally amended by Ordinance No. 39 of Board of 
 Legislation, passed July 6, 1897. 
 
 General markets for the sale of all articles usually sold in mar- 
 kets shall be held as follows : Sixth-street Market on Mondays, 
 Wednesdays, and Fridays, from daylight in the morning to 11 a. m.; 
 and Court-street Market on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 
 from daylight in the morning to 11 a. m. ; and Pearl-street Market 
 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from daylight in the 
 morning to 11 a. m. ; and Findlay Market on Mondays, Wednesdays, 
 and Fridays, from daylight in the morning to 11 A. m. ; and Wade- 
 street Market on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from daylight 
 in the morning to 11 a. m. ; and Bluerock- street Market on Mondays, 
 Wednesdays, and Fridays, from daylight in the morning to 11 a.m. 
 The market hours in each of said markets, from the first day of 
 October to the first day of April, shall be from daylight in the 
 morning to 11 o’clock a. m. And Saturday- evening markets shall 
 be held in Sixth-street Market and in Pearl-street Market com- 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 mencing at 12:80 p. m. and ending at 10 p. m., and in the Findlay 
 and Bluerock- street Markets at 12:30 p. m. and ending at 11 p. m. 
 And the superintendent of markets shall cause each owner of wagons, 
 stands, or stalls who occupy the streets in the markets tosell articles 
 to place a sign upon his stand, with his name and residence or place 
 of business, so that it may be seen and read from the sidewalk. 
 
 Sec. 5 . As amended by Board of Legislation , January 31 , 1898, 
 Ordinance No. 123. 
 
 When rents 'payable — That the rent of said stalls and benches shall 
 be payable quarterly at the city auditor’s office, on the 5th day of 
 May, August, November, and February, and if not paid within 
 thirty days after being due the lease shall be forfeited ; and that the 
 lessee of any stall or bench shall have the preference, provided all 
 dues from him to the city on account of said stall or bench have 
 been paid, in leasing the stall or bench held by him at the rent fixed 
 by this ordinance, or any ordinance or resolution hereafter passed ; 
 but that no person shall hold more than one stall or bench at the 
 same time in any of the markets. 
 
 Sec. 10. As amended by Ordinance No. 688 of Board of Legisla- 
 tion , passed November 2 If, 1893 : 
 
 How stands assigned to certain dealers — Dealers in salted, cured, 
 or smoked meats, or fish puddings, sausages, cheese, butter, eggs, 
 poultry, prepared fruits, pickles, preserves, flour, meal, nuts, potatoes, 
 or any of them, shall have the right, on application to the super- 
 intendent of the markets, to have a place assigned to him or her 
 of not more than six feet in length by three feet wide, measuring 
 along the curbstone on the pavements, so as to afford said dealer in 
 such articles or either of them, a stand for a single bench, wagon, or 
 other vehicle ; provided there shall be a space left vacant on the side- 
 walk and street of ten feet in every fifty feet of street and sidewalk; 
 and provided also, that there shall be a space left vacant on the 
 sidewalk and street of ten feet, for a run or passageway for egress 
 and ingress for all premises used and occupied by any person or 
 persons as a livery or sale stable, undertaking establishment, fire 
 engine house, police patrol-house, or salvage-corps house. 
 
 Sec. 21. As amended by Ordinance No. Ilf2 of Board of Legisla- 
 tion, passed January 31, 1898. 
 
 No fresh meat shall be exposed, sold, or offered for sale in less 
 quantity than one quarter on any of the sidewalks or in any of the 
 streets set apart as market-spaces, except mutton or lamb, which 
 may be exposed, sold, or offered for sale in any quantity to suit 
 seller or buyer. 
 
 Sec. 34. As amended by Ordinance No. 313 of Board of Legisla- 
 tion, passed July 22, 1892. 
 
 Keepers of stalls, benches, or stands in the market-houses, or in 
 the streets where markets are held, shall within one hour after the 
 
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 81 
 
 ringing of the bell for the closing of the markets cause their provi- 
 sions and vehicles, if they have any, or anything that was placed in 
 the streets by them, to be removed from the market-space, together 
 with all animal or vegetable or other refuse matter dropped on the 
 streets by them, and each butcher shall cause his tables, meat-blocks, 
 and other fixtures to be thoroughly scraped and cleaned, and all 
 refuse matter to be removed from the market-space, or penalty will 
 be enforced. ' 
 
 ~N0. TO. Passed November 7, 1890. 
 
 To designate a location for the erection of a flower - market in accord- 
 ance with the will of Mary E. Holroyd, deceased. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That Sixth street Market-space, between Elm and Plum streets, is 
 hereby designated as the location for the erection of a flower-market 
 building, to be called the Jabez Elliott Flower-market, in accord- 
 ance with the terms and conditions of the last will and testament 
 of Mary E. Holroyd, deceased, the legacy therein bequeathed to the 
 city of Cincinnati being hereby accepted, and the executors of said 
 will having requested its location at said place. 
 
 Sec. 2. The right to erect and forever maintain a flower-market 
 at said place is hereby granted to the executors under the said last 
 will and testament of Mary E. Holroyd, deceased, in accordance 
 with the terms and conditions therein set forth. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF MRS. MARY E. HOLROYD.* 
 
 I love Cincinnati, the city of my adoption, and if practicable I 
 would be glad to have in it from me some memorial to my deceased 
 husband, Jabez Elliott; and as I have always had a tender fond- 
 ness for flowers, and believe that floriculture tends to refine and 
 elevate human nature, and as my attention has frequently been 
 drawn to the unsheltered condition of the flowers and of those who 
 have them for sale, exposed to all weathers in our open market- 
 spaces, I would like to erect in Sixth-street Market-space, or some 
 other place in Cincinnati which shall seem suitable to my executors, 
 a building to be called the Jabez Elliott Flower-market, which shall 
 be ornamental to the city, and a protection to the flowers and shrubs 
 which may be brought to this market and to those who may have 
 them for sale. 
 
 I therefore give and bequeath to my executors, S. Phelps Chesel- 
 dine and Clifford B. Wright, and to the survivor of them, ten 
 thousand dollars, in trust nevertheless for the following pur- 
 poses only: 
 
 That as soon as may be after my decease they request the proper 
 
 *On Friday, May 2,1890, the City Council resolved “ that the city authorities 
 accept said munificent gift.” 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 authorities of the city to furnish a suitable location in said Sixth- 
 street Market-space or elsewhere in said city for the erection of said 
 flower- market. If such location shall be furnished by the city within 
 one year after my decease; then said trustees shall cause plans to be 
 made for a suitable building, to cost when completed not less than 
 ten thousand dollars, which plans shall be submitted to the proper 
 authorities representing the city ; and if plans satisfactory to said 
 trustees shall be approved by said city authorities, said trustees 
 shall proceed at once to erect such building, according to such plans, 
 on the location so furnished. 
 
 If ten thousand dollars should be found insufficient to complete 
 said building as desired, then I give and bequeath to said trustees 
 a sufficient sum in addition, not exceeding five thousand dollars, to 
 complete the same. 
 
 If said city authorities should neglect or refuse for one year 
 after my death to furnish a location for said flower-market which 
 shall be acceptable to said trustees, or if said authorities and said 
 trustees should be unable to agree upon a suitable plan for said 
 building, then this bequest shall become and be absolutely null and 
 void, and the fund given to said trustees as above shall revert to and 
 become a part of the residue of my estate. 
 
 If said flower-market should be built as proposed, then I consti- 
 tute said trustees custodians of said building until their successors 
 shall be appointed, and I authorize them and their successors to 
 make all needful rules and regulations for the care and use of sa^d 
 building, subject always to such regulations as the city may impose. 
 
 Said trustees are authorized to appoint their own successors to 
 have the care and custody of said building, but if at any time the 
 trustees then acting should die or resign without appointing suc- 
 cessors or a successor, then I wish the mayor of the city, with the 
 approval of the Council, to appoint the same. 
 
 Said trustees and their successors may also collect such rent or 
 license fees from persons who are permitted to use said building as 
 a market-place for their flowers, etc., as may be required to main- 
 tain said building and keep the same in repair. 
 
 No. 286. . Passed June 17, 1892. 
 
 To provide against outcry and hawking of goods in the markets. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the Oity of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person at any market- 
 stand within the city limits to solicit trade by outcry, or by hawking 
 of any goods, wares, or merchandise. And any person so offending, 
 upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding 
 fifty dollars. 
 
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 No. 661. Passed October 27, 1893. 
 
 Prohibiting 1 the ringing of bells, the playing of drums, music, or other 
 noises for advertising purposes in the market-spaces during market 
 hours. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 ring bells, beat drums, or play music, or make other noises for the 
 purpose of advertising any ball, picnic, excursion, or any business 
 or other thing in the market- spaces of the city, or the streets set 
 aside for market-spaces, during the market-hours. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person found guilty of violating this ordinance shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in 
 the Police Court fined in any sum not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 No. 844. Passed October 19, 1894. 
 
 To sell the Sixth-street Market-house, and to authorize the building 
 of a new market-house on the site thereof. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas, The Sixth-street Market -house has become unfit for 
 further use, the Board of Administration is hereby authorized and 
 directed to sell such building to the highest bidder, the same to be 
 taken down and removed from the premises. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the Board of Administration is hereby authorized 
 to have plans and specifications prepared and make contracts and 
 take all the necessary steps to have a market-house built on the 
 site of the present Sixth-street Market house, in accordance with 
 such plans and specifications, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand 
 dollars ($60,000) ; and if any person interested in the construction 
 of said market-house shall donate to the city any sum of money for 
 such purpose, the Board of Administration may receive and expend 
 the same in addition to the amount of $60,000 of the city’s funds 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 No. 59. Passed August 16, 1897. 
 
 To authorize the sale of the Pearl-street (Lower) Market-house, and 
 the erection of a new market-house on the site thereof.* 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That whereas the Pearl-street (Lower) Market-house 
 having become unfit for further use, the Board of Administration is 
 hereby authorized and directed to sell said building to the highest 
 
 * As amended by Ordinance No. 153, page 85. 
 
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 bidder therefor, the same to be taken down and removed from the 
 premises. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the Board of Administration is hereby authorized 
 to have plans and specifications prepared, and make contracts and 
 have all necessary steps taken, to have a market- house built on the 
 site of the present Pearl- street (Lower) Market- house, in accord- 
 ance with such plans and specifications, at a cost not to exceed fifty - 
 eight thousand dollars. 
 
 'NO. 124 :. Passed January 24, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the erection of a temporary market-house for the Pearl- 
 street Market, and to appropriate $2,000 for that purpose. 
 
 Whereas, By an act of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio 
 the Board of Administration of the city of Cincinnati has been 
 authorized to issue bonds, not exceeding $60,000 in amount, to raise 
 money for the purpose of constructing, erecting, reconstructing, and 
 re-erecting market houses in said city; and 
 
 Whereas, This Board of Legislation has by ordinance designated 
 the Pearl-street Market-house as one to be re-erected under such 
 authority at an expense not to exceed $50,000 ; and 
 
 Whereas, There is thus left at the disposal of the boards having 
 control of the money raised by such issue of bonds and of the dispo- 
 sition thereof for the purpose for which it is intended the sum bf 
 $10,000; and 
 
 Whereas, There will be a serious inconvenience to the public and 
 those renting and occupying stalls in the Pearl-street Market-house, 
 which is about to be removed to make place for the new and perma- 
 nent structure, unless there shall be temporary accommodations 
 provided by the city : Therefore 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the Board of Administration is hereby authorized 
 and directed to cause to be erected on the space on Pearl Street, 
 west of the present market- house, and between Sycamore Street 
 and Main Street, a temporary frame market- house, in time for 
 occupation by those occupying stalls in the present market-house 
 and those who may acquire the right thereto, to be used by them 
 for market purposes until such time as the new and permanent 
 structure on Pearl Street, between Broadway and Sycamore Street, 
 shall be fully ready for their occupancy and use, and the sum of 
 $2,000 is hereby appropriated from the Market- house Fund for 
 that purpose. 
 
 Sec. 2. To this end the Board of Administration shall have 
 plans prepared by the architects already employed for the perma- 
 nent structure, and shall receive bids thereon and award the contract 
 therefor to the lowest and best bidder. 
 
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 No. 141. Passed February 7, 1898. 
 
 To change the width of roadway of North Pearl Street from the east 
 curb of Sycamore Avenue to the west curb of Broadway. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati as follows: That the width of roadway of North Pearl 
 Street, from the east curb of Sycamore Avenue to the west curb of 
 Broadway, along the north side of the Pearl-street Market-house, 
 be changed by narrowing the same 5 . 24 feet at Sycamore Avenue 
 and 4.46 feet at Broadway, said change to be effected in connection 
 with the rebuilding of the Pearl-street Market-house by moving the 
 said south curb of said North Pearl Street north 5.24 feet at Syca- 
 more Avenue and 4.46 feet north at Broadway, or to a line 52 feet 
 north of and parallel to the present north curb of South Pearl 
 Street, between the east curb of Sycamore Avenue and the west 
 curb of Broadway. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting 
 herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 153. Passed March 21, 1898. 
 
 Increasing' the appropriation for the erection of a new market-house in 
 Pearl-street (Lower) Market from fifty thousand dollars to fifty - 
 eight thousand dollars, and amending- Section 2 of Ordinance No. 59 
 of the Board of Legislation, passed August 16, A. D. 1897. 
 
 Whereas, By an act of the General Assembly of the State of 
 Ohio the Board of Administration has been authorized to issue bonds, 
 not exceeding sixty thousand dollars in amount, to raise money for 
 the purpose of constructing, erecting, reconstructing, and re-erecting 
 market-houses in the city of Cincinnati ; and 
 
 Whereas, This board has by ordinance numbered 59, and passed 
 August 16, a. d. 1897, directed that the present Pearl-street (Lower) 
 Market-house be sold to the highest bidder, taken down and removed 
 from the premises, and that a new market-house be built on the 
 site thereof at a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars; and 
 has by an ordinance numbered 124, and passed January 24, 1898, 
 appropriated the further sum of two thousand dollars for the erec- 
 tion of a temporary market-house for use during the time of erection 
 of the new house, thus leaving unappropriated the sum of eight 
 thousand dollars originally contemplated in the act providing for 
 the issue of bonds heretofore referred to in this preamble ; and 
 
 Whereas, It has been demonstrated to the Board of Administra- 
 tion, by the numerous bids presented to them, that a suitable market- 
 house, such as contemplated by that board and by the architects 
 
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 they were authorized to employ, can not be erected for fifty thousand 
 dollars : Therefore — 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the Board of Administration of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati be requested to issue the remaining eight thousand dollars 
 of bonds under the act heretofore referred to ; and is hereby author- 
 ized to expend, if necessary, eight thousand dollars in addition to 
 the fifty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for this purpose 
 and to this end. 
 
 Sec. 2. That Section 2 of said ordinance of the Board of Legis- 
 lation, passed August 16, A. d 1897, and numbered 59, be and the 
 same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 “ Sec. 2. That the Board of Administration is hereby author- 
 ized to have plans and specifications prepared, and make contracts 
 and have all necessary steps taken to have a market-house built on 
 the site of the present Pearl-street (Lower) Market-house, in accord- 
 ance with such plans and specifications, at a cost not to exceed fifty- 
 eight thousand dollars.’’ 
 
 Sec. 3. Said original Section 2 of said Ordinance No. 59 is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the city auditor is hereby directed to draw his 
 warrants on the city treasurer, in amounts not to exceed fifty-eight 
 thousand dollars, in payment for the construction of said permanent 
 market-house in Pearl- street (Lower) Market. 
 
 No. 186. Passed May 31, 1898. 
 
 To repeal Ordinance No. 105, entitled “An ordinance to authorize the 
 Northside Market Company to erect a building- on the market-space 
 on Bluerock Street, in the Twenty-fifth Ward of Cincinnati, and to 
 grant to said the ‘Northside Market Company’ certain privileg-es 
 therein,” passed September 18, 1891. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That Ordinance No. 105, entitled “An ordinance to 
 authorize the Northside Market Company to erect a building on the 
 the market-space on Bluerock Street, in the Twenty-fifth Ward of 
 Cincinnati, and to grant to said the ‘Northside Market Company’ 
 certain privileges therein,” passed September 18, 1891, be and the 
 same is hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 184. Passed May 31, 1898. 
 
 To regulate the markets in providing for funerals. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. That to provide for the convenience of families and 
 others residing in houses fronting on streets in which established 
 
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 markets are held, and to show proper respect toward the dead, it 
 shall be the duty of those having authority in the care and conduct 
 of the markets to require that a space of one hundred feet be pro- 
 vided and made clear along the sidewalk, curb, and street in front 
 of and on each side of the front of any house in which funeral 
 services may be held, or from which a funeral may take its departure 
 during market-hours. 
 
 Sec. 2. The board having control and direction over the market- 
 master and his assistants, or whatsoever persons shall be in authority 
 in the markets, is hereby empowered and directed to require that 
 such persons having such authority shall, upon receiving informa- 
 tion from any undertaker or other responsible person that a funeral 
 is to take place in any house fronting on any street used for market 
 purposes during the hours of market for such street, see to and 
 provide for the enforcement of this ordinance. To this end all per- 
 sons having the right under ordinance, license, or regulation to have 
 their stands or wagons in front of such house, or at points within 
 fifty feet of the center line of the front of such house, on either side 
 of such line, shall be notified and required to vacate such location, 
 so that there may be a clear space of one hundred feet in front of 
 and immediately contiguous to the front of such house during an 
 entire hour, which hour shall not be considered to have elapsed 
 until after the hearse and the procession of persons attending the 
 burial of the dead shall have departed from such house. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person having a stand in any market who shall 
 refuse or fail to comply with the requirements of Section 2 hereof, 
 after proper notice to so vacate the space occupied by his or her 
 stand or wagon, shall, upon conviction thereof in the Police Court, 
 be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty 
 dollars, at the discretion of the court, and be assessed the costs of 
 prosecution. 
 
 NO. 209. Passed July 25, 1898. 
 
 To prevent the playing- of musical instruments transported on wheels 
 in the market-places of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to produce 
 music from any instrument transported on wheels in the market- 
 places of the city of Cincinnati during market-hours. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person offending against the provision of Section 1 
 hereof shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty 
 dollars upon conviction thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from 
 and after the earliest period allowed by law. 
 
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 No. 255. Passed January 3, 1899. 
 
 To further regulate the markets of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. That Section 37 of the ordinances regulating the mar- 
 kets of the city of Cincinnati be so amended as to read as follows : 
 Sec. 37. The city auditor of the city of Cincinnati is hereby 
 empowered to rent all stalls and benches that are now and that may 
 hereafter become vacant in the respective market-houses; and said 
 auditor may permit stalls and benches to be used for the sale of 
 fresh and smoked fish, oysters, and fresh, salted, smoked, or cured 
 meats, sausages, cheese, butter, eggs, dressed poultry, prepared 
 fruits, pickles, preserves, flour, crackers, meal, nuts, fruits, and vege- 
 tables of any kind, and for no other purposes. The renting of such 
 vacant stalls and benches shall be for the same period of time and 
 for the same sums of money as now provided by Ordinance No. 249 
 of the Board of Legislation, passed November 28, 1898. 
 
 Sec. 2. Markets may be held daily, Sundays excepted, in all 
 of the market-houses of the city of Cincinnati by parties renting 
 stalls therein. 
 
 Sec. 3. All portions of ordinances conflicting with this ordinance 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 267. Passed February 13, 1899. 
 
 To regulate the occupancy of the stalls and benches in the various 
 market-houses of the city, to prevent abuses, etc., and to provide 
 penalties for violation of same. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City oj 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person occupying a 
 stall or bench in any of the market-houses of this city to use profane, 
 abusive, or indecorous language, or utter loud cries, or crowd about 
 or interfere with any other occupant in the transaction of his or her 
 legitimate business, or to throw any missile, refuse meat, vegetables, 
 or other article, or to make indecent remarks or comments, or 
 apply the same to any customer, person, or persons who may be 
 passing through such market-house. 
 
 Sec, 2. Any person offending against any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court, 
 be fined not more than ten dollars, together with the costs of 
 prosecution. 
 
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 No. 4032. 
 
 As passed January 13, 1888, and amended by 
 No. 4288, passed October 25, 1889. 
 
 To regulate milk - wagons. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati 
 as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1. That any person offering milk for sale from a wagon 
 shall be required to have painted on both sides of said wagon, in a 
 conspicuous place, the name in full of the owner thereof, the num- 
 ber of his dairy, and the exact location of the same ; if a street, the 
 number, and if a road or pike, the name. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person driving a wagon with milk for sale with- 
 out complying with Section 1 of this ordinance shall be guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more 
 than sixty days, or both, at the discretion of the court, on convic- 
 tion, and pay the costs of the prosecution. 
 
 NO. 4082. Passed July 13, 1888. 
 
 To regulate the sale of milk. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati , That whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as 
 the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges, or de- 
 livers, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, exchange, 
 or deliver, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange, adulterated milk, 
 or milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added, or 
 milk from diseased or sick cows, shall for a first offense be punished 
 by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars ; 
 for a second offense, by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars 
 nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the 
 Workhouse for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days; and 
 for subsequent offense, by fine of fifty dollars and by imprisonment 
 in the Workhouse of not less than sixty nor more than ninety days. 
 
 Sec. 2. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or 
 as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges, or 
 delivers, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell or 
 exchange, or exposes or offers for sale as pure milk, any milk from 
 which the cream or part thereof has been removed, shall be pun- 
 ished by the penalties provided in the preceding section. 
 
 Sec. 3. No dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of such a 
 dealer, shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or 
 possession with intent to sell, exchange, or deliver, milk from 
 which the cream or part thereof has been removed, unless in a con- 
 spicuous place, above the center, upon the outside of every vessel, 
 
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 can, or package from which or in which such milk is sold, the words 
 “skimmed milk” are distinctly marked in uncondensed gothic let- 
 ters, not less than one inch in length. Whoever violates the provi- 
 sions of this section shall be punished by the penalties in Section 1. 
 
 Sec. 4. In all prosecutions under this ordinance, if the milk is 
 shown upon analysis to contain more than eighty-seven and one 
 half per cent of watery fluid, or to contain less than twelve and 
 one half per cent of milk solids, or to contain less than nine and 
 three tenths per cent of milk solids, exclusive of fat, it shall be 
 deemed for the purpose of this ordinance to be adulterated, and 
 not of good standard quality. 
 
 NO. 20. Passed June 20, 1890. 
 
 To further regulate the sale of milk in the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That no person shall offer or have for sale in the city 
 of Cincinnati any milk from cows that have not been put upon 
 and had the use of good, wholesome, and sufficient pasturage at 
 least twelve hours in every twenty-four hours each day during 
 the months of May, June, July, August, and September of each 
 year. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any person or persons violating the first section 
 of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof in the Police Court 
 or other court having jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceed- 
 ing one hundred dollars nor less than twenty-five dollars and the 
 costs of prosecution for each and every offense, and in default of 
 payment thereof shall be imprisoned until the same be paid. 
 
 NO. 24:6. Passed April 22, 1892. 
 
 To accept the gift of $50,000 from Margaret Y. Schmidlapp and J. G. 
 Schmidlapp, in memory of Charles Schmidlapp, deceased, in trust 
 to provide music in Eden Park on Sunday afternoons. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That — 
 
 Whereas, Margaret Y. Schmidlapp and J. 0. Schmidlapp have 
 offered to donate to the city the sum of $50,000 to provide music 
 for the people of Cincinnati on Sunday afternoons in Eden Park 
 upon the following conditions, to-wit: 
 
 The principal of the sum, together with such other donations as 
 may be made to it, to be intrusted to the trustees of the Sinking 
 Fund of the city of Cincinnati and their successors, to be by them 
 invested in bonds of the city of Cincinnati, the income of such 
 investment to be paid semi-annually to a board of five trustees, 
 
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 who shall expend the money in giving free concerts in Eden Park 
 on Sunday afternoons when the weather permits, said trustees to 
 have complete power and discretion as to all matters relating to 
 such concerts. 
 
 Said trustees to be appointed as follows : One by the mayor of 
 Cincinnati, one by the board having charge of the parks of Cincin- 
 nati, one by the trustees of the Cincinnati Music Hall Association, 
 one by the trustees of the Cincinnati Art Museum Association, and 
 one by the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati; and in case of any 
 vacancy from any cause the same to be filled by appointment by 
 the same board, officer, body, or association that made the original 
 appointment. 
 
 If there remain at the end of any calendar year any unexpended 
 income, the same shall be used for concert music in other public 
 parks in Cincinnati on Sundays during the summer season. 
 
 Said gift being made on condition that the city accept the fund, 
 and allow the trustees thereof six per cent per annum, or the legal 
 rate of interest thereon, for the purposes named. Said fund shall 
 be known as the Schmidlapp Park Music Fund. 
 
 Now, then, the city of Cincinnati accepts said donation upon 
 the conditions stated, and guarantees and agrees to pay to said 
 trustees as aforesaid a perpetual income on said fund equal to six 
 per cent, or the legal rate of interest as it may be fixed by law 
 from time to time, said interest payable semi-annually, upon said 
 sum of $50,000 for the purposes above stated. 
 
 VOTE OF THANKS. 
 
 Whereas, Margaret Y. and J. G. Schmidlapp have donated to 
 the city of Cincinnati, in loving memory of Charles Schmidlapp, 
 deceased, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), the income 
 from which is to be expended for free concerts in Eden Park, and 
 which gift has been accepted by the Board of City Affairs ; and 
 Whereas, The City Council of the city of Cincinnati recognizes 
 and appreciates the public spirit of this action : Therefore 
 
 Resolved, That this body concurs in the action of the Board of 
 City Affairs in accepting this magnificent gift, and tenders to the 
 generous donors its thanks on behalf of the whole city, represented 
 in its membership. 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes 
 of Council, and that copies be transmitted by the city clerk to 
 Margaret Y. Schmidlapp and J. G. Schmidlapp. 
 
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 No. 152. Passed March 13, 1891. 
 
 To provide for a uniform system of numbering- houses. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincin- 
 nati, That every owner of a building on any street, avenue, or alley 
 in the city shall, when notified of the proper number of such build- 
 ing by the chief engineer of the Board of Public Improvements, 
 place the same in a conspicuous place on the front of such building. 
 One whole number shall be allowed on every twenty-five feet of 
 ground wherever practicable, whether improved or vacant, provided 
 that any house or tenement with a less front than twenty-five feet 
 shall receive a whole number, and that all streets, avenues, or alleys 
 running north and south shall number from the river or the com- 
 mencement of said street nearest thereto with odd numbers on the 
 west side and even numbers on the east side of said street, avenue, 
 or alley, and all streets, avenues, or alleys running east and west 
 shall be numbered east from Vine Street or the terminus of said 
 street nearest thereto, and west from Vine Street or the terminus 
 of said street nearest thereto, with odd numbers on the south side 
 and even numbers on the north side of said street, avenue, or alley ; 
 and in numbering said streets, avenues, and alleys one hundred 
 (100) numbers shall be allowed to each block of the usual length 
 of blocks, so that the number of each consecutive block shall com- 
 mence with consecutive hundreds and one. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to take down, 
 alter, or deface any number assigned and put up as aforesaid, or to 
 retain an improper number, or to substitute any other number on 
 their building than the one given by virtue of this ordinance, and 
 for the purpose of carrying out its provisions. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall, on conviction thereof before the Police Court, be 
 fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and 
 every offense, with costs of the prosecution. 
 
 Sec. 4. An ordinance passed September 15, 1865, entitled “An 
 ordinance to provide for a uniform system of numbering houses,” 
 is hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 52. Passed July 24, 1891. 
 
 To prevent posting- of pictures or illustrations of an unbecoming, 
 obscene, or immoral character. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1 . No person, firm, or corporation carrying on the busi- 
 ness of bill-posting shall within the limits of the city of Cincinnati 
 post or cause to be posted, so that the same can be seen from the 
 
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 streets, alleys, or other public places of said city, any advertise- 
 ment containing pictures or illustrations of an unbecoming, obscene, 
 or immoral character, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five 
 dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor to revoke the license 
 of any bill-poster who may be found violating the provisions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 No. 4027. Passed January 4, 1888. 
 
 Providing 1 for the sale of dressed domestic poultry. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful to expose for sale, or to sell 
 in the markets or elsewhere in the city of Cincinnati, dressed 
 domestic poultry, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, etc., 
 unless the same shall first have been drawn, and the entrails, crop, 
 and craw taken therefrom. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person violating Section 1 of this ordinance shall, 
 on conviction thereof in the Police Court, be fined in any sum not 
 exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 No. 187. Passed February 12, 1892. 
 
 To reg“ulate the sale of produce, etc., in the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. That no person shall sell, or offer for sale, barter, or 
 exchange, any car-load lot or any less quantity of fruit, vegetable, 
 or farm produce, butter, eggs, game, or poultry contained in any 
 railroad car or in any railroad freight depot or warehouse, or on 
 any steamboat, flatboat, wharf-boat, or boat-landing, within the 
 city of Cincinnati, without first obtaining an annual license to 
 engage in such business, under a penalty of not less than twenty- 
 five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense; 
 provided, however, the provisions of this section shall not apply to 
 any farmer, gardener, fruit or vine -grower engaged in selling the 
 produce of his farm, garden, orchard, or vineyard from their wagons 
 or stands in the markets, nor to any commission merchant having a 
 storehouse and established place of business in this city. 
 
 Sec. 2. That every person before engaging in the business or 
 occupation mentioned in the preceding section shall pay to the city 
 of Cincinnati an annual license fee of two hundred dollars in the 
 manner provided for by the ordinances of said city concerning 
 licenses. 
 
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 No. 4186. Passed March 15, 1889. 
 
 To provide safety attachments to those renting power. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any one to sublet or rent power 
 to any one without providing and attaching to the main shaft 
 proper clutches or cut-offs by which said main shaft can be instantly 
 stopped without waiting to stop the engine or source of power. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person renting or subletting power refusing to 
 within thirty days after demand has been made attach such safety 
 devices to said main shaft shall, upon being adjudged guilty in 
 the Police Court, be fined not less than five dollars or more than 
 twenty-five dollars for each and every offense. The police authori- 
 ties are charged with the enforcement of this ordinance. 
 
 NO. 4232. Passed July 5, 1889. 
 
 For the protection of the police patrol service. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1 . It shall be unlawful for any person to make or cause 
 to be used or have in his possession any impression, imitation, or 
 duplicate of any police patrol-box or signal-box key without the 
 express permission of the mayor and the Board of Police Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to give or cause to 
 be given any false alarm through or by means of the police signal 
 telegraph or any of the apparatus connected therewith, with intent 
 to deceive ; or pull the hook of any signal box, except when police 
 assistance is actually required ; or tamper, meddle, or interfere in 
 any manner with the said boxes ; or cut, break, injure, deface, or 
 remove any of the street stations or sentry boxes, or any of the 
 wires, supports, or other parts or appliances connected with said 
 telegraph or with any portion of the police patrol and signal ap- 
 paratus; or make any connection or communication so as to inter- 
 rupt or interfere with the proper working of said telegraph; or 
 wrongfully injure, break, or destroy any apparatus, machinery, or 
 fixtures connected therewith ; or post any bill or advertisement 
 upon any of said street stations or boxes ; or place or cause to be 
 placed any snow, ice, or other substance or thing against the door 
 of any such box in such manner as to obstruct or interfere with 
 the opening thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. Or to turn or send in a false alarm of fire, or to turn or 
 send in an alarm of fire to the fire department of this city without 
 just reason or ground to believe that a fire exists. 
 
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 Sec. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of either of 
 the sections of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof in the 
 Police Court, be fined in a sum not less than five dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars for each and every offense, or be imprisoned not 
 more than thirty days, or both. 
 
 No. 46. Passed June 26, 1891. 
 
 To provide for the protection of polling-houses. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
 to maliciously or intentionally break open, injure, or deface any 
 polling-house, or post any bills or notices thereon ; but this section 
 shall not apply to the posting of election proclamations or notices 
 containing lists of registered electors required by law to be posted. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons on or 
 before the day of election to deface or destroy any election notice, 
 or any notice containing a list of registered electors, posted at any 
 polling-place required by law to be posted. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars nor less 
 than ten dollars. 
 
 No. 43. Passed September 5, 1890. 
 
 Prohibiting the throwing of animal, vegetable, or refuse matter into 
 the Ohio River for a distance of 2,000 feet above and 2,000 feet 
 below the Waterworks, and providing a penalty therefor. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincin- 
 nati, That it shall be unlawful for any person to dump or throw 
 into the Ohio River, between a point two thousand (2,000) feet 
 above the City Waterworks and a point two thousand (2,000) feet 
 below said Waterworks any animal or vegetable matter or refuse of 
 any kind ; and any person found guilty of so doing shall be subject 
 to a fine of not less than twenty -five dollars and not more than two 
 hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned in the City Workhouse not 
 more than thirty days, or both fined and imprisoned. 
 
 NO. 103. Passed September 18, 1891. 
 
 To make it unlawful for any person or persons to dig up or destroy, 
 or to take or carry away, or to sell or to dispose of any rock, 
 stone, dirt, or other material in any road, street, water-course, or 
 creek within the city limits. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 dig up or in any manner destroy or injure any road, street, public 
 
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 water- course, or creek within the city limits, or to take or carry 
 away from any such road, street, public water-course, or creek 
 within such city limits any stone, rock, dirt, or other material 
 therein, or to sell therefrom any such stone, rock, earth, or other 
 material, such person or persons not being the owner thereof ; and 
 any person guilty of violating the provisions of this ordinance shall, 
 upon conviction in the Police Court of the city, be fined in any 
 sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the City Work- 
 house not exceeding thirty days, or both fined and imprisoned, 
 for each and every such offense. 
 
 No. 4043. Passed February 24, 1888. 
 
 Requiring- all cable cars to have attached thereto g-uards or devices 
 for the protection of life and limb. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That every cable car operated and run upon any of the 
 lines of this city must have attached thereto guards or safety devices 
 for the purpose off preventing people from being run over and 
 mangled by the wheels or trucks of such car ; and it shall be the 
 duty of the superintendent, foreman, and other officers of all cable- 
 car companies to see that every car has attached thereto such guards 
 or safety device before the same shall be permitted to be used for 
 travel. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any officer, superintendent, or foreman of any such 
 company who orders, or being in authority permits, any car to be 
 operated without having such guard or safety device attached 
 thereto shall, upon conviction thereof in the Police Court, be fined 
 in any sum not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty 
 dollars, or be imprisoned in the Workhouse not less than ten days 
 nor more than three months. 
 
 NTo. 4301. Passed December 27, 1889. 
 
 Requiring: cable and electric cars that do not stop at all intersecting 
 streets to have signs so stating. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That every car operated upon or over any cable or electric street 
 railroad in this city which does not stop at all intersecting streets 
 on the line of such road must have conspicuously displayed on 
 both sides of the outside of such car, and also on both sides of the 
 inside of such car, signs at least three feet long and one foot 
 wide each, stating in large plain letters that such cars will not stop 
 between certain points, designating them. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or company operating any car over any such 
 road in violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon 
 
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 conviction thereof in the Police Court, be fined in a sum not exceed- 
 ing fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars for each and every 
 such offense. 
 
 ISTo. 162. Passed January 22, 1892. 
 
 Providing for the operation of street railroads at certain intersecting 
 streets, and making it a misdemeanor for any conductor, driver, 
 gripman, or motorman to cross or turn certain intersections unless 
 first signaled by a watchman, stationed there for the purpose. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That it shall be and it is hereby made the duty of any 
 street railroad company crossing the steam railroad at Rookwood 
 Station intersection and at Delta Station intersection, crossing or 
 turning the intersection of Sixth and Walnut streets, Fifth and 
 Walnut streets, Fifth Street and Broadway, Sixth Street and Broad- 
 way, and Court Street and Broadway, or any of said corners, to 
 have stationed at each of such corners or intersections so used by 
 them a watchman, who shall signal to each car as it approaches any 
 of said intersections or corners whether to proceed to cross or not ; 
 and no car shall cross or turn said corners or intersections, or any 
 one of them, without first being signaled so to do by such watchman 
 so located at such corner or intersection. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any conductor, driver, gripman, or motorman 
 operating or running any street railroad car who runs any such car 
 across or around any of the said corners or intersections, without 
 there being a watchman located at such corner or intersection, and 
 without such watchman first signaling him so to do, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine not exceeding fifty 
 dollars for each and every such offense. 
 
 I^To. 212. Passed March 4, 1892. 
 
 Requiring safety guards to be attached to all street railroad cars 
 operated by electricity or cable motive power. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful to operate any car upon 
 any of the street railroad tracks of this city by electricity or cable 
 power unless such cars shall have attached in front and on both 
 sides of each and every car, whether operated single or in trains, 
 some approved safety guard device, designed to prevent persons 
 from being run over by the wheels of the car. Any conductor, 
 driver, or motorman operating any such car without such safety 
 guard attached thereto shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty 
 dollars, or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Each 
 day that any car is so operated contrary to the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall be deemed and held to be a separate offense. 
 
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 ISTo. 4:38. Passed January 20, 1898. 
 
 To require all street railroad companies owning- and operating- street 
 railroads within the City of Cincinnati to equip their closed cars 
 with heating- apparatus and appliances. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That all street railroad companies owning and oper- 
 ating street railroads within the city of Cincinnati be required to 
 furnish and equip all their closed cars with heating apparatus and 
 appliances during the winter season. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any conductor, driver, or motorman having charge or 
 control of any street railway car upon any of the street railroads 
 of this city which runs over the line of any street railway without 
 being furnished and equipped with such heating apparatus and 
 appliances shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined in 
 any sum not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars ; and 
 each day such car is run in violation of this ordinance shall be 
 considered a separate and distinct offense. 
 
 No. 4:4:8. Passed January 27, 1898. 
 
 To require all Street railroad companies owning- and operating street 
 railroads within the City of Cincinnati to run open cars during 
 the summer season. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That all street railroad companies owning and operating 
 street railroads within the city of Cincinnati be required to run a 
 suitable number of open cars during the summer season. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the manager, superintendent, or president of any 
 such street railway company who fails to comply with the provisions 
 of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than twenty-five 
 dollars ; and each day such cars are run in violation thereof shall 
 be considered a separate and distinct offense. 
 
 No. 498. Passed March 24, 1893. 
 
 To supplement Clause Eight (8) of Section Eighteen (18) of an ordi- 
 nance entitled “ An ordinance providing for the construction, 
 operation, and government of street railroads,” passed February 
 7, 1879. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That Clause Eight (8) of Section Eighteen (18) of 
 Part Third (3d) of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance providing 
 for the construction, operation, and government of street railroads,” 
 
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 passed February 7, 1879, be and the same is hereby supplemented 
 with numbering as follows: 
 
 Clause 8-a. That the company, individual, or association of indi- 
 viduals operating Routes Nos. 2, 9, 10, 16, and 18, the Cincinnati 
 and Clifton Incline Plane Railroad, and the Cincinnati and Spring- 
 Grove-avenue Street Railway, and all extensions of any of said 
 routes, shall run its cars on said routes from 6 o’clock a. m. until 
 8 o'clock A. m., and from 4 o’clock p. m. until 7 o’clock p. m., at 
 intervals of not more than three minutes apart, and at all other 
 hours up to 12 o’clock midnight at intervals of not more than five 
 minutes apart; and in the construction of this section, if it be held 
 by the court that as to any one or more of such routes the provi- 
 sions hereof are invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity 
 of the provisions as to the remaining routes. 
 
 Sec. 2. That for each and every violation of the provisions and 
 requirements of this ordinance the company, individual, or asso- 
 ciation operating any of said routes shall be fined in a sum not less 
 than ten dollars, to be recovered by an action brought before a 
 magistrate or other court of competent jurisdiction in the name of 
 the city of Cincinnati and for its use ; and the operation of each car 
 upon any of said routes in violation of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance shall be deemed a distinct and separate offense. 
 
 Sec. 3. The right is reserved to the Board of Legislation, from 
 time to time by ordinance, to determine the intervals at which cars 
 shall run upon any street railroad route now or hereafter estab- 
 lished. 
 
 NO. 499. Passed March 24, 1893. 
 
 To amend Clause Eight (8) of Section Eighteen (18) of an ordinance 
 entitled “An ordinance providing for the construction, operation,, 
 and government of street railroads,” passed February 7, 1879. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That Clause Eight (8) of Section Eighteen (18) of 
 Part Third (3d) of “An ordinance providing for the construction, 
 operation, and government of street railroads,” passed February 7, 
 1879, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
 That the company, individual, or association of individuals oper- 
 ating Routes Nos. 1, 4, 5, 7, 13, and 15, 21, 22, 23, and 24, and 
 the Storrs and Sedamsville Street Railroad, shall run cars on any 
 of said routes and all extensions of any of said routes from 6 o’clock 
 A. m. until 8 o’clock A. m., and from 4 o’clock p. m. until 7 o’clock 
 p. m., at intervals of not more than three minutes apart, and 
 at all other hours up to 12 o’clock midnight at intervals of not 
 more than five minutes apart; and in the construction of this 
 section, if it be held by the court that as to any one or more 
 of such routes the provisions hereof are invalid, such invalidity shall 
 not affect the validity of the provisions as to the remaining routes. 
 
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 Sec. 2. That for each and every violation of the provisions and 
 requirements of this ordinance the company, individual, or asso- 
 ciation operating any of said routes shall be fined in a sum not less 
 than ten dollars, to be recovered by an action before a magistrate 
 or other court of competent jurisdiction brought in the name of the 
 city of Cincinnati and for its use ; and the operation of each car 
 upon any of said routes in violation of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance shall be deemed a distinct and separate offense. 
 
 Sec. 3. The right is reserved to the Board of Legislation, from 
 time to time, by ordinance to determine the intervals at which cars 
 shall run upon any street railroad route now or hereafter estab- 
 lished. 
 
 Sec. 4. That said original Clause Eight (8) of Section Eighteen 
 (18) of Part Third (3d) of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance 
 providing for the construction, operation, and government of street 
 railroads,” passed February 7, 1879, be and the same is hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 No. 691. Passed December 1, 1893. 
 
 To prevent the obstruction of street railroads. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
 to place any dummy, stuffed suits, or other obstruction upon any 
 street, cable, or electric railway, or in any way to obstruct the 
 passage of such cars in motion by running in front of and “cutting 
 off” the same ; and any person or persons violating the provisions 
 of this ordinance shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty- 
 five nor less than ten dollars. 
 
 NO. 221. Passed March 11, 1892. 
 
 Making 1 it unlawful for minors to gret on or off of locomotives or steam 
 or street railroad cars while in motion. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of 
 fourteen to climb upon, jump on or off, or in any way attach him- 
 self to any locomotive engine, steam or street railroad car while in 
 motion. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any conductor, engineer, or other person in charge of a 
 locomotive, steam or street railroad car, who knowingly suffers or 
 permits such minor to climb upon, jump on or off, or attach himself 
 to any such locomotive, steam or street railroad car while in motion, 
 shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five 
 dollars. 
 
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 Sec. 3. Any such minor violating the provisions of the first 
 section of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof be fined in a sum not more than twenty-five 
 dollars. 
 
 !N"0. 692. Passed December 1, 1893. 
 
 To punish minors for getting: on or off street railroad cars while in 
 motion, and obstructing street railroads. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any minor under four- 
 teen years of age to get on or off any street, cable, or electric car 
 while in motion; and any minor violating the provisions of this 
 section shall be fined in any sum not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 !N"0. 863. Passed December 7, 1894. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati Street Railway Company to station a watch- 
 man at the intersection of Freeman Avenue and Liberty Street, and 
 to cause him to remain on duty there every day in the week, except 
 Sunday, from 8 o’clock A. M. until 6 o’clock P. M. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. That the Cincinnati Street Railway Company be and it 
 is hereby required to station a watchman on the line of its roads 
 at the intersection of Freeman Avenue and Liberty Street, and to 
 cause him to remain on duty there every day in the week, except 
 Sunday, from 8 o’clock A. m. until 6 o’clock p. M. for the protection 
 from collision with the cars of said company of human beings and 
 animals crossing Freeman Avenue and Liberty Street at the point 
 named. 
 
 Sec. 2. The owner or operator of the roads of the Cincinnati 
 Street Railway Company violating the provisions of the first section 
 of this ordinance shall be fined in the sum of $50 per day, which 
 may be recovered in a civil suit brought by said city against such 
 owner or operator of the roads of the Cincinnati Street Railway 
 Company ; or upon conviction in the Police Court of the city of 
 Cincinnati, the owner or operator aforesaid violating the provisions 
 of the first section of this ordinance shall be fined in any sum not 
 exceeding fifty dollars per day nor less than twenty-five dollars 
 per day, or imprisoned in the Workhouse for a term not to exceed 
 thirty days nor less than ten days, or both. And each day said 
 cars are run in violation of the provisions of the first section of 
 this ordinance shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. 
 
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 T$0. 68. Passed September 12, 1890. 
 
 To provide for the extension of Route No. 2 of Street Passenger 
 
 Railroads. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas , The Cincinnati Street Railway Company owns and 
 operates Route No. 2 of street passenger railroads, and has pro- 
 duced to the Board of Public Improvements and to the City Council 
 the written consents to the extension hereinbelow authorized of the 
 owners of more than one half of the feet front of the lots and lands 
 abutting on the portion of street along which it is proposed to con- 
 struct the tracks of such extension : Now, 
 
 Therefore, Said Route No. 2 as heretofore established and ex- 
 tended by ordinance is hereby extended, and the Cincinnati Street 
 Railway Company so owning and operating said road is hereby 
 authorized and permitted to extend the tracks thereof from the 
 intersection of Freeman Avenue and Liberty Street westwardly by 
 double track along Liberty Street, occupying the tracks now in 
 Liberty Street, to Western Avenue; thence continuing westwardly 
 by double track along Liberty Street and over the viaduct now in 
 course of construction along said street to State Avenue ; thence 
 returning along said tracks so to be constructed and used in Liberty 
 Street to Freeman Avenue ; and thence eastwardly along Liberty 
 Street to Linn Street on the south track now existing in said street. 
 The foregoing is upon the following conditions : 
 
 1. That the tracks thus authorized to be constructed shall be 
 placed in the central portion of the street equidistant between the 
 curb-lines thereof, and with sufficient space between said tracks to 
 admit of the safe and convenient passage of cars thereon ; that the 
 rails used in the construction of said extension tracks shall be the 
 same in form as those now in use on said Route No. 2 ; that said 
 extension tracks shall be constructed under the direction and to the 
 satisfaction of the Board of Public Improvements and its chief 
 engineer ; and that the entire work shall be done at the exclusive 
 expense of said street railway company. 
 
 2. That the charge for carrying passengers on said Route No. 2 
 so extended shall not be increased by reason of this extension ; that 
 the motive power used in propelling cars thereon shall be the same 
 as that now in use or hereafter authorized to be used on and over 
 said Route No. 2; and that the tracks herein authorized to be laid 
 shall be completed within twelve months after the completion of the 
 viaduct aforesaid and of the said Liberty Street so as to admit of 
 the passage of cars and other vehicles thereon between Linn Street 
 and State Avenue. 
 
 3. That the City Council may grant the right to other street 
 railroads to run over any portion or all of the tracks of said route 
 
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 as hereby extended ; said Liberty Street, from Freeman Avenue 
 west to State Avenue, being hereby added to what is known as “free 
 territory.” 
 
 4. That for the due and faithful performance of the provisions 
 of this ordinance said company shall execute and deliver a bond to 
 the Board of Public Improvements in favor of the city of Cincin- 
 nati in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). 
 
 Sec. 2. This extension is made subject to all the terms and con- 
 ditions of the general street railway ordinance passed February 7, 
 1879, and the amendments thereto so far as they are not inconsistent 
 herewith. 
 
 No. 356. 
 
 Passed August 26,1892, and approved over mayor’s 
 disapproval September 30, 1892. 
 
 To provide for the extension of Route No. 2 of Street Passengrer Rail- 
 roads, and also for the construction and use of an electric system 
 of motive power along 1 said route as extended. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning and 
 operating Route No. 2 of street passenger railways, desires and 
 has made application for permission to extend the tracks of said 
 railway, and has produced to the Board of Legislation the written 
 consents to the extension hereinbelow authorized of the owners of 
 more than one half of the front feet of lots and lands abutting 
 upon the portions of streets along which it is proposed to construct 
 tracks in making such extension: 
 
 Now, therefore, The tracks of said Route No. 2 are hereby author- 
 ized to be extended, and said Cincinnati Street Railway Company 
 is hereby empowered and permitted to extend said tracks, as fol- 
 lows: From the east end of the Liberty street Viaduct west along 
 Liberty Street by double track to State Avenue ; thence north 
 along State Avenue by double track to Harrison Avenue; thence 
 northwest along Harrison Avenue, occupying the present double 
 track therein of said company, to Beekman Street; thence north 
 along Beekman Street by double track to Queen-City Avenue, with 
 the right to construct a temporary suitable trestle along said portion 
 of Beekman Street for the operation of cars only, not vehicles, 
 until such time as the fill for that portion of said street shall be 
 made, but said company shall construct and maintain a suitable 
 foot-walk along one or both sides of said trestle, and shall be liable 
 for all damages for which the city would otherwise be responsible 
 for the construction and maintenance of said trestle, and shall hold 
 the city harmless against such damages; thence continuing north 
 along Beekman Street by double track to Western Avenue; thence 
 northwest along Western Avenue, occupying the present double 
 track of said company, to Baltimore Pike ; and thence west along 
 
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 Baltimore Pike by double track to the cemetery, with the privilege 
 of constructing suitable curves at all angles in said proposed exten- 
 sion so as to make a continuous double track along the streets above 
 mentioned from the point of beginning to said cemetery, and also 
 a turntable or a crossover at the north end of said double track. 
 In operating said extension tracks the cars running westwardly and 
 northwardly from the point of beginning shall be conducted along 
 the east and south tracks, and in returning they shall be conducted 
 along the opposite tracks. No increase of rates of fare shall be 
 made by reason of the extension herein authorized. The term of 
 the grant of said extension shall be for a period of twenty-five 
 years, and said extension shall be constructed and completed within 
 six months from and after the date of the passage of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. Whereas, Said Cincinnati Street Railway Company de- 
 sires to change the motive power now in use on the constructed 
 portion of said Route No. 2, and also to adopt the same motive 
 power for said extension : 
 
 The Cincinnati Street Railway Company is hereby authorized 
 and empowered to construct and operate along the present tracks 
 of said route, and also along those hereby authorized as an exten- 
 sion of the existing tracks, an electric system of motive power, and 
 to erect and construct in the sidewalks near the curb-lines of the 
 streets wherein the tracks now are and are hereby authorized to 
 be laid the necessary supports for electric wires, and string and 
 maintain the necessary wires, and construct the necessary fixtures 
 and appliances, for the use of a complete system of electric motive 
 power along said proposed tracks in the streets aforesaid. 
 
 In order to supply the electricity required for the operation 
 of the electric plant authorized by this ordinance, said company is 
 hereby permitted to erect and maintain all necessary supports, 
 wires, and appliances along the streets which will form the most 
 direct and convenient line between the place where its power 
 station shall be placed, or where it already has a power station, 
 and the line of electric wires so authorized to be constructed and 
 used. 
 
 After so constructing and putting in operation said system of 
 motive power, said company shall have the privilege of charging 
 not to exceed a uniform rate of five cents for one continuous 
 passage for one passenger in either direction over any portion or all 
 of the line or route as the same is hereby extended, except that 
 children under ten years of age shall be charged not exceeding 
 three cents each, or not exceeding five cents for two of them 
 (infants in arms free) ; and after so completing and putting in op- 
 eration the electric system of motive power aforesaid, said company 
 shall be released from any obligation to sell or receive package 
 tickets for the carriage of passengers over any portion of said 
 Route No. 2 or the extension thereof ; and the term of the grant 
 of said Route No. 2 shall be and the same is hereby extended for a 
 
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 period of twenty-five years from and after the date of the passage 
 of this ordinance, on the following additional conditions : 
 
 (1) That the entire work hereby authorized, including the re- 
 duction of the crowns of streets where necessary, shall be done by 
 said company at its sole expense, and under the direction and to 
 the satisfaction of the Board of Administration and its chief engi- 
 neer ; that the extension tracks so authorized shall be placed and 
 maintained in the central portion of the streets at such a distance 
 apart as to allow for the safe and convenient passage of cars 
 thereon, the same as double tracks are usually constructed. The 
 rails used in the construction of said extension, together with those 
 which shall be used for the original route, after constructing said 
 electric plant, shall be of the pattern known as the “Johnson side- 
 bearing rail” or the “girder rail,” of weight not less than fifty- 
 two (52) pounds per yard on said original route, and not less than 
 ninety-eight (98) pounds per yard on said extension. That the 
 supports of such electric system of motive power shall be metal, 
 and of the best and most improved pattern, and no wires shall be 
 placed above and across any street within less than twenty (20) 
 feet of the surface thereof. 
 
 (2) That the electric plant herein authorized shall be completed 
 within one year from the passage hereof. The said company shall 
 pay for the cars run on the tracks herein mentioned and authorized 
 car license at the rate of four dollars ($4) per lineal foot, inside 
 measurement, and shall also pay two and one half (2^) per cent of 
 the gross earnings from said railway route as hereby extended, 
 according to the requirements of Section 11 of the ordinance pro- 
 viding for the construction, operation, and government of street 
 railroads, passed February 7, 1879; and said company shall be 
 subject to all the other provisions of said ordinance so far as con- 
 sistent herewith. During the summer months the said company 
 shall run a sufficient number of open or summer cars over the 
 original route and the extensions of the same to meet the public 
 convenience, and accommodate those persons wishing to ride upon 
 such cars. And provided further, that cars shall run over said 
 original route and the extensions of the same every five minutes 
 each way from 6 o’clock A. m. until 9 o’clock A. m., and from 4 
 o’clock p. m. until 8 o’clock p. m., and a sufficient number and as 
 frequently as the public convenience may demand at all hours; 
 and that all cars shall be constructed of the latest and most im- 
 proved pattern and finish, and shall be entirely new and fully equal 
 to the new Avondale cars. 
 
 (3) That the Board of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati may 
 grant the right to any other person, company, or corporation to 
 run over so much of said Route No. 2, commencing at the corner 
 of Liberty Street and Freeman Avenue; thence west on Liberty 
 Street to over and along the viaduct to State Avenue ; thence 
 north on State Avenue to Harrison Avenue ; thence northerly and 
 
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 westerly on Harrison Avenue to Beekman Street; thence north- 
 wardly on Beekman Street to the center line of Waverly Avenue — 
 the portion of said route so named being hereby added to what is 
 known as “ free territory.” And all said company’s poles, wires, 
 and trolleys, and the electric power and current therein along and 
 over the said tracks, from said corner of Liberty Street and 
 Freeman Avenue along Liberty Street westerly and northerly to 
 Waverly Avenue, are and shall be subject to the reserved right 
 of the city of Cincinnati, by its Board of Administration, to fix 
 the price, terms, and conditions upon which the said tracks, poles, 
 wires, trolleys, and electric power or current of said company or 
 other owner thereof, or any part or parts thereof, may be run over, 
 operated, and used by any other person, company, or corporation 
 to whom may lawfully be granted the permission to operate street- 
 cars along said distance and streets herein above designated, in case 
 any such grantee of permission and said company or other owner 
 are unable to agree upon such price, terms, and conditions. The 
 city also hereby expressly reserves to itself the right to grant to 
 any other person, company, or corporation the right to support a 
 separate system of electric motive power for the operation of cars 
 upon said poles and wires in this ordinance authorized, at such 
 price and upon such terms and conditions as the city by the Board 
 of Administration shall fix, if the parties fail to agree, and to 
 permit any other person, company, or corporation the privilege to 
 construct tracks, erect and maintain along said distance its own 
 separate system of poles, wires, trolleys, and electric motive power. 
 
 (4) Said company shall also, on demand on the car, transfer its 
 passengers who have paid fare at the cash rate to and upon any 
 and all other route or routes owned or operated by it, good going 
 for one continuous passage in the direction of the car from which 
 the transfer is taken and away from the starting-point. 
 
 (5) Said company shall execute and deliver to the Board of 
 Administration a bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati in the 
 penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to the satis- 
 laction of said board, conditioned for its faithful performance of all 
 and singular the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 No. 171. Passed April 3, 1891. 
 
 Providing- for the extension of Route No. 2 of the Newport and Cin- 
 cinnati Street Railroad Company, and for the construction and 
 operation of an electric system of motive power on and over said 
 route snd the extension thereof herein provided for. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati: 
 
 Whereas , A new bridge is being erected over the Ohio River 
 between the cities of Newport (Ky.) and Cincinnati (O. ), and it is 
 important that street railway connections be made therewith ; and 
 
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 Whereas, The Newport and Cincinnati Street Railway Company, 
 a corporation organized under the laws of Ohio, owns and is now 
 operating a line of street railway, commencing at the Newport and 
 Cincinnati bridge, running thence north on Butler Street to Pearl 
 Street, thence west on Pearl Street to Broadway, thence on Broad- 
 way to Fourth, thence on Fourth to Walnut, thence on Walnut 
 to Fifth, thence on Fifth Street to Broadway, thence south on 
 Broadway to Pearl, thence east on Pearl to Butler, and thence to 
 the place of beginning ; and 
 
 Whereas, Said railway company is desirous of extending its track 
 on Broadway south of Pearl Street, so as to connect its track with 
 the new bridge now being constructed over the Ohio River as afore- 
 said, and to substitute electrical for animal power in the operation 
 of its road over the route now being operated by it and as extended 
 under the provisions of this ordinance : 
 
 Therefore, In the consideration of the premises, the said Newport 
 and Cincinnati Street Railway Company is hereby authorized to 
 extend its tracks, commencing at a point at the intersection of 
 Broadway and Pearl Street, where its present track is now laid, and 
 extending thence southwardly along Broadway by double tracks 
 for about the distance of three hundred and thirty-nine feet to the 
 south side of Second Street, and in such a manner as to connect 
 said tracks with the street railway tracks to be laid on the bridge 
 of the Central Railway and Bridge Company, constructed over the 
 Ohio River between the cities of Newport (Ky. ) and Cincinnati (O.) 
 as aforesaid, on conditions: 
 
 First — That said company shall construct said tracks under the 
 direction of and to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Improve- 
 ments, and at the sole expense of said street railway company, and 
 shall at the expense of said company relay and repair, to the satis- 
 faction of the Board of Public Improvements, any part of any 
 street removed in the laying of said tracks. 
 
 Second — That there shall be no increase of rates of fare by reason 
 of the extension herein granted, and the grant thereof shall termi- 
 nate with the expiration of the grant for the remainder of the route 
 now being operated by said railway company. 
 
 Third — That the rails used in the construction of the track herein 
 authorized shall be of the same kind used upon the remainder of 
 said routes. 
 
 2d. — Said company is hereby authorized to substitute and oper- 
 ate electrical power for the running of its cars, instead of animal 
 power as now used, on and over the lines now being operated by it 
 on the streets hereinbefore set out, and on and over the extension 
 hereby granted, and to that end to construct, maintain, and operate 
 along and over said streets an overhead electric system of motive 
 power for the moving of its street-cars, and to open the sidewalks 
 near the curb-line in and along said streets to place therein the 
 necessary supports for electrical wires and all the other necessary 
 
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 fixtures and appliances for the use of electrical motive power along 
 and over said tracks, and to run and operate its cars along and over 
 said tracks by electric motive power. That the time of the grant 
 to the Newport and Cincinnati Street Kailway Company to con- 
 struct, own, and operate street railways in the city of Cincinnati 
 is extended for a period of twenty-five years from and after the 
 passage of this ordinance. This grant is made upon the following 
 conditions : 
 
 First — That should the electric system herein authorized to be 
 constructed be hereafter abandoned, and no other system of rapid 
 transit be introduced by consent of the municipal authorities, said 
 company shall restore animal power on said line, and in such event 
 the extension of time herein granted shall become null and void. 
 All work herein authorized shall be done under the supervision 
 of and to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Improvements, 
 and the plan of poles and wires shall be approved by said board 
 before the work of construction begins. That the rate of speed of 
 any car over said tracks or any of them shall not exceed ten miles 
 an hour. That all the terms aud conditions of the ordinance passed 
 February 25, 1881, entitled an “An ordinance to provide , for the 
 operation and government of the Newport and Cincinnati Street 
 Railroad Company and the Cincinnati and Newport Street Railroad 
 Company,” except as the same have been hereby modified and 
 changed, shall remain in full force and effect and become part 
 hereof, and shall apply to the extension herein provided for, and 
 in accordance with the provisions of general ordinance passed 
 February 7, 1879. No car shall be operated over said route, or 
 any part thereof, unless it have both a conductor and motorman 
 in charge thereof. 
 
 No. 2. — The said company shall execute and deliver to the said 
 Board of Public Improvements a bond in favor of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in a penal sum of ten thousand dollars, to the satisfaction 
 of the Board of Public Improvements, conditioned for the faithful 
 observance and performance of all and singular the provisions of 
 this ordinance. 
 
 !N"0. 82 . Passed December 19, 1890. 
 
 To provide for the extension of Route Number Five (5) of Street 
 Railways, and of the railway known as the Cincinnati and Clifton 
 Division, and also for the construction and use of an electric 
 system of motive power. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That— 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning and 
 operating Route Number Five (5) of street railways, and of what is 
 known in its system of roads as the Cincinnati and Clifton Division, 
 
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 desires and has made application for the permission to extend the 
 tracks of said railways, and has produced to the Board of City 
 Affairs and to the Council the written consents to the extensions 
 hereinbelow authorized of the owners of more than one half of 
 the front feet of the lots and lands abutting upon the portions of 
 streets along which it is proposed to construct tracks in making 
 such extensions: 
 
 Now, therefore, The railway tracks of said Route Number Five (5) 
 and of said Cincinnati and Clifton Division are hereby authorized 
 to be extended, and the Cincinnati Street Railway Company, 
 owning and operating said railways as aforesaid, is hereby author- 
 ized and permitted to use and occupy the streets hereinafter named 
 by extending such tracks thereon as follows : 
 
 From the north terminus of the tracks of said Route Number 
 Five (5) in Elm Street northwardly and across McMicken Avenue 
 by double track, as such tracks are usually constructed, to and 
 connecting with the tracks of the Cincinnati and Clifton Incline 
 Plane ; thence northwardly along and over the tracks of said 
 incline plane to the north end thereof; thence northwardly along 
 and over „the tracks of said Cincinnati and Clifton Division to and 
 through Ohio Avenue to McMillan Street ; thence from the inter- 
 section of Ohio Avenue and McMillan Street westwardly by double 
 track along and in the center of McMillan Street, as double tracks 
 are usually constructed, to Clifton Avenue; thence northwardly 
 by double track along and in the center of Clifton Avenue, as 
 double tracks are usually constructed, to a suitable point south of 
 Calhoun Street, to curve in either direction northwardly by a con- 
 tinuation of said double track so as to extend a single track to and 
 upon each sidewalk near the curb -line of said Clifton Avenue at 
 the north line of Calhoun Street produced west ; thence continuing 
 each of said single tracks northwardly along said sidewalks near the 
 ourb-line of said Clifton Avenue to the tracks therein of street 
 railroad Route Number Twenty-three (23) ; thence upon said tracks, 
 as the route thereof has been established to the north corporation 
 line : Provided, however, that if said tracks of said street railroad 
 Route Number Twenty- three (23) are not constructed at the time 
 the grantee herein shall desire to construct and use tracks along 
 said portion of Clifton Avenue, then and in that case the grantee 
 hereunder shall, and it is here authorized to construct said por- 
 tions of tracks of said Route Number Twenty-three (23), but such 
 construction of said tracks and the right of said grantee to use 
 the same shall not prevent said portions of tracks from being con- 
 sidered and measured as portions of Route Number Twenty-three 
 (23), and shall be subject to the right of the grantee of said Route 
 Number Twenty-three (23) to use and operate cars upon said por- 
 tions of tracks the same as if said grantee of Route Number Twenty- 
 three (23) had constructed said tracks, and the acceptance of this 
 grant shall be treated as consent by the grantee herein to those 
 
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 provisions touching the rights of the grantee of Route Number 
 Twenty -three (23); on condition, however, that said grantee of 
 Route Number Twenty-three (23) shall observe and perform the 
 provisions of Article 3 of Section 2 hereof. 
 
 Said company shall erect and maintain suitable fences for the . 
 protection of pedestrian travel along the line of its railroad tracks 
 on Clifton Avenue whenever ordered to do so by the Board of City Jljf 
 Affairs, the erection of such fences to be under direction and to the \ &/, 
 
 satisfaction of the Board of City Affairs and its engineer. At the 
 corporation line a crossover may be constructed for the purpose of 
 passing cars from one of said tracks to the other ; but such cross- 
 over shall not be constructed if said company shall obtain the right 
 to continue the extension of these tracks into Clifton ; and if con- 
 structed, and such right to an extension into Clifton is afterward 
 obtained, such crossover shall not be maintained after such exten- 
 sion is made. The curves aforesaid at and near the intersection 
 of Calhoun Street with Clifton Avenue and the crossover at the 
 corporation line shall be laid under directions of the chief engineer 
 of the Board of City Affairs. No increase of the rates of fare shall 
 be made by reason of the extension aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 2. And whereas, Said Cincinnati Street Railway Company 
 is willing to change the motive power and reduce certain author- 
 ized rates of fare as hereinafter mentioned, on the conditions below 
 named ; and 
 
 Whereas, Owing to the length of the road and grades along and 
 over which the cars must be operated, and the necessity for con- 
 venient and rapid transit in order to furnish due accommodation to 
 the public, an improved motive power is necessary ; and 
 
 Whereas, The mode of construction and the improved power pro- 
 posed will require increased cost and expense on the part of the 
 said company: 
 
 Now, therefore, In consideration of the premises and of the im- 
 proved facilities hereby contemplated, the large expenditures neces- 
 sary to furnish the same, and the proposed reduction of certain 
 authorized rates of fare, the said Cincinnati Street Railway Com- 
 pany is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and operate 
 on the portion of the tracks aforesaid, between the present north 
 terminus of Route Number Five (5) in Elm Street and the north 
 corporation line of the city in Clifton Avenue, an electric system of 
 motive power, and to erect and construct in the sidewalks near the 
 curb-lines of the streets wherein the tracks now are, and are hereby 
 authorized to be laid, the necessary supports for electric wires, and 
 construct the necessary fixtures and appliances for the use of an 
 electric system of motive power along said tracks in said streets, 
 excepting, however, along that portion of Clifton Avenue aforesaid 
 wherein the extension tracks are to be placed in the sidewalks as 
 hereinbefore provided, and there said company is hereby author- 
 ized and empowered to erect and construct in the sidewalks adjacent 
 
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 to the tracks the necessary supports for electric wires, and construct 
 the necessary fixtures and appliances for the use of such electric 
 system of motive power along said tracks, for the purpose of supply- 
 ing the electricity required for the operation of said electric plant, 
 said company is authorized to place and maintain the necessary sup 
 ports, wires, and appliances in Harrison, Central, and McMicken 
 avenues between its power-house on Harrison Avenue and the foot 
 *of its incline plane on McMicken Avenue ; and after so construct- 
 ing said electric system of motive power said company shall have 
 the privilege of charging not to exceed a uniform rate of five (5) 
 cents for one continuous passage of each person in either direction 
 over any portion or all of the line between Carrel Street (Columbia) 
 and the north corporation line in Clifton Avenue over Route Num- 
 ber Seven (7) and Route Number Five (5), and over its incline 
 plane and said Ohio - avenue Railway, as the same and Route 
 Number Five (5) are by this ordinance extended northwardly, and 
 a uniform rate of fare of five (5) cents for one continuous passage of 
 each person in either direction over any portion of its routes, from 
 the north corporation line of the city in Clifton Avenue, by way 
 of McMicken Avenue and Vine-street cable to Fountain Square, 
 excepting in every instance children under ten (10) years of age, 
 who shall be charged three (3) cents, or two for one fare of five (5) 
 cents ; provided that nothing herein shall in any wise affect the 
 rates of fare or any other provision prescribed or contained in the 
 ordinance for the extension of Route Number Seven (7), and for 
 the construction of an electric system of motive power along said 
 Route Number Seven (7) and upon a portion of Route Number 
 Five (5), passed October 25, 1889, except that the time for com- 
 pleting the construction of the electric system of motive power 
 provided for in said last-mentioned ordinance is hereby extended to 
 the 1st day of April, 1891. And after so completing the electric 
 system of motive power aforesaid north of the north terminus of 
 Route Number Five (5) in Elm Street, said company shall be 
 released from any obligation to sell or receive package tickets for 
 the carriage of passengers over any portion of its said railway in 
 Ohio Avenue, or the said proposed extension between said avenue 
 and Clifton ; and the terms of the grant of said Route Number 
 Five (5) and of the said railway in Ohio Avenue, upon the con- 
 struction of said electric system, is hereby extended to a period of 
 twenty-five (25) years, and the grant of the extensions so author- 
 ized shall be for a like period, from the date of the passage of this 
 ordinance, upon the following conditions : 
 
 (1) # That the entire work authorized hereby, including the 
 reductions of the crowns of the streets where necessary, shall be 
 done at the sole expense of said company, and under the direction 
 and to the satisfaction of the Board of City Affairs and its chief 
 engineer. That the said extension tracks, where constructed as 
 ordinary double tracks, shall be placed and maintained in the cen- 
 
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 tral portion of the streets, at such a distance apart as to allow for 
 the safe and convenient passage of cars thereon. That the rails to 
 be used in the construction of said extension tracks shall be of the 
 pattern known as the “Johnson side-bearing rail ” or the “ girder 
 rail,” of weight not less than fifty-two (52) pounds per yard. That 
 the supports of such electric system of motive power shall be of 
 metal, and of the best and most improved pattern, and no wires 
 shall be placed above and across or along any street within less than 
 twenty feet of the surface thereof. 
 
 (2) That the work herein authorized shall be completed within 
 one year from the passage hereof, unless prevented by litigation. 
 That the Cincinnati Street Railway Company, the grantee herein, 
 shall pay for all the cars run on Ohio Avenue and over the extension 
 above provided for a car license at the rate of four dollars ($4) per 
 lineal foot of every such car, inside measurement, and two and one 
 half (2J) per cent of the gross earnings from every source of such 
 company from the railway aforesaid in Ohio Avenue and the exten- 
 sion between there and Clifton, and every portion of the route 
 hereby extended, including its incline plane, as provided in Section 
 Eleven (11) of an ordinance providing for the construction, opera- 
 tion, and government of street railroads, passed February 7, 1879 ; 
 and shall be subject to all the other provisions of said ordinance so 
 far as the same are consistent with the provisions of this ordinance. 
 And that said company shall execute and deliver to the said Board 
 of City Affairs a bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati in the 
 penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), to the satis- 
 faction of said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of 
 all and singular the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 (3) The right is hereby reserved to the city of Cincinnati, and 
 the grantee herein consents to this reservation, to grant to any 
 person or company the right to occupy and use any portion or all 
 of the tracks, poles, wires, and all necessary appliances which are 
 herein authorized to be placed in Clifton Avenue, between Calhoun 
 Street and the north corporation line, on condition that such person 
 or company shall use cable, electric, or other improved motive power 
 for rapid transit, and first pay or tender an equal proportion of the 
 cost of constructing said tracks, poles, wires, and necessary appli- 
 ances, and furnish a proper obligation to pay an equal proportion 
 of the cost of maintaining such tracks, poles, wires, and necessary 
 appliances, and also run the cars in the same direction as those of 
 the grantee herein are or shall be run. And it is further provided 
 that passengers shall be carried in either direction on said Route 
 Number Five (5) between Fourth and Walnut streets and the 
 north terminus of the railway at Clifton without change of cars ; 
 and the street railway company shall furnish suitable means for 
 transferring passengers at Walnut and Fourth and Fifth streets to 
 make continuous trips in either direction beyond Walnut Street 
 over the routes Number Five (5) and Number Seven (7), and shall 
 
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 provide suitable means for transferring passengers at the foot of the 
 incline plane to make continuous trips in either direction by way 
 of McMicken Avenue and Vine Street, and also suitable means for 
 transferring passengers at the corner of Sixth and Elm streets to 
 make continuous trips in either direction over the extension of 
 Route Number Five (5) along Sixth and Baymiller streets; but 
 such transfers shall be such as will entitle the passenger only to a 
 continuous trip. 
 
 No. 4286. 
 
 Passed October 25, 1889. 
 (See repeal following). 
 
 To provide for the extension of Route No. 7 of Street Passenger Rail- 
 roads, and for the construction of an electric system of motive power 
 along said Route No. 7 and upon a portion of Route No. 5, and to fix 
 rates of speed on certain' routes. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Railway Company owns and 
 operates Route No. 7 of street passenger railroads, and is willing to 
 extend the tracks of said railroad route as hereinafter described, 
 and change the motive power thereon and upon the portion of Route 
 No. 5 below mentioned, upon the conditions hereinafter stated ; and 
 
 Whereas, Owing to the great length of said route, as it is proposed 
 to extend the same, together with the said portion of Route No. 5, 
 and the difficult grades thereon, and the necessity for convenient 
 and rapid transit thereon, in order to furnish due accommodations 
 to the public, it is necessary, in the opinion of the city authorities, 
 to make the extension and changes in motive power herein author- 
 ized; and 
 
 Whereas, The mode of construction and the motive power pro- 
 posed will require increased cost and expenses on the part of the 
 company : 
 
 Therefore, In consideration of the premises and of the improved 
 facilities hereby contemplated, and the large expenditures necessary 
 to secure the same, Route No. 7 of street passenger railroads as 
 heretofore established is hereby extended, and the Cincinnati Street 
 Railway Company, owning and operating the same, is hereby author- 
 ized to extend the tracks of said route from the intersection of 
 Eastern Avenue and Main Street (in Pendleton) eastwardly by 
 double track, occupying the present tracks along Eastern Avenue 
 to Main Street, now called Carrel Street (in Columbia). And the 
 Cincinnati Street Railway Company is hereby authorized to con- 
 struct, maintain, and operate for and along the tracks of said Route 
 No. 7 and said extension thereof, and also for and along the tracks 
 of the portions of Route No. 5 of street passenger railroads, and 
 the certain extensions thereof which lie and are operated in and 
 along Third and Martin streets, Eastern Avenue and Pearl, East 
 Front, Broadway, Fourth, Elm, and Fifth streets, an overhead 
 
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 electric system of motive power for moving street cars, and to open 
 the sidewalks near the curb-lines in the streets along said Route 
 No. 7 and its said extension, and along the aforesaid portion of 
 Route No. 5, to place therein the necessary supports for electric 
 wires and all other necessary fixtures and appliances for the use of 
 electric motor power along the tracks hereinbefore mentioned ; and 
 after the construction of the system of motive power so authorized 
 as aforesaid the said company shall have the privilege of charging a 
 uniform fare of five cents, and no more, for carrying each passenger 
 over any portion or all of the distance along the tracks aforesaid 
 between Main, now called Carrel Street (Columbia) and McMicken 
 Avenue (except as to children under ten years of age, who shall be 
 carried for three cents, or two children for five cents), and shall be 
 released from all obligations to sell or receive package tickets for 
 the carriage of persons over any part of said Route No. 7 and of 
 the portions aforesaid of Route No. 5 ; and said company shall make 
 transfers of passengers at the intersection of Elm and Sixth streets, 
 so as to carry passengers to and from its Baymiller Division from 
 and to Washington Street, and shall be entitled to receive the rates 
 of fare above authorized by this ordinance for so carrying passen- 
 gers desiring to be transferred to and from said Baymiller Division ; 
 such fare shall entitle such passengers to ride over any part of said 
 Baymiller Division and said portion of Route No. 5 ; and the term 
 of the grant of Route No. 5 and of Route No. 7 and the extensions 
 hereinbefore mentioned are hereby extended to a period of twenty- 
 five years, and the grant hereby made of the right to construct and 
 use the electric motive power thereon shall continue for a like period 
 from the date of the passage of this ordinance upon the following 
 conditions : 
 
 No. 1. That should the electric system so authorized as aforesaid 
 be constructed and thereafter abandoned, and no other improved 
 system of rapid transit be introduced, and animal power restored as 
 the motive power of said line of road, the rates of fare heretofore 
 authorized and collected at the date of this ordinance shall be 
 restored and collected. Said tracks are to be laid and the said 
 railroad is to be constructed and all work herein authorized shall 
 be done under the superintendence of the chief engineer of the 
 Board of Public Affairs, as directed by said board. The rails used 
 in the construction of the tracks herein authorized shall be of the 
 pattern known as ‘‘Johnson's (or the girder) side-bearing” rails, 
 weighing not less than fifty-two pounds per yard. That the sup- 
 ports for electric wires, fixtures, and appliances shall be of metal, 
 and of the best and most approved pattern, and all wires placed 
 thereon shall be at least twenty feet above the surface of the 
 streets ; and that the plan adopted shall be of such character as to 
 enable other companies, upon receiving authority from the city, to 
 make joint use thereof or to cross the same; but nothing herein 
 shall be construed to authorize any joint use beyond the distance 
 
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 authorized by law and existing ordinances, or by existing contract 
 between tbe company and other companies for joint use of tracks, 
 or without paying a due proportion of the cost of construction and 
 maintenance and motive power. That the work herein authorized 
 shall be commenced within sixty days and completed within twelve 
 months of the passage hereof. 
 
 No. 2. That during entertainments at Music Hall passengers 
 shall be carried in either direction over that part of the Elm-street 
 Division of Route No. 5 which lies north of Music Hall, and over 
 that part of Route No. 9 which lies between Elm and Cliff streets, 
 for the present rates of fare of five cents cash, or a four-cent ticket 
 in packages of twenty-five for one dollar, twelve for forty-eight 
 cents, or six for twenty-four cents ; and transfer checks shall be 
 given to all passengers paying such rates of fare and desiring to 
 ride between Music Hall and Cliff Street at such times. And pas- 
 sengers shall also be carried in either direction between Walnut 
 Street and Cliff Street, over said Elm-street Division of Route No. 5 
 and said portion of Route No. 9 lying west of Elm Street, for the 
 rates of fare authorized by this ordinance; that is, five cents cash, 
 except for children under ten years, as to whom the rates shall be 
 the same as hereinabove fixed; and transfer checks shall be given to 
 all persons paying such rates of fare and desiring to ride over any 
 part of the tracks of said division between Walnut and Cliff streets; 
 and until cars are run continuously over the Elm -street Incline 
 Plane between a point south thereof and Ohio Avenue the Elm- 
 street coupon, being No. 1 of the present Ohio -avenue coupon- 
 tickets, shall be received in payment for passage over said Elm-street 
 Division between McMicken Avenue and the intersections of Fourth 
 and Fifth streets with Walnut Street. 
 
 No. 3. All the terms and conditions of the General Street Rail- 
 road Ordinance passed February 7, 1879, and as they have been or 
 may be amended from time to time, shall apply to and become a 
 part of this ordinance as far as consistent herewith. 
 
 No. 4. That said company shall execute and deliver to said 
 Board of Public Affairs a bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati, 
 in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to the satisfaction 
 of said Board of Public Affairs, conditioned for the faithful observ- 
 ance and performance of all and singular the provisions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the schedule time for operating cars over said 
 Routes 5 and 7, and over all portions of said company’s other 
 street railway routes over which any kind of motors or means of 
 rapid transit are authorized to be used, shall not exceed ten miles 
 an hour, and Article 1 of Section 18 of the General Street Railroad 
 Ordinance passed February 7, 1879, or any provision of any other 
 ordinance relative to the speed at which each car shall be operated, 
 shall not be applicable to such routes. 
 
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 No. 370. 
 
 Passed September 16, 1892, and approved over 
 mayor’s disapproval October 14, 1892. 
 
 To repeal an ordinance passed October 25, 1889, entitled “An ordinance 
 to provide for the extension of Route No. 7 of Street Passenger 
 Railroads, and for the construction of an electric system of motive 
 power along said Route No. 7 and upon a portion of Route No. 5, 
 and to fix rates of speed on certain routes ; ” and to forfeit the 
 franchises and rights of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company 
 under and by virtue of said ordinance. 
 
 Whereas , The Cincinnati Street Railway Company owns and is 
 operating an electric system of street passenger railways under and 
 by virtue of an ordinance, passed October 25, 1889, entitled “An 
 ordinance to provide for the extension of Route No. 7 of street 
 passenger railroads, and for the construction of an electric system of 
 motive power along said Route No. 7 and upon a portion of Route 
 No. 5, and to fix rates of speed on certain routes, and is obligated 
 thereby to carry passengers and to run and operate its cars from 
 Carrel Street in Columbia to the intersection of Elm Street and 
 McMicken Avenue ; and 
 
 Whereas, Said company is not now operating said route between 
 said termini, but is turning off its cars at an intermediate point 
 without any right or authority so to do : Therefore — 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 That said ordinance, passed October 25, 1889, entitled “An ordi- 
 nance, No. 4286, to provide for the extension of Route No. 7 of 
 street passenger railroads, and for the construction of an electric 
 system of motive power along said Route No. 7 and upon a portion 
 of Route No. 5, and to fix rates of speed upon certain routes,” be 
 and the same is hereby repealed ; and all rights, privileges, and 
 franchises granted to the Cincinnati Street Railway Company under 
 and by virtue of said ordinance be and the same are hereby forfeited 
 and held for naught. 
 
 Sec. 2. The corporation counsel is hereby directed to institute 
 the necessary legal proceedings to enforce the. provisions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 NO. 4325. Passed February 7, 1890. 
 
 To authorize the South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Com- 
 pany to construct and operate an electric system of motive power 
 over that portion of Route No. 9 lying on Front, Walnut, Vine, and 
 Fifth streets, now being operated as a street railway by said com- 
 pany, and fix the rate of speed thereon. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Whereas, The necessities of the times demand more rapid transit 
 upon street railways than is furnished by animal power ; and 
 
 Whereas, The South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway, a 
 corporation organized under the laws of Ohio, and now operating 
 
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 a street railway over that portion of Route No. 9 lying on Front, 
 Walnut, Vine, and Fifth streets, under ordinance passed November 
 2, 1877, is desirous of establishing an electric system of motive 
 power upon the line so operated by it ; and 
 
 Whereas , The construction and operation of an electric system 
 of motive power on said line will require said company to incur 
 increased cost and expense : Now, 
 
 Therefore f In consideration of the premises and the improved 
 facilities for the public convenience hereby contemplated, and 
 the large expenditures necessary to secure and promote the same, 
 the South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company be 
 and the same is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, 
 maintain, and operate on and over that part of Route No. 9 on 
 Front, Walnut, Fifth, and Vine streets, on and over which it is 
 now operating its line of street railway by animal power, an 
 overhead electric system of motive power for moving street cars, 
 and to open the sidewalks near the curb-line in and along said 
 streets to place therein the necessary supports for electric wires, 
 and all other necessary fixtures and appliances for the use of 
 electric motor power along the tracks hereinbefore mentioned, 
 and to run and operate its cars along and over said tracks by 
 electric motor power; that the time of the grant to the South 
 Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company to use said 
 part of Route No. 9 is hereby extended for a period of twenty- 
 five years from and after the passage of this ordinance upon the 
 following conditions : 
 
 No. 1. That should the electric system so authorized as aforesaid 
 be constructed and thereafter abandoned, and no other improved 
 system of rapid transit be introduced by consent of the municipal 
 authorities, said company shall restore animal power as the motive 
 power on said line; in such event the extension of time of grant 
 provided for in this ordinance, and all other terms and conditions 
 of this ordinance, shall become null and void. All the work herein 
 authorized shall be done under the supervision of and to the satis- 
 faction of the Board of Public Affairs, and the plan of poles and 
 wires shall be approved by said board before the work of construc- 
 tion begins. That the rate of speed of any car over said tracks or 
 any of them shall not exceed ten miles an hour. That all the 
 terms and conditions of the ordinance passed November 2, 1877, 
 entitled “An ordinance authorizing the South Covington and Cin- 
 cinnati Street Railway Company to run cars between the Suspension 
 Bridge and Fifth Street,” except as the same have been hereby 
 modified and changed, shall remain in full force and effect, and 
 become part hereof. The rate of fare over that part of Route 
 No. 9 operated under the provisions of this ordinance shall not 
 exceed three cents, but nothing herein shall be construed as affect- 
 ing the right of transfer according to the terms and provisions of the 
 ordinance of November 2, 1877. No car shall be operated over said 
 
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 route unless it has both a conductor and driver or motorman in 
 charge of the same. 
 
 No. 2. That said company shall execute and deliver to said 
 Board of Public Affairs a bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati, 
 in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, to the satisfaction of the 
 Board of Public Affairs, conditioned for the faithful observance and 
 performance of all and singular the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 NO. 36. Passed June 5, 1891. 
 
 To provide for the extension of Route No. 9 of Street Railways, and 
 also for the construction and use of an electric system of motive 
 power. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning and 
 operating Route No. 9 of street railways, desires and has made 
 application for permission to extend the tracks of said railway, 
 and has produced to the Board of City Affairs and to the Board of 
 Legislation the written consents to the extension hereinbelow author- 
 ized of the owners of more than one half of the front feet of the 
 lots and lands abutting upon the portions of streets along which it 
 is proposed to construct tracks in making such extension, and also 
 for permission to operate the cars of said Route No. 9 along and 
 over its tracks in certain other streets below named, so as to furnish 
 direct and continuous communication between the northerly portion 
 of said route and the business center of the city : Now, 
 
 Therefore , The tracks of said Route No. 9 are hereby authorized to 
 be extended, and the Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning 
 and operating said street railway, is hereby authorized and per- 
 mitted to extend said tracks, as follows : From the north terminus 
 of the tracks at the intersection of McMicken Avenue (formerly 
 Browne Street) and Cliff Street northwardly along said McMicken 
 Avenue by double track to Center Street. For the purpose of 
 enabling said street railway company to operate the cars from 
 Route No. 9 southwardly along and over its certain tracks in the 
 streets below named, the tracks of said Route No. 9 are also hereby 
 extended and authorized to be extended along said streets by 
 adoption and use by said company of its said tracks in said streets 
 as part of said Route No. 9, as follows : From the double tracks in 
 McMicken Avenue at its intersection with Elm Street southwardly 
 along and over the tracks of said company in Elm Street to Fifth 
 Street ; thence eastwardly along and over the south track of said 
 company in Fifth Street and south of the Esplanade to Walnut 
 Street ; thence southwardly along and over the west continuous 
 track of said company in Walnut Street to Fourth Street ; thence 
 westwardly along and over the north track of said company in 
 
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 Fourth Street to Elm Street ; and thence northwardly along and 
 over the track of said company in Elm Street to a point therein 
 north of Fifth Street. Said company to use and occupy the exist- 
 ing proper curves situated at the various intersections of streets, and 
 where necessary construct new curves along the line of this exten- 
 sion. No increase of the rates of fare shall be made by reason of 
 any extension herein authorized. 
 
 Sec. 2. Avid whereas , Said Cincinnati Street Railway Company 
 is willing to change the motive power now in use on the portion 
 of Route No. 9 west of Elm Street, and to adopt the same motive 
 power on said extension, and owing to the grades and the length 
 of road over which the cars must be operated and the need of 
 convenient and rapid transit for accommodating the public such 
 improved motive power is necessary ; and 
 
 Whereas, The mode of construction of the motive power proposed 
 requires great cost and expense on the part of said company : Now, 
 
 Therefore, In consideration of the premises and of the improved 
 facilities hereby contemplated, and the large expenditures necessary 
 to furnish the same, the said Cincinnati Street Railway Company 
 is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and operate along 
 the tracks now existing and authorized to be placed in said McMicken 
 Avenue between Center and Elm streets, and along its tracks in 
 the streets above mentioned over which it is authorized as aforesaid 
 to operate its cars southwardly from McMicken Avenue, an electric 
 system of motive power, and to erect and construct in the side- 
 walks near the curb-lines of the streets wherein the tracks now are 
 and are hereby authorized to be laid the necessary supports for elec- 
 tric wires, and to construct the necessary fixtures and appliances for 
 the use of a complete system of motive power along said tracks in 
 said streets, excepting, however, along the portion of Elm, Fifth, 
 and Fourth streets aforesaid wherein said company is now author- 
 ized by the ordinance passed on the 25th day of October, 1889, to 
 extend Route No. 5 and construct such electric system of motive 
 power, it being the intention hereof that said company shall on 
 said portions of said streets use the electric system so authorized for 
 the purpose of this ordinance. 
 
 In order to supply the electricity required for the operation of 
 the electric plant authorized by this ordinance, said company is 
 hereby permitted to place and maintain all necessary supports, 
 wires, and appliances along the line of poles already authorized 
 between its power-house on Harrison Avenue and McMicken Ave- 
 nue. After so constructing and putting in operation said electric 
 system of motive power, said company shall have the privilege 
 of charging not to exceed a uniform rate of five cents for one 
 continuous passage of each person in either direction over any 
 portion or all of the line as the same is hereby extended between 
 Center Street and Fourth and Walnut streets, excepting in every 
 instance children under ten years of age, who shall each be charged 
 
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 three cents, or two for one fare of five cents, and infants in arms, 
 who shall be carried free. And after so completing the electric 
 system of motive power aforesaid, said company shall be released 
 from any obligation to sell or receive package tickets for the car- 
 riage of passengers over any portion of said Route No. 9 or the 
 said extensions thereof; and the term of the grant of this exten- 
 sion shall expire at the same time as that of original Route No. 9, 
 upon the following conditions : 
 
 ( 1) That the entire work authorized hereby, including the re- 
 ductions of the crowns of the streets where necessary, shall be done 
 by said company at its sole expense, and under the direction and 
 to the satisfaction of the Board of Administration and its chief 
 engineer ; that the extension tracks to be constructed as aforesaid 
 shall be placed and maintained in the central portion of the street 
 at such a distance apart as to allow for the safe and convenient 
 passage of cars thereon, the same as double tracks are usually 
 constructed ; that the rails to be used in the construction of said 
 extension tracks shall be of the pattern known as the “Johnson 
 side-bearing rail” or the “girder rail,” of weight not less than 
 fifty-two pounds per yard; that the supports of such electric system 
 of motive power shall be of metal, and of the best and most 
 improved pattern, and no wires shall be placed above and across 
 or along any street within less than twenty feet of the surface 
 thereof. 
 
 (2) That the work herein authorized shall be completed and 
 the road in operation within one year from the passage hereof, 
 and if not completed and in operation within such time, then this 
 grant shall be null and void without further action of the city 
 authorities ; that upon the completion and operation of the railway 
 hereby extended said company shall continue as heretofore to 
 operate its tracks on McMicken Avenue between a point therein 
 opposite or near the east line of its incline plane property and 
 Vine Street, and furnish transfer tickets for a continuous ride from 
 Fountain Square over Vine Street and McMicken Avenue to and 
 from the terminus of the route on Browne Street for the fare herein 
 authorized ; that said company shall pay for all the cars run on the 
 tracks herein described car license at the rate of four dollars per 
 lineal foot of every such car, inside measurement, and two and one 
 half per cent of the gross earnings from every source of such com- 
 pany from the railway hereby extended, as required by Section 2 
 of an ordinance providing for the construction, operation, and gov- 
 ernment of street railroads, passed February 7, 1879, and shall be 
 subject to all the other provisions of said ordinance so far as the 
 same are consistent with the provisions of this ordinance. And 
 said company shall execute and deliver to the Board of Adminis- 
 tration a bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati, in the penal sum 
 of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), to the satisfaction of 
 
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 Said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of all and 
 singular the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 (3) That between the hours of 6 and 8 A. m. and 5 and 7 p. m. 
 the said company shall run cars over this extension, except on 
 McMicken Avenue between Elm and Vine, at intervals of not 
 exceeding six minutes, and between the hours of 8 a, m. and 5 
 p. m. and after 8 p. m. at intervals of not exceeding ten minutes till 
 10 o’clock, and after that in such numbers as will make adequate 
 provisions for the patrons of said line. 
 
 No. 4283 Passed October 18, 1889. 
 
 To provide for the extension of the tracks of Route No. 13, and for 
 the construction and use of an electric system of motive power 
 thereon. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That — 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning and 
 operating Route No. 13 of street passenger railroads in Hunt Street 
 and other streets (the track in Hunt Street between Montgomery 
 Road and McMillan Street consisting of a single track and certain 
 turnouts, and being temporarily removed for the purpose of improv- 
 ing said portion of the street) is willing to extend its tracks as 
 herein authorized, and to change the motive power of the existing 
 and proposed tracks, and make certain reductions of the authorized 
 rates of fare on the conditions hereinafter named ; and 
 
 Whereas , Owing to the great length of the railroad, the difficult 
 grades along and over which the cars are and must be operated, 
 there is a necessity for convenient and rapid transit, in order to 
 furnish due facilities and accommodations to the public, and the 
 mode of construction and the motive power proposed will require 
 increased cost and expenses on the part of the company ; and 
 
 Whereas, The said company has obtained and produced to the 
 Board of Public Affairs and the Common Council the requisite 
 consents to the proposed extension of the owners of more than one 
 half the feet front of the lots and lands abutting upon the portion 
 of street wherein it is proposed to construct the extension track : 
 Now , therefore , In consideration of the premises and of the 
 improved facilities and reductions of rates of fare hereby contem- 
 plated, and the large expenditures necessary to secure the same, 
 said the Cincinnati Street Railway Company is hereby authorized 
 and permitted to extend the tracks of said Route No. 13 by the 
 construction of a track along Hunt Street, from Montgomery Road 
 to McMillan Street, additional to the continuous track heretofore 
 authorized and used in said portion of Hunt Street (said tracks, 
 together with those between McMillan and Shillito streets, to be 
 constructed in the central portion of the street as an ordinary double 
 
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 track, and used in place of the tracks and turnouts heretofore used 
 in said portion of Hunt Street, but the tracks between McMillan 
 and Shillito streets shall be used at the sides of Hunt Street as at 
 present and heretofore until said portion of Hunt Street is improved 
 as now contemplated by the city, when said company shall so place 
 them in the center of said street), and connecting the same at 
 Montgomery Road and McMillan Street with the existing or author- 
 ized tracks in said Hunt Street (sometimes called Reading Road). 
 And said company is hereby authorized to construct and operate 
 along the railroad tracks, as existing and hereby provided for, in 
 said Hunt Street, and in the other streets wherein said Route No. 13 
 is established which lie south and west of said Hunt Street, an 
 electric system of motive power, and to erect in the sidewalks near 
 the curb-lines of the streets wherein said tracks are operated and 
 hereby authorized to be laid the necessary supports for electric 
 wires, and construct the necessary fixtures and appliances for the 
 use of an electric system of motive power along said tracks in the 
 streets aforesaid. 
 
 All plans and the work to be done thereunder shall first be 
 approved by the Board of Public Affairs. And after the construc- 
 tion of such electric system of motive power said compauy shall 
 have the privilege of charging a uniform rate of fare of five cents 
 for carrying each adult passenger and three cents for each child 
 under ten years of age, in either direction, over any portion of the 
 distance along said railroad (including the part in the village 
 of Avondale) between the intersection of Fourth and Walnut 
 streets in Cincinnati and the north terminus of said railroad in 
 the said village of Avondale. And said company shall be released 
 from the obligation to sell or receive package tickets of any kind or 
 nature for the carriage of passengers, and the terra of the grant for 
 said Route No. 13 is hereby extended to a period of twenty-five 
 years from the date of the passage of this ordinance, and the grant 
 hereby made of the right to construct new tracks shall continue for 
 a like period upon the following conditions: 
 
 That the construction of the tracks and the work herein author- 
 ized shall be done at the expense of the company, and where the 
 streets are opened they shall be restored by said company to a good 
 and substantial condition to the satisfaction of the Board of Public 
 Affairs ; said company shall also be required to do all resurfacing 
 (but no regrading) of the roadway to such extent as may be deemed 
 necessary by the Board of Public Affairs. Said tracks shall be 
 constructed to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Affairs; that 
 the rails used shall be of the side-bearing girder form, weighing not 
 less than fifty-two pounds per yard; the supports for such electric 
 system of motive power shall be of metal, and of the best and most % 
 approved pattern, and no wires shall be placed above and across 
 any streets within less than twenty feet of the surface thereof ; that 
 no charge in excess of the rate of fare of five cents above author- 
 
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 ized shall be made for carrying any adult passenger, or of three 
 cents in the case of children under ten years of age, paying said 
 rate in either direction over any portion of the distance along said 
 railroad (including the part in the village of Avondale) between 
 the intersection of Fourth and Walnut streets in Cincinnati and 
 the north terminus of said railroad in the village of Avondale; 
 and that the company shall execute and deliver to the Board of 
 Public Affairs its bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati, in the 
 penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the 
 faithful performance of all the conditions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said the Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning 
 and operating Route No. 13 of street passenger railroads, further 
 agrees with the said city of Cincinnati that it will bowlder in a 
 good and substantial manner all that portion of the street between 
 the outer rails of said double tracks on that part of their route 
 commencing at the intersection of Hunt Street and the Montgomery 
 Road to the south line of McMillan Street. 
 
 NO. 4 = 284. Passed October 18, 1889. 
 
 To provide for the extension of the tracks of Route 18 of Street Pas- 
 senger Railroads, the removal and adjustment of certain existing 
 tracks of said route, and the construction and use of a system of 
 electric motive power over a portion of said route. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Railway Company, owning and 
 operating Route No. 18 of street passenger railroads, is willing to 
 extend the tracks of said route, and remove and adjust certain por- 
 tions of the existing tracks of said route, and change the motive 
 power thereon, all as in hereinafter stated, on the conditions below 
 named ; and 
 
 Whereas, Owing to the length of the road along and over which 
 the cars must be operated, and the necessity for rapid transit for 
 the accommodation of the public, an improved motive power is 
 necessary ; and 
 
 Whereas, The mode of construction and change of motive power 
 proposed will require increased costs and expenses on the part of 
 the company ; and 
 
 Whereas, Said street railway company has produced to the Board 
 of Public Affairs and to the boards composing the Common Council 
 the written consents to the extension herein authorized of the own- 
 ers of more than one half of the feet front of the lots and lands 
 abutting on the portions of the streets along which it is proposed to 
 construct new tracks in making such extensions : Now, 
 
 Therefore, In consideration of the premises and of the changes 
 and improved facilities hereby contemplated, and the large expendi- 
 
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 tures necessary to secure the same, said Route No. 18, as heretofore 
 established and extended by ordinances, is hereby extended and 
 changed, and the Cincinnati Street Railway Company so owning 
 and operating said route is hereby authorized and permitted to 
 extend and change the tracks thereof from the easterly track at 
 the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Chase Street westwardly 
 along Chase or Banning Street by single track to Kirby Road ; 
 thence southwardly along Kirby Road by single track to Colerain 
 Avenue ; and thence southeastwardly along Colerain Avenue by 
 single track to and connecting with the end of the westerly track 
 now in said avenue, opposite the Wesleyan Cemetery; and said 
 street railway company shall so long as the same are operated let 
 the westerly track remain in the Hamilton Avenue which is now 
 therein, between Knowlton’s Corner and Chase Street, and both 
 of the tracks now in said avenue, between Chase and Josephine 
 streets, and the easterly track in Colerain Avenue now therein, 
 between Spring-Grove Avenue and the northerly end thereof, 
 opposite the entrance to the Wesleyan Cemetery; and whenever 
 the tracks aforesaid shall be removed, said company shall place 
 the easterly track now in Hamilton Avenue, between Knowlton’s 
 Corner and Chase Street, in the center of said avenue, and shall 
 place the westerly track now in Colerain Pike, between Spring- 
 Grove Avenue and a point opposite the entrance to the Wesleyan 
 Cemetery, in the center of said pike. 
 
 Whenever any of said tracks are removed or re-adjusted, the 
 company shall restore the streets to good condition. And said 
 street railway company is hereby authorized to construct and there- 
 after operate along the whole of Route No. 18 and the extensions 
 thereof (as to which such authority has not been heretofore given) 
 an electric system of motive power, and to erect in the sidewalks 
 near the curb -lines of the streets wherein the tracks now are and 
 are hereby authorized to be laid the necessary supports for electric 
 wires, and to construct the necessary fixtures and appliances for the 
 use of an electric system of motive power along the tracks of said 
 Route No. 18 ; provided that in the event of its being deemed 
 impracticable to operate cars by the electric motor over the canal 
 bridge at Liberty Street, eastward bound, then until said bridge 
 shall be lowered said route is hereby changed, and said company is 
 hereby authorized to construct such electric system of motive power 
 and operate its said cars as follows, as an alternative portion of said 
 route, namely: 
 
 From the junction of Harrison and Colerain avenues south along 
 the present track of said Route No. 18 to Central Avenue ; thence 
 south along the present track of Route No. 1 of street passenger 
 railways to Twelfth Street ; thence east along the southerly track 
 on Twelfth Street to Walnut Street; thence south along the pres- 
 ent track on Walnut Street to Fifth Street; thence west along the 
 present north track on Fifth Street to Elm Street ; thence north 
 
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 along the present east track on Elm Street to Liberty Street ; and 
 thence over Route 18. 
 
 Said company shall have the privilege of charging the same 
 rates of fare for carrying passengers over any part or the whole 
 of said portion of said route lying north of the Millcreek bridge 
 as it is authorized to charge for carrying passengers under and 
 according to the ordinance entitled “An ordinance to provide for 
 the extension of Route 18 of street passenger railroads, and for 
 the construction of cable or other improved motive power on said 
 route,” passed October 27, 1886 ; but nothing herein shall authorize 
 any increase of the rates of fare fixed by said ordinance of Oc- 
 tober 27, 1886, for the carriage of through passengers over said 
 route; and until the electric system herein authorized is completed 
 and operated suitable transfer checks shall be furnished to such 
 passengers at the Millcreek bridge, entitling them to continue their 
 trips in the direction contemplated when the fares are paid to the 
 end of the route ; the said company shall be released from any 
 obligation to sell or receive package tickets for the carriage of pas- 
 sengers over any part of said portion of said Route No. 18 ; and 
 the term of the grant hereby made shall be for a period and shall 
 continue until the expiration of the grant made in respect to Route 
 No. 18 under the ordinance last referred to; the foregoing is upon 
 the following conditions: 
 
 (1) That when the extension tracks aforesaid are completed as 
 herein prescribed, said company shall operate cars by electric power 
 over the portion of Route No. 18 lying north of the Millcreek 
 bridge as a single circuit, and in connection with the cars operated 
 on the portion of said route lying south of said bridge in such 
 manner as to furnish convenient exchange of passengers from one 
 of said portions of the route to the other; and said extension tracks 
 and the said electric system of motive power to be placed along 
 said extension shall be constructed as above authorized as soon 
 as the present improvement of Chase Street, between Hamilton 
 Avenue and Kirby Road, is far enough advanced to admit of the 
 placing of the track therein, and said old portion of track may be 
 removed and the other portion placed in the center of Colerain 
 Pike when the Colerain Pike as far north as Bluerock Street is 
 being improved with granite ; and within thirty days after said 
 new bridge over Mill Creek is finished said company shall have 
 said electric system of motive power in operation across said bridge, 
 and shall run cars to and over said portion of the route lying north 
 of said bridge. 
 
 (2) That the entire work which said street railway company is 
 authorized by this ordinance to do, including the reduction of the 
 crown of any of the streets where necessary, shall be done at the 
 expense of the said company, and under the direction and to the 
 satisfaction of the Board of Public Affairs and its chief engineer. 
 That the said extension track, where authorized, shall be placed 
 
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 and maintained in the center of the streets, and the rails used shall 
 be of the same pattern as those now in use in Hamilton Avenue, 
 excepting along Colerain Avenue, between Bluerock Street and 
 Millcreek bridge, which shall be the girder or Johnson side-bearing 
 rail ; and whenever granite is placed in Spring- Grove, Hamilton, 
 and Colerain avenues the present rails therein shall be replaced by- 
 said girder rail. That the supports for said electric system of motive 
 power shall be metal, and of the best and most improved pattern, 
 and no wires shall be placed above and over any street within less 
 than twenty feet from the surface thereof. 
 
 (3) The said company shall execute and deliver to said Board 
 of Public Affairs a bond in favor of the city of Cincinnati in the 
 penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to the satisfaction of said 
 board, conditioned for the faithful performance of all and singular 
 the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 IN'O. 447. Passed January 27, 1893. 
 
 To compel the Cincinnati Street Railway Company to run cars on Route 
 18 at intervals of not more than one hour between 12 o’clock mid- 
 night and 6 o’clock A. M. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That the Cincinnati Street Railway Company be 
 compelled to run cars on Route 18 of said company at intervals 
 of not more than one hour between 12 o’clock midnight and 6 
 o’clock A. M. 
 
 Sec. 2. The violation of the provision of the above ordinance 
 shall be a misdemeanor, and the president or secretary or super- 
 intendent of said Cincinnati Street Railway Company shall, upon 
 conviction thereof in the Police Court, pay a fine of not more 
 than twenty-five dollars nor less than ten dollars, and each night’s 
 violation of this ordinance shall be a distinct offense, and shall be 
 punishable accordingly. 
 
 !N”0. 50. Passed September 5, 1890. 
 
 To establish Route 23 of Street Passenger Railroads. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the City Comicil of the City of Cincin- 
 nati , That Route No. 23 of street passenger railroads be and the 
 same is hereby established as follows : Commencing at or near the 
 junction of Central Avenue with Colerain Avenue; thence north- 
 wardly over the approach provided for the bridge which crosses 
 over the Miami and Erie Canal to said bridge ; thence over said 
 bridge and over the approach provided therefor in lots 207, 208, 
 and 209 in Colonel John Riddle’s estate to Browne Street; thence 
 
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 over the present tracks on Browne Street to Warner Street ; thence 
 east on Warner Street to Fairview Avenue ; thence on Fairview 
 Avenue, from the south end thereof, to Straight Street ; thence east 
 on Straight Street to Clifton Avenue; thence north on the sidewalks 
 to Clifton Avenue, near the curb-lines, to the north corporation line 
 of the city of Cincinnati ; thence returning over the same route to 
 the place of beginning. The number of tracks over the entire route 
 will be two, with the necessary turn-tables, turnouts, sidetracks, and 
 switches ; the said route being fully shown on plat on file in the 
 office of the Board of Public Improvements. 
 
 Sec. 2. The motive power shall be either horse, electricity, cable, 
 or such other approved motive power as may come into general use, 
 except on that portion of the line on Warner Street on which an 
 inclined plane shall be built and operated. The right to operate 
 said route shall be for the period of twenty five years from the date 
 of the grant. 
 
 Sec. 3 The consent of the majority of the property-owners in 
 front feet on each street shall be filed with the Board of Public 
 Improvements before the award is made, except on Warner Street, 
 where the consent of all the property- owners owning property shall 
 be secured. In case the successful bidder fail to get the consents 
 of all the property-owners on Warner Street, then he or they shall 
 have the right to change and build that portion of the route by an 
 inclined railway on private property. 
 
 Sec. 4. The construction of the line on the route shall be com- 
 menced within ninety days, and the entire route shall be completed 
 and in operation within twelve months from the time the grant is 
 awarded, or this ordinance shall be void unless delayed by legal 
 proceedings. The right is hereby reserved by the city of Cincinnati 
 to grant to any other person, persons, or company or companies 
 hereafter the right to occupy and use any portion or all of the 
 tracks, poles, wires, and all necessary appliances which are herein 
 authorized to be placed in Clifton Avenue, between Calhoun Street 
 and the north corporation line, and on condition that such person 
 or persons, company or companies shall use cable, electric, or other 
 improved motive power for rapid transit, and first pay or tender an 
 equal proportion of the cost of constructing such tracks, poles, 
 wires, and necessary appliances, and furnish a proper obligation to 
 pay an equal proportion of the cost of maintaining such tracks, 
 poles, wires, and necessary appliances to the person or persons, 
 company or companies theretofore occupying said tracks, and in 
 the event of a failure of the legal representatives of said various 
 persons or companies using said road, and the other person or com- 
 pany obtaining the right to use such road, to agree upon the amount 
 to be paid under the provisions of this section, the Board of Public 
 Improvements shall appoint an arbitrator to determine the same, 
 whose decision, with the approval of said board, shall be final, and 
 all expenses of said arbitration shall be paid by the contracting 
 
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 parties; provided, however, that any grant of a second or further 
 company to use such tracks shall be on condition that the cars run 
 in the same direction as those of the grantee herein are or shall 
 be run. 
 
 Sec. 5. The owners shall pay into the city treasury four dollars 
 per lineal foot per annum, inside measurement, on each car operated 
 on the line, and two and one half per cent of the gross receipts. 
 Said payments to be made at the end of each six months after the 
 date that the line begins operation, and shall accept under all the 
 provisions of the general ordinance providing for the construction 
 and operation of street railroads, passed February 7, 1879. 
 
 Sec. 6 . That the city clerk is hereby directed to advertise for 
 sealed proposals to construct and operate said street railroad as 
 established in this ordinance, in manner as provided in Section 2 
 of said general ordinance passed February 7, 1879, and in pursuance 
 to the statutes of the State of Ohio. 
 
 NO. 83. Passed December 19, 1890. 
 
 Granting- to Isaac J. Miller the rig-ht to construct and operate Route 
 No. 23 of Street Passeng-er Railroads. 
 
 [In the case of Adam and Henry Knorr, taxpayers, on behalf 
 of the City of Cincinnati vs. I. J. Miller et al., No. 1093, in the 
 Circuit Court of Hamilton County, this ordinance and the contract 
 entered into under it were adjudged to be illegal and void, on the 
 ground that Simeon M. Johnson was a lower bidder in good faith 
 for the right to construct said street railroad Route No. 23, which 
 judgment was affirmed in the Supreme Court of Ohio, January, 
 1892.] 
 
 No. 312. Passed July 15, 1892. 
 
 Granting- to Simeon M. Johnson the right to construct and operate 
 Route No. 23 of Street Passenger Railroads. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That Simeon M. Johnson and assigns be and hereby 
 are authorized, and the grant is hereby made to him and assigns, 
 to construct and operate Route No. 23 of street passenger railroads 
 as established by an ordinance entitled “An ordinance, No. 50, to 
 establish Route No. 23 of street passenger railroads,” passed Sep- 
 tember 5, 1890. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said route shall commence at the junction of Cen- 
 tral Avenue with Colerain Avenue ; thence by double track north- 
 wardly over the approach provided for the bridge which crosses over 
 the Miami and Erie Canal to said bridge ; thence by double track 
 over said bridge and over the approach provided therefor in lots 
 
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 207, 208, and 209 in Col. John Riddle’s estate to Browne Street; 
 thence by curved tracks crossing Browne Street to the east side 
 thereof ; thence east over private property to the south end of 
 Fairview Avenue ; thence by double track on Fairview Avenue 
 from the south end thereof to Straight Street ; thence by double 
 track east on Straight Street to Clifton Avenue, the south track 
 continuing easterly across Clifton Avenue, making a curve so as to 
 extend in the sidewalk northerly as near the curb-line as practicable 
 for safety in operating the cars while passing the telegraph and 
 telephone-poles and lamp-posts now located in said sidewalk, to the 
 north corporation line of the city of Cincinnati ; and the north 
 track in Straight Street shall curve north on the west sidewalk of 
 Clifton Avenue so as to extend as near the curb-line as practicable 
 for safety in operating the cars while passing the telegraph and 
 telephone-poles and lamp-posts now located in said sidewalk to the 
 north corporation line ot the city of Cincinnati. The right is 
 granted to cross over Clifton Avenue with the tracks at the north 
 corporation line. The number of tracks on each street shall be two, 
 except where single tracks are specified in the sidewalk of Clifton 
 Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 3. The motive power shall be either electricity or such 
 other approved motive power as may come into general use, except 
 on that portion of the line on private property on which an inclined 
 plane shall be built and operated. The right to operate said route 
 shall be for the period of twenty-five years from the date of the 
 grant. The said Simeon M. Johnson is hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to erect in the sidewalk near the tracks hereby authorized 
 to be laid the necessary supports for electric wires, and construct 
 the necessary fixtures and appliances for the use of an electric sys- 
 tem of motive power along said tracks in said streets. The entire 
 work authorized hereby, including the reduction of the crowns of the 
 streets where necessary, shall be done at the sole expense of Simeon 
 M. Johnson, under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Board 
 of Administration and its chief engineer. The tracks where con- 
 structed as ordinary double tracks shall be placed and maintained 
 in the central portion of the streets at such a distance apart as to 
 allow for the safe and convenient passage of cars thereon. The rail 
 to be used in the construction of said tracks in the roadways of said 
 streets shall be of the pattern known as the best “ girder rail,” 
 subject to the approval of the Board of Administration, of weight 
 not less than seventy pounds per yard. The supports of said electric 
 system of motive power shall be of the best and most approved 
 pattern, and no wires shall be placed across or over any street 
 within less than twenty feet of the surface thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. The construction of the line on the route shall be 
 commenced within ninety days, and the entire route shall be 
 completed and in operation within twelve months from the time 
 
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 the grant is awarded, or this ordinance shall be void. And the 
 grantee hereby consents to the reservation by the city of Cincinnati 
 of the right to grant to any other person or persons, company or 
 companies, hereafter the right to occupy and use any portion or all 
 of the tracks, poles, wires, and all necessary appliances which are 
 herein authorized to be placed in Clifton Avenue, between Straight 
 Street and the north corporation line, and on condition that such 
 persons, company, or companies shall use electric or other approved 
 motive power for rapid transit, and first pay or tender an equal 
 proportion of the cost of constructing such tracks, poles, wires, and 
 necessary appliances, and furnish a proper obligation to pay an 
 equal proportion of the cost of maintaining such tracks, poles, wires, 
 and necessary appliances to the person or persons, company or com- 
 panies, heretofore occupying said tracks ; and in the event of the 
 failure of the legal representatives of said various persons or com- 
 panies using said road and the other person or company obtaining 
 the right to use such road to agree upon the amount to be paid 
 under the provisions of this section, the Board of Administration 
 shall appoint an arbitrator to determine the same, whose decision, 
 with the approval of said board, shall be final ; and all expense of 
 said arbitration shall be paid by the contracting parties : Provided, 
 however , that any grant of a second or further company to use such 
 tracks shall be on condition that the cars run in the same direction 
 as those of the grantee herein are or shall be run. Said Simeon M. 
 Johnson and assigns shall erect and maintain suitable fences for the 
 protection of pedestrian travel along the line of said street railroad 
 tracks on Clifton Avenue whenever ordered to do so by the Board 
 of Administration ; the erection of such fences to be under direction 
 and to the satisfaction of said board and its engineer. 
 
 Sec. 5. The owner shall pay into the city treasury at the time 
 of the commencement of the operation of the road, and annually 
 thereafter on the first day of January, in advance, for and upon 
 each car run by him the sum of four dollars per lineal foot of every 
 such car, inside measurement ; and in addition thereto the owner 
 shall pay into the city treasury quarterly, on the first day of January, 
 April, July, and October of each year, two and a half per cent 
 of the gross earnings from every source of such company during 
 the preceding quarter. All of such payments shall be made in the 
 manner and under the conditions and subject to the penalties pre- 
 scribed in Section 11 of an ordinance, No. 2954, providing for the 
 construction, operation, and government of street railroads, passed 
 February 7, 1879 ; and the owner shall accept under all the pro- 
 visions of said Ordinance No. 2954 and all the amendments thereof, 
 except as herein otherwise expressly provided. 
 
 Sec. 6. The rates of fare, including passage over the inclined 
 plane, shall be those proposed by the said Simeon M. Johnson, 
 there having been obtained and filed the written consents of a 
 majority of the property-holders upon each street and part thereof, 
 
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 represented by the feet front along said route, to the construction 
 and operation thereof, except as to Warner Street, upon which the 
 written consents have not been filed, but private property has been 
 substituted therefor ; and such rates of fare being the lowest pro- 
 posed as aforesaid, to-wit : Single cash fare for adults five cents ; 
 single cash fare for children under ten years of age three cents ; 
 commutation tickets in packages of thirty for one dollar ; commuta- 
 tion tickets in packages of fifteen for fifty cents ; commutation tickets 
 in packages of seven for twenty - five cents. And said Simeon M. 
 Johnson, for himself and assigns, has agreed and does agree to carry 
 all passengers who pay a cash fare of five cents the entire distance 
 between Clifton and Fountain Square either way over said Route 
 No. 23, by the way of either Routes Nos. 1, 2, or 18 of street 
 passenger railways of the city of Cincinnati, and this condition 
 is made and accepted as an essential obligation to this grant. 
 
 iSTo. 104:. Passed January 16, 1891. 
 
 To establish Route No. 24 of Street Passenger Railways. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Cincimiati, 
 That Route No. 24 of street passenger railways be and the same is 
 hereby established as follows : Commencing at or near the inter- 
 section of Hamilton Avenue with the north corporation line of 
 Cincinnati ; thence southwardly on Hamilton Avenue to Josephine 
 Street ; thence over the present tracks of the Cincinnati Street 
 Railway Company on Hamilton Avenue to the intersection of said 
 avenue with Spring-Grove Avenue ; thence returning over the 
 same route to the place of beginning. The number of tracks over 
 the entire route will be two, with the necessary switches, turn-tables, 
 turnouts, sidetracks ; the said route being fully shown on a plat 
 on file in the office of the Board of Public Improvements. 
 
 Sec. 2. The motive power shall be either horse, electricity, 
 cable, or such other approved motive power as may come into 
 general use. The right to operate said route shall be for the 
 period of twenty-five years from the date of the grant. 
 
 Sec. 3. The consent of the majority of the property-owners in 
 front feet on Hamilton Avenue, between the north terminus of 
 said proposed railroad and Josephine Street, shall be filed with 
 the Board of Public Improvements before the award is made. 
 
 Sec. 4. The entire route shall be completed and in operation 
 within twelve months from the time the award is granted, or the 
 ordinance shall be void, unless delayed by legal proceedings. 
 
 Sec. 5. The owners shall pay into the city treasury four dol- 
 lars per lineal foot per annum, inside measurement, on each car 
 operated on the line, and two and one half per cent of the gross 
 receipts. Said payments to be made at the end of each six months 
 
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 after the date after the line begins operations, and shall accept 
 under and comply with all the provisions of the general ordinance 
 providing for the construction and operation of street railroads, 
 passed February 7, 1879. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the city clerk is hereby directed to advertise for 
 sealed proposals to construct and operate said street railroad as 
 established in this ordinance, in manner as provided in Section 2 
 of said general ordinance, passed February 7, 1879, and in pur- 
 suance to the statutes of the State of Ohio. 
 
 No. 57. Passed July 31, 1891. 
 
 Granting 1 to the Cincinnati and Suburban Electric Street Railway 
 Company the right to construct and operate Route No. 24 of 
 Street Passenger Railroads. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That the Cincinnati and Suburban Electric Street 
 Railway Company be and is hereby authorized, and the grant 
 is hereby made to said company, to construct and operate Route 
 No. 24 of street passenger railroads, as established by an ordi- 
 nance entitled “An ordinance to establish Route No. 24 of street 
 passenger railroads,” passed January 16, 1891. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said route shall commence at or near the inter- 
 section of Hamilton Avenue with the north corporation line of 
 Cincinnati; thence southwardly on Hamilton Avenue to Josephine 
 Street ; thence over the present tracks of the Cincinnati Street 
 Railway Company on Hamilton Avenue to the intersection of said 
 avenue with Spring-Grove Avenue ; thence returning over the 
 same route to the place of beginning. The number of tracks 
 over the entire route will be two, with the necessary switches, 
 turntables, turnouts, and sidetracks. 
 
 Sec. 3. The motive power shall be either electricity, cable, or 
 such other approved motive power as may come into general use. 
 The right to operate said route shall be for the period of twenty- 
 five years from the date of the grant. The said the Cincinnati and 
 Suburban Electric Street Railway Company is hereby authorized 
 and empowered to erect in the sidewalks near the tracks hereby 
 authorized to be laid the necessary supports for electric wires, and 
 construct the necessary fixtures and appliances for the use of an 
 electric system of motive power along said tracks in said street. 
 The entire work authorized hereby, including the reductions of the 
 crown of the street where necessary, shall be done at the sole ex- 
 pense of said company, under the direction and to the satisfaction 
 of the Board of Administration and its chief engineer. The tracks 
 where constructed as ordinary double tracks shall be placed and 
 maintained in the central portion of the streets, at such a distance 
 
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 apart as to allow for safe and convenient passage of cars thereon. 
 The rail to be used in the construction of said tracks in the road- 
 ways of said streets shall be of the pattern known as the “ Johnson 
 side-bearing rail” or the “girder rail,” of weight not less than fifty- 
 two pounds per yard. The supports of said electric system of 
 motive power shall be of the best and most improved pattern, and 
 no wires shall be placed across or over any street within less than 
 twenty feet of the surface thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. The construction of the line on the route shall be com- 
 menced within ninety days, and the entire route shall be completed 
 and in operation within twelve months from the time the grant is 
 awarded, or this ordinance shall be void, unless delayed by legal 
 proceedings or by the improvement of Hamilton Avenue by the 
 city. 
 
 Sec. 5. The owner shall, as a condition precedent to the right 
 to run cars as herein specified, pay into the treasury of the city of 
 Cincinnati, to the credit of the General Fund thereof, in advance, 
 on the first day of each and every year during the term of this grant, 
 an annual license fee of the sum of four dollars per lineal foot of 
 every such car, inside measurement, that may be operated by them 
 on the line, and if not paid within ten days after due the mayor 
 shall have the right summarily to stop the running of the cars, and 
 in the event of such stoppage no liability for damage shall accrue. 
 And in addition thereto the said owners, under the same condition 
 and subject to the same penalty, shall pay into the city treasury 
 quarterly, on the first day of January, April, July, and October 
 of each year, two and one half per cent of the entire gross earnings 
 from every source of such company during the preceding quarter, 
 including the entire gross earnings on its whole line and its con- 
 necting line to College Hill, and all other connecting lines and 
 extensions. And such owners shall accept under all provisions of 
 the general ordinance providing for the construction and operation 
 of street railroads, passed February 7, 1879, except as herein other- 
 wise expressly provided. The Board of Legislation shall at any 
 future time have the power, when the public good demands, to 
 grant a second or third company, corporation, or individual the right 
 to occupy any track already laid down upon Hamilton Avenue, 
 between the corporation line and Spring-Grove Avenue, provided 
 the expense of laying and keeping in repair the said track, so far 
 as used by different companies or individuals, shall be equally borne 
 by all such companies, firms, or individuals that use the said tracks. 
 
 Sec. 6. The rates of fare shall be those proposed by the said 
 the Cincinnati and Suburban Electric Street Railway Company, 
 the said company having obtained and filed the written consents 
 of a majority of the property - holders upon the street and part 
 thereof represented by the feet front along so much of said route 
 as has been heretofore unoccupied by a street railway to the con- 
 struction and operation thereof, and such rates of fare being the 
 
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 lowest proposed as aforesaid, to-wit : Single cash fare five cents ; 
 children under six years of age free ; packages of forty tickets 
 one dollar ; packages of twenty tickets fifty cents ; packages of ten 
 tickets twenty-five cents. 
 
 No. 4:18. Passed December 20, 1892. 
 
 To establish a street railroad route, No. 25, partly within and partly 
 without the city of Cincinnati, designating- the termini of said route 
 within and without said city ; the streets, parts of streets, public 
 grounds and viaducts, private grounds, public roads and alternative 
 with public roads, private grounds, both within and without said 
 city, along which said route shall pass ; where tracks shall or may 
 be constructed, and where said route shall be operated upon tracks 
 alreadyconstructed in portions of said route ; and prescribing the 
 character of construction to be made, and the terms and conditions 
 upon which said route shall be operated, and to repeal Ordinance 
 No. 395, passed November 18, 1892. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That a street passenger railroad route, No. 25, is 
 established as follows: Beginning at the corner of Walnut and 
 Fourth streets ; thence by a curve of the westerly track in Walnut 
 Street westerly into the northerly track in Fourth Street ; thence 
 along said northerly track westerly to and by a curve to the 
 northerly into the easterly track in Vine Street; thence by said 
 easterly track in Vine Street northerly to Court Street ; thence by 
 a curve, to be constructed, into Court Street to the westerly ; thence 
 in Court Street by a double track, to be constructed ( whose southern 
 track shall also by a curve, to be constructed, be connected south- 
 erly into the western existing track in Vine Street), westerly to and 
 into Central Avenue, and by curves to southerly in Central Avenue, 
 and thence in Central Avenue to and into Richmond Street by curves 
 to westerly ; thence westerly in Richmond Street to and into Carr 
 Street by curves to southerly ; thence in Carr Street southerly to and 
 into Eighth Street by curves to westerly ; thence in Eighth Street 
 westerly to and across McLean Avenue. Also in the following 
 alternatives as to the latter portion of said route as described : 
 
 First Alternative — Continuing westerly in Richmond Street, from 
 the curves to southerly to and into Carr Street, above designated, 
 by double track to and into Harriet Street by curves to southerly; 
 thence in Harriet Street southerly to and into said aforementioned 
 tracks in Eighth Street by curves to westerly. 
 
 Second Alternative — Continuing westerly in Richmond Street, 
 from the curves to southerly to and into Carr Street, above desig- 
 nated, by double track to Harriet Street; thence by single track as 
 follows : Westerly along Richmond Street by single track to and 
 into McLean Avenue by a curve to southerly ; thence in McLean 
 Avenue southerly by single track to and across Ninth Street, also 
 
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 out of the double track in Richmond Street into Harriet Street by 
 single curve to southwesterly ; thence in Harriet Street southerly 
 by single track to and into Ninth Street by curve to westerly; 
 thence in Ninth Street westerly by single track to and into McLean 
 Avenue by curve to southerly ; thence in McLean Avenue south- 
 erly by double tracks to and into the aforementioned tracks in 
 Eighth Street by curves to westerly. 
 
 Third Alternative — Continuing westerly in Richmond Street, from 
 the curves to southerly to and into Carr Street, above designated, 
 by double track to and into McLean Avenue by curves to southerly; 
 thence in McLean Avenue southerly by double tracks to and into 
 the aforementioned tracks in Eighth Street by curves to westerly ; 
 thence by double track in Eighth Street westerly to and over the 
 viaduct to be constructed therein ; and thence in Eighth Street 
 westerly to and into Glen way Avenue by curves to northerly ; 
 thence in and along Glenway Avenue by its course northerly and 
 westerly to the corporation line of Cincinnati; thence westerly along 
 the turnpike to and into Rapidrun Pike by curves to southerly ; 
 thence southwesterly in said Rapidrun Pike to a point opposite the 
 Eighth-street extension entrance to the new St. Joseph’s Cemetery ; 
 thence southerly by curves to and into private property ; thence 
 southerly across said private property to and into said Eighth-street 
 extension. 
 
 Also in the alternative as to the latter portion of said route, as 
 described, by continuing westerly in the turnpike aforesaid, from the 
 curves to southerly to and into Rapidrun Pike, above designated, 
 by double tracks, to near the double toll-gate ; thence in private 
 property in the direction of said turnpike to a point at nearly right 
 angles from the Eighth-street extension entrance to the new St. 
 Joseph’s Cemetery ; thence southerly in private property to and 
 into said aforementioned tracks in Rapidrun Pike ; thence easterly 
 in and along said Eighth-street extension across the corporation line 
 of Cincinnati and to Elberon Avenue of said city, and by curves 
 southerly into said Elberon Avenue ; and thence along it when con- 
 structed to and into State Avenue by curves to northerly ; thence 
 along State Avenue northerly to and into the aforementioned tracks 
 in Eighth Street by curves to easterly, returning over the tracks 
 and routes hereinabove described to the junction of Court and Vine 
 streets ; thence by the southern track in Court Street, by the curve 
 thereinabove provided for, to south into the western track in Vine 
 Street ; thence by said western track now in Vine Street to and by 
 the curve to easterly into the southerly track in Fountain Square; 
 and thence easterly along said track to and into Walnut Street by 
 the curve to southerly ; and thence by the western track in Walnut 
 Street to the place of beginning at the corner of Walnut and Fourth 
 streets. 
 
 Also from the junction of said Richmond Street and Cutter 
 Street by curves from said double track in Richmond Street to 
 
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 northerly into said Cutter Street, and therein northerly by double 
 tracks to and into Wade Street by curves to westerly; and thence 
 in Wade Street westerly to and into Denman Street by curves to 
 northerly (with, however, but a single track along the center of 
 Wade Street between Cutter Street and Freeman Avenue); thence 
 in Denman Street to and into Liberty Street by curves to westerly. 
 
 Also in the alternative as to the latter portion of said route, as 
 described, by curves from the aforesaid track in Cutter Street west- 
 erly into Clinton Street; thence westerly in Clinton Street to and 
 into Freeman Avenue by curves to northerly ; thence northerly in 
 Freeman Avenue to and into Flint Street by curves to westerly; 
 thence westerly in Flint Street to and into Denman Street by curves 
 to northerly ; thence northerly in Denman Street to Wade Street 
 and the aforesaid tracks in Denman Street ; thence along said tracks 
 in Denman Street to and into Liberty Street by the curves afore- 
 said ; thence along Liberty Street westerly to the Liberty-street 
 Viaduct; thence over said viaduct on tracks to be constructed; 
 thence to and into State Avenue by curves to northerly ; thence in 
 State Avenue northerly to and into Harrison Avenue by curves to 
 westerly; thence in Harrison Avenue westerly to Westwood Ave- 
 nue; thence in Harrison Pike by curves to northerly; thence in 
 Harrison Pike northwesterly to the corporation line across said 
 pike, returning over the tracks and routes hereinabove described 
 to the junction of Richmond and Cutter streets ; thence by the 
 tracks and routes hereinabove described to Walnut and Fourth 
 streets, the place of beginning. 
 
 The termini of said route being respectively the corner of Fourth 
 and Walnut streets, the corporation line across Harrison Pike, 
 and the entrance of the new St. Joseph’s Cemetery at Eighth- 
 street extension in Delhi Township. And said railroad all to be 
 constructed and operated as a double-track electrical street railroad, 
 with either the single or double trolley method of operation ; pro- 
 vided that in those parts of the route above described which are 
 alternative the grantee of the right to construct and operate this 
 route shall not, after the acceptance of one of said alternatives, be 
 permitted to lay tracks in any other part of said route to which the 
 alternative by him accepted applies ; and provided further, that in 
 running over any viaducts along said route said grantee shall be 
 compelled to use the rails and fixtures put thereon by the city 
 of Cincinnati, if any, be subject to such rules and regulations and 
 ordinances as may hereafter be established and adopted in refer- 
 ence to operating over same and shall pay annually rental for the 
 privilege of operating over same to be hereafter fixed by ordinance 
 of said city. 
 
 Sec. 2. All tracks constructed upon said route shall be laid 
 parallel to the center line of the several streets and parts of streets 
 in said route, and as near thereto as will permit the safe and usual 
 passage of cars. All rails used in construction of tracks shall be 
 
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 of the pattern known as the best “ girder ” rail, subject to the 
 approval of the Board of Administration and its chief engineer ; 
 and the supports of said electric system of motive power shall be 
 of metal, and of the best and most improved pattern ; and no wires 
 shall be placed above and across any street within less than twenty 
 feet of the surface thereof, except under overhead bridges or other 
 overhead construction. And wherever pavement or street surface 
 is disturbed by the construction of tracks on said route, there the 
 same shall be restored to like good condition as before disturbed 
 by the grantee of the right to build such route, at his own sole 
 expense, at the time of completing the construction of said tracks, 
 the same to be done under the supervision and to the satisfaction 
 of the Board of Administration and its chief engineer. 
 
 Sec. 3. In the following portions of said route — viz : in Vine 
 Street, from Court Street to the southerly track in the Fountain 
 Square, over the double track therein, and thence along the single 
 track along Fountain Square, Walnut, Fourth, and Vine streets to 
 said double track at the said southerly track in Fountain Square, 
 and in Liberty Street from Denman Street to the viaduct — the 
 grantee of the right to construct and operate this route shall have 
 the right to run cars over and along the existing tracks in the same 
 direction in which cars are now run thereover, first agreeing with 
 the owner of such tracks as to the terms and conditions of such use, 
 or as shall be fixed by arbitration, as provided in the general ordi- 
 nances of Cincinnati governing such cases, passed February 7, 1879. 
 And in the following portions of said route where there are exist- 
 ing street railroad tracks — viz : In Central Avenue, between Court 
 and Bichmond streets, a single track ; in Eighth Street, from Carr 
 Street to the viaduct and from the viaduct to Glenway Avenue, a 
 double track; in State Avenue, from Eighth Street to Elberon 
 Avenue, part way a double track and the balance of the distance a 
 single track; in Glenway Avenue, from Warsaw Pike to the corpora- 
 tion line, a double track ; on the Liberty-street Viaduct, and across 
 said viaduct to State Avenue, a double track ; in Harrison Avenue, 
 from State Avenue to Westwood Avenue, a double track; in Free- 
 man Avenue, from Clinton Street to Flint Street, a double track — 
 the grantee of the right to construct and operate this route shall 
 have the right to run cars, in the same direction in which cars are 
 now run, over and along so much of any existing tracks therein as 
 may by existing laws and ordinances be lawfully granted ; first agree- 
 ing with the owner of any tracks so used as to the terms and con- 
 ditions of such use; and failing in such agreement, the terms and 
 conditions of such use shall be fixed by arbitration, as provided in 
 said general ordinance ; and in case of the inability of said grantee 
 to obtain the right lawfully to use the whole or any part of any 
 existing tracks in any street, avenue, or viaduct last aforesaid or 
 any part thereof, said grantee shall have the right in all or any 
 part of said places and distances to construct and lay its own tracks 
 
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 in immediate juxtaposition to said existing tracks, except that in 
 Central Avenue the tracks of said grantee shall be laid equidistant 
 from the single track now existing in the center of said avenue, 
 and at safe clearing distance from the same ; and said grantee shall 
 have the right to make any and all necessary connection between 
 existing tracks so used and the tracks constructed by it as herein 
 authorized; and with the consent of the owner of such existing 
 tracks said grantee may substitute for such existing tracks other 
 tracks of the kind provided to be laid under this ordinance, permit- 
 ting the use thereof to the owner of the existing tracks. 
 
 Sec. 4. The cars upon said route shall be operated by electricity. 
 The grantee of the right to construct, maintain, and operate said 
 route shall have the right along the entire distance of said route to 
 plant next to the curb -line, in the sidewalks thereon, the necessary 
 poles to uphold and sustain the carrying and feed-wires for a single 
 or double trolley-wire over each of said tracks, and to construct and 
 maintain over each of said tracks throughout the entire length 
 of said route a single or double trolley- wire, with all the necessary 
 fixtures and appliances, none of its carrying, trolley, or feed-wires to 
 be kept less than twenty feet above the face of tracks, except under 
 overhead bridges or other overhead construction. Also the right 
 shall be given said grantee to carry in any streets of said city, in 
 the sidewalks next the curb-line, all necessary and convenient poles 
 and feed-wires to its trolleys from its power station or stations ; pro- 
 vided, however, that all mains, wires, or electrical conductors along 
 any portion or all of said route, and along any portion of said route 
 to the power station of said grantee, excepting trolley- wires with 
 their necessary supporting and guard-wires, and the necessary con- 
 necting or supply-wires from the poles to the trolley-wires, shall, 
 whenever it is deemed practicable by the Board of Administration, 
 be placed in suitable conduits or subways under the surface of the 
 streets by the grantee, its successors or assigns, in such a manner as 
 not to unnecessarily interfere with the use of such streets for local 
 improvements of any character, or with the sewers or water-mains 
 or branches thereof; subject, however, to such restrictions and 
 regulations as may be imposed in respect thereto by the Board 
 of Administration. But before any street is opened for the pur- 
 pose of laying such conduits or subways the said grantee shall file 
 with the Board of Administration a complete map and plans of all 
 subways, conduits, mains, manholes, and branches, showing all mains 
 and branches and connections, and obtain thereof the approval of the 
 Board of Administration. Provided further, that all of said wires, 
 poles, and supports shall be removed by the grantee upon order of 
 the Board of Administration of said city as soon as an electrical 
 system of operating street railways without overhead wires is in the 
 opinion of said board in successful operation in any city in the 
 United States. All motors used on said route shall be of not less 
 
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 than thirty horse- power, and each car not less than twenty-one feet 
 in length, inside measurement, and of the latest and most improved 
 designs and construction. 
 
 Sec. 5. All construction of tracks, poles, and wires, and the 
 location thereof, to he under the supervision of the chief engineer of 
 the Board of Administration, and to the satisfaction and approval 
 of such engineer and the Board of Administration. 
 
 Sec. 6 . The grantee, successors, and assigns of the right to 
 construct, maintain, and operate said route to be by the acceptance 
 of the ordinance granting such right bound by every provision 
 of the general ordinance regulating the construction and operation 
 of street railroads in Cincinnati, passed February 7, 1879, except 
 as herein otherwise provided ; provided, however, that said grantee 
 shall pay into the city treasury at the time of commencing to operate 
 its cars, and annually on the first day of January, in advance, for 
 and upon each car run by it over said route, the sum of four dollars 
 per lineal foot of every such car, inside measurement, and in addi- 
 tion thereto it shall pay into the city treasury quarterly, on the first 
 day of January, April, July, and October of each year, two and a 
 half per cent of the gross earnings from every source of such grantee 
 during the preceding quarter on said route, and all its connecting 
 lines, whether within or without the corporate limits of Cincinnati, 
 at any time operated in connection with said route for the fare 
 authorized by the ordinance hereafter to be passed making the 
 grant for this route ; provided that whenever any payment for 
 percentage on gross earnings for such connecting line has been 
 made to the city under any ordinance governing such connecting 
 line, such payment so far as it is for receipts from travel over this 
 route in conjunction with the connecting line, and for the rate of 
 fare authorized under the grant of this route, shall be deducted 
 from the amount so paid under this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 7. All new tracks constructed under this grant shall be 
 subject to the right which is hereby expressly reserved by the city 
 of Cincinnati lawfully to permit any other person, company, or 
 corporation to run cars over any part of the same, on such equitable 
 terms and conditions as said city, by proper ordinance, shall fix, in 
 case the owners of such new tracks fail to agree with the grantee 
 of such right on such terms and conditions, and said city, by its 
 Board of Legislation, shall have determined that such joint use is 
 to the public interest. And the grantee, its successors, and assigns, 
 of such right to construct, maintain, and operate said route shall 
 by acceptance of this ordinance granting such right be bound by 
 this condition, and held thereby to waive all right to demand con- 
 demnation of its property rights in and to said tracks. 
 
 Sec. 8. The work of construction on said route shall be begun 
 within thirty days after the grant of permission hereunder is made, 
 and the entire construction shall be completed and said route in 
 operation within six months after said grant is made; provided that 
 
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 the portion of the route over Eighth-street Viaduct, Eighth Street 
 from McLean to State Avenue, and on El heron Avenue and Eighth- 
 street extension, may be completed within sixty days after said 
 viaduct is completed and Elberon Avenue and Eighth-street exten- 
 sion are graded and fit for occupation by tracks; and provided' 
 further, that any delay of grantee by legal proceedings shall not 
 be counted against his time of construction or completion under 
 such grant. 
 
 Sec. 9. All cars shall run continuously on the Harrison Pike 
 portion of said route from Walnut and Fourth streets to the cor- 
 poration line on Harrison Pike in each direction, and all cars shall 
 run continuously on the Price Hill portion of said route from Wal- 
 nut and Fourth streets to the terminus at the new St. Joseph’s 
 Cemetery in each direction ; and till the completion of said entire 
 route crossover tracks may be used to permit operation of said 
 route so far as constructed at each terminus thereof, and on each 
 side of any legal or actual obstruction to further operation. At 
 Richmond and Cutter streets, and State Avenue and Eighth Street, 
 where said route divides, transfers shall be furnished each passenger 
 demanding the same upon the cars in either direction, so that a 
 passenger may pursue his journey continuously to any part of said 
 route for a single fare. Over the entirety of said route, when com- 
 pleted, cars shall be run in each direction as often as the public 
 good demands, and at intervals of not more than one hour between 
 the hours of 12 o’clock midnight and 6 o’clock A. m. Open cars 
 shall be run in warm and closed cars heated in cold weather. 
 
 Sec. 10. Sealed proposals shall, in accordance with law, be ad- 
 vertised for to construct and operate said street railroad under and 
 in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, and the city 
 clerk shall be directed to advertise for sealed proposals to construct 
 and operate said street railroad at the lowest rate of fare, in accord- 
 ance with the terms, conditions, and stipulations of this ordinance. 
 Proposals to specify the rates of single cash fare, the number of com- 
 mutation tickets in packages to be sold for one dollar, the number 
 of commutation tickets in packages to be sold for fifty cents, and 
 the number of commutation tickets in packages to be sold for 
 twenty-five cents, to be addressed to the Board of Administration, 
 and opened by them at a day and hour to be named in the adver- 
 tisement. Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a good and 
 sufficient bond, to the satisfaction of the Board of Administration, 
 in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, as liquidated damages, 
 that he or they will, if awarded the said grant, enter into a con- 
 tract therefor within ten days from and after the passage of the 
 ordinance granting such right, and give bond for its faithful per- 
 formance, as hereinafter provided. Said grant shall be made only 
 to the corporation, individual, or company that shall bid to carry 
 passengers on said proposed route at the lowest rate of fare afore- 
 said, and shall accompany such bid with such bond aforesaid, and 
 
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 shall have previously obtained and filed the written consent of 
 property- holders, as required by law. And said grant shall be for 
 the terra of twenty-five years from and after the date of the award- 
 ing of the same. 
 
 Sec. 11. At the time of entering into said contract, as above 
 provided for, the individual, company, or corporation to whom the 
 said grant shall be made shall enter into a good and sufficient bond, 
 to the satisfaction of the Board of Administration, in the sum of 
 fifty thousand dollars, as liquidated damages, conditioned that he, 
 they, or it will faithfully comply with the terms and conditions of 
 this ordinance, and the grant and contract made in pursuance thereof. 
 In case the individual, company, or corporation to whom such grant 
 shall be made shall refuse or neglect to enter into said contract, or 
 to give such bond to faithfully comply with the terms and conditions 
 of this ordinance and the grant and contract made in pursuance 
 thereof as above provided, it shall be competent by ordinance to 
 award the said grant to the next lowest bidder at said original bid- 
 ding, who shall enter into said contract and give said bond ; and in 
 case of like neglect or refusal of such next lowest bidder, then to 
 award the same to the next lowest bidder; and so on, without 
 further bidding until said grant shall have been awarded to a 
 bidder who shall enter into said contract and give said bond. 1 
 
 Sec. 12. That Ordinance No. 395, passed November 18, 1892, 
 and entitled “An ordinance, No. 395, to establish a street railroad 
 route, No. 25, partly within and partly without the city of Cincin- 
 nati, designating the termini of said route within and without said 
 city ; the streets, parts of streets, public grounds and viaducts, 
 private grounds, public roads and alternative with public roads, 
 private grounds, both within and without said city, along which 
 said route shall pass ; where tracks shall be constructed and where 
 said route shall be operated upon tracks already constructed in por- 
 tions of said route ; and prescribing the character of construction 
 to be made, and the terms and conditions upon which said route 
 shall be operated,’ 7 be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
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 No. 546. Passed June 9, 1893. 
 
 Granting: permission to Albert L. Johnson, C. E. Grover, Fred. Hempy, 
 L. A. Russell, and Frank N. Wilcox, their successors or assigns, to 
 construct, maintain, and operate for the period of twenty-five years 
 a double-track electric street railroad upon Street Railroad Route 
 No 25, duly established by Ordinance No. 418, passed December 20, 
 1892, partly within and partly without the City of Cincinnati; desig- 
 nating: the termini of said route ; the streets, parts of streets, grounds 
 and places, public and private, and viaducts along and upon which 
 the tracks of such street railroad shall and may be constructed, 
 maintained, and operated ; providing where existing tracks upon 
 parts of said route may be run over and operated upon by the gran- 
 tees, their successors or assigns, of this ordinance ; and fixing the 
 terms and conditions upon which such grantees, their successors or 
 assigns, shall and may construct, maintain, and operate said street 
 railroad route during said term. 
 
 [This lengthy ordinance is not printed in this connection, for 
 the reason that it was annulled by decision of the Circuit Court 
 (Wm. C. Compton ex rel. vs. Albert L. Johnson et al., 9 Ohio State 
 Circuit Court Reports, 532). The ground taken was that the bid 
 of Orris P. Cobb was a valid bid, and was lower than that of the 
 parties to whom the ordinance proposed to award the right; and 
 therefore injunction was granted, and remains in full force to this 
 date. The new route passed into the control of the Cincinnati 
 Street Railway Company by action of the Board of Administra- 
 tion extending Route No. 18 under the powers conferred upon 
 that body as to street railroads in Cincinnati by the General 
 Assembly.] 
 
 NO. 3938. Passed May 6, 1887. 
 
 To provide for the extension of Spring-Grove-avenue Street Railway 
 
 tracks. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That — 
 
 Whereas , The Cincinnati Street Railway Company, now owning 
 and operating the street railroad known as the Spring-Grove-avenue 
 Street Railway Division, has made application to extend said rail- 
 road as hereinafter specified and authorized, and has obtained and 
 produced to the Board of Public Affairs and to the boards compos- 
 ing the Common Council the written consents to such extension of 
 the owners of more than one half of the feet front of the lots and 
 lands abutting on the streets and portions thereof wherein the 
 tracks are to be laid in the construction of such extension : Now, 
 
 Therefore, Said the Cincinnati Street Railway Company is hereby 
 granted permission to extend the tracks of its said street railroad 
 in Spring-Grove Avenue from the intersection of Spring-Grove 
 Avenue ; thence westwardly by double tracks along Queen-City 
 
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 Avenue to Western Avenue; thence northwardly along Western 
 Avenue by double track to a turntable about two hundred feet 
 north of Dr. Campbell’s Sanitarium, near the New Baltimore Pike ; 
 on condition that the construction of the tracks and work herein 
 authorized shall be done at the expense of the company, and the 
 avenues shall be restored to their present condition, and that all 
 obstructions of every nature which may be encountered in the 
 progress of said work shall be removed, restored, or adjusted as the 
 Board of Public Affairs may direct and at the expense of the com- 
 pany ; that the rails shall be either a tram rail weighing not less 
 than forty-two pounds per yard or the girder form of rail weighing 
 not less than fifty-two pounds per yard ; that the charge for carry- 
 ing passengers over the road hereby extended shall not be increased 
 by reason of this extension or of any rights granted herein ; that 
 the term of this grant shall cease and determine with the expiration 
 of the grant heretofore made extending said tracks southwardly 
 from Harrison Avenue ; and provided that said extension herein 
 granted shall be built, completed, and operated within a period of 
 six months from the date of the passage of this ordinance ; and 
 provided further, that cars shall be run regularly every ten minutes 
 from 7 o’clock A. m. until midnight, or as much oftener as the Cin- 
 cinnati Street Kail way Company may desire ; and provided further, 
 that if said company shall violate any of the provisions of this 
 ordinance or of the general street railway ordinance of February 7, 
 1879, the Board of Public Affairs, and the police on instructions 
 from said board, are empowered to immediately stop the running 
 of cars on said extension. The company shall execute and deliver 
 to the Board of Public Affairs its bond in favor of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars additional for the 
 faithful performance of the provisions of this ordinance, and the 
 execution and delivery of said bond shall be deemed an acceptance 
 of all the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 NO. 49T. Passed March 81, 1893. 
 
 To repeal an ordinance passed March 19, 1880, entitled “An ordinance 
 to provide for the extension of the Cincinnati and Spring-Grove- 
 avenue Street Railway Company,” and an ordinance passed May 6, 
 1887, entitled “An ordinance to provide for the extension of Spring- 
 Grove-avenue Street Railway tracks,” and to forfeit the franchises 
 and rights of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company in the Cin- 
 cinnati and Spring-Grove-avenue Street Railway route and all its 
 extensions. 
 
 Whereas, The Cincinnati Street Kail way Company owns and oper- 
 ates a street railroad known as Cincinnati and Spring-Grove-avenue 
 Street Kailway and its extensions, under and by virtue of an ordi- 
 nance passed March 19, 1880, entitled “An ordinance to provide 
 for the extension of the Cincinnati and Spring-Grove-avenue Street 
 
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 Railway Company,” and an ordinance passed May 6, 1887$ entitled 
 “An ordinance to provide for the extension of the Spring-Grove- 
 avenue Street Railway tracks,” and is obligated thereby to run and 
 operate a sufficient number of cars to meet the necessities of the 
 public, and to operate cars continuously without change from one 
 end of said route and extensions to the other ; and 
 
 Whereas, Said company is not now and has not for a long time 
 past operated a sufficient number of cars on said route and its exten- 
 sions to meet the necessities of the public, and has not operated its 
 cars continuously on said route and its extensions without change 
 from one end of the same to the other: 
 
 Be it or darned by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincin- 
 nati, That said ordinance entitled “An ordinance to provide for the 
 extension of the Spring-Grove- avenue Street Railway Company,” 
 and said ordinance entitled “An ordinance to provide for the ex- 
 tension of the Spring-Grove-avenue Street Railway tracks,” be and 
 the same are hereby repealed, and all rights, privileges, and fran- 
 chises granted to the Cincinnati and Spring-Grove-avenue Street 
 Railway Company or its successor, in title the Cincinnati Street 
 Railway Company, under and by virtue of said ordinances and 
 under its original grants from the Cincinnati and Spring-Grove- 
 avenue Company, in Spring-Grove Avenue, and in any other streets 
 and highways of the city, be and the same are hereby forfeited and 
 held for naught. 
 
 Sec. 2. The corporation counsel is hereby directed to institute 
 the necessary legal proceedings to enforce the provisions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 iN"0. 4:101. Passed August 17, 1888. 
 
 To require a watchman to be placed at the cable crossing- at Fifth 
 and Walnut streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That to provide for the safety of pedestrians and vehicles 
 the Mt. Adams and Eden-Park Street Railway Company (Route 10) 
 shall station and keep a watchman at its cable crossing at the corner 
 of Fifth and Walnut streets, in said city, from 6 o’clock A. m. to 12 
 o’clock p. m. of each and every day. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the president of said street rail- 
 road company (Route 10) to comply with the provisions of Section 1 
 of this ordinance, and upon said president of said company neg- 
 lecting, omitting, or refusing so to do he shall be fined in any sum 
 not less than twenty-five dollars per day for each and every day of 
 such omission, neglect, or refusal. 
 
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 ~No. 101. Passed January 16, 1891. 
 
 To require a watchman at Gilbert Avenue and McMillan Street 
 street railway crossings. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That the street railway companies operating street railway routes 
 intersecting at the corner of Gilbert Avenue and McMillan Street 
 be and the same are hereby required to keep a watchman stationed 
 at the said corner between the hours of 4 o’clock p. m. and 7 o’clock 
 p. m. each day of the week, except Sunday, for the purpose of 
 warning people of approaching cars. 
 
 Sec. 2. Each street railroad company failing to comply with the 
 provisions of this ordinance shall be fined in the sum of twenty-five 
 dollars, and each day that such company fails to comply herewith 
 shall constitute a separate offense. 
 
 4sTo. 14:0. Passed November 20, 1891. 
 
 To require the Mt. Adams and Eden-Fark Inclined Plane Railway Com- 
 pany to place watchmen on the line of its cable at the corners 
 of Court and Broadway, Sixth and Broadway, Sixth and Walnut, 
 Fifth and Walnut, and Fifth and Broadway. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That the Mt. Adams and Eden-Park Inclined Plane Pailway Com- 
 pany be and they are hereby required to place watchmen on the 
 lines of the cable railway at the intersections of Court and Broad- 
 way, Sixth and Broadway, Sixth and Walnut, Fifth and Walnut, 
 and Fifth and Broadway during all hours of the day and night 
 when the said cable railway is running ; and upon their failure to 
 have and keep a watchman at'any one of said corners, the said rail- 
 way company shall be fined in the Police Court of said city in any 
 sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every day when said 
 cable road is in operation without a watchman at any one of said 
 corners. 
 
 4 ^ 0 . 154 . Passed January 8, 1892. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati Street Railway Company to place watchmen 
 on the line of its road at the corners of Elder and Elm streets and 
 Elder and Vine streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That the Cincinnati Street Railway Company be and 
 it is hereby required to place watchmen on the line of its road at 
 the intersections of Elder and Elm streets and Elder and Vine 
 streets during all hours of the day and night when the said road 
 
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 is running ; and upon its failure to have and keep a watchman at 
 any one of said corners the president of said railway company shall 
 be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every 
 day when said road is in operation without a watchman at any of 
 said corners. 
 
 NTo. 665. Passed November 3, 1893. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. to place a watchman on 
 the line of its road at the crossing- of Elder and Elm streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That the Cincinnati Street Railway Company be and 
 is hereby required to place a watchman on the line of its road at 
 the intersection of Elder and Elm streets during market-hours. 
 
 Sec. 2. The owner or operator of said street railway company 
 violating the provisions of the first section of this ordinance shall 
 be fined in the sum of fifty dollars per day, which may be recovered 
 in a civil suit brought by said city against such owner or operator 
 of said street railway; or upon conviction in the Police Court the 
 owner or operator violating the provisions of the first section of this 
 ordinance shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars per 
 day nor less than twenty-five dollars per day, or imprisoned in the 
 Workhouse for a term not to exceed thirty days nor less than ten 
 days, or both ; and each day said cars are run in violation of the 
 provisions of the first section of this ordinance shall constitute a 
 separate and distinct offense. 
 
 A RESOLUTION. Passed July 28, 1893. 
 
 Reg-arding- Liberty-street tracks. 
 
 Whereas, There are two street railroad tracks on Liberty Street, 
 between Elm Street and Central Avenue, and the use of the south 
 one of said tracks has been abandoned by the Cincinnati Street 
 Railway Company for nearly five years ; and 
 
 Whereas, The Board of Legislation by resolution has requested 
 the Cincinnati Street Railway Company to forthwith remove said 
 track, and restore the street to good repair, as it is required to do 
 by the ordinances of the city. 
 
 Therefore be it resolved, That the Board of Administration be 
 directed to forthwith cause said track to be removed, and that the 
 expense of said removal and restoration of the street to good repair 
 be collected from the Cincinnati Street Railway Company. 
 
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 No. 1003. Passed November 15, 1895. 
 
 To require the various street railway companies operating 1 within 
 the limits of the City of Cincinnati to provide all cars operated 
 by electricity or cable with suitable fenders for the protection 
 of life and limb. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That within ninety days after the passage of this ordi- 
 nance it shall be unlawful for any passenger street railway company 
 propelling its cars by electricity or cable to run the same through 
 the streets and avenues of the city of Cincinnati unless each car is 
 provided with a safety guard or fender, of the most approved and 
 successful kind, and constructed in such a way as to protect life 
 and limb of any person who may come in contact with said car. 
 
 Sec. 2. The owners or operators of said street railway com- 
 panies, in case of the neglect or refusal of said companies to comply 
 with the provisions of the first section of this ordinance within the 
 specified time, shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars per day for 
 each day that each car may be run. And if the violation shall 
 continue after a period of thirty days shall have elapsed, after the 
 expiration of the ninety days’ limit, an additional penalty of forty 
 dollars per car per day shall be imposed. It shall be the duty of 
 the police department to see that the provisions of this ordinance 
 are enforced. 
 
 NO. 1071. Passed June 12, 1896. 
 
 To require all street cars owned and operated within the City of Cin- 
 cinnati to be equipped with illuminated signs designating the route 
 over which the said cars run. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That all street cars owned and operated by any street 
 railway company within the limits of the city of Cincinnati are 
 hereby required to be furnished and equipped with an illuminated 
 sign, to be displayed at night, designating, in letters of a size to be 
 plainly read at a distance of not less than one hundred feet, the 
 route over which said cars run. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any conductor, driver, or motorman having charge or 
 control of any street railway car upon any of the street railways of 
 the city of Cincinnati, and any manager, superintendent, or presi- 
 dent of any street railway company owning a car not equipped with 
 an illuminated sign as provided in this ordinance, shall upon 
 conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined 
 in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five 
 dollars; and each time such car is run on any trip within the 
 city shall be considered a separate and distinct violation of this 
 ordinance, and a separate and distinct offense. 
 
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 No. 103. Passed December 6, 1897. 
 
 To amend Sections 1 and 2 of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to 
 provide for the regulation and collection of all moneys payable to the 
 city by street railway owners,” passed February 24, 1882.* 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinati, 
 That Sections 1 and 2 of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to pro- 
 vide for the regulation and collection of all moneys payable to the 
 city by street railway owners,” passed February 24, 1882, be and the 
 same are hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. The owners of street railway lines who are required to 
 pay money into the city treasury by the terms of any statute, ordi- 
 nance, or contract under which they are operating such lines, shall 
 pay all car licenses to the city treasurer upon certificate of the 
 auditor, stating the amount of money required by law to be paid 
 therefor, said certificate to be delivered to the treasurer, who shall 
 upon receipt of the money stated therein give a certificate of 
 payment, stating the amount of money paid, said certificate of 
 payment to be presented to the auditor, who thereupon shall issue 
 his receipt, retaining the treasurer’s certificate of payment as his 
 voucher therefor ; and all percentages of earnings or other compen- 
 sations due or hereafter to become due to the city of Cincinnati 
 from said owners of street railways, by the terms of any statute, 
 ordinance, or contract under which they are operating their lines, 
 are hereby required to be paid to the city treasurer, upon certificate 
 from the city auditor, in the same manner as that provided for the 
 payment of car licenses ; and the city auditor shall keep a book 
 account with said owners, and each of them, which at all proper 
 times shall be open to inspection; and if not paid as required the 
 auditor shall notify the mayor of such failure. 
 
 Sec. 2. The auditor shall on the receipt of such moneys place 
 all street-car licenses to the credit of the General Fund, and all 
 percentages of earnings to the credit of the Street Railroad Per- 
 centage Fund, to be used by the Board of Administration as 
 provided in Section 11 of the General Street Railway Ordinance. 
 
 No. 104:. Passed December 6, 1897. 
 
 To amend Section 11 of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance providing 
 for the co astruction, operation, and government of street railroads,” 
 passed February 7, 1879.1 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That Section 11 of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance providing 
 for the construction, operation, and government of street railroads,” 
 
 ’"See Coppock and Hertenstein, p. 542. f See Coppock and Hertenstein, p 535. 
 
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 passed February 7, 1879, be andjthe same is hereby amended so as 
 to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 11. The owner of each street railroad shall pay into the city 
 treasury at the time of acceptance, and annually thereafter on the 
 first day of January, in advance, for and upon each and every car 
 run by such owner, the sum of four dollars per lineal foot of every 
 such car, inside measurement, and such payment shall be a condition 
 precedent to the right to operate the road ; and if not paid within 
 ten days after due, the mayor shall have the right summarily to stop 
 the running of the cars, and in the event of such stoppage no liability 
 for damage shall accrue ; and in addition thereto any person or 
 company accepting hereunder shall pay, under the same condition 
 and subject to the same penalty, into the city treasury quarterly, on 
 the first days of January, April, July, and October of each year, 
 five per cent of the gross earnings from every source of such com- 
 pany during the preceding quarter, to be applied to the cleaning 
 aud repair of the streets of the city ; and the Board of Administra- 
 tion, Board of Legislation, or city auditor shall at any time have the 
 right of access to the books of the company by any agent they or 
 he may designate for that purpose, in order to ascertain the amount 
 of such gross earnings, and it shall be the duty of the city auditor 
 to make such examinations for investigations in the months of Jan- 
 uary and July of each year, in order to ascertain the amount of 
 such gross earnings, and report the result of such investigation or 
 examination to the Board of Legislation. 
 
 No. 4357 Passed March 7, 1890. 
 
 Authorizing: the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company 
 to lay tracks across Freeman Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati , That permission and authority are hereby granted to the 
 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company to lay five tracks 
 for railroad purposes across Freeman Street at different points, as 
 indicated on the plan or drawing hereto attached, between George 
 Street and the present tracks of the said Cincinnati, Hamilton & 
 Dayton Railroad Company. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said tracks shall be constructed under the direction 
 and to the satisfaction of the chief engineer of the Board of Public 
 Affairs of the said city, and shall be so constructed as not to inter- 
 fere with the ordinary use or drainage of the said street. 
 
 Sec. 3. Safety gates shall be by said Cincinnati, Hamilton & 
 Dayton Railroad Company erected and maintained on both sides 
 of its said tracks where they cross said Freeman Street. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said railroad company shall lay and maintain be- 
 tween the rails and within two and a half inches thereof, for the 
 
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 full width of the street crossings, a planking of sound oak plank, 
 securely spiked to the cross-ties, said plank- to be of the same thick- 
 ness as the depth of the rail, so that the surface of the planking 
 shall be flush with the top of the rail, and an oak plank not less 
 than four inches wide and of the same thickness as that between 
 the rails shall be firmly spiked to the cross-ties against the outer 
 edge of both rails flush with the top thereof throughout the entire 
 length of the street occupied by said tracks. The railroad company 
 shall raise or lower their tracks at their own expense to conform 
 with any change of grade that may be made in said street at said 
 point where it crosses the same. 
 
 No. 35. Passed July 18, 1890. 
 
 Authorizing- the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company 
 to lay track across Cherry Street. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That permission and authority are hereby granted to the 
 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company to lay one track 
 for railroad purposes across Cherry Street, as indicated on the plan 
 or drawing hereto attached, between Cooper Street and the present 
 tracks of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said tracks shall be constructed under the direction and 
 to the satisfaction of the chief engineer of the Board of Public 
 Improvements of the said city, and shall be so constructed as not 
 to interfere with the ordinary use or drainage of the said street. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said railroad company shall lay and maintain be- 
 tween the rails and within two and one half inches thereof, for 
 the full width of the street crossing, a planking of sound oak plank, 
 securely spiked to the cross-ties, said plank to be of the same thick- 
 ness as the depth of the rail, so that the surface of the planking 
 shall be flush with the top of the rail, and an oak plank not less 
 than four inches wide and of the same thickness as that between 
 the rails shall be firmly spiked to the cross-ties against the outer 
 edge of both rails flush with the top thereof throughout the entire 
 length of the street occupied by said tracks. The railroad company 
 shall raise or lower their tracks at their own expense to conform 
 with any change of grade that may be made in said street at said 
 point where it crosses the same. 
 
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 No. 97. Passed January 2, 1891. 
 
 Authorizing “The Hall’s Safe and Lock Company” to lay a railroad 
 
 track across Central Avenue, between Pearl and Second streets. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That permission be and the same is hereby granted to “ The Hall’s 
 Safe and Lock Company ” to lay a railroad track of standard gauge 
 from their property, lying on the east side of Central Avenue 
 between Pearl and Second streets, across Central Avenue, and 
 connecting with the tracks of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 
 & St. Louis Railway and the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern 
 Railway, whose tracks abut on the extreme western line of Central 
 Avenue, subject to the following terms and conditions : 
 
 1. Said tracks shall conform to the grade of the street, and said 
 company shall immediately after laying the tracks restore the street 
 where disturbed by them to its present good condition ; shall keep 
 that portion of the street lying between the rails of the track and 
 one foot outside of each of the rails thereof in good repair, and 
 maintain all necessary crossings of gutters under said track ; and 
 if said company shall remove said track from said street, it shall 
 restore the street to perfect repair and good condition. 
 
 2. Said company shall lay said track in such manner that 
 wagons and other vehicles may conveniently cross same, and in 
 case of any change of grade in said street where such track is laid 
 said company shall immediately relay its track to conform with the 
 grade as changed at its own expense. 
 
 3. Said track shall be subject to removal at any time by order 
 of the Board of City Affairs or of the City Council, and the said 
 “ The Hall’s Safe and Lock Company” shall within two weeks after 
 receiving notice so to do from the Board of City Affairs or the City 
 Council remove said track from said street, and restore said street 
 to good repair, and in event of failure so to do the city may remove 
 the track at the expense of said company. 
 
 4. Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cincinnati 
 in the sum of ten thousand dollars to save the city harmless from 
 any and all claims for damages that may accrue and be lawfully 
 established by reason of the laying of said track across said Central 
 Avenue, and for its faithful compliance with all and singular the 
 provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 5. Said company shall not be allowed to run any cars over the 
 track herein granted between the hours of 5 a. m. and 10 p. m., nor 
 shall it be allowed to obstruct said Central Avenue longer than 
 three minutes at any one time. 
 
 6. That said track shall be laid under the direction and super- 
 vision and to the satisfaction of the Board of City Affairs and its 
 engineer. 
 
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 7. Said company may use horses or mules in the transportation 
 of cars across said Central Avenue, but no locomotives will be per- 
 mitted to run upon or oyer said avenue. 
 
 NO. 154. Passed March 26, 1891. 
 
 Authorizing “The Lane & Bodley Company” to lay railroad tracks 
 in John Street, south of Water Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That permission be and the same is hereby granted to “The Lane & 
 Bodley Company ” to lay, as shown by the attached drawing, rail- 
 road tracks of the standard gauge from their property, lying on the 
 east side of John Street and extending from Water Street to the 
 Ohio River, and connecting with the tracks of the Pittsburg, Cin- 
 cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company now laid in John 
 Street, subject to the following terms and conditions : 
 
 1. The tracks hereby authorized shall conform to the present 
 surface of that portion of John Street in which they are laid. 
 
 2. “The Lane & Bodley Company” shall lay and maintain said 
 tracks in such manner that wagons and other vehicles may conven- 
 iently cross them, and that the drainage shall in no way be interfered 
 with ; and in case of John Street being improved to legal grade, then 
 “ The Lane & Bodley Company” shall immediately, at its own ex- 
 pense, relay its tracks should they not then conform to the legal 
 grade. 
 
 3. Said tracks shall be subject to removal at any time by order 
 of the Board of Public Improvements or of the City Council, and 
 the said “The Lane & Bodley Company ” shall within two weeks 
 after receiving notice so to do from the Board of Public Improve- 
 ments or the City Council remove said tracks from said street, and 
 restore said street to good repair, and in event of failure so to do 
 the city may remove the tracks at the expense of said company. 
 
 4. Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cincinnati 
 in the sum of five thousand dollars to save the city harmless from 
 any and all claims from damages that may accrue and be lawfully 
 established by reason of the laying of said tracks in John Street, 
 and for its faithful compliance with all and singular the provisions 
 of this ordinance. 
 
 5. Cars may be operated over said tracks subject to all the 
 provisions of the ordinance regulating the operation of cars on the 
 Front-street connection track. 
 
 6. That said tracks shall be laid under the direction and super- 
 vision and to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Improvements 
 and its engineer. 
 
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 No. 95. Passed September 4, 1891. 
 
 To grant permission to the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad 
 Company to construct and operate a railroad track of the standard 
 gauge across Evans Street, between Sixth Street and High Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company to construct 
 and operate a railroad track of the standard gauge across Evans 
 Street, between Sixth and High streets, as per attached drawings, 
 subject to the following conditions : 
 
 First — The track hereby authorized shall conform to the present 
 surface of that portion of Evans Street in which it is laid. 
 
 Second — The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company 
 shall lay and maintain said track in such manner that wagons and 
 other vehicles may conveniently cross over it, and that the drainage 
 shall in no way be interfered with. 
 
 Third — That said track shall be laid under the direction and 
 supervision and to the satisfaction of the chief engineer of the 
 Board of Administration. 
 
 No. 285. Passed June 17, 1892. 
 
 To provide against and prevent and prescribe the penalty for the 
 obstruction, use, or occupancy of Eastern Avenue, at Rookwood or 
 Delta, by locomotives, cars, or trains, etc. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, Ohio, That it shall be unlawful to use or occupy 
 Eastern Avenue at Rookwood or Delta with any locomotive, car, 
 cars, or train by any railroad company, companies, superintendent, 
 agent, or other employee thereof, either directly or indirectly, by 
 permitting or suffering such locomotive, car, cars, or train to remain 
 upon or cross such street or public highway, or any part thereof, 
 or by coupling, switching, or shifting of locomotives, cars, or trains, 
 or the making up of trains upon or across such street or public 
 highway, or any part thereof, or by moving or stopping of trains 
 upon or across the same, for a period longer than two minutes at 
 one time, and the use and occupancy of such street or public high- 
 way by any railroad company, companies, superintendent, agent, or 
 other employee thereof, either directly or indirectly, for a period 
 of ten minutes after the same has been once so obstructed, used, or 
 occupied for said period of two minutes, so as to give and guarantee 
 to the public the exclusive use of such street or highway for ten 
 minutes thereafter, is hereby prevented, forbidden, and declared to 
 
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 be unlawful, and any railroad company or companies so using such 
 street or public highway for said period of two minutes shall provide 
 and maintain suitable bars or gates and watchmen at such streets or 
 crossings to secure and warn the public against the danger attend- 
 ing such use. 
 
 Sec. 2. It is further provided that to carry into force and effect 
 the provisions of this ordinance the penalty for any such violation 
 thereof shall be a fine not to exceed fifty dollars for each offense, or 
 imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, or both fine and imprison- 
 ment for each and every repeated violation thereof after the first 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 3. It is provided further that nothing herein shall be so 
 construed as to affect or interfere with the arrival and departure 
 of regular railroad trains moving on or across such street or public 
 highway, without stopping, at a rate of speed not exceeding six 
 miles per hour. 
 
 No. 4:88. Passed March 24, 1893. 
 
 Authorizing- “ The Superior Wall Plastering and Manufacturing Com- 
 pany” to lay a track in McLean Avenue, south of Gest Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 “The Superior Wall Plastering and Manufacturing Company” to 
 lay, as shown by the attached plat, a railroad track of the standard 
 gauge from their property, situated on the west side of McLean 
 Avenue, south of Court Street, to a point fifty feet, more or less, 
 south of Gest Street, and connecting with the tracks of the Cincin- 
 nati Southern Railway in McLean Avenue, subject to the following 
 terms and conditions : 
 
 First — The tracks hereby authorized shall conform to the present 
 surface of that portion of McLean Avenue in which they are laid. 
 
 Second — “The Superior Wall Plastering and Manufacturing 
 Company ” shall lay and maintain such tracks in such manner that 
 wagons and other vehicles may conveniently cross them, and that 
 the drainage shall in no way be interfered with. 
 
 Third — Said tracks shall be subject to removal at any time by 
 order of the Board of Administration or of the Board of Legisla- 
 tion, and the said “The Superior Wall Plastering and Manufactur- 
 ing Company ” shall, within two weeks after receiving notice so to 
 do from the Board of Administration or the Board of Legislation, 
 remove said tracks from said avenue, and restore said avenue to good 
 repair, and in the event of a failure so to do the city may remove 
 the tracks at the expense of said company. 
 
 Fourth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the sum of five thousand dollars to save the city harmless 
 from any and all claims from damage that may accrue and be law- 
 
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 fully established by reason of the laying of said tracks, and for its 
 faithful compliance with all and singular the provisions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 Fifth — That said tracks shall be laid under the direction and 
 supervision of the Board of Administration and its engineer. 
 
 !N"o. 490. Passed March 31, 1893. 
 
 Authorizing- the John B. Morris Foundry Company to lay a railroad 
 track across New Court Street, between McLean Avenue and Har- 
 riet Street. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained hy the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the John B. Morris Foundry Company to lay a railroad track of 
 standard gauge from their property, lying on the south side of New 
 Court Street between Harriet and McLean Avenue, and connect- 
 ing with the tracks of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific 
 Railway, whose tracks abut on New Court Street, subject to the 
 following terms and conditions: 
 
 First— Said tracks shall conform to the grade of the street, and 
 said company shall immediately after laying the track restore the 
 street where disturbed by them to its present good condition ; shall 
 keep that portion of the street lying between the rails of the track 
 and one foot outside of each of the rails thereof in good repair, and 
 maintain all necessary crossings of gutters under said track ; and 
 if said company shall remove said track from said street, it shall 
 restore said street to perfect repair and good condition. 
 
 Second — Said company shall lay said track in such manner that 
 wagons and other vehicles may conveniently cross same, and in case 
 of any change of grade in said street where such tracks are laid 
 said company shall immediately relay the tracks to conform to the 
 grade as changed at its own expense. 
 
 Third — Said track shall be subject to removal at any time by 
 order of the Board of Administration or of the Board of Legisla- 
 tion, and the said the John B. Morris Foundry Company shall 
 within two weeks after receiving notice so to do from the Board of 
 Administration or the Board of Legislation remove said track from 
 said street, and restore said street to good repair, and in event of 
 failure so to do the city may remove said track at the expense 
 of said company. 
 
 Fourth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the sum of ten thousand dollars to save the city harmless 
 from any and all claims for damages that may accrue and be law- 
 fully established by reason of the laying of said track across New 
 Court Street, and for the faithful compliance of all and singular the 
 provisions of this ordinance. 
 
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 Fifth — Said company shall not be allowed to run any cars over 
 the track herein granted between the hours of 5 A. m. and 10 p. m., 
 nor shall it be allowed to obstruct New Court Street longer than 
 three minutes at any one time. 
 
 Sixth — That said track shall be laid under the direction, super- 
 vision, and to the satisfaction of the Board of Administration and 
 its engineer. 
 
 Seventh — Said company may use horses or mules in the transpor- 
 tation of cars across said New Court Street, but no locomotives will 
 be permitted to run upon or over said avenue. 
 
 NO. 589. Passed June 9, 1893. 
 
 To authorize the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company to lay a railroad track across Sixth Street, west of Carr 
 Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That permission be and the same is hereby granted 
 to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Com- 
 pany to lay a railroad track of standard gauge from their yards on 
 the north side of Sixth Street, west of Carr Street, across said Sixth 
 Street to the south side of said Sixth Street, and into the building 
 now situated on the lot at the southwest corner of Sixth and Carr 
 streets, subject to the following terms and conditions : 
 
 First— Said tracks shall conform to the grade of the street, and 
 said company shall immediately after laying the track restore the 
 street where disturbed by them to its present good condition, and 
 shall keep that portion of the street lying between the rails of the 
 track and one foot outside of each of the rails thereof in good 
 repair, and maintain all necessary crossings or gutters under said 
 track ; and if said company shall remove said track from said street, 
 it shall restore said street to good repair and perfect condition ; 
 and all work done on said street in connection with said tracks to 
 be done under the direction and supervision of the chief engineer 
 of the Board of Administration and at the expense of the said 
 company. 
 
 Second— Said company shall lay said track in such manner that 
 wagons and other vehicles may conveniently cross same, and in case 
 of any change of grade in said street where such tracks are laid 
 said company shall immediately lay the tracks to conform to the 
 grade as changed at its own expense. 
 
 Third — Said tracks shall be subject to removal at any time by 
 order of the Board of Administration or Board of Legislation, and 
 after two weeks’ notice to so remove said tracks from said street, 
 and to restore the said street to good repair, the city may remove 
 said track and restore said street, upon the failure of said company 
 so to do, at the expense of said company. 
 
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 Fourth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the sum of three thousand dollars to save the city harm- 
 less from any and all claims for damages that may accrue and be 
 lawfully established by reason of the laying of said tracks across 
 said Sixth Street, and for the faithful compliance of all and singular 
 the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Fifth — Said company shall not be allowed to run any cars over 
 the track herein granted between the hours of 5 A. m. and 10 p. m., 
 nor shall it be allowed to obstruct said Sixth Street longer than 
 three minutes at any one time ; and that engines are not to cross 
 said Sixth Street at any time. 
 
 NO. 656. Passed October 13, 1893. 
 
 To authorize the Kineon Coal Company to use and occupy Smith Street, 
 from a certain point south of Aug-usta Street to the Ohio River, with 
 an elevated double track. 
 
 Sec. 1. Permission given to use Smith Street. Be it or- 
 dained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, That — 
 Whereas, The Kineon Coal Company is the owner or lessee of cer- 
 tain coal-yards at the southwest corner of Smith and Water streets, 
 and wishes to erect coal-bins thereon, and to connect said coal bins 
 by an elevated double- track road with the elevated tracks of the 
 Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and 
 Bridge Company ; and 
 
 Whereas, Said Kineon Coal Company has obtained and produced 
 to the Board of Legislation the written consents of a majority of the 
 property-owners on the line of said proposed elevated double tracks 
 represented by the feet front of lots abutting on said Smith Street 
 along which said tracks are proposed to be constructed; said 
 property-holders being also the holders of more than one half of 
 the feet front of the lots and lands abutting on said portion of Smith 
 Street, it being found and declared to be true that such consents 
 have been produced as aforesaid : Now, 
 
 Therefore, The said the Kineon Coal Company is hereby granted 
 permission to use and occupy Smith Street, from a point at or near 
 the south line of Augusta Street southwardly to the Ohio River, 
 with an elevated double track of standard gauge, said elevated 
 double track to be used for transportation of cars by steam locomo- 
 tives to said property of the said the Kineon Coal Company. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said elevated double track to be so constructed as 
 not to interfere with the free use of Smith Street, and to be con- 
 structed according to plans and specifications on file in the office 
 of the Board of Administration of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said company shall save the city harmless from any 
 damages for which it may be liable for any injury to persons or 
 property on account of the grant made under this ordinance. 
 
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 No. 4323. Passed January 29, 1890. 
 
 To provide for the erection of safety gates at Third and Eggleston 
 Avenue and at Fifth and Eggleston Avenue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That the Little Miami Railroad Company shall, for the safety of 
 vehicles and pedestrians crossing their tracks, erect safety gates at 
 the following points: One on the east side of Eggleston Avenue at 
 the intersection of Third Street ; one on the west side of Eggleston 
 Avenue at the intersection of Third Street; one on the east side 
 of Eggleston Avenue at the intersection of Fifth Street; and one 
 on the west side of Eggleston Avenue at the intersection of Fifth 
 Street. 
 
 NO. 4358. Passed March 26, 1890. 
 
 To require the Little Miami Railroad, and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & 
 St. Louis Railway Company, its lessee, to construct and maintain a 
 wall or iron fence between its tracks and the street roadway on 
 East Front Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City oj Cincinnati , 
 That the Little Miami Railroad, and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & 
 St. Louis Railway Company, its lessee, be required, within sixty 
 days from the passage of this ordinance, to construct and forever 
 maintain a substantial wall or iron fence between its tracks and the 
 paved street along the line of the roadway on the south side of East 
 Front Street, from Washington Street westwardly to a point two 
 hundred feet east of the intersection of Pearl and Front streets, 
 except that at the intersection of Whittaker, Collord, and Parsons 
 streets gates shall be maintained to allow for the passage of the 
 public; that such wall or fence, as may be decided upon by the 
 Board of Public Affairs, shall be constructed under the direction 
 and to the satisfaction of the city engineer. 
 
 No. 19. Passed June 20, 1890. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company to 
 keep a watchman during the night at its crossing at Harrison 
 Avenue and at dueen-City-avenue crossing. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincin- 
 nati , That the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company 
 shall station and keep during the night-time, from 6 o’clock p. m. 
 to 6 o’clock A. m., a watchman at the point where the tracks of the 
 said company cross Harrison Avenue, and that the said company 
 shall also station and keep a watchman at the point where its tracks 
 cross Queen -City Avenue. 
 
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 Sec. 2. If the superintendent, trainmaster, or transportation- 
 master of the aforesaid company, whose duty it is hereby made to 
 see that a watchman is stationed at the said crossings, shall fail or 
 neglect to station and keep a watchman at each of said crossings, 
 either or all of them shall, upon conviction in the Police Court, be 
 fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars 
 for each and every night said officers shall so fail. 
 
 NO. 146. Passed December 4, 1891. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Com- 
 pany to keep a watchman at all times at its crossing at Liberty 
 Street and McLean Avenue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1. That the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Rail- 
 way Company shall station at all times a watchman at the point 
 where the tracks of the said company cross Liberty Street and 
 McLean Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. If the superintendent, trainmaster, or transportation- 
 master, whose duty it is hereby made to see that a watchman is 
 stationed at the said crossing, shall fail or neglect to station and 
 keep a watchman at said crossings, either or all of them shall, upon 
 conviction in the Police Court, be fined in any sum not less than 
 ten nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every time said 
 officer shall so fail. 
 
 NO. 298. Passed July 1, 1892. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany to place watchmen and erect safety gates at the intersection 
 of McLean Avenue and Liberty Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislatio?i of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That it shall be and it is hereby made the duty of 
 Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad Company to 
 place watchmen and erect safety gates at the intersection of McLean 
 Avenue and Liberty Street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the safety gates required by Section 1 of this ordi- 
 nance shall be so erected within thirty days after the taking effect 
 of this ordinance, and upon a failure to so erect any such gates the 
 Board of Administration, at the expense of said company, shall 
 cause the same to be erected. 
 
 Sec. 3. That each of such gates shall be in charge of a compe- 
 tent person employed by the railroad company, who shall keep such 
 gate closed while any steam-cars are occupying or crossing said 
 street, and who shall prevent such gate at any one time remaining 
 closed for a period longer than five minutes. 
 
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 Sec. 4. Any violation of Section 3 of this ordinance shall be 
 deemed a misdemeanor, and any employee in charge of such gate 
 offending against its provisions shall be fined in a sum not less than 
 five dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 No. 209. Passed March 4, 1892.* 
 
 To require the Cincinnati & Westwood Narrow-gauge Railroad Com - 
 pany to place watchmen and erect safety gates at the crossing at 
 Harrison Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That the Cincinnati & Westwood Narrow-gauge Rail- 
 road Company be and is hereby required to place watchmen and 
 erect safety gates at the crossing at Harrison Avenue, and upon the 
 failure of said company to have and keep watchmen and to erect 
 safety gates at said crossing, said company shall be fined in any sum 
 not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every day when said railroad 
 is in operation without watchmen and safety gates. 
 
 , No. 284. Passed June 17, 1892. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad Company to place and 
 maintain safety gates and a watchman at the point where its tracks 
 cross Harrison Avenue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That the Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad Company be and they 
 are hereby required to construct and maintain safety gates at the 
 intersection of its railroad tracks with Harrison Avenue, and to 
 place and maintain a watchman at said crossing. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any officer, agent, or employee or servant of said 
 Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad Company who crosses said Har- 
 rison Avenue with a railroad locomotive or car without such safety 
 gates being at said crossing, and without there being a watchman at 
 said crossing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 
 subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars or imprisonment in 
 the City Workhouse for not more than thirty days, or both fine 
 and imprisonment ; and each and every crossing of said Harrison 
 Avenue upon the tracks of said company with a locomotive engine 
 or railroad car shall be deemed a separate offense. 
 
 * Void by misnomer and misapplication of penalty. 
 
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 No. 618. Passed August 25, 1893. 
 
 To require the Cincinnati & Westwood. Railroad Company to place and 
 maintain safety gates and a watchman at the point where its tracks 
 cross Beekman Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That the Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad Company be and they 
 are hereby required to construct and maintain safety gates at the 
 intersection of its railroad tracks with Beekman Street, and to place 
 and maintain a watchman at said crossing. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any officer, agent, or employee or servant of said 
 Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad Company who crosses said Beek- 
 man Street with a railroad locomotive or car without such safety 
 gates being at said crossing, and without there being a watchman at 
 said crossing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 
 be subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars or imprisonment 
 in the City Workhouse for not more than thirty days, or both fine 
 and imprisonment ; and each and every crossing of said Beekman 
 Street upon the tracks of said company with a locomotive engine 
 or railroad car shall be deemed a separate offense. 
 
 NO. 73. Passed November 7, 1890. 
 
 Authorizing the S. Obermayer Foundry Supply Manufacturing Co. to 
 lay a railroad track across Evans Street, south of Eighth Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cincinnati , That 
 permission be and the same is hereby granted to the S. Obermayer 
 Foundry Supply Manufacturing Company to lay a railroad track 
 from their foundry, on the west side of Evans Street south of 
 Eighth, across Evans Street to their warehouse, on the east side of 
 said Evans Street, subject to the following terms and conditions: 
 
 1. That said track must be laid under the direction and super- 
 vision of the chief engineer of the Board of Public Improvements. 
 
 2. That said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the sum of ten thousand dollars to save the city harmless 
 from any damages by reason of the laying of said track across said 
 Evans Street, and conditioned further to restore the said street to 
 its present condition, and to keep the said street in good order of 
 repair between said tracks 
 
 3. The said track shall be subject to removal at any time by 
 order of the Board of Public Improvements or of the City Council, 
 and the said the S. Obermayer Foundry Supply Manufacturing 
 Company, within two weeks after receiving notice so to do from the 
 said Board of Public Improvements or of the City Council, shall 
 remove said track from said street and restore the said street to 
 good repair, or the city may remove the track at the expense 
 of the said company. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 966. Passed August 9, 1895. 
 
 Granting- the Pittsburg-, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway- 
 
 Company permission to lay a single track in Vine Street, south 
 
 of Front Street. 
 
 Be it hereby ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That there is hereby granted to the Pittsburg, Cincin- 
 nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company permission to lay 
 down a single track or switch of their road as follows, to wit : 
 Beginning at a point in the Front-street track of the Cincinnati 
 Street Connection Railway, said point being one hundred and 
 twelve feet west of the east line of Vine Street; thence by such a 
 curve as is practicable to a point on the east side of Vine Street, 
 forty four feet south of the south line of Front Street and six feet 
 west of the east curb-line of Vine Street, measured from said east 
 curb line to the center line of said track; thence parallel with said 
 east curb-line to a point one hundred and twenty-three feet south of 
 the south line of Water Street ; thence by such a curve as is practi- 
 cable to the east line of the leasehold held by the Hinsch Coal and 
 Coke Company from the Wiggins estate, with necessary turn-out 
 connecting the Water-street track, upon the following terms and 
 conditions : 
 
 First — The portion of the pavement necessary to be taken up 
 to place the roads thereon to be carefully put down again. The 
 gutters at the intersections of the several streets to be covered with 
 iron gutter-plates, to be laid down in such a manner as to allow the 
 surface water to pass freely under them. The work to be done 
 under the direction of the Board of Administration and the engi- 
 neer of the Board of Administration. The costs of relaying such 
 pavement and gutters are to be paid by the said Pittsburg, Cincin- 
 nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. 
 
 Second — Said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rail- 
 way Company to pay all damages that may result to property in 
 any way by their occupancy of said street, and in no case shall 
 any change of grade be made without the consent of the Board 
 of Legislation. 
 
 Third — The rail used to be of the most improved kind, and to 
 be put down in such a manner as to leave the surface of the street 
 as near level as possible, so as to offer as little obstruction to vehicles 
 passing over and along the street as the nature of the improvement 
 will admit. The pattern and style of the rail to be submitted to 
 the B »ard of Administration and the engineer of the Board of 
 Administration, and to be approved by them before being placed 
 on the streets. 
 
 Fourth — The city to have the right of allowing any present or 
 future railway company to use said track in passing their cars 
 through the city upon such terms as may be agreed upon between 
 
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 such railroad companies and the Board of Legislation or its suc- 
 cessors ; and should any question arise between the above-named 
 company and any other company or companies with which the 
 Board of Legislation or its successors may have entered into an 
 agreement for privilege to use said track, then the Board of Legis- 
 lation or its successors to be the umpire to decide between them, 
 from whose decision there shall be no appeal. 
 
 Fifth — The hours which said track may be used for the transfer 
 of freight and passengers shall be as follows: From 6 o’clock p. m. 
 to 6 o’clock a. m., and no cars to be drawn on the track at any 
 other hours. The companies to have the privilege of using steam 
 or horse -power, as they, in their judgment, think best; subject, 
 however, to the approval of the Board of Legislation and its suc- 
 cessors. But in no case shall cars be drawn through the city at a 
 greater speed than six miles per hour. 
 
 Sixth — For the privilege granted to the above-named company 
 or companies to use the streets as above, they on their part agree to 
 keep the streets in good repair between the rails of the said track 
 and three feet outside of each of the rails thereof ; and if the above- 
 named companies to whom this grant is made fail to keep such 
 street or streets occupied by their track in good order, then it shall 
 be the duty of the Board of Administration to have the work done 
 at their expense; and if they refuse or fail to pay into the city 
 treasury the amount necessary to put them in repair for ten days 
 after such work is done, then the Board of Administration or its 
 successors may prevent such company from using the streets by 
 removing the rails therefrom. 
 
 Seventh — The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Kailway 
 Company shall furnish to the Board of Legislation a statement of 
 the exact amount of the cost of said track, which shall be sworn to, 
 of all moneys expended by them in its construction, so as to place 
 the city in possession of such information, to be used, if found to be 
 necessary, as a basis of what shall be a fair compensation to be paid 
 by other companies for the privilege of using said track, in the event 
 that said companies can not agree as to compensation, if it becomes 
 necessary for the Board of Legislation or its successors to arbitrate 
 as provided by Section 4 herein. 
 
 Eighth — The Board of Legislation or its successors alone shall 
 have the power to arrange the terms for authorizing side switches, 
 and fixing the conditions upon which turnouts shall be made on the 
 line of the track between the points designated in this ordinance. 
 
 Ninth — Upon a resolution passed by the Board of Legislation, 
 flagmen shall be kept stationed by the company receiving this 
 grant where the cars turn any corner, so as to prevent collisions or 
 accidents. 
 
 Tenth — Cars shall be permitted to remain on said line of track 
 in Vine Street during the daytime, for the purpose of being loaded 
 
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 and unloaded, by the consent of all the abutting property-owners; 
 provided that no cars shall in any event be permitted to obstruct 
 the sidewalk or street at any of the intersections, nor be transferred 
 or moved on said line of track at any time or in any manner than 
 as provided by Section 5 herein. 
 
 Eleventh — The city shall not be liable to the Pittsburg, Cincin- 
 nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company or to any other company 
 under this agreement in any damage for delay or interruption, if 
 any there be, for such time as may be necessary to lay down water 
 or gas-pipes, or for constructing any sewer that the city may by 
 resolution or ordinance authorize to be built ; nor shall any thing in 
 this agreement be construed to pass from the city full and complete 
 control of the streets in which this grant authorizes a railroad track 
 to be laid, but her control is as full and complete as if no grant had 
 been given, subject to the express condition to use the streets in the 
 manner and for the purpose named. 
 
 Twelfth — The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rail- 
 way Company, for and in consideration of the privilege to use the 
 streets named in the first section of this ordinance for the purpose 
 therein expressed, shall covenant and agree to pay to the said city 
 of Cincinnati the sum of one dollar per annum. 
 
 Thirteenth— Should the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. 
 Louis Railway Company in laying its tracks under this ordinance 
 cross the tracks of any street railroad company, or the tracks of 
 any other company, then said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. 
 Louis Railway Company must obtain the consent and permission of 
 said company to cross its tracks. 
 
 Fourteenth — Said track shall be subject to removal at any time 
 by order of the Board of Legislation, and after thirty days’ notice 
 to so remove said tracks from said street, and to restore the said 
 street to good repair, the city may remove said track and restore 
 said streets, upon the failure of the said company so to do, at the 
 expense of said company. 
 
 Fifteenth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of 
 Cincinnati in the sum of three thousand dollars to save the city 
 harmless from any and all claims for damages that may accrue and 
 be lawfully established by reason of the laying of said tracks in 
 said streets, and for the faithful compliance with all and singular 
 the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
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 No. 967. Passed August 9, 1895. 
 
 Granting- to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company 
 permission to lay a single track in and across Second Street, and 
 in John Street south to Augusta Street. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Bailway Company to lay down 
 a single track or switch of their road of standard gauge as follows, 
 to-wit : Beginning at a point in said company’s tracks on the north 
 side of Second Street west of John Street, and thence by curve 
 across Second Street southwardly to a point in John Street on the 
 south line of Second Street, not more than six feet east of the west 
 curb-line of John Street, to a point in John Street at the north line 
 of Augusta Street, subject to the following terms and conditions : 
 First — The portion of the pavement taken up necessary to place 
 the road or switch thereon to be carefully put down again. Said 
 track shall conform with the grade of the streets. The said com- 
 pany shall immediately after laying the track restore the street 
 where disturbed by it to its present good condition, and shall keep 
 that portion of the street lying between the rails of the track and 
 for a distance of three feet outside of each of the rails thereof in 
 good repair, and maintain all necessary crossings under said track ; 
 and if said company shall remove said track from said street, it 
 shall restore said street to good repair and perfect condition ; and 
 all work done on said street in connection with said track to be 
 done under the direction and supervision of the chief engineer 
 of the Board of Administration, and at the expense of the said 
 company. 
 
 Second — Said Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company 
 to pay all damages that may result to property in any way by their 
 occupancy of said streets, and in no case shall any change of grade 
 be made without the consent of the Board of Legislation. 
 
 Third — The rail to be used to be of the most improved kind, 
 and to be put down in such a manner as to leave the surface of the 
 street as nearly level as possible, so as to offer as little obstruction 
 to vehicles passing over and along the street as the nature of the 
 improvement will admit; the pattern and style of the rail to be 
 submitted to the Board of Administration, and to be approved by 
 them before being placed on the streets. 
 
 Fourth — The city to have the right of allowing any present or 
 future railway company to use said track in passing cars through 
 the city upon such terms as may be agreed upon between such 
 railroad companies and the Board of Legislation or its successors ; 
 and should any question arise between the above-named company 
 and any other company or companies with which the Board of 
 Legislation or its successors may have entered into an agreement 
 
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 for privilege to use said track, then the Board of Legislation or its 
 successors to be the umpire to decide between them, from whose 
 decision there shall be no appeal. 
 
 Fifth — The hours which said track may be used for the transfer 
 of freight and passengers shall be from 6 o’clock p. m. to 6 o'clock 
 A. m., and no cars are to be drawn on the track at any other hours. 
 The company is to have the privilege of using steam- or horse- 
 power, as it, in its judgment, may think best; subject, however, 
 to the approval of the Board of Legislation and its successors. But 
 in no case shall cars be drawn through the city at a greater speed 
 than six miles an hour. 
 
 Sixth — For the privilege granted to the above-named company 
 to use the streets as above it agrees on its part to keep the streets 
 in good repair for all that portion lying between the rails of said 
 track and three feet on the outside of each rail, and to pay the 
 costs of relaying such pavement and gutters as are necessary to be 
 taken up; and if the above-named company to whom this grant is 
 made fail to keep such street or streets occupied by its track in 
 good order, then it shall be the duty of the Board of Administra- 
 tion to have the work done at its expense ; and if it refuse or fail 
 to pay into the city treasury the amount necessary to put them in 
 repair for ten days after such work is done, then the Board of Ad- 
 ministration or its successors may prevent such company from using 
 the streets by removing the rails therefrom. 
 
 Seventh — The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Com- 
 pany shall furnish to the Board of Legislation a statement of the 
 exact amount of the cost of said track, which shall be sworn to, 
 of all moneys expended by said company in the construction of 
 said track, so as to place the city in possession of such information, 
 to be used, if found necessary, as a basis of what shall be a fair 
 compensation to be paid by other companies for the privilege of 
 using said track, in the event that said companies can not agree as 
 to compensation, if it becomes necessary for the Board of Legisla- 
 tion or its successors to arbitrate as provided by Section 4 herein. 
 
 Eighth — The Board of Legislation or its successors alone shall 
 have the power to arrange the terms for authorizing side switches, 
 and fixing the conditions upon which turnouts shall be made on 
 the line of the track between the points designated in this ordi- 
 nance. 
 
 Ninth — Upon resolution passed by the Board of Legislation, 
 flagmen shall be kept stationed by the company receiving this grant 
 where the cars turn any corner, so as to prevent collisions or acci- 
 dents. 
 
 Tenth — Cars shall be permitted to remain on said line of track 
 in John Street during the daytime, for the purpose of being loaded 
 and unloaded, by the consent of all the abutting property-owners; 
 provided that no cars shall in any event be permitted to obstruct 
 the sidewalk or street at any of the intersections, nor be transferred 
 
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 or moved on said line of track at any time or in any manner than 
 as provided in Condition 5 herein. 
 
 Eleventh — The city shall not be liable to the Baltimore & Ohio 
 Southwestern Railway Company or to any other company under 
 this agreement in any damage for delay or interruption, if any 
 there be, for such time as may be necessary to lay down water- or 
 gas-pipes, or for constructing any sewer that the city may by reso- 
 lution or ordinance authorize to be built; nor shall anything in 
 this agreement be construed to pass from the city full and complete 
 control of the streets in which this grant authorizes a railroad track 
 to be laid, but her control is as full and complete as if no grant had 
 been given, subject to the express condition to use the streets in 
 the manner and for the purpose named. 
 
 Twelfth — But said track shall be subject to removal at any time, 
 by order of the Board of Legislation, or upon demand made in 
 writing by a majority of the front feet of abutting property-holders, 
 of the said Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company to 
 remove the same, and after thirty days’ notice to so remove said 
 track from said streets, and to restore the streets to good repair, the 
 city may remove said track and restore said streets at the expense 
 of said company, upon the failure of said company so to do. 
 
 Thirteenth — The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Com- 
 pany, for and in consideration of the privilege of using the streets 
 named in the first section of this ordinance for the purposes therein 
 expressed, shall covenant and agree to pay the said city of Cincin- 
 nati the sum of one dollar per annum. 
 
 Fourteenth — Should the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Rail- 
 way Company in laying its track under the ordinance cross the 
 tracks of any street railroad company or the tracks of any other 
 company, the said Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Com- 
 pany must obtain the consent and permission of said company to 
 cross its tracks. 
 
 Fifteenth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of 
 Cincinnati in the sum of three thousand dollars to save the city 
 harmless from any and all claims for damages that may accrue and 
 be lawfully established by reason of the laying of said tracks across 
 said Second and John streets, and for the faithful performance of 
 all and singular the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
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 No. 1046. Passed March 27, 1896. 
 
 Granting- to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 
 Company permission to lay a single track on Water Street in the 
 
 City of Cincinnati, Ohio, across and extending westwardly from 
 
 Walnut Street. 
 
 Be it hereby ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That there is hereby granted to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, 
 Chicago & St Louis Railway Company permission to lay down a 
 single track or switch of their road to accommodate the business of 
 Janies Heekin & Co. as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the 
 Water-street branch of the Cincinnati Street Connection Railway, 
 said point being thirty -five feet east of the east line of Walnut 
 Street; thence turning out of the said Street Connection Railway 
 as now constructed in Water Street, extending westwardly two 
 hundred feet bv the necessary curve across Walnut Street, making 
 the turnout ; thence parallel with and distant from the north house- 
 line of Water Street, twelve feet, upon the following terms and 
 conditions : 
 
 First — The portion of the pavement necessary to be taken up in 
 connection with the construction of the side-track to be carefully 
 put down again. The gutters at the intersection of Walnut and 
 Water streets to be covered with iron gutter-plates, to be laid down 
 in such a manner as to allow the surface-water to pass freely under 
 them. The work to be done under the direction of the Board of 
 Administration and the engineer of the Board of Administration. 
 The costs of relaying such pavement and gutters are to be paid 
 by the said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company. 
 
 Second — Said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rail- 
 way Company to pay all damages that may result to property in 
 any way by their occupancy of said street, and in no case shall any 
 change of grade be made without the consent of the Board of 
 Legislation. 
 
 Third — The rail used to be of the most improved kind, and to 
 be put down in such manner as to leave the surface of the street as 
 near level as possible, so as to offer as little obstruction to vehicles 
 passing over and along the streets as the nature of this improve- 
 ment will admit. The pattern and style of the rail to be submitted 
 to the Board of Administration and the engineer of the Board of 
 Administration, and to be approved by them before being placed 
 on the streets. 
 
 Fourth — The city to have the right of allowing any present or 
 future railway company to use said track in passing their cars 
 through the city upon such terms as may be agreed upon between 
 such railroad companies and the Board of Legislation or it suc- 
 cessors ; and should any question arise between the above named 
 
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 company, and any other company or companies with which the 
 Board of Legislation or its successors may have entered into an 
 agreement for privilege to use said track, then the Board of Legis- 
 lation or its successors to be the umpire to decide between them, 
 froimwhose decision there shall be no appeal. 
 
 Fifth — The hours which said track may be used for the transfer 
 of freight shall be as follows: from 6 p. m. to 6 A. m., and no cars 
 to be drawn on the track at any other hours, except that the privi- 
 lege is given of drawing cars at any hour by horse-power. The 
 companies to have the privilege of using steam- or horse-power 
 between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m., as they in their judgment think best; 
 subject, however, to the approval of the Board of Legislation or 
 their successors. But in no case shall cars be drawn through the 
 city at a greater speed than six miles per hour. 
 
 Sixth — For the privilege granted to the above-named company 
 or companies to use the streets as above they on their part agree to 
 keep the streets in good repair between the rails of the said track 
 and three feet outside of each of the rails thereof ; and if the above- 
 named companies to whom this grant is made fail to keep each street 
 or streets occupied by their tracks in good order, then it shall be 
 the duty of the Board of Administration to have the work done at 
 their expense; and if they refuse or fail to pay into the city treasury 
 the amount necessary to put them in repair for ten days after such 
 work is done, then the Board of Administration or its successors 
 may prevent such company from using its streets by removing the 
 rails therefrom. 
 
 Seventh — The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company shall furnishto the Board of Legislation a statement of the 
 exact amount of the cost of said track, which shall be sworn to, of 
 all moneys expended by them in its construction, so as to place the 
 city in possession of such information, to be used, if found to be 
 necessary, as a basis of what shall be fair compensation to be paid 
 by other companies for the privilege of using said track, in the 
 event that said companies can not agree as to compensation if it 
 becomes necessary for the Board of Legislation or its successors to 
 arbitrate as provided by Section 4 herein. 
 
 Eighth — The Board of Legislation or its successors alone shall 
 have the power to arrange the terms for authorizing side switches, 
 and fixing the conditions upon which turnouts shall be made on the 
 line of the track between the points designated in this ordinance. 
 
 Ninth — Upon a resolution passed by the Board of Legislation 
 flagmen are to be kept stationed, if necessary, where the cars turn 
 any corner, so as to prevent collisions or accidents. 
 
 Tenth — Cars shall be permitted to remain on said line of track of 
 Water Street during the daytime, for the purpose of being loaded or 
 unloaded, by the consent of the abutting property -owners ; provided 
 that no cars shall in any event be permitted to obstruct the sidewalk 
 
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 or street at the intersection of Walnut and Water streets, nor be 
 transferred or moved on said line of track at any time or in any 
 manner than as provided by Section 5 herein. 
 
 Eleventh — The city shall not be liable to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, 
 Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company or to any other company 
 under this agreement in any damage for delay or interruption, if any 
 there be, for such time as may be necessary to lay down water- or 
 gas-pipes, or for constructing any sewer that the city may by reso- 
 lution or ordinance authorize to be built; nor shall anything in this 
 agreement be construed to pass from the city full and complete 
 control of the streets in which this grant authorizes a railroad track 
 to be laid, but her control is as full and complete as if no grant had 
 been given, subject to the express conditions to use the streets in 
 the manner and for the purpose named. 
 
 Twelfth — The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company, for and in consideration of the privilege to use the streets 
 named in the first section of this ordinance for the purpose therein 
 expressed, shall covenant and agree to pay to the said city of Cin- 
 cinnati the sum of one dollar per annum. 
 
 Thirteenth — Should the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
 Railway Company in laying its tracks under this ordinance cross the 
 tracks of any street railway company, or the tracks of any other com- 
 pany, then said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company must obtain the consent and permission of said company to 
 cross its tracks. 
 
 Fourteenth — Said track shall be subject to removal at any time by 
 order of the Board of Administration or Board of Legislation, and 
 after thirty days’ notice to so remove said tracks from said street, 
 and to restore the said street to good repair, the city may remove 
 said track and restore said streets, upon the failure of said company 
 so to do, at the expense of said company. 
 
 Fifteenth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cin- 
 cinnati in the sum of three thousand dollars to save the city harmless 
 from any and all claims for damages that may accrue and be lawfully 
 established by reason of the laying of said tracks in said streets, and 
 for the faithful compliance with all and singular the provisions of 
 this ordinance. 
 
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 So. 1173 . Passed March 1, 1897. 
 
 Granting- the Pittsburg-, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Com- 
 pany permission to lay a side-track across the intersection of Second 
 and Front streets, and on Lawrence Street north of Front Street, 
 and a side-track across Lawrence Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That there is hereby granted to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago 
 & St. Louis Railway Company permission to lay down a single track 
 of their road as follows, to accommodate business of the Cincinnati 
 Architectural Iron Works, the HoefinghofF & Laue Foundry Com- 
 pany, the Miller, Du Brul & Peters Manufacturing Company, and 
 the Bickford Drill Company : Beginning at a point in the Front- 
 street track of the Cincinnati Street Connection Railway, said point 
 being seventy-five feet west of the west line of Lawrence Street ; 
 thence by the necessary curve to a point on the east side of Law- 
 rence Street seventy-five feet north of the north line of Front 
 Street, and five feet west of the east curb-line of Lawrence Street; 
 thence parallel with said east line to a point forty feet south of the 
 "south line of Pearl Street, and a track turning out of the above 
 described track and crossing Lawrence Street for the accommodation 
 of the business of the Mcllvaine & Spiegel Boiler and Tank Com- 
 pany, beginning at a point one hundred and thirty feet north of the 
 north line of Front Street; thence northwesterly by the necessary 
 curve to the west line of Lawrence Street. Permission is also 
 granted to lay a two-foot gauge tram track parallel to said side-track 
 upon the east sidewalk of Lawrence Street, and turning into the 
 building of the Cincinnati Architectural Iron Works, and also to 
 erect an overhead traveler, projecting from said building, all for 
 the purpose of more safely and easily loading and unloading cars 
 which may be placed on said side-track, upon the following terms 
 and conditions: 
 
 First — The portion of the pavement taken up for the construc- 
 tion of the tracks therein shall be carefully replaced ; no change of 
 grade of street shall be made without consent of the Board of 
 Legislation ; any man-lioles, inlets, or other appurtenances of the 
 sewerage system of the city which may be disturbed shall be re- 
 placed. All of said work shall be done under the direction of the 
 Board of Administration and the engineer of the Board of Admin- 
 istration, and the cost thereof shall be paid by the said Pittsburg, 
 Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. 
 
 Second — The rail used shall be of the most improved kind as 
 used on the main track of said street-connection railway, and shall 
 be put down in such a manner as to project as little as possible 
 above the surface of the street, so as to offer as little obstruction 
 
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 to vehicles passing over and along said street as the nature of the 
 improvement will admit. The pattern and style of the rail to be 
 submitted to the Board of Administration and the engineer of the 
 Board of Administration for their approval. 
 
 Third — The city to have the right of allowing any present or 
 future railway company to use said track in passing their cars 
 through the city upon such terms as may be agreed upon between 
 such railroad companies and the Board of Legislation or its succes- 
 sors ; and should any question arise between the above - named 
 company and any other company or companies with which the Board 
 of Legislation or its successors may have entered into an agreement 
 for privilege to use said track, then the Board of Legislation or its 
 successors to be the umpire to decide between them, from whose 
 decision there shall be no appeal. 
 
 Fourth — For the privilege granted to the above-named company 
 or companies to use the streets as above, they on their part agree to 
 keep the streets in good repair between the rails of the said track 
 and three feet outside of each of the rails thereof ; and if the above- 
 named companies to whom this grant is made fail to keep such 
 street or streets occupied by their track in good order, then it shall 
 be the duty of the Board of Administration to have the work done 
 at their expense ; and if they refuse or fail to pay into the city 
 treasury the amount necessary to put them in repair for ten days 
 after such work is done, then the Board of Administration or its 
 successors may prevent such company from using the streets by 
 removing the rails therefrom. 
 
 Fifth — The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company shall furnish to the Board of Legislation a statement of 
 the exact amount of the cost of said track, w r hich shall be sworn 
 to, of all moneys expended by them in its construction, so as to 
 place the city in possession of such information, to be used, if found 
 to be necessary, as a basis of what shall be a fair compensation to 
 be paid by other companies for the privilege of using said track, in 
 the event that said companies can not agree as to compensation, if it 
 becomes necessary for the Board of Administration or its successors 
 to arbitrate as provided by Section 3 herein. 
 
 Sixth — The Board of Legislation or its successors alone shall 
 have the power to arrange the terms for authorizing side-switches, 
 and fixing the conditions upon which turnouts shall be made upon 
 the line of the track between the points designated in this ordi- 
 nance. 
 
 Seventh — Upon resolution of the Board of Legislation, flagmen 
 must be stationed where the track turns any corner, to prevent 
 collisions or accidents. 
 
 Eighth — Cars shall be permitted to remain on said tracks in 
 Lawrence Street at any time, for the purpose of being loaded or 
 unloaded, by the consent of the abutting property-owners, provided 
 
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 that no cars shall in any event be permitted to obstruct the side- 
 walk or any of the intersecting streets. 
 
 Ninth — The city shall not be liable to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, 
 Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company or to any other company 
 under this agreement in any damage for delay or interruption, if 
 any there be, for such time as may be necessary to lay down water 
 or gas-pipes, or for constructing any sewer that the city may by 
 resolution or ordinance authorize to be built ; nor shall any thing 
 in this agreement be construed to pass from the city full and com- 
 plete control of the streets in which this grant authorizes a railroad 
 track to be laid, but her control is as full and complete as if no 
 grant had been given, subject to the express condition to use the 
 streets in the manner and for the purpose named. 
 
 Tenth — The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company, for and in consideration of the privilege to use the streets 
 named in the first section of this ordinance for the purpose therein 
 expressed, shall covenant and agree to pay to the said city of Cin- 
 cinnati the sum of one dollar per annum. 
 
 Eleventh — Should the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
 Railway Company in laying its tracks under this ordinance cross 
 the tracks of any street railroad company, or the tracks of any 
 other company, then said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
 Railway Company must obtain the consent and permission of said 
 company to cross its tracks. 
 
 Twelfth — Said track shall be subject to removal at any time by 
 order of the Board of Administration or Board of Legislation, and 
 after thirty days’ notice to so remove said tracks from said streets, 
 and to restore the said street to good repair, the city may remove 
 said track and restore said streets, upon the failure of the said com- 
 pany so to do, at the expense of said company. 
 
 Thirteenth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of 
 Cincinnati in the sum of one thousand dollars to save the city 
 harmless from any and all claims for damages that may accrue 
 and be lawfully established by reason of the laying of said tracks 
 in said streets, and for the faithful compliance with aH and singular 
 the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 1197. Passed March 22, 1897. 
 
 Authorizing- the Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company to use, occupy, 
 
 and cross certain property, public grounds, avenues, streets, and 
 
 alleys in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That permission and authority are hereby granted to 
 the Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company to cross, occupy, and 
 use, in the manner described herein below, for railroad purposes, 
 with single or double tracks, the following property, public grounds, 
 avenues, streets, and alleys, to-wit : 
 
 (1) The right to use and occupy with its tracks Accommodation 
 Street, commencing on the west side thereof at a point about three 
 hundred and twenty-five feet south of the north end of said street ; 
 thence northwardly across said street, reaching the east line of 
 Accommodation Street at a point about seventy-five feet south of 
 the north end of said street. 
 
 (2) Thence northwardly from Accommodation Street, beneath 
 the present tracks of the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway 
 Company, and through the property of the city of Cincinnati, now 
 held by said Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway Company 
 under lease from said city, by tunnel to and under Deercreek Road 
 and Elsinore Avenue, passing about forty feet beneath the present 
 surface of said Elsinore Avenue at its intersection with the Deer- 
 creek Road to the property of said Cincinnati Northern Railroad 
 Company lying west of the Deercreek Road at the southern portal 
 of said Company’s tunnel ; all in accordance with and as shown on 
 the plat on file in the office of the engineer of the Board of Admin- 
 istration of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 (3) Through and along said company’s right of way and tunnel, 
 passing beneath all streets, alleys, or highways that have been 
 opened across the line thereof, to its northern portal near the western 
 end of Ridgeway Street, on the property formerly belonging to 
 Samuel Beresford. 
 
 (4) Thence northeastwardly along the right of way acquired 
 from the Cincinnati Railway Tunnel Company to the east corpora- 
 tion line of the city of Cincinnati, being the east line of Section 9, 
 Township 3, Fractional Range 2, of the Miami Purchase, passing 
 under Woodward or Blair Avenue near its junction with Beresford 
 Avenue at such elevation as will afford proper clearance for the 
 cars and traffic of said Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company 
 without change or interference with the use of said Woodward or 
 Blair Avenue. 
 
 (5) The right to cross with two or more tracks Rockdale Avenue, 
 an unused and unimproved street, near where the same is now occu- 
 pied and crossed by the trestle and track of the Cincinnati, Lebanon 
 & Northern Railway, at such distance therefrom and at such eleva- 
 
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 tion as shall be made necessary by the grade determined upon for 
 the crossing of Woodward or Blair Avenue. 
 
 (6) Also the right to cross Deercre'ek Road with one or more 
 tracks for switching purposes, passing under the present tracks of 
 the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway Company, about 
 eight hundred and fifty feet southwardly from Elsinore Avenue, to 
 reach the property of said Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company 
 lying west of Deercreek Road and south of Elsinore Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the grading shall be made and the tracks laid 
 under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer of the 
 Board of Administration of the city of Cincinnati, and shall be so 
 built and maintained as not unnecessarily to obstruct the ordinary 
 use or drainage of the streets through and over which said railroad 
 shall be constructed ; and if it be necessary in constructing said 
 railroad on the grade aforesaid to remove, replace, or relocate any 
 part or portion of any sewer constructed in the line of said property, 
 public grounds, streets, avenues, and alleys, or relocate any water 
 main or pipe, the same shall be done at the expense of the said Cin- 
 cinnati Northern Railroad Company, and in accordance with plans 
 and specifications furnished by said engineer of the Board of 
 Administration of the city of Cincinnati, and the work shall 
 be performed under said engineer’s supervision and to his satis- 
 faction. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said company shall pay and hold the city of Cin- 
 cinnati harmless from any and all costs and expenses to be incurred 
 in the construction and maintenance of said work and the railroad 
 authorized hereunder, and also any and all damages for which said 
 city may be made liable by reason of the occupancy and use of 
 such property, public grounds, streets, avenues, and alleys, or parts 
 thereof, by said railroad company, and shall pay the owners of 
 adjoining property any damages that may be occasioned by the per- 
 formance of the work herein authorized and for which the company 
 would be otherwise liable. 
 
 Sec. 4. That before said company shall commence the con- 
 struction of any part of its said roadway upon the property, public 
 grounds, streets, avenues, and alleys aforesaid, it shall give a bond, 
 payable to the city of Cincinnati, in the penal sum of twenty-five 
 thousand dollars, with sureties satisfactory to the Board of Admin- 
 istration of the city of Cincinnati, to comply with the conditions 
 hereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the city of Cincinnati shall have the right to allow 
 any other railroad company or companies (whose tracks are of the 
 same gauge as that of the Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company) 
 coming from other states or other counties in Ohio to connect with 
 such portions of said track as may be laid upon the property, public 
 grounds, streets, avenues, or alleys under the authority of this ordi- 
 nance, and to use the same with cars of the same gauge ; but such 
 right shall be subordinate to that of the Cincinnati Northern 
 
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 Railroad Company, and shall be so exercised as not to destroy or 
 materially impair the right herein granted to said company, and 
 shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as may be proper in 
 order to avoid collisions and secure the safety of trains, and upon 
 such reasonable compensation, having due regard to the original 
 cost of construction and maintenance, as may be previously agreed 
 upon by and between said the Cincinnati Northern Railroad Com- 
 pany or its assigns and such other party or parties desiring to nse 
 the tracks so laid as aforesaid. And in the event of any accident 
 to any train of such other company or companies resulting in injury 
 to or destruction of the tracks, substructures, tunnel, or other prop- 
 erty of the said Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company, the loss so 
 occasioned shall be paid by the company or companies owning such 
 train or trains. 
 
 Sec. 6. The said Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company shall 
 at all times have the right to fix its own time-tables for arrival and 
 departure of trains, and to arrange the tracks and other matters 
 connected with the construction and operation of said railroad as it 
 shall see fit, but not so as to destroy the right herein reserved to 
 said city to grant the privilege aforesaid to other companies. 
 
 Sec. 7. All existing ordinances and parts of ordinances in con- 
 flict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 8. The work that may be let by the Cincinnati Northern 
 Railroad Company for the construction contemplated by this ordi- 
 nance shall be done, as far as practicable, by laborers that are 
 residents of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 9. The work contemplated by this ordinance shall be 
 finished within two and one half years from and after the ac- 
 ceptance of this ordinance by the Cincinnati Northern Railroad 
 Company ; otherwise this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from 
 and after the earliest period allowed by law ; provided that before 
 any right shall vest under this ordinance said Cincinnati Northern 
 Railroad Company shall, in writing filed with the city clerk, accept 
 the same, and agree to abide by all its provisions and conditions ; 
 and provided further, that this ordinance shall not take effect until 
 the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway Company has filed 
 with the clerk of this board its written consent to that part of this 
 ordinance which provides that the Cincinnati Northern Railroad 
 Company may pass as proposed through the property leased to the 
 Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway Company ; and provided 
 further, that the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway Com- 
 pany will pay the same rental as provided in said lease to the city 
 of Cincinnati without any dimunition by reason of the occupancy 
 of the leased property as aforesaid by said Cincinnati Northern 
 Railroad Company. 
 
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 No. 85. Passed October 25, 1897. 
 
 To provide for the stopping- of street cars and other public convey- 
 ances at crossing-s of steam-railroad tracks other than at grade. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That all street cars, omnibuses, and other vehicles 
 for the conveyance of passengers for hire within the city of Cin- 
 cinnati, be required to stop at not less than one hundred feet from 
 every crossing of steam-railroad tracks, where said tracks run over 
 and above the route of any street railroad or other public convey- 
 ance by means of a bridge or otherwise. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said street cars or other public conveyance shall remain 
 at a standstill within said hundred feet until any locomotive or train 
 of cars shall entirely have passed such crossing. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the owner or operator of any street-car line or 
 other line of public conveyance violating the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars upon 
 conviction in the Police Court. 
 
 No. 22. Passed June 7, 1897. 
 
 Permitting the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company to string wires on Eastern Avenue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That permission be granted unto the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago 
 & St. Louis Railway Company to string a wire along Eastern 
 Avenue from its shops on said Eastern Avenue between Ringgold 
 and Brown streets eastwardly to Strader Avenue, and northwardly 
 along said Strader Avenue to a point about midway between Wool 
 and Taylor streets ; thence southeastwardly across private property, 
 after consent therefor obtained, and across Worth Street to private 
 property on the east side thereof; also to string double wires along 
 said Eastern Avenue, beginning at said shops and extending west- 
 wards along said Eastern Avenue to a point about four hundred 
 feet west of Main Street; said wires being for the purpose of estab- 
 lishing communication between the telegraph office of said company 
 and the homes of its wrecking crew; said company also to have 
 the privilege of extending said wires between said points to the 
 houses of said crew along the line of said wires. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 ~N0. 62 . Passed August 23, 1897. 
 
 Granting- the Pittsburg-, Cincinnati, Chicag-o & St. Louis Railway Com- 
 pany permission to lay two side-tracks across Butler Street into the 
 property of the Adams Express Company, and for the benefit of the 
 latter company. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That there is hereby granted to the Pittsburg, Cincin- 
 nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company permission to lay two 
 side-tracks into the property of the Adams Express Company, 
 across Butler Street, in location described as follows : Beginning at 
 a point on the west line of Butler Street sixty six feet south of the 
 south line of Friendship Alley; thence eastwardlyto a point on the 
 east curb-line of Butler Street sixty-five feet south of the south 
 line of Friendship Alley extended ; also beginning at a point on 
 the west line of Butler Street seventy- seven and one half feet south 
 of the south line of Friendship Alley; thence eastwardly by a 
 curve of three hundred and forty feet radius to a point sixty-nine 
 and one half feet south of the south line of Friendship Alley ex- 
 tended, upon the following terms and conditions : 
 
 First — The portion of the pavement taken up for the construc- 
 tion of the tracks therein shall be carefully replaced ; no change of 
 grade shall be made without the consent of the Board of Legisla- 
 tion ; any manholes, inlets, or other appurtenances of the sewerage 
 system of the city which may be disturbed shall be replaced. All 
 of said work shall be done under the direction of the Board of 
 Administration and the engineer of the Board of Administration, 
 and the cost thereof shall be paid by the said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, 
 Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. 
 
 Second — For the privilege granted to the above-named company, 
 the said company agrees to keep the street in good repair between 
 the rails of the said tracks and three feet outside of each of the 
 rails thereof ; and if the company shall fail to keep the street in 
 good order as above, then it shall be the duty of the Board of 
 Administration to have the work done at their expense ; and if they 
 refuse or fail to pay into the city treasury the amount necessary to 
 put them in repair for ten days after such work is done, then the 
 Board of Administration may prevent such company from using 
 the street by removing the rails therefrom. 
 
 Third — At no time shall said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & 
 St Louis Railway Company cause or permit any obstruction by 
 cars of the free passage for vehicles or pedestrians of the street and 
 sidewalk, the crossing of which by their tracks is thus permitted. 
 Said tracks shall always be kept free of cars, save those in motion. 
 
 Fourth- The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company, for and in consideration of the privilege to cross the street 
 named in the first section of this ordinance for the purpose therein 
 
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 expressed, shall covenant and agree to pay to the said city of Cincin- 
 nati the sum of one dollar. 
 
 Fifth — Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cincin- 
 nati in the sum of one thousand dollars to save the city harmless 
 and free from all claims for damages that may accrue and be law- 
 fully established by reason of the laying of said tracks across said 
 street, and for the faithful compliance with all and singular the 
 provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 NO. 152. Passed March 7,1898. 
 
 Granting permission to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
 Railway Company to lay a track across Harriet Street, north of 
 Sixth Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 Sec. 1 . That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company 
 to lay a. track of standard gauge across Harriet Street, north of 
 Sixth Street, as per attached drawings, subject to the following 
 conditions : 
 
 First — The track hereby authorized shall conform to the present 
 surface of that portion of Harriet Street in which it is laid. 
 
 Second — The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 
 Company shall lay and maintain said track in such manner that 
 wagons and other vehicles may conveniently cross over it, and that 
 the drainage shall in no way be interfered with. 
 
 Third — That said track shall be laid under the direction and 
 provision and to the satisfaction of the chief engineer of the Board 
 of Administration. 
 
 NO. 201. Passed June 27, 1898. 
 
 Granting to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company 
 permission to lay a single track in and across Park Street into 
 the yard of the Great Western Marble Works, at the northwest 
 corner of Second and Park streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That permission be and the same is hereby granted 
 to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company to lay 
 down a single track or switch of their road, of standard gauge, to 
 accommodate the business of the Great Western Marble Works, as 
 follows, viz : Beginning at a point in the company’s tracks on the 
 north side of Second Street east of Park Street, and thence across 
 Park Street westwardly to a point on the west line of Park Street 
 into said company’s yard. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 First — The portion of the pavement taken up necessary to place 
 the road or switch thereon to be carefully put down again. Said 
 track shall conform with the grade of the streets. The said com- 
 pany shall, immediately after laying the track, restore the street 
 where disturbed by it to its present good condition, and shall keep 
 that portion of the street lying between the rails of the track and 
 for a distance of three feet outside of each of the rails thereof in 
 good repair, and maintain all necessary crossings under said track ; 
 and if said company shall remove said track from said street, it 
 shall restore said street to good repair and perfect condition; and 
 all work done on said street in connection with said tracks to be 
 done to the satisfaction and under the direction and supervision of 
 the chief engineer of the Board of Administration or its successors, 
 and at the expense of the said company. 
 
 Second — Said Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company 
 to pay all damages that may result to property in any way by their 
 occupancy of said street, and in no case shall any change of grade 
 be made without the consent of the Board of Legislation. 
 
 Third — The rail to be used to be of the most improved kind, and 
 to be put down in such a manner as to leave the surface of the 
 street as nearly level as possible, so as to offer as little obstruction 
 to vehicles passing over and along the street as the nature of the 
 improvement will admit ; the pattern and style of the rail to be 
 submitted to the Board of Administration or its successors, and to 
 be approved by them before being placed on the street. 
 
 Fourth — The city to have the right of allowing any present or 
 future railway company to use said track upon such terms as may 
 be agreed upon between such railroad companies and the Board of 
 Legislation or its successors ; and should any question arise between 
 the above-named company and any other company or companies 
 with which the Board of Legislation or its successors may have 
 entered into an agreement for privilege to use said track, then the 
 Board of Legislation or its successors to be the umpire to decide 
 between them, from whose decision there shall be no appeal. 
 
 Fifth — The hours which said track may be used shall be from 6 
 o’clock p. m. to 6 o’clock A. m., and no cars are to be drawn on the 
 track at any other hours. 
 
 Sixth — For the privilege granted to the above-named company 
 to use the streets as above, it agrees on its part to keep the streets 
 in good repair for all that portion lying between the rails of said 
 track and three feet on the outside of each rail, and to pay the 
 costs of relaying such pavement and gutters as are necessary to be 
 taken up; and if the above-named company, to whom this grant is 
 made, fails to keep such street or streets occupied by its track in 
 good order, then it shall be the duty of the Board of Administra- 
 tion or its successors to have the work done at its expense ; and if 
 it refuses or fails to pay into the city treasury the amount necessary 
 
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 to put them in repair for ten days after such work is done, then the 
 Board of Administration or its successors may prevent such com- 
 pany from using the streets by removing the rails therefrom. 
 
 Seventh — The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Bailway Company 
 shall furnish to the Board of Legislation a statement of the exact 
 amount of the cost of said track, which shall be sworn to, of all 
 moneys expended by said company in the construction of said track, 
 so as to place the city in possession of such information, to be used, 
 if found necessary, as. a basis of what shall be a fair compensation 
 to be paid by other companies for the privilege of using said track, 
 in the event that said companies can not agree as to compensation, 
 if it becomes necessary for the Board of Legislation or its succes- 
 sors to arbitrate, as provided by Paragraph Fourth herein. 
 
 Eighth — The city shall not be liable to the Baltimore & Ohio 
 Southwestern Railway Company or to any other company under 
 this agreement in any damage for delay or interruption, if any 
 there be, for such time as may be necessary to lay down water- or gas- 
 pipes, or for constructing any sewer that the city may by resolution 
 or ordinance authorize to be built; nor shall any thing in this agree- 
 ment be construed to pass from the city full and complete control 
 of the streets in which this grant authorizes a railroad track to be 
 laid, but her control is as full and complete as if no grant had been 
 given, subject to the express condition to use the streets in the man- 
 ner and for the purpose named. 
 
 Ninth — The extent of the grant under this ordinance is for the 
 term of fifteen years from the passage hereof, and may be renewed 
 upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Legislation or its 
 successors may prescribe ; but said track shall be subject to removal 
 at any time by order of the Board of Administration or Board of 
 Legislation or their successors, and after two weeks’ notice to ‘so 
 remove said track from said streets, and to restore the said streets 
 to good repair, the city may remove said track and restore said 
 street at the expense of said company, upon the failure of said 
 company so to do. 
 
 Tenth — The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, 
 for and in consideration of the privilege of using the streets named 
 in the first section of this ordinance for the purpose herein expressed, 
 shall covenant and agree to pay the said city of Cincinnati the sum 
 of one dollar per annum. 
 
 Eleventh — Should the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway 
 Company, in laying its track under this ordinance, cross the tracks 
 of any street railroad company, or the tracks of any other company, 
 the said Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company must 
 obtain the consent and permission of said company to cross its 
 tracks. 
 
 Twelfth— Said company shall execute a bond to the city of 
 Cincinnati in the sum of three thousand dollars to save the city 
 
182 
 
 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 harmless from any and all claims for damages that may accrue 
 and be lawfully established by reason of the laying of said track 
 across said Park Street, and for the faithful performance of all and 
 singular the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 No. 220 . Passed August 29, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the examination and licensing- of stationary engineers 
 having- charg-e of or operating- stationary engines, boilers, or steam- 
 generating- apparatus, and to repeal an ordinance relating thereto, 
 numbered 867, and passed by the Board of Legislation December 
 28, 1894. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cmcinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the mayor shall appoint, subject to confirmation 
 by the Board of Legislation, two inspectors of stationary engineers, 
 taking charge of or operating stationary engines, boilers, or steam- 
 generating apparatus, within the corporate limits of the city of 
 Cincinnati. Not more than one of such inspectors so appointed 
 shall be of any one political party. Said inspectors must be of good 
 moral character and temperate habits, and competent practical 
 stationary engineers, having had experience of five years in charge 
 or control of stationary engines and boilers, and having a thorough 
 understanding of the construction of stationary engines and boilers. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of one of the inspectors, as pro- 
 vided in Section 9, to examine all applicants for license to take 
 charge of or operate stationary engines and boilers or steam- 
 generating apparatus within the corporate limits of the city of 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 8 Before any person shall take charge of or operate any 
 stationary engine, boiler, or steam-generating apparatus within the 
 corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati, he shall produce to the 
 inspectors evidence of his citizenship of the United States of 
 America. He shall then procure an application blank, which, 
 when properly filled out, stating his experience and indorsed by at 
 least three first-class engineers who shall have known him per- 
 sonally for three years, shall, upon presentation to the examining 
 inspector, entitle him to the right of an examination touching his 
 qualifications as first-, second-, or third class engineer; and if results 
 of such examination are satisfactory, and exhibit competency of 
 applicant to take charge of or operate stationary engines, boilers, or 
 other steam generating apparatus, it shall be the duty of the exam- 
 ining inspector to grant him a license, either as first-, second-, or 
 third class engineer, for the term of one year, authorizing him 
 during that time to have charge of or to operate any such station- 
 ary engine, boiler, or other steam-generating apparatus within the 
 corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati for which said examining 
 
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 inspector may deem him qualified ; and he shall pay for such exami- 
 nation and license, if granted, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents. 
 But such license shall be suspended or revoked by the inspectors 
 upon satisfactory proof of bad conduct, intemperate habits, inca- 
 pacity, inattention to his duties, or the willful violation of any of 
 the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 4. The examining inspector is authorized to issue an infe- 
 rior grade of license, authorizing any person to take charge or 
 control of boilers having not over seventy-five square feet of heating 
 surface, and carrying a steam-pressure not exceeding twenty-five 
 pounds per square inch, or boilers carrying a steam-pressure not 
 exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch ; Provided, however, that 
 no such license shall be issued to any person unless found qualified, 
 upon examination by the examining inspector, to take charge of or 
 operate any such boilers; and the applicant shall pay for such 
 examination and license, if issued, the sum of one dollar and fifty 
 cents, and such license shall be issued for the period of one year; 
 but such license shall be suspended or revoked upon satisfactory 
 proof to the inspectors of bad conduct, intemperate habits, inca- 
 pacity, inattention to his duties, or the willful violation of any of 
 the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person holding a certificate of license herein pro- 
 vided shall be entitled to a renewal of the same, without examination 
 as to his qualifications, upon the payment of one dollar and fifty 
 cents, provided such certificate of license has not been suspended or 
 revoked, and provided that such certificate of license is presented 
 for renewal before the time of its expiration. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any person convicted in the Police Court of operating 
 or assuming charge of or operating any stationary engine, boiler, or 
 steam-generating apparatus within the corporate limits of the city 
 of Cincinnati without a certificate of license as herein provided, 
 upon conviction thereof in the Police Court of said city shall be 
 fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, 
 at the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 7. Said inspectors shall each hold his office for the term of 
 one year, and -each shall receive as compensation for his services a 
 salary of $1,800 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments 
 out of the city treasury ; and the said inspectors shall be provided 
 with suitable office, with the necessary furniture and fixtures, 
 stationery, and office expenses, and all money collected by them 
 shall be paid monthly into the city treasury and transferred to the 
 General Fund, and each inspector shall be required to give a bond 
 in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for the faithful discharge 
 of his duties. 
 
 Sec. 8. This ordinance shall not be construed so as to shorten 
 the period for which any license was issued under the provisions of 
 the ordinance which this ordinance repeals. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Sec. 9. That it shall be the duty of one of the inspectors 
 designated as the examining inspector to remain in the office and 
 have charge of it, to receive all communications and consider all 
 applications for license, examine all applicants touching their quali- 
 fications, and to receive all moneys and keep a strict account of 
 same ; and the duties of the other inspector, designated as the 
 visiting inspector, shall be to visit all plants or buildings where 
 steam is used in any way, to see if a regularly qualified engineer 
 is in charge in each such place, and in case he shall find an 
 unlicensed engineer in charge to have a warrant issued for the same, 
 and to assist in causing the law to be strictly obeyed. In case of 
 emergency, causing disability of the examining inspector, he shall 
 temporarily fill his position. The mayor in making his appoint- 
 ments shall designate the position to be filled by each inspector. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any person holding a certificate of license as herein 
 provided shall, upon retiring from charge or operation of any 
 stationary engine, boiler, or other steam - generating apparatus 
 within the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati, at once notify 
 the examining inspector of such change; and he shall likewise 
 notify the examining inspector whenever he may take charge of or 
 assume the operation of any stationary engine, boiler, or other 
 steam-generating apparatus within the corporate limits of the city 
 of Cincinnati. Failure of such notification shall be followed by 
 suspension of certificate of license. 
 
 Sec. 11. That “An ordinance to provide against injury or dam- 
 age resulting from the operation of stationary engines and boilers 
 or steam-generating apparatus by incompetent engineers or others,” 
 passed December 28, 1894, be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 4108. Passed August 31, 1888. 
 
 To name and to change the names of certain streets, avenues, and 
 alleys of the City of Cincinnati, as designated therein. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council oj the City of Cincinnati, 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the names of certain streets, avenues, and alleys 
 of the city of Cincinnati be and the same are hereby changed and 
 established, as follows : 
 
 Adam street, from Colerain avenue west to C. W. & B. Railroad, 
 shall hereafter be called Draper street. 
 
 Adams street, from Elm to East Plum street, shall hereafter be called 
 Odeon street. 
 
 Addie alley, from Westwood avenue south, shall hereafter be called 
 Balders alley. 
 
 Addy alley, from Race street east to a point, shall hereafter be called 
 Princeton alley. 
 
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 Alexander street, from St. Clair street north to Ludlow avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Bishop street. 
 
 Allen avenue, from Paxton avenue west, shall hereafter be called 
 Almon avenue. 
 
 Allen avenue, from Spring-Grove avenue east to Colerain avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Monmouth avenue. 
 
 Andress avenue, from Mount Hope road east, shall hereafter be 
 called Bushnell street. 
 
 Andrews street, from Corry to Boone street, shall hereafter be 
 called Andy street 
 
 Anna alley, from Pendleton east to Hunt street, shall hereafter be 
 called Bolivar alley. 
 
 Annie street, from Emming to a point north of Warner street, shall 
 hereafter be called Victor street. 
 
 Auburn place, from Sycamore west to Locust street, shall hereafter 
 be called Victoria place. 
 
 Avery alley, from York to Dayton and Garden streets, shall here- 
 after be called Bright alley. 
 
 Ann street, from West Sixth street north to Warsaw pike, shall 
 hereafter be called Warsaw avenue. 
 
 Adams alley, from Linn street east to Bell street, shall hereafter be 
 called Eve alley. 
 
 Auburn street, from Sycamore street north to Vine street, shall 
 hereafter be called Sycamore avenue. 
 
 Barr alley, from Mound west to Stone street, shall hereafter be 
 called Barrel alley. 
 
 Beech street, from McMillan north to Kemper street, shall hereafter 
 be called Livonia street. 
 
 Bell avenue, from Glenway avenue north to section line, shall here- 
 after be called Mansion place. 
 
 Bogen alley, from York street to York alley and Dayton street, 
 shall hereafter be called Brighton alley. 
 
 Brook street, from Evans to Factory street (Twenty-first Ward), 
 shall hereafter be called Erie street. 
 
 Brooks alley, from Park street to section line (Fairmount), shall 
 hereafter be called Union alley. 
 
 . Brooks avenue, from Fisher east to Wilson avenue, shall hereafter 
 be called Huron avenue. 
 
 Browne street, from McMicken avenue north to Clifton corporation 
 line, shall hereafter be called McMicken avenue. 
 
 Brown alley, from Central avenue west to Clarkson street, shall 
 hereafter be called Baxter alley. 
 
 Browne alley, from Corry avenue to Freeman avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Block alley. 
 
 Birch avenue, from Grandin road southwest to Woodland avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Freeland avenue. 
 
 Barr street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called Wooley street. 
 
186 
 
 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Bell street, from Livingston street north to Findlay street, shall 
 hereafter be called Bauman street. 
 
 Bell street, from Fern street north to Moore street, shall hereafter 
 be called Delaware street. 
 
 Boone street, from Madison street east to Eden avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Daniels street. 
 
 Brighton street, from Barnard street north to Queen-City avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Buck street. 
 
 Buckeye street, from Main street west to Vine street, shall hereafter 
 be called Clifton avenue. 
 
 Bogart alley, from Dodsworth avenue to Elmore, shall hereafter be 
 called Tozzer alley. 
 
 Buckeye street, from Washington street west to Lane street, shall 
 hereafter be called Lyman street. 
 
 Bates avenue, from Chase avenue to northern terminus, shall here- 
 after be called Fairfield avenue. 
 
 Brooklyn street, from Kirby road west to Colerain avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Virginia avenue. 
 
 Beach street, from Spring - Grove avenue to a point southwest of 
 Ford street, shall hereafter be called Geringer street. 
 
 Belle view avenue, from Freeman avenue east, shall hereafter be 
 called Klotter avenue. 
 
 Burnet street, from Vine street west to Race Street, shall hereafter 
 be called Baker street. 
 
 Banning street, from Hamilton pike west to Colerain avenue, shall 
 m hereafter be called Chase avenue. 
 
 Canal street, from Rachel street north, shall hereafter be called 
 Gourd street. 
 
 Canal street, from Rose street west, shall hereafter be called Duet 
 street. 
 
 Canal street, from Evans street east, shall hereafter be called Chan- 
 nel street. 
 
 Carroll street, from Miami canal west to Spring - Grove avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Sassafras street. 
 
 Carr street, from Railroad avenue north to Columbia avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Aspasia street. 
 
 Cemetery street, from Kemper lane east to South Elm street, shall 
 hereafter be called Necropolis street. 
 
 Cemetery road, from Warsaw pike south, shall hereafter be called 
 Enright avenue. 
 
 Center street, east and west from Mt. Hope road (Twenty-first 
 Ward), shall hereafter be called Belmont avenue. 
 
 Center street, from Colerain avenue to Browne street (Camp Wash- 
 ington), shall hereafter be called Hopple street. 
 
 Center street, from Barr to Lewis, shall hereafter be called Centaur 
 street. 
 
 Chestnut avenue, from Carson avenue west, shall hereafter be called 
 Chestnut- tree avenue. 
 
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 ^ Church avenue, from Gilbert avenue east of Maple street, shall 
 hereafter be called Churchill avenue. 
 
 Church street, from Depot street to State avenue, shall hereafter be 
 called Dutton street. 
 
 Coleman street, from York street north to Harrison avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Colerain avenue. 
 
 College alley, from Milton street to a point south of Abigail, shall 
 hereafter be called Pica alley. 
 
 College avenue, from Mt Hope road northeast to Washington ave- 
 nue, shall hereafter be called Brevier avenue. 
 
 Columbia street, from Main street to Thompson avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Agate street. 
 
 Cypress avenue, from Cedar avenue north, shall hereafter be called 
 Minion avenue. 
 
 Cypress street, from Ashland street to Francis lane, shall hereafter 
 be called Bultman street. 
 
 Charles or Tozzer street, from Dodsworth avenue to Elmore street, 
 shall hereafter be called Spaeth street. 
 
 Chapel street, from Walnut street west to Vine street, shall here- 
 after be called Lippencott street. 
 
 Charles street, from Browne street west to C. & B. R. R., shall here- 
 after be called Bader street. 
 
 Charles street, from Cinnamon street northeast to a point, shall 
 hereafter be called Revoke street. 
 
 Charles street, from New Baltimore pike north to south of Lucky 
 street, shall hereafter be called Seegar avenue. 
 
 Chatham street, from Harrison pike west to section line, shall here- 
 after be called Montrose street. 
 
 Cherry street, from Walnut street north to a point south of Dexter 
 avenue, shall hereafter be called Kleine street. 
 
 Chestnut street, from Gilbert avenue east to Elm street, shall here- 
 after be called Foraker avenue. 
 
 Church street, from Pavilion street south to a point, shall hereafter 
 be called Guido street. 
 
 Church street, from West Sixth street northwest of Stone street, 
 shall hereafter be called McConnell street. 
 
 Church street, from McMillan street north to Hackberry street, 
 shall hereafter be called Hackberry street. 
 
 Clay street, from Madison pike east to Hackberry street, shall here- 
 after be called Clayton street. 
 
 Clay street, from W ashington street northeast to Oak street, shall 
 hereafter be called Kerper avenue. 
 
 Cooper street, from Spring street intersection northwest to west 
 section line, shall hereafter be called Champlain street. 
 
 Cross street, from Clifton incline plane west to section line, shall 
 hereafter be called Renner street. 
 
 Cross street, from Western avenue southwest to Duck street, shall 
 hereafter be called McRoberts street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Cecil, Water, or Tozzer street, from Hanfield street north to a point 
 north of Chase street, shall hereafter be called Banning avenue. 
 
 Collins street, from Mt. Hope road southwest to Mt. Echo road, 
 shall hereafter be called Aurora avenue 
 
 Chase avenue, from Woodburn avenue to Wold avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Fairfax avenue. 
 
 Carlisle avenue, from Burnet avenue west to Eden avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Piedmont avenue. 
 
 Carson street, from Eden avenue to Burnet avenue, shall hereafter 
 be called Arizona avenue. 
 
 Colerain pike, from Streng or Division street north to corporation 
 line, shall hereafter be called Colerain avenue. 
 
 Davies street, from Boal street north to Auburn avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Alma street. 
 
 Depot street, from West Fifth street northwest to West Sixth street, 
 shall hereafter be called Toledo street. 
 
 Drake street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called Munson street. 
 
 Delhi and Industry pike shall hereafter be called Delhi avenue. 
 
 Dodsworth avenue, from Spring-Grove avenue west to corporation 
 line, shall hereafter be called Dreman avenue. 
 
 Eden street, from Buckeye north to Main street, shall hereafter be 
 called Antique street. 
 
 Edwards street, from Oscar place north, shall hereafter be called 
 Bourgeois street. 
 
 Ellen (or Clara) street, from North avenue to Orange street, shall 
 hereafter be called Clara street. 
 
 Evans alley, from Wayne north to St. Clair street, shall hereafter 
 be called Diamond alley. 
 
 Eastern avenue, from Southern avenue north to Northern avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Ithaca avenue. 
 
 Elizabeth street, from Chatham street north to Harrison pike, shall 
 hereafter be called Betsy street, 
 
 Elizabeth street, from Ludwick street southwest to Spring street, 
 shall hereafter be called Lokato street. 
 
 Elizabeth street, from Depot street east to C. H. & D. R. R. , shall 
 hereafter be called Kelso street. 
 
 Elm street, from McMillan street north to Chestnut street, shall 
 hereafter be called Elmwood avenue. 
 
 Evans street, from Auburn avenue west to Vine street, shall here- 
 after be called Hollister street. 
 
 Fairview avenue, southeast from McHenry road, shall hereafter be 
 called Fyffe avenue. 
 
 Fairview avenue, from Madisonville pike north, shall hereafter be 
 called Vista avenue. 
 
 Fairview avenue, from McHenn r road north to section line, shall 
 hereafter be called Fyffe avenue. 
 
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 Fifth avenue, from James street to Stock avenue, shall hereafter be 
 called Cor many avenue. 
 
 First street, from Southern avenue north, shall hereafter be called 
 Viola street. 
 
 Forest street, from Colerain east to Fourth avenue, shall hereafter 
 be called Heywood street. 
 
 Fourth avenue, from Marshall avenue to Workhouse, shall here- 
 after be called Massachusetts avenue. 
 
 Fulton avenue, from Washington street' east to section line, shall 
 hereafter be called Gladstone avenue. 
 
 Ford street, from Spring-Grove avenue southwest to Beech street, 
 shall hereafter be called Rawlston avenue. 
 
 Fountain street, from Township street north to Spring-Grove ave- 
 nue, shall hereafter be called Rawson street. 
 
 Fountain street, from McGrew street west to Rice street, shall 
 hereafter be called Winkler street. 
 
 Fountain street, from Sedam street northeast to Delhi pike, shall 
 hereafter be called Hartman street. 
 
 Frank street, from Brooklyn street west to Douthwait avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Tarrant street. 
 
 French street, from Ohio river north to Columbia avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Hartshorn street. 
 
 Fourth street, from Fergus street east to Dane avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Bowler street. 
 
 Fourth street, from Dane avenue east to Linden avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Cappeller street. 
 
 Garrard avenue, from Horn to Mill creek, shall hereafter be called 
 Jeptha avenue. 
 
 Grove street, from Brooklyn west to Doane street, shall hereafter 
 be called Druid street. 
 
 Glenway avenue, from Linwood pike north to corporation line, 
 shall hereafter be called Monticello avenue. 
 
 Glenway avenue, from Fleming street southwest to Ashland street, 
 shall hereafter be called Minnehaha avenue. 
 
 Garden street, from M. & C. R. R. west to Beech street, shall here- 
 after be called Groub street. 
 
 Grand street, from Madison pike west to Grandin road, shall here- 
 after be called Beechwood avenue. 
 
 Grand street, from Central avenue north to Holden street, shall 
 hereafter be called Iroquois street. 
 
 George street, east of Elm street, shall hereafter be called Shillito 
 avenue. 
 
 George street, west of Mound street, shall hereafter be called 
 Kenyon street. 
 
 Gulow alley, east of Hamilton pike to Spring-Grove avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Herbert alley. 
 
 Grand avenue, from Crawfish road east to section line, shall here- 
 after be called Rockbridge avenue. 
 
190 
 
 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Hamilton street, from Liberty street southwest of C. H. & D. 
 R. R., shall hereafter be called Detroit street. 
 
 Harrison pike, from Mill creek north to corporation line, shall here- 
 after be called Harrison avenue. 
 
 Harrison street, from Broadway east to Culvert street, shall here- 
 after be called Ontario street. 
 
 Hawthorne street, from State avenue southeast, shall hereafter be 
 called Saratoga street. 
 
 Helen street, from Hunt street west to a point, shall hereafter be 
 called Nellie street. 
 
 Helen street, from St. Clair north to Nixon street, shall hereafter 
 be called Imperial street. 
 
 Hillside street, north of Linwood pike, shall hereafter be called 
 Thetis street. 
 
 Hillside avenue, from Wright avenue northeast to point, shall here- 
 after be called Utica street. 
 
 Hillside road, from Goodwin street north, shall hereafter be called 
 Pulaski street. 
 
 Hutchinson street, from Hoffner to Bluerock street, shall hereafter 
 be called Gulow street. 
 
 Highland avenue, from Carson street south to Earnshaw avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Imogene avenue. 
 
 Hamer street, from Taylor street northeast to Wooster pike, shall 
 hereafter be called Stanley street. 
 
 Hanover street, from Church street southwest to section line, shall 
 hereafter be called Bismarck street. 
 
 High street, from Evans street east to a point, shall hereafter be 
 called Perin street. 
 
 High street, from Barnard street southwest to Western avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Lowry street. 
 
 Hill street, from Central avenue northwest to New Baltimore pike, 
 shall hereafter be called Liddell street. 
 
 Hill street, from Glenway avenue south to a point, shall hereafter 
 be called Neff street. 
 
 Hill street, from Colerain avenue south to Eastern avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Harroil street. 
 
 Hoffner street, from Stock avenue north to Bates avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Cormany avenue. 
 
 Home street, from McMillan street north to Oak street, shall here- 
 after be called Winslow avenue. 
 
 Hoadly street, from Fifth street north to Sixth street, shall here- 
 after be called Baymiller street. 
 
 Hamilton pike, from Spring-Grove avenue north to corporation line, 
 shall hereafter be called Hamilton avenue. 
 
 Irwin street, from Millcreek road west to Charles street, shall here- 
 after be called Frederick street. 
 
 James street, from Fountain street northeast to Locust street, shall 
 hereafter be called Calumet street. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 James street, from Eden avenue east to a point, shall hereafter be 
 called Trafalgar street. 
 
 John street, from Spring street north to High avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Massasoit street. 
 
 Johnson street, from Wayne street north to St. Clair street, shall 
 hereafter be called Powhatan street. 
 
 Josephine street, from Dane avenue west to Hamilton pike, shall 
 hereafter be called Pullan avenue. 
 
 Jackson avenue, from Mt. Hope road northeast to point, shall here- 
 after be called Orleans avenue. 
 
 Jefferson avenue, from Rapidrun road south to a point south of 
 Eighth street, shall hereafter be called Tallulah avenue. 
 
 James street, from Colerain avenue to Miami canal, shall hereafter 
 be called Township street. 
 
 Jacobs alley, from Harriet street west to a point, shall hereafter be 
 called Deming alley. 
 
 Jacobs alley, from Miami canal west to Central avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Laredo alley. 
 
 Kemper street, from Gilbert avenue east to Elm street, shall here- 
 after be called Pallas street. 
 
 Kemper place, from Lawson street south, shall hereafter be called 
 Flora place. 
 
 Kinsey street, from State north to Fairmount avenue, shall hereafter 
 be called Saturn street. 
 
 Kirby street, from Pavilion street north to Hatch street, shall here- 
 after be called Belvedere street. 
 
 Kleine court, from Hackberry street to Kleine street, shall hereafter 
 be called Pomona court. 
 
 Kibby street, from Montgomery road north to McMillan street, 
 shall hereafter be called May street. 
 
 Knowlton street, from Colerain avenue south to Elmore street, shall 
 hereafter be called Cecil street. 
 
 Kirby road, from Colerain avenue north to corporation line, shall 
 hereafter be called Kirby avenue. 
 
 Lafayette street, from Short street to McMillan street, shall here- 
 after be called Marquis street. 
 
 Lickrun road, from Queen-City avenue southwest to Warsaw pike, 
 shall hereafter be called Quebec road. 
 
 Lickrun road, from Section road north, shall hereafter be called 
 Quebec road. 
 
 Lincoln place, from Hopkins street north to Kenner street, shall 
 hereafter be called President place. 
 
 Ludwick street, from Park avenue south, shall hereafter be called 
 Ivan street. 
 
 Logan avenue, east from Tusculum avenue, shall hereafter be called 
 Sachem avenue. 
 
 Lincoln street, from Woodburn avenue west to west section line, 
 shall hereafter be called Westminister street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Locust street, from Lane street east to Madison pike, shall hereafter 
 be called Hopper street. 
 
 Lake avenue, from Nassau street south to north line of Eden Park, 
 shall hereafter be called Luray avenue. 
 
 Linden street, from Alfred street northwest to New Baltimore pike, 
 shall hereafter be called Fenner street. 
 
 Linden street, from Myrtle street south to Kemper street, shall 
 hereafter be called Preston street. 
 
 Locust street, from McMicken avenue northeast to Main street, 
 shall hereafter be called Cherokee street, 
 
 Lodwick street, from Audubon street west to Drake alley, shall 
 hereafter be called Tecumseh street. 
 
 Lane street, from , shall hereafter be called Stanton 
 
 avenue. 
 
 Ludlow avenue, from Spring-Grove avenue south to Miami canal, 
 shall hereafter be called Dodsworth avenue. 
 
 Lick street, from Kirby road east to Hamilton pike, shall hereafter 
 be called Glen- Parker avenue. 
 
 Ludlow street, from Fourth street south to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called Caledonia street. 
 
 McMillan street, from Boone street north to St. Clair street, shall 
 hereafter be called Mingo street. 
 
 Madison street, from Concord street west to a point west of Fowler 
 street, shall hereafter be called Burbank street. 
 
 Madison street, from Elm street east and west to East Plum street, 
 shall hereafter be called Magnolia street. 
 
 Madison street, from Queen-City avenyie north to Harrison pike, 
 shall hereafter be called Rankin street. 
 
 Main street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called Bradley street. 
 
 Main street, from Evans street east to a point west of Mill creek, 
 shall hereafter be called West Sixth street. 
 
 Main street, from Columbia avenue south to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called St. Andrew’s street. 
 
 Marsden alley, from Langland street east to Fergus street, shall 
 hereafter be called Howell alley. 
 
 Margaret street, from a point west of Mound street west to Bay- 
 miller street, shall hereafter be called Wingate alley. 
 
 Martin street, from Marshall street south to a point north of Straight 
 street, shall hereafter be called Schott street. 
 
 Mary street, from Ellen street north to Kilgour street, shall here- 
 after be called Finn street. 
 
 May street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall hereafter 
 be called Mayapple street. 
 
 Mitchell street, from Eastern avenue south to Taylor street, shall 
 hereafter be called Setchell street. 
 
 Monroe street, from Hopkins street north to Kenner street, shall 
 hereafter be called Saulsbury street. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 Moore street, from Bell street east to a point, shall hereafter be 
 called Omaha street. 
 
 Morgan street, from Fern street north to a point, shall hereafter be 
 called Concordia street. 
 
 Mulberry street, from Chapel street north to Chestnut street, shall 
 hereafter be called Monfort street. 
 
 Madison street, from McMillan north to St. Clair street, shall here- 
 after be called Scioto street. 
 
 Melancthon street, from Central Avenue west to Jones street, shall 
 hereafter be called Bauer avenue. 
 
 McMakin street, from Apple to Joe Williams street, shall hereafter 
 be called McMakin alley. 
 
 Madison avenue, from Catholic cemetery north to Lickrun pike, 
 shall hereafter be called Fountain avenue. 
 
 Madisonville pike, from McMillan street northeast to corporation 
 line, shall hereafter be called Madisonville avenue. 
 
 Maple street, from Western avenue northwest to point, shall here- 
 after be called Moosewood street. 
 
 Miami avenue, from Dixon street north, shall hereafter be called 
 Hugo avenue. 
 
 Morris avenue, from Mt Hope road southwest, shall hereafter be 
 called Gabriel avenue. 
 
 Mount Hope road, from West Sixth street north, shall hereafter 
 be called Mt. Hope avenue. 
 
 Mount street, from Sycamore west and north to McGrew street, 
 shall hereafter be called Excelsior street. 
 
 Myrtle street, from Township north to Hopple street, shall here- 
 after be called Beard street. 
 
 Maple street, from Chestnut street north to point, shall hereafter 
 be called Mentor street. 
 
 Mt. Harrison road, from South avenue (Barrsville), shall hereafter 
 be called Grand avenue. 
 
 Madison avenue, 400 feet east of west corporation line, shall here- 
 after be called Buch avenue. 
 
 Northern avenue, from Auburn avenue east to point, shall hereafter 
 be called Superior avenue. 
 
 North street, from Eastern avenue northwest to a point, shall here- 
 after be called Frazer street. 
 
 North avenue, from South avenue west and south to a point west 
 of Ives street, shall hereafter be called Northside avenue. 
 
 North avenue, from Washington street north to Oak street, shall 
 hereafter be called Fredonia avenue. 
 
 North avenue, from Neff avenue east and north to section line, 
 shall hereafter be called Kineon avenue. 
 
 Oak avenue, from Lane street east to Gilbert avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Indiana avenue. 
 
 Oak street, from McMicken avenue northeast to Mulberry street, 
 shall hereafter be called Cambria street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Oak street, from Harrison pike north to State street, shall hereafter 
 be called Adler street. 
 
 Oak street, from Mathers street west to Avondale corporation, shall 
 hereafter be called Melbourn street. 
 
 Observatory street, from Hill to Hatch street, shall hereafter be 
 called St. Gregory street. 
 
 Orchard street, from Tasculum avenue southeast and northwest, 
 shall hereafter be called Pocahontas place. 
 
 Orchard street, from West Sixth street northwest to a point, shall 
 hereafter be called Steiner street. 
 
 Orchard street, from Westwood avenue south to a point north of 
 Lionel avenue, shall hereafter be called Amor place. 
 
 Oswaldt street, from Queen-City avenue south to a point, shall 
 hereafter be called Zinck street. 
 
 Observatory road, from Mitchell street west to Baum street, shall 
 hereafter be called Monastery street. 
 
 Park place, from Auburn to Bigelow street, shall hereafter be called 
 Bullock place. 
 
 Park street, from Irwin street northeast to a point east of Fair- 
 mount avenue, shall hereafter be called Byington street. 
 
 Pine street, from Queen-City avenue north to Irwin street, shall 
 hereafter be called Pinetree street. 
 
 Pond street, from Molitor street north to Wayne street, shall here- 
 after be called Seminole street. 
 
 Prospect street, from Fairmount avenue north to Sunset street, 
 shall hereafter be called Lucky avenue. 
 
 Prospect street, from Davies street east to Young street, shall here- 
 after be called Pueblo street. 
 
 Parker place, from Warsaw pike north to point, shall hereafter be 
 called Parkson place. 
 
 Pendleton avenue, from Crawfish creek north, shall hereafter be 
 called Humbert avenne. 
 
 Pine avenue, from Ferris avenue to Observatory avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Masart avenue. 
 
 Price street, from Liberty to point north of Carmalt street, shall 
 hereafter be called Beckett street. 
 
 Park avenue, from Spring street northeast and southeast to River- 
 side corporation, shall hereafter be called Illinois avenue. 
 
 Park avenue, from Bassett road north to Warsaw pike and College 
 avenue, north Glenway, shall hereafter be called Boyle avenue. 
 
 Park avenue, from West Sixth street northwest to Spring street, 
 shall hereafter be called Kansas avenue. 
 
 Parker avenue, from Hamilton pike east to College Hill Railroad, 
 shall hereafter be called Glen-Parker avenue. 
 
 Pine alley, from Queen-City avenue south to Lick Run, shall here- 
 after be called Whitepine alley. 
 
 Pine alley, from Fifteenth street south to Washington park, shall 
 hereafter be called Yellowpine alley. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 Pitt alley, from Fifteenth street north to Adams street, shall here- 
 after be called Blanca alley. 
 
 Railroad avenue, from Little Miami Railroad north, shall hereafter 
 be called Walworth avenue. 
 
 Railway avenue, from Budd north to Thomas street, shall hereafter 
 be called Vedas avenue. 
 
 Riddle Street, from York street north to Harrison avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Osiris street. 
 
 Ridge avenue, from Observatory to Brookfield avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Isis avenue. 
 
 Ridgeway avenue, from French east and north to Woodward avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Typhon avenue. 
 
 Rudolph avenue, from north avenue west and south to Neff’s south 
 line, shall hereafter be called Gerald avenue. 
 
 Rudolph street, from Woodburn west to Durrell avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Hapsburg street. 
 
 Railroad street, from Hamilton pike sonthwest to Hoffner street, 
 shall hereafter be called Vandalia avenue. 
 
 Railroad street, from Carter street northwest to a point north of 
 Thompson street, shall hereafter be called Dumont street. 
 
 Richmond street, from Yungbluth avenue east to Main street, shall 
 hereafter be called New Richmond avenue. 
 
 Ringgold street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall 
 hereafter be called St. Peter’s street. 
 
 Railroad street, from Colerain pike south to point south of Powers 
 street, shall hereafter be called Vandalia avenue. 
 
 Rose alley, from Dodson alley east to Bodman alley, shall hereafter 
 be called Whiterose alley. 
 
 Rose alley, from Brooklyn street east to Peach alley, shall hereafter 
 be called Redrose alley. 
 
 Ravine street, from Tusculum avenue east to Undercliff avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Columbia avenue. 
 
 Scott street, from Taylor street northeast to Eastern avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Wakefield street. 
 
 Scott street, from Montgomery pike west to Fowler street, shall 
 hereafter be called Manitou street. 
 
 Second street, from Southern avenue north to Northern avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Ingomar street. 
 
 Shields street, from a point north of Emming street north to 
 McMillan street, shall hereafter be called Chickasaw street. 
 
 Short street, from Brooklyn street northwest to a point, shall here- 
 after be called Clarendon street. 
 
 Short street, from Montgomery pike west to Symmes street, shall 
 hereafter be called Des Moines street. 
 
 Spencer street, from Clifton avenue west to a point, shall hereafter 
 be called Probasco street. 
 
 Spencer street, from Liberty street north to Boal street, shall here- 
 after be called Hiram street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Spencer street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called Mar met street. 
 
 Spencer street, from Davis lane south to Ohio river, shall hereafter 
 be called Robb street. 
 
 Spring street, from Colerain avenue northeast to Top street, shall 
 hereafter be called Ehrhardt street. 
 
 Spring street, from Harrison pike southwest to Prospect street, shall 
 hereafter be called Hiawatha street. 
 
 Spring street, from Cooper street northwest to section line, shall 
 hereafter be called Longfellow street. 
 
 Spring street, from McMillan street north to a point south of Oak 
 street, shall hereafter be called Hemlock street. 
 
 Spring street, from Elizabeth street northwest to a point, shall 
 hereafter be called Esquimaux street. 
 
 Spring street, from North avenue west to Avondale corporation, 
 shall hereafter be called Whittier street. 
 
 State street, from McMillan street north to June street, shall here- 
 after be called Rendigs street. 
 
 State street, from New Baltimore pike west to Kinsey street, shall 
 hereafter be called Waverly avenue. 
 
 Stone street, from Church street southwest to a point, shall here- 
 after be called Mackinaw avenue. 
 
 Stone street, from Hunt street east to State street, shall hereafter 
 be called Minnesota street. 
 
 St. James place, from St. James avenue west, shall hereafter be 
 called St. Paul place. 
 
 Second avenue, from Charles street east to Workhouse, shall here- 
 after be called Plymouth avenue. 
 
 Section avenue, from Madisonville pike north, shall hereafter be 
 called Sumpter avenue. 
 
 Section road, from Mt. Harrison north, shall hereafter be called 
 Nelson road. 
 
 Sixth avenue, from Stock avenue north to Workhouse, shall here- 
 after be called Vermont avenue. 
 
 South Auburn avenue, from Saunders street south, shall hereafter 
 be called King’s terrace. 
 
 South Auburn street, from Saunders street south to a point, shall 
 hereafter be called King’s terrace. 
 
 South avenue, from Westwood avenue south, shall hereafter be 
 called Selim avenue. 
 
 South Church street, from McMillan street south, shall hereafter be 
 called Sabina street. 
 
 Spring avenue, from Gilbert avenue east to Maple street, shall here- 
 after be called Sparta avenue. 
 
 Spring court, from Vinton northeast to Judson street, shall here- 
 after be called Illyria court. 
 
 State avenue, from Harrison avenue south to German street, shall 
 hereafter be called Milwaukee avenue. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 State road, from State avenue west, shall hereafter be called Blaine 
 road. 
 
 Stone alley, from Columbia avenue southeast to Ohio river, shall 
 hereafter be called Boulder alley. 
 
 Stone avenue, from Mt. Hope road southeast to West Sixth street, 
 shall hereafter be called Cameron avenue. 
 
 Summit street, from Auburn avenue west, shall hereafter be called 
 Wellington avenue. 
 
 Sycamore street, from Ohio river north to Mt. Auburn, shall here- 
 after be called Sycamore avenue. 
 
 Short street, from Lower Biver road south opposite Delhi pike, 
 shall be called Delhi avenue. 
 
 Superior street shall hereafter be called Spaeth street. 
 
 Southern avenue, from Hunt street east to a point, shall hereafter 
 be called Barley avenue. 
 
 Summit avenue, from McMillan street south to a point east of 
 Carondolet street, shall hereafter be called Salutaris avenue. 
 
 Summit avenue, from Cliff avenue south to a point, shall hereafter 
 be called Bonsack avenue. 
 
 Spring alley or Hamilton court, from Hamilton pike east to Lang- 
 land street, shall hereafter be called Moline court. 
 
 Sycamore street, from Woodburn avenue east to , shall here- 
 
 after be called Lincoln avenue. 
 
 Third street, from Southern north to Northern avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Smilax street. 
 
 Third avenue, from Marshall north to Stock avenue, shall hereafter 
 be called Sidney avenue. 
 
 Thompson street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river, shall 
 hereafter be called Tennyson avenue. 
 
 Torrence street, from Stock avenue to Workhouse, shall hereafter 
 be called Sidney avenue. 
 
 Taylor and Bassett road, from Alpine way to Boldface road, shall 
 hereafter be called Kalon street. 
 
 Taylor street, from Freeman avenue west to Carr street, shall here- 
 after be called Zachary street. 
 
 Taylor street, from Main street southeast to Crawfish creek, shall 
 hereafter be called Taylor avenue. 
 
 Union avenue, from Crawfish road east to east line of Section 26, 
 shall hereafter be called Southey avenue. 
 
 Union place, from Auburn street west, shall hereafter be called 
 Warton place. 
 
 UnderclifF avenue, from Ravine street to corporation line, shall 
 hereafter be called Columbia avenue. 
 
 Van Horn street, from Hoffner street south to a point south of 
 Powers street, shall hereafter be called Edgewood avenue. 
 
 Walnut avenue, from Willow avenue north, shall hereafter be called 
 Wilder avenue. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Warner street, east to point of Ohio avenue, shall hereafter be called 
 Dryden street. 
 
 Warsaw street, from Lickrun pike south to Guernsey street, shall 
 hereafter be called Shad well street. 
 
 Warsaw pike, from State avenue northwest to Glenway avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Warsaw avenue. 
 
 Washington avenue, from Glen way avenue south, shall hereafter be 
 called McPherson avenue. 
 
 Water (or Burt) street, from Waldon west to Reed street, shall 
 hereafter be called Marengo street. 
 
 Wells road, from Warsaw pike north, shall hereafter be called 
 Austerlitz road. 
 
 Wheeler avenue, from Torrence road northeast to Columbia avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Waterloo avenue. 
 
 Whiteman street, from Bryant to Dixmyth avenue, shall hereafter 
 be called Whitfield street. 
 
 William street, from Morgan to McMillan street, shall hereafter be 
 called Bennington street. 
 
 Willow avenue, from Lickrun road west to section line, shall here- 
 after be called Latham avenue. 
 
 Willow alley, from East Plum east to Elm street, shall hereafter be 
 called Leroy alley. 
 
 Woodward avenue, from Main avenue east to Observatory avenue, 
 shall hereafter be called Ticonderoga avenue. 
 
 Walnut street, from Cherry street west to Hackberry street, shall 
 hereafter be called Fern wood street. 
 
 Walnut street, from Elm street east to section line, shall hereafter 
 be called Whitlow street. 
 
 Walnut street, from Clay street east to Gilbert avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Altoona street. 
 
 Washington street, from Gilbert avenue northwest to Avondale 
 corporation, shall hereafter be called Wehrmann avenue. 
 
 Water street, from Waldon street west to Reed street, shall here- 
 after be called Pensacola street. 
 
 Water street, from Washington street northeast to Union Valley 
 road, shall hereafter be called Syracuse street. 
 
 Wayne street, from Burnet avenue east to Eden avenue, shall here- 
 after be called Rochelle street.* 
 
 Wayne street, from Hill street east to C. H. & D. R. R., shall here- 
 after be called Dempsey street. 
 
 Williams street, from Dodsworth avenue north to Elmore street, 
 shall hereafter be called Follett avenue. 
 
 Willow street, from Eastern avenue south to Ohio river shall here- 
 after be called Crane street. 
 
 Wilson street, from Van Hart street east to Warsaw pike, shall 
 hereafter be called Esmonde street. 
 
 * Not yet cut through. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 Wilson street, from Horton street south to Queen-City avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Derby avenue. 
 
 Wood street, from Ohio river north to West Fifth street, shall here- 
 after be called Baymiller street. 
 
 Wood street, from McMillan street north to Stone street, shall here- 
 after be called Emporia street. 
 
 Warsaw pike, from Plank road northwest to Glenway avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Warsaw avenue. 
 
 Young avenue, from Warsaw pike north to Glenway avenue, shall 
 hereafter be called Woodlawn avenue. 
 
 Yungbluth avenue, from Eastern avenue to Ohio river, shall here- 
 after be called Congress avenue. 
 
 street, from Taylor and Bassett road, Section 29, shall here- 
 after be called Littleton lane. 
 
 street, from Colerain avenue north to C. W. & B. R. R. 
 
 depot, shall hereafter be called Custis avenue. 
 
 street on east side C- W. & B. R. R., from Streng street 
 
 to Ludlow avenue, shall hereafter be called Pontiac street. 
 
 alley, from Chase street south to Spring alley or Hamilton 
 
 court, shall hereafter be called Ingol alley. 
 
 alley, from Hamilton pike east to Fergus street, shall here- 
 after be called Kendall alley. 
 
 alley, from Hamilton pike east to Fergus street, shall here- 
 after be called Marsden alley. 
 
 alley, from Knowlton street north to Chase street, shall 
 
 hereafter be called Grey alley. 
 
 alley, from Chase street south to Moline court, shall here- 
 after be called Baltzer alley. 
 
 alley, from Kendall alley north to Pope alley, shall here- 
 after be called Honer alley. 
 
 alley south of Elmore street, from Ford street east to Mill 
 
 creek, shall hereafter be called Creek alley. 
 
 alley, from Colerain avenue southwest to Knowlton street, 
 
 shall hereafter be called Blinn alley. 
 
 alley, from Spring-Grove avenue northwest to Elmore street, 
 
 shall hereafter be called Tozzer alley. 
 
 alley, from Dodsworth avenue northwest to Elmore street, 
 
 shall hereafter be called Gipsy alley. 
 
 alley, from Dodsworth avenue northwest to Elmore street, 
 
 shall hereafter be called Enos alley. 
 
 alley, from Gulow street northwest to or near Bluerock, 
 
 shall hereafter be called Hogan alley. 
 
 alley, from Streng street southeast to Spring or Ehrhardt 
 
 street, shall hereafter be called Macklin alley. 
 
 alley, from Macklin alley eastwardly about 160 feet, shall 
 
 hereafter be called Miles alley. 
 
 alley, from south line of Morris & Smith’s subdivision north- 
 west to Mill creek, shall hereafter be called Sechler alley. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 alley, from Beech (now Geringer) street southeast to south 
 
 line of Morris & Smith’s subdivision, shall hereafter be called 
 Harlow alley. 
 
 alley, from Chase street north to Ellis street, shall hereafter 
 
 be called Harwood alley. 
 
 alley, from Harwood alley eastwardly 226 feet, shall here- 
 after be called Gifford alley. 
 
 alley, from Turrill street west to Delaney street, shall here- 
 after be called Cole alley. 
 
 alley, from Hutchinson west to a point 100 feet west of 
 
 Delaney, shall hereafter be called Vint alley. 
 
 alley, from Lick to Ennis street, shall hereafter be called 
 
 Lena alley. 
 
 alley, from Grand avenue to Mt. Hope road in Section 29, 
 
 shall hereafter be called Jack alley. 
 
 Private alley, from Elmore street south to a point, shall hereafter 
 be called Ankenbauer alley. 
 
 Sec. 2. All ordinances and. parts of ordinances inconsistent with 
 the provisions of this ordinance shall be and the same are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 By Ordinances passed subsequently additional changes of names have 
 been made, as follows : 
 
 Auburn avenue, from Burnet avenue west, change to East Auburn 
 avenue. (Ord. 4142.) 
 
 Arbigust street charge to Vernon place. (Ord. 89.) 
 
 Bradley street, from Eastern avenue south to the Ohio river, change 
 to Carrel street. (Ord. 4145.) 
 
 Boyle avenue, from Bassett road to Glenway avenue, change to 
 Elberon avenue. (Ord. 4175.) 
 
 Banning avenue, from Hanfield street to a point north of Chase 
 avenue, change to Pitts avenue. (Ord. 4248 ) 
 
 Blanchard avenue, from College avenue to Glenway avenue, change 
 to Mansion avenue. (Ord. 4355.) 
 
 Butcher alley, from Baymiller to Central avenue, change to Wil- 
 mink street. (Ord. 40.) 
 
 Bultman street change to Cypress street. (Ord. 68.) 
 
 Beckett street, from Liberty street to Saunders street, change to 
 Highland avenue. (Ord. 796.) 
 
 Burgoyne alley named. (Ord. 869.) 
 
 Caledonia street, from Fourth street to the Ohio river, change to 
 Ludlow street. (Ord. 4140.) 
 
 Cambria street change to Frintz street. (Ord. 4211.) 
 
 Cherokee street change to Lang street. (Ord. 4211.) 
 
 Crawfish road change to Delta avenue. (Ord. 4213.) 
 
 Cemetery and Cross Lane streets, known as Necropolis street, change 
 to Curtis street. (Ord. 4324.) 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 Chicago avenue change to Woodbridge place. (Ord. 4356.) 
 
 Cherokee or Lang street change to Main street. (Ord. 69.) 
 
 Carthage pike, north of Erkenbrecher avenue, change to Vine 
 street. (Ord. 158.) 
 
 Christiana street change to Northside avenue. (Ord. 396.) 
 
 Clarkson street, from Bank street to Central avenue, change to Linn 
 street. (Ord. 655.) 
 
 Dodd’s place, between St. Paul place and Nassau street, change to 
 Luray avenue. (Ord. 456.) 
 
 Donham avenue named. (Ord. 602.) 
 
 Evans alley, from Vine street to Loth street, change to St. Joe 
 street. (Ord. 88.) 
 
 Erkenbrecher avenue and Carthage pike, north of Erkenbrecher 
 avenue, change to Vine street. (Ord. 158.) 
 
 Feemster alley, east from Stites avenue and north of Eastern ave- 
 nue, named. (Ord. 807 ) 
 
 Gerald avenue change back to Budolph avenue. (Ord. 4256.) 
 
 Hopper street, from Staunton avenue to Madison pike, change to 
 Locust street. (Ord. 4183.) 
 
 Hunt street, from McMillan street to north corporation line, change 
 to Reading road. (Ord. 51.) 
 
 Illyria place change to Sage avenue. (Ord. 4185.) 
 
 Indiana avenue change to Oak street. (Ord. 170.) 
 
 Ihorst place named. (Ord. 601.) 
 
 Imogene avenue change to Highland avenue. (Ord. 777.) 
 
 Kineon avenue, from 375 feet south of Mistletoe street westwardly 
 125 feet to Neff avenue, change to Maxwell place. (Ordinance 
 4184.) 
 
 Kalon avenue, from Boldface road to Mt. Hope road, change to 
 Bassett road. (Ord. 457.) 
 
 Kay street named. (Ord. 652.) 
 
 Livonia street, north from McMillan street, change to Kemper lane. 
 (Ord. 4183.) 
 
 Luray avenue, from Nassau street south to north line of Eden Park, 
 change to Dodd’s place. (Ord. 4212.) 
 
 Lang or Cherokee street changed to Main street. (Ord. 69.) 
 
 Lodge alley, between Fifth and Sixth streets, change to Fountain 
 place. (Ord. 411.) 
 
 Milwaukee avenue change back to State avenue. (Ord. 4143.) 
 
 Marlborough place, from Main to Auburn avenue, change to 
 Huntington place. (Ord. 69. ) 
 
 McMicken avenue, between McMicken avenue proper and the 
 Miami and Erie canal, change to Mohawk place. (Ord. 133.) 
 
 Madisonville pike, from McMillan street, change to Woodburn 
 avenue. (Ord. 157.) 
 
 Montgomery road, between Hunt street and Gilbert avenue, change 
 to Florence avenue. (Ord. 713.) 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Monticello avenue, from Linvvood road to corporation line, change 
 to Delta avenue. (Ord. 776.) 
 
 Necropolis street change to Curtis street. (Ord. 4324.) 
 
 Nellie street, west from Hunt street, change to Helen street. (Ord. 
 143.) 
 
 Ontario street, east of Broadway to Culvert street, change to Harri- 
 son street. (Ord. 4140.) 
 
 Pocahontas place, from Tusculum avenue southeast and northwest, 
 change to Morris place. (Ord. 4145 ) 
 
 Pallas street, from Gilbert avenue to Elmwood avenue, change to 
 Harvey street. (Ord. 4183.) 
 
 Parallax street change to Louden avenue. (Ord. 4214.) 
 
 Patterson alley, from Walnut to Main street, change to Government 
 place. (Ord. 96.) 
 
 Pulaski street, between Taylor avenue and Tusculum avenue, change 
 to Vineyard place. (Ord. 641.) 
 
 Rendigs street, between McMillan and June streets, change to Essex 
 place. (Ord. 460.) 
 
 Sycamore avenue, from Saunders street north to Vine and Corry 
 streets, change to Auburn avenue. (Ord. 4142. ) 
 
 Stavely street change to Convent place. (Ord. 4146.) 
 
 Storrs turnpike or Plank road, from State or Milwaukee avenue 
 to Warsaw pike, change to Wilder street. (Ord. 4255.) 
 
 South Branch road, from Glen way avenue north to terminus, change 
 to Plymouth avenue. (Ord. 108.) 
 
 Southey avenue change to Union avenue. (Ord. 132) 
 
 Scott street change to Delta avenue. (Ord. 210.). 
 
 Shillito avenue change to Shillito place. (Ord. 817.) 
 
 Typhon avenue, from French east and north to Ticonderoga, change 
 to East Ridgeway avenue. (Ord. 4141.) 
 
 Ticonderoga avenue, from Main avenue east to Observatory avenue, 
 change to Blair avenue. (Ord. 4141.) 
 
 Turner alley, north from Bank street, change to Turner street. 
 (Ord. 26.) 
 
 Tallulah avenue, from Rapidrun road south, change to Academy 
 avenue (Ord. 37.) 
 
 Victoria place, from Sycamore west to Locust street, change to 
 Auburn place. (Ord. 4145.) 
 
 Victoria or Auburn place, from Main to Sycamore, change to 
 Malvern place. (Ord. 69.) 
 
 Wakefield street, from Taylor street northeast to Eastern avenue, 
 change to Scott street. (Ord. 4166.) 
 
 Wellington avenue change to Wellington place. (Ord. 4174.) 
 
 Whitney court change to Armory place. (Ord. 4242.) 
 
 Kinsey avenue and Morgan street, between Auburn avenue and 
 Hunt street, changed to Kinsey avenue. (Ord. 906.) 
 
 Straight street, between Fairview avenue and Clifton avenue, 
 changed to Fairview avenue. (Ord. 923.) 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 203 
 
 Fairview avenue, north of Straight street, changed to University 
 court. (Ord. 924.) 
 
 Kleine street and Cherry street to the name of Cleinview avenue. 
 (Ord. 942.) 
 
 Delta avenue in the Riverview Syndicate, and that portion of old 
 Crawfish road which is a continuation of said Delta avenue in the 
 Riverview Syndicate, to Empress avenue. (Ord. 968.) 
 
 New Road, from McHenry road southeast, to Cavanaugh avenue. 
 (Ord. 969.) 
 
 To name the alley running from Stock alley to Stock avenue, 
 between Plymouth avenue and Sidney avenue, Holder alley. 
 (Ord. 973.) 
 
 Lawson street changed to Edgecliff road. (Ord. 991.) 
 
 Rockbridge avenue changed to Grandin road. (Ord. 1008 ) 
 
 Prospect street, from section line to Renner street, changed to 
 Renner street. (Ord. 1041.) 
 
 Fulton street, from its western terminus to Carrel street, changed 
 to Holbrook avenue. (Ord. 1044.) 
 
 Westminster street, from Woodburn avenue west to west section 
 line, changed to Lincoln avenue. (Ord. 1045.) 
 
 Alley in block bounded by Burns, St. Michael, Neave, and Storrs 
 streets, named Deselaers alley. (Ord. 1064.) 
 
 New Baltimore pike, from its intersection with Western avenue to 
 the north corporation line, changed to Baltimore avenue. (Ord. 
 3979.) 
 
 Zigzag avenue changed to Fairview avenue. (Ord. 4191.) 
 
 Rapidrun road changed to St. Lawrence avenue. (Ord. 38.) 
 
 That part of Crawfish-creek road north to Linwood road, known as 
 Church avenue, changed to Grace avenue. (Ord. 420.) 
 
 So much of Morris place as extends from Eastern avenue to alley 
 south of Columbia avenue changed to Donham avenue. (Ord. 
 603.) 
 
 New Richmond avenue, from Congress avenue to the corporation 
 line, changed to Kellogg avenue. (Ord. 631.) 
 
 The alley between Jefferson avenue and Fountain street, and run- 
 ning north and south from St. Clair street to Greenwood street, 
 named Voss alley. (Ord. 181.) 
 
 New street, connecting the west side of Loth street at its present 
 northern terminus with the east side of Vine street, named Thill 
 street. (Ord. 383.) 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 21. Passed June 1, 1897. 
 
 To change the names of certain streets and avenues of the City of 
 Cincinnati as designated therein, and changes by other ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 
 Cincinnati , That the names of certain streets and avenues of the city 
 
 of Cincinnati be and the same are hereby changed and established 
 
 as follows : 
 
 Auburn avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall hereafter be called Arnold 
 street. 
 
 Avon street, located in the First Ward, shall hereafter be called 
 Leonard street. 
 
 Baltimore street, located in the Eleventh Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Goethe street. 
 
 Beechwood avenue, located in what was formerly known as the 
 village of Westwood, shall be called Epworth avenue. 
 
 Burnet avenue, which is located in what was formerly known as the 
 village of Clifton, shall be called Greendale avenue. 
 
 Belmont place, located in the Second Ward, shall be called Tuxedo 
 place. 
 
 Belvedere street, located in the Twenty-eighth Ward, shall be 
 called Beldare avenue. 
 
 Barton street, located in what was formerly known as the village 
 of Linwood, shall be called Windisch avenue. 
 
 Bassett street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall hereafter be called Bev- 
 erly avenue. 
 
 Bauer street, located in the Twelfth Ward, shall be called Polk 
 street. 
 
 Beech avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, from Glenway 
 avenue to Lehman road, shall be called Wing street. 
 
 Beech street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly Avondale, 
 shall be called Emery street. 
 
 Beech avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, formerly River- 
 side, shall be called Lombard street. 
 
 Beechwood avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was for- 
 merly called the village of Linwood, shall be called LeBlond 
 avenue. 
 
 Bell avenue, from Glenway avenue north, located in the Twenty- 
 ninth Ward, shall be called Putnam street. 
 
 Bell avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, formerly River- 
 side, shall be called Bange street. 
 
 Betsy street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Clifford 
 street. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 205 
 
 Blaine avenue, located in the Twenty-fourth Ward, shall be called 
 Meeker street. 
 
 Belair avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, shall be called 
 Bulwer street. 
 
 Brown street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Riverside, shall be called 
 Fleaher street. 
 
 Bruce street, located in the Twenty-sixth Ward, shall be called 
 Paul street. 
 
 Bruce street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called 
 McBrayer street. 
 
 Bullock place, located in the Twenty-seventh Ward, shall be called 
 Park place. 
 
 Bruce street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Riverside, shall be called Colfax 
 avenue. 
 
 Chestnut street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Lischer 
 avenue. 
 
 Catherine street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, shall be called 
 Lydia street. 
 
 Cedar street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Davoran street. 
 
 Center street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Lin wood, shall hereafter be called Gar- 
 retson avenue. 
 
 Center street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Avondale, shall be called Jay street. 
 
 Center avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Rose- 
 wood avenue. 
 
 Central avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, shall be called 
 Hearne avenue. 
 
 Center street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly Clifton, 
 shall be called Juergens avenue. 
 
 Center street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, from Middleton 
 avenue to Cooke avenue, in what was formerly called the village 
 of Clifton, shall be called Shiloh street. 
 
 Cleveland street, located in the Fourth Ward, shall be called Reedy 
 street. 
 
 Cliff street, located in the First Ward, shall be called Harold street. 
 
 Cook street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly Clifton, shall 
 be called Telford street. 
 
 Cook street, in what was formerly known as Avondale, shall be 
 called Norwich street. 
 
 County road, in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Oskamp 
 avenue. 
 
 Crescent street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called 
 Circle street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Cross street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Cambria 
 street. 
 
 Davis avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Craigh avenue. 
 
 Delaware street, located in the Second Ward, shall be called Bath- 
 gate street. 
 
 Dexter street, located in the First Ward, shall be called Stockton 
 street. 
 
 Dexter street, located in the Twenty-eighth Ward, shall hereafter 
 be called Bear street. 
 
 Dutton avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Avondale, shall be called 
 Perkins avenue. 
 
 Elmwood street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Urwiler 
 avenue. 
 
 Eastern avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called McHenry 
 avenue. 
 
 Elizabeth street, located in the Thirty -first Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Avondale, shall be called 
 Purdue street. 
 
 Elmwood avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall be called Elmer street. 
 
 Erie avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Clifton, shall be called Lillard avenue. 
 
 Euclid avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Riverside, shall be called Frey 
 avenue. 
 
 Franklin avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Fenton 
 avenue. 
 
 Fairview avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called 
 Montana avenue. 
 
 Ferris avenue, located in the First Ward, shall be called Wilmer 
 avenue. 
 
 Forest avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Werk 
 Road. 
 
 Forest avenue, located in the First Ward, shall be called Miami 
 avenue. 
 
 Forest avenue, located in the Twenty-sixth Ward, shall be called 
 Humboldt avenue. 
 
 Fowler avenue, located in the Twenty-fifth Ward, shall be called 
 Rooney street. 
 
 Franklin avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall be called Columbia 
 avenue. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 Frederick avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called 
 Knox street. 
 
 Glenwood avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Broad - 
 well avenue. 
 
 Glen way avenue, located in the former village of Clifton, shall be 
 called Glenmary avenue. 
 
 Garden street, located in the Twenty -ninth Ward, shall be called 
 Gabon street. 
 
 Garden avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Lin wood, shall be called Greist street. 
 
 Gilbert avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as Clifton, shall be called Sherlock avenue. 
 
 Glenway avenue, located in the First Ward, shall be called Panama 
 street. 
 
 Graham avenue, located in the Twenty-fourth Ward, shall be called 
 Barbor street. 
 
 Grand in avenue, located in the First Ward, shall be called Grandin 
 road. 
 
 Grandview avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called 
 Daytona avenue. 
 
 Grand street, First Ward, shall be called Custer street. 
 
 Greenwood street, Twenty-eighth Ward, shall be called Raine 
 street. 
 
 Gerard avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Riverside, shall be called Eloise 
 avenue. 
 
 Harvey avenue, located in the Second Ward, shall be called Yale 
 avenue. 
 
 Hamer street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Lin wood, shall hereafter be called Linwood 
 avenue. 
 
 Harriet avenue, located in the Thirty- first Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Clifton, shall be called Wuest 
 street. 
 
 Hatch street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Riverside, shall be called Fithian 
 street. 
 
 Hawthorne avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called 
 Stanhope avenue. 
 
 Heidelberg avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, village of West- 
 wood, shall be called Hildreth avenue. 
 
 Hemlock avenue, located in the First Ward, shall be called Breen 
 street. 
 
 Henry street, located in the Twenty-fifth Ward, shall be called Lehe 
 street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Henry avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, shall be called 
 Norma street. 
 
 Highland avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Newport 
 avenue. 
 
 Hollywood avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, village of West- 
 wood, shall be called McLelland avenue. 
 
 Harrison street, located in the Sixth Ward, shall hereafter be called 
 Pioneer street. 
 
 King’s terrace, located in the Twenty-seventh Ward, shall be called 
 South Auburn avenue. 
 
 Linden avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was called 
 the village of Clifton, shall be called Whitfield avenue. 
 
 Ludlow avenue, located in the Thirty -first Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Jefferson avenue. 
 
 Lafayette avenue, in the Twenty-fourth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Marquis avenue. 
 
 Langdon road, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 called as the village of Linwood, shall be called Davenport street. 
 
 Linden avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Avondale, shall hereafter be 
 known as Hale avenue. 
 
 Linden avenue, Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly known as 
 the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called Buell street. 
 
 Linn street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall be called Heekin avenue. 
 
 Linwood pike, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 called the village of Linwood, shall be called Linwood avenue. 
 
 Linwood avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called 
 Junietta avenue. 
 
 Linden lane, First Ward, in what was formerly known as the village 
 of Linwood, shall be called Columbia avenue. 
 
 Llewellyn avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, shall be called 
 Bancroft avenue. 
 
 Locust street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly known as 
 the village of Avondale, shall be called Camden street. 
 
 Locust street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly the 
 village of Linwood, shall be called Bouton street. 
 
 Locust street, located in the Eleventh and Twenty-seventh wards, 
 shall be called Roberta street. 
 
 Logan street, located in the First Ward, shall be called Sachem 
 street. 
 
 Madisonville avenue, located in the First and Twenty-sixth Wards, 
 shall be called Madison road. 
 
 Mears avenue, Thirty-first Ward, formerly Avondale, shall be called 
 Glen wood avenue. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 Mitchell street, located in the Fourth Ward, shall be called Fagin 
 street. 
 
 Mound street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Avondale, shall be called Prospect place. 
 
 McMillan street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Avondale, shall be called Knott 
 street. 
 
 Main street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, formerly known as 
 the village of Riverside, shall hereafter be called Cappel street. 
 
 Maple avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Kleemeier street. 
 
 Maplewood avenue, located in the First Ward, formerly known as 
 the village of Lin wood, shall be called Rosedale avenue. 
 
 Marion street, located in the Second Ward, Walnut Hills, shall 
 hereafter be called Arden street. 
 
 Maxwell avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as Riverside, shall be called Portland avenue. 
 
 May street, Twenty- ninth Ward, in what was formerly known as 
 the village of Riverside, shall be called Kistner street. 
 
 Mayhew street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, formerly known 
 as the village of Riverside, shall be called Stathan avenue. 
 
 Miami street, located in the Eleventh Ward, shall hereafter be 
 Seitz street. 
 
 Monroe street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Avondale, shall be called Norway avenue. 
 
 Morris place, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, Price Hill, shall 
 be called Underwood place. 
 
 Neff road, located in the Twenty- ninth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Ring place. 
 
 Northern avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called 
 Shelby street. 
 
 Northside avenue, located in the Twelfth Ward, shall be called 
 Lowell avenue. 
 
 Oak street, located in the First Ward, shall be called Morse street. 
 
 Oaks avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Wolff 
 street. 
 
 Oakwood street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, formerly known as 
 the village of Westwood, shall be called Sheridan street. 
 
 Olive avenue, located in the Twenty-fifth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Morlan street. 
 
 Olive avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, formerly the 
 village of Riverside, shall be called Lee street. 
 
 Orchard street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Regan 
 street. 
 
 Orchard street, located in the Tweuty-eightli Ward, shall be called 
 Lossing street. 
 
 Orchard avenue, located in the First Ward, village of Linwood, 
 shall be called Archer avenue. 
 
210 
 
 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Osiris street, located in the Twenty-third Ward, shall be called 
 Winchell avenue. 
 
 Prospect place, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, Price Hill, shall 
 be called Zech street. 
 
 Park place, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly known 
 as the village of Linwood, shall be called Moyer place. 
 
 Powers street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall hereafter be called McClure 
 avenue. 
 
 Park avenue, located in the First Ward, shall hereafter be called 
 Salem street. 
 
 Parker avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, Riverside, shall 
 hereafter be called Barkley avenue. 
 
 Pleasant street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called 
 Gamble street. 
 
 Plymouth avenue, located in the Twenty -fourth Ward, shall here- 
 after be called Henshaw avenue. 
 
 Prospect avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly Clifton, 
 shall hereafter be called Hosea avenue. 
 
 Prospect place, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly Clifton, 
 shall hereafter be called Waverly avenue. 
 
 Quarry street, located in the Twelfth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Berning street. 
 
 Ross avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly known 
 as the village of Linwood, shall be called Armond street. 
 
 Russell avenue, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall hereafter be called Chester 
 avenue. 
 
 Ridgeway avenue, located in the First Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Richwood avenue. 
 
 Ridgeway avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly know as the village of Riverside, shall be called Tyler 
 street. 
 
 Rosewood avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called McFadden avenue. 
 
 Russell street, Twenty-ninth Ward, shall hereafter be called Voss 
 street. 
 
 Sylvan street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called Craig 
 street. 
 
 South street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called Mozart 
 street. 
 
 Spring street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Avondale, shall be called Whittier street. 
 
 Spring street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Higbee street. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 211 
 
 Spruce street, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 the village of Westwood, shall be called Spruce place. 
 
 State street, Thirtieth Ward, shall hereafter be called Waverly 
 avenue. 
 
 Symmes street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Riverside, shall be called Ingalls 
 street. 
 
 Taylor avenue, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, formerly known 
 as the village of Riverside, shall be called Bacon street. 
 
 Taylor street, Thirtieth Ward, shall be called Knox street. 
 
 Thompson street, Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was formerly known 
 as the village of Riverside, shall hereafter be called Page street. 
 
 Williams avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Belmore 
 avenue. 
 
 Wooster pike, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall hereafter, be called Eastern 
 avenue. 
 
 Walnut street, located in Walnut Hills, shall hereafter be called 
 Kenan street. 
 
 Wallace avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, formerly known 
 as the village of Avondale, shall be hereafter called Glenwood 
 avenue. 
 
 Walnut street, located in the First Ward, formerly known as the 
 village of Linwood, shall hereafter be called Winter street. 
 
 Washington street, located in the Twelfth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Tharp street. 
 
 Watson street, located in the Twenty-fifth Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Whiteley street. 
 
 Waverly avenue, located in the Twenty-seventh Ward, shall here- 
 after be called Paris street. 
 
 West avenue, located in the Thirty first Ward, shall hereafter be 
 called Kessler avenue. 
 
 Western avenue, located in the Thirty -first Ward, formerly known 
 as the village of Avondale, shall hereafter be called Dury avenue. 
 
 Western avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, formerly known 
 as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called Boudinot 
 avenue. 
 
 Western avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall be called Rural 
 avenue. 
 
 Williams street, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Avondale, shall hereafter be called 
 Dick street. 
 
 Willow street, located in the Second Ward, shall hereafter be called 
 Preston street. 
 
 Wilson avenue, located in the Twenty-sixth Ward, shall hereafter 
 be called Bonaparte avenue. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 Wilson street, located in the Twenty-seventh Ward, shall hereafter 
 be called Cumber street. 
 
 Wilson avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called 
 Clarence avenue. 
 
 Wood street, located in the First Ward, in what was formerly 
 known as the village of Linwood, shall be called Shattuc avenue. 
 
 Woodbine avenue, located in the Thirtieth Ward, in what was for- 
 merly known as the village of Westwood, shall hereafter be called 
 Hooker street. 
 
 Woodward avenue, located in the Thirty-first Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Avondale, shall be called Blair 
 avenue. 
 
 Yeatman street, located in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in what was 
 formerly known as the village of Riverside, shall hereafter be 
 called Princeton street. 
 
 Boldface road, from West Sixth street to Glen way avenue, to Gar- 
 field avenue. (Ordinance 53, passed August 16, 1897.) 
 
 Hunt street, from Broadway to McMillan street, to Reading road. 
 (Ordinance 56, passed August 23, 1897.) 
 
 Chester avenue to Russell avenue. (Ordinance 83, passed October 
 18, 1897.) 
 
 Union Bridge road, or levee, to Beechmont avenue. (Ordinance 
 89, passed November 1, 1897.) 
 
 Jefferson avenue, from Brookline avenue to Miami canal, to Ludlow 
 avenue. (Ordinance 105, passed December 13, 1897.) 
 
 Raine avenue, from Jefferson avenue to Hopson street, to Lakewood 
 avenue. (Ordinance 122, passed January 24, 1898.) 
 
 Feemster alley, from McCullough street to its western terminus, to 
 Feemster street. (Ordinance 133, passed February 7, 1898.) 
 
 Saunders street, from Auburn avenue to Reading road, to Dorches- 
 ter avenue. (Ordinance 145, passed February 28, 1898 ) 
 
 Bennett avenue and Union avenue to Beechmont avenue. (Ordi- 
 nance 156, passed March 28, 1898.) 
 
 Mollitor street to University avenue. (Ordinance 174, passed May 
 2, 1898.) 
 
 Davenport street to Langdon place. (Ordinance 224, passed Sep- 
 tember 19, 1898.) 
 
 Linton street to Church place. (Ordinance 298, passed May 1, 
 1899.) 
 
 Linwood road from Madison road to Hogback road, and Hogback 
 road from Linwood road to corporation line, to Observatory 
 avenue (Ordinance 303, passed May 15, 1899.) 
 
 Lickrun road, South Branch road, and Plymouth avenue, from 
 Queen-City avenue south of Glenway avenue, to Quebec road. 
 (Ordinance 316, passed June 5, 1899.) 
 
 Linwood road, from Observatory avenue to Eastern avenue, to Lin- 
 wood avenue. (Ordinance 315, passed June 5, 1899.) 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 2l3 
 
 No. 211. Passed March 4, 1892. 
 
 To require newspaper advertisements of theatrical shows or exhibi- 
 tions to state the prices of admission thereto, and also to require 
 a scale of prices to be hung up at the doors of the theaters. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That whenever any theatrical show or exhibition of 
 any name or nature is given at any hall or building in this city 
 licensed as a theater, and for admission to which money is demanded, 
 if such theatrical show or exhibition is advertised by the proprietor 
 of such theater, show, or exhibition in any newspaper of general 
 circulation published within the corporate limits of Cincinnati, 
 every such advertisement shall state the complete scale of prices 
 for admission to such theatrical show or exhibition, and such scale 
 of prices shall also be framed and hung up in some conspicuous 
 place at the door of the theater ; and it shall be unlawful for any 
 person to sell or dispose of any ticket or seat for such theatrical 
 show or exhibition at a higher price for admission thereto than 
 according to the scale of prices so published, framed, and hung up; 
 and it shall also be unlawful for any person to sell or dispose of any 
 ticket or seat for any such theatrical show or exhibition without 
 such scale of prices having been first advertised, together with any 
 newspaper advertisement of such show or exhibition, and also hav- 
 ing been framed and hung up at the door of the theater as above 
 required. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating this ordinance shall on 
 conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars nor less 
 than five dollars. Each ticket or seat sold or disposed of contrary 
 to the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed and held to be a 
 separate offense. 
 
 NO. 648. Passed September 29, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the use of certain streets of the City of Cincinnati by 
 the Ohio Telephone and Telegraph Company for its lines of tele 
 phone and telegraph. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That the Ohio Telephone and Telegraph Company, 
 its successors and assigns, be and the same is hereby granted, upon 
 the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, the right, privilege, and 
 authority to erect, operate, and maintain its lines of telephone and 
 telegraph, including the necessary poles, wires, and fixtures, upon, 
 along, and over the following highways within the said city of Cin- 
 cinnati, viz : Entering said city on its northerly side and continuing 
 to the junction of the Torrence Road and Columbia Avenue by one 
 of the following routes : 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 First — Either entering the said city on Fairview or Vista Ave- 
 nue, and continuing on the same to the Madisonville Pike ; thence 
 along the Madisonville Pike to the Grandin and Torrence roads; 
 thence along the Torrence Road to Columbia avenue; or 
 
 Second — Entering the said city at the junction of Observatory 
 Avenue and the Edwards Road ; thence southerly along the Ed- 
 wards Road to the Grandin Road ; thence to Columbia Avenue ; 
 thence along Columbia Avenue to the Torrence Road from the 
 junction of the Torrence Road with Columbia Avenue, along 
 Columbia Avenue and Kemper Lane to Gladstone Avenue or 
 Road; thence along Gladstone Avenue or Road to Washington 
 Street; thence from the intersection of Washington Street and 
 Gladstone Avenue or Road to the intersection of Hill and Martin 
 streets at Third Street ; either 
 
 First — Along the proposed continuation of Gladstone Road or 
 Avenue to Martin Street, and along Martin Street to Hill Street ; 
 at the intersection of Hill and Martin streets; or 
 
 Second — Along Washington Street from the Gladstone Road or 
 Avenue to Third Street ; thence west along Third and Martin 
 streets to the intersection of Hill and Martin streets; thence along 
 either Third Street or Hill and Celestial streets to the intersection 
 of Celestial Street with Third Street; thence along Third Street 
 westerly to Vine Street; thence north along Vine Street to the 
 Telephone Exchange, as now located upon Vine Street ; also south 
 on Vine Street from Third Street to Water Street; thence easterly 
 along Water Street to the Suspension Bridge and the Ohio River. 
 
 Sec. 2. The poles and wires shall be so placed as not to inter- 
 fere with public travel or the streets or walks, or with public or 
 private property, or any telegraph or telephone lines belonging to 
 the city of Cincinnati, and the erection thereof shall be subject to 
 the supervision and direction of the Board of Administration. 
 
 Sec. 3. At least forty-eight hours before opening any street, 
 alley, or public place said company shall notify the Board of Ad- 
 ministration of its intention so to do, and the said company and its 
 servants and employees in the construction of its lines, or in exca- 
 vating and replacing the earth in any street, alley, or public place, 
 and of the pavement thereon, shall be under the supervision of the 
 Board of Administration, and shall promptly comply with any 
 order of said board. No excavation in any street, alley, or public 
 place shall be allowed to remain open, or said street, alley, or public 
 place be encumbered, for a longer period than shall be necessary to 
 execute the work for which the same is made. The cost of restor- 
 ing the earth or otherwise arising from such excavation, and the 
 laying of pavements and repairs thereto caused by the opening of 
 any such street, alley, or publie place, shall be paid by said com- 
 pany ; and said work shall be done under the supervision of the 
 Board of Administration, and the expense of said supervision shall 
 be paid by said company on presentation of bills, certified by said 
 
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 board, and any expense to which the city shall be put from neglect 
 of said company or its employees in ‘the doing of any work, or the 
 doing of the same in an unworkmanlike manner, or the digging of 
 ditches or holes and erection of poles, or restoring the earth or any 
 excavation, or relaying or replacing of any pavements, shall be paid 
 in like manner by said company on presentation of the bills of cost, 
 certified by said Board of Administration or its successors. 
 
 Sec. 4. Said company shall indemnify the city against and 
 assume all liability and damages which may arise, come, or occur 
 to the city of Cincinnati from any injury to persons or property 
 from the doing of any work herein mentioned, or the neglect of the 
 company or its employees to comply with any ordinance relative to 
 the use of streets or other public places, especially as to the putting 
 up of lights or barriers at or around excavations, and the accept- 
 ance by the company of this ordinance shall be an agreement by it 
 to pay to the city of Cincinnati any sum of money for which the city 
 may become liable from or by reason of such injury. 
 
 Sec. 5. For and in consideration of this grant the said the Ohio 
 Telephone and Telegraph Company agrees and reserves to the city 
 of Cincinnati the right to the exclusive use of one cross-arm upon 
 all poles erected under this ordinance for police, fire-alarm, and 
 other city official telegraph and telephone service, free of charge to 
 the said city. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Said company shall file with the city clerk its accept- 
 ance of this ordinance within thirty days from the date when it 
 shall take effect ; and before exercising any of the privileges 
 granted hereby shall file with the city auditor a satisfactory bond, 
 with sufficient sureties, in favor of the city of Cincinnati, approved 
 by the Board of Administration, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, 
 that it will faithfully comply with and perform the terms and con- 
 ditions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 7. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to give 
 the said telephone company or its successors any exclusive right to 
 construct telephone and telegraph lines in the streets and alleys of 
 the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 8 . Said corporation shall at all times be subject to the city 
 ordinances now in existence, or which may hereafter be passed, 
 relative to the use of public streets or other public places. 
 
 No. 4:326. Passed February 7, 1890. 
 
 Adopting- Central Standard Time as the criterion of time in the City 
 
 of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cincinnati , 
 That Central Standard time be and the same is hereby adopted as 
 the criterion and standard of time in the city of Cincinnati, instead 
 of meridian time heretofore in use. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 4266. Passed September 20, 1889. 
 
 Relating 1 to the occupancy of part of Burnet -Woods Park by the 
 University of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed 
 to execute on behalf of the city the following agreement with the 
 University of Cincinnati : 
 
 This agreement , made this day of 188-, by and between 
 
 the city of Cincinnati, party of the first part, and the University of 
 Cincinnati, party of the second part, witnesseth : 
 
 That the party of the first part, for and in consideration of one 
 dollar by it received from the party of the second part, and the 
 covenants of the party of the second part hereinafter set out by 
 it to be performed, does hereby covenant and agree to and with 
 the party of the second part that the said last-named party may 
 erect a university building and such other buildings as may be inci- 
 dentally connected therewith, and forever afterward maintain and 
 control the same for the purposes hereinafter named, upon the 
 following described lot of land : 
 
 Situated in the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. 
 Beginning at a point in the east line of Clifton Avenue, which 
 point is 50 feet east of the west line and 726.36 feet north of the 
 south line of Section 14, Millcreek Township, also in the north line 
 of Corry Street as laid out through Burnet-Woods Park ; thence 
 east on the said north line of Corry Street, parallel to the south line 
 of said Section 14, and 726.36 feet northwardly therefrom at right 
 angles, 1424.06 feet to the east line of Burnet-Woods Park and 
 the west line of the Corry tract ; thence north with the east line 
 of Burnet-Woods Park 1354.21 feet to the center of Molitor 
 Street as laid out and improved by the city of Cincinnati east from 
 the east line of said Burnet-Woods Park ; thence from this point 
 on a curve southwardly with 300 feet radius (to which curve the 
 said center line of Molitor Street is tangent) a distance of 141.37 
 feet ; thence reversing with a radius of 300 feet a distance of 
 376.99 feet; thence reversing with a radius of 200 feet a distance 
 of 349,07 feet ; thence reversing with a radins of 300 feet for a 
 distance of 502.66 feet ; thence reversing with a radius 238.80 
 feet a distance of 170.88 to a point in the said center line of Molitor 
 Street produced, which line is tangent to last-described curve; 
 thence on the said tangent and center line of Molitor Street pro- 
 duced 39.27 feet to the east line of Clifton Avenue; thence south 
 on said east line of Clifton Avenue 1356.21 feet to the place of 
 beginning; containing 43.302 acres of land ; excepting therefrom, 
 however, a strip of land thirty feet in width off of the east side of 
 said tract from Corry Street to Molitor Street for a proposed public 
 street, and excepting therefrom also a strip thirty feet in width off 1 
 
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 of the north side of said tract between Clifton Avenue and the east 
 line of the park for the proposed extension of Molitor Street ; the 
 tract of land hereby granted as aforesaid and the strips excepted 
 therefrom for street purposes being more fully shown upon the 
 accompanying plat, which is hereby made a part hereof. 
 
 That the said University of Cincinnati may erect on said lot 
 above described its main building at whatever point that it may 
 select, and it shall have exclusive control in and over so much of said 
 lot as lies within a radius of one hundred feet on all sides of said 
 main building; provided that ssid limit of one hundred feet does 
 not extend beyond any line of said first described lot or tract of 
 ground. But it is expressly agreed and understood that the 
 remainder of said tract of 43.164 acres just above described not 
 occupied by buildings for said university purposes is to remain 
 open to the public as a part of Burnet- Woods Park forever. The 
 said party of the second part shall have the right to use the re- 
 mainder of said above-described tract for all proper university 
 purposes, and to build roads, lay out grounds, plant trees, and 
 otherwise beautify and improve said grounds, subject always to ap- 
 proval by the Board of Public Affairs of said party of the first part. 
 And the said party of the second part, for and in consideration 
 of one dollar by it received from the party of the first part, and the 
 covenants to be performed by the said party of the first part, does 
 hereby covenant and agree to and with the said party of the first 
 part that they will commence the construction of their main build- 
 ing for university purposes within three years from the date of the 
 execution of this agreement, otherwise this agreement to be null 
 and void, without proceedings in forfeiture therefor. 
 
 Said party of the second part further agrees and covenants that 
 within five years from the date of the execution of this agreement 
 they will have expended at least one hundred thousand dollars 
 in the construction of the buildings and other improvements upon 
 the above - described lot or tract of ground for their university 
 purposes, otherwise this agreement to be null and void without 
 proceedings in forfeiture therefor ; and that they will keep said 
 improvements in repair and forever after maintain and control said 
 buildings so constructed upon said lot, together with the said 
 grounds for university purposes. 
 
 That in case of the failure of said University of Cincinnati to 
 make substantial compliance with the conditions and stipulations in 
 this agreement, or in case said university shall at any time there- 
 after fail to maintain and keep up a university for educational 
 purposes, or shall fail to continue and maintain the grounds not 
 actually occupied by buildings for university purposes, the same 
 shall, at the option of the city, become void, and the city may 
 thereupon retake and retain the sole and exclusive control of said 
 premises. 
 
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 In testimony whereof the city of Cincinnati has caused its name 
 to be signed hereto and its corporate seal to be impressed thereon 
 
 by , the mayor of said city, and the University of Cincinnati 
 
 has caused its name to be signed hereto and its corporate seal to be 
 impressed hereon by the president of its board of trustees, who was 
 
 duly authorized so to do by resolution of said trustees, this 
 
 day of , 188-. 
 
 Sec. 2. The duty to execute said agreement is hereby imposed 
 upon the mayor, upon condition that the said University of Cincin- 
 nati shall also execute said contract on its behalf within ninety 
 days from the passage of this ordinance ; and the city solicitor is 
 directed to cause said agreement and plat to be duly recorded. 
 
 No. 55. Passed July 24, 1891. 
 
 To provide for the devise of Matthew H. Thoms to the City of Cincinnati 
 m trust for the University of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That the devise of Matthew II. Thoms to the city 
 of Cincinnati in trust for the University of Cincinnati, by his will 
 dated October 28, 1873, and the codicil thereto dated November 
 11, 1890, and admitted to probate by the Probate Court of Hamil- 
 ton County, Ohio, on January 6, 1891, be and the same is hereby 
 accepted in accordance with the terms and provisions of said will 
 of said Matthew H. Thoms. 
 
 “THE WILLIAM THOMS PROFESSORSHIP,” PROVIDED FOR 
 
 IN THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MATTHEW H. 
 
 THOMS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. 
 
 1. I direct that there be first paid out of my estate my just 
 debts and funeral expenses, and the expenses of administration of 
 my estate. 
 
 2. I direct that a monument be erected over the grave of my 
 father in Spring-Grove Cemetery at an expense not exceeding one 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 3. All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, real and 
 personal, wheresoever situate, of which I may die seized I give and 
 devise to the city of Cincinnati, in trust for the University of Cin- 
 cinnati, upon condition that out of the same there be set apart and 
 provided a sufficient sum as the endowment of a professorship, to be 
 called, in memory of my father, “The William Thoms Professor- 
 ship,” and the residue, if any, of the property hereby given shall 
 be applied to such uses and purposes of said university as the 
 directors thereof may from time to time provide. 
 
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 4. I appoint the chairman of the board of directors of the 
 University of Cincinnati, holding such office at the time of my 
 decease, executor of this will. 
 
 Witness my signature. M. H. THOMS. 
 
 October 28, 1878. 
 
 [By a codicil November 11, 1890, this bequest was slightly reduced, 
 and Win. McAlpin was named as executor. The value of the estate 
 thus given to the university is about $120,000, the income from which 
 is $6,800 per annum.] 
 
 No. 564. Passed June 23, 1893. 
 
 To authorize the issue of bonds to provide for the building- and the 
 apparatus necessary for the University of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec-1. Be it ordainel by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That pursuant to the power conferred by the act 
 of April 27, 1872 (69 O. L. 164), as amended April 20, 1893, to 
 authorize the issue of bonds to provide for the building and appa- 
 ratus necessary for the University of Cincinnati, an issue of one 
 hundred thousand dollars in bonds of the city is hereby authorized 
 and ordered. 
 
 Said bonds shall be dated July 1, 1893, and be payable twenty- 
 five years from date ; they shall bear four per cent per annum 
 interest, payable in semi-annual installments each January and 
 July during the life of said bonds. 
 
 Principal and interest shall be payable at the American Ex- 
 change National Bank of New York. 
 
 The bonds shall be signed by the mayor and by the auditor, and 
 be sealed with the seal of the city. 
 
 The bonds shall be sold by the auditor in accordance with Sec- 
 tion 2709 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, and the proceeds of said 
 bonds shall be paid into the city treasury and credited to the 
 account of such university, and be by the said directors applied to 
 the purpose for which said bonds shall be issued. 
 
 If any surplus remains unused at the end of the year and un- 
 necessary for said purpose, such surplus shall be applied by said 
 directors as a redemption fund for payment of so much of said 
 issue of bonds as said surplus may meet. 
 
 NO. 752. Passed February 16, 1894. 
 
 To regulate travel on the Eighth-street Viaduct. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That no person or persons shall be permitted to drive 
 on or over the Eighth-street Viaduct with any vehicle or conveyance 
 for freight, merchandise, or other substance carrying two thousand 
 
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 pounds or over in weight ; and no vehicle or conveyance, empty or 
 loaded, drawn by more than two horses or mules, shall be permitted 
 to drive on or over the said Eighth-street Viaduct. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person shall drive or assist in driving on or 
 over said viaduct any cattle, horses, mules, sheep, or swine in a 
 drove. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person or persons shall unnecessarily or willfully 
 remain or stop with any vehicle, street-car, or other conveyance 
 of any description whatever upon said viaduct or on the approaches 
 to the same. 
 
 Sec. 4. No person shall cross or attempt to cross or break into 
 the lines of teams or street-cars or other vehicles driving on or over 
 said viaduct, nor shall any person disobey or resist any officer in 
 charge of said viaduct. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person or persons shall gather in assemblage or 
 crowds on said viaduct or the approaches leading to the same, or 
 be and remain upon any of the sidewalks or passages thereof longer 
 than will be necessary to pass over the same. 
 
 Sec. 6. Drivers or persons in charge of any vehicle or convey- 
 ance of any kind shall keep to the right, leaving the railways free 
 for the cars to pass over, when passing over said viaduct. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions 
 of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any 
 sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 8 . That the ordinance, No. 701, entitled “An ordinance to 
 regulate travel on the Eighth-street Viaduct,” passed December 22, 
 1893, be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 4038. 
 
 As passed January 27, 1888, and amended by 
 No. 33, passed June 5, 1891. 
 
 To change the boundaries of the First, Second, Third, Twelfth, Twenty- 
 first, and Twenty-fourth Wards of the city, and to create five new 
 wards, to be known as the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty- 
 eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Wards, as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati , That the boundaries of the First, Second, Third, Twelfth, 
 Twenty -first, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty- 
 eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth wards shall be as hereinafter 
 described. 
 
 Sec. 2. The boundaries of the First Ward shall be as follows, 
 to- wit: Beginning at the intersection of Lumber Street and the 
 Ohio River, and running thence northwardly on Lumber Street to 
 Eastern Avenue; thence west on Eastern Avenne to junction of 
 Wheeler Avenue; thence eastwardly on Wheeler Avenue to Tor- 
 rence Road ; thence northwardly on Torrence Road to Grandiu 
 Road ; thence northwardly on Grandin Road to the Madisonville 
 
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 Turnpike ; thence northwardly on the Madisonville Turnpike to 
 the north corporation line of the city ; thence east on the north cor- 
 poration line of the city to the northeast corner of Section No. 26 
 of former Spencer Township ; thence south on the east line of said 
 Section No. 26 and the east line of Section No. 25 to the northern 
 boundary line of the former village of Columbia; thence south- 
 eastwardly along the eastern line of said former village of Columbia 
 to the Turkey Bottom Road ; thence southwestwardly on the Turkey 
 Bottom Road to Davis Lane ; thence northwardly on Davis Lane to 
 Longworth south line ; thence westwardly along the dividing line 
 between Longworth Stump and Wade to Richmond Pike ; thence 
 northwardly on Richmond Pike to the dividing line between Hol- 
 brook and Hosea; thence westwardly along said line and a 
 continuation thereof to the Ohio River ; thence down the Ohio 
 River to Lumber Street, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 3. The boundaries of the Second Ward shall be as follows, 
 to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of Kemper Lane and Colum- 
 bia Avenue, and running thence northwardly on Kemper Lane to 
 McMillan Street ; thence eastwardly on McMillan Street to east 
 line of Section No. 8, Millcreek Township ; thence northwardly on 
 the east line of said Section No. 8 to the south boundary line of the 
 German Protestaut Cemetery ; thence westwardly on said south 
 line to the west line of said cemetery; thence northwardly on the 
 west line of said cemetery to the south line of the subdivision of 
 George Mathers’ estate ; thence westwardly on the south line of 
 said subdivision to the west corporation line of the city ; thence 
 southwardly on the west corporation line and on Lane Street to the 
 northern corporation line of the city ; thence westwardly with the 
 northern corporation line of the city to Burnet Avenue ; thence 
 southwardly on Burnet Avenue and the west line of Section No. 7 
 to Liberty Street ; thence east on the south line of Section No. 7 
 to the southeasterly boundary line of Eden Park; thence northeast- 
 wardly with the southeastwardly boundary line of Eden Park to 
 Kemper Lane and Columbia Avenue, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 4. The boundaries of the Third Ward shall be as follows, 
 to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of Sycamore Street and Court 
 Street, and running thence eastwardly on. Court Street to Gilbert 
 Avenue; thence northwardly on Gilbert Avenue to the south line 
 of Section No. 7 ; thence westwardly on the south line of Section 
 No. 7 to Liberty Street ; thence westwardly on Liberty Street to 
 Sycamore Street; thence southwardly on Sycamore Street to Court 
 Street, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 5. The boundaries of the Twelfth Ward shall be as follows, 
 to-wit : Beginning at the intersection of Vine Street and McMicken 
 Avenue, and running thence northwardly on Vine Street to Mc- 
 Millan Street; thence westwardly on McMillan Street to Clifton 
 Avenue; thence northwardly on Clifton Avenue to the northern 
 corporation line of the city ; thence westwardly on the northern 
 
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 corporation line to the Miami Canal ; thence southeastward^ with 
 the Miami Canal to McMicken Avenue at Mohawk Bridge; thence 
 eastwardly on McMicken Avenue to Vine Street, the place of 
 beginning. 
 
 Sec. 6. The boundaries of the Twenty-first Ward shall be as 
 follows, to -wit : Beginning at a point where Price-Hill Road pro- 
 duced intersects low -water line of the Ohio River; thence east- 
 wardly Avith the Ohio River to Carr Street ; thence north on Carr 
 Street to Eighth Street; thence west on Eighth Street to McLean 
 Avenue ; thence north on McLean Avenue to Gest Street ; thence 
 west on Gest Street to State Avenue ; thence north on State Avenue 
 to the north line of Section No. 30, Storrs Township (Liberty 
 Street) ; thence Avest on said north line of Section No. 30 (Liberty 
 Street) to Lehman Avenue ; thence westwardly on Lehman Avenue 
 to Grand Avenue ; thence south on Grand Avenue to Glemvay 
 Avenue ; thence east on Glen way Avenue to Storrs Turnpike or 
 Wilder Avenue; thence southwardly on said Storrs Turnpike or 
 Wilder Avenue to WarsaAV Pike; thence southwardly on Warsaw 
 Pike to the north line of Price-Hill Inclined Plane; thence west- 
 Avardly on the north line of Price-Hill Inclined Plane to the Price- 
 Hill Road; thence south on the Price-Hill Road to the Ohio River 
 and place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 7. The boundaries of the TAventy- fourth Ward shall be as 
 follows, to-Avit : Beginning at the intersection of Liberty Street and 
 McLean Avenue, and running thence northwardly on McLean Ave- 
 nue to Harrison Avenue; thence eastwardly on Harrison Avenue 
 to Coleman Street; thence north Avardly on Coleman Street to Miami 
 Canal at Browne-street bridge; thence north Avardly Avith the Miami 
 Canal to Division Street ; thence westwardly on Division Street to 
 Colerain Avenue ; thence northwardly on Colerain Avenue to Mill 
 Creek ; thence south Avardly along Mill Creek to Liberty Street ; 
 thence east on Liberty Street to McLean Avenue, the place of 
 beginning. 
 
 Sec. 8. The boundaries of the Twenty-sixth Ward shall be as 
 follows, to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of WilloAV Street and 
 the Ohio River, and running thence AvestAvardly on Willow Street 
 to Eastern Avenue ; thence westAvardly on Eastern Avenue to the 
 junction of Kemper Lane; thence nortliAA r ardly on Kemper Lane 
 to McMillan Street ; thence eastwardly on McMillan Street to the 
 southeast corner of Section No. 8, Millcreek Township ; thence 
 northwardly Avith the east line of Section No. 8 to the south boun- 
 dary line of the German Protestant Cemetery ; thence Avestwardly 
 on said south line of said cemetery to the west line of said ceme- 
 tery ; thence northwardly on Avest line of said cemetery to the south 
 line of the subdivision of George Mathers’ estate; thence west- 
 Avardly on the south line of said subdivision to the west corporation 
 line of the city ; thence northwardly on the Avest corporation line 
 of the city to the north corporation line of the city ; thence east on 
 
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 the north corporation line of the city to the Madisonville Turnpike; 
 thence southwardly on the Madisonville Turnpike to the Grandin 
 Road ; thence southwardly on the Grandin Road to Torrence Road ; 
 thence southwardly on the Torrence Road to Wheeler Avenue ; 
 thence southwardly on Wheeler Avenue to Eastern Avenue ; thence 
 eastwardly on Eastern Avenue to Lumber Street ; thence south 
 wardly on Lumber Street to the Ohio River; thence down the 
 Ohio River to Willow Street, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 9. The boundaries of the Twenty-seventh Ward shall be 
 as follows, to wit : Beginning at the intersection of Liberty Street 
 and the west line of Section No. 7, and running north with the west 
 line of Section No. 7 to the intersection of Morgan and Hunt streets ; 
 thence north on Hunt Street to McMillan Street; thence west on 
 McMillan Street to Locust Street ; thence southwardly on Locust 
 Street to Saunders Street; thence eastwardly on Saunders Street to 
 Sycamore Street; thence southwardly on Sycamore Street to Mul- 
 berry Street ; thence west on ’Mulberry Street to Main Street ; 
 thence southwardly on Main Street to Liberty Street; thence east 
 on Liberty Street and a continuation thereof to the west line of 
 Section No. 7, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 10. The boundariesof the Twenty-eighth Ward shall be as 
 follows, to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of Burnet Avenue 
 and McMillan Street, and running thence westwardly on McMillan 
 Street to Clifton Avenue ; thence northwardly on Clifton Avenue to 
 the northern corporation line of the city ; thence eastwardly on the 
 northern corporation line to Burnet Avenue ; thence southwardly 
 on Burnet Avenue to McMillan Street, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 11. The boundaries of the Twenty-ninth Ward shall be as 
 follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point in low-water line of the Ohio 
 River where same is intersected by Price-Hill Road produced ; 
 thence southwardly with the Ohio River to Boldface Creek; thence 
 westwardly with Boldface Creek and the north line of Riverside 
 corporation to the western corporation line of the city of Cincinnati ; 
 thence north on the western corporation line of said city to the 
 north line of Section No 36, Storrs Township; thence east on the 
 north line of Section No. 36 to the east line of Section No. 36 
 (Grand Avenue) ; thence south on said east line of said section 
 (Grand Avenue) to Glen way Avenue; thence east on Glen way 
 Avenue to Storrs Turnpike or Wilder Avenue ; thence southwardly 
 on Storrs Turnpike or Wilder Avenue to the Warsaw Pike; thence 
 southwardly on the Warsaw Pike to the north line of Price-Hill 
 Inclined Plane; thence weston the north line of Price- Hill Inclined 
 Plane to the Price Hill Road; thence southwardly on Price-Hill 
 Road to the Ohio River and the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 12. The boundaries of the Thirtieth Ward shall be as fol- 
 lows, to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of Liberty Street and 
 Mill Creek, and running thence northwardly along Mill Creek to 
 the north corporation line of the city ; thence westwardly on the 
 
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 north corporation line of the city to the western corporation line 
 of the city ; thence southwardly with the western corporation line 
 of the city to the southwest corner of Section No. 31, Millcreek 
 Township ; thence eastwardly on the south line of Section No. 31 
 to the southeast corner thereof ; thence south with the west line of 
 Section No. 30, Storrs Township, to Lehman Avenue; thence east- 
 wardly on Lehman Avenue to the south line of Section No. 25, 
 Millcreek Township ; thence east on said section line and Liberty 
 Street to Mill Creek, the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 13. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances heretofore 
 passed that are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance be 
 repealed. 
 
 NO. 1038. Passed February 21, 1896. 
 
 To organize into a new ward and to attach to existing wards the terri- 
 tory heretofore annexed and known as Avondale, Clifton, Linwood, 
 Riverside, and Westwood. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the territory heretofore annexed and known as the 
 incorporated villages of Clifton and Avondale be and the same are 
 organized into a new ward, known as Ward 31 ; that the territory 
 annexed and known as the incorporated village of Westwood be and 
 the same is attached to Ward 30, and made part and parcel thereof ; 
 that the territory heretofore annexed and known as the incorporated 
 village of Linwood be and the same is attached to Ward 1, and 
 made part and parcel thereof ; and that the territory heretofore 
 annexed and known as the incorporated village of Riverside be and 
 the same is attached to Ward 29, and made part and parcel thereof. 
 
 No. 726. 
 
 Passed January 5, 1894, and approved over 
 mayor’s disapproval January 26, 1894. 
 
 To amend Sections 10, 11, and 12 of an ordinance entitled “An ordi- 
 nance to establish a general system of wharfage for the Public 
 Landing in the city of Cincinnati, between Broadway and Main 
 Street, and to provide for the appointment of a Wharf-register and 
 the election of a Wharfmaster, and prescribing their duties,” passed 
 March 11, 1859. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati , That sections 10, 11, and 12 of an ordinance entitled 
 “An ordinance to establish a general system of wharfage for the 
 Public Landing in the city of Cincinnati, between Broadway and 
 Main Street, and to provide for the appointment of a wharf-register 
 and the election of a wharfmaster, and prescribing their duties,” be 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 10. That from and after the passage of this ordinance it 
 shall be unlawful for any person or persons discharging cargo upon 
 
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 the Public Landing in Cincinnati to suffer such cargo to remain 
 there more than four days after the same shall have been landed, 
 and for each day or fraction of a day thereafter such cargo is allowed 
 to remain on the Public Landing the owner or owners thereof shall 
 pay to the city ten cents for each hundred square feet or less of space 
 of the Public Landing so occupied. 
 
 Sec. 11. The owner or owners of each and every wharf-boat 
 moored at the Public Landing shall pay the city for wharfage one 
 half a cent per lineal foot per day. Such wharfage to be calculated 
 according to the length of the water-front occupied by said wharf- 
 boat and necessary for the proper mooring of boats. The owner or 
 owners of each and every steamboat, barge, or other water-craft 
 which may land or anchor in front within one hundred feet of the 
 Public Landing belonging to the city shall pay the city for wharfage 
 at the following rates, to-wit: One and one half cents per ton for 
 each and every ton said boat, barge, or water-craft may register, 
 hull measure, except such boats, barges, or water-craft as may meas- 
 ure less than one hundred tons, each of which shall pay the sum 
 of five dollars ; and in consideration of the payment of the above, 
 the boat, barge, or water-craft so paying shall be entitled to remain 
 twelve days at the Public Landing without further charge ; pro- 
 vided any steamboat may have the privilege of making landings 
 within the city limits to distribute and take on cargoes within that 
 time without further charge ; but nothing in this ordinance shall be 
 so construed as to entitle any boat, barge, or water-craft to any 
 immunities after leaving said landing. And it is further provided 
 that the owner of any wharf-boat or water-craft which has been 
 sunk or stranded in the river along the river front shall be required 
 to raise the same within fifteen days from the time such boats are 
 sunk or stranded, and in default thereof shall pay to the city the 
 sum of ten dollars per day for each and every day after fifteen days 
 such boat may be allowed to remain in the river so sunk or stranded. 
 
 Sec. 12. That if any boat, barge, or water-craft shall remain 
 longer at the Public Landing than twelve days, such vessel shall 
 pay an additional charge of two cents per ton for each and every 
 day it shall so remain ; and any boat, barge, or water-craft lying at 
 the landing less than twenty-four hours or more than two hours 
 shall be charged the sum of two dollars and a half for each landing. 
 It shall be the duty of the wharfmaster to collect and pay over to 
 the city treasurer all moneys which he may have collected for storage 
 and for wharfage, etc., provided for in sections 10, 11, and 12, and 
 for the recovery thereof he may bring suit in the name of the 
 city before any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 2. Sections 10, 11, and 12 of an ordinance entitled “An 
 ordinance to establish a general system of wharfage for the Public 
 Landing in the city of Cincinnati, between Broadway and Main 
 Street, and to provide for the appointment of a wharf-register and 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 the election of a wharfraaster, and prescribing their duties,” are 
 hereby repealed, and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after the earliest period allowed by law. 
 
 No. 357. 
 
 Passed September 2,1892, and approved o\ ex 
 mayor’s disapproval September 3f. 1892. 
 
 To prohibit the blowing’ of steam-whistles within the city limits. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the use of steam-whistles by blowing or sounding 
 the same, or causing steam-whistles to be blown or sounded, be and 
 the same is hereby declared to be unlawful within the corporate 
 limits of said city. Any person using the same or causing the 
 same to be used shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty 
 dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, or be imprisoned for 
 a term not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the 
 Police Court. 
 
 Sec. 2. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to the 
 use of steam-whistles by railroad companies to warn persons or 
 cattle crossing, walking, or straying upon their tracks, nor to the 
 use of steam-whistles by factories or manufacturing establishments 
 between the hours of 6 and 8 a. m., 12 and 1 p. M., and 4 and 6 
 p. m., but they shall apply to the use of such steam -whistles upon 
 the approach to and at railroad crossings guarded and protected by 
 safety gates. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the ordinance entitled “An ordinance supplemen- 
 tary to an ordinance to provide for the abatement of nuisances and 
 to repeal certain ordinances therein named,” passed October 1, 
 1856, and an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to prohibit the 
 blowing of steam-whistles within the city limits,” passed March 11, 
 1892, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 600. Passed August 11, 1893. 
 
 To prohibit the laying, stringing, or maintaining of wires or other 
 appliances for electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, or electric 
 wires for any other purposes in the public streets, alleys, and high- 
 ways without authority. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, 
 or as the servant or agent of any corporation, partnership, or 
 person, without authority lays, strings, or maintains wires or other 
 appliances for electric light, power, telephone, or telegraph, or 
 electric wires for any other purposes, in, across, or along the public 
 streets, lanes, squares, alleys, or other highways of the city, either 
 above or under the surface of the ground, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding 
 
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 fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars, and each day such wires or 
 appliances are allowed to remain in, along, or across such streets, 
 lanes squares, alleys, or other highways shall be deemed and 
 considered a separate and distinct offense, and punishable accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 A RESOLUTION. Passed December 2, 1892. 
 
 Auditor’s Certificate. 
 
 Whereas, Under Section 2702 of the Revised Statutes it is pro- 
 vided and expressly stipulated that no contract, agreement, or 
 other obligation involving the expenditure of money shall be en- 
 tered into, nor shall any ordinance, resolution, or order for the 
 appropriation or expenditure of money be passed by the Council or 
 by any board or officer of a municipal corporation, unless the auditor 
 of the corporation shall first certify that the money required for 
 the contract, agreement, or other obligation, or to pay the appro- 
 priation or expenditure, is in the treasury to the credit of the fund 
 from which it is to be drawn, and not appropriated for any other 
 purpose ; and 
 
 Whereas, Difficulties and delays have arisen through the non- 
 compliance with this requirement of the statutes : Therefore be it 
 
 Resolved , That the city clerk be and he is hereby directed to 
 notify all departments of the city government whose duty it may 
 be to transmit such documents to the Board of Legislation that 
 this requirement must be complied with, and the certificate of the 
 city auditor secured by them before such ordinance, resolution, or 
 order is presented for consideration by this board. 
 
 BLOCKED SQUARES. 
 
 [Continuation of list in Coppock and Hertenstein of blocked squares, 
 in which the erection of any building, or addition to any building, more 
 than ten feet high, unless the outer walls be made of iron, stone, brick, 
 and mortar, or of some of them, is prohibited.] 
 
 No. 3959 (passed July 8, 1887). — Evans Alley, Loth Street, 
 East Alley, and north line of Elsas & Loth’s subdivision. 
 
 No. 4048 (passed March 23, 1888).— C. I. St. L. & C. R. R. 
 on the east, by Fifth Street on the south, by Hannibal Street on 
 the west, and by Sixth Street on the north. 
 
 No. 4100 (passed August 17, 1888). — Spring-Grove Avenue, 
 Addison Street, Colerain Avenue, and Queen-City Avenue. 
 
 No. 4114 (passed September 7, 1888). — Western Avenue, IIul- 
 bert Alley, Bank and Dayton streets. 
 
 No. 4126 (passed December 7, 1888). — Gest Street, South Street, 
 State Avenue, and Depot Street. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 4147 (passed January 11, 1889). — Mulberry Street from 
 Vine Street east to an alley opposite Rice Street, by said alley to 
 Peete Street, by Peete Street to Vine Street and place of beginning. 
 
 No. 36 (passed August 1, 1890). — Nassau, North St. James 
 Avenue, Francisco Street, and Fulton Avenue. 
 
 No. 31 (passed June 5, 1891). — Bogen Street, Queen-City Ave- 
 nue, Oswald Street, and Harrison Avenue. 
 
 No. 102 (passed Sept. 18, 1891). — Fairfield Avenue, Lincoln 
 Avenue, Kleine Street, and Dexter Avenue. 
 
 No. 160 (passed Jan. 8, 1892).— Chase Street, Pullan Avenue, 
 Langland Street, and Williamson Place. 
 
 No. 263 (passed May 20, 1892). — Drake Alley, Young Street, 
 Boal Street, and Prospect Street. 
 
 No. 287 (passed June 17, 1892.) — McMillan Street, Park Ave- 
 nue, Curtis Street, and Kemper Lane. 
 
 No. 345 (passed September 23, 1892). — McMicken Avenue, 
 Locust Street, Oak and Buckeye streets. 
 
 No. 793 (passed June 1, 1894 ) — Freeman Avenue, Coleman, 
 Dayton, and York streets. 
 
 No. 775 (passed April 20, 1894). — Colerain Avenue, Dorman 
 Street, Cherry Street, and Burgoyne Street. 
 
 No. 813 (passed July 20, 1894). — Saunders Street, Huntington 
 Place, Main Street, Sycamore or Lewis Street. 
 
 No. 461 (passed February 17, 1893). — Thill, Loth, St. Joe, and 
 Vine streets. 
 
 No. 584 (passed July 14, 1893). — Draper, Straight, Colerain 
 Avenue, and Miami or Erie Canal. 
 
 No. 660 (passed October 27, 1893). — Jefferson Avenue, Scioto 
 Street, Calhoun and Claassen streets. 
 
 No. 681 (passed November 17, 1893). — Fulton Avenue, Nassau 
 Street, St. James Avenue, and Eden Park. 
 
 No. 919 (passed April 26, 1895).— Dalton, Sherman and McLean 
 avenues, and Poplar Street. 
 
 No. 941 (passed June 21, 1895). — North side of Fourteenth to 
 south side of Fifteenth, west side of Bremen, and east side of Race. 
 
 No. 960 (passed July 19, 1895). — State Avenue, Staebler Street, 
 Burns Street, and (including Hatmaker Street) Washington Alley. 
 
 No. 1010 (passed December 6, 1895). — Grand Avenue, Nassau 
 Street, Fulton Avenue, and Eden Park, Walnut Hills. 
 
 No. 1087 (passed August 24, 1896).- State Avenue, Storrs 
 Street, Burns Street, and Staebler Street, including Neave Street 
 between Staebler and Storrs streets. 
 
 No. 1168 (passed February 23, 1897). — Hackberry and Clayton 
 streets and Moorman and Forest avenues. 
 
 No. 262 (passed February 6, 1899). — McMillan Street, Kinsey 
 Avenue, Reading Road, and Cumberland Street. 
 
 No. 288 (passed April 10, 1899). — Court, John, Elizabeth, and 
 Mound streets. 
 
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 ORDINANCES TO BLOCK SQUARES REPEALED. 
 
 No. 4058 (passed March 30, 1888). — High, Congress, Deer 
 Creek, and Butler Street. 
 
 No. 4165 (passed February 8, 1889). Butler and Front streets, 
 the Miami Canal and Ohio River. 
 
 No. 59 (passed July 31, 1891). — McMillan Street, Park Avenue, 
 Cemetery Street, and Kemper Lane. 
 
 No. 78 (passed August 28, 1891). — Crossing C. H. & D. R. R. 
 and Harrison Avenue, running along to G. M. Herancourt’s brew- 
 ery, east to crossing of C. H. & D. R. R., thence south to place of 
 beginning. 
 
 No. 581 (passed July 7, 1893). — Ninth, Linn, Richmond, and 
 0utt6r streets 
 
 No. 1078 (passed July 27, 1896). — Madisonville Pike, Kleine 
 Street, Forest Avenue, and Hackberry Street. 
 
 No. 1086 (passed August 24, 1896). — Front, Harriet, Sixth, and 
 Horne streets. 
 
 No. 242. (passed November 7, 1898). — Freeman, Denman, and 
 Bank streets and Central Avenue. 
 
 No. 268 (passed February 13, 1899). — Freeman, Sixth, George, 
 and Baymiller streets. 
 
 No. 279 (passed March 6, 1899). —Fairfield, Lincoln, and Dexter 
 avenues, and Kleine Street. 
 
 No. 4265. Passed September 13, 1889. 
 
 To authorize the Queen City Natural Gas and Fuel Company, its succes- 
 sors and assigns, to lay pipes in the streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, 
 
 commons, and public places for certain purposes, and under the terms 
 
 and conditions herein stated. 
 
 [Void under Section 6 thereof, viz : “ VI. Should such com- 
 pany, its successors or assigns, neglect or fail to prosecute with 
 reasonable diligence the work of bringing natural gas or of supply- 
 ing manufactured fuel gas to Cincinnati for the foregoing purpose, 
 and are not at the end of one year after the passage of this ordinance 
 supplying at least twenty million cubic feet of natural gas, or if 
 natural gas can not be so furnished then artificial fuel gas, in said 
 quantity within said time after the grant for artificial fuel gas can 
 be made use of hereunder daily to the citizens of Cincinnati, the 
 franchise and privilege herein shall be forfeited, and this ordinance 
 shall become null and void.”] 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 ORDINANCES GRANTING PERMISSION TO 
 ERECT WAGON -SCARES IN STREETS. 
 
 R. E. Secrist, junction of Front and Second strrets, near Law- 
 rence. (No. 4026, passed November 18, 1887.) 
 
 Hudepohl & Kotte, front of Nos. 91 and 93 Clifton Avenue. 
 (No. 4321, passed January 24, 1890.) 
 
 The Lane & Bodley Company, John Street south of Water 
 Street. (No. 145, passed March 6, 1891.) 
 
 A. B. Apfel, northwest corner of Falke and Molitor streets. 
 (No. 667, passed October 28, 1893.) 
 
 The Jones Bros. Electric Company, St. Clair Alley north of 
 Court Street. (No. 695, passed December 8, 1893.) 
 
 The Winifrede Coal Company, south side of Giffin Street near 
 Lawrence. (No. 814, passed June 22, 1894.) 
 
 John C. Roth Packing Company, south side of Oehler Street. 
 (No. 943, passed June 21, 1895.) 
 
 Early & Daniel, west side of Harriet Street. (No. 1013, passed 
 December 6, 1895.) 
 
 Jung Brewing Company, east side of Evans Street. (No. 76, 
 passed October 11, 1897.) 
 
 A RESOEUTIGN. Passed October 9, 1891. 
 
 As to the use of street dirt and ashes in making- fills. 
 
 Resolved by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinati, 
 That the Board of Administration be and they are hereby directed 
 and instructed to use all street dirt and ashes in filling to grade 
 streets which have been dedicated to the city ; and that the custom 
 of filling in such street dirt and ashes on private property, or any 
 property other than regularly dedicated streets, be discontinued 
 and prohibited. 
 
 SUPPLIES FOR CITY HALL. 
 
 By an ordinance passed January 4, 1895, the Board of Legisla- 
 tion repealed ordinances that had long been of no effect, by force 
 of circumstances, attending City Hall removals. 
 
 These ordinances were No. 3058, “ to provide for the purchase 
 of supplies for the buildings and offices of the city,” passed Dec. 23, 
 1879 ; and No. 3796, amending same, passed May 28, 1886. 
 
 Supplies are now purchased for the City Hall keeping and clean- 
 ing service by the superintendent of the City Hall. 
 
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 A RESOLUTION . Passed by Common Council, March 12, 1873. 
 
 To grant permission to the City and Suburban Telegraph Association 
 and others to erect telegraph lines.* 
 
 Resolved , That the City and Suburban Telegraph Association 
 have permission to erect poles and private telegraph lines in the 
 streets of the city, to be placed under the direction of the city civil 
 engineer; provided that all poles shall be peeled and pointed, of not 
 less than thirty feet in height nor less than six inches in diameter 
 at the top ; that the base of the poles shall be set at least three feet 
 below the surface of the street; and that there shall not be more 
 than three of such poles located on any one square : Provided also, 
 that the City and Suburban Telegraph Association shall file a 
 written acceptance of the terms of this resolution with the city 
 clerk, and enter into a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of fifty 
 thousand dollars, to the satisfaction of the city auditor, conditioned 
 to put the street where such poles are placed in as good condition 
 as before their erection : Provided further, that whenever it shall 
 become necessary to occupy these poles with the wires of the fire 
 and police telegraph of the city, such occupancy shall be free of 
 expense to the city, except such expense as becomes necessary by 
 reason of such change : And provided further , that said association 
 reserves for the use of the fire and police telegraph four inches 
 of the top of each pole erected under the provisions of this resolu- 
 tion : And provided further, that any individual, firm, or corporation 
 shall have the right to attach wires to said poles, upon the payment 
 to said association of the prorata cost of said lines, and such attach- 
 ment shall be made as directed by said association, the object being 
 to avoid the placing of duplicate posts or lines of posts on the 
 streets. 
 
 Nfo. 1196. Passed March 29, 1897. 
 
 Granting to the St. Clair Cab and Mounted Messenger Company a 
 license to transact business under the terms of and in accordance 
 with the conditions of Ordinance No. 732 of the Board of Legisla- 
 tion of the City of Cincinnati, passed January 26, 1894. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That a license to transact its business for the period of 
 ten years, under the terms and conditions of and in accordance 
 with an ordinance numbered 732 of the Board of Legislation, and 
 entitled ‘‘An ordinance prescribing the terms and conditions under 
 which the business of telephone, telegraph, burglar-alarm, fire- 
 alarm, district messenger, and signaling purposes may be engaged 
 
 The telephone wires now occupy these poles. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 in within the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati by any 
 person, company, or corporation securing permission by special 
 ordinance so to engage, and to repeal Ordinance No. 683, passed 
 November 17, 1893,” be and the same is hereby granted to the 
 St. -Clair Cab and Mounted Messenger Company, provided said 
 St. Clair Cab and Mounted Messenger Company shall within ten 
 days following the passage of this ordinance file with the Board of 
 Administration a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of $5,000, 
 that said company will comply with the terms of said Ordinance 
 No. 732, and that it will protect the city of Cincinnati against 
 claims for damages that may arise from the placing and use of the 
 wires of said St. Clair Cab and Mounted Messenger Company. 
 
 NO. 1198. Passed March 29,1897. 
 
 To give unto the American Cab Company a license to transact busi- 
 ness upon the terms and in accordance with Ordinance No. 732, 
 passed January 26, 1894, and entitled “An ordinance prescribing 
 the terms and conditions upon which the business of all telephone, 
 teleg-raph, burg-lar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signal- 
 ing purposes may be engaged in within the corporate limits of the 
 city of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corporation securing 
 permission by special ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Whereas, The American Cab Company was in existence on the 
 26th day of January, 1894, said day being the time of the passage 
 of Ordinance No. 732; and 
 
 Whereas, Said American Cab Company did, March 6, 1894, give 
 notice of its acceptance of said Ordinance No. 732 : Therefore, 
 
 Sec. 1, Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That a license to transact its business for the period 
 of twenty-five years upon the terms and conditions and in accord- 
 ance with the said Ordinance No. 732, entitled “An ordinance 
 prescribing the terms and conditions under which the business of 
 telephone, telegraph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, 
 and signaling purposes may be engaged in within the corporate 
 limits of the city of Cincinnati by any person, company, or cor- 
 poration securing permission by special ordinance so to engage,” be 
 and the same is granted to the American Cab Company of Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, provided said American Cab Company shall within ten 
 days following the passage of this ordinance file with the Board of 
 Administration a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of $5,000, 
 that said company will comply with the terms of said Ordinance 
 No. 732 ; and* that it will protect the city of Cincinnati against 
 claims for damages that may arise from the placing and use of the 
 wires of said American Cab Company. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 No. 37. Passed June 21, 1897. 
 
 Granting- to the Globe Soap Company permission to erect two steel 
 electric poles for guy-ropes in Walnut Street, near Water Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That there is hereby granted to the Globe Soap Com- 
 pany permission to erect two twenty-eight-feet steel electric poles 
 for guy-ropes to sustain extension of the smoke-stack of the plant 
 of said company, to be located as follows : One on the west side of 
 Walnut Street south of Water Street, and one on the east side of 
 Walnut Street near the northeast corner of Walnut and Water 
 streets, in the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said Globe Soap Company shall pay for all repairs 
 in the streets for the locating of said poles, or that may be hereafter 
 necessary to retain said poles in said locations. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said company shall execute a bond to the city of Cim 
 cinnati for the sum of five hundred dollars to save the city harmless 
 from any and all claims for damages that may accrue or be lawfully 
 established by reason of the placing of said poles in said street, and 
 for the faithful compliance with all and singular the provisions of 
 this ordinance. 
 
 NO. 52. Passed July 26, 1897. 
 
 To give to Wm. G. Reuter a license to transact business upon the terms 
 of and in accordance with Ordinance No. 732, passed January 26, 
 1894, and entitled “An ordinance prescribing the terms and condi- 
 tions upon which the business of all telephone, telegraph, burglar- 
 alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling purposes may be 
 engaged in within the corporate limits of the City of Cincinnati by 
 any person, company, or corporation securing permission by special 
 ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Whereas , W. G. Reuter was in existence and doing business on 
 the 26th day of January, 1894, said day being the time of the 
 passage of Ordinance No. 732 : 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That a license to transact his business for the period of 
 twenty-five years upon the terms and conditions, and in accordance 
 with the said Ordinance No. 732, entitled “An ordinance prescrib- 
 ing the terms and conditions under which the business of telephone, 
 telegraph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signal- 
 ing purposes may be engaged in within the corporate limits of the 
 city of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corporation securing 
 permission by special ordinance so to engage,” be and the same is 
 granted to Wm. G. Reuter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, provided said person 
 shall within ten days following the passage of this ordinance file 
 with the Board of Administration a good and sufficient bond in the 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 sum of five thousand dollars that said person will comply with the 
 terms of said Ordinance No. 732, and that he will protect the city 
 of Cincinnati against claims for damages that may arise from the 
 placing and use of the wires of said person. 
 
 This person shall file quarterly with the Board of Administra- 
 tion a statement and plan showing any alteration, additions, or 
 extensions of his system ; also the number of each building said 
 wires are attached to. 
 
 This person shall obtain a permit from the Board of Administra- 
 tion before erecting any wire, brackets, or supports. 
 
 A sample of wire, brackets, and supports to be used shall be sub- 
 mitted to the Board of Administration for approval before strung or 
 erected. 
 
 No. 68. Passed September 27, 1897. 
 
 Granting to the Munro Turkish Bath Company permission to erect a 
 bridge across L’Hommedieu Alley, connecting buildings on either 
 side thereof. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the Munro Turkish Bath Company to erect a bridge not exceeding 
 four feet in width across L’Hommedieu Alley, between College 
 Street and Bace Street, for the purpose of connecting their build- 
 ings on either side of said alley; said bridge to be not less than 
 sixteen feet above the curb of said alley, and said bridge to be 
 built so as to not obstruct or interfere with ordinary travel through 
 said alley. 
 
 NO. 140. Passed February 7, 1898. 
 
 Granting to the Jung Brewing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, the right 
 to have and maintain electric-light wires across Freeman Avenue, 
 Bogen Alley, and Bank Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That the Jung Brewing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 be and it is hereby granted the right to have and maintain not more 
 than two electric-light wires from the brewery building, located on 
 the west side of Freeman Avenue, between Garden and Bank 
 streets, across Freeman Avenue, to the building on the east side of 
 Freeman Avenue, opposite the southeast corner of said brewery 
 building ; also the right to have and maintain not more than two 
 electric-light wires from the brewery building aforesaid across Bank 
 Street ; thence across the roofs of the buildings on the north side of 
 Bank Street and the west side of Freeman Avenue to a point oppo- 
 site the stable and storage building of the Jung Brewing Company, 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
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 located on the east side of Freeman Avenue, between Bank Street 
 and Central Avenue ; thence across Freeman Avenue to said stable 
 and storage buildings ; also the right to have and maintain not more 
 than two electric-light wires from the brewery building aforesaid 
 across Bank Street ; thence over the tops of the houses on the north 
 side of Bank Street to the building on the northeast corner of Bank 
 and Kindle streets ; also the right to have and maintain not more 
 than two electric- light wires from the said brewery building across 
 Bogen alley, in the rear of said brewery, and running from Garden 
 to Bank streets ; all of said premises being used entirely or in part 
 by the said Jung Brewing Company in the conduct of its busi- 
 ness and provided that the electric current transmitted over the 
 aforesaid electric-light wires is to be used exclusively by the Jung 
 Brewing Company and by no one else, and no current is to be sold 
 by the Jung Brewing Company to any person or persons. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to all the provisions and 
 conditions of General Ordinance No. 4285 as far as they are appli- 
 cable, and the grant hereby shall be for the period of ten years. 
 
 !N"o. 92. Passed November 8, 1897. 
 
 Granting 1 to the Davis & Egan Machine Tool Company the right to have 
 and maintain not more than six electric-light wires across Sixth 
 Street, between Eggleston Avenue and Culvert Street. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the Davis & Egan Machine Tool Company be and 
 it is hereby granted the right to have and to maintain not more 
 than six electric-light wires across Sixth Street, in the city of Cin- 
 cinnati ; said wires to be strung from the building on the southeast 
 corner of Sixth Street and Eggleston Avenue to the building on the 
 southwest corner of Sixth Street and Eggleston Avenue, said building 
 being known as the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Eggleston 
 Avenue, and to such adjoining premises as may be used by them in 
 the conduct of their business ; and provided that the electric current 
 transmitted over the aforesaid wires is to be used exclusively by 
 the Davis & Egan Machine Tool Company, and by no one else, and 
 no current to be sold by them to any other person or persons. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and 
 conditions of General Ordinance No. 4285 so far as they are appli- 
 cable, and the grant herein shall be for the period of ten years. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 No. 108. Passed December 20, 1897. 
 
 Granting: to the John C. Roth Packing- Company the rig-ht to have and 
 maintain not more than two electric -lig-ht wires from No. 1017 to 
 No. 1018, crossing- Oehler Street, 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the John C. Roth Packing Company be and it is 
 hereby granted the right to have and to maintain not more than 
 two electric-light wires from No. 1017 to No. 1018, crossing Oehler 
 Street, in the city of Cincinnati; said wires to be strung from No. 
 1017 to No. 1018, crossing Oehler Street, as may be used by them 
 in the conduct of their business ; and provided that the electric 
 current transmitted over the aforesaid wires is to be used exclu- 
 sively by the John C. Roth Packing Company, and by no one else, 
 and no current to be sold by them to any other person or persons. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and con- 
 ditions of General Ordinance No. 4285 so far as they are applicable, 
 and the grant herein shall be for the period of ten years. 
 
 No. 111. Passed January 17, 1898. 
 
 To authorize Thomas A. Quill, his heirs, associates, assig-ns, or succes- 
 sors, to lay pipes in the streets of Cincinnati, and to make connections 
 therewith for certain purposes and under the terms therein stated. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That permission be and is hereby granted to Thomas 
 A. Quill, his heirs, associates, assigns, and successors, to lay pipes 
 and other necessary appliances in the streets, avenues, alleys, and 
 public places of the city of Cincinnati, for the purpose of transmis- 
 sion of packages, letters, telegrams, and other articles which may 
 be transmitted therein by the use of electricity, compressed air, or 
 any other motive power which may be applicable to such systems 
 as are now known as “ underground pneumatic systems,” and also 
 for the purpose of supplying compressed air ; provided and this per- 
 mission is hereby granted upon the following express conditions: 
 Sec. 2. That in consideration of the privileges hereby granted 
 to said Thomas A. Quill, his associates, their heirs and assigns or 
 successors, they, the said Thomas A. Quill and his associates, their 
 heirs, assigns, and successors, shall furnish to the city of Cincinnati, 
 on the several streets, alleys, lanes, avenues, commons, etc., in 
 which the main or lateral pipes for supplying the citizens with the 
 service contemplated and authorized to be carried on, similar service 
 for all public buildings belonging to and used by the city for public 
 purposes, or by any department of the city government, at a price, 
 during each and every year hereafter, not exceeding that charged 
 private consumers ; provided nothing herein contained shall be con- 
 
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 strued to require the said city to make use of said tubes or pipes 
 unless first recommended and authorized by such boards or councils 
 as may by law be authorized to make contracts for such purposes, 
 in which case it shall be done under the supervision of the Board of 
 Administration, or such board or officers as may have control by 
 law of the supervision of the streets and the execution of similar 
 contracts with the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the Board of Administration or its successors shall 
 have the right to prescribe what portions of the streets shall be 
 broken up at a time, and to direct at what and how many points 
 the work shall be carried on. That all main or lateral pipes or 
 tubes, and all other appurtenances used for supplying service by 
 the plant here authorized to be constructed to public and private 
 buildings, shall be constructed, repaired, and maintained under the 
 supervision and direction of the said Board of Administration or 
 its successors. That all streets in which main or lateral pipes may 
 be laid or repaired shall be forthwith restored to good repair and 
 condition by the said Thomas A. Quill, his associates, their heirs 
 and assigns or successors, at their own expense, who shall likewise 
 save the city harmless from any and all expense or claims on behalf 
 of street contractors for the non-repair of such streets by such 
 owner, and also restore any drains, manholes, catch-basins, gas or 
 water pipes, fire-alarm, telephone and telegraph conduits, or valve- 
 boxes in any way injured, disturbed, or interfered with by them, 
 and who shall also pay all expense of inspecting ; the Board of 
 Administration or its successors reserving the right to appoint all 
 necessary inspectors during the time of construction or repair at 
 any part of said system, which may be upon the public streets, lanes, 
 alleys, avenues, or commons of the city. That at any time after 
 any part of the work of laying pipes has been done the grade or 
 form of any street shall be changed, the said pipe or pipes shall be 
 changed or relaid to conform to such change of street at the expense 
 of said Thomas A. Quill, his associates, their heirs and assigns or 
 successors. That the said city shall not be liable to the said 
 Thomas A. Quill, his associates, their heirs and assigns or succes- 
 sors, by reason of any damage to the works, pipes, or any property 
 whatsoever belonging to the said Thomas A. Quill, his associates, 
 their heirs and assigns or successors, caused by any accident in the 
 street, whether the same arises from any want of repairs of the 
 streets, any negligence of any city officer or employee, or for any 
 other cause whatsoever ; nor for any damage by any interruption 
 in the operation of said plant arising from any accident or improve- 
 ment of any street or way. That the said Board of Administration 
 or its successors shall have power to temporarily shut off the trans- 
 mission of packages or other articles through any pipe or pipes, 
 or any street, whenever necessary for the purpose of making or 
 repairing any public work. 
 
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 Sec. 4. That no street, etc., shall be used or broken up for the 
 purpose of laying or repairing pipes by said Thomas A. Quill, his 
 associates or assigns, without a permit from said Board of Adminis- 
 tration or its successors, signed by its president and attested by its 
 clerk. That after said pipes are laid, and appliances made for gene- 
 rating such power as may be used for the transmission of articles 
 through the said pipe system, no pipe shall be used or operated until 
 tested to the satisfaction of the Board of Administration or its suc- 
 cessors to a tension equal to double the amount of pressure required 
 when the said pipes are in actual use ; and full and accurate records 
 of the size and dimension and the streets wherein said pipes are 
 laid shall be made, and filed with the said Board of Administration, 
 and copies of the same shall be kept on file at the business office 
 of the said Thomas A. Quill, his associates or assigns, open to the 
 inspection of all city officials, and to all persons in front of whose 
 property said pipes may be laid. 
 
 Sec. 5. That before commencing the work of laying said pipes 
 said Thomas A. Quill, his associates or assigns, shall execute and 
 deliver to the said city of Cincinnati a good and satisfactory bond, to 
 be approved by the said Board of Administration or its successors, 
 the legality of said bond to be approved by the corporation counsel, 
 in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will restore 
 the said streets, avenues, alleys, and public places wherein the said 
 pipes shall be laid or used to as good condition as before, and to the 
 satisfaction of the chief engineer of the Board of Administration or 
 its successors, and also to indemnify and save the city harmless against 
 any loss or damage that may accrue to it in consequence of laying or 
 use of said pipes, either directly or indirectly, and also that he and 
 they shall and will well and truly observe and perform all that is 
 required of him and them by this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6 . That the said Thomas A. Quill shall begin the work of 
 laying said pipes under the privilege granted within one year from 
 the taking effect of this ordinance, and within three years shall have 
 laid not less than four miles of pipe ; otherwise this ordinance shall 
 become void and of no effect. 
 
 Sec. 7. That said Thomas A. Quill, his associates, their heirs or 
 successors, shall, beginning at the expiration of three years from the 
 date of this franchise, pay annually to the city of Cincinnati, for and 
 in consideration of the rights and privileges hereby granted, as follows: 
 For the first year after the expiration of said aforesaid three years 
 an amount equal to one per cent, for the second year an amount 
 equal to two per cent, for the third year an amount equal to three 
 per cent, and the fourth year an amount equal to four per cent of 
 the gross revenues or receipts of said company, and thereafter 
 annually an amount equal to five per cent of the gross revenues or 
 receipts of said company. Said payments shall be made in manner 
 following : The president or other chief officer of the company shall 
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 the amount of the gross annual revenue or receipts of said company 
 for the preceding year, and at the same time pay to said city auditor 
 the amount due on the annual gross revenue receipts as provided in 
 this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8 . That said Thomas A. Quill, his associates, their heirs or 
 successors, shall not transfer or assign the rights and privileges 
 herein granted until their assigns have entered into bond, as pro- 
 vided in Section 5 of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Board of Administration or its successors shall have 
 anthority to call upon the police department, if necessary, to enforce 
 any of the provisions of this ordinance, and the notice of the said 
 board to said department shall be sufficient authority to the police 
 commisssoners, or the authority at the time having control of the 
 city police, to act. 
 
 Sec. 10. Whenever the word person or owner occurs in this 
 ordinance, it shall be construed to include also persons, owners, 
 company, or corporation. 
 
 [Ordinance held invalid by Court of Common Pleas, in case of 
 W. M. Ampt vs. Cincinnati et at ., as not being authorized by law 
 or for a public purpose ; as being perpetual and exclusive ; as fixing 
 no limit of charges ; and in failing to prescribe mode of construc- 
 tion.] 
 
 NO. 112. Passed January 12, 1898. 
 
 To give the United States Printing Company a license to maintain one 
 eight-conductor cable from the southeast to the northeast corner of 
 Eggleston Avenue and Fifth Street, in the City of Cincinnati, upon 
 the terms of and in accordance with the conditions of Ordinance 
 No. 732, passed January 26, 1894, and entitled “An ordinance pre- 
 scribing the terms and conditions upon which the business of all 
 telephone, telegraph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, 
 and signaling purposes may be engaged in within the corporate 
 limits of the City of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corpora- 
 tion securing permission by special ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That a license be granted to the United States Printing 
 Company to maintain for the conduct of their business one eight- 
 conductor cable from the southeast to the northeast corner of 
 Eggleston Avenue and Fifth Street, for the period of twenty-five 
 years, upon the terms and conditions of and in accordance with the 
 said Ordinance No. 732. 
 
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 No. 119. Passed January 17, 1898. 
 
 Granting 1 to the Moerlein Brewing- Company the right to have and main- 
 tain electric - light wires within the corporate limits of the City of 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Moerlein Brewing Company be and it is hereby 
 granted the right to have and maintain electric-light wires as follows : 
 Four wires crossing Henry Street, between Pleasant and Elm 
 streets ; four wires crossing Elm Street, between McMicken Avenue 
 and Henry Street ; two wires crossing McMicken Avenue, between 
 Hazen Alley and Pleasant Street; eighteen wires crossing Hazen 
 Alley, between Henry Street and McMicken Avenue ; four wires 
 crossing Pleasant Street, between Henry Street and McMicken 
 Avenue. Said wires to be used exclusively by the said the Moerlein 
 Brewing Company, and by them only in the conduct of their own 
 business ; and provided, that the electric current transmitted over 
 the aforesaid wires is to be used only by said Moerlein Brewing 
 Company, and by no one else, and no current for any purpose what- 
 soever to be sold or given away by them, or be transmitted by said 
 wires to any other corporation, firm, person, or persons whatsoever; 
 and in case said wires are used by the said Moerlein Brewing Com- 
 pany, or by any other person or persons except for the purpose 
 hereinbefore stipulated, then in that event this ordinance shall 
 become null and void. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and 
 conditions of General Ordinance No. 4285, so far as they are appli- 
 cable, and the grant herein shall be for the period of twenty-five 
 years. 
 
 NO. 120. Passed January 17, 1898. 
 
 To give to the Moerlein Brewing Company a license to maintain wires 
 within the corporate limits of the City of Cincinnati upon the terms 
 of and in accordance with Ordinance No. 732, passed January 26, 
 1894, and entitled “An ordinance prescribing the terms and condi- 
 tions upon which the business of all telephone, telegraph, burglar- 
 alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling purposes may be 
 engaged in within the corporate limits of the City of Cincinnati by 
 any person, company, or corporation securing permission by special 
 ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That a license be granted to the Moerlein Brewing Com- 
 pany to transact and maintain for the conduct of their business for 
 the period of twenty-five years, upon the terms and conditions of 
 and in accordance with the said Ordinance No. 732 , the following 
 wires: Six wires crossing Elm Street, between McMicken Avenue 
 
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 and Henry Street ; eleven wires crossing Hazen Alley, between 
 McMicken Avenue and Henry Street. Said wires to be used exclu- 
 sively by the said the Moerlein Brewing Company, and by them 
 only in the conduct of their own business; and provided, that the 
 electric current transmitted over the aforesaid wires is to be used 
 only by the said Moerlein Brewing Company and by no one else, 
 and no current for any purpose whatsoever to be sold or given away 
 by them, or be transmitted by said wires to any other corporation, 
 firm, person, or persons whomsoever; and in case said wires are 
 used by the said Moerlein Brewing Company, or by any other 
 person or persons, except for the purpose hereinbefore stipulated, 
 then in that event this ordinance shall become null and void. This 
 company shall file quarterly with the Board of Administration a 
 statement and plan showing any alteration, additions, or extensions 
 of their system, also the number of each building said wires are 
 attached to. This company shall obtain a permit from the Board 
 of Adminisration before erecting any wires, brackets, or supports. 
 
 No. 121. Passed January 17, 1898. 
 
 Granting- to the Gambrinus Stock Company the right to have and main- 
 tain electric-light wires within the corporate limits of the City of 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Gambrinus Stock Company be and it is hereby 
 granted the right to have and maintain electric-light wires as follows: 
 Two electric-light wires from said company’s building at the north- 
 east corner of Elliott and Sycamore streets to the ice-house opposite 
 on Sycamore Street, also two electric-light wires crossing Elliott 
 Street to stables. Said wires to be used exclusively by the said 
 the Gambrinus Stock Company, and by them only in the conduct 
 of their own business; and provided, that the electric current 
 transmitted over the aforesaid wires is to be used only by said 
 Gambrinus Stock Company, and by no one else, and no current for 
 any purpose whatsoever to be sold or given away by them, or be 
 transmitted by said wires to any other corporation, firm, person, or 
 persons whomsoever ; and in case said wires are used by the said 
 Gambrinus Stock Company, or by any other person or persons, 
 except for the purpose hereinbefore stipulated, then in that event 
 this ordinance shall become null and void. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and 
 conditions of General Ordinance No. 4285, so far as they are 
 applicable, and the grant herein shall be for the period of twenty- 
 five years. 
 
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 No. 126. Passed January 24, 1898. 
 
 To give to Messrs. Schmitt and Shaffer, receivers of the Kaufman Brew- 
 ing Company, a license to maintain two wires from No. 1622 to No. 
 1628 Vine Street and to No. 1638 Hamer Street, also two bell wires 
 crossing Hamer Street to the engine-room, in the City of Cincinnati, 
 upon the terms and in accordance with the conditions of Ordinance 
 No. 732, passed January 26, 1894, and entitled “An ordinance pre- 
 scribing the terms and conditions upon which the business of all 
 telephone, telegraph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, 
 and signaling purposes may be engaged in within the corporate 
 limits of the City of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corpora- 
 tion securing permission by special ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That a license be granted to Messrs. Schmitt and 
 Shaffer, receivers of the Kaufman Brewing Company, to maintain 
 for the conduct of their business two wires from No. 1622 to No. 
 1628 Vine Street and to 1638 Hamer Street, also two bell wires 
 crossing Hamer Street to the engine-room, for the period of ten 
 years, upon the terms and conditions and in accordance with the 
 said Ordinance No. 732. Said wires to be used exclusively by the 
 said company, and by them only in the conduct of their own busi- 
 ness ; and provided, that the electric current transmitted over 
 the aforesaid wires is to be used only by said company and by no 
 one else, and no current for any purpose whatsoever to be sold or 
 given away by them, or be transmitted by said wires to any other 
 corporation, firm, person, or persons whomsoever; and in case said 
 wires are used by the said company, or by any other person or per- 
 sons, except for the purpose hereinbefore stipulated, then in that 
 event this ordinance shall become null and void. 
 
 No. 127. Passed January 24, 1898. 
 
 Granting to the American Oak Leather Company the right to have and 
 maintain not more than four electric-light wires from No. 1413 to 
 No. 1412, crossing Dalton Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the American Oak Leather Company be and is 
 hereby granted the right to have and to maintain not more than 
 four electric-light wires from No. 1413 to No. 1412, crossing Dalton 
 Avenue, in the city of Cincinnati ; said wires to be strung from No. 
 1413 to No. 1412, crossing Dalton Avenue. Said wires to be used 
 exclusively by the said company, and by them only in the conduct 
 of their own business; and provided, that the electric current trans- 
 mitted over the aforesaid wires is to be used only by said company, 
 and by no one else, and no current for any purpose whatsoever to 
 be sold or given away by them, or to be transmitted by said wires 
 
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 to any other corporation, firm, person, or persons whomsoever; and 
 in case said wires are used by the said company, or by any other 
 person or persons, except for the purpose hereinbefore stipulated, 
 then in that event this ordinance shall become null and void. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and con- 
 ditions of General Ordinance No. 4285 so far as they are applicable, 
 and the grant herein shall be for the period of ten years. 
 
 No. 128. Passed January 24, 1898. 
 
 To give to Hudepohl and Kotte, proprietors of the Buckeye Brewery, a 
 license to maintain electric -light wires upon the terms of and in 
 accordance with the conditions of Ordinance No. 4285 of the Board 
 of Legislation. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That Hudepohl and Kotte, proprietors of the Buckeye 
 Brewery, are hereby granted the right to have and maintain 
 electric-light wires as follows: Two wires from their office, No. 46 
 East McMicken Avenue, crossing Hurst Alley, to the brewery 
 premises in rear of said office, upon the terms of and in accordance 
 with conditions of General Ordinance No. 4285 of the Board of 
 Legislation. 
 
 Sec. 2. This grant shall be for the period of twenty-five years ; 
 and it is provided that said wires shall be used exclusively for the 
 purposes of the Buckeye Brewery, and by no one else, and no cur- 
 rent for any purpose whatsoever to be sold or given away by them, 
 or to be transmitted by said wires to any other corporation, firm, 
 person, or persons whomsoever; and in case said wires are used by 
 said Hudepohl and Kotte, or any other person or persons, except 
 for the purpose hereinbefore stipulated, then in that event this 
 ordinance shall become null and void. 
 
 NO. 129. Passed January 24, 1898. 
 
 To give to Hudepohl and Kotte, proprietors of the Buckeye Brewery, a 
 license to maintain two telephone wires upon the terms of and in 
 accordance with the conditions of Ordinance No. 732 of the Board 
 of Legislation, passed January 26, 1894. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That a license is hereby granted to Hudepohl and Kotte, 
 proprietors of the Buckeye Brewery, to maintain two telephone wires 
 from their office, No. 46 East McMicken Avenue, crossing Hurst 
 Alley to the brewery premises, in rear of said office, upon the terms 
 of and in accordance with the conditions of Ordinance No. 732 of 
 the Board of Legislation, passed January 26, 1894. 
 
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 Sec. 2. This grant shall be for a period of twenty-five years ; 
 and it is provided that said wires shall be used exclusively for the 
 purposes of the Buckeye Brewery in the conduct of the business of 
 that establishment ; and in case said wires are used by said Hude- 
 pohl and Kotte, or by any other person or persons, except for the 
 purpose of telephone as here specified, then and in that event this 
 grant shall become null and void. 
 
 No. 167. Passed April 4, 1898. 
 
 To give to the Windisch-Muhlhauser Brewing Company a license to 
 maintain wires within the corporate limits of the City of Cincinnati, 
 upon the terms and in accordance with Ordinance No. 732, passed 
 January 26, 1894, and entitled “An ordinance prescribing the terms 
 and conditions upon which the business of all telephone, telegraph, 
 burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling purposes 
 may be engaged in within the corporate limits of the City of Cincin- 
 nati by any person, company, or corporation securing permission by 
 special ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That a license be granted to The Windisch-Muhlhauser 
 Brewing Company to transact and maintain for the conduct of 
 their business for the period of twenty-five years, upon the terms 
 and conditions of and in accordance with the said Ordinance 
 No. 732, the following named wires: 
 
 Five wires from southwest corner Liberty and Plum 
 streets to stables along west side of Plum north of Oliver 
 Street ; 
 
 Four wires from the southwest corner Liberty and 
 Plum streets to the storeroom at the northeast corner 
 Liberty and Plum streets; 
 
 Three wires from the northeast corner Liberty and 
 Plum streets to stables along west side of Plum Street 
 north of Oliver Street ; 
 
 Seven wires from the west side of Canal between 
 Liberty and Wade streets to the east side of Canal 
 between Liberty and Wade streets; 
 
 Eight wires from the north side of Wade to the 
 south side of Wade Street, between Canal and Provi- 
 dence streets ; 
 
 Four wires underground from the north side of Wade 
 to the south side of Wade Street, between Plum and 
 Providence streets. 
 
 Said wires to be used exclusively by the said the Windisch- 
 Muhlhauser Brewing Company, and by them only in the conduct 
 of their own business. In case said wires are used by the said 
 Windisch-Muhlhauser Brewing Company, or by any other person 
 
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 or persons, except for the purpose hereinbefore stipulated, then in 
 that event this ordinance shall become null and void. 
 
 This company shall file quarterly with the Board of Adminis- 
 tration a statement and plan, showing any alterations, additions, or 
 extensions of their system ; also the number of each building said 
 wires are attached to. This company shall obtain a permit from 
 the Board of Administration before erecting any wire, brackets, or 
 supports. 
 
 ~No. 181. Passed May 16, 1898. 
 
 Granting: to Henry J. Kreiss the right to string and maintain a tele- 
 phone wire. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That Henry J. Kreiss be and he is hereby granted the 
 right to string and maintain a telephone wire, running from his 
 news depot, No. 2205 Eighth Street, across said street to the house 
 of B. Kuhlman, known as No. 2139 Eighth Street; thence to the 
 house of O. E. Platt, at the northwest corner of Eighth and State 
 Avenue; and thence to the house of Henry Bertling, No. 815 
 State Avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. The period of this grant shall be five years from the 
 date of the passage of this ordinance. 
 
 !N"o. 202. Passed June 27, 1898. 
 
 To grant to James Heekin & Company the right to string and main- 
 tain a fire - alarm wire. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That permission is hereby granted to James Heekin & 
 Company to string and maintain a wire connecting their premises at 
 the northwest corner of Walnut and Water streets with engine- 
 house No. 1 of the Cincinnati Fire Department, at the northeast 
 corner of Race and Commerce streets, for the purpose of private 
 fire-alarm, and for no other purpose whatsoever. 
 
 Sec. 2. This grant shall be for a period of twenty years, under 
 the terms and conditions of Ordinance No. 732 of the Board of 
 Legislation, passed January 26, 1894. 
 
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 NO. 204. Passed July 5, 1898. 
 
 Granting to the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company the right to build 
 and maintain a room or vault under Charles Street. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the right to construct and maintain a room or vault 
 under the roadway of Charles Street be and the same is hereby 
 granted to the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company; subject, how- 
 ever, to the following conditions: 
 
 The said room or vault shall be located on the south side of 
 Charles Street, near Plum Street. The length shall not exceed 
 seventeen feet along the street, and the width shall not exceed 
 eight feet, measured out from the south curb of Charles Street. 
 The said room or vault shall be inclosed by substantial retaining 
 walls, and shall be substantially covered with steel and concrete 
 for the support of the street pavement. The portion of the street 
 disturbed by reason of the work shall be restored by said company 
 and maintained in good condition by said company during the 
 existence of this grant; any water, gas, or sewer pipes running 
 through said room or vault shall be properly supported and pro- 
 tected by said company. Should the said room or vault be aban- 
 doned at any time by said company, the excavation shall be solidly 
 filled with earth or concrete, and the street restored in a substantial 
 manner by said company. All work connected with the building, 
 maintaining, or abandoning of said room or vault shall be done by 
 said company under the direction and to the satisfaction of the 
 Board of City Affairs of Cincinnati or its successors. 
 
 All expense incident to the construction and maintenance of said 
 room or vault shall be borne by said company, and said company 
 shall hold the said city of Cincinnati harmless from any damage 
 growing out of injuries to any person or any property of any action 
 in pursuance of this ordinance. 
 
 NO. 243. Passed May 23, 1898. 
 
 To grant a license under the terms of Ordinance No. 732, passed 
 January 26, 1894, to F. D. Schopper. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 That a license to transact his business of telephone, telegraph, 
 burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling devices, 
 for the period of twenty-five years, upon the terms and conditions 
 of and in accordance with Ordinance No. 732 of the Board of 
 Legislation, passed January 26, 1894, be and the same is hereby 
 granted to F. 1). Schopper, of Cincinnati, O., provided he shall, 
 within ten days following the passage of this ordinance, file with 
 
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 the Board of Administration or its successors a good and sufficient 
 bond, in the sum of five thousand dollars, that he will comply with 
 the terms of said Ordinance No. 732, and that he will protect the 
 city of Cincinnati against claims for damages that may arise from 
 the placing and use of wires by said person. 
 
 He shall file quarterly with the Board of Administration or its 
 successors a statement and plan showing any alterations, additions, 
 or extensions of his system, and the number of each bnilding to 
 which wires are attached. He shall obtaiir a permit from the 
 Board of Administration or its successors before erecting any wires, 
 brackets, or supports. Samples of wires, brackets, and supports to 
 be used shall be submitted to the Board of Administration or its 
 successors for approval before being strung and erected. 
 
 No. 264:. Passed February 6, 1899. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it or darned by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That permission is hereby granted to the Jung Brewing 
 Company to construct and maintain a conduit under and across Bank 
 Street, connecting the main building of said brewing company with 
 the addition to the same on the north side of said Bank Street, and 
 said conduit to be used for the purpose of conducting steam and 
 refrigerating pipes from and between said buildings. 
 
 Sec. 2. The conduit herein provided for shall not be of greater 
 dimensions than four feet by five feet, shall be made of brick, laid 
 in cement mortar with concrete bases, and shall be constructed to 
 the satisfaction of the Board of City Affairs. 
 
 NO. 281. Passed March 6, 1899. 
 
 To authorize the Christian Moerlein Brewing- Company to construct a 
 tunnel under Pleasant Street, between Henry Street and McMicken 
 Avenue. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company be and 
 hereby is authorized to construct a tunnel under Pleasant Street, 
 between Henry Street and McMicken Avenue, connecting the prop- 
 erty of the said the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company upon 
 both sides of said Pleasant Street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said tunnel shall be constructed according to 
 plans and of a size and depth to be approved by the Board of City 
 Affairs. 
 
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 No. 290. Passed April 17, 1899. 
 
 Granting- to the L. Schreiber & Sons Company permission to erect a 
 bridge across Culvert Street, connecting buildings on either side 
 thereof. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board oj Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That permission be and the same is hereby granted to 
 the L. Schreiber & Sons Company to erect a bridge, not exceed- 
 ing six feet in width, over Culvert Street, between Seventh and 
 Eighth streets, for the purpose of connecting their buildings on 
 either side of said street ; said bridge to connect the third floors of 
 said buildings at a height of not less than twenty-five feet above 
 the curb of said street, and to be built so as not to obstruct or inter- 
 fere with ordinary travel through said street. 
 
 No. 294:. Passed March 27, 1899. 
 
 To give to A. Becker a license to transact business upon the terms of 
 and in accordance with Ordinance 732, passed January 26, 1894, 
 and entitled “An ordinance prescribing the terms and conditions 
 upon which the business of all the telephone, telegraph, burglar- 
 alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling purposes maybe 
 engaged in within the corporate limits of the City of Cincinnati by 
 any person, company, or corporation securing permission by special 
 ordinance so to engage.” 
 
 Whereas , A. Becker was in existence and doing business on the 
 26th day of January, 1894, said day being the time of the passage 
 of Ordinance No. 732 : 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That a license to transact his business for the period of 
 twenty -five years, upon the terms and conditions and in accordance 
 with the said Ordinance No. 732, entitled “An ordinance prescrib- 
 ing the terms and conditions under which the business of telephone, 
 telegraph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signal- 
 ing purposes may be engaged in within the corporate limits of the 
 city of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corporation securing 
 permission by special ordinance so to engage,” be and the same is 
 hereby granted to A. Becker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, provided said 
 person shall within ten days following the passage of this ordinance 
 file with the Board of City Affairs a good and sufficient bond, in 
 the sum of five thousand dollars, that said person will comply with 
 the terms of said Ordinance No. 732, and that he will protect the 
 city of Cincinnati against claims for damages that may arise from 
 the placing and use of the wires of said person. This person shall 
 file quarterly with the Board of City Affairs a statement and plan 
 
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 showing any alteration, additions, or extensions of his system; also 
 the number of each building said wires are attached to. 
 
 This person shall obtain a permit from the Board of City Affairs 
 before erecting any wire, brackets, or supports. 
 
 A sample of wire, brackets, and supports to be used shall be 
 submitted to the Board of City Affairs for approval before strung 
 or erected. 
 
 No. 889. Passed March 1, 1895. 
 
 To provide against sweeping: into, throwing- into, or allowing- to drop 
 off wagons, carts, or other vehicles on to the streets, avenues, or 
 alleys of the City of Cincinnati, any dust, dirt, paper, or other sub- 
 stance, or to throw into or distribute upon such streets, avenues, and 
 alleys any glass, nails in pieces of board, or rubbish of any kind. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1 . That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 throw or sweep into the streets, avenues, or alleys of the city of 
 Cincinnati any dust, dirt, paper, or substance of any kind, or to 
 throw into or distribute upon such streets, avenues, or alleys any 
 glass, nails in pieces of board, or rubbish of any kind. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any person or persons who have charge, or the 
 driver of any wagon, cart, or other vehicle used in hauling dirt, 
 sand, or any other substance, shall not allow it drop or be distributed 
 upon the streets, avenues, or alleys of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court, be fined 
 in any sum not exceeding ten dollars and costs of prosecution. 
 
 NO. 914. Passed April 5, 1895. 
 
 Authorizing the issue of extension bonds of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Sinking Fund Trustees of said city, for the 
 purpose of extending the time of the payment of any existing 
 indebtedness of said city, are hereby authorized to issue, from time 
 to time as required, extension bonds of said city in an amount not 
 to exceed in the aggregate four hundred thousand dollars, dated as 
 issued, and running until July 1, 1902, and bearing interest at the 
 rate of four per cent per annum ; payable semi-annually each July 
 1st and January 1st, after the date of the bonds, the first coupon 
 on each bond being for fractional interest to the regular semi-annual 
 interest day next succeeding ; the principal and interest on said bonds 
 to be payable at the Third National Bank of Cincinnati. 
 
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 Sec. 2. The said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and 
 auditor, and attested with the seal of the city, and be secured by 
 a pledge of the faith and credit of the city, and by a tax on every 
 dollar valuation on the tax-duplicate, which it shall be the duty of 
 the Board of Legislation annually during the term of said bonds 
 to levy, sufficient to pay the interest, and to provide a sinking fund 
 of not less than three per cent annually on the amount of bonds 
 issued hereunder. It being the intent of this ordinance not to pro- 
 vide for full payment of said bonds at their maturity, but only of 
 such proportion thereof as is now provided by law for the other 
 general bonds of the city, to the end that on July 1, 1902, the un- 
 paid residue of the bonds issued under this ordinance, together 
 with the Cincinnati Southern Railway bonds at that time maturing, 
 may be then extended or renewed, as may be necessary or expe- 
 dient. 
 
 Sec. 3. The bonds issued under this ordinance shall be sold in 
 the manner provided by law for the sale of the city’s bonds, and the 
 proceeds shall be paid to the Sinking Fund Trustees, and by them 
 shall be applied to the payment or redemption of the city’s general 
 bonds at maturity. Any and all surplus shall be credited to the 
 general sinking fund of the city. 
 
 No. 987. Passed September 13, 1895. 
 
 To designate that all individual persons, wagons, carriages, or vehicles 
 of any kind carrying the mails of the United States of North 
 America have the right of way in preference to all other carriages, 
 wagons, street-cars, railroad-cars, or vehicles of any kind, parades, 
 processions, and individual persons in. all streets, alleys, lanes, 
 squares, and other public ways and grounds of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, That all individual persons, wagons, carriages, or 
 vehicles of any kind carrying the mails of the United States of 
 North America in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, shall have the right 
 of way in all streets, alleys, lanes, squares, and other public ways 
 and grounds of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in preference to all 
 other wagons, carriages, street-cars, railroad-cars, or vehicles of any 
 kind, except the wagons, carriages, and vehicles of the fire and 
 police departments of said city and the Salvage Corps maintained 
 in said city, and in preference to all parades, processions, and indi- 
 vidual persons ; and it shall be the duty of all wagons, carriages, 
 street-cars, railroad-cars, or vehicles of any kind, parades, proces- 
 sions, and individual persons to clear and leave free the street for 
 the passage of the said individual persons, wagons, carriages, or 
 
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 vehicles of any kind carrying the mails of the United States of 
 North America. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person violating this ordinance shall be subject to 
 a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than five dollars 
 and the costs of the prosecution. 
 
 No. 1009. Passed December 6, 1895. 
 
 To prevent the kindling- of fires in any of the streets, lanes, avenues, 
 landings, parks, or other public places within the limits of the 
 City of Cincinnati, unless confined within a proper and safe 
 receptacle. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 kindle or cause to be kindled any fire in or upon any of the streets, 
 lanes, avenues, landings, parks, or any of the public places within 
 the limits of said city, unless the same be confined within a proper 
 and safe receptacle. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions 
 of Section 1 of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the Police Court of said 
 city shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 No. 1037. Passed February 21, 1896. 
 
 Prohibiting the emission of dense smoke produced by the burning 
 
 of coal. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the emission of dense smoke, produced by the 
 burning of coal, from the smokestack of any boat or locomotive, or 
 from any chimney anywhere within the city, shall be deemed and is 
 hereby declared to be a public nuisance ; provided that chimneys of 
 buildings used exclusively for private residences shall not be con- 
 sidered within the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The owner or owners of any boat or locomotive engine, 
 and the person or persons employed as engineer or otherwise in the 
 working of the engine or engines in said boat or in operating such 
 locomotive, and the proprietor, lessee, or occupant of any building 
 except those used exclusively for private residences, who shall 
 permit or allow dense smoke, produced by the burning of coal, to 
 issue or be emitted from the smokestack of any such boat or loco- 
 motive, or the chimney of any building except those used exclu- 
 sively for private residences, within the corporate limits of the city, 
 shall be deemed and held guilty of creating a nuisance, and shall 
 
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 for every such offense be fined in any sum not less than five dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the supervising engineer to cause 
 the enforcement of* this ordinance, and to make complaint against 
 and cause to be prosecuted all persons violating the same, and in so 
 doing he shall be assisted by the superintendent of police and the 
 health officer and their respective departments. 
 
 Sec. 4. All ordinances and parts of ordinance in conflict with 
 this ordinance are hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 104:0. Passed November 22, 1895. 
 
 To authorize the Coving-ton and Cincinnati Bridge Company to extend 
 and reconstruct the northern approach to its bridge over certain 
 streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That permission is hereby granted to the Covington and 
 Cincinnati Bridge Company to extend and reconstruct the northern 
 approaches to its bridge over Water, Front, and Commerce streets 
 in the city of Cincinnati, and to maintain and operate the same 
 forever upon the following conditions : 
 
 1. The elevation of said approach over Water Street shall be 
 not less than sixteen feet in the clear, measured in a perpendicular 
 line from the north curb of said street. The clearance estimated 
 in the same manner shall be not less than fifteen feet over Front 
 Street at present grade, and not less than eight feet over Commerce 
 Street. The line of said extended approach shall be a due north 
 and south line from the present terminus of said bridge, and the 
 extreme width of the right of way hereby granted shall be fifty- 
 two feet. 
 
 2. No part of said structure shall rest upon either of said streets, 
 but shall be supported wholly upon the property of said bridge 
 company. 
 
 3. Said company shall pay any damages for which the city may 
 be made liable tor any injury to persons or property on account of 
 said grant. 
 
 NO. 1055. Passed April 17, 1896. 
 
 Amending an ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to authorize the Cov- 
 ington and Cincinnati Bridge Company to extend and reconstruct 
 the northern approach to its bridge over certain streets.” 
 
 Whereas , It appears that by the erection of certain supports or 
 posts in the curb lines of Front and Water streets the elevation of 
 the proposed approaches of the Covington and Cincinnati Bridge 
 Company over said streets may be increased without increasing the 
 
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 grade of said approaches, now therefore be it ordained by the Board 
 of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That Clause 2, Section 1, of the ordinance entitled 
 “An ordinance to authorize the Covington and Cincinnati Bridge 
 Company to extend and reconstruct the northern approach to its 
 bridge over certain streets,” be amended so as to read as follows: 
 “ Said structure shall be supported upon not more than five iron 
 posts or supports erected upon both the^north and the south curb- 
 lines of both Water and Front streets.” 
 
 Sec. 2. That said Clause 2, Section 1, of said ordinance — in the 
 following words: “ No part of said structure shall rest upon either 
 of said streets, but shall be supported wholly upon the property of 
 said bridge company ” — be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect from and after the earliest 
 period allowed by law, and upon condition only that the elevation 
 of said proposed approaches over Front and Water streets shall be 
 increased so as to give not less than sixteen feet in the clear over 
 the railroad track as at present constructed in Front Street, and 
 not less then seventeen feet in the clear over the railroad track as 
 at present constructed in Water Street; and upon the further con- 
 dition that said bridge company accept the terms and conditions of 
 said ordinance, as herein amended, by a communication in writing 
 within ten days from the date of the passage of this ordinance. 
 
 KO. 1042. Passed March 20, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the care, management, and control of the buildings 
 known as the Westwood, Lin wood, and Clifton Town Halls, and to 
 carry out the provisions of certain leases, and to provide for the 
 payment therefor. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati (two thirds of all the members elected thereto concur- 
 ring), That the Board of Administration of the city of Cincinnati 
 be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to be the custodian 
 of, and to employ the necessary help, and to furnish and provide 
 for all the supplies that are necessary for the proper management 
 and control of the public buildings known as the Westwood, Lin- 
 wood, and Clifton town halls, and to assume, carry out, and enorce 
 the provisions of certain leases, to-wit : A lease from the Kesor 
 Academy and Literary Institute of Clifton to the village of Clifton, 
 executed August 3, 1880, and recorded March 22, 1881 (Lease- 
 book No. 65, page 319, Hamilton County Records) ; and a lease 
 from the village of Clifton to the Board of Education of Clifton 
 Special School District, executed August 18, 1880, and recorded 
 March 22, 1881 (Lease-book No. 65, page 317, Hamilton County 
 Records). 
 
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 Sec. 2. The Board of Administration is hereby authorized and 
 directed to establish and enforce such rules and regulations as they 
 may deem necessary for the proper control and protection of said 
 buildings, and the enforcement and carrying out of the provisions 
 of said leases, and to establish a schedule of rents to govern the 
 renting of portions of said buildings. 
 
 Sec. 3. In order to provide for the payment of the care, man- 
 agement, and control of said buildings, and the enforcement and 
 carrying out of the provisions of said leases, the sum of six thou- 
 sand five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated 
 from the General Fund (contingent account), the same being an 
 unforeseen emergency ; and the Board of Administration be and it 
 is hereby authorized to expend, and the city auditor is hereby 
 authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the city treas- 
 urer upon presentation of vouchers properly approved by the 
 Board of Administration. 
 
 Sec. 4. All rents and other revenues to be received by the 
 Board of Administration through the management of said build- 
 ings, or the enforcement and carrying out of said leases, shall 
 be deposited by them with the city treasurer to the credit of the 
 General Fund of the city, and said board shall be required to 
 submit for the consideration of the Board of Legislation, on the 
 first regular meeting thereof in July and January of each year, 
 a statement showing the receipts and expenditures pertaining to 
 said buildings and leases for the preceding six months. 
 
 No. 1075. Passed July 20, 1896. 
 
 To regulate the ventilation of all cellars and basements within the City 
 
 of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 That it shall be the duty of the building inspector to have all cellars 
 and basements properly ventilated, so as all poisonous air shall escape 
 from the cellars and basements, and thereby stop the danger from 
 any explosion. Any property-holder or lessee of any property 
 failing to have their cellars ventilated within thirty days after the 
 property-holder, his agent or the lessee of the property, have been 
 notified by the building inspector or assistant building inspector, 
 shall be deemed guilty of violating a city ordinance, and upon 
 conviction in the Police Court shall be fined not more than fifty 
 dollars. 
 
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 USTO. 1076. Passed July 20, 1896. 
 
 Regulating- the use of gutter - plates, etc. 
 
 Sec. 1. Beit ordained by the Board oj Legislation of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, That the owner or owners of any premises within the limits 
 of the city of Cincinnati, in front of which are located crossings, 
 gutter-plates, or run-ways over the gutters, shall be required to keep 
 the said gutters clear and open for drainage under the said gutter- 
 plates, and to that end shall be required to clean the same at least 
 once every two weeks, and to remove from the same any refuse or 
 obstruction of any kind which may be found therein. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined 
 in the Police Court not more than ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 NO. 1077. Passed July 20, 1896. 
 
 To regulate the handling of gasoline. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 have stored in their house gasoline known as 87 gravity deodorized 
 gasoline, or any gasoline that is of a higher gravity than 74 deodor- 
 ized gasoline; and it shall be uulawful for any person or persons to 
 have gasoline known as 87 gravity gasoline in their possession that 
 is not kept in some kind of a vessel that will keep the gasoline from 
 escaping. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to have 
 in their possession gasoline known as 87 gravity deodorized gasoline, 
 as it is dangerous to life and property, unless the vessel holding the 
 gasoline of 87 gravity shall be placed under ground not less than 
 twenty-five feet from any building; and the gasoline of 87 gravity 
 must be inclosed in some kind of span inclosure, such as a vault, 
 shed, or small house built in such manner as to protect the gasoline 
 from fire. Any person or persons found guilty of violating this 
 ordinance shall upon conviction in the Police Court be fined not less 
 than twenty-five dollars nor more than seventy-five dollars. 
 
 NO. 1109. Passed September 28, 1896. 
 
 To reg-ulate the hauling- of sawdust, ashes, etc., through the streets of 
 the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That every person hauling sawdust, ashes, cinders, 
 manure, lime, or any other substance of such a character that it is 
 
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 liable to be blown away or carried off by the wind, through or along 
 any of the streets of the city of Cincinnati, whether the same will 
 be hauled in a jolt-wagon or in any other kind of vehicle, shall be 
 required to haul the same in a vehicle which is so thoroughly tight 
 bedded that none of said substances can fall out upon the streets, 
 and shall also be required to cover completely all of the aforesaid 
 substances in such vehicle with canvas duck in such a manner that 
 the said substances can not be blown from said vehicle or fall off 
 the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. By the term “person hauling” is meant not only the 
 person driving the vehicle, but also the owner of such a vehicle. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person who violates the terms of this ordinance 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof in the Police Court of the city of Cincinnati shall be fined 
 in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, together with the costs 
 of prosecution, for each and every offense. 
 
 No. 40. Passed July 12, 1897. 
 
 For the protection of public cisterns, fire-plug's, etc. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 place any building material or any other obstruction whatever within 
 eighteen feet of the center cap of any public cistern or public 
 hydrant or fire-plug; and any person or persons so offending against 
 the provisions of this ordinance shall on conviction thereof in the 
 Police Court be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor 
 exceeding fifty dollars, together with the costs of suit. 
 
 Sec. 2. An ordinance to amend an ordinance for the protection 
 of public fire-cisterns, passed July 31, 1846, is hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 65. Passed August 16, 1897. 
 
 To provide for the appointment of two additional deputy clerks of the 
 Police Court of the City of Cincinnati, and to prescribe their duties, 
 and prohibiting the taking of fees for bail bonds. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That the clerk of the Police Court of the city of 
 Cincinnati be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, subject to 
 confirmation by said Board of Legislation, two additional clerks, at 
 salaries of twelve hundred dollars each per annum. They shall 
 furnish bond satisfactory to this board, in the sum of three thousand 
 dollars, for the faithful performance of their duties. 
 
 Sec. 2. These additional clerks shall attend to the duties of the 
 office of the clerk of the Police Court, as prescribed by statutes and 
 
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 ordinances, between the hours of 4 o’clock p m. and 8 o’clock A. m. 
 every day of each week, during which time they shall admit to 
 bail all persons who shall be entitled to be so admitted to bail 
 without charging or receiving from any such person any reward, 
 fee, or compensation whatsoever. 
 
 Sec. 3. If the clerk of the Police Court or any of his deputies 
 shall make any charge or receive any reward, fee, or compensation 
 for admitting any person to bail, then said clerk or clerks shall 
 forfeit their office, and be fined not more than ten dollars nor less 
 than five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 4. Nothing in this ordinance contained shall be construed 
 as prohibiting the clerk of the Police Court from assigning the 
 duties herein prescribed for said additional deputy clerks to any 
 other deputy clerks, or transferring said additional deputy clerks to 
 any other duties, provided said office is kept open and deputies are 
 in attendance during the hours and for the purpose in Section 2 of 
 this ordinance specified. 
 
 N"0. 74 :. Passed October 11, 1897. 
 
 To provide for the prosecution, recovery, and collection of fines, penal- 
 ties, and forfeitures for a violation of the ordinances of the City of 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . Whenever a warrant is issued by the clerk of the Police 
 Court of the city of Cincinnati charging any person who is a resi- 
 dent of the city of Cincinnati, and who has not been arrested while 
 found violating any law of the state, with committing a misdemeanor 
 of which the Police Court has final jurisdiction, it shall be the duty 
 of the superintendent of police, or of the officer to whom said war- 
 rant is given for execution, to forthwith personally notify the person 
 charged of the fact that such warrant has been issued, and to further 
 notify said person to appear before said Police Court at its next 
 session at the opening thereof, or within an hour thereafter, to 
 answer said charge, and to give bail for his (or her) appearance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The officer having said warrant and giving said notice 
 shall indorse upon the back of said warrant the day and the time 
 of day at which the accused is notified ; and if the accused fails to 
 appear before said Police Court at its next regular session, and 
 within an hour after the opening thereof, said officer shall proceed 
 forthwith to arrest said accused on said warrant. 
 
 Sec. 3. The provisions of the preceding sections shall not apply 
 where the misdemeanor charged is larceny, embezzlement, obtaining 
 property by means of false pretenses, or breaking and entering a 
 building or railroad-car. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever an affidavit is filed in the Police Court charg- 
 ing any person who is a resident of the city of Cincinnati, and who 
 has not been arrested while found violating any ordinance of said 
 
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 city, with a violation of an ordinance of said city, the clerk of the 
 Police Court shall issue a summons to the superintendent of police, 
 which summons shall be as follows : 
 
 “To the Superintendent of Police of the City of Cincinnati: 
 
 “You are hereby commanded to summon to appear 
 
 in the Police Court of the city of Cincinnati on the day 
 
 of , a. d at ... o’clock a. m., to answer the charge 
 
 of (here set forth charge), which has been preferred against him 
 (or her) in said Police Court upon the oath and affirmation of 
 ; and of this summons you will make due return. 
 
 “ Witness my hand and the seal of said court this day 
 
 of A d ” 
 
 Sec. 5. The superintendent of police or any officer of the police 
 force shall serve said summons by delivering a copy thereof to the 
 accused personally, or by leaving a copy thereof at his (or her) 
 usual place of residence ; and shall indorse on the original summons 
 the time and manner of said service, and shall return said original 
 summons to the clerk of the Police Court within twenty-four hours 
 of the date of service thereof. 
 
 Sec. 6. If the accused shall fail to appear at the time mentioned 
 in said summons, a warrant for his (or her) arrest forthwith shall be 
 issued by the clerk of the Police Court to the superintendent of 
 police. If the accused appear at the time mentioned, and the com- 
 plaint against him (or her) is not disposed of at the time, but is 
 continued until some other day, the accused shall be allowed to go on 
 his (or her) own recognizance, unless the judge of the Police Court 
 shall require the accused to give bail for his (or her) appearance. 
 
 Sec 7. In all cases where any person charged in the Police 
 Court of said city with the violation of an ordinance of said city is 
 required to give bail for his (or her) appearance, he (or she) may, 
 in lieu of bail, deposit with the clerk of the Police Court or his 
 deputies, as security for his (or her) appearance, money, the amount 
 of which shall be designated by the judge of the Police Court, the 
 clerk, or his deputies ; and in case the person so depositing money 
 fails to appear to answer to said charge, the judge of the Police 
 Court shall make an entry upon the minutes of said court, declaring 
 said money forfeited to the city of Cincinnati, and the clerk of the 
 Police Court shall within thirty days after making the said entry 
 pay the amount of said money into the treasury of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati to the credit of the General Fund thereof. 
 
 Sec. 8. Nothing in this ordinance contained shall control or 
 limit the right of a member of the police force of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati to arrest any person found violating any law of the state or 
 any ordinance of said city, and the provisions of this ordinance shall 
 not apply to any person arrested while found violating any law of 
 the state or any ordinance of said city, except so far as provided in 
 Section 7. 
 
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 No. 75. Passed October 11, 1897. 
 
 Providing- for the licensing- of all keepers of stables or places where 
 horses or mules are temporarily kept. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corpo- 
 ration to engage in the business of keeping or maintaining any stable 
 or place for the temporary care of horses or mules until he, she, or 
 they shall have first obtained a license as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 2. All persons, firms, or corporations who provide for the 
 temporary care of horses, mules, or teams, composed of one or more 
 animals, or engage in the business of such temporary care of such 
 teams for profit, shall pay an annual license of fifteen dollars for each 
 such place. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said license shall become due and payable in January 
 or July of each year, and shall be issued for one year from either 
 of those dates. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum of not more than fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 NO. 106. Passed December 13, 1897. 
 
 To regulate the sale of gasoline and headlight oil in the City of 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 sell or deliver in the city of Cincinnati gasoline or headlight oil 
 unless the package containing said gasoline or headlight oil be so 
 labeled or marked as to designate its contents. Each package of 
 gasoline shall bear on the outside thereof, in a conspicuous place, 
 printed in red ink on white paper, the words, “ This package contains 
 gasoline”; and each package of headlight oil shall bear on the out- 
 side thereof, in a conspicuous place, printed in black ink on white 
 paper, the words, “ This package contains headlight oil”; and the 
 words “ Gasoline ” and “ Headlight Oil ” shall be printed from gothic 
 types not less than one and a half inches in height ; and the word 
 “Gasoline” shall occupy not less than five inches in its length, and 
 the words “Headlight Oil” shall occupy not less than nine inches in 
 their length. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person offending against any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court, be 
 fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every 
 offense. 
 
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 No. 160. Passed April 4, 1898. 
 
 To amend an Ordinance, No. 1007, entitled “An ordinance to amend an 
 Ordinance, No. 653, entitled ‘An ordinance empowering- the Board 
 of Administration to declare any vacant uninclosed lot or lots a 
 nuisance, and to compel the owner or agent of such lot or lots to 
 inclose the same with a fence.’ ” 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That Ordinance No. 1007, entitled “An ordinance to 
 amend an ordinance entitled ‘An ordinance empowering the Board 
 of Administration to declare any vacant uninclosed lot or lots a 
 nuisance, and to compel the owner or agents of such lot or lots 
 within a certain boundary to inclose same with a fence/ ” passed 
 November 20, 1895, be so amended as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That the Board of Administration be and is hereby em- 
 powered to declare any vacant or uninclosed lot or lots of said city 
 between the Ohio River on the south and McLean Avenue to Har- 
 rison Avenue on the west, and McMicken Avenue west of Elm 
 Street and Clifton Avenue east of Elm Street on the north, and 
 Eggleston Avenue continued north on Broadway on the east, a nuis- 
 ance, and to compel the owner or agents of such lot or lots to inclose 
 the same with a fence ; and when the Board of Administration has 
 declared any vacant uninclosed lot or lots to be a nuisance, notice 
 thereof shall be served upon the owner thereof if he be a resident 
 and present in the city, or if he be a non-resident or absent from the 
 city, then upon his agent ; and if such owner or agents shall have 
 failed to comply with said notice within twenty days from the 
 day of the service, he shall be subject to the penalty hereinafter 
 prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 8. The penalty for the failure to comply with such notice 
 shall be, upon trial and conviction in the Police Court, a fine of not 
 less than ten or more than twenty-five dollars ; and each day’s 
 failure to comply with such notice after the expiration of the twenty 
 days from the day of the service shall be deemed a separate offense, 
 and shall be punished accordingly. 
 
 NO. 189. Passed May 25, 1898. 
 
 To provide for care of burial ground at Madison and Erie avenues. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincin- 
 nati, as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1 . That the use, care, and custody of a tract of ground, 
 consisting of about four acres, and situated at the junction of 
 Madison Avenue and Erie Avenue, in the village of Hyde Park, 
 now the property of the city of Cincinnati, and known as the 
 
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 Fulton burial grounds, be and the same is hereby intrusted to the 
 incorporated village of Hyde Park for park purposes, subject to the 
 conditions herein imposed. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said village of Hyde Park be and it is hereby 
 authorized to maintain and improve said property, and to keep the 
 same in proper condition and repair, at its own expense, in conjunc- 
 tion with and under the supervision of the superintendent of parks 
 and Board of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati, by removal or 
 alteration of houses thereon situated, and in such other respects as 
 may be approved by said Board of Legislation and superintendent 
 of parks. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the use and maintenance of said property shall be 
 without interference with or desecration of the graves now thereon 
 situated, and may be terminated by said city of Cincinnati at any 
 time upon sixty days’ notice being given by the Board of Legislation 
 of the city of Cincinnati to said village of Hyde Park of its inten- 
 tion to resume the care of said property, and to be effective without 
 any further proceedings whatever. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the foregoing grant, before becoming effective, 
 shall be subject to the condition that said village of Hyde Park shall 
 construct or cause to be constructed upon said cemetery, within one 
 year of its acceptance to use and care for said cemetery, at its own 
 expense, a suitable monument to commemorate the interment therein 
 of the soldier dead. 
 
 No. 190 . Passed June 6, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the preparation by the city auditor semi-annual appro- 
 priating- ordinances to defray salaries and current expenses of the 
 City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That the city auditor be and he is hereby empowered 
 and directed to semi-annually prepare and submit to the Board of 
 Legislation an ordinance to appropriate money to defray the salaries 
 and current expenses of the city of Cincinnati for the six months 
 ending June 30th and December 31st of each year. 
 
 Sec. 2. That in preparing each semi-annual appropriating ordi- 
 nance the city auditor shall be governed in all allowances for the 
 six months to be provided for therein by the provisions of Section 
 26907t of the Revised Statutes, and by the action of the Board of 
 Supervisors, in its tax commission capacity, in fixing allowances for 
 the entire year as shall be reported by that board, taking care that 
 the combined allowances for each item of expenditures of each of 
 the several departments for the two periods of six months each of 
 any one year shall not exceed the gross amount for the year allowed 
 by said Board of Supervisors in its final action upon the annual tax 
 levy ordinance transmitted to it by the Board of Legislation. 
 
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 Sec. 3. That the semi-annual ordinance thus provided for shall 
 in each instance be submitted to the Board of Legislation by the 
 city auditor at such time of the year as will, allowing for reasonable 
 delays in the Boards of Legislation and Supervisors, permit of its 
 passage, and taking effect not later than the first of January and the 
 first of July of each year. 
 
 NO. 198. Passed June 27, 1898. 
 
 To provide for the protection of flag’s and other decorations. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to remove, 
 destroy, molest, deface, or disarrange any flag or other decoration 
 that may be used by any other person in, upon, or about any build- 
 ing in the city of Cincinnati, to indicate celebration of any holiday 
 or public event, without the consent of the owner thereof. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the police force of the city of 
 Cincinnati to arrest any person found offending against the provisions 
 of this ordinance. Any person convicted in the Police Court of any 
 such removal, destruction, molestation, defacement, or disarrange- 
 ment of any flag or other decoration in, upon, or about any building 
 of the city of Cincinnati, indicative of celebration of any holiday 
 or public event, without the consent of the owner thereof, shall be 
 fined in any sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty 
 dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, at the discretion of 
 the court. 
 
 NO. 219. Passed August 22, 1898. 
 
 To prevent interference with the movement of parades through the 
 streets of the city. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
 to break through the rope, wire, or line established by the police 
 for the protection of parades passing along any of the streets of the 
 city. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
 interfere in any way with the movement of parades, processions, or 
 other bodies permitted to march upon any of the streets of the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any person violating any of the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall, upon conviction in the Police Court of the city of 
 Cincinnati, be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars 
 or imprisoned for a term not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the 
 discretion of the court. 
 
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 !N"0. 241. Passed November 7, 1898. 
 
 To prohibit the calling- out for, or habitual solicitation of, trade in mer- 
 chandise on the public streets of the city. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or 
 corporation, except licensed peddlers, hucksters, and farmers, now 
 or hereafter engaged in the business of selling merchandise, to call 
 out, or have any one call out, such business upon any public street 
 or highway in the city of Cincinnati ; or to habitually solicit upon 
 such streets or highways trade in such articles from strangers ; or 
 to have any other person do so for them or him ; and it shall also 
 be unlawful for any person to do so for any other person, firm, or 
 corporation. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate the 
 provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by the Police Court 
 shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars and the costs 
 of the prosecution for each offense. 
 
 ISTo. 253. Passed December 27, 1898. 
 
 To further provide for the regulation of proceedings to authorize public 
 improvements in the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That to further provide for the regulation of proceed- 
 ings to authorize public improvements in the city of Cincinnati, it 
 shall be the duty of the corporation counsel thereof to provide the 
 Board of Administration or its successors a certificate which shall 
 accompany each resolution to contract for improvement by paving 
 or sewerage of street, avenue, or other public way where the 
 expense of the improvement involved in said contract and the dam- 
 ages due on account thereof are to be assessed upon property. 
 Said certificate shall state that all requirements of statutes of the 
 state of Ohio and ordinances of the city of Cincinnati have been 
 complied with in all necessary preliminary proceedings in said Board 
 of Administration or its successor and said Board of Legislation 
 preceding said resolution to contract. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no such resolution to contract submitted to the 
 Board of Legislation shall be considered by said board unless it 
 shall be accompanied by such certificate of the corporation counsel, 
 as provided in Section 1 hereof. 
 
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 No. 263. Passed February 6, 1899. 
 
 To prevent the smoking- of tobacco by persons under fifteen years of 
 ag-e on the streets and other public places, and to reg-ulate the sale 
 of tobacco. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person under the age 
 of fifteen years to smoke tobacco in any form while on the streets 
 or other public highways, or in any theater, concert hall, or place of 
 public meeting ; and if any such persons under the age of fifteen 
 years be found smoking tobacco while on any such street or high- 
 way, or while in any such theater, concert hall, or other place of 
 public meeting, it shall become the duty of the police to arrest all 
 such persons; and on conviction thereof such person or persons 
 shall be fined not more than five dollars nor less than one dollar, 
 and, for any subsequent offense of the same nature shall, upon con- 
 viction thereof, be fined not more than ten dollars nor less than two 
 dollars, or be imprisoned not more than ten days, or both. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
 engaged in the business of selling tobacco to knowingly sell to any 
 person under the age of fifteen years tobacco in any form, and any 
 such person or persons engaged in the business of selling tobacco 
 who shall knowingly sell tobacco in any form to any person under 
 the age of fifteen years, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not 
 more than fifty dollars nor less than twenty-five dollars, or be im- 
 prisoned not more than twenty days, or both ; and it shall be the 
 duty of the mayor and superintendent of police to see that this 
 ordinance is enforced. 
 
 No. 270. Passed February 13, 1899. 
 
 To provide for the submission to vote at the next municipal election of 
 a proposition to purchase and appropriate for park purposes the real 
 estate known as the Zoological Garden. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That there be submitted to vote of the voters of this 
 city at the next regular municipal election occurring in April, 1899, 
 the question of the appropriation by the city for park purposes of 
 the following described real estate, known as the Zoological Garden 
 of the city of Cincinnati, to- wit : 
 
 Situated in Section 15, Township 8, Fractional Kange 2, Miami 
 Purchase, Hamilton County, Ohio, beginning in the south line of 
 said Section 15 at the southwest corner of the first tract described 
 in deed from John Hauck to Marmet et al ., by deed recorded in 
 Deed-book 628, page 181, Hamilton County Kecords ; thence along 
 
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 said section line north 88 degrees, west 545 feet to the southwest 
 corner of a strip of land conveyed by Thomas French to William 
 Wilshire et al, by deed recorded in Deed-book 448, page 469, 
 Hamilton County Records ; thence with the west line of said strip 
 north 28 degrees 89 minutes, west 143 . 38 feet, more or less, to the 
 southwest corner of the second described tract in the deed from 
 John Hauck to said Mar met et al. ; thence north 50 degrees, 
 east 300.42 feet; thence north 40 degrees, west 25 feet; thence 
 north 50 degrees, east 155 feet; thence north 40 degrees, west 
 864.74 feet; thence north 2 degrees 6 minutes, east 669. 38 feet; 
 thence south 88 degrees 30 minutes, east 1,187 feet, more or less, 
 to a point in the center of Forest avenue, which is the northwest 
 corner of the third described tract in the deed from John Hauck 
 to said Marmet et al., and in the east line of the right of way 
 of the Spring Grove and Avondale and Cincinnati Railway Com- 
 pany ; thence southeasterly along the right of way of said railroad 
 465 feet, more or le&s, to the southeast corner of said third described 
 tract; thence south 2 degrees 6 minutes, west 1,044 feet, more 
 or less, to the northeast corner of the tract first described in the 
 deed from John Hauck to Marmet et al.; thence with the line of 
 the same north 88 degrees 30 minutes, west 600 feet ; thence south 
 2 degrees 6 minutes, west 360 feet to the place of beginning ; 
 containing forty-five acres, more or less, and being parts of lots 
 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19, and 20, and all of lots 13, 
 14, 15, 16, and 18 of B. Hinman’s subdivision, as recorded in Plat- 
 book 2, page 258, Hamilton County Records; subject, however, to 
 the dedication for street purposes of part of the land herein described, 
 which is platted as Erkenbrecher Avenue and extension of Vine 
 Street in the subdivision of the Zoological Land Syndicate, recorded 
 in Plat-book 9, pages 49 and 50 of the Hamilton County Records. 
 Also lots 47, 50, 51, and 54 of the Zoological Land Syndicate 
 subdivision, as shown upon the plat of said subdivision, recorded 
 June 27, 1890, in Plat-book 9, pages 49 and 50 of the plat records 
 of Hamilton County, Ohio. Said lots each fronting 50 feet on 
 Erkenbrecher Avenue and extending back 125 feet in depth ; 
 situate, lying, and being in Sections 14 and 15, Township 3, Frac- 
 tional Range 2, of the Miami Purchase, Hamilton County, Ohio. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the vote upon said proposition be in the following 
 form, to-wit: That there be printed upon each ballot in said next 
 ensuing municipal election the words : 
 
 “ Purchase and appropriation of the Zoological Garden 
 for park purposes YES.” 
 
 “ Purchase and appropriation of the Zoological Garden 
 for park purposes NO.’’ 
 
 And that said vote be taken under the direction and subject to the 
 provisions of the Board of Elections of this city. 
 
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 Sec. 3. That the city clerk be directed forthwith to transmit a 
 copy of this ordinance to the Board of Elections of this city, and 
 to cause a notice of the passage of this ordinance and of the pro- 
 posed submission of said question to vote to be published not 
 less than thirty days in two newspapers of opposite politics in this 
 city. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the city clerk be directed forthwith to transmit a 
 copy of this ordinance to the mayor of this city with the request 
 that notice of the submission of the proposed question to popular 
 vote at the regular April election of this city be embodied in the 
 proclamation for said election. 
 
 [Note. — The vote on this question resulted in 27,926 YEAS 
 and 11,840 NAYS, carrying it. The appropriation has not yet been 
 ordered.] 
 
 No. 293. Passed April 10, 1899. 
 
 To provide for the sale and removal of the Wade-street Market-house. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That whereas the Wade -street Market -house having 
 become unfit for further use, the Board of City Affairs is hereby 
 authorized and directed to sell such building to the highest bidder, 
 the same to be taken down and removed from the premises. 
 
 No. 295. Passed April 17, 1899. 
 
 To prevent the sale of fresh meats and fish on the sidewalks and 
 streets set apart as market-spaces in the City of Cincinnati, and 
 providing- penalties for violation, etc. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer to 
 sell, or expose for sale any fresh meats or fish in any quantity, 
 either at wholesale or retail, on any sidewalk or in any of the 
 streets set apart as market-spaces in the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten 
 dollars, together with costs of prosecution. 
 
 Sec. 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with 
 any of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. 
 
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 No. 304. Passed May 15, 1899. 
 
 To prevent the driving- of teams or vehieles in the City of Cincinnati 
 by any person under the ag-e of eighteen years. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person under the 
 age of eighteen years to drive a horse or team of horses, or any 
 other animal or animals, hitched to any vehicle, upon any of the 
 streets, avenues, alleys, or other public places or highways in the 
 city of Cincinnati, or for any person to employ any one under 
 the age of eighteen years to drive a horse or team of horses, or any 
 other animal or animals, attached to a vehicle, upon any of the 
 streets, avenues, alleys, or any other public places or highways in 
 the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not 
 exceeding twenty- five dollars and the costs of prosecution. 
 
 NO. 307. Passed May 22, 1899. 
 
 To amend Section 2 of Ordinance No. 274, passed February 27, 1899. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati: 
 
 Sec. 1. That Section 2 of Ordinance No. 274, passed February 
 27, 1899, entitled “An ordinance to amend Section 2 of an ordi- 
 nance, No. 218, entitled ‘An ordinance to provide for the construc- 
 tion of, repair of, alteration in, and addition to buildings ; to provide 
 for the construction and erection of elevators and fire-escapes in and 
 upon buildings ; to provide for the removal and repair of insecure 
 buildings ; and to provide for the appointment of an inspector of 
 buildings, passed August 15, 1898/ ” be amended to so read as 
 follows : 
 
 “Sec. 2. Said inspector of buildings shall have one assistant, 
 who shall act as deputy inspector of buildings, who shall be a resi- 
 dent and an elector of the city of Cincinnati, and have had at least 
 five years’ experience as an architect or builder, whose salary shall 
 be eighteen hundred dollars a year, payable semi-monthly, and who 
 shall be appointed by the inspector of buildings, subject to the con- 
 firmation of the Board of Legislation, for the term of one year. 
 Said inspector of buildings shall have seven additional assistants or 
 deputies, who shall be residents and electors of the city of Cincin- 
 nati, and have had at least five years’ experience in some branch of 
 the building trade, and shall be appointed by the inspector of build- 
 ings, subject to the confirmation of the Board of Legislation, one of 
 whom shall act as examiner of plans and clerk, whose salary shall 
 
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 be fifteen hundrd dollars per annum ; the other assistants shall each 
 receive a salary of eleven hundred dollars per annum, payable semi- 
 monthly. All assistants shall serve for the term of one year from 
 the date of thefr appointment. Each of such assistants shall devote 
 his entire time and attention exclusively to the duties of his office, 
 and shall not be engaged in any branch of architectural building 
 or other business.” 
 
 Sec. 2. That said Section 2 of said Ordinance No. 274 be and 
 the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 No. 1080. Passed August '17, 1896. 
 
 To regulate the use of bicycles in the streets of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1 . That no person shall ride a bicycle on any of the side- 
 walks of the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall ride a bicycle through the streets of the 
 city of Cincinnati after sunset and before sunrise without having a 
 lighted lantern attached thereto, casting a light in the direction in 
 which such person is going of sufficient illuminating power to be 
 visible at a distance of two hundred feet ; nor without having an 
 alarm-bell or whistle attached thereto, which bell or whistle shall be 
 sounded on approaching and crossing street intersections. 
 
 Sec. 8. No person shall ride any bicycle through the streets of 
 the city of Cincinnati at a greater rate of speed than eight miles an 
 hour ; and no more than two persons shall ride abreast in the streets 
 without special permission from the superintendent of police. 
 
 Sec. 4. No person shall ride a bicycle upon any street, avenue, 
 lane, alley, or other public place in the city of Cincinnati so as to 
 interfere with any fire-engine, ladder-truck, hose-truck, or any other 
 wagon or vehicle used by the fire department, or with any member 
 of the fire department, while going to or from a fire, or with any 
 person or vehicle used by any salvage corps while going to or return- 
 ing from a fire. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five dollars and 
 costs of prosecution. 
 
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 ISTO. 38. Passed July 6, 1897. 
 
 To regulate the sprinkling of certain streets, avenues, thoroughfares, 
 and public ways of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful to sprinkle, by means of 
 sprinkling-cart, hose, or other apparatus, the entire width of any 
 street, avenue, thoroughfare, or public way of the city of Cincinnati 
 that is paved with asphalt, granite, or brick. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such sprinkling shall always be done so as to leave on 
 any such street, avenue, thoroughfare, or public way a dry strip in 
 the center thereof of not less than four nor more than six feet 
 in width. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance 
 shall be, upon conviction thereof, fined not less than one dollar nor 
 more than five dollars for any such offense. 
 
 [Note — The intent of this ordinance is to preserve a “ dry 
 strip ” for bicycles.] 
 
 ~N0. 308. Passed May 29, 1899. 
 
 To provide against obstructions and injuries to cycle and cinder paths. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That it shall be unlawful for any person to ride or drive 
 an animal, or drive a vehicle drawn by an animal, upon or along 
 any cinder path or other path constructed solely for the use of 
 bicycle riders in the city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to place or 
 cause to be placed in or upon any cinder path or other path con- 
 structed solely for the use of bicycle riders in the city of Cincinnati 
 any tack, nail, piece of iron, broken glass, bottle, brier, thorn, or 
 other substance, except such substance as may be placed on same 
 by lawful authority for the repair or construction of the same. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any person or persons violating Section 1 or 
 Section 2 of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more 
 than fifty dollars and the costs of prosecution, which said fines shall 
 be paid to the city auditor, and by him credited to the road or street 
 repair fund of the said city of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 4. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prohibit 
 the necessary and proper ingress or egress to and from property, or 
 to prohibit the necessary and proper crossing of cycle paths or 
 public ways at intersections of the public highway. 
 
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 ISTO. 131. Passed January 24, 1898. 
 
 To amend an ordinance of the Board of Legislation of the City of Cin- 
 cinnati, numbered 58, and passed August 9, 1897, and entitled “An 
 ordinance to license persons buying and selling railroad, steamship, 
 or other transportation tickets on the streets, sidewalks, alleys, or 
 other public highways in the City of Cincinnati.” 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That an ordinance of the Board of Legislation of the 
 city of Cincinnati, numbered 58, and passed August 9, 1897, and 
 entitled “An ordinance to license persons buying and selling rail- 
 road, steamship, or other transportation tickets on the streets, alleys, 
 or other public highways in the city of Cincinnati,” be so amended 
 as to read as follows : 
 
 “An ordinance providing for the licensing of persons buying and 
 selling railroad, steamship, or other transportation tickets on the 
 streets, sidewalks, alleys, or other public highways in the city of 
 Cincinnati ; and further, to prevent the sale of any railroad ticket 
 or contract for transportation of any railroad or steamship company 
 anywhere in the city of Cincinnati which will be invalid in the 
 hands of the purchaser. 
 
 “Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 “ Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in 
 the business of buying or selling railroad, steamship, or other trans- 
 portation tickets upon any street, sidewalk, alley, or other public 
 highway in the city of Cincinnati, or to solicit any such business 
 upon any street, sidewalk, alley, or other public highway, without 
 having first obtained a license therefor from the mayor of said city. 
 
 “ Sec. 2. Before any person shall engage in any such business 
 upon any street, sidewalk, alley, or other public highway of said 
 city, he shall apply to the mayor of said city for a license to engage 
 in such business, who, after receiving from such person a good and 
 sufficient bond in the sum of five hundred dollars for his faithful 
 compliance with all the terms of this ordinance, and duly approving 
 such bond, shall issue to such person such license, upon the payment 
 of the sum of ten dollars to the city treasury, which license shall 
 be good for the term of one year from the date of its issue. 
 
 “Sec. 3. And the mayor shall have authority to revoke such 
 license at any time for good cause. 
 
 “ Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any broker or other person to 
 sell any railroad ticket or contract for transportation of any railroad 
 or steamship company which will be invalid in the hands of the 
 purchaser. 
 
 “ Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the conditions of 
 this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof by the Police Court shall be fined in any sum 
 not exceeding ten dollars and costs of prosecution.” 
 
 Sec. 2. Said original ordinance, numbered 58, passed August 9, 
 1897, is hereby repealed. 
 
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 No. 214. Passed August 1, 1898. 
 
 To license and regulate the business of railroad and steamship ticket 
 brokers or scalpers in the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. That all persons, firms, or corporations now or hereafter 
 engaged in the business of railroad or steamship ticket brokers or 
 scalpers in the city of Cincinnati shall be required to take out a 
 license for such business from the mayor of said city, for which a 
 license fee of fifty dollars shall be paid ; which license shall be good 
 for the term of one year from the date of its issue, subject to the 
 conditions hereinafter set out, and shall not be transferable. 
 
 Sec. 2. Before the mayor shall issue any such license he shall 
 require that the applicant file with him a bond in the sum of one 
 thousand dollars, with two or more solvent resident sureties, which 
 bond shall be approved by the corporation counsel as to form and 
 by the Board of Legislation as to sufficiency, conditioned that the 
 person, firm, or corporation applying will abide by and comply with 
 the terms of this ordinance, and will pay all fines and penalties that 
 may be adjudged against such person, firm, or corporation for any 
 and all violations thereof. The mayor may thereupon issue such 
 license, and shall have authority to revoke the same at any time for 
 good cause. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation 
 now or hereafter engaged in the business of railroad or steamship 
 ticket brokers or scalpers to call out, or have any one calling out, 
 such business upon any street, sidewalk, alley, or other public place 
 in the city of Cincinnati, in front of such place of business or else- 
 where, or to solicit or have any one solicit such business by calling 
 out in any such public place. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation 
 now or hereafter engaged in such business to sell any railroad or 
 steamship ticket, or contract for transportation of any railroad or 
 steamship company, which will be invalid in the hands of the pur- 
 chaser. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person, firm, or corporation conducting the business 
 hereinbefore mentioned shall be required upon demand to give a 
 certificate to every purchaser of a ticket, stating the date upon 
 which the ticket was sold, the starting-point and destination of the 
 ticket, and the amount paid for it ; which certificate shall be signed 
 by such broker or scalper, or some one in the office thereof, but 
 this signing may be done by stamp. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any 
 of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by the Police Court 
 shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense 
 and the costs of prosecution. 
 
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 Sec. 7. The ordinance numbered 131, passed by the Board of 
 Legislation January 28, a. d. 1898, and all other ordinances incon- 
 sistent with this ordinance, are hereby repealed. 
 
 [In Court of Common Pleas, Davis, J., September 26, 1898, 
 in the case of Frank vs. City, No. 114,578, this ordinance was 
 declared illegal and void.] 
 
 No. 604:. Passed August 11, 1893. 
 
 Making- unlawful the employment as a private watchman or detective 
 of any person who has not been a year a resident of this city prior 
 to appointment as such private watchman or detective, and fixing 
 a penalty to be inflicted upon any person acting as such private 
 watchman or detective who has not been a year a resident of this 
 city. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to employ any 
 person to act or serve as a private watchman or detective within 
 the limits of the city of Cincinnati, unless said person so employed 
 shall have resided within said city for at least one year prior to 
 such employment. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person acting in the capacity of private watchman 
 or detective who has not been one year a resident of this city shall 
 be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, 
 at the discretion of the court. 
 
 SULLAGE-BOAT CONTRACT. 
 
 A resolution to continue right to John Mackey for exclusive use of 
 Wood-street Landing for sullage-boat for three years after July 12, 
 1894, with privilege of additional two years, at one thousand dollars 
 per annum. (Passed February 9, 1894.) 
 
 Be it resolved by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati » 
 That John Mackey, who is now and has heretofore been in occupa- 
 tion of the premises set apart for the location of a sullage-boat at 
 the foot of Wood Street, shall be and he is hereby authorized to 
 continue the use and occupation of said premises for said purposes 
 for a period of three years from and after July 12, 1894, with the 
 privilege of an additional two years, at said Mackey’s option ; the 
 appropriation of said lot to this purpose being continued for said 
 period. 
 
 Said Mackey shall pay into the Wharfage Fund of the city the 
 sum of one thousand dollars for each and every year during said 
 period, payable quarterly, and shall give bond in the sum of three 
 thousand dollars to faithfully maintain said boat, and conduct said 
 business at said point during said period. 
 
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 The use of said wharf shall be as set forth in Section 1 of the 
 ordinance of May 18, 1859, and no boat or boats other than that 
 of the said Mackey shall be moored at said wharf during said 
 period. 
 
 [Note. — Acceptance under option for additional two years ; see 
 Minutes, Vol. 18, pages 455, 478.] 
 
 GASOLINE-LIGHTING CONTRACT. 
 
 A contract for gasoline lighting for five years with Edward 
 Dienst at the rate of $15.95 per lamp per year for lighting, $2.50 
 each for setting iron posts, and $2.50 each for setting wooden posts, 
 will expire March 19, 1901. 
 
 No. 1043 . Passed M^rch 20, 1896. 
 
 Granting- to the Gaff estate privileg-e to erect bridgre across Pug-h Alley, 
 between Central Avenue and John Street. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, That permission be and the same is hereby granted to the 
 Gaff estate of Cincinnati, Ohio, to erect a bridge not over six feet 
 in width across Pugh Alley, between John Street and Central 
 Avenue, for the purpose of connecting their buildings ; said bridge 
 to be not less than twenty-six feet above curb, and built so as not 
 to obstruct or interfere with travel through said alley. 
 
 No. 151 . Passed December 30, 1891. 
 
 Amending- an ordinance desig-nating- stands for hackney-coaches, furni- 
 ture-cars, and express-wagons within the corporate limits of the 
 
 City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That an ordinance known as “ ordinance designating 
 stands for hackney-coaches, etc.,” passed September 26, 1879, be 
 amended as follows : 
 
 Sec. 2. That Stands 2, 4, 6, 7, and 10 for hackney-coaches and 
 Stand 3 for furniture-cars be and the same are hereby abolished. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the following be designated and numbered as 
 stands for hackney-coaches : Stand 1, on the west side of Vine 
 Street, from Fourth Street to Baker Street; Stand 2, on the west 
 side of Central Avenue, extending from the first alley south of 
 Fourth Street to Third Street ; Stand 3, on the east side of Elm 
 Street, extending from Twelfth Street to a point opposite the north- 
 west entrance to Washington Park; Stand 4, on south side of Pearl 
 Street, east from Butler Street ; Stand 5, at night-time, after 7 p. m., 
 
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 on Vine Street, north from Fourth Street to Liberty Streetj in front 
 of such public houses and places as shall give permission, and in 
 front of all other such public houses and places in the city as shall 
 give permission. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the following stands be established for furniture- 
 cars within the city of Cincinnati unto and including the first day 
 of January, 1894: Stand 1, on the eastern half of the middle of 
 Pearl Street, between Plum and Elm streets; Stand 2, on the 
 middle of Sixth-street Market-space, from the east line of Plum 
 Street to a point seventy-five feet east, except on such days as mar- 
 kets are held ; Stand 3, on the north side of Canal, from Plum 
 to Race Street, reserving one hundred and fifty feet in front of the 
 public school building, at northeast corner of Elm and Canal 
 streets; Stand 4, on the north side of the Canal, between Jackson 
 and Walnut streets. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the following stand be established as a regular 
 stand for express-wagons within the city of Cincinnati: Stand 1, 
 on the west side of Main Street, from seventy-five feet north of the 
 north curb-line of Fifth Street and twenty-five feet south of the 
 south line of Patterson Alley. 
 
 No. 740. Passed P'ebruary 9, 1894. 
 
 Designating a stand for furniture-cars within the corporate limits 
 of the City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That the following be designated as a stand for furniture- 
 cars in the city of Cincinnati, to-wit: the middle of Pearl Street, 
 between Plum and Elm streets. 
 
 No. 254. Passed December 27, 1898. 
 
 Amending an ordinance to license and regulate vehicles for hire, etc., 
 passed December 5, 1856, as amended January 8, 1892, and April 1, 
 1892. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City 
 of Cincinnati, That Sections 2 and 3 of an ordinance to license and 
 regulate vehicles for hire, etc., passed December 5, 1856, and 
 amended January 8, 18S2, and April 1, 1892, be amended to read 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 2. Each hackney-coach, cab, or other vehicle used for hire 
 shall be provided with but one driver at one and the same time, and 
 it shall be unlawful for any other person than such driver for the 
 time being to solicit passengers or employment for such hackney- 
 coach, cab, or vehicle used for hire. Each such driver of any 
 hackney-coach, cab, or vehicle used for hire shall be provided with 
 
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 a license, as required by law, and shall wear in a conspicuous place 
 upon his person at all times when engaged in such employment a 
 metal badge, furnished or to be furnished by the city auditor, having 
 plainly printed, painted, stamped, or engraved thereon a number 
 corresponding to that of the license, the year for which said license 
 was issued, and the words “Cincinnati Hackman, ” and it shall be 
 unlawful for any person not a driver of such hackney coach, cab, or 
 vehicle used for hire to wear such badge. It shall be the duty of 
 the city auditor to keep a record of the name and residence of each 
 driver to whom such badge is given. It shall be unlawful for the 
 driver of any hackney-coach, cab, or other vehicle used for hire, 
 while at any public stand, railroad station or steamboat wharf, or 
 any other public place waiting to be employed, to use profane, 
 abusive, or indecorous language, or utter loud cries or calls, or 
 scuffle or crowd about, or interfere with any driver of any vehicle 
 for hire with whom any person may be negotiating for the transpor- 
 tation of himself or baggage. No driver shall make use of any 
 false representations whereby a passenger shall be induced to pay 
 more than lawful rate of fare. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person offending against any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court, be 
 fined not more than ten dollars, together with costs of prose- 
 cution. 
 
 [Note — Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 16 of “An ordinance to 
 license and regulate vehicles for hire, etc.,” passed December 5, 
 1856, see Coppock and Hertenstein, have been repealed by Ordi- 
 nance No. 241, passed April 1, 1892.] 
 
 A RESOLUTION. Passed May 29, 1899. 
 
 Approving- agreement between the City of Cincinnati and the Village 
 of College Hill for supply of water to College Hill. 
 
 Resolved , That the accompanying agreement between the city of 
 Cincinnati and the village of College Hill, Ohio, made by the Board 
 of City Affairs, for supplying College Hill with water, be and the 
 same is hereby approved and concurred in. 
 
 This agreement , entered into this 13th day of May, A. d. 1899, 
 by and between the City of Cincinnati, acting through its Board of 
 City Affairs, party of the first part, and the Village of College Hill, 
 acting through its Council, party of the second part, witnesseth: 
 
 • That in consideration of the mutual promises herein contained, 
 said party of the first part agrees to furnish to the party of the 
 second part a water-supply, from the surplus water-supply of said 
 city of Cincinnati, for a period of twenty years from the date of 
 the execution of this contract ; 
 
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 That in consideration of said mutual agreements said party of 
 the second part agrees as follows: 
 
 1. To extend the six-inch water-main now in Hamilton Avenue in 
 the city of Cincinnati from its present terminus to the corporation 
 line, which divides said city of Cincinnati and said village of 
 College Hill, where the same intersects said Hamilton Avenue. 
 
 2. To install and maintain in Hamilton Avenue, at or near the 
 corporation line aforesaid, a water-meter, and to protect and at all 
 times keep properly protected said water-meter. 
 
 3. To perform all the work above stipulated under the direction 
 and to the satisfaction of the Board of City Affairs of said city of 
 Cincinnati, and in accordance with and subject to the laws and 
 ordinances applicable to such cases. 
 
 4. To provide, at the cost and expense of said village of College 
 Hill, for the laying of all water-pipes and mains, and for the making 
 of all connections therewith within the said village of College 
 Hill, and to provide for the proper protection of said pipes and con- 
 nections. 
 
 5. To pay to the party of the first part, during the continuance 
 of this contract, for said water-supply the sum of twelve cents for 
 every one hundred cubic feet of water supplied as aforesaid, said 
 sum to be paid monthly upon bills rendered by the party of the first 
 part to the party of the second part. 
 
 6. To protect and hold harmless the city of Cincinnati from all 
 liability for any damages and claims for damages which may arise in 
 consequence of the installation of said water-meter, of laying said 
 pipes, of making said connections, and of supplying said water within 
 the limits of said village of College Hill. 
 
 In witness whereof, Said City of Cincinnati by the president of 
 its Board of City Affairs, thereunto duly authorized by resolution 
 of said board passed on the 19th day of January, 1899, and said 
 Village of College Hill by its mayor, thereunto duly authorized by 
 resolution of the Council of said village passed on the 20th day of 
 March, 1899, have caused their names to be signed and their seals 
 to be affixed to this agreement in duplicate, at Cincinnati, Ohio, on 
 the day and year aforesaid. 
 
 ]V0. 314 :. Passed June 5, 1899. 
 
 Defining 1 the spaces of the markets within the City of Cincinnati, and 
 
 repealing existing ordinances and parts of ordinances defining such 
 
 spaces. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 
 Sec. 1. The buildings and spaces to be used tor public markets 
 in the city of Cincinnati shall hereafter be as follows, viz : 
 
 Fifth Street from the west side of Main to the east side of Vine 
 Street, to be designated as Fifth-street Market-space. 
 
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 Pearl Street from Main to Sycamore Street on both sides, 
 Pearl Street from Sycamore Street to Broadway on north side only, 
 400 feet north and south of Pearl on Broadway, to be designated as 
 Pearl-street Market-space. 
 
 Sixth Street from east side of Race Street to Mound Street, and 
 Mound Street from Sixth Street to Fifth Street, and Fifth Street 
 from Mound Street to Baymiller Street, to be designated as Sixth- 
 street Market-space. 
 
 Court Street from Main Street to Freeman Avenue, and Walnut 
 Street from Ninth Street to Canal Street, to be designated as Court- 
 street Market-space. 
 
 Elder Street from Vine Street to Elm Street, and Elm Street 
 from Findlay Street to Green Street, and Race Street from Green 
 Street to Findlay Street, to be designated as Findlay Market- 
 space. 
 
 Wade Street from John Street to Cutter Street, also on Cutter 
 Street south to Clinton Street and north to Liberty Street, to be 
 designated as Wade-street Market-space. 
 
 South side of Bluerock Street from Apple Street to Colerain 
 Avenue, and Colerain Avenue to Hoffner Street, and Apple Street 
 from Bluerock Street to Palm Avenue, to be designated as Bluerock- 
 street Market-space. 
 
 Sec. 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances conflicting with 
 this ordinance are hereby repealed. 
 
 NO. 1186. Passed March 22, 1897. 
 
 To license plumbers and regulate the construction of plumbing. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That no person, firm, or corporation shall engage in or 
 work at the business of plumbing within the city of Cincinnati, 
 either as a master or employing plumber, or as a journeyman 
 plumber, until such person, firm, or corporation shall secure a 
 license therefor in accordance with the statute and the provi- 
 sions of this ordinance. Such license shall be issued by the Board 
 of Administration in the manner herein provided, and the fee 
 therefor in the case of a master or employing plumber shall be five 
 dollars, and a journeyman plumber one dollar. Said license shall 
 be issued for a term of one year from the date thereof, and shall 
 be renewed annually, and the fee therefor shall be fifty cents. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to engage in 
 or work at the business of plumbing shall apply to the president of 
 the Board of Administration for a license, either as a master or 
 employing plumber, or a journeyman plumber. In the case of a 
 firm the application shall be made by a member thereof, and in 
 case of a corporation by the manager. Such applications shall be 
 
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 referred to the Examining Board of Plumbers provided for by the 
 act of April 21, 1896, which board shall examine said applicants as 
 to their practical knowledge of plumbing, house drainage, and 
 plumbing ventilation, and if satisfied of the competency of the 
 applicant shall so certify to the Board of Administration, and said 
 Board of Administration shall thereupon issue a license to such 
 applicant authorizing him to engage in or work at the business of 
 plumbing, either as a master or employing plumber, or as a journey- 
 man plumber, upon payment of the fee hereinbefore provided, and 
 upon compliance with the conditions hereinafter required. Pro- 
 vided, however, that said Board of Administration shall not issue 
 a master or employing plumber's license until the applicant for such 
 license shall have an established place of business and be regularly 
 engaged therein. 
 
 Sec. 3. After the examination of the applicant, and before the 
 issuance of a license as provided herein, the person, firm, or cor- 
 poration desiring a license shall enter into an agreement with the 
 city of Cincinnati, in consideration of the issuance of the license, 
 to comply in all respects with the laws, ordinances, rules, and regu- 
 lations now in force or hereafter to be enacted in the state of Ohio 
 and the city of Cincinnati relating to the business for which the 
 license is issued ; and each applicant for a license as a master or 
 employing plumber shall also enter into bond with two sureties to 
 the city of Cincinnati in the sum of five hundred dollars, condi- 
 tioned upon the compliance with all the conditions of said agree- 
 ment, and also that the licensee shall hold the city of Cincinnati 
 harmless against any and all claims for damages which may arise 
 by reason of the violation of any part of the laws, ordinances, 
 rules, and regulations of the state of Ohio or the city of Cincinnati, 
 and will indemnify and save harmless said city from all accident 
 and damage caused by negligence, either in the execution or pro- 
 tection of his work, or for any unfaithfulness or inadequate work 
 done under and by virtue of the license either by the licensee or 
 his agent or employees. 
 
 Sec. 4. The license granted under the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance shall be kept by the licensee in a prominent place in his 
 business house, subject to examination at all times. Such license 
 shall not be transferable to any other person for any purpose. 
 
 Sec. 5. No plumbing work shall be done within the city, except 
 in case of repairs or leaks, without a permit being first issued 
 therefor by the inspector of buildings of the city of Cincinnati, 
 upon such terms and in accordance with such regulations as are 
 prescribed by law and the ordinances and rules of the city of Cin- 
 cinnati. The said inspector or his assistants shall inspect all 
 plumbing work for which permits are granted in process of con- 
 struction, alteration, or repair, and shall report to the Board of 
 Administration any violation of any law, ordinance, rule, or 
 regulation relating to plumbing work. No part of the work of 
 
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 plumbing or house drainage shall be covered or sealed in any way 
 until after it has been examined by an inspector ; and notice must 
 be sent by the plumber to the said inspector when the work is 
 sufficiently advanced for inspection. 
 
 Sec. 6. Before a permit is issued as herein provided, the person 
 applying therefor shall furnish the inspector of buildings a plan of 
 the work, which shall show the whole course of every pipe, from 
 its connection with the house drain to its termination above the 
 roof of the house, and all branches, traps, and fixtures to be con- 
 nected therewith, which plan must be approved by the inspector as 
 being in accordance with the ordinances, rules, and regulations of 
 the city of Cincinnati before a permit is issued therefor. 
 
 Sec. 7. Plumbing work which does not add additional fixtures, 
 or cause the entire renewing or altering of any soil or waste pipes, 
 or change of the system of using such pipes, shall be considered a 
 repair. 
 
 Sec. 8. All plumbing and house drainaga must be constructed 
 in accordance with the following rules: 
 
 Materials and Work. — All materials must be of good quality 
 and free from any defect ; the work must be executed in a thorough 
 and workmanlike manner. The arrangement of soil and waste pipes 
 must be as direct as possible. 
 
 Soil and Waste Pipes. — The drain, soil, and waste pipes and 
 the traps must, if practicable, be exposed to view for ready inspec- 
 tion at all times, and for convenience in repairing. When necessa- 
 rily placed within partition or in recesses of walls, soil and waste 
 pipes should be covered with wood- work, so fastened with screws as 
 to be readily removed. 
 
 Vent Shaft. — It is recommended to place soil and other vertical 
 pipes in a special shaft between or adjacent to the water-closets or 
 bath-room, and serving as a ventilating shaft for them. This shaft 
 should be at least two and one half feet square. It should extend 
 from the cellar through the roof, and should be covered by a 
 “louvered skylight.” It should be accessible at every story, and 
 should have a very open but strong grating at each floor to stand 
 upon. Shafts not less than three square feet in area are required in 
 tenement-houses to ventilate interior water-closets. 
 
 Sewer Connection. — Every building shall be separately con- 
 nected with the public sewer when such sewer is provided and abuts 
 said building on street, avenue, or alley, the same to be accessible to 
 said building The said line of sewerage may be laid by a licensed 
 sewer-tapper to within three feet of outside foundation of building, 
 but no connections can be made to any part of house drainage. All 
 connections must be made by a properly licensed plumber. 
 
 Fall of Drains and House Traps. — Drains shall have a fall 
 of not less than one eighth of an inch per foot, and shall be supplied 
 with a suitable trap, placed with an accessible clean-out either out- 
 side or inside the foundation wall of the building. 
 
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 Fresh- air Inlet. — Each house drain shall be provided with a 
 fresh -air inlet not less than four inches diameter on the house side 
 of the trap, extending to the external air in such locality as will 
 not be detrimental to the inmates of the house in the judgment of 
 the inspector, or may be carried up above the roof on inside of 
 house. 
 
 Rain-water Leaders. — Rain-water leaders when connected 
 with sewer or drain pipes shall be suitably tapped. In every case 
 where a leader opens near a window or light-shaft it must be prop- 
 erly trapped at its base, and no rain-water leader can be used for 
 any other purpose, and must be of iron soil pipe when inside a 
 building. 
 
 Brick Privy Vaults. — Where there is no city sewer on public 
 thoroughfare which building is abutting to, privy vaults may be 
 built by special permit as follows : They must be constructed not 
 less than four feet in diameter and ten feet deep in the clear, lined 
 with hard brick walls nine inches in thickness, laid in cement 
 mortar and proved to be water-tight. 
 
 Location of Vaults.— -Privy vaults shall not be located within 
 two feet of party lines or less than ten feet of a building when 
 practicable. 
 
 Vaults — Rural Districts. — In rural districts vaults may be 
 built that are not water-tight, and water-closets may connect to 
 same, also waste water, providing the ground is of a sandy nature, 
 and a properly constructed grease trap is built taking in all waste- 
 pipe lines. 
 
 Privy -vault Connections. — No connection from any privy 
 vault shall be made to any city sewer, nor shall any water-closet 
 empty into a cesspool or privy vault where city sewer is accessible. 
 
 Catchbasin Water closets. — Catchbasin water-closets may be 
 constructed and used, and they may be connected with and their 
 contents may be discharged into any city sewer. They must be con- 
 structed substantially on solid ground, and if built of brick the 
 walls and bottom shall be at least nine inches thick, the brick to be 
 hard-burned, laid in cement mortar, and the entire interior of the 
 basin shall be plastered with cement, and must be water-tight, and 
 have a proper supply of water to allow them to be flushed out clean 
 to the bottom. They must be constructed so that the contents shall 
 not pass into the sewer without a sufficient supply of water passing 
 into the sewer at the same time. The drainage for roof, surface, 
 and waste water may be connected with and discharged into these 
 catch-basins, and the roof, surface, and waste water from the house 
 may be used for flushing them. These catch-basins may be used for 
 a privy or water-closet. 
 
 City Sewer Extensions. — At any time a city shall construct a 
 sewer which is accessible to abutting property, all system of 
 drainage shall be connected to same within a period not exceeding 
 ninety days, and all special permits for vaults or any other system 
 
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 of drainage shall become null and void, and the building shall 
 be subject to these rules and regulations to their full extent and 
 meaning. 
 
 Stone Pipe in Building. — Where the soil consists of a natural 
 bed of loam, sand, or rock, the drain inside of house may be of 
 hard, glazed cylindrical stoneware pipes laid on a smooth bottom, 
 the same to be hollowed where hubs of pipe rest sufficiently to let 
 the entire length of pipe or fitting to lay on the solid ground. The 
 space between each hub and the small end of the next section must 
 be completely and uniformly filled with the best hydraulic cement. 
 Care must be taken to prevent any cement being forced into the 
 drain to become an obstruction. No retempered-up cement shall 
 be used. The different sections must be laid in perfect line on the 
 bottom and sides. 
 
 Iron Pipe Drains. — Where the ground is made or filled in, the 
 house drain inside of house must be of extra heavy cast iron, free 
 from defects, with the joints properly caulked with lead. 
 
 Change of Directions. — It must be laid in a straight line, if 
 possible, and all changes in direction must be made with curved 
 pipes, and all connections with Y branch pipes and one eighth 
 bends. 
 
 Size of Drains. — When water-closets discharge into it, the 
 main connection from city sewer drain must be at least six inches 
 in diameter. No branch less than five inches to be used where a 
 water-closet is connected and no drain smaller than three inches. 
 
 Covering Drains before Inspection. — Any house drain or 
 house sewer put in and covered without due notice to the inspector 
 must be uncovered for inspection at the direction of the inspector. 
 
 Subdrains.— Subdrains shall be constructed as follows: By a 
 system of French drains or field tile, and conveyed to a catch-basin, 
 same to be flagged or arched over. The outlet pipe shall be prop- 
 erly trapped, and connected with the house drain, outside of the 
 house trap, between said trap and city sewer, and shall also be 
 provided with a back pressure trap of required size, the same to be 
 not less than four inches. 
 
 Cellar Drains. —Cesspools may be used in floor of cellars, pro- 
 vided they are placed above a trap not less than four inches in 
 diameter and a tight connection made thereto, also said trap must 
 be so placed as to be frequently supplied with clean water to prevent 
 same from drying out, and to be so located that it will not become 
 choked with slack coal or any other substances which are likely to 
 collect in a cellar. 
 
 Steam Wastes. — No steam exhaust or blow-off pipe from a steam 
 boiler will be allowed to connect with any soil or waste pipe, or 
 directly with any house drain. They should discharge into a tank 
 or condenser, the waste from which, if to be discharged into a sewer 
 through the house drain, must be trapped, and be connected on the 
 sewer side of the running trap. 
 
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 Soil and Waste Pipes. — Every soil and waste pipe must be of 
 cast iron, lead, copper, or brass; and where it receives the discharge 
 of fixtures upon any floor for water-closets or waste water, must 
 extend at least two feet above the highest part of the roof or coping, 
 of undiminished size. They must not open near a window or an air 
 shaft which ventilates living-rooms. The same to be increased at a 
 point where it passes through roof to one size larger, in no case to 
 be of less size than four inches for above roof, and to have a copper 
 or brass wire basket on open end, securely fastened to pipe. Where 
 pipe passes through roof, roof to be made water-tight. There shall 
 be no traps on vertical soil or waste pipe lines, or other lines except 
 main line, as it enters the building — the house trap. 
 
 Sizes of Soil and Wastes — The minimum diameter of soil 
 pipe for water-closets permitted is four inches. A vertical waste pipe 
 into which a line of kitchen sinks discharge must be at least two 
 inches in diameter, with one inch and a half branches to fixtures. 
 
 Weights. — All cast-iron pipes must be sound, free from holes or 
 other defects, and of uniform thickness of not less than one eighth 
 of an inch for a diameter of two, three, or four inches, or five 
 thirty-seconds of an inch for a diameter of five or six inches; and 
 in case the building is over sixty-five feet in height above the curb, 
 the use of what is known as “ extra heavy ” pipe and corresponding 
 fittings is required, for the excess same to be used at bottom. 
 
 Back Vents. — Traps must be protected from siphonage or air 
 pressure, and the waste pipe leading from them ventilated by a 
 special air pipe ; in no case less than two inches diameter for water- 
 closet traps, and one and a half inches for other traps, and ventila- 
 tion pipes less than four inches in diameter must not be carried up 
 outside the building. In buildings more than four stories in height, 
 the vertical vent pipes for water-closets must be at least three inches 
 in diameter, with a two-inch branch for each trap, and for traps of 
 other fixtures not less than two inches in diameter, with branches 
 one and a half inches in diameter, unless the trap is smaller, in 
 which case the diameter of branch vent pipes must be at least equal 
 to the diameter of the trap. In all cases vertical vent pipes must 
 be of cast iron, brass, or lead, and only one trap to be vented off 
 one and one fourth inch pipe. These pipes must either extend two 
 feet above the highest part of the roof or coping, the extension to 
 be not less than four inches in diameter, and capped with copper or 
 brass wire basket to avoid obstruction from frost, or they may be 
 branched into a soil pipe not less than four feet above the floor. 
 Top fixtures may be combined by branching together those which 
 serve several traps. These air pipes must always have a continuous 
 slope to avoid collecting water by condensation. No trap vent pipe 
 shall be used as a waste or soil pipe. 
 
 Mechanical Vents. — In case of an old building, or a new one 
 that is entirely completed, if found necessary to add additional fix- 
 tures, and to vent the same by a pipe running through building and 
 
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 out at roof would be impracticable and a damage to the building, a 
 mechanical vent may be used, the same to be above the fixture it 
 serves, and there must not be any other fixtures on same soil or 
 waste line above ‘or below said fixtures. 
 
 Coating of Pipes. — All cast-iron soil, waste, or vent pipes before 
 they are connected must be thoroughly coated inside and outside 
 with coal-tar pitch, applied hot, or some equivalent substance. 
 
 Condition of Materials. — All drain and anti-siphon pipes of 
 cast iron shall be sound, free from holes, and of a uniform thickness, 
 and shall conform to the following relative weight : 
 
 STANDARD. 
 
 2 pipe 4 pounds per foot. 
 
 3 “ 6 “ “ 
 
 4 “ 9 
 
 5 “ 12 
 
 6 “ 15 
 
 8 “ 25 
 
 10 “ 35 
 
 12 “ 45 
 
 EXTRA HEAVY. 
 
 2 pipe 5i pounds per foot. 
 
 3 “ 91 
 
 4 “ 13“ 
 
 5 “ 17 
 
 6 “ 20 “ “ 
 
 8 “ . .. 33 ^ 
 
 10 “ 45“ 
 
 12 • “ 54 
 
 Fittings. — All fittings for soil, waste, or vent pipes must be of 
 cast iron of corresponding weights and conditions as above mentioned 
 for soil pipes. 
 
 Joints. — All joints in the iron drain pipes, soil pipes, and waste 
 pipes must be caulked with oakum and lead. 
 
 Change of Directions of Iron Pipes. — Brass, copper, or lead 
 waste or vent pipes may be used. Changes in direction in iron pipes 
 shall be made with curved pipes, and counections with horizontal 
 pipes shall be made with Y branches or sanitary Ts. 
 
 Vents to Flues. — No brick, sheet metal, earthenware, or 
 chimney flue shall be used as a sewer ventilator, nor to ventilate 
 any trap, drain, soil, or waste pipe. 
 
 Bowl Vents. — Water-closet receivers may be vented by a two- 
 inch galvanized sheet-iron pipe, extending through and above roof, 
 roof joint to be water-tight; that part from one foot below roof and 
 all that extends above same must be of lead or cast iron not less 
 than four inches in diameter and capped with ventilator. Where 
 more than one water-closet is vented, must be increased in area to 
 equal the number of water-closets vented. It is more desirable, 
 when practicable, to run said vent pipe into a heated flue. 
 
 Ferrules and Joints. — All connections of lead with iron or 
 brass on sewer side of traps must be made with brass ferrule or 
 nipple of the same size as the lead of the pipe, put in the hub of 
 the branch of the iron pipe and caulked in with lead. The lead 
 must be attached to the ferrule or nipple by a wiped joint. All 
 connections of lead pipe must be wiped joints. 
 
 Inspection and Test. — All soil, waste, and vent pipes must be 
 tested by the plumber in charge with a water-test, as directed by 
 the inspector and in the presence of the inspector, due notice 
 
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 having been given, stating place and time when ready for such 
 inspection. All openings having been closed by the plumber or 
 person in charge of the work. Pipe joints, fittings, or fixtures 
 thus shown to be defective or wrongly placed must be replaced 
 within three days, and again tested if so required by the. inspector. 
 None of the said pipe shall be covered from sight till they have 
 been shown to stand the test prescribed to the satisfaction of the 
 inspector. After the plumbing work of a building has been tested 
 as directed, no alteration will be permitted except upon written 
 application of the owner or plumber in charge of the work. The 
 said inspector to respond promptly, and in no case shall delay longer 
 than thirty-six hours from time of notice ; and if such delay occurs, 
 said plumbing work shall be covered, and shall all be acceptable in 
 full meaning and extent of these rules. No mechanical vent to be 
 used in new work or a remodeling job. The inspector to give a 
 certificate upon testing work, showing that the said work is in 
 accordance with these rules and regulations and to his approval. 
 Also shall reinspect the work when entirely completed, and shall 
 give a final certificate of approval and acceptance. 
 
 Weight of Lead Vent. — Where lead pipe is used to connect 
 fixtures with vertical soil or waste pipes, or connect traps with 
 vertical vent pipes, it must not be lighter than the grade called 
 “ light.” 
 
 Traps to Fixtures. — Every water-closet, urinal, sink, basin, 
 bath, and every tub or set of tubs, must be separately and 
 effectively trapped. Traps must be placed as near the fixtures as 
 practicable, and in no case shall a trap be more than two feet from 
 the fixtures, except for outside hopper closets. 
 
 Fixtures to Water-closet Trap. — In no case shall the waste 
 from a bath-tub or other fixtures be connected with the water-closet 
 trap. 
 
 Overflow Pipes. — Overflow pipes from fixtures must in each 
 case be connected on the inlet side of the trap. 
 
 Safes. — Every safe under a wash-basin, bath, urinal, water-closet, 
 or other fixture must be drained by a special pipe not directly con- 
 nected with any soil or waste pipe, drain, or sewer, but discharged 
 into an open sink or upon the cellar floor or outside of the house. 
 
 Waste from Refrigerator. — The waste pipe from a refrige- 
 rator shall not be directly connected with the soil or waste pipe, 
 or with the drain or sewer, or discharged into the soil ; it should be 
 discharged into an open sink. Such waste pipes should be so 
 arranged as to admit of frequent flushing, and should be as short 
 as possible and disconnected from refrigerator. 
 
 Boiler Drain. — The sediment pipe from kitchen boilers must 
 be connected on the inlet side of the sink trap if connected to waste 
 pipe. 
 
 Stop- cock Wastes. — Waste tubes from stop cocks shall not be 
 connected to any soil or waste pipe. 
 
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 Water-closets within a Building. — All water-closets within 
 a building properly bolted to floor shall be supplied with water from 
 special tanks or cisterns which shall hold not less than six gallons 
 of water, when up to the level of the overflow pipe for each closet 
 supplied, excepting automatic tanks, which shall hold not less than 
 five gallons of water for each closet supplied. The water in said 
 tanks shall not be used for any other purpose. The flushing pipes 
 of all tanks shall not be less than one and one quarter of an inch in 
 diameter. A group of closets may be supplied from one tank, but 
 water-closets on different floors shall not be flushed from one tank. 
 
 Water-closet Outside of a Building. — No water-closet, 
 except those placed in a yard or open court, shall be supplied 
 directly from the city supply pipes. When so placed, shall be so 
 arranged as to be conveniently and adequately flushed, and their 
 water supply pipes and traps shall be protected from freezing. The 
 waste water from the hopper-cock or valve shall be conveyed to 
 the drain through a f-inch brass or lead pipe properly connected. 
 The inclosure where such water-closet is located shall be ventilated 
 by slatted openings or vent through roof of adequate size. 
 
 Location of Water-closets. — Water-closets must not be 
 located in the sleeping-apartments of any building, nor in any room 
 or apartment which has not a direct communication with the ex- 
 ternal air either by a window or an air shaft having an area to the 
 open air of at least four square feet, without obtaining a special 
 permit. 
 
 Latrines. — Where latrines are used for schools they shall be of 
 iron, properly supplied with water, and located in yard at least 
 twenty feet from building when practicable. 
 
 Building Exempt. — That whenever any person, firm, corpora- 
 tion, exposition commission, or the officers of the said city shall wish 
 to erect a temporary building or buildings for exhibitions, shows, or 
 other purposes, and desire to use in the same plans and materials 
 which do not conform to the requirements of this ordinance, the 
 same may be authorized by the proper authorities of said city ; 
 provided the plans and specifications for the same meet with the 
 approval of the said inspector. 
 
 Unlawful Procedure. — That it shall be unlawful for any one, 
 either as owner, agent, architect, contractor, superintendent, or 
 employee, to proceed in the work of placing materials upon or 
 furnishing any labor in the construction of a new building or struc- 
 ture, or the alteration of an old building, without first obtaining a 
 permit therefor, and without conforming to all the requirements. 
 
 Rights of Officers. — All the officers appointed under this ordi- 
 nance, or any future amendments of the same, shall, so far as may 
 be necessary for the performance of their respective duties, have the 
 right to enter any building or premises in said city. 
 
 Enforcements. — Any court having equity jurisdiction, in term 
 time or vacation, may on the application of the inspector, by any 
 
286 
 
 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 suitable process or decree in equity suit brought in the name of said 
 city, enforce the provisions of this ordinance, and may on such 
 application issue an injunction to restrain the use or occupation of 
 any building or structure in said city erected, altered, maintained, 
 or used in violation of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. The license issued under the provisions of this ordinance 
 shall not take the place of a regular sewer-tapper’s license now 
 issued under the authority of the Board of Administration, and 
 any plumber desiring to tap sewers shall make application as now 
 required by law, ordinances, rules, and regulations of the city of 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any person, firm, or corporation securing a license 
 under the provisions of this ordinance shall not be required to 
 secure a further license for the purpose of doing business with the 
 water department of the city, as now required by the rules and 
 regulations of said department. But the license issued under this 
 ordinance shall entitle the licensee to the privileges granted by the 
 said rules and regulations ; provided, however, that the licensee 
 shall conform to all other rules and regulations pertaining to water 
 in connection with said department. 
 
 Sec. 11. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the 
 provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and shall be required to pay a fine not exceeding fifty 
 dollars nor less than five dollars for each and every violation thereof. 
 The license of any person, firm, or corporation issued under the 
 provisions of this ordinance may at any time be revoked for incom- 
 petency, dereliction of duty, or other sufficient cause, after a full 
 and fair hearing by a majority of the examining board provided by 
 the act of April 21, 1896, but an appeal may be taken from said 
 examining board, as provided by said act. 
 
 Note. — This ordinance is printed in this connection for the reason 
 that while it appears to have been in part repealed by Ordinance 218 
 (see pp. 12-29), and therefore is not recognized by the inspector of 
 buildings, and has been in part rendered invalid by a court decision, 
 it may still be of importance for reference. 
 
 In the case of the State of Ohio ex rel. Buddenberg v. Tooker, 
 Inspector, No. 110,620 Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County 
 Ohio (reported in the Cincinnati Court Index, Vol. 5, No. 234), the 
 court held that the following portion of Section 8 of said ordinance 
 was in conflict with the provisions of Section 2575-111 of the statutes 
 of Ohio, and was therefore invalid and void, to-wit: 
 
 “The said line of sewerage may be laid by a licensed sewer-tapper 
 to within three feet of outside foundation of building, but no connec- 
 tions can be made to any part of house drainage. All connections 
 must be made by a properly licensed plumber.” 
 
 The decision was expressly confined to that portion of the ordinance 
 quoted. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 287 
 
 1^0. 318. Passed June 5, 1899. 
 
 Granting- Cohen & Co. the rig-ht to have and maintain one electric wire 
 across Sixth Street, between Elm and Race streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati, That Cohen & Co. be and they are hereby granted right 
 to have and maintain one electric wire, of the size now in use, across 
 Sixth Street, between Race and Elm streets, in the city of Cincin- 
 nati ; said wire to remain as now located and for the transmission of 
 current as now in use. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be subject to the provisions and 
 limitations contained in General Ordinance No. 4285, so far as the 
 same are applicable, and the grants herein shall be for a period of 
 ten years. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained that in the event of the wires 
 being changed or the current being used for any other purpose than 
 that now existing, then this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 !N"o. 9d 0. Passed August 9, 1895. 
 
 To protect the streets, sidewalks, lanes, alleys, and public spaces in the 
 City of Cincinnati. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of Cincinnati : 
 Sec. 1 . That it shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee, occu- 
 pant, or tenant of any building to allow any open areas, railings, 
 steps, show-windows or cases, or any portion of a building or other 
 structure, to extend beyond the line of any street or alley under ten 
 feet above the level of the curb-line opposite the center of such 
 projection, and above the said ten feet as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee, occupant, or 
 tenant of any building to build or cause to be built any oriels, 
 balconies, turrets, towers, or other portions of a building or struc- 
 ture, other than pilasters, cornices, and mouldings, above said ten 
 feet, beyond lines drawn from the intersection of the party-lines 
 and building-line at an angle of twenty-two and a half degrees with 
 the latter, and to a distance of not more than one fourth of the 
 width of the sidewalk beyond said building-line ; provided that in 
 no case shall said projection exceed fifteen feet in width, and pro- 
 vided further that such projection shall begin not less than three 
 feet from the party-lines ; and where there are two or more such 
 projections, an intermediate space of not less than six feet shall be 
 left between such consecutive projections, but at the corners of 
 streets or alleys such projections shall not extend beyond one fourth 
 the width of the sidewalk of the respective streets or alleys. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee, occupant, or 
 tenant of any building to permit bases, capitals, corbels, mouldings, 
 
288 
 
 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 sculpture, and other decorative features which are part of the con- 
 struction of a building or other structure to project more than eight 
 inches beyond the building-line below the said ten feet, as provided 
 for in Section 1. 
 
 Sec. 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with 
 this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance shall on conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding one 
 hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution. Every day 
 on which this ordinance is violated shall constitute a separate viola- 
 tion, and the penalty on conviction of every such separate violation 
 shall be a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, together with 
 the costs of prosecution. 
 
 IsTo. 300 . Passed May 1, 1899. 
 
 Providing- for the stringing- of wires by Daniel J. Dalton. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Be it ordained by the Board of Legislation of the City of 
 Cincinnati , That a license to transact his business for the period of 
 twenty-five years upon the terms and conditions and in accordance 
 with Ordinance No. 732, entitled “An ordinance prescribing the 
 terms and conditions under which the business of telephone, tele- 
 graph, burglar-alarm, fire-alarm, district messenger, and signaling 
 purposes may be engaged in within the corporate limits of the city 
 of Cincinnati by any person, company, or corporation securing 
 permission by special ordinance so to engage,” be and the same 
 is granted to Daniel J. Dalton of Cincinnati, Ohio ; provided said 
 person shall within ten days following the passage of this ordinance 
 file with the Board of City Affairs a good and sufficient bond, in 
 the sum of $2,000, that said person will comply with the terrtis of 
 said Ordinance No. 732, and that he will protect the city of Cin- 
 cinnati against claims for damages that may arise from the placing 
 and use of the wires of said person. 
 
 This person shall file quarterly with the Board of City Affairs a 
 statement and plan showing any alteration, additions, or extensions 
 of his system ; also the number of each building said wires are 
 attached to. 
 
 This person shall obtain a permit from the Board of City Affairs 
 before erecting any wire, brackets, or supports. 
 
 A sample of wire, brackets, and supports to be used shall be 
 submitted to the Board of City Affairs for approval before strung 
 or erected. 
 
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI. 
 
 289 
 
 Stationary Engineers. 
 
 Ordinance No. 220, passed August 29, 1898 (see page 182), was 
 on the 27th of June, 1899, declared null and void by the Superior 
 Court of the city of Cincinnati. The ground of the decision is 
 that the ordinance, contrary to statutes, delegates to inspectors cer- 
 tain powers vested only in the Board of Legislation in fixing grades 
 of engineers. At this writing there is an ordinance to properly 
 define grades of engineering capacity pending in that body. 
 
 Driving of Vehicles. 
 
 There is pending now in the Board of Legislation an ordinance 
 to amend Ordinance No. 304 (see page 267) so as to merely make 
 it unlawful for any corporation, firm, or person to employ any one 
 under the age of eighteen years to drive a horse or a team of horses 
 attached to any vehicle. 
 
 7th, Sth, and 9th Districts of Electric Lighting. 
 
 Ordinance No. 237 (see page 76) the Hamilton County Court 
 of Common Pleas, in case of the city against the Cincinnati Edison 
 Electric Company, No. 115,877, held void. 
 
 Note— S alary of corporation counsel fixed by statute at five 
 thousand dollars. 
 

INDEX 
 
 Adams Express Co., side tracks 178 
 
 Admissions to theatrical shows, prices of, advertised 213 
 
 Affairs (City), salary of chief clerk and engineer of Board of. 33,34 
 
 Ale, beer, and porter-houses 5 
 
 Alleys, names of 184-212 
 
 American Cab Company license 232 
 
 American Oak heather Company, wires 242 
 
 Animals, removal of dead 6 
 
 Animal offal, removal of 6 
 
 matter not to be thrown into the river 95 
 
 Annexation to Twenty-eighth Ward 1 
 
 of Avondale, Clifton, hinwood, Riverside, and Westwood.. 2, 3, 4 
 
 of certain territory 4 
 
 Ashes, in fills, and hauling of 230, 255 
 
 Assistant sergeant-at-arms 37,38 
 
 Asylum (inebriate), bequest for 52 
 
 Attachments, power 94 
 
 Auditor’s certificate 227 
 
 duty of, as to street railroads 148, 149 
 
 Auditor (formerly comptroller), oath and bond 32 
 
 assistants and salaries 32, 33 
 
 licenses for vehicles 54 
 
 certificate (Worthington law) 227 
 
 semi-annual ordinances 261 
 
 Avenues, names of 184-212 
 
 Avondale, annexation of 2, 3, 4, 224 
 
 Balconies, oriels, etc. 287 
 
 Ball-rooms, to regulate 7 
 
 Basements, ventilation of 254 
 
 Becker, A., wires 248 
 
 Beer-houses, etc., to regulate 5 
 
 Bequest of Joanna “Peters for asylum for inebriates 52 
 
 of Mary E. Holroyd for “ Jabez Elliott Flower-market ”... 81 
 
 of Matthew Thoms for “William Thoms Professorship”. . 218 
 
 Bicycles 268,269 
 
 Blocked squares 227-229 
 
292 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Board of Administration (City Affairs) to discontinue certain 
 
 gas-lighting 63 
 
 how to apply street dirt. . . .* 230 
 
 to declare certain lots a nuisance 260 
 
 Boilers 182, 289 
 
 Bonds for university 219 
 
 Bonds, extension of 249 
 
 Bootblacks, to regulate 8 
 
 Bridges, private 9, 10, 11, 248, 273 
 
 Bridge Co., Covington and Cincinnati Suspension 252 
 
 Buildings, construction of (4220 and 2181) 12-30,267, 287 
 
 final amendment of Section 2 of Ordinance 218 267 
 
 inspector of, to appoint inspector of fire-escapes 12-30 
 
 Burglar-alarms 44 
 
 Burnet-Woods Park, occupation for University purposes 216 
 
 Burial ground at Madison and Brie avenues 260 
 
 Burying-ground (city), management of 52 
 
 Butter, etc., by car-loads or less 93 
 
 Cabs 274 
 
 Car-load lots, sales of 93 
 
 Cellars, ventilation of 254 
 
 Central Standard time 215 
 
 Certificate of auditor 227 
 
 of corporation counsel 263 
 
 Cincinnati Edison Electric Co 62, 63, 246 
 
 Bid 62 
 
 Specifications 63-70 
 
 Vault under Charles street 246 
 
 Cincinnati Gas Eight and Coke Company 
 
 grant for electricity 75 
 
 price of gas for ten years 77 
 
 conduits over Front and Rose streets 78 
 
 to discontinue certain lighting 63 
 
 Cincinnati Northern Railroad Company 174 
 
 Cisterns, protection of 256 
 
 City and Suburban Telegraph (now Telephone) Association. . . 47, 231 
 
 City Hall, superintendent and employees 30 
 
 electrician for 31 
 
 rules and regulations for 31 
 
 subject of supplies for 230 
 
 City clerk (assistant), salary of 34 
 
 (additional assistant), salary of 34 
 
 custodian of records in office of 38 
 
 stationery storekeeper 41 
 
 Clifton, annexation of village of 2, 3, 4, 224 
 
 town hall 253 
 
 Collection of license fees : 54 
 
 College Hill, water for 275 
 
 Comptroller (see auditor). 
 
 Concert-halls, to regulate 7 
 
 Conduit, Jung Brewing Co 247 
 
 Construction of buildings 12-30, 267 
 
 Convict labor. 42 
 
 Corporation counsel (city solicitor) 35,36,263 
 
 Creeks, protection of 95 
 
 Custodian of records in city clerk’s office 38 
 
 Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Co. (2) 252 
 
 Cycle and cinder paths 269 
 
INDEX. 
 
 293 
 
 Dance-halls, regulation of 7 
 
 Davis & Egan Co 235 
 
 Dead animals, removal of 6 
 
 Dealers (transient), license of 55 
 
 Decorations, protection of 262 
 
 Deposits of building material 29 
 
 Derricks 29 
 
 Detectives, private 272 
 
 Devise of Matthew H. Thoms 218 
 
 Dirt for fills 230 
 
 District messengers 44 
 
 Dogs 43 
 
 Dry strip for bicycles 269 
 
 Dynamite 43 
 
 Eighth-street Viaduct 219 
 
 Electrician for City Hall 31 
 
 Electricity 44-47, 56-77 
 
 bid of Brush Company accepted 62 
 
 bid of Cincinnati Edison Electric Company accepted 62, 63 
 
 specifications 63 
 
 fire-alarm, district messengers, and signaling 44 
 
 general light ordinance (4285) 1 56 
 
 grant to Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Co 75 
 
 grant to Rheinstrom, Bettman. Johnson & Co 76 
 
 lighting of Eden Park, Gilbert Avenue, and Windsor Street 72 
 
 lighting of First District 65 
 
 lighting of Second District 72 
 
 lighting of Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, 
 
 and Ninth districts 73, 74, 76, 289 
 
 territory annexed to Third and Fourth districts 74 
 
 lighting of Gilbert Avenue 71 
 
 lighting of Kenton-street bridge. 75 
 
 changes in districts 71 
 
 grant to Cohen & Co 71, 287 
 
 restricting use of streets for 43 
 
 telephone, telegraph, burglar-alarm (732) 44 
 
 Elevators 12-29, 267 
 
 Elliott, Jabez, Flower-market 81 
 
 Engineers and engines, stationary 182, 289 
 
 Exhibitions of mesmerism or hypnotism prohibited 51 
 
 Explosives, dangerous, through streets 43 
 
 Express-wagons 273 
 
 Fees, license, to facilitate collection of 54 
 
 for bail bonds prohibited 256 
 
 Fenders on street-cars 96, 147 
 
 Fills, street dirt in 230 
 
 Fines in Police Court 257 
 
 Fire-engines, etc., right of way 47 
 
 Fire-escapes, inspector of 12-29, 36, 267 
 
 Fire-alarm 44 
 
 Fire Department telegraph and telephone service 47 
 
 P'ire-plugs, protection of 256 
 
 Fires on streets, etc 251 
 
 Fish, sales of in markets 266 
 
 Flags, protection of 262 
 
 Flower-market 81 
 
 Fountains, pnblic watering, for man and beast 48 
 
 Fresh meats, sales of in markets 266 
 
294 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Fruit by car-load or less 93 
 
 Funerals in markets 86 
 
 Furniture-cars 273,274 
 
 Gambrinus Stock Company, wires 24J 
 
 Gasoline-lighting contract 273 
 
 handling of 255 
 
 sale of 259 
 
 Garbage, vegetable, disposition of 49 
 
 Garfield statue 51 
 
 Gas-lighting 63, 77, 229 
 
 natural 229 
 
 Gas conduit connection over Front and Rose streets 78 
 
 Gas Company’s grant for electricity 75 
 
 Giant powder 43 
 
 Girls as waiters or barkeepers 5 
 
 Girls in ball-rooms, concert or dance-halls 7 
 
 Globe Soap Company, poles 233 
 
 Gunpowder 43 
 
 Gutter-plates 255 
 
 Hackney-coaches 273, 274 
 
 Headlight oil, handling of 259 
 
 sale of 259 
 
 Heekin, James, & Co., wires 245 
 
 Holroyd, Mary F., devise of, for flower-market 81 
 
 Hose-carts and wagons, right of way for 47 
 
 House- numbering 92 
 
 Hudepohl & Kotte, wires (2).. 243 
 
 Humane Society, contract as to dogs 43 
 
 Hypnotism, prohibiting public exhibitions of 51 
 
 Ice from dead bodies 51 
 
 Illuminated signs for- street-cars 147 
 
 Illustrations, unbecoming, obscene, or immoral 92 
 
 Improvements 263 
 
 Inebriate asylum, bequest for 52 
 
 Infirmary (City), management of 52 
 
 Insecure buildings 12-30 
 
 Inspector of buildings 12-29, 36, 267 
 
 Inspector of fire-escapes 12-29, 36 
 
 Itinerant photographers 55 
 
 Jones, John, contract with, as to dead animals, etc 6 
 
 Jung Brewing Company, scales 230 
 
 wires 234 
 
 conduit 247 
 
 Kineon Coal Company, elevated double track in Smith street. . 157 
 
 Kreis, Henry T., wires 245 
 
 Ladder-wagons, right of way for 47 
 
 Laundry- work in Workhouse 42 
 
 Licensing of cab companies 54 
 
 of plumbers 277 
 
 of stationary engineers 182,289 
 
 of stable-keepers 259 
 
 of dealers in transportation tickets 270, 271 
 
 of transient dealers 55 
 
 of vehicles 274 
 
 photographers (itinerant) 55 
 
 License fees, collection of 54 
 
 Lighting by gasoline 273 
 
INDEX. 
 
 295 
 
 Linwood, annexation of 2, 3, 4, 224 
 
 town hall 253 
 
 Light, electric 44-47, 56-77, 289 
 
 gas 63, 77 
 
 Lots, uninclosed, nuisance 260 
 
 Macke}% John, contract for sullage-boat 272 
 
 Mails, United States, right of way 250 
 
 Markets 78-88, 93, 266, 276 
 
 conduct in 88 
 
 flower, the Jabez Elliott 81 
 
 funerals in 86 
 
 music in 83, 87 
 
 further regulation of 88 
 
 Northside Market Company, grant to (repealed) 86 
 
 outcry and hawking in the 82 
 
 poultry 93 
 
 prohibiting bells, drums, and music in 83 
 
 Sections 4 and 34 amended 79,80 
 
 Pearl street 85 
 
 Sixth-street space 276 
 
 sales of fresh meat and fish 266 
 
 Wade-street, sale and removal 266 
 
 Sections 1 and 3 amended 78, 79 
 
 Section 5 amended 80 
 
 Section 10 % amended 80 
 
 Section 21 amended 80 
 
 Sixth-street, new house for 83 
 
 Pearl-street, new house for 83, 84, 85 
 
 Mayor to appoint City Hall superintendent 30 
 
 employees 30 
 
 electrician 31 
 
 salary of clerk of. 36 
 
 private secretary to 37 
 
 Mesmerism in public prohibited 51 
 
 Messenger of City Building (repeal) 37 
 
 Milk, sale of, regulated 89, 90 
 
 wagons regulated 89 
 
 Minors (girls) in ball-room, concert or dance-halls 7 
 
 getting on or off cars in motion 100, 101 
 
 Moerlein Brewing Company, wires 240 
 
 tunnel 247 
 
 Munro Turkish Bath Company, bridge 234 
 
 Music in Eden Park, gift from Margaret Y. and J. G. Schmid- 
 
 lapp for 90 
 
 Names of streets . 184-212 
 
 Natural gas and fu'el 229 
 
 Newspaper advertisement of admissions to shows 213 
 
 Nitro-glycerine 43 
 
 Northside Market 86 
 
 Nuisance, vacant lots to be declared 260 
 
 Numbering of houses 92 
 
 Obscene pictures 92 
 
 Offal, animal, removal of 6 
 
 Ohio Telegraph and Telephone Company 213 
 
 Oriels, balconies, etc 287 
 
 Outdoor poor, relief of 52 
 
 Parades, interference with 262 
 
 Park, Eden, music in 90 
 
296 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Penitentiary and prison goods 42 
 
 Permits for use of streets, etc., for building purposes 29 
 
 Peters, Joanna, bequest of 52 
 
 Photographer (itinerant) 55 
 
 Pictures, unbecoming, obscene, or immoral 92 
 
 Pipes in streets - 236 
 
 Plumbers, license of 277 
 
 Plumbing, construction of. 277 
 
 Police Court, transcript deputy and interpreter of. 40 
 
 two additional deputy clerks 256 
 
 arrests, prosecutions, etc 257 
 
 Police patrol service, protection of 94 
 
 telegraph 231 
 
 Polling-houses, protection of 95 
 
 Porter-houses, to regulate 5 
 
 Poultry, providing for sale of dressed domestic 93 
 
 by car-load or less 93 
 
 Power, safety attachments for 94 
 
 transmission of, in streets , 94 
 
 Produce, to regulate sale of, from boats, cars, etc 93 
 
 Poor, relief of 52 
 
 Private watchmen and detectives 272 
 
 Protection of City Hall 31 
 
 Public entertainment houses, to regulate 5 
 
 Public improvements 263 
 
 Public watering-fountains for man and beast 48 
 
 Queen-City Natural Gas and Fuel Company 229 
 
 Quill, Thos. A., franchise 236 
 
 Railroads, steam 149-182 
 
 Cincinnati Northern, grant to 174 
 
 Crossings other than grade 177 
 
 Eastern Avenue, provision against obstruction of 153 
 
 Front (East) Street, wall or iron fence for 158 
 
 minors, unlawful for, to get on or off locomotives or cars 
 
 while in motion 100 
 
 safety gates at crossings 158-161 
 
 tracks in and across streets .149-157, 161-176, 178, 179 
 
 watchmen at crossings 158-161 
 
 Railroads, street 96-149 
 
 Amendments to Clause 8 of Section 18 98, 99 
 
 collection of moneys from ; Sections 1, 2, and 11 amended 148, 149 
 
 extensions of and provisions for electric system 
 
 Route 2 102, 103 
 
 Route 2 (Newport and Cincinnati) 106 
 
 Route 5 108 
 
 Cincinnati aud Clifton Division 108 
 
 Route 7 113, 116 
 
 Route 9 116, 118 
 
 South Covington and Cincinnati over part of. 116 
 
 Route 13 121 
 
 Route 18 123, 126 
 
 fenders to cars 96, 147 
 
 crossings, other than grade 177 
 
 guards or safety devices for cable cars 96 
 
 for all electric and cable cars 97 
 
 heating apparatus 98 
 
 illuminated signs 147 
 
 intervals of time for cars .98, 99, 126 
 
INDEX. 
 
 297 
 
 Railroad, street — Continued. 
 
 Liberty-street tracks • • • • • • 146 
 
 minors punished for getting on or off cars while in motion 100, 101 
 
 open cars in summer 98 
 
 obstruction of cars, to prevent 100 
 
 repeal of ordinance 4286 (Routes 7 and 5) 116 
 
 stopping of cars, etc., at crossings 177 
 
 routes established and rights thereto 
 
 No. 23 126 
 
 right thereof to Isaac J. Miller (void) 128 
 
 right thereof, to Simeon M. Johnson 128 
 
 No. 24, to establish 131 
 
 right thereof to Cincinnati and Suburban Electric 
 
 Street Railway Company 132 
 
 No. 25, to establish . 134 
 
 right thereof to Albert L. Johnson and others 142 
 
 Spring-Grove-avenue Street Railway tracks extended 142 
 
 ordinances repealed 143 
 
 signs of non-stoppage of cable and electric cars 96 
 
 watchmen at intersections 97,101,144-146 
 
 Repealed ordinances to block squares 229 
 
 Reuter, Wm. G., license, wires 233 
 
 River, protection of 95 
 
 Riverside, annexation of 2, 3, 4, 224 
 
 Roth Packing Company, wires 236 
 
 St. Clair Cab Company, license 231 
 
 Sale of dressed domestic poultry 93 
 
 produce, etc 93 
 
 Safety attachment, clutches, cut-off. 94 
 
 guards or fenders for street-cars 96, 147 
 
 gates 158-161 
 
 Salaries, auditor’s (formerly comptroller’s) office 32, 33 
 
 treasurer’s office 39, 40 
 
 city clerk’s office 34, 38, 41 
 
 chief clerk Board of Administration (City Affairs) 33 
 
 chief engineer Board of Administration (City Affairs) .... 34 
 
 corporation counsel (formerly city solicitor) and assistants.35, 36, 289 
 
 inspector of fire-escapes 36 
 
 mayor’s office 36,37 
 
 sergeant-at-arms of Board of Legislation 37 
 
 superintendent and others, City Hall service 30, 31 
 
 Police Court 40, 256 
 
 stationery storekeeper 41 
 
 inspector stationary engineers 220 
 
 Salvage-corps wagon, right of way of. 47 
 
 Saw’dust, hauling of. 255 
 
 Scales in streets 230 
 
 Schmidlapp fund for music 90 
 
 Schmidt & Shaffer, wires 242 
 
 Schopper, F. D., wires 246 
 
 Semi-annual appropriating ordinances 261 
 
 Sergeant-at-arms and assistants 37, 38 
 
 Simonin contract, vegetable garbage 49 
 
 Signaling purposes 44 
 
 Smoke, dense emission of, prohibited 251 
 
 Smoking on streets 264 
 
 Solicitation of trade . 263 
 
 Solicitor (corporation counsel) 35, 36, 263 
 
298 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sprinkling of streets 269 
 
 Squares blocked and unblocked 227-229 
 
 Stables, licensing of * -259 
 
 Standard time 215 
 
 Stationery storekeeper 41 
 
 Statue of Garfield 51 
 
 Stationary engines and boilers 182,289 
 
 Steam-generating apparatus 182, 289 
 
 Steam-whistles, blowing of, prohibited . 226 
 
 Stores of transient dealers. 55 
 
 Streets, names of . . . 184-212 
 
 bicycles in 268, 269 
 
 fires in 251 
 
 parades in ..'... 262 
 
 protection of 287 
 
 rubbish, dirt, etc. 249 
 
 solicitation of trade on - 263 
 
 use of, for building purposes 29, 287 
 
 Suburban (City and) Telegraph Association, Board of Fire 
 
 Trustees to contract with 47 
 
 Sullage-boat right 272 
 
 Superintendent of City Hall.. 30 
 
 Supplies for City Hall 230 
 
 Taverns, to regulate 5 
 
 Teams, driving of 267 
 
 Telegraph (now telephone) poles and lines 231 
 
 Telephones 44, 47, 213. 231 
 
 Telegraph 44,213,231 
 
 Theatrical shows, advertisement of, admissions to 213 
 
 Thoms Professorship .’ 218 
 
 Tickets, brokers of 270, 271 
 
 Time, Standard . 215 
 
 Tin tags 54 
 
 Tobacco and smoking of 264 
 
 Town-halls, care of 253 
 
 Trade, solicitation of 263 
 
 Transient dealer’s license 55 
 
 Travel on Eighth-street Viaduct 219 
 
 Treasurer’s office 39,40 
 
 Tunnel under Pleasant Street 247 
 
 United States Printing Co. (wires) 239 
 
 mails 250 
 
 University of Cincinnati 216, 218, 219 
 
 Vacant lots, nuisance 260 
 
 Vegetable garbage, disposition of 49 
 
 Vegetable matter, throwing of, into river prohibited 95 
 
 Vegetables by car-load or less 93 
 
 Vehicles 43, 54, 89, 177, 267, 273, 274, 289 
 
 on Eighth-street Viaduct 219 
 
 Ventilation of cellars and basements 254 
 
 Vote on Zoological Garden appropriation 266 
 
 Wagon-scales in streets 230 
 
 Ward, Twenty-eighth, annexation of territory to 1 
 
 boundaries of, changed and new created 220 
 
 territory annexed assigned to 224 
 
 Thirty-first 224 
 
 Water-course, protection of 95 
 
 Water for College Hill 275 
 
INDEX. 
 
 299 
 
 Watering-fountains : 48 
 
 Watchman, private 272 
 
 at street-railroad crossings and intersections of 97, 101, 144-146 
 
 at steam-railroad crossings 158-161 
 
 Westwood, annexation of 2, 8, 4, 224 
 
 town-hall 253 
 
 Wharfmaster and wharf-register 41, 224 
 
 Wharfage, system of 224 
 
 Whistles (steam), blowing of prohibited 226 
 
 Wires, stringing of, without authority., prohibited 226 
 
 P. C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co., Eastern Avenue 177 
 
 Reuter, Wm. G 238 
 
 Rheinstrom, Bettman, Johnson &. Co . . . 76 
 
 Jung Brewing Company 234 
 
 Davis & Egan Company 235 
 
 Roth Packing Company 236 
 
 United States Printing Company 239 
 
 Moerlein Brewing Company 240 
 
 Gambrinus Stock Company 241 
 
 Schmidt & Shaffer (Kaufman Brewing Company) ... 242 
 
 American Oak Leather Company. . . . 242 
 
 Hudepohl & Kotte, Buckeye Brewery Company (2) 243 
 
 Windisch, Muhlhauser Brewing Company 244 
 
 Kreis, Henry J 245 
 
 Heekin & Co 245 
 
 Schopper, F. D 246 
 
 Becker, A 248 
 
 Cohen & Co 71,287 
 
 Dalton, D. J 288 
 
 Women as waiters or bar-tenders 5 
 
 Workhouse, laundry-work at 42 
 
 Zoological Garden, annexation of 1 
 
 appropriation of 264 
 
 vote on 266 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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