V. 
 
 ORDINANCES 
 
 -OF THE 
 
 CITY OF OGDENSBURG 
 
 PASSED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL, 
 
 APRIL 12th, 1904. 
 
 Republican & Journal Co. 
 Publishers and Printers 
 Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
 
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 ORDINANCES 
 
 CITY OF OGDENSBURG 
 
 PASSED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL, 
 
 APRIL J2th, 1904. 
 
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 Publishers and Printers 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF OG- 
 DENSBURG. 
 
 The Common Council of the City of 
 Ogdensburg do ordain as follows: 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Of Streets, Squares and Sidewalks. 
 
 Sec. 1. No person shall place or de¬ 
 posit, except as hereinafter provided, 
 on any sidewalk or in any street, any 
 sign, cask, box, crate, stone, vehicle, 
 lumber or other substances or materi¬ 
 als under a penalty of ($5.00) five dol¬ 
 lars for each and every offense; and 
 the person depositing the same, and 
 the owner or occupant of the premises 
 in front of which any such article, sub¬ 
 stance or material shall be, shall for¬ 
 feit a penalty of ($5.00) five dollars for 
 every twenty-four hours the same shall 
 remain after he is notified in writing 
 by the Mayor or a policeman to re¬ 
 move the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Mayor or Board 
 of Public Works may grant 
 permission in writing to any 
 person to place and keep any 
 building materials in any of the public 
 streets for the purpose of building or 
 repairs, for a period not exceeding 
 three months; but such permission 
 shall not authorize the obstruction of 
 more than one-third the sidewalk and 
 one-third of the carriage way of the 
 street opposite the lot on which an 
 erection is to be made by the person 
 to whom such permission is granted 
 and such permission may, at any time 
 be revoked by the Mayor or the Board 
 of Public Works on one day’s notice. 
 
 Sec. 3. The preceeding first section 
 shall not be construed to prevent the 
 temporary deposit of firewood or 
 kindling in the street in front of any 
 house, store or shop, for the use of 
 which such wood or kindling is so de¬ 
 posited, provided, that the same is 
 not suffered to remain in said street 
 more than twenty-four hours. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for any 
 person to place or set out for sale any 
 goods on the sidewalk, in front of and 
 within three feet of the store or build¬ 
 ing or to occupy the sidewalk in front 
 of the same so far only, as may be ne¬ 
 cessary in receiving and delivering ar¬ 
 ticles to or from such premises. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person, shall at any time 
 fasten any horse to any shade tree, nor 
 fasten or stop the same in such way 
 
 Incumbering 
 streets and walks, 
 prohibited. 
 
 Permission to 
 deposit building 
 material in streets. 
 
 Depositing firewood 
 in street. 
 
 Goods may be 
 placed on 
 sidewalk. 
 
 Horses not to be 
 fastened to shade 
 trees. 
 
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 Dog carts, swill 
 carts, &c., not to 
 be driven on 
 sidewalks. 
 
 Immoderate 
 
 driving, 
 
 prohibited. 
 
 Signs, etc., not to 
 project more than 
 three feet from 
 buildings. 
 
 Injuries to walks, 
 bridges, 
 
 pavements, &c. 
 
 Throwing snow 
 balls and 
 shooting air guns 
 prohibited. 
 
 Playing ball in 
 
 streets 
 
 prohibited. 
 
 Encroachments on 
 
 streets 
 
 prohibited. 
 
 that such horse, or the reins, lines, or 
 vehicle attached, shall be an obstruc¬ 
 tion to the free use of any side¬ 
 walk or crosswalk under the penalty of 
 five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 6. No person shall drive, lead 
 or propel, any horse, cart, wagon, 
 sleigh, dog-team, wheelbarrow, hand 
 delivery cart or swill cart on any side¬ 
 walk, except in crossing the same to 
 go into a yard or lot, under the penal¬ 
 ty of five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 7. No person shall ride or drive 
 any horse, horses or automobiles in 
 any street in this city faster than at 
 the rate of eight miles an hour; nor 
 shall any person drive any sleigh, cut¬ 
 ter or other vehicle upon runners 
 through any street of this city unless 
 there shall be one or more bells at¬ 
 tached to the horse or horses, or to 
 some part of the harness thereof, or 
 to the sleigh, cutter or vehicle, under 
 the penalty of five dollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 8. No person shall put up, or 
 erect, or suffer to remain, any sign, 
 show case or other thing projecting 
 into or hanging over the street or side¬ 
 walk more than three feet from the 
 premises of such person, under the 
 penalty of five dollars for each offense, 
 and the further penalty of five dollars 
 for every twenty-four hours such ob¬ 
 struction shall be suffered to remain 
 after written notice given by the 
 Mayor or Chief of Police to remove the 
 same. 
 
 Sec. 9. Any person who shall tear 
 up, or injure any pavement, planking, 
 sidewalk, bridge or crosswalk, drain or 
 sewer, in any street or public ground, 
 or shall dig any hole or ditch therein, 
 without the permission of the Mayor 
 or the Board of Public Works, shall 
 forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 10. No person shall throw snow¬ 
 balls or ice balls or shoot air guns or 
 sling shots in any street in the city of 
 Ogdensburg, under a penalty of five 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 11. No person shall play ball, or 
 knock or drive any ball in any street 
 in this city under a penalty of five dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 12. No person shall erect, or 
 place or cause or procure to be erected 
 or placed, any building or structure 
 
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 extending or projecting over any 
 street, under the penalty of twenty-five 
 dollars for each offense, and the fur¬ 
 ther penalty of ten dollars for each 
 week the same shall be allowed to 
 continue after notice from the Council 
 to remove the same; provided such 
 penalty shall not be incurred by rea¬ 
 son of any cornice, window cap or 
 ornamental moulding on any build¬ 
 ing, projecting into the street three 
 feet or less. 
 
 / Sec. 13. No person shall, without 
 permission from the Mayor or Board 
 of Public Works, dig, remove or carry 
 away, or cause to be dug, removed or 
 carried away any stone, earth, sand or 
 gravel from any street or public ground 
 in this city under the penalty of ten 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 14. No person shall construct, 
 improve or renew any sidewalk, unless 
 the grade and width thereof be fixed 
 and the material and the manner of 
 construction be prescribed by the 
 Board of Public Works under a penal¬ 
 ty of ten dollars for each offense, and a 
 further penalty of five dollars for each 
 week such sidewalk shall remain af¬ 
 ter notice from the Board of Public 
 Works that such sidewalk must be al¬ 
 tered to conform to the specifications 
 provided by said Board of Public 
 Works. 
 
 Sec. 15. The occupant of every 
 building or lot and the owner of every 
 unoccupied building or lot adjoining 
 which there is any sidewalk shall 
 keep the same clean and free from 
 dirt and rubbish, snow and ice. Any 
 person violating this ordinance shall 
 forfeit the sum of three dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 1G. Catherine street, on the 
 north side of Ford street between 
 Washington street and to within fifty 
 teet of Ford; Isabella street south of 
 Ford, between the intersection of 
 South Water street to within fifty 
 teet of Ford, and River street east 
 of Lake street shall be designat¬ 
 ed, streets for cartmen and truck¬ 
 men, who while occupying the same 
 must place their vehicles in such posi¬ 
 tion that both hind wheels will stand 
 against the curb; and every cartman 
 and truckman who shall, when not in 
 actual employ of any person leave his 
 cart or truck in any street except at 
 the place and the manner above desig¬ 
 nated, shall forfeit the sum of two dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. 
 
 Digging stone, etc., 
 in streets 
 prohibited. 
 
 Altering grade or 
 width of 
 sidewalks 
 prohibited. 
 
 Sidewalks to be 
 kept clean and 
 free from snow 
 and ice. 
 
 Cartmen stands. 
 
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 Horses not to be 
 left unfastened. 
 
 Injuring shade 
 trees. 
 
 Opening sewer or 
 water main 
 without 
 permission 
 prohibited. 
 
 No rubbish or 
 litter to be thrown 
 on street. 
 
 Bills, posters, 
 pamphlets, &c., 
 not to be thrown 
 on streets. 
 
 Distributing 
 Advertising matter 
 on streets 
 prohibited. 
 
 Advertising on 
 telegraph &c. poles 
 prohibited. 
 
 Sec. 17. No person shall leave in 
 any street in said city, any horse unat¬ 
 tended by driver or other person un¬ 
 less the same be properly fastened, 
 under the penalty of two dollars for 
 eacn offense. 
 
 Sec. 18. No person shall maliciously 
 or wantonly cut or injure any orna¬ 
 mental or shade tree in any street or 
 public ground, under the penalty of 
 ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 19. No person shall tap, open 
 or connect with any pipe, sewer, drain, 
 conduit or gas main, constructed or 
 maintained under the authority of the 
 City of Ogdensburg, without the per¬ 
 mission of the Mayor or the Board of 
 Public Works, and only in such man¬ 
 ner and on such condition as may be 
 prescribed by said Board of Public 
 Works; and no person shall tap, 
 open or connect with any pipe, water 
 main or fire hydrant without the per¬ 
 mission of the Mayor or the Board of 
 Water Commissioners. No person 
 shall dig any hole or open any trench 
 in any street or square, without the 
 permission granted as hereinbefore 
 provided. Any person violating any 
 of the provisions of this section shall 
 be liable for a penalty of twenty-five 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 20. Any person who shall 
 sweep, throw or deposit, or cause to 
 be swept, thrown or deposited, any 
 ashes, dirt, stone, brick, straw, papers, 
 or other litter, rubbish, slops or gar¬ 
 bage of any kind in any street, lane, 
 gutter, sidewalk or public place, or in 
 any place where the same may be 
 blown upon the streets of the city, 
 shall forfeit the sum of three dollars 
 for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 21. Any person who shall cast, 
 throw or scatter or cause to be cast, 
 thrown or scattered in or upon any of 
 the streets, alleys, sidewalks or public 
 places in the city, any bills, posters, 
 dodgers, pamphlets or paper of any 
 kind or description shall forfeit the 
 sum of three dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 22. No person shall distribute 
 advertisements of any nature, except 
 newspapers, to pedestrians in any 
 public street within the City of Og¬ 
 densburg, under a penalty of three 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 23. No person shall place any 
 advertisement upon the sidewalks, 
 hydrants, telephone or telegraph poles, 
 
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 telephone wires, electric light poles or 
 public building in any public street or 
 place within the City of Ogdensburg, 
 under a penalty of three dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 24. No person or persons shall, 
 at any time, move any building or any 
 part of a building, through or upon 
 any of the public streets, lanes or al¬ 
 leys in the city, unless by permission 
 in writing of the Common Council. 
 Any person or persons violating any of 
 the provisions of this section shall be 
 liable to pay to the city a penalty of 
 twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 25. Any person who shall with 
 intent to alter the top grade or earth 
 of any street, alley, lane, square, side¬ 
 walk or crosswalk, shall remove, alter, 
 pull up or move any post, stake or 
 mark or cause the same to be done 
 which has been fixed or placed by the 
 surveyor or engineer employed by the 
 city, shall for each offense be liable to 
 pay to the city a penalty of ten dol¬ 
 lars. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Of Nuisances and Disorderly Houses 
 and Practices. 
 
 Sec. 1. No person shall deposit or 
 suffer his servant, child or family to 
 deposit, any carcass, carrion, putrid 
 meat, fish, entrails, offals, filth, gar- 
 bish, rubbish or any unwholesale sub¬ 
 stance upon any lot in this city or in 
 any street or lane, or upon t..e bank of 
 any river, or in the pond or canal in 
 this city, under a penalty of $5.00 for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 2. Expectorating upon the 
 floors of any public place or on the 
 sidewalks in this city, or in the street 
 cars is prohibited, under a penalty of 
 three dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 3. No owner or occupant of any 
 lot or tenement shall permit any sub¬ 
 stance mentioned in the first section of 
 this chapter, to remain upon said lot or 
 tenement or to the center of the street 
 adjoining, under the penalty of five 
 dollars for every day during which the 
 same shall so remain. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Mayor, any alderman or 
 a policeman, may order the owner or 
 occupant of any house, shop, stable, 
 sewer or other building, or place which 
 shall be unwholesome or nauseous, to 
 
 Moving 
 
 buildings. 
 
 Removal of 
 surveyor’s stakes. 
 
 Deposit of 
 nuisances, etc. in 
 streets 
 prohibited. 
 
 Expectorating upon 
 the sidewalks, etc. 
 prohibited. 
 
 Occupants not to 
 allow nuisances to 
 remain in streets. 
 
 Unhealthy places 
 to be cleaned. 
 
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 Disorderly houses 
 prohibited. 
 
 Letting such 
 houses prohibited. 
 
 Riots, etc 
 prohibited. 
 
 Police to arrest etc. 
 
 Public bathing 
 restricted. 
 
 cleanse, remove or abate the same as 
 often as it may be necessary for the 
 health and comfort of the inhabitants 
 of the city; and any person neglecting 
 or refusing to obey such order shall 
 forfeit the penalty of ten dollars for 
 each neglect or refusal. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person shall keep any 
 house of ill-fame, prostitution, assigna¬ 
 tion, or house for the resort of gam- 
 sters, or other disorderly persons un¬ 
 der the penalty of fifty dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 6. No person, as owner or 
 agent shall let or demise any house, 
 room, or tenement in this city for the 
 purpose of its being used, or having 
 notice that it is intended to be used 
 as a disorderly or gaming house or 
 house of ill-fame, prostitution or as¬ 
 signation, under a penalty of fifty dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. Every such 
 hou^e is declared to be a public nuis¬ 
 ance and the Council shall cause the 
 same to be abated. 
 
 Sec. 7. Every person who shall 
 make or assist in making any riot or 
 tumult, or aid or be engaged in any 
 noisy, quarrelsome or disorderly as¬ 
 semblage, or shall make any loud or 
 boisterous noise so as to disturb the 
 peace of the city, or shall idle or loiter 
 upon the streets or sidewalks of said 
 city, so as to annoy or hinder the peo¬ 
 ple passing thereon, or shall use vul¬ 
 gar or insulting language to, or know¬ 
 ingly within the hearing of any fe¬ 
 male passing upon the streets or side¬ 
 walks, or being upon the streets or 
 sidewalks, to, or knowingly within the 
 hearing of any female lawfully being 
 in or upon premises adjacent thereto, 
 shall be liable to a penalty of ten ($10) 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the 
 policemen to arrest all persons guilty 
 of any offense in the last section men¬ 
 tioned, and also all tramps, vagrants, 
 common beggars and other disorderly 
 persons and take them before the re¬ 
 corder to be dealt with according to 
 law. 
 
 Sec. 9. No person shall publicly 
 bathe, without bathing suits in the 
 day time in any river, pond or canal 
 in this city under the penalty of two 
 ($2.00) dollars for each offense. 
 
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 Sec. 10. No person shall exhibit or 
 assist to exhibit any natural or arti¬ 
 ficial curiosities, caravan, circus, theat¬ 
 rical or other show or exhibition or 
 performance for money within the 
 bounds of the city, (except in the 
 town hall building) without a license 
 for that purpose under the penalty of 
 one hundred ($100) d'ollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 11. The Mayor may issue li¬ 
 cense for any such exhibitions, upon 
 the payment to the City Treasurer of 
 the sum of not less than fifty dollars 
 ($50) for each exhibition of a circus or 
 caravan, and for any other exhibition, 
 not less than five ($5.00) dollars for 
 every twenty-four hours. 
 
 Sec. 12. Any person who shall act 
 in a noisy or boisterous manner as a 
 hackman, cartman, runner or solicit¬ 
 or for any hack, cart, boat, railroad, 
 public house or other establishment, 
 shall forfeit a penalty of ten dollars 
 ($10) for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 13. No person shall threaten 
 or challenge another to fight or en¬ 
 gage in any fight, within the bounds 
 of the city, under a penalty of ten dol¬ 
 lars ($10) for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 14. Except on the 3rd, 4th and 
 5th of July, no person shall fire any 
 cannon, gun, fire ball, fire cracker, tor¬ 
 pedo, fire works or other explosives 
 within the bounds of the city, unless 
 by permission of the Mayor or Com¬ 
 mon Council, under a penalty of five 
 ($5.00) dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 15. No person shall set lire to 
 any pile of shavings or build any bon¬ 
 fire, or burn any leaves on any street, 
 lane or public grounds at any time, 
 nor elsewhere, after sun down, under 
 a penalty of five ($5.00) dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 16. No person shall use any 
 building for a slaughter house in this 
 city unless the same is located west¬ 
 erly of Jefferson Avenue, or easterly 
 of Champlain street, and southerly of 
 LaFayette street, under a penalty of 
 ten ($10) dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 17. No person shall cast or de¬ 
 posit, suffer or procure to be cast or 
 deposited, in the Oswegatehie river 
 above the mill dam and within the 
 city limits, the body of any dead ani¬ 
 mal or any live animal' with intent to 
 
 Exhibitions, 
 shows, etc., 
 without license, 
 prohibited. 
 
 Mayor to license 
 shows. 
 
 Runners 
 
 restricted. 
 
 Challenge to 
 fight. 
 
 Firing of guns 
 prohibited. 
 
 Building fires in 
 the streets, etc., 
 prohibited. 
 
 Location: of 
 slaughter houses. 
 
 Not to corrupt the 
 Oswegatehie river. 
 
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 Use of dynamite, 
 etc., prohibited. 
 
 Animals not 
 allowed to run at 
 large. 
 
 Actions against 
 persons allowing 
 cattle, etc., to run 
 at large. 
 
 Persons causing 
 animals to 
 escape. 
 
 drown the same, or any other filth, nor 
 deposit or place such dead body or 
 any other filth on either bank of said 
 river within said limits, so that the 
 same or any part thereof shall be 
 liable to be washed or otherwise con¬ 
 ducted into said river, nor in any oth¬ 
 er manner or way corrupt, or render 
 impure the water in said river within 
 said limits, under a penalty of ten 
 ($10) dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 18. No person or persons, shall 
 use any dynamite, nitro-glycerine or 
 explosive substances other than gun 
 powder for blasting purposes in the 
 city of Ogdensburg, without the per¬ 
 mission of the Mayor, and whoever 
 violates this ordinance, shall, upon 
 conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of 
 ($50) fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Of Restraining Animals. 
 
 Sec. 1. No cattle, horses, swine, 
 sheep or geese shall be permitted to 
 run at large in this city, nor be driven 
 or allowed on the streets without such 
 restraint as shall prevent such ani¬ 
 mals from going out of the wagon¬ 
 way, under a penalty of two dollars for 
 each offense; to be recovered from the 
 owner or person who allows the same 
 to run at large or go unrestrained up¬ 
 on the streets, or from whose posses¬ 
 sion the same shall have escaped. Ani¬ 
 mals being driven on the streets with¬ 
 out the immediate and constant at¬ 
 tendance of at least one person for 
 every two animals who are keeping 
 such animals in the wagon-way and 
 under progress, shall be deemed as 
 running at large, or not restrained as 
 provided in this section. 
 
 Sec. 2. If any taxpayer shall file 
 with the recorder a verified complaint 
 against any person offending under 
 the first section of this chapter, giving 
 the names of at least two reliable wit¬ 
 nesses, the recorder shall forthwith 
 commence an action in the name of 
 tne city against such offender to recov¬ 
 er such penalty and when so recover¬ 
 ed, the whole penalty shall belong to 
 the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person who shall cause 
 any animal to escape from a proper 
 enclosure, or to be released from 
 proper restraint, shall be liable to a 
 penalty of five ($5.00) dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
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 Sec. 4. No dog that is dangerous, 
 vicious or ferocious in any degree, 
 shall be permitted to run at large in 
 this city under a penalty of five ($5.00) 
 dollars for each offense, to be recover¬ 
 ed from the owner of said dog or the 
 person from whose possession it es¬ 
 caped. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be lawful for the 
 recorder on the complaint of any per¬ 
 son that any dog is dangerous, vicious 
 or ferocious, and is allowed to run at 
 large to issue an order directed to the 
 owner or person having charge of or 
 harboring said dog, requiring such 
 owner or person to appear before him 
 at the next regular session of the re¬ 
 corder’s court, to show cause why said 
 dog should not be confined or destroy¬ 
 ed, which order shall be served upon 
 such owner or person having posses¬ 
 sion of or harboring such dog in the 
 same manner as is provided for the 
 service of a summons in the recorder’s 
 court and at the next session of said 
 court the recorder shall take the evi¬ 
 dence then offered relating to the 
 same and report the same to the Com¬ 
 mon Council, and if the Common Coun¬ 
 cil shall decide that such dog is dan¬ 
 gerous, vieous or ferocious in any de¬ 
 gree and is not kept constantly con¬ 
 fined so as not to endanger any per¬ 
 son rightfully passing or an ordinary 
 trespasser in the day time, they may 
 require such owner or person having 
 possession or harboring such dog, to 
 thereafter keep said dog so confined or 
 to destroy the same, and any person 
 who shall neglect or refuse to so con¬ 
 fine or destroy such dog after having 
 been so ordered by the Common Coun¬ 
 cil, shall forfeit a penalty of ten dol¬ 
 lars for every twenty-four hours he 
 shall so neglect or refuse. The po¬ 
 lice of said Cn.y may, and it shall be 
 their duty, to destroy said dog at any 
 time after the Common Council shall 
 decide that the same is dangerous, 
 vicious or ferocious in any degree if 
 the same shall be found running at 
 large. 
 
 Sec. 6. Every person residing in the 
 City of Ogdensburg, New York, own¬ 
 ing or harboring any dog or bitch 
 therein, shall on or before the first 
 day of June in each year, procure 
 from the City Clerk a license for each 
 dog or bitch so owned or harbored and 
 pay the City Treasurer a license fee of 
 one dollar for each such dog and three 
 dollars for each such bitch and pre¬ 
 sent to the clerk a receipt therefor. 
 
 Vicious dogs to be 
 restrained. 
 
 Destroying vicious 
 dogs. 
 
 Owners of dogs 
 must pay 
 licenses. 
 
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 City clerk to issue 
 licenses. 
 
 Police officers to 
 impound and kill 
 dogs without tags. 
 
 Dynamite and 
 other explosives; 
 How to be kept. 
 
 and put and keep upon the neck of 
 each such dog or bitch the metal num¬ 
 ber tag which shall be issued to such 
 person as hereinafter provided. Any 
 person violating this ordinance shall 
 forfeit a penalty of five ($5.00) dollars 
 for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the 
 City Clerk upon payment to the City 
 treasurer of the license fee, provided 
 in the last section, to issue to every 
 person applying therefor a numbered 
 license for each such dog or bitch, to¬ 
 gether with a metal number tag of 
 convenient size and shape. It shall 
 also be the duty of the said clerk to 
 procure a record book which shall be 
 the property of the city and to enter 
 and record therein the name of every 
 person applying for such license, the 
 date of such application and the num¬ 
 ber of each license and metal tag, is¬ 
 sued as aforesaid. The number of the 
 license and tag to be the same in the 
 case of each animal. 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of any 
 police officer of said city to apprehend, 
 impound and within two days there¬ 
 after, kill any dog or bitch owned or 
 harbored by any person residing 
 therein and running at large in said 
 city without a metal number tag issued 
 as aforesaid attached to its neck, or 
 which has not been duly licensed as 
 provided in these ordinances or run¬ 
 ning at large contrary to the provi¬ 
 sions of any ordinance of said city. 
 
 No bitch in heat shall be suffered to 
 run at large in said city under a pen¬ 
 alty of $5.00 for each offense. 
 
 No person shall keep in said city any 
 dog or bitch, which by howling, bark¬ 
 ing or whining at night, or by barking 
 or in any other manner, annoys any 
 person. Every person harboring such 
 dog or bitch in said city shall be sub¬ 
 ject to a penalty of three dollars 
 ($3.00). 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Of the Prevention and Extinguish¬ 
 ment of Fires. 
 
 Sec. 1. (a) No person or corpora¬ 
 
 tion shall without express license from 
 the Common Council store or keep dy¬ 
 namite, nitroglycerine or other high 
 explosive in any store or other place 
 within this city, and no person or cor¬ 
 poration shall carry or transport any 
 such substance through any street of 
 
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 this city except with the written per¬ 
 mission and under the regulation of 
 the Chief of the Fire Department or 
 officer lawfully performing his duties. 
 No person or corporation shall with¬ 
 out express license from the Common 
 Council store or keep in any store or 
 place within this city gun powder in 
 a quantity to exceed twenty-five 
 pounds in any one store or premises. 
 
 (b) No person or corporation shall 
 without express license Trom the Com¬ 
 mon Council store or keep within this 
 city gasoline, spirits of turpentine, 
 benzine, naptha or other explosive 
 fluid, or fluid which may generate an 
 explosive gas, in a quantity to exceed 
 sixty gallons in any one store or prem¬ 
 ises. 
 
 The Chief of the Fire Department 
 or other officer lawfully acting in his 
 stead shall have power, and it shall 
 be his duty, when there is reasonable 
 cause to believe any substance herein 
 mentioned is being stored or kept in 
 violation of this section, to enter and 
 make search for the same in any store 
 or other place, and if the same is 
 found in violation of this section to 
 cause the immediate removal of the 
 same and to present a proper informa¬ 
 tion to the Recorder or magistrate act¬ 
 ing in his stead. All gunpowder and 
 volatile explosive fluids hereby per¬ 
 mitted to be stored or kept shall at 
 all times be stored and kept in a situa¬ 
 tion and manner approved by the 
 Chief of the Fire Department, other¬ 
 wise he may summarily cause their 
 removal. 
 
 Any person or corporation violating 
 the provisions of either subdivision of 
 this section shall forfeit a penalty of 
 fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 2. No owner, occupant or oth¬ 
 er person shall permit, suffer or allow 
 any waste paper, wooden or paper 
 boxes, not in use, excelsior or other 
 inflammable substance or refuse to ac¬ 
 cumulate or be stored in any building, 
 cellar, room, attic, shed or lane in the 
 city of Ogdensburg, under a penalty of 
 $10 for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever in the opinion of 
 the Mayor, Chief Engineer of the Fire 
 Department or his assistant, any chim¬ 
 ney, fireplace, stove, stovepipe, smoke¬ 
 house or any heating apparatus or re¬ 
 pository for ashes, is in such condition 
 as to expose a building to take fire, it 
 shall be his duty to direct the occu¬ 
 pant or owner to correct or remove 
 
 Penalty for 
 
 inflammable sub¬ 
 stances not allowed 
 to accumulate. 
 
 Exposure to fire 
 remedied. 
 
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 Penalty for 
 refusal. 
 
 Fire 
 
 Department. 
 
 Chief to have 
 charge of all fires. 
 
 No person to 
 injure fire hose or 
 apparatus. 
 
 No obstruction 
 near hydrant. 
 
 No person to 
 interfere with fire 
 boxes. 
 
 such exposure within a certain time 
 to oe designated by him, not less than 
 twenty-four hours after notice to such 
 owner or occupant. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every person or occupant 
 suffering any such unsafe fireplace, 
 chimney place, stove, stove pipe, 
 smoke house, heating apparatus or re¬ 
 pository for ashes as provided in the 
 last section, to continue in such condi¬ 
 tion after notice to correct the same 
 and after the time limited therefor, 
 shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars 
 ($10) for each offense and the further 
 sum of ten ($10) dollars, for every teD 
 days such unsafe fireplace, stove or 
 other thing shall continue. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Fire Department of the 
 City of Ogdensburg, shall consist of 
 a Chief, one assistant chief and such 
 firemen as the Common Council may 
 employ; the compensation of such 
 Chief, assistant chief and firemen shall 
 be fixed by the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Chief of the Fire De¬ 
 partment in all cases of fire shall have 
 sole control of all the other members 
 of the fire department and over all 
 the companies, engines and apparatus 
 pertaining thereto, and any person in 
 said department who shall refuse or 
 neglect to obey any lawful order of the 
 Chief shall be suspended by the Chief 
 of the Fire Department who shall 
 thereupon report such suspension to 
 the Common Council for their action 
 thereon at their first regular meeting 
 thereafter. The orders to members of 
 the companies shall be given only 
 through their foreman or by the Chief 
 in person. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any person who shall drive 
 any sleigh, carriage, cart, wagon, car 
 or other vehicle upon or across any 
 hose, while in use by the Fire Depart¬ 
 ment without permission of the Chief 
 or his assistant in charge of the same, 
 shall forfeit a penalty of twenty-five 
 ($25) dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 8. No person shall place any 
 lumber, stone or other obstruction 
 nearer than six feet to any hydrant 
 nor cover the same with snow in 
 this city under a penalty of five ($5.00) 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 9. No person shall make or 
 cause to be made, or have in his pos¬ 
 session, any key, impression or dupli¬ 
 cate of any key of any signal box of 
 
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 the fire alarm system of the City of 
 Ogdens burg without permission of the 
 Common Council under a penalty of 
 five ($5.00) dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 10. No person shall give or 
 cause to be given any false alarm of 
 fire in any manner within the City of 
 Ogdensburg without permission of the 
 Mayor under a penalty of ten ($10) 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 11. No person shall attempt to 
 operate any connected fire alarm sig¬ 
 nal box within the City of Ogdensburg 
 except in case of fire, nor interfere 
 with said signal box, nor any part 
 thereof in any manner whatever nor 
 with any wire, pole or other thing con¬ 
 nected with or in any way 
 auxiliary to the fire alarm apparatus 
 of said city without the permission of 
 the Mayor or Chief of the Fire Depart¬ 
 ment under a penalty of five ($5.00) 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 12. No person shall cause any 
 telegraph, telephone, electric light or 
 other wire to be erected upon, along 
 or across any wire connected with the 
 fire alarm telegraph so that the same 
 shall in anywise effect or interfere 
 with the operation of said fire alarm 
 telegraph under a penalty of ten ($10) 
 dollars for each offense and a further 
 penalty of one dollars ($1) for each 
 day such wire shall remain after no¬ 
 tice to remove the same. 
 
 Sec. 13. No person shall injure or 
 interfere in any way with any hose or 
 apparatus belonging to the fire depart¬ 
 ment of the City of Ogdensburg, nor 
 shall any person injure any building 
 or part thereof, where such apparatus 
 is kept under a penalty of ten ($10) 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 14. No person shall erect, ex¬ 
 tend or place any wooden building in 
 the City of Ogdensburg within the 
 following limits, which shall be known 
 as the fire limits, under a penalty of 
 fifty ($50) dollars for each offense, 
 viz.: The territory bounded by Greene, 
 Caroline, Washington, Water and Cres¬ 
 cent streets; the territory bounded by 
 Water and Crescent streets, the Oswe- 
 gatchie river and the northerly lines 
 of Crescent Park and Washington 
 street prolonged to said river; the ter¬ 
 ritory within one hundred and fifteen 
 feet northerly of the northerly curb 
 line; the territory within one hundred 
 and fifteen feet southerly of the south- 
 
 Fire alarms not to 
 be given. 
 
 Interference w*th 
 signal boxes 
 prohibited. 
 
 Wires, etc. 
 
 Injuring hose, 
 etc., prohibited. 
 
 Fire limits. 
 
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 Penalty for acting 
 as hackman or 
 cartman without 
 license. 
 
 erly curb line of Ford street, one hun¬ 
 dred feet east of Caroline street, and 
 the territory in the second ward 
 bounded by the Mill Pond, the main 
 aqueduct, and the westerly line of said 
 Mill Pond and the westerly line of said 
 aqueduct continued northerly to the 
 Oswegatchie river. 
 
 No person shall permit any such 
 bid'ding or extension placed, erected 
 or constructed in violation of this ordi¬ 
 nance to remain on his or her premises 
 under a penalty of twenty-five ($25) 
 dollars for each week the same shall 
 so remain. The word “person” in this 
 ordinance shall be deemed to include 
 corporations. All persons are hereby 
 forbidden under a like penalty of fifty 
 dollars to erect, alter, extend, add to, 
 or commence the erection, alteration, 
 extension or additions, or repair to any 
 building or buildings of any kind ®r 
 description, within the above describ¬ 
 ed limits until the person or persons 
 erecting or causing the same to be 
 erected, shall have filed with the 
 Common Council a plan or plans upon 
 which said building or buildings are 
 to be erected, extended and repaired 
 and the same shall have been approved 
 by said Common Council. A wooden 
 building within the meaning of this 
 ordinance is one, the outside wall or 
 sustaining wall of which is constructed 
 wholly or partially of wood. All roofs 
 within the above limits shall be cover¬ 
 ed with tin or other incombustible ma¬ 
 terial. An extension within the mean¬ 
 ing of this ordinance is an enlarge¬ 
 ment of the dimensions of such build¬ 
 ing as they existed immediately prior 
 to such extension, either in length, 
 breadth, height or otherwise. 
 
 This ordinance shall not apply to 
 buildings for storing boats along the 
 Oswegatchie river between Greene 
 street and the bridge at the foot of 
 Ford street, not exceeding twenty feet 
 in height to the peak of the roof. 
 
 CHAPTER Y. 
 
 Of Cartmen and Porters. 
 
 Sec. 1. No person shall act as hack- 
 man, cartman or porter for the trans¬ 
 portation of persons or property from 
 place to place, within the bounds of 
 this city, for hire, without a license 
 therefor, under a penalty of ten dollars 
 for each offense. 
 
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 Sec. 2. Such license may be grant¬ 
 ed by the Mayor upon a receipt of a 
 bond with one or more sufficient sure¬ 
 ties, in the penalty of one hundred dol¬ 
 lars, conditioned for the payment of 
 all damages for which the person ap¬ 
 plying for such license may become 
 liable in the course of such business 
 to any person or persons, and the re¬ 
 ceipt of the City Treasurer stating 
 that said applicant has paid for said 
 license in accordance with the follow¬ 
 ing rates: 
 
 For two horse passenger hack or 
 sleight, $5.00. 
 
 For one horse passenger hack or 
 sleigh, $3.00. 
 
 For one horse carts or wagons for 
 carrying freight, merchandise, house- 
 nold goods, etc., $2.00. 
 
 For two horse carts or wagons for 
 same, $4.00. 
 
 Every such license shall be granted 
 to expire on the 30th of June follow¬ 
 ing upon which it is granted, and said 
 license shall authorize the use of no 
 more than one vehicle at one time. All 
 persons procuring license under the 
 provisons of this chapter for carrying 
 passengers, shall provide a good and 
 substantial spring carriage, of easy 
 access, and keep the same at all times 
 in good, safe and respectable condi¬ 
 tion. Any failure to comply with this 
 requirement, will be followed by revo¬ 
 cation of license. 
 
 Sec. 3. Each hackman, cartman or 
 porter, as soon as licensed, shall cause 
 the number of his license to be paint¬ 
 ed on each side of his cart, sled, truck, 
 or other vehicle, so as to be distinctly 
 seen, and hackmen, porters and others 
 who carry passengers shall wear a me¬ 
 tallic number corresponding with the 
 number of his license, pinned to his 
 clothing so as to be distinctly seen, 
 and shall so continue the same under 
 penalty of two dollars ($2.00) for each 
 day he shall drive or solicit passengers 
 without being so numbered and cloth¬ 
 ed. 
 
 Sec. 4. Prices and rates to be taken 
 for the cartage of goods, merchandise 
 or other articles by such cartmen, or 
 porters when the distance does not 
 exceed one mile, shall be for each, one 
 horse load, twenty-five cents. Double 
 the rates shall be allowed for a two 
 horse load; the rates for the convey¬ 
 ance of passengers or other persons 
 and their baggage shall be as follows: 
 
 Cartman’s 
 
 license. 
 
 Number of license 
 to be painted on 
 cart. 
 
 Rates. 
 

 Penalty for taking 
 more than above 
 rates. 
 
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 When the distance does not exceed 
 one mile, for each person and his 
 hand satchels or valises and one trunk, 
 twenty-five cents, and for each addi¬ 
 tional trunk, ten cents. 
 
 When the distance exceeds one 
 mile, for each person and bis hand 
 satchels and valises and one trunk, 
 forty cents; for each additional trunk, 
 ten cents. 
 
 For children over five and under 
 twelve years of age, half the above 
 rates shall be charged; any child un¬ 
 der five accompanied by adults or per¬ 
 sons over twelve years of age, no 
 charge shall be made. 
 
 The rates of hire by the hour shall 
 be: For wagons, carriages or sleighs 
 with one horse for one hour, seventy- 
 five cents; each additional hour, forty 
 cents. 
 
 For wagons, carriages or sleighs 
 with two horses for first hour, $1.50. 
 
 For second hour, $1.00. 
 
 For each hour thereafter, 50c. 
 
 For the conveyance of passengers 
 or other persons to and from the 
 State Hospital buildings, hour rates 
 shan be charged. 
 
 All the aforesaid rates are from six 
 o’clock a. m. to 11 o'clock at night; 
 and from 11 o’clock at night to six 
 o’clock in the morning, double the 
 above rates may be charged. 
 
 Sec. 5. If any hackman, cartman or 
 porter shall exact or demand any 
 greater charge than is allowed by this 
 chapter he shall, upon conviction, be¬ 
 fore the recorder or other magistrate, 
 forfeit the penalty of five ($5.00) dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. 
 
 If on complaint in writing made to 
 the Common Council, it is cnarged 
 that any hackman, cartman, or porter 
 has exacted or demanded any greater 
 charge than is allowed by this chapter, 
 or has cheated, deceived, abused or de¬ 
 frauded passengers or acted in a noisy 
 or boisterous manner or been intoxi¬ 
 cated while driving his vehicle or 
 soliciting passengers, or who fails to 
 keep an engagement, the Common 
 Council may as a body or by a com¬ 
 mittee appointed for that purpose in¬ 
 vestigate such charge and complaint, 
 on giving the accused at least two days 
 notice in writing of the substance of 
 said complaint, and of the time and 
 place at which such investigation will 
 be had. 
 
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 Such examination shall be made by 
 the examination of witnesses under 
 oath offered by complainant or persons 
 charged, and the accused shall have 
 the permission to crossexamine the 
 witnesses so offered by the complain¬ 
 ant. If such investigation is made by 
 a committee they shall thereupon re¬ 
 port their proceedings and conclusions 
 to the Council. If, in the opinion of 
 the Common Council the person charg¬ 
 ed is guilty of the offense or offenses 
 named in the complaint, the Common 
 Council may, by resolution to that ef¬ 
 fect, authorize the Mayor to revoke the 
 license of the offender and he shall for¬ 
 feit the unearned portion of the license 
 fee paid by him. 
 
 Any person accepting a license un¬ 
 der tnis chapter, does so subject to 
 the conditions and liabilities imposed 
 by said chapter. 
 
 Sec. 6 The proprietor or driver of 
 any vehicle licensed to carry passen¬ 
 gers, shall keep posted in a conspicu¬ 
 ous place in or upon said vehicle, 
 printed in a plainly legible print, a 
 statement of the rates allowed by this 
 chapter; and the owner and driver of 
 said vehicle so licensed who shall not 
 have such rate conspicuously posted 
 as aforesaid, shall not demand or re¬ 
 ceive any payment for fare of passen¬ 
 gers, and shall be liable to pay a 
 penalty of two ($2.00) dollars for every 
 day he shall so use such vehicle. 
 
 Sec. 7. The provisions of this chap¬ 
 ter shall not apply to teamsters em¬ 
 ployed by the day. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Of the Burial of the Dead and the Reg¬ 
 ulation of the Public Cemeteries. 
 
 Sec. 1. No person shall hereafter 
 bury the corpse of any person at any 
 place within the bounds of the City of 
 Ogdensburg west of Bigelow street, un¬ 
 der the penalty of twenty-five dollars 
 for each offense, and the further pen¬ 
 alty of twenty-five ($25) dollars for 
 every week during which such corpse 
 shall be suffered to remain, after no¬ 
 tice to the offender to remove the 
 same. 
 
 Sec. 2. The burial ground belong¬ 
 ing to the City of Ogdensburg, lying 
 south of Ogdensburg cemetery shall 
 be under the superintendence of some 
 
 Rates to be posted 
 in a conspicuous 
 place on vehicle. 
 
 Burial—place 
 limited. 
 
 Superintendent. 
 
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 Consent to dig 
 grave. 
 
 General lot. 
 
 Depth of grave. 
 
 person to be appointed by the Council, 
 and to hold during their pleasure. 
 Such superintendent shall keep a book 
 wherein shall be recorded the name, 
 residence, age and sex of every per¬ 
 son buried in such cemetery, the date 
 of the burial, and the number of the 
 lot where the interment is made, cor¬ 
 responding with the number of such 
 lot on the map of the burial ground 
 and on the first Monday of eacn month 
 he shall deliver to the City Clerk a 
 copy of all such entries made for the 
 preceding month. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall dig any 
 grave in such burial ground, except 
 under the direction of the superinten¬ 
 dent under the penalty of ten dollars 
 for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 4. That part of said burial 
 ground lying south and east of the 
 southerly circular road is set apart to 
 the interment of all persons dying, res¬ 
 ident of the City of Ogdensburg, whose 
 friends shall not prefer to purchase an 
 exclusive lot. Family and single lots, 
 on the north and west side of said road 
 may be secured by any person, by the 
 payment to the treasurer of ten dol¬ 
 lars each for the former, and two for 
 the latter. The name of the person 
 making such payment shall be entered 
 by the City Clerk and superintendent 
 upon the maps of the burial ground. 
 Over the lot for which payment is 
 made, and thereafter no interment 
 shan be made in such lot, without the 
 consent of the person making such 
 payment or his heirs. The remains of 
 persons not having been, immediately 
 prior to their decease, residents of 
 said city, shall only be interred in such 
 ground upon the production to the su¬ 
 perintendent of the treasurer’s re¬ 
 ceipt for the sum of two dollars, or 
 certificate of the Mayor, or in his ab¬ 
 sence, of an alderman, that by reason 
 of the poverty of the deceased, such 
 charge should not be made. 
 
 Sec. 5. No grave made in said bur¬ 
 ial ground shall be less than five feet 
 deep. And no person, other than the 
 superintendent and his assistants 
 shall tor hire dig any grave in such 
 ground, under the penalty of ten dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. The superin¬ 
 tendent shall, whenever requested in 
 accordance with these regulations, pre¬ 
 pare any grave, and attend to the bur¬ 
 ial and shall be entitled to demand and 
 receive from the person by whom he 
 
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 may be employed, the sum of one dol¬ 
 lar and fifty cents, and no more, for 
 such service, and for making the rec¬ 
 ord herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 6. All money received by the 
 treasurer, under the provisions of 
 this chapter, together with any money 
 which may be raised by tax for the 
 same purposes shall be termed - the 
 cemetery fund, and be appropriated 
 only to the improvement of the said 
 grounds, the fencing of the same, and 
 the maintenance of the sidewalk in 
 from thereof. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Of the Weighing, Measuring and Mar¬ 
 keting of Hay, Straw and Wood. 
 
 Sec. 1. South Water street between 
 Isrbella and Ford streets and Lake 
 street from the iron bridge to the ca¬ 
 nal bridge on Main street, in said 
 city, shall be the places ^or the mar¬ 
 keting of hay and straw; and Isabella 
 street from the Oswegatchie river 
 bank co the southerly bounds of Wash¬ 
 ington street, in said city, shall be the 
 places for the marketing of wood, and 
 every person who shall expose or offer 
 for sale, any of the above commodities 
 within the bounds of said city from 
 any wagon, sleigh or vehicle except at 
 the places above designated, respec¬ 
 tively, shall forfeit one dollar for each 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall, within the 
 bounds of said city, offer or expose for 
 sale in manner aforesaid, any of the 
 commodities mentioned in the preced¬ 
 ing section, without the same having 
 been duly weighed or measured, and 
 a certificate of such weight or mea¬ 
 surement having been given by an offi¬ 
 cer duly authorized to the person ex¬ 
 posing such commodity for sale; which 
 certificate shall be shown by such per¬ 
 son to applicants for the purchase of 
 such commodity, before tne sale there¬ 
 of, and any person violating any of 
 the provisions of this section shall for¬ 
 feit one dollar for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 3. Weighers and measurers of 
 hay, straw and wood shall be entitled 
 to demand and receive from the owner 
 or owners, or persons exposing for 
 sale, or having in charge any of the 
 commodities mentioned in the first 
 
 Money; how 
 appropriated. 
 
 Hay—the weighing, 
 marketing, etc. 
 
 Said article not to 
 be offered for sale 
 until so weighed. 
 
 Weigher’s fees. 
 
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 Certificate. 
 
 Ferry districts. 
 
 Capacity of ferry 
 boat to be used. 
 
 section of this chapter, the following 
 compensation or fees and no more: 
 
 For each load of hay or straw 
 weighed, 10 cents. 
 
 For each load of wood measured, 6 
 cents. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any weigher or measurer 
 shall, upon the payment of his fees, de¬ 
 liver to the person having in charge 
 any commodity mentioned in section 
 one of this chapter, a certificate stat¬ 
 ing the date of its weighing or meas¬ 
 urement, the true weight or quantity 
 of such commodity, in plain words or 
 figures, with the name of said officer 
 subscribed thereto; and any weigher 
 or measurer who shall violate any of 
 the provisions of this or the preceding 
 section, shall forfeit five dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Of Ferries. 
 
 Sec. 1. There shall be and hereby 
 is established two ferry districts. The 
 eastern ferry district shall comprise 
 the water front east of the center of 
 Franklin street, and the western ferry 
 district shall embrace the water front 
 of the city west of Franklin street cen¬ 
 ter. The said western district shall be 
 in subdivisions, known as subdivision 
 ‘'A” and subdivision “B.” Subdivision 
 “A” shall be set apart for the ferrying 
 of passengers, freight in bulk and oth¬ 
 er property not in cars. 
 
 Sec. 2. For subdivison “A” there 
 must be provided and used, a steam¬ 
 boat of not less than seventy-nine feet 
 keel measurements, and eighteen feet 
 breadth of beam, and not less than 
 forty-six net tons burthen with suit¬ 
 able accommodations for passengers, 
 capable of making the trips in winter 
 and which shall be kept and used ex¬ 
 clusively for such ferry subdivison and 
 shall except when prevented by the in¬ 
 clemency of the weather or accident 
 cross and return every hour, leaving 
 the dock at Ogdensburg precisely at 6 
 a. m. and at the expiration of every 
 hour thereafter until 8 p. m. providing 
 necessary customs officers are furnish¬ 
 ed at Ogdensburg and Prescott with¬ 
 out expense to lessee and the les¬ 
 see of the western ferry district or 
 of subdivision “A” as the case maj be 
 shall provide and keep in use sufficient 
 other boats with men to take over all 
 
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 passengers offering to cross at this 
 ferry when such steamboat is not 
 in use, and also in the night time 
 on reasonable notice at their places 
 of business, but for night ferriage, 
 double the rates established by 
 section four of chapter eight of the city 
 Ordinances may be charged. The 
 Common Council in its advertisement 
 for proposals may name the rate for 
 day passengers in this subdivision, but 
 in no case to exceed the rate establish* 
 ed by section four. The terminal land¬ 
 ing place of this division must be at a 
 point east of the Oswegatchie river, to 
 be stated in the lease, but the lessee 
 shall not be prohibited from taking or 
 landing passengers at any other point 
 in the western ferry district. 
 
 Sec. 3. For subdivison “B” of the 
 western ferry district and also for the 
 eastern ferry district, there must be 
 provided and used a steamboat of not 
 less than one hnudred feet keel mea¬ 
 surements and not less than twenty-six 
 feet breadth of beam and eighty tons 
 burthen, with suitable accomodations 
 for passengers and which shall be cap¬ 
 able of transporting railroad cars, wag¬ 
 ons, carriages, with their lading, and 
 of making the trips in winter and shall 
 cross at stated times to be speci¬ 
 fied in the license and shall 
 land cars, empty or loaded at, or take 
 the same from, any suitable slip now 
 provided or that may be hereafter pro¬ 
 vided within their respective districts 
 by any corporation or individual with¬ 
 out discriminating in charges, provid¬ 
 ed, however, that if at any time the 
 Common Council shall deem it to the 
 advantage of the city to lease subdivi¬ 
 sion “A” separate and anart from sub¬ 
 division “B” then the lessee of sub¬ 
 division “B” shall be prohibited from 
 carrying local passengers. 
 
 Sec. 4. The rates of ferriage from 
 the first day of April until the first day 
 of December in each year, shall be as 
 follows: 
 
 For every adult passenger, ten 
 cents. 
 
 For children over four and under 
 twelve years of age, five cents. 
 
 For horses each, twenty-five cents. 
 
 For single wagon, sleigh or carriage, 
 twenty-five cents. 
 
 For double wagon, sleigh or car¬ 
 riage, fifty cents. 
 
 For cattle, each, twenty-five cents. 
 
 Measurements and 
 size of boat for 
 ferry districts. 
 
 Ferry rates. 
 
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 Penalty for 
 
 Auction sales 
 prohibited. 
 
 Junk dealers. 
 
 When city clerk 
 should issue 
 license. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 For horses and cattle in droves, for 
 each, over five, one-half the above 
 rates. 
 
 For sheep, each, six cents. 
 
 For freight, per ton, one dollar. 
 
 From the first day of December to 
 the first day of April, double the above 
 rates sh ill be allowed, and for ferriage 
 in the night time, there shall be al¬ 
 lowed double the rates of day ferriage. 
 
 Each lessee shall keep posted up in 
 a conspicuous place upon each of his 
 ferry boats a copy of the foregoing 
 rules. 
 
 Whenever any one of these ferries 
 is not under lease it may be occupied 
 by the lessee of any other ferry un¬ 
 der regulations prescribed by the 
 Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person violating any of 
 the provisions of this chapter shall 
 forfeit the sum of ten ($10) dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Auction Sales and Junk Dealers. 
 
 Sec. 1. All auction sales within the 
 City of Ogdensburg except judicial 
 saies of household goods are hereby 
 prohibited, unless a license in writing 
 is obtained from the treasurer or City 
 Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person or persons shall 
 engage in business as principal or 
 agent upon any street, lane, alley or 
 other place within the City of Ogdens¬ 
 burg for the purpose of buying or sell¬ 
 ings any rags, old iron, zinc, copper or 
 other junk, unless a license in writing 
 to engage in such business is first ob¬ 
 tained from the Mayor or the City 
 Clerk; license fee to be fixed by the 
 Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 3. The City Clerk shall issue 
 license under the foregoing sections of 
 this chapter upon a written application 
 of the licensee and upon written no¬ 
 tice that the license fee has been paid 
 to the City Treasurer. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person or persons who 
 shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this chapter shall be liable to pay a 
 penalty of ten ($10) dollars for each 
 and every offense. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Of Harbors. 
 
 Sec 1. The shore line of the harbor 
 of the City of Ogdensburg shall be for 
 the first and that part of the third 
 ward lying southerly of the following 
 described line: A line commencing at 
 the iron bridge at the outer edge of 
 the wharf in the highway, and run¬ 
 ning thence northwesterly to the 
 southerly corner of the Averell dock; 
 thence northerly and easterly on a reg¬ 
 ular curved line touching the most 
 westerly corner of the Payne dock and 
 a point in the river in the range of the 
 north line of the southerly part of the 
 Parish Stone Store Dock and distant 
 forty feet from the northerly corner 
 of said southerly part of said Parish 
 Dock, said southerly part of the Parish 
 Dock being the part which extends 
 furtherest into the river; thence on a 
 line northerly five feet to a point in a 
 range of the south line of the ferry 
 dock distant forty feet from the west¬ 
 erly corner thereof; thence on a line 
 curving ten feet northerly to a point in 
 the easterly line of Isabella street con¬ 
 tinued and three hundred feet from 
 the northerly line of Water street; 
 thence to the northwesterly corner of 
 the Parish depot dock; thence to a line 
 curving one hundred and thirty feet 
 southerly to the first angle in the face 
 of the dock of the Rutland Railroad 
 Company; thence along the face of the 
 dock to the second angle thereof. 
 
 Sec. 2. And the shore line for the 
 harbor of said city and that part of the 
 second ward lying next westerly of the 
 line hereinafter described, shall be a 
 line commencing at the iron bridge 
 at a point in a line with the front of 
 the Parker Stone Warehouse, running 
 thence to the northwesterly corner of 
 the Northrup Dock; thence to and 
 along the front of the Allen Dock and 
 to and along the front of the dock of 
 the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg 
 Railroad Company; and thence to a 
 point in line with the front of the 
 light house and distant thirty feet 
 northerly therefrom. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person who shall place 
 any wharf, cribbing, spile, hulk or oth¬ 
 er obstruction or allow the same to re¬ 
 main in the channel or on what is 
 known as the bar within the city lim¬ 
 its outside of the shore line described 
 in sections 1 and 2 of this chapter, or 
 in the river at the foot of any street. 
 
 Shore line of 
 harbor in first and 
 third wards. 
 
 Shore line of 
 harbor in second 
 ward. 
 
 Penalty for placing 
 obstruction in 
 channel. 
 
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 Sawdust, &c., not 
 to be cast into 
 canal or river. 
 
 Vessels to have 
 yards braced up 
 &c., while in 
 harbor. 
 
 Penalty for 
 abandoning sunken 
 vessels in harbor. 
 
 Steamers to have 
 screens on smoke 
 stack. 
 
 Vessels &c., not to 
 be fastened to 
 bridges. 
 
 or in any slip belonging to the public 
 without authority from the Common 
 Council shall for each offense forfeit 
 the sum of twenty-five dollars, and a 
 like sum for every five days the same 
 shall continue after written notice 
 from the Mayor or Chief of Police to 
 remove the same. 
 
 Sec. 4. No person shall cast or de¬ 
 posit or suffer or procure to be cast 
 or deposited in the Oswegatchie river 
 or in any canal, raceway or pond lead¬ 
 ing into said river in this city any 
 saw dust, shavings, chips, tanbark, 
 earth or refuse matter from any saw 
 mill, machine shop, tannery or shop or 
 manufactory of any kind under the 
 penally of fifty dollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 5. All vessels while lying in 
 the harbor of Ogdensburg shall have 
 their anchors (except such as are hold¬ 
 ing the vessel) kept in board upon 
 deck and their yards braced up so as 
 not to interfere unnecessarily with the 
 passage of other vessels, and for every 
 failure in this respect the owners and 
 officers of the offending vessel shall 
 forfeit a penalty of ten dollars. 
 
 3oc. 6. No person shall abandon or 
 suffer to remain in said harbor any 
 sunken vessel of which he is the owner 
 or master under the penalty of ten dol¬ 
 lars for each offense, and the further 
 penalty of five dollars for every day 
 the same shall be suffered to remain, 
 provided that if immediately after the 
 sinking of such vessel diligent efforts 
 are made to remove it and a flag kept 
 on it by day and a white light by night, 
 no forfeiture will be incurred so long 
 as such efforts continue. 
 
 Sec. 7. All steamboats or propel¬ 
 lers while entering or leaving the har¬ 
 bor of the city or lying in any of the 
 waters of the city, shall have a metal¬ 
 lic wire screen or gauze attached to 
 the smoke stack which shall always 
 be closed when within two hundred 
 feet of any dock or building so as to 
 prevent the escape of sparks, under 
 the penalty of twenty-five dollars, to 
 be paid by the master or owner for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 8. No person or persons shall 
 moor or fasten or aid in mooring and 
 fastening any vessel, raft or float to 
 either of the bridges across the Oswe¬ 
 gatchie river, or to any pier or abut¬ 
 ment thereof, under the penalty of 
 twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 
 
 Sec. 1. No railroad company nor 
 any person shall direct, cause or suffer 
 any engine or railroad car to be driv¬ 
 en or propelled upon or along any 
 street of the city at a greater rate of 
 speed than four miles an hour; nor 
 any car to be propelled by an engine 
 not closely attached thereto, except 
 where the railroad is or shall be car¬ 
 ried un ler or over tne travelled part 
 of such street so that the engines and 
 cars will not endanger travellers un¬ 
 der a penalty of fifty dollars for each 
 offense. Nor shall they nor any of 
 them in crossing any street permit the 
 speed of any car or engine to exceed 
 two miles an hour; nor shall they oc¬ 
 cupy any crossing to exceed five min¬ 
 utes, under a penalty of ten dollars for 
 such offense. 
 
 Sec. 2. No railroad company or any 
 person in its employ, shall use or oc¬ 
 cupy any portion of any street for 
 switching on or switching off any car 
 or cars, under the penalty of fifty dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 3. No railroad company or 
 any person in its employ, shall occupy 
 any portion of any street for the pur¬ 
 pose or during the process of loading 
 or unloading any car or cars, under 
 the penalty of fifty dollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 4. The blowing of whistles by 
 engines within four hundred feet of the 
 bridge across the Rutland railroad, at 
 the end of Ford street, and by steam¬ 
 ers in the Oswegatchie river within 
 five hundred feet of the lower bridge, 
 and on the R., W. & O. railroad north 
 of four hundred feet south of Spring 
 street is prohibited under a penalty 
 of ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 Trolley Ordinance. Sec. 5. (a.) 
 
 That no company, motorman, con¬ 
 ductor, or other person in charge 
 of any electric car or cars shall run 
 or cause, or permit or suffer to be run 
 or driven, any electric car or cars at 
 a greater speed than eight (8) miles 
 per hour in any of the public streets 
 of the City of Ogdensburg west of Lin¬ 
 den street. 
 
 (b.) That all cars must not cross 
 any street west of Linden street at a 
 speed of more than four (4) miles an 
 hour. 
 
 Running of 
 engines, &c., 
 regulated. 
 
 Railway company 
 not to use streets 
 for switching, &c. 
 
 Railroad company 
 not to occupy 
 streets. 
 
 Blowing of whistles 
 prohibited. 
 
 Trolley ordinance. 
 

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 Penalty for 
 
 Bicycle, 
 motorcycle and 
 automobile 
 ordinance. 
 
 (c.) No cars shall be allowed to 
 stop on or over a crossing or in front 
 oi any intersecting streets except to 
 avoid a collision or to prevent damage 
 or injury to persons or property in the 
 streets, or for other unavoidable rea¬ 
 sons. 
 
 (d.) When it is necessary to stop 
 at the intersection of any streets to re¬ 
 ceive or leave passengers the car shall 
 be stopped so as to leave the rear plat¬ 
 form slightly over the last crossing. 
 
 (e.) Each car is to be supplied 
 with a gong which shall be sounded by 
 the driver when the car approaches to 
 wiinm fifty feet of each crossing. 
 
 (f.) Conductors and drivers shall 
 be required to bring the cars to a stop 
 when the passengers request to get on 
 and off the cars. 
 
 (g.) All cars shall be required to 
 come to a full stop before crossing any 
 steam railroad tracks, and the conduc¬ 
 tor shall be required to get off the 
 car and go ahead to the said tracks to 
 see if everything is all right to cross, 
 and the motorman must not start the 
 car until the conductor gives the 
 word. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any person who shall vio¬ 
 late any of the provisions or subdivi¬ 
 sions of section five shall be sub¬ 
 ject to a fine of ten dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 Bicycle, Motor-cycle and Automobile 
 Ordinance, Sec. 7. (a.) No person 
 shall ride a bicycle, motor-cycle or au¬ 
 tomobile on any sidewalk in the City 
 of Ogdensburg. 
 
 (b.) No person shall ride a bicycle, 
 motor-cycle or automobile on any 
 street of Ogdensburg west of the 
 bridge passing over the Rutland Rail¬ 
 road at a rate of speed exceeding eight 
 nixies an hour. 
 
 v c.) No person shall ride a bicycle, 
 motor-cycle or automobile on any 
 street of the City of Ogdensburg be¬ 
 tween twilight and daylight the follow¬ 
 ing morning without a lighted lantern 
 attached to such bicycle, motor-cycle 
 or automobile so as to cast its light 
 ahead. 
 
 (d.) Every person riding a bicycle, 
 motor-cycle or automobile on any 
 street in the City of ogdensburg 
 shall upon meeting any other vehicle 
 turn to the right side of the street 
 and shall otherwise observe the law 
 of the road applicable to vehicles 
 drawn by horses. 
 
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 (e.) No person shall put or place or 
 cause to be put or placed in or upon 
 any lane, street or alley or any other 
 public place in the City of Ogdensburg 
 any glass, crockery, scrap iron, nails, 
 tacks or other articles which would be 
 liable to injure or damage the tires or 
 wheels of any bicycle or other vehicles 
 which may have wheels with rubber or 
 pneumatic tires. 
 
 (f.) For the purpose of this ordi¬ 
 nance the term “bicycle'’ shall be con¬ 
 strued to mean any cycle, unicycle or 
 tricycle whose wheel or wheels or 
 either of them shall exceed twenty- 
 four inches in diameter. 
 
 Sec. 8. Any person who shall vio¬ 
 late any of the provisions of section 
 7, including any subdivisions thereof, 
 shall forfeit the sum of five dolars for 
 each offense. 
 
 Sec. 9. No person or persons shall 
 mar, deface or injure the Town Hall 
 edifice or any part or portion thereof, 
 inside or outside of the same, by pen¬ 
 cil, chalk, coal or any other mark, cut 
 or scratch, or commit any other nuis¬ 
 ance upon said building, furniture, fix¬ 
 tures or grounds connected therewith 
 under the penalty of five dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 CHANGE WATER PIPE AND FIX¬ 
 TURES. 
 
 Sec. 10. No plumber or other person 
 shall make an extension or addition 
 to or change in any of the water pipes 
 or fixtures connected with or leading 
 to the water mains of this city without 
 a written permit from the Superinten¬ 
 dent of the Water Works or the Board 
 of Water Commisisoners, under a pen¬ 
 alty of five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 11. No person shall destroy or 
 injure, or deface any fence or any lock 
 or fastening thereof in or around any 
 public park in this city, nor remove 
 from or disturb therein any grass, sod, 
 shrub, tree, flower, floral plant, or any 
 vase, pot or vessel whatsoever, under 
 a penalty of five dollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 12. No person shall destroy, in¬ 
 jure or meddle with any water pipes, 
 water fixtures or any article or con¬ 
 struction to accommodate or regulate 
 the flow of water, now in, or that may 
 hereafter be placed in any of said 
 
 Penalty for 
 
 Injury to town 
 hall. 
 
 Change water 
 pipe and fixtures. 
 
 Injury to 
 property in 
 public parks. 
 
 Injury to water 
 pipes. 
 
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 Injury to 
 fountain. 
 
 Injury to 
 statuary. 
 
 Injury to birds, 
 &c. 
 
 Penalties to be 
 recovered in the 
 name of the city. 
 
 General penalties. 
 
 parks, under the penalty of five dol¬ 
 lars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 13. No person shall deface or 
 injure, or meddle with any fountain, 
 fountain basin or the connections 
 thereof in or that may be placed in 
 any of said parks, or obstruct or med¬ 
 dle with the flow of water to or from 
 any said fountains or parks or place 
 or deposit without the consent of the 
 Park Commissioners in any of said 
 fountain basins, or parks, anything, 
 matter or substance whatsoever, under 
 the penalty of five dollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 14. No person shall injure, de¬ 
 face or remove any statuary, statuette, 
 sofa, chair or seat of any description 
 or any park furniture, in, or that may 
 be placed in any of said parks, under 
 a penalty of five dollars for each of¬ 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 15. No person shall kill, injure, 
 disturb or molest any squirrel, bird or 
 wild animal that may at any time be 
 nesting in, frequenting, or found in 
 any of the parks or public streets of 
 the City of Ogdensburg, under a pen¬ 
 alty of five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 16. All penalties prescribed in 
 the ordinances of the City of Ogdens¬ 
 burg passed, or which may hereafter 
 be passed, shall be sued for and recov¬ 
 ered by and in the name of the City of 
 Ogdensburg and for its use. 
 
 Sec. 17. Any person violating any 
 ordinance of the City of Ogdensburg 
 shall be liable to a penalty of ten 
 dollars for each offense, unless the 
 penalty is otherwise prescribed in the 
 ordinance violated. 
 
 Sec. 18. All existing ordinances of 
 the City of Ogdensburg are hereby re¬ 
 pealed on the legal adoption of the 
 foregoing. 
 
 Dated April 13th, 1904. 
 
 D. J. CRICHTON, JR., 
 
 City Clerk. 
 

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