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 CITY CHARTER WITH THE AMENDMENTS THERETO, 
 
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 STATE LAWS RELATING TO THE CITY. 
 
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 CITY CHARTER, 
 
 WITH AMENDMENTS THERETO. 
 
 An Act to Incorporate the City of Quincy. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 OF BOUNDARIES AND GENERAL POWERS. 
 
 Sec. 1. Body politic and corporate—name and style—common seal. 
 
 2. Boundaries of the City—amended 1855. 
 
 3. City to be divided into Wards. 
 
 4. Lands laid off and recorded to form a part of the City. 
 
 5. General power—may hold real and personal property, convey 
 and improve the same. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois 
 represented in the general assembly, That the inhabitants of the 
 Town of Quincy, in the county of Adams, and State of Illinois, 
 be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corpo¬ 
 rate, by the name and style of the City of Quincy ; and by that 
 name shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a 
 common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure. 
 
 Sec. 2. Amended by the act of January 17, 1855. 
 
 Sec. 3. The present Board of Trustees of the Town of Quin- 
 j\ ey shall, on or before the first day of March next divide the said 
 j- City of Quincy into three Wards, as nearly equal in population 
 a 3 practicable, particularly describing the boundaries of each. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever any tract of land adjoining the City of 
 * Quincy shall have been laid off into town lots, and duly recor- 
 ) dcd as required by law, the same shall be annexed to, and form 
 ^ a. part of the City of Quincy. 
 
 Sec. 5. The inhabitants of said City, by the name and style 
 aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, to implead and 
 be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and 
 equity, and in all actions whatsoever ; to purchase, receive and 
 hold property, real and personal, in said City ; to purchase. 
 
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 CITY CHARTER. 
 
 receive and hold property, both real and personal, beyond the 
 City for burial grounds, or for other public purposes, for the 
 use of the inhabitants of said city ; to sell, lease, convey, or 
 dispose of property, real and personal, for the benefit of the 
 City; and to improve and protect such property, and to do all 
 other things in relation thereto, as natural persons. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 
 
 Sec. 1. City Council. 
 
 2. Board of Aldermen to consist of two from each Ward. 
 
 3. Qualifications of Aldermen. 
 
 4. When office Alderman to be made vacant. 
 
 5. Divisions of Aldermen into classes by lot. 
 
 6. Returns and contests of members. 
 
 . 7. Quorum. 
 
 8. Rules of proceedings and expulsion of members. 
 
 9. Journal of City Council to be published. 
 
 10. Aldermen can hold no office in the City created while in office. 
 
 11. Vacancies—how filled. 
 
 12. Mayor and Aldermen to take an oath. 
 
 13. Mayor to determine election of Alderman in case of a tie. 
 
 14. Twelve stated meetings yearly. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be a City Council, to consist of a 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Aldermen shall consist of two mem¬ 
 bers from each Ward, to be chosen by the qualified voters for 
 two years. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall be an Alderman, unless at the time 
 of his election he shall have resided six months within the lim¬ 
 its of the City, and shall be, at the time of his election, twenty- 
 one Years of age, and a citizen of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 4. If any Alderman shall, after his election, remove 
 from the Ward for which he is elected, or cease to be a free¬ 
 holder in said City, his office shall thereby be vacated. 
 
 Sec. 5. At the first meeting of the City Council, the Aider- 
 men shall be divided by lot into two classes; the seats of those 
 of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 year, and of the second class at the expiration of the second 
 year, so that one half of the Board shall be elected annually. 
 
 Sec. 6 . The City Council shall judge of the qualifications, 
 elections and returns of their own members, and shall deter¬ 
 mine all contested elections. 
 
 Sec. 7. A majority of the City Council shall constitute a 
 quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn 
 from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, 
 under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. The City Council shall have power to determine 
 the rule of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly 
 conduct, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the mem¬ 
 bers elected, expel a member. 
 
 Sec. 9. The City Council shall keep a journal of its pro¬ 
 ceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same; and the 
 yeas and nays, when demanded by any member present, shall 
 •be entered on the journal. 
 
 Sec. 10. No Alderman shall be appointed to any office un¬ 
 der the authority of the City, which shall have been created, 
 or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during 
 the time for which he shall have been elected. 
 
 Sec. 11. All vacancies that shall occur in the Board of Al¬ 
 dermen shall be filled by election. 
 
 Sec* 12. The Mayor and each Alderman, before entering 
 upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath, 
 * That they will support the Constitution of the United States, 
 and of this State, and that they will well and truly perform the 
 duties of their office to the best of their skill and abilities.' 
 
 Sec. IB. Whenever there shall be a tie in the election of 
 Aldermen, the judges of election shall certify the same to the 
 Mayor, who shall determine the same by lot, in such manner as 
 shall be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 14. There shall be twelve stated meetings of the City 
 Council in each year, at such times and places as may be pre¬ 
 scribed by ordinance. 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIYE OFFICER. 
 
 Sec. 1. Executive officer—his term. 
 
 2. Qualifications of Mayor. 
 
 3. When office of Mayor vacated. (See amendment to Charter, 
 section 4.) 
 
 4. In cases of a tie for Mayor, Council to decide by lot. 
 
 5. Contested election of Mayor. 
 
 6. Vacancy in office of Mayor—how filled. 
 
 Section 1 . The chief executive officer of the City shall be 
 a Mayor, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the 
 City, and shall hold his office for one year, and until his suc¬ 
 cessor shall be elected and qualified. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor,, 
 who shall not have been a resident of the City for one year 
 next preceding his election, or who shall be under twenty-one 
 years of age, or who shall not, at the time of his election, be a 
 citizen of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 3. If any Mayor shall, during the time for which he 
 shall have been elected, remove from the City, or shall cease 
 to be a freeholder in said City, his office shall be vacated. 
 
 Sec. 4. When two or more persons shall have an equal 
 number of votes for Mayor, the judges of election shall certify 
 the same to the City Council, who shall proceed to determine 
 the same by lot, in such manner as may be provided by or¬ 
 dinance. 
 
 Sec. 5. Whenever an election of Mayor shall be contested., 
 the City Council shall determine the same, in such manner as 
 may be prescribed by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Whenever any vacancy shall happen in the office of 
 Mayor, it shall be filled by election. 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 OF ELECTIONS. 
 
 Sec. 1. Annual election of Mayor and Aldermen. 
 
 2. Resident inhabitants may vote for city officers—votes to be 
 given in the wards where the elector resides. (See amendment to Char¬ 
 ter, seotion 1. 
 
 Section 1 . On the third Monday of April next, an election 
 shall be held in each ward of said city, for one Mayor for the 
 city, two Aldermen for each ward; and forever thereafter on 
 the third Monday of April of each year, there shall be an elec¬ 
 tion held for one Mayor for the city, and one Alderman for 
 each ward. The first election for Mayor and Aldermen shall 
 be held, conducted, and returns thereof made, as may be provi¬ 
 ded by ordinance of the present trustees of the town of Quincy. 
 
 Sec. 2. All free white male inhabitants over the age of 
 twenty-one years, who are entitled to vote for State officers, and 
 who shall have been actual residents of said city ninety days 
 next preceding said election, shall be entitled to vote for City 
 officers; Provided , that said voters shall give their votes for 
 Mayor and Aldermen in the wards in which they respectively 
 reside, and in no other, and that no vote shall be received at 
 any of said elections, unless the person offering such vote shall 
 have been an actual resident of the ward where the same is of¬ 
 fered, at least ten days next preceding such election. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 
 
 Sac. 1. Assessment and collection of taxes—limitation thereof. 
 
 2. City council may appoint certain officers—amended 1855. 
 
 3. May require bonds of officers and oath of office, regulate com¬ 
 mon schools, and borrow money, subject to limitation. 
 
 4. Provide for paying debts of the city. 
 
 5. Make quarantine laws, &c. 
 
 6. Establish hospitals. 
 
 7. Regulate health, and declare nuisances. 
 
 8. To provide for watering the city. 
 
 9. Open and alter streets, &e. 
 
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 CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 Build bridges, &c. 
 
 Make and alter wards. 
 
 Light the city. 
 
 Establish a night wateh. 
 
 Regulate markets. 
 
 Erect buildings for the city. 
 
 Improve, &c., public grounds. 
 
 Improve navigation of the Mississippi. 
 
 Erect, &c., wharves and docks. 
 
 Grant licenses. 
 
 Regulate carriages, wagons, carts and drays. 
 Regulate porters. 
 
 License shows. 
 
 Suppress disorderly houses. 
 
 Organize fire companies. 
 
 Regulate erection of wooden buildings. 
 ce chimneys. 
 
 (( storage of gun powder, &c. 
 
 iC parapet walls and fences. 
 
 “ weights and measures. 
 
 Provide for measurement of lumber, &c. 
 
 “ weight of hay, <fcc. 
 
 <( inspection of tobacco, &c. 
 
 Regulate inspection of provisions. 
 
 (( weight of bread. 
 
 fe size cf brick. 
 
 Provide for taking census. 
 
 Regulate elections—remove officers. 
 
 Fix compensation of jurors, &c. 
 
 Regulate the police—impose and recover fines, &c. 
 Exclusive powers. 
 
 Make all necessary ordinances. 
 
 Style of ordinances. 
 
 Ordinances when to take effect. 
 i( when evidence. 
 
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 Section 1. The city council shall have power and authority 
 to levy and collect taxes upon all property, real and personal, 
 within the limits of the city, not exceeding one-half per cent, 
 per annum, upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce 
 the payment of the same, in any manner to be prescribed by or¬ 
 dinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United State# 
 md of this State. 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 Sec. 2. Amended by the act of February 15, 1855. 
 
 Sec. 3. The city council shall have power to require of all 
 officers appointed in pursuance of this charter, bond with pen¬ 
 alty and security, for the faithful performance of their respec¬ 
 tive duties, as may be deemed expedient; and also to require 
 all officers appointed as aforesaid, to take an oath for the faith¬ 
 ful performance of the duties of their respective offices, before 
 entering upon the discharge of the same, to establish, support 
 and regulate common schools; to borrow money on the credit 
 of the city; Provided , that no sum or sums of money shall be 
 borrowed at a greater interest than six per cent, per annum, 
 nor shall the interest on the aggregate of all the sums borrowed 
 and outstanding, ever exceed one-half of the city revenue, aris¬ 
 ing from taxes assessed on real property within the limits of 
 the corporation. 
 
 Sec. 4. To appropriate money, and provide for the payment 
 of the debt and expenses of the city. 
 
 Sec 5. To make regulations to prevent the introduction of 
 contagious diseases into the city, and to make quarantine laws 
 for that purpose and enforce the same within five miles of the 
 city. 
 
 Sec. G. To establish hospitals, and make regulations for the 
 government of the same. 
 
 Sec. 7. To make regulations to secure the general health of 
 the inhabitants; to declare what shall be a nuisance, and to pre¬ 
 vent and remove the same. 
 
 Sec. 8. To provide the city with water; to erect hydrants 
 and pumps in the streets for the convenience of the inhabitants. 
 
 Sec. 9. To open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, 
 grade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in repair, streets, 
 lanes, avenues and alleys. 
 
 Sec. 10. To establish, erect and keep in repair bridges. 
 
 Sec. 11. To divide the city into wards, alter the bounda¬ 
 ries thereof, and erect additional wards, as the occasion may 
 require. 
 
 Sec. 12. To provide for lighting the streets, and erecting 
 lamp posts. 
 
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 CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Sec. IB. To establish, support and regulate night watches. 
 
 Sec. 14. To erect market houses, establish markets and 
 market places, and provide for the government and regulation 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 15. To provide for the erection of all needful build* 
 mgs for the use of the city. 
 
 Sec. 16. To provide for enclosing improving and regula* 
 ting all public grounds belonging to the city. 
 
 Sec- 17. To improve and preserve the navigation of the 
 Mississippi, within the limits of the city. 
 
 Sec. 18. To erect, repair and regulate public wharves and 
 docks; to regulate the erection and repair of private wharves 
 and the rates of wharfage thereat. 
 
 Sec. 19. To license, tax and regulate auctioneers, merchants 
 and retailers, groceries, taverns, ordinaries, hawkers, pedlers, 
 brokers, pawn brokers and money changers. 
 
 Sec. 20. To license, tax and regulate hackney carriages, 
 wagons, carts and drays; fix the rates to be charged for the 
 carriage of persons, and for the wagonage, cartage and drayage 
 of property. 
 
 Sec. 21. To license and regulate porters, and fix the rate of 
 porterage. 
 
 Sec. 22. To license, tax, and regulate theatrical and other 
 exhibitions, shows and amusements. 
 
 Sec. 23. To tax, restrain, prohibit, and suppress tippling 
 houses, dram shops, gaming houses, bawdy and other disorder¬ 
 ly houses. 
 
 Sec. 24. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment 
 of fires, and to organize and establish fire companies. 
 
 Sec. 25. To regulate or prohibit the erection of wooden 
 buildings in any part of the city. 
 
 Sec. 26. To regulate the fixing of chimneys, and fix the 
 flues thereof. 
 
 Sec. 27. To regulate the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, 
 rosin, and other combustible materials. 
 
 Sec. 28. To regulate and order parapet walls and partition 
 fences. 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 Sec. 29. To establish standard weights and measures, and 
 regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city, in all 
 cases not otherwise provided for by law. 
 
 Sec. 30. To provide for the inspection and measurement of 
 lumber and other building materials, and for the measurement 
 of all kinds of mechanical work. 
 
 Sec. 31. To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay 
 and stone coal, the measuring of charcoal, fire wood and other 
 fuel to be sold or used within the city. 
 
 Sec. 32. To provide for and regulate the inspection of to¬ 
 bacco, beef, pork, flour, meal and whiskey, in barrels. 
 
 Sec. 33. To regulate the inspection of butter, lard and other 
 provisions. 
 
 Sec. 34. To regulate the weight, quality and price of bread 
 to be sold and used in the city. 
 
 Sec. 35. To regulate the size of brick to be sold or used in 
 the city. 
 
 Sec. 36. To provide for taking enumerations of the inhab¬ 
 itants of the citv. 
 
 Sec. 37. To regulate the election of city officers, and pro¬ 
 vide for removing from office any person holding an office crea¬ 
 ted by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 38. To fix the compensation of all city officers, and 
 regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses and others, for services 
 rendered under this act, or any ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 39. To regulate the police of the city; to impose fines, 
 forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and 
 provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines and 
 forfeitures, and the enforcement of such penalties. 
 
 Sec. 40. The city council shall have exclusive power within 
 the city, by ordinance, to license, regulate and restrain the 
 keeping of ferries, and to suppress and restrain billiard tables. 
 
 Sec. 41. The city council shall have power to make all or¬ 
 dinances, which shall be necessary and proper, for carrying 
 into execution the powers specified in this act, so that such or¬ 
 dinances be not repugnant to, nor inconsistent with the consti¬ 
 tution of the United States or of this State. 
 
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 CITY CHARTER* 
 
 Sec. 42. The style of the ordinances of the city shall be, 
 H Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Quincy C 
 Sec. 43. All ordinances passed by the city council shall, 
 within one month after they shall have been passed, be pub¬ 
 lished in some newspaper published in the city, and shall not 
 be in force until they shall have been published as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 44. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the 
 seal of the corporation, and when printed and published in 
 book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be printed and pub¬ 
 lished by authority of the corporation, the same shall be re¬ 
 ceived in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 OF THE MAYOR. 
 
 Sec. 1. Shall have the casting vote—absence of— aldermen to choose 
 a chairman. 
 
 2. Special meetings—how called. 
 
 3. Duties of Mayor. 
 
 4. May call aid to suppress riots— penalty for refusal to obey. 
 
 5. May require officers to exhibit their books. 
 
 6. Required to execute all ordinances. 
 
 7 and 8. Repealed. 
 
 9. Jurisdiction in quarantine and health affairs. 
 
 10. Salary to be fixed by ordinance. 
 
 11. May be be indicted for violation of duty— fined, and on con¬ 
 viction removed from office. 
 
 Section 1. The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the 
 city council, and shall have a casting vote, and no other. In 
 case of non-attendance of the Mayor at any meeting, the board 
 of Aldermen shall appoint one of their own members chairman, 
 who shall preside at the meeting. 
 
 Sec. 2: The Mayor, or any two Aldermen, may call special 
 meetings of the city council. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Mayor shall at all times be active and vigilant 
 in enforcing the laws and ordinances for the government of 
 said city; he shall inspect the conduct of all subordinate offi¬ 
 cers of said city, and cause negligence and positive violation of 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 duty to be presented and punished; lie shall, from time to time, 
 communicate to the Aldermen such information, and recom¬ 
 mend all such measures as in his opinion may tend to the im¬ 
 provement of the finances, the police, the health, security, 
 comfort and ornament of the city. 
 
 Sec. 4. He is hereby authorized to call on every male in¬ 
 habitant of said city, over the age of eighteen years, to aid in 
 enforcing the laws and ordinances; and in case of riot, to call 
 out the militia to aid him in suppressing the same, or in carry¬ 
 ing into effect any law or ordinance; and any person who shall 
 not obey such call, shall forfeit to the said city a fine not ex¬ 
 ceeding five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 5. He shall have power, whenever he may deem it ne¬ 
 cessary, to require of any officer of said city an exhibit of his 
 hooks and papers. 
 
 Sec. 6 . He shall have power to execute all acts that may 
 be required of him by any ordinance made in pursuance of 
 this act. 
 
 Sec. 7 and 8. Repealed. 
 
 Sec. 9. He shall also have such jurisdiction as may be ves¬ 
 ted in him by ordinance of the city, in and over all places with¬ 
 in five miles of the boundaries of the city, for the purpose of 
 enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances, and regula- 
 i tions thereof. 
 
 Sec. 10. And he shall receive for his services, such salary 
 as shall be fixed by an ordinance of the city. 
 
 Sec. 11. In case the Mayor shall, at any time, be guilty of 
 a palpable omission of duty, or shall willfully and corruptly be 
 guilty of oppression, mal-conduct, or partiality in the discharge 
 of the duties of his office, he shall be liable to be indicted in 
 the circuit court of Adams county, and on conviction, he shall 
 be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and the court shall 
 have power, on the recommendation of the jury, to add to tha 
 judgment of the court, that he be removed from office. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 proceedings in special cases. 
 
 Amended by the act of Feb. 27, 1847, and Jan. 17, 1855. 
 
14 CITY CHARTER. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
 
 Sec. 1. Inhabitants of Quincy not to labor on roads out of the city, 
 or pay county tax, except for jail in Quincy ; see amendment 
 to charter, section 3. 
 
 2. Amended by the act of January 17, 1855. 
 
 3. Offenders may be punished by imprisonment. 
 
 4. Annual statements of receipts and expenditures to be pub¬ 
 lished. 
 
 5. Ordinances of town o! Quincy in force until repealed. 
 
 6. Suits—how brought. 
 
 7. Fines, &c., accruing to trustees of town of Quincy, to be ves¬ 
 ted in the city. 
 
 8. Property to be invested in the city. 
 
 9. Charter not to invalidate any act of trustees. 
 
 10. Trustees to promulgate this act, call election of officers, by 
 publication of notice, &c. 
 
 11. Appeals from decisions under ordinances allowed. 
 
 12. In absence of Mayor, board to elect Mayor pro tem. 
 
 13. Charter declared a public act. 
 
 14. Certain acts repealed. 
 
 15. City Marshal authorized to execute writs and other process 
 issued by the Mayor in Adams county—his fees. 
 
 16. Election for adoption of this charter—if majority should be 
 against the adoption, charter to be void. 
 
 Section 1. The inhabitants of the city of Quincy are here¬ 
 by exempted from working on any road beyond the limits of 
 the city, and from paying any tax to procure laborers to work 
 upon the same, and from any tax for county purposes, except 
 for the completion of the county jail, now being erected in 
 said city. 
 
 Sec. 2. Amended by the act of January 17, 1855. 
 
 Sec. 3. The city council shall have power to provide for 
 the punishment of offenders, by imprisonment in the county or 
 city jail, in all cases where such offenders shall fail or refuse 
 to pay the fines and forfeitures which i^py be recovered against 
 them. 
 
 Sec. 4. The city council shall cause to be published, annu¬ 
 ally, a full and complete statement of all moneys received and 
 
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 expended by the corporation during the preceding year, and on 
 what account received and expended. 
 
 Sec. 5. All ordinances and resolutions passed by the presi¬ 
 dent and trustees of the town of Quincy, shall remain in force 
 until the same shall have been repealed by the city council 
 hereby created. 
 
 Sec. 6 . All suits, actions and prosecutions instituted, com¬ 
 menced or brought by the corporation hereby created, shall be 
 instituted, commenced and prosecuted in the name of the city 
 of Quincy. 
 
 Sec. 7. All actions, fines and forfeitures which have ac¬ 
 crued to the president and trustees of the town of Quincy, shall 
 be vested in, and presented by, the corporation hereby created. 
 
 Sec. 8. All property, real and personal, heretofore belong¬ 
 ing to ‘‘the president and trustees of the town of Quincy/ 7 for 
 the use of the inhabitants of said town, shall be and the same is 
 hereby declared to be vested in the corporation hereby created. 
 
 Sec. 9. This charter shall not invalidate any act done by 
 “the president and trustees of the town of Quincy/ 7 nor divest 
 them of any right which may have accrued to them prior to the 
 passage of this act. 
 
 Sec. 10. “ The president and trustees of the town of Quincy 77 
 shall, immediately after the passage of this act, take measures 
 to promulgate this law within the limits of the city of Quincy, 
 and issue their proclamation for the election of officers, and 
 cause the same to be published in all the newspapers in said 
 city, for four weeks in succession, prior to the day of election 
 for said citv officers. 
 
 Sec. 11. Appeals shall be allowed from all decisions in all 
 eases arising under the provisions of this act, or any ordinance 
 passed in pursuance thereof, to the circuit court of Adams 
 county; and every such appeal shall be taken and granted in 
 the same manner and with like effect as appeals are taken from 
 and granted by justices of the peace to the circuit court, under 
 the laws of this State. 
 
 ^ Sec - 12 - Whenever the Mayor shall absent himself from the 
 city, or shall resign, or die, or his office shall be otherwise va- 
 
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 CITY CHARTER. 
 
 eated, the board of Aldermen shall immediately proceed to 
 elect one of their number president who shall be Mayor pro tern * 
 
 Sec. 13. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and 
 may be read in evidence in all courts of law and equity in this 
 State, without proof. 
 
 Sec. 14. All acts, or parts of acts, coming within the pro¬ 
 visions of this charter, that are contrary to or inconsistent with 
 its provisions, are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 15. The city Marshal, or any other officer authorized 
 to execute writs or other process issued by the Mayor, shall 
 have power to execute the same anywhere within the limits of 
 Adams county, and shall be entitled to the same fees for trav¬ 
 eling as are allowed to constables in similar cases. 
 
 Sec. 16. The president and trustees of the town of Quincy 
 shall cause an election to be held in said town, on the third 
 Wednesday in March next, at which the inhabitants of said 
 town who are authorized to vote for State officers, shall vote 
 for or against the adoption of this charter; and if a majority 
 of the votes given at such election shall be in favor of the 
 adoption of said charter, then it shall immediately take effect 
 as a law; but if a majority of the votes given shall be against 
 the adoption of said charter, then this act to be of no effect. 
 
 NEWTON CLOUD, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tern. 
 
 S. H. ANDERSON, 
 Speaker of the Senate. 
 
 Approved by the Council , February 3, 1840. 
 
 THOS. CARLIN. 
 
AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 AMENDMENT. 
 
 An Act to amend an Act entitled li An Act to incorporate the 
 
 City of Quincy.'' Approved Fed. 3, 1840. 
 
 Sec. 1. Qualifications of Electors. 
 
 2. County exempt from support of city paupers. City to*provide. 
 
 3. Inhabitants to pay county tax on property out of the city. 
 
 4. Part of act repealed. 
 
 5. Repealed by the act of January 28, 1851. 
 
 6. Repealed. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly , That at all elections of 
 Mayor and Aldermen within and for said city, all white male 
 inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, who have re¬ 
 sided in the State six months next preceding the election, and 
 who actually reside in the said city, shall enjoy the right of 
 electors; but no person shall be entitled to vote for Aldermen 
 except in the ward in which he shall actually reside at the 
 time of the election. 
 
 Sec. 2. The county shall be exempt from the support of 
 paupers within the limits of said city; but the City Council 
 shall provide such means and pass such ordinances as they shall 
 deem propet for the support of their own paupers. 
 
 Sec. 3. The inhabitants of the city of Quincy shall, the same 
 as other citizens of the county, pay a county tax on all their 
 property situate without the limits of the city. 
 
 Sec. 4. So much of the act to which this is an amendment, 
 as requires the Mayor of the city to be a freeholder, be and 
 the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 5. Repealed. 
 
 Sec. 6. Repealed. 
 
 Approved January 7, 1841. 
 
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 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER;. 
 
 An Act to amend the Charter of the City of Quincy, 
 
 Sec. 1. City authorized to levy additional tax for school purposes. 
 
 2. Tax collected same as other tax. 
 
 £>.. Yote to be taken. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly , That the city of Quincy, 
 be, ancl are hereby authorized, in addition to the taxes already 
 authorized to be collected, to levy a tax not exceeding one- 
 eighth of one per centum in each year, on all taxable property 
 in said city, the proceeds of which said tax shall be wholly 
 applied to the support of the common schools in said city, and 
 to no other purpose. 
 
 Sec. 2. The taxes collectable under this law may be col¬ 
 lected in the same manner, and under the same regulations, that 
 other city taxes are collected. 
 
 Sec. 3. There shall be a poll book opened in the manner 
 usually adopted in case of special city elections, in the city of 
 Quincy, on the first Monday of April, in the year eighteen, 
 hundred and forty-five, to continue open from eight o’clock in 
 the morning, until six o’clock in the evening of said day, du¬ 
 ring which time a vote shall be taken by the qualified voters, 
 of the city of Quincy, whether the foregoing amendment to 
 the charter of the city of Quincy shall be accepted or not; 
 and in case a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of 
 the acceptance of the same, then, and in that case, the City 
 Council of the city of Quincy may proceed to assess and col¬ 
 lect the said tax in the manner aforesaid, or so much thereof 
 as they may deem necessary; but in case a majority of the- 
 votes cast shall be against the acceptance of said amendment, 
 then and in that case the powers herein before granted shall 
 be void and of no effect. 
 
 Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 14, 1845. 
 
 Note.— The tax provided for in tKia law has been regularly collected 
 and applied to schools. 
 

 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
 19 
 
 An Act to amend the City Charter of the City of Quincy. 
 
 Ssc. 1. CRy may levy special tax to grade side walks and light city. 
 
 2. Power over public grounds. 
 
 3. License powers. 
 
 4. Power over ferries and billiard tables. 
 
 5. Amended by the act of January 17, 1855. 
 
 6. Marshal to be elected—to be County Constable—his term of 
 office—to give bond and take oath of office. 
 
 7. Portions of Charter repealed. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , 
 represented in the General Assembly , That the City Council of 
 said city shall have power, by ordinance, to levy and collect a 
 special tax on the owner or owners of the lot or lots on any 
 street, lane, avenue, or alley, within said city, for the purpose 
 of grading and paving the side walks in front of their respect¬ 
 ive lots, and keeping the said side-walks in repair, and for the 
 purpose of lighting such street, lane, avenue or alley. 
 
 Sec. 2. The city council of said city shall have power to 
 provide for enclosing, improving and regulating all public 
 grounds within the city, and for the punishment of injuries or 
 damage done to trees, buildings or other improvements thereon. 
 
 Sec. 3. To license, tax and regulate auctioneers, merchants 
 and retailers, groceries,, taverns, ordinaries, and all places 
 where fermented liquors arc sold, and the venders of the same, 
 hawkers, pedlers, brokers, pawn-brokers, and money changers. 
 
 Sec. 4. The city council have exclusive power, within the 
 
 city, by ordinance, to license, regulate, and restrain the keeping 
 
 of ferries, and to suppress and restrain billiard tables, and the 
 
 sale of lottery tickets. 
 
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 Sec. 5. Amended. 
 
 Sec. 6. The City Marshal of said city shall, by virtue of 
 his office, be a constable of Adams county, with power to serve 
 process, and do all acts that constables may lawfully do; and 
 shall receive the same fees as are allowed to other constables 
 by law; and hereafter the said Marshal shall be elected by the 
 voters resident within the incorporated limits of said city of 
 Quincy, who arc qualified to vote for Mayor of said city, at 
 the same time and in the same manner that the Mayor of 
 
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 said city is elected; and lie shall hold his office for the same 
 length of time said Mayor holds his office; and shall, before 
 entering upon the discharge of his office, in addition to the 
 bond now required of him by the ordinances of said city, exe¬ 
 cute another bond, and file it in the office of the county com¬ 
 missioners’ clerk of Adams county, in like manner as other 
 constables are now required to do by law; and he shall, more¬ 
 over, take the same oath to discharge the duties of his office, 
 
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 and in the same manner that other constables are now required 
 to take. 
 
 Sec. 7. Beit further enacted , That the sixteenth, nineteenth 
 and fortieth sections of the fifth article of “An act to incorpo¬ 
 rate the city of Quincy,” approved February third, one thou¬ 
 sand eight hundred and forty, and all parts and provisions of 
 said act of incorporation, conflicting with the provisions of 
 this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved February 27, 1847. 
 
 An Act further to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate 
 the city of Quincy .” Approved February 3, 1840. 
 
 Sec. 1. Repealed. 
 
 2. Repealing clause. 
 
 Section 1 . Repealed. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the fifth section of an act to amend “An act to 
 incorporote the city of Quincy,” approved February 3d, 1840, 
 which said amendment was approved January 7, 1841, be and 
 the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved January 28, 1851. 
 
 An Act to amend the City Charter of the City of Quincy 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois } 
 represented in the General Assmbly , That the city council of the 
 city of Quincy shall have power upon the petition of the ma- 
 
AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 jority of the owners and holders of lots in any block or blocks 
 or other natural division of ground, fronting on any street, 
 alley, highway or other thoroughfare in said city; to cause from 
 time to time any such street, alley, highway or thoroughfare, 
 or any part thereof to be paved, McAdamized or planked and 
 to keep the same in repair. 
 
 Sec. 2. The expenses of any improvement mentioned in the 
 foregoing section, may be assessed upon the real estate in any 
 natural division benefitted thereby, with the costs of the pro¬ 
 ceedings therein, in proportion, as near as may be to the ben¬ 
 efit thereto; Provided , such assessment shall not exceed three 
 per cent, per annum on the property assessed. 
 
 Sec* 3. The said city council shall have power by ordin¬ 
 ance, to levy and collect a special tax on the owners or holders 
 of the lots on any street, alley, highway, or thoroughfare, or 
 part of any street, alley, highway or thoroughfare, according 
 to their respective fronts owned or held by them, for the pur¬ 
 pose of carrying out the power granted by the first and second 
 sections of this act. 
 
 Sec. 4. The city council are hereby authorized and em¬ 
 powered to make all necessary ordinances for the purpose of 
 fully carrying out the power herein granted, not inconsistent 
 with this act. 
 
 Sec. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and af- 
 
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 ter its passage. 
 
 Approved' February 0, 1853. 
 
 An Act amendatory of and Supplemental to an u Act entitled an 
 Act to incorpon'aie the City of Quincy ,” approved February 3, 
 1840. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , 
 represented in the general assembly , That the corporate limits and 
 jurisdiction of the City of Quincy shall be, and the same are here¬ 
 by so extended as to include within the same, all that tract of 
 country situated in the County of Adams, in the State of Illi¬ 
 nois, embraced within the following boundaries, to wit: Be¬ 
 ginning in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi 
 
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 river, at a point due west from the north west corner of see- 
 tion thirty-five, in township one south of the Base line of range 
 nine west oi the Fourth Principal Meridian; running thence 
 east to said north-west corner of said section thirty-five, thence 
 east on the north line of said section thirty-five and the north 
 line of section thirty-six, in the aforesaid township and range, 
 to the north-east corner of said section thirty-six, thence south 
 on the east line of said section thirty-six and the east line of 
 sections one and twelve, in township two south of the Base line 
 in range nine west of the aforesaid Fourth Principal Meridian, 
 to the south-east corner of the north half of said section twelve, 
 thence west along the south line of the said north half of said 
 section twelve and the south line of the north half of section 
 eleven, in the last aforesaid township and range, to the south¬ 
 west corner oi said north half of section eleven, thence west to 
 the middle o( the main channel of the Mississipp iriver, thence 
 up said river along the middle of the main channel thereof, to 
 the place of beginning. 
 
 &ec. 2. The City Council of the said City of'Quincy shall 
 have power and authority to lay out, establish, open, enclose, 
 impio^e and keep in repair public squares or grounds ; to lay 
 out, open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish grade, pave, 
 improve and keep in repair streets, lanes, avenues and alleys, 
 and to lay out, open, establish, enlarge, extend, alter, change, 
 abolish, improve, regulate and keep in repair public landings, 
 wherever they may deem proper within the limits of said city: 
 Provided , the rights, privileges, powers and jurisdictions now 
 conferred upon the City of Quincy by the existing Charter in 
 relation to Ferries across the Mississippi river, shall not by 
 virtue of the original Charter or the provisions of this act, ex¬ 
 tend to any of the lands embraced in the extension of the limits 
 of said city herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 3 . The said council shall also have power and authori¬ 
 ty Purchase all or any lands which may be required for any 
 of the purposes in the last proceeding section of the act men¬ 
 tioned, il able to agree with the owner or owners thereof, and 
 to take and appropriate the lands thus purchased and any 
 other suitable lands belonging to said city, which may not at 
 
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 the time of such appropriation be appropriated by said city to 
 some other public use, for any of the purposes aforesaid for 
 which lands may be required, and the said council shall also 
 have power and authority to take and appropriate for any of 
 the purposes aforesaid, for which lands may be required, all 
 lands thus required not having been purchased as aforesaid, nor 
 belonging to said city in the manner hereinafter specified. All 
 lands so purchased as hereinbefore provided, shall be conveyed 
 to said city by deed, or deeds good and sufficient for that pur¬ 
 pose, and all of the estate right, title and interest of each of 
 the vendors of such lands shall, from the time the same shall 
 be conveyed as aforesaid, vest in said city absolutely. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever the said council shall have determined by 
 an order duly entered of record to do any of the things in the 
 second section of this act mentioned, for which land may be re¬ 
 quired, and what land they will take and appropriate for such 
 purpose or purposes, they shall cause a plat or map of such land 
 to be made by some competent surveyor, and filed in the office 
 of the Clerk of said city ; and when any person or persons 
 other than said city shall have any interest in said land, the 
 city council of said city, without any unreasonable delay after 
 the making of such order, shall by an instrument of writing ex¬ 
 ecuted by the Clerk of said city, attested by the corporate seal 
 thereof, designating the land to be appropriated and the pur¬ 
 pose or purposes for which the same is to be appropriated, ap¬ 
 point five disinterested freeholders, residents of said city, as 
 commisionioners to assess the compensation to be paid by said 
 city to each and every person having an interest in said land, 
 for his or her interest in the same, and fix upon some time and 
 place which shall be not less than twenty, nor more than thirty 
 days from the time of such appointment, and within said city, 
 when and where such commissioners shall meet for the pur¬ 
 pose of entering upon the performance of their duties, having 
 first given notice to all persons interested, that he would ap¬ 
 point such commissioners, and of the time and place, which 
 shall be within said city, when -and where such appointment 
 will be made, and of the land to be appropriated, and the purpose 
 
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 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
 oi put poses tor which the same is to be appropriated, by an 
 advertisement published in ten successive numbers of some 
 daily newspaper published in said city, the first publication 
 whet col snail be at least fifteen days previous to the time fixed 
 upon lor such appointment. Immediately upon commissioners 
 being appointed by said Mayor, he shall file the instrument of 
 their appointment in the office of the Clerk of said city. All 
 persons interested in the land to be appropriated may appear 
 before said Mayor at the time and place fixed upon for the ap¬ 
 pointment of commissioners, and be heard relative to their ap¬ 
 pointment j said Mayor shall give notice to the commissioners 
 appointed by him oi the time and place fixed upon by him for 
 them to meet as aforesaid, at least ten days previous to the 
 time so fixed upon. 
 
 ►Sec o. Upon any instrument of the appointment of commis¬ 
 sioners as hereinbefore provided, being filed in his office, the 
 Cletk of said city, shall give notice to all persons interested, 
 of the appointment of the commissioners therein mentioned, the 
 purpose foi which they are appointed, the land to be appropri¬ 
 ated, and the purpose or purposes for which the same is to be 
 appi opi filled, and of the time and place in such instrument 
 fixed upon foi the commissioners to meet for the purpose of 
 enteiing upon the duties ox their appointment, to be published, 
 in ten successive numbers of some daily newspaper, published 
 in said city, the first publication whereof shall be at least fif¬ 
 teen daj'S pievious to the time fixed upon for said commission¬ 
 ers to meet; and before the time for such meeting said Clerk 
 shall deliver to said commissioners, or some one of them, a 
 transcript of said instrument duly certified by him to be such 
 under the seal of said city. 
 
 Sec. 6. Commissioners appointed as hereinbefore provided 
 shall, before entering upon the duties of their appointment, be 
 sworn before some person authorized to administer oaths, that 
 they will fairly and impartially perform the duties required of 
 them as commissioners, according to the best of their judgment, 
 understanding and ability, and they shall meet at the time and 
 place in the instrument of their appointment mentioned for 
 
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 that purpose, and proceed without any unnecessary delay in 
 the performance of their duties until the same shall be com¬ 
 pleted. 
 
 Sec. 7. Said commissioners shall inquire into, and to the 
 best of their ability ascertain the damages each person having 
 an interest in the land to be appropriated will sustain, and the 
 benefits he or she will derive from or on account of the appro¬ 
 priation and use determined upon or contemplated by said 
 council being made, regarding in such case the land or lands 
 required as being worth what would be the cash value of the 
 same, if no such appropriation and use had been contemplated, 
 and no more, and disregarding all benefits any person may de¬ 
 rive in common with others whose land or lands shall not be 
 required; and in each case where the damages to be ascertain¬ 
 ed shall exceed the benefits to be ascertained, said commission¬ 
 ers shall assess as the compensation to be paid by said city to 
 the person interested for his or her interest in said land the 
 amount such damages shall exceed such benefits, in each case 
 where such damages shall be less than or only equal to such 
 benefits, no compensation shall be assessed by said commission¬ 
 ers ; and said commissioners shall make a report in writing 
 under their hands, designating the land to be appropriated and 
 the purpose or purposes for which the same is to be appropria¬ 
 ted, and the respective amounts which shall have been so as¬ 
 sessed by them as aforesaid, and the persons respectively enti¬ 
 tled to the same; which report they shall immediately on the 
 same being made, file in the office of the Clerk of said city. 
 Said commissioners in performing their duties, shall have pow¬ 
 er to adjourn from time to time, and they shall also have 
 power, and it shall be their duty to view and inspect the land 
 to be appropriated, to hear such suggestions, evidence and ar¬ 
 gument as may be offered by said Mayor, or any attorney or 
 agent of said city, or any person interested in such land, and 
 to swear or affirm all witnesses who may be brought before 
 them to testify, and to issue summons for and by compulsory 
 process compel the attendance of all witnesses who may be 
 desired for such purpose. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Clerk of said city, upon the report of commis- 
 
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 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
 sioners appointed under the provisions of this act being filed 
 in his office, shall give notice thereof and of the time of filing 
 the same, the assessments therein mentioned, the land to be ap- 
 priated and the purpose or purposes for which the same is to be 
 appropriated, by an advertisement to be published in ten succes¬ 
 sive numbers of some daily newspaper published in said city, 
 the first publication whereof shall be within five days after the 
 filing of said report, and said Clerk shall deliver a copy of all 
 such reports to any party or person demanding the same as 
 soon as practicable after demand made. 
 
 Sec, 9. An appeal may be taken to the circuit court of Ad¬ 
 ams county, from any assessment of the commissioners either 
 by said city or any person in whose favor such assessment shall 
 have been made, or his or her legal representatives, and an ap¬ 
 peal may be taken to said court from the report of commission¬ 
 ers by any person interested in the land to be appropriated, at 
 the time of such report being filed, in whose favor no assess¬ 
 ment shall have been made, or his or her legal representatives; 
 But no appeal from the report of the commissioners, or any 
 assessment therein mentioned, shall be allowed unless"the party 
 entitled thereto shall, within twenty days from the filing of the 
 report of the commissioners, cause a good and sufficient bond 
 of some resident of said county, to be filed in the office of the 
 Clerk of said court, payable if the appeal be taken by said 
 city, to the people of the State of Illinois, for the use of the 
 person or persons entitled to the assessment appealed from; 
 and in all other cases to said city, and all such appeal bonds shall 
 be in the penalty of five hundred dollars, and conditioned in 
 substance that the party appealing shall prosecute the appeal 
 taken without delay, and pay all costs which may be adjudged 
 against such party upon dismissal or trial of such appeal. 
 
 Sec. 10. In all appeals herein provided for, said city shall 
 be defendant, and the person or persons appealing, if other 
 than said city, plaintiff or plaintiffs. When the appeal shall be 
 taken by said city, the person in whose favor the assessment 
 appealed from is made, shall be named as plaintiff, and so 
 treated and regarded until the appeal is finally disposed of; 
 unless during the pendency of such appeal the legal represen- 
 
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 tatives of such person shall be made plaintiff or plaintiffs as 
 iereinafter provided. And whenever the court shall be satis¬ 
 fied of the death of any plaintiff in appeal during the penden¬ 
 cy of the appeal, and who the legal representatives of such plain¬ 
 tiff are, it shall, by an order to be entered of record substitute 
 such legal representatives as plaintiff or plaintiffs in the place 
 cf such plaintiff. Whenever the court shall be satisfied that 
 the person named as plaintiff in any appeal taken by said city, 
 lied after the filing of the report of the commissioners, and be¬ 
 fore the filing of the appeal bond,^and who the legal represen¬ 
 tatives of such person are,fit shall, by an order to be entered of 
 record, substitute such legal representatives as plaintiff or plain¬ 
 tiffs in the place of such person. 
 
 Sec. 11. All appeals herein provided for, shall be placed 
 cn the law docket of said court, the same as other cases in law, 
 and the clerk of said court shall in each case of appeal taken 
 by said city, without any unnecessary delay, after the filing of 
 the transcript in the next section of this act mentioned, give 
 aotice thereof and of the parties thereto, in what court the 
 same is pending, and the land to be appropriated, by an adver¬ 
 tisement to be published once each week for four weeks in suc¬ 
 cession, in some weekly newspaper published in said city ; and 
 at the first term of said court after the expiration of forty days 
 from the first publication of such notice, the plaintiff in such 
 appeal shall, for all purposes, be treated and considered in 
 court. No notice of appeal taken to said court by any other 
 person or persons than said city, shall be required to be given, 
 but said city, as well as the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such ap¬ 
 peal, shall be considered as in court for all purposes at the 
 first term thereof, after the expiration of five days from the 
 time of filing the appeal bond. 
 
 Sec 12. Whenever an appeal shall be taken to said court, 
 either from the report of the commissioners or any assessment 
 therein mentioned, the Clerk of said city shall file a transcript 
 of said order of said council, the instrument of the appoinment 
 of the commissioners and the report of the commissioners, certi¬ 
 fied by him to be such under the seal of said city, in the office 
 of the Clerk of said court. When five days shall intervene 
 
AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 between the filing of the appeal bond in any such appeal and 
 the commencement of the nest term of said court thereafter, il 
 shall the duty of the Clerk of said city to so file such trans¬ 
 cript on or before the first day of the next term of said court 
 and in all other cases it shall be his duty to so file such trans¬ 
 cript on or before the first day of the second term of said 
 court, which may be held after the filing of such bond. 
 
 Sec 13. TV henever the plaintiff or plaintiffs in any appeal 
 hereinbefore provided for, shall fail or neglect to prosecute 
 any such appeal taken by him, her or them, or the person or 
 persons he, she or they may represent in such appeal, the same 
 snail be dismissed, and judgment rendered by the court against 
 such plaintiff or plaintiffs for the cost of said city, expended in 
 such appeal. And when said city shall fail or neglect to pros¬ 
 ecute any such appeal taken by it, the same shall be dismissed, 
 and judgment rendered by the court against it for the costs of 
 the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such appeal. 
 
 Sec. 13. The trial of appeal to said court herein authorized 
 shall be by jury, as in ordinary cases, unless the parties waive 
 a jury and consent to be tried by the court, in which case the 
 trial shall be by the court. In case of trials by jury the jury 
 shall swear or affirm that they will well and truly try the cases 
 according to the law and the evidence. Every such appeal shall 
 present for trial as to each and every plaintiff in the case, the 
 question whether he or she is entitled to any compensation, to 
 be paid by said city, for any interest in the land to be appro¬ 
 priated, and if so, how much ; and in determining this question 
 the court or jury, as the case may be, shall, so far as the same 
 are applicable, be governed by the rules hereinbefore provided 
 lor the government of commissioners in assessing compensation. 
 When the cause is tried by a jury their verdict may be re¬ 
 turned orally or in writing, and in all cases the court shall 
 cause the same to be reduced to proper form so as to express 
 truly and fully the findings of the jury—verdicts of juries and 
 findings of the court in cases under this act shall be truly and 
 fully recorded. 
 
 Sec. lo. A judgment shall be rendered by the court upon 
 every verdict of the jury or finding of the court in cases under 
 
AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 his act—that the interest of each and every plaintiff in interest 
 a the land so appropriated vest in said city to be appropriated 
 nd used for the purpose or purposes determined upon by said 
 ouncil, upon the payment by the said city of the assessment 
 hr assessments in the verdict or finding mentioned ; and all 
 uch judgments shall be conclusive as to all plaintiffs upon the 
 ayment of the assessment therein mentioned, in the manner 
 ereinafter provided. The costs which arise or grow out of 
 ppeals tried, may be apportioned and judgment rendered 
 aerefor, as to the court may seem just and proper. 
 
 Sec. 16. The proceedings in court under the provisions of 
 his act, except as is otherwise, herein provided, shall be the 
 ame as in appeal from Justice of the Peace, so far as applica- 
 >le, and the court shall have power and authority to make all 
 ules and orders necessary and proper for a full and fair trial of 
 he question involved. 
 
 Sec. 17. Payments of compensation assessed under and by 
 irtue of the provisions of this act, whether by the commission- 
 rs or in court on appeal, may be made to parties laboring 
 inder no disability, in whose favor the assessments were made, 
 o guardians of infants, husbands or trustees of femme covert , 
 nd conservators of insane persons, and a receipt for such pay- 
 lents shall operate as a confirmation of the proceedings, and 
 hall stop the parties in interest from all further claims or pro- 
 eedings in the premises. Payments to persons residing out 
 •f this State, as well as to infants without guardians, and in¬ 
 ane persons without conservators residing within the same, 
 nay be made by depositing the money in the treasury of Ad- 
 ms county, and the receipts of parties entitled to money so 
 eposited shall operate in like manner as for receipts for 
 loney paid to parties as herein provided : Provided , that if any 
 •erson shall refuse to receive money when tendered, payment 
 lay in such case be made by depositing the amount in said 
 reasury, and all receipts for money paid and certificates for 
 loney deposited as above provided, shall be filed in the office 
 f the Clerk of said city. 
 
 Sec. 18. Reports of commissioners shall be conclusive evi- 
 ence that they performed the duties required of them as to all 
 
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 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
 persons having an interest in the land to be appropriated who 
 do not appeal therefrom, or from assessments therein mentioned 
 as well as to all persons so appealing, whose appeal shall be 
 dismissed, and upon payment being made as herein before pro¬ 
 vided of the assessment in such report mentioned, not appealed 
 from or appealed from where the appeal shall be dismissed, 
 the interest of all such persons in the land to be appropriated 
 shall vest in said city to be appropriated and used for the pur¬ 
 pose or purposes determined upon by said council. 
 
 Sec. 19. As soon as practicable, after the publication of 
 the advertisements herein provided for, the clerk of said city 1 
 shall procure from the publisher or publishers of the same, cer¬ 
 tificates of their due publication, with a copy of the advertise¬ 
 ment in each case attached, and file such as relate to advertise¬ 
 ments caused to be published by the Clerk of said court, in the 
 office of said Clerk, and all Others in his own office; said Clerk 
 shall also, as soon as practicable after the final disposition in 
 court of appeals herein provided for, procure from the Clerk of 
 the court, under the seal thereof, a duly certified transcript in 
 each case of appeal bond, and all orders and judgments of the 
 court and entries of record therein, and also of the certificates 
 of publication in cases where advertisements are required to be 
 published by the Clerk of the court, and file the same in his 
 office, as one .of the papers relating to the appropriation deter¬ 
 mined upon by said council, and said clerk shall make complete 
 records in a book to be kept for that purpose, of all the orders 
 of said council, and papers filed in his office as by this act re¬ 
 quired, relating to appropriations of land by said council, a 
 transcript whereof, duly certified by said Clerk, under the seal 
 of said city, shall be evidence in all courts and places where the 
 original orders and papers so to be recorded, could be used and 
 have the same effect. 
 
 Sec. 20. Any three of the five commissioners, at anv time 
 
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 appointed, may act and execute any or all of the duties re¬ 
 quired. 
 
 Sec. 21. Each commissioner shall be entitled to two dol¬ 
 lars a day for his services, to be paid by said city. 
 
 Sec. 22. No plat or map of any addition to the said city 
 
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 of Quincy, or any subdivisions of any land within the limits of 
 the same, which may hereafter be made with the intent of sel¬ 
 ling any part of such addition or subdivision, shall be entitled 
 to record or be recorded in the office of the Recorder of Ad¬ 
 ams county, until the same shall have been approved by the 
 city council of said city, and all such additions and subdivi¬ 
 sions as shall hereinafter be made with the intent aforesaid, 
 shall be null and void, unless a correct plat or map of the same 
 be approved by said city council within sixty days from the 
 time the same shall have been certified by the surveyor making 
 the same. 
 
 Sec. 23. That all fines, penalties and forfeitures inflicted 
 by or recovered before the Police Magistrates of said city of 
 Quincy, whether for violation of the city ordinances, or the 
 laws of the State, shall be paid into the treasury of said city, 
 and it shall be the duty of said magistrates, and all other offi¬ 
 cers, to account for and pay over all such fines, penalties and 
 forfeitures as may be collected by them to the Treasurer of 
 said city, on the first Mondays of March, June, September and 
 December of each and every year hereafter. 
 
 Sec. 24. The city of Quincy is hereby exempted from each 
 and all of the provisions of the act entitled “an Act to amend 
 the charter of the several towns and cities in the State,” ap¬ 
 proved March the 1st, 1854. And all provisions of the act in¬ 
 corporating said city, and also of all other laws in force at the 
 time of the passage of the above recited act, are hereby revised 
 and shall be treated as in fuli force as to said city. And here¬ 
 after, no judgment shall be required, previous to the sale of any 
 lands for taxes, whether general or special, assessed by said 
 city, or the proper authorities thereof; Provided , that nothing 
 in this act contained shall be so construed as to allow the au¬ 
 thorities of said city to grant license to sell spirituous, vinous 
 or malt liquors, or to keep groceries, or to confer any power 
 in relation thereto, in any wise incompatible with the general 
 laws of the State on that subject, now in force, or hereafter 
 to become the law of this State, anything in this act to the 
 contra ry no t with standi n g. 
 
 Sec. 25. The city council shall have power for the purpose' 
 
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 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
 of keeping the streets, lanes, avenues and alleys in repair, to 
 levy in each and every year a tax not exceeding two dollars 
 on each and every free white male inhabitant in said city over 
 the age of twenty-one years and under the age of fifty years, 
 excepting those who are now or may be hereafter exempted by 
 law from road tax; said tax to be collected in such a manner 
 as said city council may by ordinance provide. 
 
 Sec. 26. That the city of Quincy, in order the better to pro¬ 
 vide for and accommodate the increasing business of the city, 
 be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and 
 convey to the Northern Cross Eailroad Company the premises 
 or any part thereof, known as the public landing in said city, 
 and bounded on the east by Front street, on the west by the 
 Mississippi river, on the south by the river fraction lot three, 
 (3) block sixteen (16) in the original plat, and on the north by 
 block one (1) in Pease’s addition to the city, in consideration 
 of, and in exchange for, any other premises in said city, bound¬ 
 ed on the west by the Mississippi river, and on the east by 
 Front street; and such conveyance shall vest in the said com¬ 
 pany, their successors and assigns, a title in fee simple in the 
 premises thereby conveyed, provided , that the ground held for 
 public landings in the said city, shall not at any time here¬ 
 after have less front on Front street and on the Mississippi 
 river than the existing public landings; And provided further , 
 that said city shall at all times have full power to collect 
 wharfage from any and all boats or crafts of any kind, landing 
 at any point within the limits of said city. 
 
 Sec. 27. That the premises which in pursuance of the 
 foregoing last section may be conveyed to the said city, shall 
 be retained and held by the said city for the purpose of a pub¬ 
 lic landing in the same manner, and subject to the same power* 
 of jurisdiction and regulation by the city council as pertains 
 to the existing public landing. 
 
 Sec. 28. That the arrangement heretofore made between 
 the said city and Eailroad company, confering upon said com¬ 
 pany the right to use parts of certain streets, alleys and puln 
 lie grounds for right of way and other purposes are hereby 
 confirmed. 
 
AMENDMENTS TO CITY "CHARTER. 
 
 QO 
 oo 
 
 Sec. 29. That the city of Quincy and the Northern Cross 
 {Railroad company are hereby authorized and empowered on 
 such terms and for such considerations as the said parties may 
 agree upon, to make and conclude any contracts and agree¬ 
 ments for the establishing, opening or abolishing any part of 
 any streets, avenues or alleys within the jurisdiction of said 
 city adjoining or dividing any property which is or may be 
 owned and used by the said company for the purposes of their bu¬ 
 siness at Quincy, and to lease or convey the same tothe said com¬ 
 pany in fee or to otherwise secure to said company the occu¬ 
 pation and enjoyment thereof, exclusive or otherwise, in such 
 manner and for such use and purpose as may be agreed upon. 
 
 Sec. 30. The city council of the city of Quincy shall pay 
 annually for each and every year for three years, to the school 
 directors of Union school district in the county of Adams, 
 for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said Union school 
 district, for school purposes, five hundred dollars with six per 
 cent, interest thereon per annum; the first payment thereof to 
 be made on the first day of September A. 1). 1855, and the 
 second payment on the first day of September A. I). 1850. and 
 the third and last payment on the first day of September A. D. 
 1857; and to secure the payments of said amounts, respectively, 
 the city of Quincy shall issue their obligation or obligations, 
 to the said school directors of said Union school district there¬ 
 for, and should they neglect or refuse to do so in proper form 
 and manner, then and in that event nothing in this act con¬ 
 tained shall be so construed as to interfere in any way or man¬ 
 ner with the limits, jurisdiction, powers, rights and privileges 
 of the said Union school district as now established by law.,, 
 but the said limits, jurisdiction, powers, rights and privileges 
 shall be and remain as now enjoyed and possessed by the in¬ 
 habitants of .said school ldistrict, for all school purposes as fully, 
 completely and entirely as though this act had never become 
 a law, and the said city of Quincy shall not levy, assess or 
 collect any tax for school purposes on any real estate now 
 comprising any part of said Union school district, or have, 
 exercise, possess or enjoy any rights, powers or jurisdiction 
 over said lands or any part thereof for school purposes, but 
 
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34 
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER. 
 
 the same shall be valued and assessed for school purposes, and 
 the tax thereon collected and paid over in the manner now 
 provided by law, and as though this act had never passed. 
 
 Sec- 31. All the rights and privileges heretofore acquired 
 by the inhabitants of said Union school district, by reason or 
 virtue of any tax levied on the real estate now comprised with¬ 
 in the limits of said school district, shall and they are hereby 
 retained, and are to be possessed as fully and completely by 
 them, their agents and officers as they are now enjoyed, and as 
 though this act had never become a law; and if any such tax 
 has not been paid, they or their properly constituted authority 
 shall have the power to sue for and collect said tax if the 
 same is not paid to the county treasurer of Adams county, by 
 action of debt or assumpsit. 
 
 Sec. 32, The city council of said city shall have power 
 and authority to make all orders and ordinances not inconsis¬ 
 tent with the constitution of the United States, or of this 
 State, which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into 
 execution and effect the powers specified in this act and the 
 provisions thereof. 
 
 Sec. 33. This act shall be a public law, and shall be in 
 force from and after its passage, 
 
 Approved January 17, 1855. 
 
 An Act to amend “ Section Second of Article Fifth” of the original 
 
 Charter of the City of Quincy. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, rep¬ 
 resented in the General Assembly , That the City Council of the 
 City of Quincy, shall have power to appoint a Clerk, Treasurer, 
 Assessor or Assessors, street Commissioner or Commissioners, 
 and all such other officers as may be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act to become a law and be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 Approved , February 15, 1855. 
 
STATE LAWS, 
 
 RELATIM TO THE CITY. 
 
 7 
 
 AND AFFECTING ITS INTERESTS. 
 
 City Warrants. 
 
 i5EC. 1. Warrant or order to be drawn for only one amount on one 
 claim or allowance. 
 
 2. W arrant to be drawn in favor of the person to whom due, and 
 no other. 
 
 3. Warrant payable only to payee or his legal representatives. 
 
 4. Penalty for violating this act, and how recovered. 
 
 Section - 1 . In all cases in which any city or town in this 
 State shall be indebted to any person or persons, on any ac¬ 
 count whatsoever, a warrant or voucher shall be drawn on the 
 treasurer of such city or town, for the whole amount found due 
 to such person, by the tribunal having power to audit and al¬ 
 low against such city or town; and such tribunal shall not in 
 any case draw more than one warrant or voucher, for the 
 amount allowed to one individual at one time. 
 
 Sec. 2. Xo warrant or voucher drawn on the treasurer of 
 any city or town, shall be drawn in favor of any other person 
 than the one to whom the same may be due, and such warrant 
 ■/ lie in the fo rm now prescribed by law. 
 
 Sec. 3. Xo treasurer of any city or town in this State, shall 
 pay any warrant or voucher drawn on him, unless such war¬ 
 rant shall be presented for payment by the person in whose 
 favor such warrant is drawn, or his assignee, or executor, or 
 administrator. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any officer or officers of any town or city, that shall 
 : ,)e guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter, shall be 
 
 ^ sdemeanor in office; and for every such 
 ' iolation shall be fined in a sum not exceeding # five hundred 
 dollars, to be recovered by indictment. 
 
 Approved March 3, 1845. 
 
 [107th chapter of Revised Statues. 
 
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 An Act exempting members of fire companies of the city of Quincy 
 
 from road labor. 
 
 Section 1. Beit enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly , That all members of any 
 fire company of the city of Quincy, residing in said city during 
 the time he shall remain a member of such company, and com¬ 
 ply with the rules and perform the duties thereof, shall be ex¬ 
 empt from all road and street labor. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall not be construed so as to exempt 
 any person from any tax upon property. This act shall take 
 effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approve d February 12, 1849. 
 
 Note.— Fire companies may become incorporated under a general 
 law of this State. (25 chap. rev. stat.) 
 
 An Act to provide for the assessment of property in the city of 
 Quincy , for State taxes , and for the collection of taxes therein 
 for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty , and for sub¬ 
 sequent years , and for exempting the city of Quincy from the 
 operation of the law authorizing township organization. 
 
 . \ ' ' A 
 
 Sec. 1. and 2., Repealed by the act of June 23, 1852. 
 
 3. City exempt from township organization law, but may vote on 
 question. 
 
 * /t • 
 
 Section 1 and 2. Repealed. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the city of Quincy shall be exempt from the 
 provisions of the act for township organization, heretofore 
 passed or that may be hereafter passed; Provided , that nothing 
 in this act shall prevent the legal voters in the city of Quincy 
 from voting on township organization at the regular election 
 held by the county for that purpose. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1851. 
 
RELATING TO THE CITY. 
 
 37 
 
 Jin Act authorizing incorporated cities to change , alter and vacate 
 
 streets or parts of streets. 
 
 Sec. 1. City may alter or vacate. Petition for same. City to release 
 ground to owner of adjoining lot, on payment of benefits as¬ 
 sessed. 
 
 2. How benefits and damages assessed. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , 
 represented in the General Assembly , That when the corporate 
 authorities of any city may deem it for the best interest of 
 their respective cities, that any street or part of a street shall 
 bo changed, altered, or vacated said authorities shall have the 
 power, upon the petition of the property holders owning prop¬ 
 erty on such street or part of street, to change, alter, or va¬ 
 cate the same, and to convey, by quit-claim deed, all interest 
 which said city may have had in the street or part of street so 
 vacated, to the owner or owners of lots and lands next to and 
 adjoining the same, upon the payment by such owner or 
 owners of all assessments which may be made against their 
 lots or lands, for and on account of benefits to the same aris¬ 
 ing from such change, alteration or vacation of any street or 
 part of street as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 2. The benefits and damages caused by changing 
 altering or vacating any street or part of street as aforesaid, 
 shall be assessed and determined in a manner pointed out by 
 the act incorporating such city, or by the ordinances thereof 
 in other cases. 
 
 Approved February 15, 1851. 
 
 Certified copies of corporate proceedings evidence. 
 
 Copies of all papers, books, or proceedings, or parts there¬ 
 of, appertaining to transactions in their corporate capacity, of 
 any town or city heretofore incorporated, or now incorported, 
 or that may hereafter be incorporated, under a general or 
 special law of this State, certified to be true copies by the 
 clerk, or keeper of the same, under the seal of said town or city, or 
 
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 under the private seal of said clerk or keeper, if there be no 
 public seal; the said clerk or keeper also certifying that he is 
 entrusted with the safe keeping of the originals of which he 
 gives certified copies, shall be received as prima facie evidence 
 of the facts so certified, in all the courts of this State, in any 
 suit or proceeding pending before them. 
 
 Approved March 3, 1845. 
 
 [Chapter 60, section 9, of rev. stat. 
 
 An Act to vacate the survey and plat of the subdivision of lots 
 eight, nine and ten , in block one, in Randolph’s addition to 
 Quincy. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly , That the survey and plat 
 of the subdivision of lots number eight, nine and ten, in block 
 number one, in John It. Randolph’s addition to the town (now 
 city) of Quincy, and county of Adams, heretofore made by 
 Robert R. Williams, Andrew Johnston, Nehemiah BushnelL 
 and recorded in the recorder’s office of said county of Adams, 
 on the twenty-fourth day of July, A. D. 1841, be and the same 
 is hereby vacated; and the said lots eight, nine and ten are 
 hereby restored to the condition in which they were placed by 
 the recorded plat of the addition of John R. Randolph, to 
 said Quincy. Provided , the vacating the survey and plat of 
 said subdivision shall not affect or impair the vested rights of 
 any person or persons acquired under the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its 
 passage. 
 
 Approved February 26, 1845, 
 
RELATING TO THE CITY. 
 
 39 
 
 An Ad to incorporate towns and cities . 
 
 Sec. 1. Persons violating ordinances may be compelled to work on 
 the streets, instead of imprisonment. 
 
 2. City may declare what shall be a nuisance. 
 
 3. Power of city to grade streets, &c.; mode of compelling 
 owners to fill up, &c. 
 
 Note. —Sections four, five, six and seven omitted. 
 
 8. City may purchase ground without the limits of the city. 
 
 9. City may collect taxes by judgment in circuit court, and 
 through state officers. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Illinois , 
 represented in the General Assembly , That any incorporated 
 town or city in this State may have power to provide by or¬ 
 dinance, that every person against whom any judgment may 
 hereafter be recovered, in favor of said town or city, for a 
 penalty or fine for a breach of any ordinance, instead of being 
 committed to jail, may be required to labor on the streets 
 until the whole fine and costs shall be paid, at the same rate 
 per day as may be allowed as a forfeiture for a failure to per¬ 
 form street labor under the direction of the street commis¬ 
 sioner. 
 
 Sec. 2. The corporate authorities of any city or town in 
 this State may have power to declare what shall be a nuisance, 
 and to prevent and remove the same as much as one-half mile 
 beyond the limits of the corporation, with full power to im¬ 
 pose a fine for a violation of any ordinance to that effect. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever it may be necessary to pave or grade 
 any street or front lots, or to fill up or alter any lot that may 
 be declared to be a nuisance, said corporate anthorities may 
 have power, upon the failure of the owner of any lot to pave, 
 grade or fill up said lot, or to pay the taxes or fine that may 
 be assessed on the owner or owners thereof, to require that 
 said lot or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be sold 
 for the payment of the tax or fine and cost, in the manner 
 authorized for the collection of other taxes, and all assess¬ 
 ments so made shall constitute a lien on said lot. 
 
 Sec. 8. The inhabitants of any town or city, in the cor- 
 
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 STATE LAWS 
 
 porate name, may purchase, receive, and hold real estate be- 
 vend their corporate limits for the purpose of burying ground. 
 
 Sec. 9. Whenever the corporate authorities of any town 
 or city may wish to have the taxes, authorized to be levied 
 under and by virtue of their respective charters, or under the 
 general act, upon tiling a certificate of the rate authorized 
 under the authority of the said corporation, in the office of the 
 clerk of the county court, it shall be the duty of the collector 
 of taxes for the state and county to collect the taxes for said 
 town or city upon the assessment of the value of all the prop¬ 
 erty within the limits of said corporation, as ascertained by 
 the assessment for state and county purposes, and enforce the 
 payment thereof in the same manner, and with all the rights, 
 power and authority as he has to collect state and county 
 taxes, and shall pay the same over to the order of the corpo¬ 
 rate authorities at the same time he is required to pay over 
 the county revenue, and the court of the proper county shall 
 render judgment and order sale of any lot or tract for non¬ 
 payment of the tax and cost due said town or city, as is, or 
 may be provided for state and county taxes; and judgment 
 and sale shall be rendered for the aggregate amount due for 
 county, state and town, or city taxes. The collector shall re¬ 
 ceive the same compensation for collecting the taxes for any 
 town or city, as is allowed for the collection of the state and 
 county revenue; to be paid out of the funds of the corpo¬ 
 ration, and he shall be liable on his bond for the faithful per¬ 
 formance of the duties required under this act. 
 
 Sec. 10. This act to take effect from and after its passage.. 
 
 Approved February 10, 1849. 
 
RELATING TO THF CITY. 
 
 41 
 
 An Act to erect the city of Quincy into a common school district\ 
 
 Sec. 1. Limits and name of school district. 
 
 2. City council to have direction of schools, and may appoint 
 superintendent. Proviso, and power to pass ordinances. 
 
 3. How school fund to be used and paid over. Disposition of 
 real estate, &c. 
 
 4. Settlement between townships. 
 
 5. Abstract of children to be furnished school commissioner. 
 
 6 Vote to be taken on this act. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois . 
 represented in the General Assembly , That the portion of town¬ 
 ship two (2) south nine west, and of township one (1) south nine 
 west of the fourth principal meridian, l}dng within the corpo¬ 
 rate limits of the city of Quincy, with such parts of said town¬ 
 ships as may hereafter be incorporated with, and come under 
 the jurisdiction of said city, be, and the same- are hereby 
 erected into a common school district, to be known as and 1 
 called the “ Quincy School District.” 
 
 Sec. 2. The care and superintendence of the common' 
 schools within the city of Quincy, together with the funds and 
 estate, both real and personal, belonging to, and which may 
 be conveyed to said Quincy school district, shall devolve upon 
 the city council of the city of Quincy; and they shall have 
 power to appoint, at their first meeting after their annual 
 election in each year, a general superintendent of public 
 schools for said city of Quincy, whose term of office shall be 
 for one year, and until his successor be duty elected and quali¬ 
 fied; and his duties and the amount of his salary shall be de¬ 
 fined by the city council of the city of Quincy : Provided , 
 however , that said salary shall, at no time, be paid out of the 
 school fund belonging to said Quincy school district; and said 
 city council shall have power to make all laws and ordin¬ 
 ances necessary and property for the management of said com¬ 
 mon schools, not inconsistent with the constitution of this 
 • State. 
 
 Sec. 3. The township funds, and estate, real and personal, 
 belonging to said townships one (1) south, nine (9) west, and. 
 two (2) south, nine (9) west, shall be divided between the city 
 
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 STATE LAWS. 
 
 of Quincy and the portions of said townships lying without 
 the city of Quincy, as follows: The Trustees of schools of 
 township two (2) south and nine west, shall, within three 
 months from and after the passage of this act, appoint three 
 respectable householders, one from the city of Quincy, one 
 from township one (1) south, nine (9) west, residing out of said 
 city, and one from township two (2) south, nine (9) west, resi¬ 
 ding out of said city; who, or a majority of whom, after being 
 duly sworn, well and truly to perform their duty, shall ascer¬ 
 tain, as nearly as may be, the number of white persons under 
 the age of twenty years residing within said townships, re¬ 
 spectively, both within and without the limits of said city of 
 Quincy; and they shall divide and apportion the aforesaid 
 township funds and estate according to the number of children 
 
 under the age aforesaid residing in said townships, respect¬ 
 ively, within and without the city of Quincy, and shall pay 
 
 over and deliver to said city the distributive share of the re¬ 
 spective township funds and estate aforesaid, to which the 
 said Quincy school district may be entitled, according to the 
 number of white persons under the age aforesaid, residing in 
 said townships, respectively, and within the limits of said city 
 of Quincy; and the said commissioners shall have power to 
 make their deed of partition, and convey to the city of Quincy 
 its distributive share of the real estate belonging to the school 
 fund of the respective townships, aforesaid; and in case the 
 commissioners, appointed as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect 
 to perform the duties aforesaid, within one month from the 
 time of their appointment, the said trustees of township two 
 (2) south, nine (9) west, shall have power to appoint others in 
 their stead, either in or out of said city of Quincy, who shall, 
 in like manner, be sworn, and perform the duties assigned to 
 the first mentioned commissioners; and said trustees shall have 
 power to make appointments and fill vacancies in the same, 
 until the objects of this act are carried into effect: Provided , 
 the same shall be done within twelve months from and after 
 the passage of this act. 
 
 Sec. 4. The trustees of schools of township one (1) south 
 nine (9) west, and township two (2) south, nine (9) west, re- 
 
RELATING TO THE CITY. 
 
 48 
 
 spectively, shall, upon such partition being made, pay over 
 and deliver, to the city of Quincy, the funds and deeds to 
 which said Quincy school district may be entitled, according 
 to the division and distribution aforesaid, and shall take from 
 the clerk of the city of Quincy a receipt for the same. 
 
 Sec. 5 It shall be the duty of the city council of the city of 
 Quincy to cause to be furnished to the school commissioner of 
 Adams county, an abstract of the whole number of white 
 children, under the age of twenty years, residing in said 
 Quincy district, within ten days after the number shall be as¬ 
 certained; and the said school commissioner shall annually 
 pay to the clerk of the city of Quincy the proportion of the 
 school, college and seminary fund to which the said Quincy 
 district may be entitled, according to the number of children 
 under the age aforesaid, residing in said district, taking his 
 receipt for the same : Provided , that no abstract of the number 
 of children as aforesaid, residing in said Quincy school dis¬ 
 trict, shall be returned to said school commissioner oftener 
 than once in two years, as required in other school districts. 
 
 Sec. 6 . This act shall have effect whenever a majority of 
 all the legal voters of said township one (1) south, nine (9) 
 west and two (2) south, nine (9) west, shall vote in favor of 
 its provisions. 
 
 Approved February 27, 1847. 
 
 Note.—T his act was adopted by the requisite vote. 
 
 An Act supplemental to “an Act to provide for a general system 
 
 of railroad incorporations .” 
 
 Sec. 1. Cities and counties may subscribe to stock in railroads. 
 
 2. May borrow money. May issue bonds, &c. 
 
 3. Companies may borrow money, &c. 
 
 4. Bonds to be issued, &e. '•** 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , 
 represented in the General Assembly , That whenever the citi¬ 
 zens of any city or county, in this State, are desirous that said 
 
44 
 
 STATE LAWS. 
 
 city or county should subscribe for stock in any railroad com¬ 
 pany already organized or incorporated, or hereafter to be or* 
 ganized or incorporated under any law of this State, such city 
 or county may, and are hereby, authorized to purchase or sub¬ 
 scribe for shares of the capital stock in any such company, 
 in any sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for 
 each of such cities or counties; and the stock so subscribed 
 for or purchased, shall be under the control of the County 
 Court of the county or common council of the city, making 
 such subscription or purchase, in all respects, as stock owned 
 by individuals. 
 
 Sec. 2. That for the payment of said stock, the judges of 
 the county court of the county, or the common council of the 
 city making such subscription or purchase, are hereby author¬ 
 ized to borrow money at any rate not exceeding ten per cent, 
 per annum, and to pledge the faith of the county or city for 
 the annual payment of the interest, and the ultimate redemp¬ 
 tion of the principal, or if the said judges or common council, 
 should deem it most advisable, they are hereby authorized to 
 pay for such subscription in bonds of the city or county, ma¬ 
 king such subscriptions to be drawn for that purpose, in sums 
 not less than fifty dollars, bearing interest not exceeding ten 
 per cent, per annum; Provided , that no bond shall be paid out 
 at a less rate than par value. 
 
 Sec. 3. The railroad companies already organized or in¬ 
 corporated or hereafter to be organized or incorporated, under 
 the laws of this State, are hereby authorized to receive the 
 bonds of any county or city, becoming subscribers to the capi¬ 
 tal stock of such company, at par, and in lieu of cash, and to 
 issue their bonds, bearing interest not exceeding ten per cent, 
 per annum, for any monies by them borrowed for the construc¬ 
 tion of their railroad and fixtures, or for the purchase of en¬ 
 gines and cars, and for such purpose may dispose of any bonds 
 by them received, as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 4. No bonds shall be issued under the provisions of 
 this act, by any county or city excepting for the amounts re¬ 
 quired to be paid at the time of subscription, and for the 
 amounts of and at the time when assessments upon all the 
 
45 
 
 stockholders of said company, shall be regularly assessed and 
 made payable. 
 
 Approved November 6 , 1849. 
 
 An Act to authorize the City of Quincy to levy and collect a spe¬ 
 cial tax for the purposes therein mentioned. 
 
 Sec. 1. May levy tax to pay interest on railroad bonds. 
 
 2. How collected. 
 
 3. Tax to be specially applied. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly , That the city of Quincy 
 is hereby authorized to levy and collect a special annual tax 
 upon the property, real and personal, situated in said city suf¬ 
 ficient for the payment of the annual interest, which may ac¬ 
 crue upon any bonds to be hereafter issued by said city for 
 railroad purposes, under the provisions of an act entitled “An 
 act supplemental to ‘An act entitled an act to provide for a 
 general system of railroad incorporations/' ” in force the 6th 
 day of November, a. d. 1849. 
 
 Sec. 2. The special tax aforesaid shall be levied and col¬ 
 lected at the same time and in the same manner as the other 
 taxes levied by said city, and the said city shall have the same 
 rights, powers and remedies, to enforce the collection of the 
 same, by the sale ©f property or otherwise, as is or may be 
 provided for in other cases relating to the city revenue. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said tax when collected, shall by the said city, be 
 •set apart and held separate and distinct from the other por¬ 
 tions of the city revenue, as a fund specially pledged for a 
 payment of the annual interest on the bonds aforesaid, and 
 shall be by the said city, from time to time, applied to the 
 payment of said interest, as the same becomes due and paya¬ 
 ble, and to no other purpose whatever. 
 
 Approved February 17, 1851. 
 
 Note. —The city has taken two hundred thousand dollars of stock in 
 
 the ‘‘Northern Cross Railroad Company 
 
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 STATE LAWS 
 
 WOODLAND CEMETERY. 
 
 An Act to authorize John Wood to lay out a part of the northwest 
 quarter of section eleven , two south , nine west , as a burying 
 ground , and to convey the same , or a part thereof to the Mayor 
 or Aldermen of the City of Quincy , on terms to be 7nutually 
 agreed upon between them. 
 
 Sec. 1. Grounds to be laid out. 
 
 2. Plat to be reoorded. 
 
 3. Ground not subject to execution. 
 
 4. Title how vested, &c. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State cf Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly , That John Wood be, and he 
 is hereby, authorized to survey, lay out and appropriate for a 
 burying ground, a part of the north-west quarter of section 
 eleven, in township two south, and in range nine, west of the 
 fourth principal meridian, in Adams county, adjoining the 
 burying ground heretofore laid out by him on said quarter 
 section of land, under the name of “ Woodland Cemetery,” 
 and as an addition thereto, and to be included in the same 
 name, so that the said burying ground, including said original 
 plat, shall not exceed forty acres. 
 
 Sec. 2 That the plat of said addition shall be acknowledged 
 by the said John Wood, and recorded in the Recorder’s office 
 of said county, in the same manner as the original plat of said 
 cemetery, as near as the nature of the case will admit. 
 
 Sec. 3. That from and after the recording of the said plat, 
 the premises included in said Woodland Cemetery shall not 
 lie subject to execution, or attachment, and shall be exempt 
 from all taxes, and that from the time aforesaid the premises 
 shall be annexed to, and form a part of the said city of 
 Quincy. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the said John Wood be, and he is hereby 
 authorized to convey to the city of Quincy, the premises inclu¬ 
 ded in said cemetery, or any part thereof, to be held by the 
 said city for the purposes of such burying ground forever, on 
 such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the 
 said John Wood and the Mayor or Aldermen of said city; and 
 
RELATING TO THE CITY. 
 
 47 
 
 the said city is hereby authorised to accept and receive the 
 title of said premises, to be held for the purposes and on the 
 trust aforesaid, and to sell and convey any lot or lots therein 
 to any purchaser or purchasers thereof. 
 
 Approved January 16, 1847. 
 
 Note. —Under this law, Mr. Wood has laid out a spacious cemetery 
 on his high lands on the south of the city, and has neatly enclosed and 
 adorned the grounds. The arrangement with the city, contemplated by 
 the law, has been consummated, and the title to the cemetery grounds 
 vested in the city. 
 
 An Act for the better government of towns and cities , and to 
 
 amend the charters thereof. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, 
 repi'esentcd in the General Assembly, That there shall be estab¬ 
 lished in each of the cities of this state inferior courts of civil 
 and criminal jurisdiction, which shall [be] called police mag¬ 
 istrates’ courts. 
 
 Sec. 2. That there shall be elected in each of the incor¬ 
 porated towns and cities of this state, the population of which 
 shall, not exceed six thousand, an officer who shall be styled 
 
 police magistrate of the city of-, or town of-, as 
 
 the case may be; in each city of this state having a popula¬ 
 tion of over six thousand and not exceeding twelve thousand 
 there shall be elected two police magistrates, and in the cities 
 of this state whose population shall exceed twelve thousand 
 there shall be elected three police magistrates. Said magis¬ 
 trates shall be elected by the legal voters of such city or town 
 at the next regular election for city or town officers, and 
 every four years thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said police magistrates when elected shall be 
 commissioned and qualified in the same manner as justices of 
 the peace are, and shall haA'e in their respective counties the 
 same jurisdiction, powers and emoluments as other justices 
 of the peace in this state; and they shall also have jurisdic¬ 
 tion in all cases arising under the ordinances of their re- 
 
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 STATE LAWS 
 
 spective towns and cities, and for any breaches thereof, where 
 the amount claimed shall not exceed one hundred dollars, 
 and in all cases arising under the ordinances of the towns 
 and cities said magistrates shall be entitled to the same fees 
 as justices of the peace now are for similar services, and to 
 be collected in the same manner : Provided , the city or town 
 authorities of any such town or city may make such additional 
 allowance to such police magistrates as they may deem just 
 and expedient; and in all cases arising under the ordinances 
 of any such town or city, change of venue shall be allowed 
 from one police magistrate to another, in cities where there 
 is more than one such magistrate, and in all other towns and 
 cities from such police magistrate to the nearest justice of the 
 peace, to be applied for in the same manner and granted on 
 the same conditions and in the same manner as changes of 
 venue from justices of the peace now are. 
 
 Sec. 4. The rules of practice and proceeding before such 
 police magistrate shall conform to the practice and proceed¬ 
 ings before justices of the peace, except in cases where such 
 rules of practice and proceeding shall be changed or modi¬ 
 fied by the charter of such town or city; in which case, 
 such rules of practice and proceedings shall conform to the 
 •said charters. 
 
 Sec. 5. The city marshals of such towns or cities, and 
 all constables of the county in which said town or city may 
 be situated, and all the town or police constables of such 
 downs or cities respectively, shall be and are hereby au¬ 
 thorized to execute all process and orders issued or made 
 by said police magistrates in their respective counties. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Appeals shall be allowed from the decision of 
 police magistrates in all cases, to be applied for and taken 
 in the same manner that appeals from justices of the peace 
 may be taken. 
 
 Sec. 7. This act to take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 27, 1854. 
 
RELATING TO THE CITY. 
 
 49 
 
 'Jin Act to amend an Ad entitled “ An Ad to amend the revenue 
 laws and provide for the collection of the State taxes in the 
 city of Quincy A Approved June 23, 1852, 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , 
 represented in the General Assembly , That the city of Quincy 
 shall, on the first Monday of September next, and annually 
 thereafter, pay to the county of Adams, the sum of eight 
 hundred dollars, to reimburse said county for moneys advanced 
 by her on account of said city’s part of the court expenses 
 of said county, anything in the tenth section of an act 
 entitled “An Act to amend the Revenue laws and provide 
 for the collection of State taxes in the city of Quincy,” ap¬ 
 proved June 23, 1852, to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force froi® 
 and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 14, 1855, 
 
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ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. I. 
 
 An Ordinance relating to the meetings of the City Council 
 
 Sec. 1 . Stated meetings, when held—special meetings, how called— 
 notice of special meetings, how and by whom served. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That the stated meetings of the city council shall bo 
 held on the first Monday of every month, at such place within 
 the limits of said city, as the city council may from time to 
 time direct; and that special meetings thereof shall be called 
 by the Mayor or any two Aldermen, by leaving written notices 
 of the time and place of holding the same, at the residence of 
 the respective members, unless the same be personally served 
 on such members; the service of such notices shall be, and is 
 hereby made the duty of the Clerk of said council. 
 
 NO. II. 
 
 An Ordinance defining Election Wards . 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That the First Ward of said city for election purposes 
 shall embrace all that part of said city north of the centre 
 line of Hampshire street, extended east to the east line of the 
 city limits. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Second Ward shall embrace all that portion 
 of said city bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 ST 
 
 on the east line of the city limits where Hampshire street if 
 extended, would intersect the same, running thence west on 
 the centre line of said Hampshire street to the Mississippi 
 river, thence with said river to • the middle of Maine street, 
 thence east to the middle of Fifth street, thence south to the 
 middle of York street, thence east to the east line of the city 
 limits, thence north to the place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Third Ward shall embrace all that portion of 
 said city lying between the Second Ward and the south boun¬ 
 dary line of said city. 
 
 NO. III. 
 
 Jih Ordinance regulating the election of Mayor, Aldermen and 
 
 Marshal. 
 
 Sec. 1. Three judges of election to be appointed in each Ward—their 
 qualifications. Clerk to give notice of time and place of hold¬ 
 ing elections—how gi^en. 
 
 2. Judge failing to attend;, place how filled—no judge present, 
 substitutes how appointed and qualified 
 
 3. Vacancy in office of Mayor, how filled. Judges of Election to 
 be appointed — vacancy in office of Alderman, how filled ap¬ 
 pointment of Judges of Election—notioe of special election, 
 how given. 
 
 4. Jud ges of election to be notified of their appointment—may 
 appoint Clerks. Judges and Clerks, how qualified—mode of 
 conducting elections and of making returns. 
 
 5. Tie in an election for Mayor, how determined. 
 
 6. Tie in an election for Alderman, how determined; 
 
 7. Election of Mayor, how contested. 
 
 8. Election of Alderman, how contested. 
 
 9. Chairman of committee and President of Council' authorized' 
 to issue subpoena. 
 
 10. Vacancy in office of Marshal—tie in contest—penalties for 
 misconduct of Judges and Clerks. Certificates of election. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That there shall be appointed by the city council, at 
 least one month previous to the annual election of Mayor,. 
 
ORDINANCES 
 
 r, 9 
 
 Marshal and Alderman of said city, three judges of election 
 for each ward of said city, who shall be legal voters in such 
 ward, to preside at such election in their respective wards: 
 and the Clerk of said city council shall give three weeks’ no¬ 
 tice of the time and place of holding such election, and oJ 
 the hours of opening and closing the polls, by publishing the 
 same in one or more of the newspapers published in said city. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That if any judge of election 
 appointed under the preceding section shall fail to attend, the 
 judge or judges attending may supply his place from the elec¬ 
 tors present; and if no judge shall attend, then the electors 
 present may appoint judges of election; and the judges ap¬ 
 pointed under this section shall be qualified, and shall conduct 
 the election in all respects as if they had been originally ap¬ 
 pointed by the city council: Provided , that no elector shall 
 act as judge, or vote in the appointment of a judge, except in 
 the ward where he is entitled to vote. 
 
 Sec. 3 Be it further ordained , That in case the office ol 
 Mayor shall become vacant by reason of his removal from the 
 city, his death, resignation, or by any other means whatever, 
 it shall be the duty of the city council forthwith to order an 
 election of Mayor, and io appoint three judges of election in 
 each ward of the said city, in like manner as is heretofore pro¬ 
 vided, who shall be subject to the provisions of the preceding 
 sections. If the office of one or more Aldermen shall by any 
 means become vacant, it shall be the duty of the city council 
 to order an election or elections forthwith, in such ward or 
 wards as may be unrepresented, either in whole or in part, and 
 to appoint three judges of election for every such ward, in the 
 same manner, and subject to the same provisions as directed in 
 the preceding sections. Notice of the special elections under 
 this section, shall be given in like manner as the notice pre¬ 
 scribed in the first section of this ordinance; Provided , that 
 said notice may be for such length of time as may be ordered 
 by the council. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That the judges of election 
 shall, in all cases, be notified in writing of their appointment 
 by the city clerk, and shall be authorized to appoint two clerks 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 of election in their respective wards. The judges and clerks 
 shall be qualified, and all elections under the city charter or 
 any ordinance of the city council shall be by ballot; and in this 
 respect as well as in the canvassing of votes, shall be conduct¬ 
 ed in conformity with an act of the general assembly of this 
 State, entitled “An Act to provide for the mode of voting by 
 ballot, and for the manner of returning, canvassing and cer¬ 
 tifying votes,’’ approved February 12, 1849. And returns of 
 all such elections shall be made to the city council, and can¬ 
 vassed and certified, so far as applicable, in conformity with 
 said act and the laws of this State. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That whenever it shall ap¬ 
 pear from the returns of an election for Mayor, that any two 
 or more candidates, have an equal number of votes for said 
 office, and that the same is the highest number of votes polled 
 for any candidate, the election shall be determined by lot as 
 follows, to wit: At the next meeting of the city council there¬ 
 after, the Clerk shall prepare a number of ballots for each of 
 the candidates having said equal number of votes, equal to the 
 number of the members of said council then present, and shall 
 write the names of such candidates on the ballots prepared 
 for them respectively; he shall then deposit the said ballots in 
 a box in such manner, that no person drawing a ballot, shall 
 perceive the name written thereon; each member of the coun¬ 
 cil then present, shall draw one ballot from the said box, and 
 the candidate whose name shall appear on a plurality of the 
 ballots thus drawn, shall be declared Mayor of the said city. 
 If two or more names shall appear on an equal number of bal¬ 
 lots thus drawn, and said number be the highest, then a new 
 ballot shall be made between them in like manner, dropping 
 the other candidates; and so on until an election by lot is ef¬ 
 fected in the manner already provided for. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That whenever it shall ap¬ 
 pear from the returns of an election in any ward of said city, 
 that two or more candidates have an equal number of votes 
 for the office of Alderman therein, and that the same is the 
 highest number of votes polled for any candidate, the election 
 shall be determined by ballot in the same manner as provided 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 in the last section, with the following exceptions, to wit - : 
 seven ballots shall be prepared and deposited for each of said 
 candidates respectively; the Mayor shall draw seven ballots 
 out of the whole number deposited, and the candidate, whose 
 name shall appear on a plurality of the ballots so drawn, shall 
 be declared Alderman of the ward in which the election was 
 held. In case of a tie upon the first ballot, other b alio tings 
 Shall take place in like manner, as provided in the last section 
 until an election be effected. In case the election shall have 
 been held in such ward for more than one Alderman, and no 
 one candidate receive a plurality of the votes of the electors, 
 the Mayor shall make a separate election by lot as herein be¬ 
 fore directed for each Alderman, to which said ward shall be 
 entitled. 
 
 Sec. '7. Be it further ordained , That whenever-any person 
 who has been a candidate for the office of Mayor, shall intend 
 to contest the election of the candidate in whose favor the re-. 
 turn lias been made, it shall be his duty within ten days from 
 the day of such election, to give notice in writing of such in¬ 
 tention to the person whose election is to be contested either 
 by personal service of sucli notice, or by leaving the same at 
 his usual place of residence; and it shall also be the duty of 
 such contesting party within the time aforesaid, to file a peti¬ 
 tion with the clerk of the council, addressed to said council and 
 setting forth his intention to contest the said election, together 
 with the points upon which it is contested; and thereupon the 
 city council shall appoint at their next meeting a committee 
 to consist of one from each ward to examine into the case and 
 to report thereon to the said council. Said committee shall 
 proceed to discharge the duty assigned them by hearing testi¬ 
 mony and otherwise, having first given five days’ notice to 
 both parties, to the time and place of making such inquiry, and 
 shall report the result of their inquiry to the city council, 
 with a brief view of the testimony in the case and of the rea¬ 
 sons of their decision; and thereupon the contest shall be 
 finally determined by a vote of the said city council-: Pro¬ 
 vided , however, that the council before such final determination, 
 may, if they think fit, proceed to re-examine the testimony in 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 the case, upon giving a like notice to the parties as herein be¬ 
 fore provided. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That whenever any person, 
 who has been a candidate for the office of Alderman, shall in¬ 
 tend to contest the election of the candidate in whose favor 
 the return has been made, he shall give a similar notice, and 
 file a similar petition to those required under the preceding 
 section; and all the subsequent proceedings therein shall con¬ 
 form as nearly as possible, to those prescribed in the said 
 section. 
 
 Sec. 9. Beit further ordained , That the chairman of any 
 committee appointed under the two last preceding sections, 
 and also the Chairman or President of the city council shall 
 be authorized, in the cases therein mentioned, to issue sub¬ 
 poenas for witnesses under their hands; and if any witness, upon 
 whom said subpoena may have been served, shall refuse obe¬ 
 dience thereto, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, 
 to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the said city 
 of Quincy. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained , That in all cases of con¬ 
 test of election of City Marshal, or of a tie in any such elec¬ 
 tion, or of vacancy in*the office of Marshal, the same proceed¬ 
 ings shall be had in all things, as near as may be, as is pro¬ 
 vided for in this ordinance in cases of Aldermen. Any judge 
 or clerk of any such election duly appointed and qualified who 
 shall conduct himself at any such election in a riotous or dis¬ 
 orderly manner, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay 
 to the city a fine of not less than five, nor more than twenty- 
 five dollars, in the discretion of the court, to be recovered as 
 other penalties. The city clerk shall issue to the Mayor and 
 Marshal elected under this ordinance certificates of election , 
 
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 ORDINANCES'., 
 
 NO. IV. 
 
 An Ordinance regulating■ the appointment of City Officers by 
 the City Council , prescribing their duties , and providing for 
 their removals 
 
 Sec, 
 
 1. City officers; whab to be appointed by the city council, and 
 when. Their term of office. Duties of Assessors. 
 
 2. Duties of City Clerk. 
 
 3. 
 
 se 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 4. 
 
 (6 
 
 Marshal. 
 
 5. 
 
 it 
 
 Overseer of the Poor. 
 
 6. 
 
 a 
 
 Engineer and Surveyor-. 
 
 7. 
 
 (C 
 
 Clerk of Market. 
 
 8. 
 
 ce 
 
 Harbor Master. 
 
 9. 
 
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 Eire Warden. 
 
 10. 
 
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 Sexton. 
 
 11. 
 
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 Wood Measurer. 
 
 12. 
 
 ce 
 
 Measurer of Lumber, &e. 
 
 13. 
 
 What 
 
 officers to give bond. Ail city officers to subscribe an 
 
 
 oath, 
 
 or affirmation. 
 
 14. 
 
 City officers how removed. 
 
 15. 
 
 ts 
 
 On vacating office to deliver over books, &c. 
 
 16. 
 
 (( 
 
 Services of. How compensated. 
 
 17. 
 
 (c 
 
 To render an account of money received. 
 
 18. 
 
 (S 
 
 Vacancies of. How filled. 
 
 19. Majority of Council present sufficient to elect. 
 
 20. Duties of City Physician. 
 
 21. Mayor may employ counsel. 
 
 22. Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 Section 1, Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That at the first meeting of the city council in each 
 year, after the organization thereof, or as soon thereafter as 
 pi aciicablc, the city council shall appoint by ballot, viva voce r 
 or by resolution as a majority of them shall determine, the fol¬ 
 lowing city officers : a City Clerk, a City Treasurer, a City 
 Overseer of the Poor, a City Engineer, a Street Commissioner, 
 a Clerk of the City Market, a City Plarbor Master, a City Fire 
 Warden, a City Sexton, a City Measurer of lumber, wood, 
 buildings, materials, and other mechanical work, a City Phy¬ 
 sician, a Superintendent of City Schools, who shall hold tkeir 
 
ORDINANCES., 
 
 5T 
 
 offices for one year, and until their successors shall be appoint¬ 
 ed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the city council. 
 The city council shall also on the first Monday of February in 
 each year, or so soon thereafter as practicable, appoint a city 
 assessor for each assessment division in manner aforesaid, who 
 shall hold his office for one year and until his successor shall 
 be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed, as afore¬ 
 said, and who shall perform such duties as may be required of 
 him by the revenue and other ordinances of the city, or the 
 laws of this State. The city council may also, from time to 
 time appoint such other city officers as they may deem neces¬ 
 sary, and for such term not exceeding one year, as they may 
 see fit, and which appointments shall be in manner aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That it shall be the duty of 
 the city clerk to attend the special and stated meetings of the 
 city council; keep a correct journal of all its proceedings; re¬ 
 cord the same in a book to be kept for that purpose; record 
 in a separate book all ordinances which may be passed from 
 time to time by the city council, and cause the same to be pub¬ 
 lished within one month after they shall have been passed, in- 
 such newspaper of the city as the city council may designate;, 
 keep and preserve safely all papers pertaining to his office ~ 
 prepare and deliver all licenses, bonds and certificates of sale 
 and redemption, on the receipt of the proper sums of money 
 therefor; countersign all vouchers and deliver the same, when 
 called for, taking a receiptfor the same; notify all officers ap¬ 
 pointed by the city council, of their election; and generally 
 to do and perform such other duties as may at any time be en¬ 
 joined on him by ordinance or resolution of the city council.. 
 It shall be the especial duty of the city clerk at the close of 
 each fiscal year, to make out and publish in the newspaper se¬ 
 lected to publish the city proceedings, a full and complete 
 statement of the receipts and expenditures of said city during 
 such year, and showing on what account received and expend¬ 
 ed. And such fiscal year shall commence on the first day of 
 April in each year, and shall end on the first day of the next 
 succeeding April, including the first and excluding the last of 
 said days. 
 
58 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the City Treasurer to keep a true and accurate account of all 
 money paid into the Treasury, by whom and on what account 
 received; keep a distinct account of the costs, expenses and re¬ 
 ceipts connected with the “ Quincy Cemetery ,” and in making 
 reports to the city council, to make a separate and specific re¬ 
 port ol the same; pay out all such sums of money as may be 
 ordered by the city council, vouchers therefor being signed by 
 the Mayor or President of the city council and countersigned 
 by the city clerk; and finally, to make an annual report of 
 the state of the treasury and of his doings to the city council, 
 or oftener, if required by said city council. And the treasurer 
 shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by 
 ordinance or resolution of the city council. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained That it shall be the duty of 
 the City Marshal to execute all writs or other process, issued 
 by the Police Magistrate’s court when delivered to him; col¬ 
 lect all fines, forfeitures and penalties, which may accrue to 
 the said city, not otherwise-provided for by ordinance, and in 
 the performance of any duty enjoined on him by any ordi¬ 
 nance or resolution of the city council, he shall be invested 
 with such powers as are conferred upon constables by the laws 
 of this State; remove all nuisances in conformity with any or¬ 
 dinance or resolution of the city council; give to the Mayor 
 •all information that may be communicated to him, or come to 
 his knowledge, of any and every breach of the ordinances of 
 the city; and generally to do and perform all duties which 
 
 may be enjoined on him by ordinance or resolution of the city 
 council. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the Overseer of the Poor, on application of any inhabitant of 
 said city, to furnish all such food, clothing, fuel, medical and 
 other aid in sickness, for poor persons residing within said 
 city, as he may deem necessary, and to present all bills for ex¬ 
 penses theieby accruing, to the city council for approval; and 
 generally, to perform such other duties as may be enjoined on 
 -him by any ordinance or resolution of the city council. It 
 shall also be the duty of the Overseer of the Poor .to take 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 charge of the city poor house and premises thereto belonging 
 and of the poor therein. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That the City Engineer shall 
 do and perform, within said city, all engineering and survey¬ 
 ing and such other duties pertaining to his office as may from 
 time to time be prescribed to him by ordinance, order or reso¬ 
 lution of the citv council, or cause the same to be done by 
 some competent person. He shall, when requested so to do, 
 survey any private lot in said city into so many parts or divi¬ 
 sions as may be desired, and put down the necessary stakes; 
 designate, when requested by any person about to build a 
 house, or fence, or grade, or make a sidewalk, the line of a 
 street, lane, avenue or alley on which such house or fence is to 
 be erected, or sidewalk made, and also the grade of such 
 street, lane, avenue or alley; and make out and deliver to in¬ 
 dividuals, certificates of all surveys made at their request. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the Clerk of the Market to superintend the whole of the mar¬ 
 ket lot, and take charge of the market house, and all other 
 buildings and fixtures that may be erected on said market lot, 
 so as to prevent and punish, or cause to be punished, all in¬ 
 juries and damages which may be done to the same; keep the 
 market in a clean and wholesome state; prefer complaints be¬ 
 fore the Police Magistrate’s court for all breaches of any ordi¬ 
 nance or parts of ordinances, relating to the market, whenever 
 suit is necessary to enforce the payment of any fine, forfeiture or 
 penalty accruing therefrom; rent out, and lease from time to time, 
 all stalls, benches, blocks, or other privileges and appurtenances 
 thereunto belonging, which the committee on markets may di¬ 
 rect to be rented and leased, on the best possible terms on the 
 behalf and in the name of the said city, for any term not exceed¬ 
 ing one year at a time; demand, sue for, recover and receive the 
 rents accruing, or distrain and sell forthwith any property of 
 the lessee found within the limits of said city for the same; re¬ 
 ceive all fines, forfeitures and penalties, or other sums of mon¬ 
 ey accruing under any provision of any ordinance regulating 
 the market, keeping a true and accurate account thereof in a 
 book kept for that purpose, and pay-over all such.money to the 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 city clerk, taking Ins receipt therefor, and accounting with 
 the city council at each stated meeting : maintain peace and 
 good order on and about the market lot at all times, and par¬ 
 ticularly during market hours. And the said clerk is hereby 
 authorized, whenever it shall be necessary to maintain peace 
 and good order, to arrest without precept or warrant all per¬ 
 sons who may be found in and about said market lot, drunk, 
 fighting, quarrelling, reveling, threatening, swearing, black¬ 
 guarding, pilfering, stealing, robbing, cheating, swindling, or 
 otherwise disturbing the good people at or about said market, 
 or committing other offences against the ordinances of said 
 city, or the laws of this State, and confine such offenders in 
 the jail of the county or city, or hold them to special bail un¬ 
 til such time as his other duties will allow him leisure to carry 
 such offenders before the Police Magistrate's court of said 
 city, or until he shall have opportunity of turning such offen¬ 
 ders over to the custody of the City Marshal or Police Con¬ 
 stable, to be dealt with according to the ordinances of said 
 city and the laws of the land; and whenever it may be neces¬ 
 sary to require assistance in making any such arrest, he may 
 call on the bystanders so to assist, and every such bystander 
 shall render such aid, or he shall be subject to the same penal¬ 
 ties and proceedings as the offenders; Provided , however, that 
 any person so arrested may be discharged from such arrest on 
 payment to said Clerk, Marshal or Constable all penalties that 
 may be annexed to any of said offences. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 tue Harbor Master to superintend the public landing, and to 
 cause all the provisions of any ordinance relative thereto to 
 be carried into execution, and generally, to do and perform all 
 duties therein enjoined on him, or that may hereafter be im¬ 
 posed by any ordinance or resolution of the city council. 
 
 Section 9. Be it further ordained , That the Fire Warden 
 shall do and perform all the duties that may be required of 
 him by any ordinance relating to the prevention and extin¬ 
 guishment of fires within the limits of said city. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained, That it shall be the duty 
 of the Sexton to attend to the digging of all graves in the 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 61 
 
 ‘“Quincy Cemetery,” the conveyance thereto of those to be in- 
 terred therein, and the closing of the graves; keep a journal 
 or a book, in which he shall record all interments, the time 
 when made, the age and residence of the individual interred, 
 and fde a transcript therefrom in the office of the City Clerk 
 on the first day of January, April, July and October, which 
 transcript the city clerk shall record in a book kept for that 
 purpose; and finally, to see that the enclosures and grounds of 
 said cemetery are kept in good order and condition. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it jurther ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the Wood Measurer, at all reasonable hours, to attend in any 
 part of said city, when required, and then and there accurate¬ 
 ly measure any fire wood that may be shown to him for that 
 purpose, and give to any person requiring the same, a certifi¬ 
 cate of the quantity so measured. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty 
 of the measurer of lumber and other building materials and 
 mechanical work, at all reasonable hours, to attend in any part 
 of said city, and then and there inspect and measure all such 
 lumber and other building materials, and also measure such 
 kinds of mechanical work, as may be shown to him for the 
 purpose, and give to any person requiring the same a certifi¬ 
 cate of any such measurement and inspection. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be it further ordained , That the City Clerk, Clerk 
 of the Market, Harbor Master, Marshal, Street Commissioner, 
 School Superintendent, City Engineer, Sexton, and Treasurer, 
 shall, before entering upon the duties of their several offices, 
 give bond to the city of Quincy, with sufficient security, to be 
 approved by the city council, in such sum as the council may 
 direct, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their several 
 duties; and each officer appointed by the city council shall 
 also subscribe an oath or affirmation, that he will impartially 
 and to the best of his judgment and ability discharge the du¬ 
 ties of liis office. 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further ordained, That any officer appointed 
 by the city council may be removed by a majority of said 
 council for incompetency, or any dereliction or violation of 
 duty, on the complaint in writing of any inhabitant of said 
 
62 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 city, or whenever the said council shall think- the interests of 
 said city require such removal: Provided , however, that no of- 
 ficei shall be removed as aforesaid,, until lie shall have notice 
 of such intended removal and of the 1 charge or charges pre¬ 
 ferred against him, served on him-by the City Clerk, and an 
 opportunity to exculpate himself before said council. 
 
 Sec. 15. Be it further ordained, That each officer herein 
 mentioned, on his resignation, removal, or expiration of his 
 term of office, shall deliver to his successor, all books, papers., 
 or other property pertaining to such office. 
 
 Si c. 16. Be it further ordained] That each officer herein 
 mentioned shall receive such salary or other compensation for 
 services as the city council may, from time to time, by ordi¬ 
 nance or otherwise determine. 
 
 Sec. 17. Be it further ordained , That each and every officer 
 of said city, receiving money belonging to said city, is hereby 
 required, at each stated meeting of the city council, to render an 
 account of all such money received, and whether the same has 
 been paid into the treasury, unless there be a special provision 
 to the contrary. 
 
 Sec. IS. Be it further ordained , That whenever there shall 
 be a vacancy in any of the offices provided for by this ordi¬ 
 nance, or that may hereafter be provided for by any ordinance, 
 by reason of resignation, removal or otherwise, the city council 
 shall fill such vacancy at the next stated meeting thereof, un¬ 
 less the interests of said city should:sooner require. 
 
 Sec. 19. Be it further ordained , That in the election or ap¬ 
 pointment of all city officers by the city council, the candidate 
 for each office who shall receive the highest number of votes 
 shall be declared elected. 
 
 Sec. 20. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the City Physician to attend professionally upon all city pau¬ 
 pers, and also upon all persons who may be assisted by the Over¬ 
 seer of the Poor, as contemplated in sections “4 and 5 J; of an 
 Ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Relating to the Poor,’' 
 when thereto required by the Overseer of the Poor, and as 
 their wants shall demand. 
 
 oLO. 21. Beit further ordained, That whenever in the opinion 
 
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 of the city council or of the Mayor, it may be necessary to 
 employ counsel to act on behalf of the city in any suit, prose¬ 
 cution, or other matter, the Mayor may employ such counsel, 
 who shall be paid a reasonable compensation out of the city 
 treasury.. 
 
 Sec. 22. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty 
 of the Superintendent of Schools, to take the charge and di¬ 
 rection of public schools within the city, in manner provided 
 by ordinance, and to perform such duties as may be required 
 of him by the city council. 
 
 NO Y. 
 
 Jin Ordinance Relating to Licenses. 
 
 Se-c. 1. Shows and public entertainments prohibited without license. 
 
 2. Stores, Broker and Exchange Offices, Taverns, Pe ilers, and 
 Auctions. 
 
 3. What considered a public show. 
 
 4. IIow license obtained. 
 
 5. Temporary license how obtained. 
 
 6. Clerk may grant. 
 
 7. Penalties for not obtaining license. 
 
 8. Auctioneers to be licensed. City Council may cancel. To 
 give bond. 
 
 9. Auctioneers to make report of sales. Contents of report. 
 Commissions to city. 
 
 10. Penalties. Sale of wine-, spirituous and malt liquors and cider, 
 prohibited. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That no person shall set up any public show or exhi¬ 
 bition, within the limits of said city, without having first ob¬ 
 tained a license therefor from the city. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That no person shall set up 
 or keep any store, place for the sale of any kind of merchan¬ 
 dize, or ordinary, broker, pawn-brokers’ exchange, loan or 
 money exchangers’ office, or hawk or peddle any goods or 
 merchandize or sell any goods or merchandize or other prop- 
 
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 ^erty at auction, or keep any tavern within the limits of the 
 city, without having first obtained a license therefor from 
 said city. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That all public shows, exhi¬ 
 bitions L and entertainments, or other public meeting, where 
 pay for admittance shall be required, except ladies 7 fairs, li¬ 
 brary lectures and concerts of music by citizens of Quincy, 
 shall come within the provisions of the first section of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That the city council, at 
 any meeting thereof, may grant a license for any of the fore¬ 
 going purposes, on a written application therefor, which appli¬ 
 cation shall speciiy the business for which a license is desired, 
 the average amount of stock, when the application is for a 
 store license, and the place where said business is to be car¬ 
 ried on; and the applicant shall pay for such license such a 
 sum as the city council may determine : Provided , that if busi¬ 
 ness is carried on in a different place or manner, or to a greater 
 amount than that stated in the license, the city council are 
 hereby authorized to require such additional sum as they may 
 think proper, which additional sum shall be paid to the city 
 Clerk on demand; and if any such licensed person shall fail 
 to pay the same on such demand, the same shall be collected 
 as debts in other cases, or the city council may cancel such 
 license. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That whenever any person 
 shall wish to procure a license for any of the purposes men¬ 
 tioned in this ordinance, for a less term than three months, he 
 shall file with the city clerk an application as specified in the 
 fourth section of this ordinance, which the clerk shall pre¬ 
 sent to the city council, if in session, and if not in session, to 
 the Mayor, and in case of the absence or inability of the 
 Mayor the Clerk shall determine the amount to be paid by the 
 applicant, and upon the payment thereof and fees, the city 
 Clerk shall issue to the applicant a license as in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 6, Be it further ordained , That the city Clerk, when 
 the city council shall not be in session, on the proper applica¬ 
 tion and upon the payment to him of five dollars for the use 
 
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 «of tlic city, may grant a license to any person, in all cases 
 where license is authorized and required under any ordinance 
 of the city, until the next meeting of the city council. The 
 clerk shall at such next meeting present such application to 
 the city council, who shall act upon the same, and -the amount 
 so paid by the applicant shall be allowed him as a part of the 
 sum determined upon for a license in the case by the city 
 council. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That any person who shall 
 violate the provisions of this ordinance, or of any other ordi¬ 
 nance of the city relating to licenses, or requiring a license, 
 and where not otherwise specially provided, shall forfeit and 
 pay to the city of Quincy a sum not exceeding one hundred 
 dollars, in the discretion of the Police Magistrate’s court, 
 which shall be recovered in the same manner as other penal¬ 
 ties and fines for breach of city ordinances, are recovered. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained. That when any person or 
 persons shall wish to exercise the business of a common auc¬ 
 tioneer, within the limits of the city, he may obtain a license 
 therefor from the city clerk, authorizing him or them to act as 
 •such common autioneer within the city, subject however, to the 
 approval of, and to be at any time cancelled by, the city council 
 for the period of one year, upon the payment of fifty dollars and 
 at that rate for a shorter time upon such person or persons, exe- 
 ecuting a bond to the city of Quincy in the penal sum of one 
 thousand dollars, or more if required at any time by the city 
 council, and conditioned for the faithful discharge of his du¬ 
 ties as such auctioneer, and for the payment of all moneys 
 which shall come to his hand as such auctioneer, to the person 
 or persons entitled thereto, and for the payment to the city of 
 all commissions which may accrue to said city in his business 
 under any ordinance; which bond shall be filed in the city 
 clerk’s office. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That such auctioneer shall 
 make a written report to the city council or the city clerk, 
 once in every three months; which report shall be under oath 
 and shall set forth the names of persons for whom he may 
 mve made sales; the time of each sale, the kind of property, 
 
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 and amount sold for each person, and the total amount of sales 
 for the preceding three months, and which report shall distin¬ 
 guish between property brought to the city to be sold at auc¬ 
 tion and that brought for private and other purposes in the 
 ordinary routine of business; and for the purpose of enabling 
 such auctioneers to ascertain this fact, he may require any per¬ 
 son procuring such sale to be sworn and examined in this re¬ 
 spect. And such auctioneer shall at the time of making such 
 report pay the city clerk for the use of the city five per centum 
 on all sales of property brought to the city, to be sold at auc¬ 
 tion, and one-half per centum on all other sales.' 
 
 Sec. 10. Beit further ordained , That every auctioneer afore¬ 
 said, who shall fail to make the report provided for in the 9th 
 section of this ordinance, or who shall make a false report, or 
 who shall exercise the business, or hold himself out as a com¬ 
 mon auctioneer within the city, without license, and every per¬ 
 son procuring any property to be sold at auction, who shall 
 refuse to make the oath and submit to the examination men¬ 
 tioned in said section of this ordinance, shall be subject to the 
 same forfeitures and penalties provided for in the seventh sec¬ 
 tion of this ordinance. No person shall, within the limits of 
 the city, sell, barter or exchange any spirituous liquors, wine, 
 fermented or malt liquors, or cider, in a less quantity than one 
 quart, except for purely medicinal, sacramental or mechanical 
 purposes; and every person offending in this respect, shall be 
 subject to the same forfeitures and penalty provided for in the 
 seventh section of this ordinance.. 
 
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 NO. VI. 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the Sale of Lumber. 
 
 Sec. 1. License to be obtained to sell Lumber. City Clerk- to issue 
 License. Proviso as to persons selling. 
 
 2. Raftsmen and others to obtain License. 
 
 3. Harbor Mister and Marshal to enforce this Ordinance. 
 
 4. Penalties for violation. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy . That lumber, including shingles, lath and square tim¬ 
 ber of every variety kept in the city for sale, shall be deemed 
 merchandize, and the venders thereof shall be required to take 
 out a special license therefor, to be denominated “lumber li¬ 
 cense,” for which they shall pay to the city the same rates that 
 arc or shall be charged for store license; and no person shall 
 bo allowed to sell any of said articles within the limits of said 
 city, without having"procured said special license therefor, ex¬ 
 clusive and independent of all other licenses, from the city 
 clerk; Provided , however, that this ordinance shall not apply 
 to any resident of the city not engaged in rafting or vending 
 lumber, who may sell any single lot of lumber in the ordinary 
 course of dealing, and not for the purpose of his gain or profit; 
 nor shall this section be so construed as to include any of the 
 above mentioned articles of merchandize manufactured within 
 the city of Quincy or county of Adams, or to lumber sold to 
 lumber merchants or dealers to sell again in said city, in strict 
 accordance with this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That hereafter no owner or 
 agent, or commander of any steamboat, raft or other craft, or 
 any other person not an actual resident of said city, shall'be al¬ 
 lowed to sell within the limits of said city, any lumber, shingles, 
 lath or square timber, except to lumber mercahnts, or unless the 
 same shall have been manufactured within the said city of Quin¬ 
 cy or county of Adams, as provided in the first section of this or¬ 
 dinance, without having obtained a license from the city there¬ 
 for; for which license each person applying for the same shall 
 pay five per cent, on the amount of his stock proposed to be of- 
 cred for sale by him duly certified and sworn to. 
 
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 Sec. 3, Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the City Harbor Master, Police Constable and of the City Mar¬ 
 shal, to inform all lumber dealers of the city and all persons 
 landing for sale any lumber or raft of lumber within the city, 
 of the provisions of this ordinance, and to collect and pay 
 over to the city clerk from all raftsmen, agents or other persons 
 embraced within the provisions of this ordinance, the per cent- 
 age and tax imposed by this ordinance. It shall be the duty of 
 
 said Harbor master, Police Constable and of said Citv Mar- 
 
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 shal, to cause all persons violating the provisions of this ordi¬ 
 nance, to be prosecuted and the penalties herein provided for 
 to be collected; Provided , that the failure to give the notice 
 before mentioned, shall not defeat the collection of any penalty 
 herein imposed. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That any person who shall 
 violate the provisions of this ordinance, shall for every offence 
 forfeit and pay fifty dollars, one-half of which shall be paid to 
 the informer, and the balance into the city treasury, to be re¬ 
 covered in the name of the city, as other penalties are in case 
 of violation of city ordinances. 
 
 NO. VII. 
 
 An Ordinance to restrain Billiard Tables. 
 
 Sec. 1. Billiard Tables to beL'censed. 
 
 2. Penalty. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That no person shall keep a billiard table within the 
 limits ol the city for playing billiards, without having first ob¬ 
 tained a license therefor from the city council; which license 
 shall be granted for one year on payment to the city clerk of 
 the sum ol twenty-five dollars, and at that rate for a shorter 
 time. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it farther ordained , That any person who shall 
 violate the provisions of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay 
 to the city not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for 
 
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 every offence, which shall be collected as other penalties are 
 for violation of city ordinances. 
 
 NO. VIII. 
 
 An Ordinance to Define and Prohibit Nuisances . 
 
 Sec. 1. Relating to buildings and other obstructions—notices for re¬ 
 moval to be given—penalty for not complying therewith— ex¬ 
 ception in favor of persons building, &c. 
 
 2. Certain 'other nuisances defined—penalty—notice for remo¬ 
 val—penalty for not complying therewith—notice, how given, 
 and to whom—conditional exceptions. 
 
 3. Dead animals not to be brought into the city, or left to pu- 
 trify—penalty, &c. 
 
 4. Dogs and sluts, hogs and r ( pigs, running at large, declared 
 nuisances. 
 
 5. Lots to be so graded as to prevent; stagnant water—notice to 
 fill up lots to be given—penalty for not complying therewith, 
 and course to be pursued by City Council. 
 
 6. Owner of dead animals to bury or remove same—penalty for 
 failure—shall pay expense, if done by city. 
 
 7. Privies, how built—when a uuisanee—penalty. 
 
 8. Duty of Marshal on complaint of nuisance—notice to abate— 
 prosecution on failure. 
 
 9. Citizens may complain of any nuisance—Marshal’s duties.— 
 Shall be abated—expense of abatement. Mayor’s duties.— 
 City Council may declare nuisance and order abatement. Mar¬ 
 shal to abate—expense of same. 
 
 10. Owner to keep premises free of filth—penalty for failure— 
 Marshal to remove—expense of same. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy, That if any person shall place, or erect, or cause to be 
 placed or erected on any public ground, or in any public street, 
 lane, avenue or alley of said city, any building or other ob¬ 
 struction, the same shall be deemed a nuisance; and any per¬ 
 son so offending shall be notified by the Street Commissioner 
 in writing, to remove the same on or before a day to be speci¬ 
 fied in said notice, and on failure to comply with the same, 
 such person shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, the 
 
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 sum of not less than three nor more than twenty dollars; and 
 the Street Commissioner shall forthwith cause such building 
 or other obstruction to be removed at the expense of the per¬ 
 son so offending, which fine and expense shall be' collected as 
 in other cases; Provided , that any person engaged in erecting 
 a building or fence, or improving any lot on any such street, 
 lane, avenue or alley, may receive a written permission from 
 the Street Commissioner to deposit materials therein, and con¬ 
 tiguous to such lot for such length of time as said Street Com¬ 
 missioner may deem necessary for such erection and improve¬ 
 ment; and Provided further, that any person desirous of obtain¬ 
 ing such permission shall pay therefor the sum of fifty cents 
 per week; and that such permission shall not extend to more 
 than one-naif of the width of the side walk adjacent to such 
 impi o\ ernent, or to more than fourteen feet of the street adja¬ 
 cent to said side walk, the gutter always being left free and 
 unobstructed. 
 
 Sec. Pe it further ordained, That if any person shall 
 erect or maintain, or cause to be erected or maintained, any 
 obstruction across any water course or ravine within the lim¬ 
 its of said city, so as to make stagnant water therein, or shall 
 deposit any noxious or offensive matter, earth, stones, straw, 
 hay, manure or any other article or substance whatever which 
 may tend to obstruct the gutter of any street, lane, avenue or 
 alley, or endanger the health of the citizens, or shall conduct 
 Into any sti eet, lane, avenue or alley ol said city, through 
 sewers or otherwise, any filthy or unclean water from his 
 kitchen, house, shop or manufactory; or shall keep or main¬ 
 tain privy-vault, hog-pen, manure or sink-hole, in such place or 
 manner as shall be offensive to the neighborhood in which the 
 same may be, or be likely to be injurious to the health of any 
 ot the citizens; or shall erect, keep up or maintain any slaugh- 
 tei "house, the same shall be considered a public nuisance. Any 
 person who shall offend in any of the foregoing respects, shall 
 forfeit and pay for the use of said city, a sum not less than five 
 dollars nor more than fifty dollars for every such offence, and 
 shall be notified by the City Marshal or Street Commissioner 
 to remove any such nuisance, and to purify and cleanse any 
 
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 mcli place within a reasonable time; and any person failing to 
 comply with such notice, shall forfeit and pay for the use of 
 said city, the sum of two dollars for every twenty four hours 
 any such nuisance may be suffered to remain, and all expenses 
 attending the removal thereof. If the person owning any 
 such house, lot or other place, is not a resident of said city, or 
 cannot be found, the City Marshal or Street Commissioner 
 may remove the nuisance at the expense of the city; Provided , 
 that in case of erecting, keeping, or maintaining any slaughter¬ 
 house, or other place where an offensive business is carried on, 
 notice shall be given in writing to desist from pursuing any 
 gucli slaughtering or other offensive business, and to pmify 
 and cleanse any such place within a reasonable time; and I 'ro¬ 
 unded further, that any owner or occupant of any lot m said 
 city, wishing to improve the same, shall not be liable to the 
 provisions of this ordinance, if he raises the grade thereof so 
 that no stagnant water shall stand thereon, said grade to cor¬ 
 respond with that of the adjacent street, lane, avenue or alley, 
 and also provided further , that in no such improvement, shall 
 any permanently running water be obstructed. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That if any person shall bring 
 or cause to be brought, within the limits of said city, any dead 
 animal, and leave the same to putrify therein; or whoever, 
 being the owner or possessor of any animal which shall die 
 therein, and knowing of its death, shall not cause the same to 
 be removed, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, the 
 sum of five dollars for every such offence; and the city mar¬ 
 shal shall cause the same to be removed at the expense of any 
 such person so offending, which fine and expense shall be col, 
 
 lected as in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained. That all hogs, pigs, dogs, and 
 sluts, running at large contraay to the provisions of any ordi¬ 
 nance relating thereto, are hereby declared to be nuisances, 
 and shall be dealt with as therein provided. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , 4 hat all lots of land, within 
 the limits of said city, shall be so graded by the owners there¬ 
 of as to prevent standing or stagnant water thereon; and the 
 owner of each and every lot whereon any such standing or 
 
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 stagnant water may be, shall be notified, in writing, by the city 
 marshal, or street commissioner, to fill up and grade the same* 
 within a xeasonable time, so as to prevent any such nuisance p 
 and any person failing to comply with such notice,.shall forfeit 
 and pay, for the use of said city, the sum of five dollars, and 
 the city marshal or street commissioner shall forthwith report 
 such failure to the city council; and the city council shall take^ 
 such measures relative thereto, and for filling and grading the 
 
 same, as are provided in cases of refusal to make or repair side- 
 walks. 
 
 fecc. 0, Be it further ordained , That whenever any dead ani¬ 
 mal shall be within the limits of said city, as mentioned in, 
 the third section of this ordinance; or otherwise, the owner 
 and the person in whose possession the same may be, or may 
 have last been, shall, having knowledge thereof, within 
 twenty-four hours thereafter, bury the same at least four feet 
 under ground, or shall remove the same one-half mile beyond' 
 the limits of the city r and one-fourth of a mile beyond the 
 residence of any family, office, or place of business^and any 
 person failing to do so, shall forfeit and pay to the city of 
 Quincy not less than five, nor more than fifty dollars, and shall 
 pay to the city the expense of such burial or removal, should 
 the same be done by the city authorities: This section shall 
 
 m nowise affect any duty or penalty provided for in the third 
 section of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That no person or persons 
 snail construct on his or her premises, any privy or privy 
 vault within less than one hundred feet of any dwelling, store,, 
 office, or place of work or business, unless the vault be at 
 least ten feet deep from the surface of the ground, and walled 
 lioin bottom to top with stone, bricks, or wood, nor shall any 
 such vault be within eighteen inches of the line of the adjoin¬ 
 ing premises. Any privy constructed contrary to the provi- 
 siono oi this section, within the limits of the city, shall be 
 deemed a nuisance; and any person violating the provisions of 
 this section, shall; forfeit and pay to the city of Quincy not less, 
 than five, nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained, That it shall be the duty oft 
 
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 the city marshal, on complaint of any citizen, to examine any 
 privy or privy vault complained of, and if in his opinion it be 
 offensive to the neighborhood, or to any person, he shall notify 
 the owner or occupant thereof to abate the same; and if such 
 owner or occupant neglect to do the same within three days 
 thereafter, then the said marshal shall make due complaint, for 
 prosecution in the premises, to the police magistrate’s court. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That in case of any sink r 
 gutter, private sewer, or any other thing within the limits of 
 the city, of an offensive or unhealthy character, upon the 
 premises or within any building owned or occupied by any 
 person, any citizen can make complaint thereof to the city 
 marshal, whose duty it shall be to examine the matter or thing 
 complained of, and if in his opinion the same is of an offensive 
 or unhealthy character, he shall notify the owner or occupant 
 thereof to abate the same; and if such owner or occupant 
 siiall not within three days thereafter abate the same, said city 
 marshal shall make due complaint thereof, for prosecution, to- 
 the police magistrate’s court. And in all such cases, and in 
 any case of nuisance, the mayor may direct the marshal or po¬ 
 lice constable forthwith to abate such nuisance, and it shall be 
 his duty forthwith to abate such nuisance, and the owner or 
 occupant of the premises, or of the thing abated, shall be liable 
 to pay to the city the expense occasioned thereby. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained , That the owner, owners, 
 occupant, or occupants, respectively, of each lot, house, 
 premises, or any appurtenance thereto, of whatever descrip¬ 
 tion, shall keep the same and every part thereof free of all 
 filth, material or thing offensive to the neighborhood about the 
 same, or of an unhealthy character, or which would be likely to* 
 contribute to disease, contagion or infection ol any kind; and 
 in case of failure so to do, each and every such owner, owners,, 
 occupant or occupants, shall forfeit and pay to the city oi 
 Quincy not less than three, nor more than one hundred dollars;: 
 and the city marshal shall cause the same to be cleansed and 
 purified, and the owner, owners, occupant or occupants there¬ 
 of. and each of them, shall be liable to the city for all expense 
 occasioned thereby. 
 
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 NO. IX. 
 
 An Ordinance relating to Bogs Running at Large , 
 
 isEC. 1. Dogs find Sluts to fas prohibited from running at large, except 
 the same are registered, &c. Tax to be paid annually. 
 
 2. Dogs and Sluts running at large contrary to Ordinance, de¬ 
 clared nuisances. Penalty therefor. 
 
 3. Shall be killed by the Police Constable, after notice. Notice 
 given. Fee for killing. 
 
 4. Poiic) Constable not to he prevented from performance of 
 duty under this Ordinance. Penalty. 
 
 5. Exceptions under thF Ordinance. 
 
 6. Mayor may cause to be killed. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of 
 Quincy , That no dog or slut kept within the limits of said 
 city, shall run at large within said limits, unless the owner 
 thereof shall put upon the neck of such dog or slut a collar 
 made of metal, or a collar having a metallic plate affixed 
 thereto, on which the name of such owner shall be inscribed 
 in plain letters, and unless such owner shall also give his name 
 and a description of such dog or slut to the Police Constable, 
 who shall register the same in a book kept for the purpose, 
 anct at the same time pay to said Police Constable a tax of 
 one dollar for each and every dog, and live dollars for each 
 and every slut by him kept and suffered to run at large, and 
 thereaftei annually pay a like tax on such dog or slut; and the 
 Police Constable shall, after deducting the fee for registry, pay 
 
 the balance of such tax into the treasury, taking a receipt 
 therefor. 
 
 Sec 2. Be it further ordained , That every dog or slut run¬ 
 ning at large contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, 
 shall be deemed a nuisance, and the owner thereof shall for¬ 
 feit and pay for the use of said city the sum of five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That every dog or slut run¬ 
 ning at laige contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, 
 shall be killed by or under the direction of the Police Consta¬ 
 ble, and for which he shall be paid out of the City Treasury, 
 fifty cents for each dog or slut so killed. 
 
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 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That no person shall in any 
 way prevent, or attempt to prevent the Police Constable, or 
 any person acting by his direction, from performing any duty 
 required by this ordinance; and every person so offending 
 shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than ten 
 dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars lor every such 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That this ordinance shall not 
 apply to any dog or slut under the age of two months, or to 
 any dog or slut brought into the city by its owner, such owner 
 not being a resident, until such dog shall have been in the city 
 three days at least. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That the Mayor may from 
 time to time, on an alarm of mad dogs, in his discretion pro¬ 
 hibit, by notice in some public newspaper, all dogs from run¬ 
 ning at large within the limits ot the city, and may appoint 
 deputies with authority to kill all dogs or sluts running at 
 large within the city; and such prohibition shall continue so 
 Tong as the public safety, in the opinion of the Mayor, may 
 require; and such prohibition shall remain in force until the 
 Mayor shall give public notice of the discontinuance thereof. 
 
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 NO. X. 
 
 Jhi 0) diance relating to Swine Running at Large. 
 
 Sec. 1. Hogs and Pigs running at large declared nuisances—penalty 
 therefor. J 
 
 2. City Marshal to take up and confine all such Hogs and Pjo-g_ 
 
 if not redeemed to be disposed of-Marshal may employ help 
 
 interference with Marshal in performance of his duty pro¬ 
 hibited, and penalty. J F 
 
 3. Hog or Pig to be restored on payment of penalty and fee—if 
 
 not redeemed, howsold-sale not to release owner from pen- 
 alty and costs. t 
 
 4. Money received from sales, how disposed of—fees of Marshal. 
 
 5. Additional fee to Marshal. 
 
 6. No bidder at sale, Marshal to bid in the Hog or Pig for fees— 
 owner may redeem. 
 
 7. How advertised. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That every hog or pig found running at large in any 
 street, lane, avenue or alley of said city, or in any uninclosed 
 place within its limits, is hereby declared a nuisance; and the 
 owner of each and every such hog or pig shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use of said city, the sum of one dollar for every twen¬ 
 ty-four hours such hog or pig shall run at large. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That the City Marshal is 
 hereby required to take up and confine in a secure pen, pound 
 or odier place provided by him for that purpose, every hog or 
 pig found running at large, and retain the same at least twen¬ 
 ty-four hours; and if not redeemed within said twenty-four 
 hours lie shall dispose of them as hereinafter directed; and the 
 said Marshal in the performance of the duties required by this 
 ordinance, may employ at his own expense all necessary aid; 
 and any person who shall prevent, or attempt to prevent said 
 Marshal, or those employed by him, from performing any of 
 the duties required by this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay, for 
 the use of said city, not less than ten dollars, nor more than 
 twenty-five dollars, for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That if the owner of any 
 such hog or pig shall, within twenty-four hours after the same 
 
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 is taken up, pay the City Marshal the penalty herein provided 
 arid the fee for taking up and keeping the same, such hog or 
 pig shall he restored to the owner; and if the owner does not 
 redeem the same within said time by payment aforesaid, the 
 City Marshal shall, within the next twenty-four hours, expose 
 and sell the same at public auction to the highest and best bid¬ 
 der, for cash, between the hours of nine and ten o’clock in the 
 forenoon at the place of confinement; Provided , however, that 
 the sale of any such hog or pig shall not release the owner 
 from the penalty and costs incurred for permitting the same to 
 run at large. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That the money received on 
 the sale of any such hog or pig, after deducting the penalty 
 and twenty-five cents for taking up and keeping, and fifty 
 cents for selling such hog or pig, shall be paid to the owner 
 thereof on application to the City Marshal within six mooths 
 after such sale; but if no application is made, the balance over 
 and above the Marshal’s compensation shall be paid to the 
 Treasurer, for the use of the eity- 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That the City Marshal, in 
 addition to the foregoing fees, is hereby authorized to retain, 
 as fees, one half of all money by him received as penalties un¬ 
 der this ordinance, and required to pay the balance into the 
 treasury. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be if further ordained, That if no person shall bid 
 •at any sale the whole amount of costs for taking up, keeping and 
 selling, provided for in this ordinance, it shall be lawful for 
 the City Marshal for himself, to bid thereon for the amount of 
 his costs and charges; and, no one bidding more, the property 
 offered shall be struck off to the Marshal as in other cases. 
 And the owner of any hog or pig taken up; as aforesaid, may 
 redeem the same at any time before sale of the same, as pro¬ 
 vided for in the third section of this ordinance- 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That the City Marshal shall, 
 before selling any hog or pig under this ordinance, advertise 
 the same by a written or printed notice, giving a description 
 of the property and the time and place of sale, posted up at the 
 front of the court house in said city for at least twenty-four 
 
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 hours before the time of sale, and said Marshal may in his dis¬ 
 cretion, adjourn such sale from day to day, if necessary to get 
 bidders. And, if said Marshal have reason to believe that any 
 hog or pig so taken up, is owned by any person residing with¬ 
 out the limits of the city, it shall then be his duty to advertise 
 the same, as aforesaid, for forty-eight hours. 
 
 NO. XL 
 
 Jin Ordinance Relating to Filling up of Lots and Abating Nui¬ 
 sances. 
 
 Sec. 1. Owners to mpp lots with grade. Declared nuisance when. 
 
 Owner to fill up. Panalty for failure. 
 
 2. Lot may be sold for filling up. City may fill up. May sell for 
 
 expense. 
 
 3. Mode of procedure and costs. 
 
 Section 1 . Re it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , I hat it shall be the duty of all owners of lots within 
 the limits oi the city, to keep the same and the surface there¬ 
 of of such le\ el and height as will cause the water to run 
 therefrom to and along the grade of some adjoining street, 
 alley, culvert or sewer erected under authority of the city! 
 xind whenever, from whatever cause, whether from erecting or 
 giading streets, alleys, or sidewalks, under authority of the 
 city, or from any other cause, any lot or part of lot shall be 
 below the grade of the adjoining streets, alleys or sidewalks, 
 so that the water thereon will not run off the same and from 
 the surface thereof, but shall thereon stand and remain, whether 
 stagnant or not, such lot or part of lot, in such condition, and 
 in such quantity, as held or owned by any person or persons 
 at the time of the commencement of such nuisance, is hereby 
 declared to be a, public nuisance. And the owner or owners 
 thereof shall forthwith cause such nuisance to be abated, by 
 filling up the ground where the water may remain and stand, 
 to such height as will cause such water to run off such lot or 
 part of lot through and along said street, alley, culvert or sew¬ 
 er erected under authority of the city. And every such owner 
 
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 or owners who shall fail so to do, for the period of ten days, 
 shall forfeit and pay to the city of Quincy, for each and every 
 ten days he or they shall permit such nuisance to remain una¬ 
 bated, as aforesaid, not less than five nor more than one hun¬ 
 dred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That in case the owner 
 or owners of any such lot or part of lot shall fail to cause any 
 such nuisance to be abated, as aforesaid, the city Council may 
 cause to be advertised and sold by the city Clerk, such lot, or 
 any portion thereof, to any person who shall bid the least 
 quantity of such lot for the abatement of such nuisance, in 
 manner aforesaid 5 and the city Clerk shall execute to the pur¬ 
 chaser a deed for the portion of such lot sold upon the order 
 of the city Council, such nuisance having been lawfully abated, 
 in manner before mentioned, by such purchaser; and in case of 
 any such nuisance upon any lot or part of lots, and of failure 
 of the owner or owners thereof to abate the same, as aforesaid, 
 the city Council may, if deemed advisable, cause an assess¬ 
 ment of the expense of abating such nuisance to be made by 
 the city Engineer, which assessment shall be made in writing, 
 returned to, and recorded by, the city Clerk in his office. The 
 assessment aforesaid shaM exhibit the total expense of abating 
 such nuisance, and in case the same shall be upon the premises 
 of more than one person, and known to said Engineer, said 
 assessment shall exhibit an apportionment of such assessment 
 upon each lot or part of lot, as the case may be, owned or 
 claimed by different persons, as aforesaid, according to the 
 estimated expense of filling or other work necessary upon each 
 for the complete abatement of such nuisance, or the portion 
 thereof to which such assessment may relate; and the city 
 Council may cause such nuisance, or any portion thereof, to bo 
 abated by filling up or otherwise, at the expense of the city. 
 Each lot and part of lot upon which such assessment shall be 
 made, as aforesaid, shall be sold by the city Clerk for the 
 satisfation of the assessment aforesaid made upon them respec¬ 
 tively, unless paid by the owner thereof, and such assessment 
 shall constitute a special tax thereon according to the appor¬ 
 tionment thereof, and shall be a lien, together with the costs of 
 
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 sale, upon every such lot or part of lot from dhe time of the 
 recording of such assessment, as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That the sales provided for 
 in this ordinance, shall be made upon the same notice and in 
 the same manner, except that the Clerk shall make the sale, 
 and the same right of redemption shall exist as is provided for 
 in cases of sales for city taxes under the revenue ordinances of 
 the city in force at the time of such sale, but a deed shall be 
 -executed to the purchaser upon his complying with the terms 
 of sale, without further delay. The Clerk shall be entitled to 
 the same fees and costs as may be allowed in similar cases by 
 the ordinance last mentioned, when not otherwise provided for. 
 
 NO. XII. 
 
 ■ An Ordinance relating to Streets, Alleys and Side Walks, and 
 
 Street Superintendent. 
 
 Sec. 1. When owners petition, damages released. 
 
 2. Paving and grading of Sidewalks. 
 
 3. Same to be done or paid for by owner. How done. 
 
 4. IIow special tax levied and collected. Proviso in case of in¬ 
 fants. 
 
 5. IIow sidewalks repaired. Owner failinpr, city to repair and 
 collect off lot. 
 
 6. Earth not to be removed from sidewalks or streets without 
 permission. 
 
 7. General duties of Street Superintendent. St. Commiss’r to be. 
 
 8. How contracts let and bids for opened. 
 
 D. City Council to act on bids and determine rights. 
 
 10. Bonds to be given by contractors. 
 
 11. How claims against the city allowed. Auditing Committee 
 
 appointed; their duties. Clerk’s duties. Ho claim paid until 
 audited. 
 
 ^ \‘ l ‘ : or dained by the City Council of the city of 
 
 Quincy, That in any case when any or all the owners shall 
 petition lor the opening, altering, .extending, or widening of 
 any street, alley or avenue, the city council shall cause the 
 same to be done, it deemed by them advisable, but such peti- 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 tion shall be taken as a release of all damages by the several 
 petitioners. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That whenever it shall be¬ 
 come necessary and expedient to pave and grade the side¬ 
 walks on any street, avenue or alley, or any part thereof, with¬ 
 in the limits of said city, the city council shall pass an order 
 to that efiect, which order shall set forth the particular locality 
 where such paving and grading is required to be done, and 
 the time that is allowed for completing the same; and the pub¬ 
 lication of such order in the paper selected by the city council 
 to publish their proceedings for the time being, shall be deem¬ 
 ed a sufficient notice to the owner or holders of lots fronting on 
 any such street, lane, avenue or alley, where any such paving 
 and grading is to be done as therein specified. 
 
 I Sec. 3. Be it further ordained That all such paving and gra¬ 
 ding shall be done in conformity witli the grade of the street, 
 lane, avenue or alley, under the direction of the Street Com¬ 
 missioner; and all expenses of paving, grading and repairing 
 of any sidewalk shall be paid by the owners or holders of 
 lots fronting where such paving, grading or repairing is to be 
 done. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That if the owner or holder 
 of any lot or part of lot shall neglect to grade or to pave his 
 sidewalk, in conformity with the order of the city council pub¬ 
 lished as aforesaid, the Street Commissioner shall contract for 
 die same to be done at the expense of the city, and shall make 
 ; lis report of the expense thereof to tlie city council, and the 
 pty council shall levy a special tax on such lot or part of lot 
 •espectively, in front of which the Street Commissioner may 
 lave contracted for any such grading or paving which tax 
 I’hall be of sufficient amount to cover the expense thereof, to¬ 
 gether with all costs and expenses connected therewith; and 
 mmediately after such levy the city clerk shall advertise and 
 ell the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay 
 he expenses and costs of such grading or paving and costs of 
 ale. The advertisement and sale shall be conducted accord- 
 ng to, and governed by the ordinances of the city in force at 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 the time of such sale, relating to the city revenue from taxes, 
 and the same rights of redemption shall exist as may be pro¬ 
 vided for by such ordinances; Provided , however, that when 
 any such lot, or part of lot is wholly or in part owned by a 
 minor heir, and the guardian of such minor heir shall, by a pe¬ 
 tition to the city council, establish the fact of such minority 
 and of his authority to act as guardian, and desire to make 
 any special contract with said city council for having any such 
 paving or grading done, the said city council are hereby au¬ 
 thorized to instruct the Mayor, to enter into such contract; 
 and a memorandum of the terms of such contract, so author¬ 
 ized to be made, shall be entered upon the journal of the coun¬ 
 cil, and the further stipulation, that if the first payment of 
 any such contract is not punctually made, the city council shall 
 then proceed to levy a special tax as aforesaid, covering the 
 amount of such contract, interests and costs, and the same pro¬ 
 ceedings shall be had as if no such contract had been made. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That whenever any repairs 
 may be necessary to bo made on any sidewalk, the owner or 
 holder of the lot fronting thereon, or his agent, shall be noti- 
 tified by the Street Commissioner in writing thereof, which 
 notice shall set forth as near by as may be, the nature and extent 
 of the repairs required to be made; and if any such owner, 
 holder or agent shall fail to have such repairs made within 
 ten days after notice as aforesaid, or should the Street Com¬ 
 missioner be unable by reason of there being no such owner, 
 holder or agent a resident of the city to give such notice, he 
 shall proceed as in cases of failure to pave and grade side¬ 
 walks, and the city council shall levy all necessary taxes, and 
 cause the same to be collected in the manner prescribed in the 
 preceding section. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That no person shall be per¬ 
 mitted to remove the earth or substance from the sidewalk of 
 any street, alley or avenue, nor from any street, alley or ave¬ 
 nue of the city, thereby leaving such sidewalk below the estab¬ 
 lished grade, nor be permitted to fill any such sidewalk, street, 
 alley or avenue above the said grade without special permis- 
 
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 sion from the Street Commissioner. Every person violating 
 this section shall forfeit and pay to the city of Quincy not less 
 than one nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That the Street Commission¬ 
 er of the city shall be superintendent of streets and all public 
 works and improvements of the city, and he may appoint a 
 deputy, with the consent of the city council, who shall dis¬ 
 charge the duties which may be assigned him by the Street 
 Commissioner and shall be under his direction. It shall be 
 the duty of the Street Commissioner to see that the streets, 
 alleys, avenues and sidewalks of the city are kept in repair 
 and free from obstruction, and may for that purpose, at all 
 times, call to his aid the City Marshal and Police Consta¬ 
 ble, to contract for the grading and opening of streets and re¬ 
 pairing the same; to contract for the grading, paving and re¬ 
 pairing of sidewalks, when the owners or holders of the lots 
 fronting on the same, fail to do such grading, paving or re¬ 
 pairing, and to make report to the city council in writing of 
 the costs of all such grading, paving and repairing, fronting 
 on the lot, premises, or part of lot of each owner, giving a de¬ 
 scription of each lot or part of lot and the owner’s name; to 
 superintend all grading, paving and other works and improve¬ 
 ments of the city, or done by the city; to make, order or con¬ 
 tract for the repair or improvement of any street, alley avenue, 
 or any other improvement or matter relating to the public 
 highways of the city; and generally to take charge of, and su¬ 
 perintend all public property, improvements, works or otlier 
 enterprise of the city, not otherwise specially provided for 
 Sec. 8 . Be it further ordained , That in making any con¬ 
 tract under this ordinance, or under any resolution of the city 
 council, the Street Commissioner shall, if the amount thereof 
 exceed fifty dollars, give notice to contractors of the work or 
 improvement to be made, by a notice thereof published for ten 
 days in some newspaper published in the city, or by hand bill, 
 unless in case of emergency, when such notice may be dispens¬ 
 ed with, and whenever the amount of such contract exceeds 
 one hundred dollars, a like notice shall be given for fifteen 
 days, unless in case of emergency, when, with consent of the 
 
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 city council, such notice and the bidding hereinafter mentioned 
 may be dispened with, particularly describing the work or im¬ 
 provement to be let and contracted for, and requesting all per¬ 
 sons, by a certain day and hour, to deposit with the city clerk 
 any bid they may wish to make in writing and sealed; which 
 said sealed bids shall, after the lapse of the time for bidding, 
 be opened by the city clerk in the presence of the city council, 
 or of the Mayor, and at least three Aldermen. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That the bids in the last 
 section of this ordinance mentioned, shall be laid before the 
 city council as soon as practicable thereafter, and the city 
 council shall determine who is the lowest bidder, and to whom 
 the work of improvement bid for shall be awarded. If, how¬ 
 ever, the citv council should deem it advisable not to accept 
 any bid made they may do so, and shall thereupon direct no¬ 
 notice to be given anew, or may make such other order in the 
 premises as to them may seem most to the interest of the city. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained, That the notice for sealed 
 bids, provided for in this ordinance, shall ako notify all pei- 
 sons that no bids will be noticed unless the same be accompa¬ 
 nied with a written guaranty of some responsible person; that 
 should the bid be accepted, the bidder shall forthwith enter 
 into sufficient bonds with security to be approved by the Street 
 Commissioner or city council, conditioned for the pcrfoimance of 
 his contract, to perform such work or make such improvement 
 according to the tenor of his said bid. And when any contract 
 of any kind shall be made under this ordinance, or any resolu¬ 
 tion of the city council, when the amount thereof exceeds fifty 
 dollars, the party contracting shall give bond to the city in 
 such sum as the Street Commissioner or city council may re¬ 
 quire and with sucurity to be approved by the tbiect Commis¬ 
 sioner or city council, conditioned for the due and faithful 
 performance of the work or improvement undei taken, and 
 which said bond shall set forth the contract between the city 
 and the party contracting to do the work or make the im¬ 
 provement. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further ordained, That no claim or demand 
 against the city, unless the same be due by bond of the city, 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 for salaries of offices of the city, or of such a nature as to re¬ 
 quire only payment, the amount being certain, fixed and fully 
 liquidated as to amount, or capable of being reduced to cer¬ 
 tainty by computation only, shall be paid without having first 
 been examined, ascertained and certified to by the auditing 
 Committee hereinafter provided for, and also ordered to be 
 paid by the city council. The city council shall so soon as 
 practicable appoint an auditing committee for the purpose 
 aforesaid, to consist of one Alderman from each ward who 
 shall hold his office until the next annual organization of the 
 city council; and such committee shall be appointed at each 
 annual organization aforesaid, or so soon thereafter as practi¬ 
 cable, from year to year. It shall be the duty of the city clerk 
 to lay before said committee all such claims presented for al¬ 
 lowance, and said committee shall examine the same, and the 
 proofs and allegations made, and may require special proof, 
 and shall audit, allow or disallow as the rights of the parties 
 and justice may require, and shall make report thereof in wri¬ 
 ting to the city council at each meeting thereof, which report 
 shall be filed by the city clerk, and acted upon by the city 
 council so soon as practicable thereafter. 
 
 NO. XIII. 
 
 9 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the Quincy Cemetery. 
 
 Sec. 1. Land appropriated for a Cemetery. 
 
 2. Certain Divisions made into lots, &c. 
 
 3. Certificate to purchasers of lots and deed—forms thereof. 
 
 4. Interments, how made—fencing, &c., of lots regulated. 
 
 5. Fees for digging graves, &c. 
 
 6. Sexton to have charge of Cemetery. 
 
 7. Cemetery funds, how applied. 
 
 8. Penalty for digging graves without permission. 
 
 9. Trespassers, how dealt with. 
 
 10. Credit to be given. Notes to be collected. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council , of the City of 
 Quincy , That the tract of land purchased of E. B. Kimball 
 
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 for a burial place, and particularly described in a deed from 
 said Kimball to the President and Trustees of the town of 
 Quincy and their successors in office, recorded in the Re¬ 
 cords of deeds in the county of Adams, book K. page 154, be 
 continued for that purpose only, and called the “ Quincy Ceme¬ 
 tery” and so designated in all certificates and bonds to pur¬ 
 chasers of lots therein. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That said tract of land shall 
 be divided and set apart, as heretofore, to-wit: so much there¬ 
 of as is included in the lots numbered from One to Three Hun¬ 
 dred and Twelve , in the north and south divisions according to 
 the survey thereof, shall be subject to entry and sale at ten 
 dollars for each lot, one half to be paid in hand and the bal¬ 
 ance in six months; so much thereof as is designated in said 
 survey as the “ PotteFs Field” shall be for the interment of 
 strangers and other persons, whose friends may so desire, on 
 application to the Sexton, and the payment to him of one dol¬ 
 lar toward the Cemetery fund, and so much of the said Pot¬ 
 ter’s Field, as is designated as “Stranger’s Ground ,” shall be ap¬ 
 propriated to the burial of individuals without charge. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That every person purchas¬ 
 ing a lot as aforesaid, on payment of the first instalment, shall 
 be entitled to a certificate in the following form to-wit : 
 
 “Received at Quincy, this day of A. D. 18 
 
 Five Dollars, being the first instalment for Lot No. in 
 the “Quincy Cemetery,” and on payment of a further sum of 
 Five Dollars to the city clerk of said city of Quincy, the said 
 will be entitled to a deed of said lot. 
 
 City Clerk.” 
 
 which certificate shall be signed by the city clerk, and entry 
 made of all such sales made by him in a book kept for that 
 purpose, specifying the number of the lot, the name of the pur¬ 
 chaser, the price thereof, and date of the sale. On payment 
 of the last instalment as herein provided, the purchaser shall 
 receive a deed of the lot purchased, to be made and executed 
 by the Mayor in the following form to-wit: 
 
 “Know all men by these presents, that the city of Quincy, 
 in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, in consideration 
 
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 of Ten Dollars, paid by the receipt whereof is 
 
 hereby acknowledged, has granted, bargained and sold, and 
 docs hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said 
 his heirs and assigns forever, Lot No. in the “ Quincy 
 
 Cemetery ,” a plat of which will be seen by reference to the re¬ 
 cords of said Adams county, in book K. page 154. 
 
 “To have and to hold said Lot No. to him the said 
 
 his heirs and assigns forever for a burial place, and 
 for no other purpose whatever, and subject to such regulations 
 as shall be established by the city council in relation to said 
 Cemetery; Provided, that such regulations shall not be repug¬ 
 nant to the spirit and intent of a deed of said land from Ed¬ 
 ward B. Kimball. 
 
 In testimony whereof, I, Mayor of said 
 
 [seal] City of Quincy, have hereunto set my hand and caused 
 the seal of said city to be affixed, this day of 
 A. D. 185 . Mayor. 
 
 “ State of Illinois,) 
 
 7 V SS 
 
 Adams County. j This day personally appeared 
 Mayor of said city of Quincy, personally known to me to be 
 the person who executed, and whose name is subscribed to the 
 foregoing deed, and acknowledged the same to be his free act 
 and deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed. 
 
 J. P. [L. S.]” 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That all interments on pri¬ 
 vate lots, or other parts of the cemetery, shall be made at least 
 four feet deep, and the grave dug at least four and a half 
 inches within the line of the lots; and all fencing, vaults or 
 ornaments that may be erected by individuals on their lots 
 shall be so erected as not to obstruct any of the alleys, walks 
 or access to any of them; Provided , that any owner, in erecting 
 a wall to enclose his lot, may build the same so as to extend a 
 part, not more than four and a half inches on the adjoining lots. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That the fees for the digging 
 of graves, and for interments, shall be as follows, to wit: For 
 each interment on private lots, two dollars, to be paid to the 
 
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 sexton from the estate of the deceased ’ for each interment in 
 the “Potter’s Field’’ two dollars, to be paid in like manner, and 
 where there is no such estate, or any individual liable therefor, 
 the same shall bo paid to the sexton from the city treasury * 
 Provided , that in all cases where the sexton does not attend the 
 corpse from the residence of the deceased to the burial place, 
 the fee shall be one dollar. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further ordained T That the cemetery shall be 
 under the care and supervision of the sexton, subject to the 
 order of the city Council, for which he shall receive a reasona¬ 
 ble compensation. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That all funds (according to 
 the provisions contained in the deed from said Kimball,) aris¬ 
 ing from the sale of cemetery, lots, or otherwise, after defray¬ 
 ing the cost of the cemetery, shall be appropriated to the pay¬ 
 ment of the taxes, current expenses and improvements thereof. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That any person who shall 
 dig any grave in the cemetery, except under the direction of 
 the sexton, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said cemetery 
 the sum of five dollars for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That if any owner of a lot 
 or lots in the cemetery shall trespass upon the rights of any 
 other owner or o wners of a lot or lots therein, or on any of the 
 walks, alleys, or grounds therein, or shall refuse or neglect to 
 comply with the regulations of said cemetery, he shall be lia¬ 
 ble for damages in an action by said city of Quincy, before 
 any court competent to try the same. 
 
 Sec. 10 . Be it further ordained , That any person wishing 
 to purchase a lot in the Quincy cemetery, and. who, shall be 
 unable at the time of application to make payment therefor, 
 shall be permitted to execute and deliver to the city Clerk for 
 the use of the city, a note with good security, to be approved 
 by the city Clerk, payable three months after date. And if # 
 such purchaser shall pay one-half of the purchase money down, 
 ho shall have six months’ credit on the other half, by giving 
 note and security as aforesaid, and in either case shall be enti¬ 
 tled to a deed for the lot purchased, when paid for.. And it 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 shall be tlie duty of tlie city Clerk to cause to be collected, 
 when due, all notes which shall be- executed, or may hereto¬ 
 fore have been executed for burial lots in said cemetery, and 
 the proceeds thereof to account for to the city Council. 
 
 NO. XIY. 
 
 On Ordinance relating to Woodland Cemetery . 
 
 Sec. 1. Deeds for Lots to bo made by Mayor. 
 
 2. Injuring fence, trees, shrubs, or any other thing of Cemetery. 
 Amusements. Disorderly conduct. Turning in animals. Us¬ 
 ing profane language. Disturbing persons. Penalty for. 
 Quincy Cemetery. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That the Mayor of the city is hereby authorized and 
 required to execute in the name of the city of Quincy and 
 under the corporate seal thereof, any deed or deeds to any pur* 
 chaser or purchrsers of burial lots in Woodland Cemetery, on 
 the written request of John Wood or his agent duly authorized 
 by him to sell lots in said cemetery, the said John Wood or 
 his agent preparing such deed or Meeds ready for execution, 
 and paying the expense accrued thereby. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That any person who shall 
 break down, deface, hack, or in any manner injure the fence 
 or enclosure of said Woodland Cemetery, or who shall tear 
 down, deface, or in any manner injure any lot, enclosure, tomb 
 stone, material erected at any grave, or any shrub, bush, flow¬ 
 ers, or other thing or ornament within said cemetery, or who 
 shall cut, hack or deface any tree or shrub, post, or in any 
 manner injure the same, or any other thing of, standing on, or 
 being within, said cemetery, or who shall in any manner injure 
 the grqss, herbage, streets, walks, ornaments, or other thing 
 of said cemetery, whether belonging to the city, or private pro¬ 
 perty, or who shall leave open any gate of the enclosure of the 
 same, or of any private burial place therein, the same being 
 done wilfully, negligently, or carelessly, or who shall therein 
 
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 engage in any sports or amusements, who shall turn any 
 beasts or animals therein, or who shall therein congregate for 
 sports, plays, or amusements, or who shall therein conduct in 
 a boisterous, rude, or indecent manner, or ill-treat any person 
 therein, or therein use profane or indecent language, or in any 
 manner disturb therein any burial party, or individual there 
 being for lawful purpose, shall forfeit and pay to the city of 
 Quincy, for every such offence, a sum not less than one, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars. This section shall also apply 
 to the Quincy Cemetery. 
 
 NO. XY. 
 
 ~'in Ordinance Relating to the Prevention and Extinguishment of 
 
 Fires. 
 
 Sec. 1 . Fire Warden shall appoint two Assistants to each Ward. 
 Their duties. Absences provided for. 
 
 2. FireWarden to inspect stoves, fire places, &c., semi-annual¬ 
 ly, or oftener, if required. Notify persons to make repairs. 
 
 3. Stoves, fire-places, &c., that may be unsafe, not to be used, 
 after inspection, until repaired. Penalty. Provision for ap¬ 
 peal to City Council. 
 
 4. Hay, straw, &o., not to be stacked within one hundred feet of 
 any building. Penalty. 
 
 5. Fires in frame buildings having no chimney, &c., prohibited. 
 Penalty. 
 
 6. Fire Warden to have charge of ladders, fire-hooks, and other 
 fire apparatus, except engine. Keep them in repair. Penal¬ 
 ty for taking without leave of Warden. 
 
 7. Fire Warden and Assistants, on alarm of fire, to repair imme¬ 
 diately to place thereof, and direct efforts for extinguishing 
 the same, &c. Authorized to command aid. Penalty for re¬ 
 fusing to obey. 
 
 8. Powers of Fire Warden and Assistants at fires. 
 
 9. File Warden or Assistants to examine houses and tenements, 
 and report breaches of this ordinance. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That the Fire Warden shall, by and with the consent 
 of the city Council, immediately after his appointment, appoint 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 91 
 
 i first and second assistant Fire Warden for each ward in said 
 ji»ity, which assistants shall do and perform any of the duties 
 levolving on the Fire Warden, whenever he shall direct; and 
 whenever the Fire Warden shall not be present at any lire in 
 said city, the assistants, in their respective wards, shall perform 
 lis duties, according to their seniority; and should the Fire 
 Warden and both assistants in the ward in which the lire occurs, 
 je absent, in that case the duties of Fire Warden shall be per¬ 
 formed by the assistants of the adjacent ward according to 
 seniority, and in case of their absence, by the assistants of the 
 remaining ward according to seniority. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That the Fire TV arden, or 
 bis assistants by his direction, shall, immediately after their 
 appointment, in April, and also in November, or oftener if 
 thought proper, inspect all stoves, fire-places, and other places 
 in which fire may be kept in said city, and all stove-pipes, 
 chimneys, funnels, or other apparatus therewith connected, lor 
 the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are so fixed as 
 not to endanger the building in which the same may be, or to 
 which they may be attached, or to endanger any other building 
 in the city; notify the occupants to make all necessary repairs, 
 and see that the same are done within a reasonable time; and 
 anv such inspection shall be made, on the 1 equest of any citi 
 zen at any time, for the purpose of ascertaining the safety 
 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That whenever, in the opin¬ 
 ion of the Fire Warden or of his assistants acting under his 
 direction, any stove, fire-place, or other appurtenances for 
 the conducting of smoke or heat from any such place, may be 
 in such a state as to render the keeping of fire therein unsafe, 
 he is required to order the occupant of the building in which 
 the same may be, or with which the same may be connected, to 
 discontinue the making of fire therein, and to make all neces¬ 
 sary and proper repairs to render the keeping 01 fire therein 
 safe, in the opinion of the said Fire Warden or his assistant 
 inspecting the same; and if any person shall make a fire there¬ 
 in, and neglect to make such necessary repairs, after being 
 
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 ordered so to do as aforesaid, the occupant of any such build¬ 
 ing shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, the sum of ten 
 dollars for every twenty-four hours the same may remain with¬ 
 out such repairs being made, and used as aforesaid : Provided ,. 
 however, that any person, feeling himself aggrieved by the 
 decision of the order of said Warden or assistant, as the case 
 may be, may appeal therefrom to the city Council at the first 
 meeting thereof after notice as aforesaid; but in all cases, the 
 order of said Fire Warden, or assistant, to discontinue the 
 making of fire therein, shall be complied with until the final 
 decision of the city Council on such appeal. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That no person shall, within 
 the limits of said city, stack or cause to be stacked, any hay, 
 straw, or other combustible material within one hundred feet 
 of any building where fire may be kept; and every person so 
 offending shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, the 
 sum of five dollars, and five dollars for every twenty-four 
 hours the same may be suffered to remain, after notice from 
 the Fire Warden or assistants in the ward to remove the same.. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That no person shall build, 
 make or kindle, or cause to be made or kindled, any fire in 
 any frame building, plank or other temporary shed of lumber,, 
 or house made of plank or other lumber, without having a 
 chimney, stove, or vault, in which to build, make or kindle 
 such fire; and every person so offending shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use ol said city, the sum of five dollars for every such 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That the Fire Warden shall 
 take charge of all ladders, fire-hooks, and other fire apparatus 
 belonging to said city, excepting fire engines, and see that the 
 same are kept in proper order and condition, and in their 
 piopei place of deposit, when not in actual use, or undergoing 
 repairs; and if any person shall take from said places of de¬ 
 posit any such apparatus, except under the direction of the 
 Fiie^ TV ai den, to be repaired, or on the alarm of fire, except 
 the fire engines, he shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said 
 city, the sum of five dollars for each and every offence, and 
 
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 $3 
 
 ave dollars for every twenty-four hours he shall neglect to 
 return the same to its proper place of deposit, after being 
 notified by the Fire Warden or assistant so to do. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That the Fire Warden and 
 his assistants shall, upon notice of the breaking out of any fire 
 in said city, repair immediately to the place thereof, vigorous¬ 
 ly exert their authority, and use their best endeavors to extin¬ 
 guish the the same, and prevent the spreading thereof, and to 
 preserve and protect the property endangered by the same; 
 and all persons are hereby required to pay due respect and 
 obedience to their commands; and any person who shall neg¬ 
 lect or refuse so to do, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of 
 said city, the sum of five dollars for every such offence; and 
 the Fire Warden or any assistant so aggrieved, shall be a com¬ 
 petent witness to prove such offence. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That during the continuance 
 of any fire, the said Fire Warden and assistants are hereby 
 empowered to command and require the services and assist¬ 
 ance of any person for the purpose of extinguishing the same, 
 and for removing household furniture, goods, wares and mer¬ 
 chandize out of any building actually on fire, or in danger 
 thereof, and to control and direct operations of all persons 
 concerned in extinguishing the fire or removing property as 
 aforesaid, and to appoint proper guards to take care of all 
 property so removed; and also to command and require the 
 services and assistance of any person for the pulling down or 
 blowing up of any house or other bluilding, and to perform 
 any other service for the purpose of extinguishing the fire and 
 preventing the spreading thereof; and also to suppress any 
 tumult or disorder that might arise during the continuance 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 9 . Be it further ordained , That the Fire Warden, or 
 his assistants under his direction, from time to time, and at 
 least once in every six months, shall visit and examine every 
 house and other tenement contemplated by this ordinance, and 
 report to the Mayor all breaches of any provision of this ordi¬ 
 nance, that every offender may be subjected to the payment 
 of any penalty herein provided for. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. XYI. 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the City Market. 
 
 Sec. 1. Market hours and days fixed. 
 
 2. Certain kinds of victuals and provisions to be sold at Market 
 during market hours—penalty for violating this section—ex¬ 
 ception. 
 
 3. Leading, riding, or driving horse, &o., or vehicle into the mar¬ 
 ket house, killing and slaughtering on market lot, depositing 
 filth, &c., prohibited—penalty. 
 
 4. Wagons, &c., to be placed outside the sidewalk, and space 
 to be left between—penalty. 
 
 5. Provisions for keeping market in proper condition—penalty 
 for incumbering, &c. 
 
 6. Sale of sick and diseased animals prohibited—penalty. 
 
 7. Sale, and exposure to sale, of unsound articles, &c., pro¬ 
 hibited—penalty. 
 
 8. Certain kinds of meat prohibited from being sold without 
 particular representation —penalty. 
 
 9. None, except owner or occupant of stall, &c., to sell fresh 
 meat by less quantity than the quarter—penalty. 
 
 10. Quantity of provisions purchased at Market limited—penalty. 
 
 11. Forestaling prohibited—penalty. 
 
 12. Sale of liquors about the Market prohibited—other prohibi¬ 
 tions—exceptions and limitations—provisions for preserva¬ 
 tion of health about the market—regulation about fires—pen- 
 ties for violation of this section. 
 
 13. Penalties for selling by false weights—duty of Clerk of the 
 Market in such cases. 
 
 14. Clerk of Market to prepare and post up rules and regulations 
 in the market. 
 
 15. Clerk of Market to issue permits. 
 
 16. Persons prohibited from selling articles purchased at mar¬ 
 ket. How vehicles to be placed. Penalty. 
 
 17. Clerk of Market to keep book—to make settlements with 
 Council. To pay over money to City Clerk. Penalty. 
 
 18. Opening and closing of Market. 
 
 19. Regulations of market. 
 
 20. Duty of Clerk of Market. Who may sell in. Regulations of 
 selling. 
 
 21. Farmers and producers may sell. 
 
 22. Sale of butcher’s stalls. Lease to be executed. Neglect to] 
 
 pay rent. Stand becoming vacant. 
 
 23. Penalties. 
 
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 SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of 
 Quincy , That the market of the city shall be open for the sale 
 of all victuals and provisions from the dawn of day until ten 
 o’clock, a. m., and from 4 o’clock, p. M., until dark, frofn the 
 first day of April until the first day of October; and from the 
 dawn of day until twelve o’clock in the forenoon, and from two 
 o’clock until dark in the afternoon, during the remainder of 
 the year, Sundays excepted. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. That all victuals and provi¬ 
 sions, whatsoever, offered for sale in said city, except all kinds 
 of grain, flour, meal, bread, butter in firkins, or other vessels, 
 exceeding fifteen pounds, nett weight, cheese, bacon, pork, by 
 the hog, beef by the quarter, beef and pork by the barrel, or 
 large casks, live cattle, sheep or hogs, shall be taken to the 
 market-house, there to be sold at market hours; and any per¬ 
 son violating this section, whether vendor or purchaser, shall 
 forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not less than one dol¬ 
 lar nor more than five dollars for every such offence; Provided , 
 That nothing in this section contained shall prevent any per¬ 
 son from selling or purchasing any of the articles specified 
 herein, out of market hours. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That no person shall lead or 
 drive into the market-house, or on any sidewalk thereof, any 
 horse or other beast, wagon, cart or carriage of any kind 
 whatever, or kill or slaughter, within the limits of the market 
 lot, any beast of the beef, sheep or hog kind, or lay thereon, or 
 deposit any dirt, filth, garbage, dung or offal therein, under 
 the penalty of five dollars, for the use of said city, for every 
 such offence. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That no wagon, cart, dray, 
 or carriage of any description, shall stand nearer the market- 
 house than the outer edge of the sidewalk, and they shall be 
 so arranged as to leave a space of at least three feet between 
 them, and shall, in no case whatsoever, encroach on the pas¬ 
 sage or avenues, passing to or from the market, under the 
 penalty of two dollars, for the use of said city, for each and 
 every offence. 
 
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 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That no person shall bring 
 or deposit upon the market lot, any nuisance, or any lumber, 
 wood, logs, timber, stone, lime, sand, brick or earth, or any 
 hogsheads, pipes, puncheons, barrels, casks, or kegs, not con¬ 
 taining provisions intending to be sold at market in the usual 
 way, or any boxes or crates containing merchandize, or other 
 articles of merchandize, not intended to be sold in market in 
 the usual manner, and every person so offending shall forfeit 
 and pay, for the use of said city, the sum of live dollars for 
 each and every offence, and a further sum in each and every 
 case, of ten dollars per day, for each and every day, that all 
 or any of said articles or things shall remain upon said lot. 
 
 Sec. G. Be it further ordained, That no butcher or other 
 person, shall sell, or expose to sale in the market, any sick or 
 diseased live animal, usually eaten for food, and for the pur¬ 
 pose and with the -design, that the same shall be immediately 
 used for food, knowing or believing the same to be sick or dis¬ 
 eased; and every person so offending shall forfeit and pay, for 
 the use of said city, a sum not less than five or more than fifty 
 dollars; Provided, that each and every sick or diseased animal 
 so sold as aforesaid, shall constitute a distinct and separate 
 offence, under the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained, That no butcher or other 
 person, shall sell, or expose to sale in the market, any dead 
 flesh or fish, which was sick, overheated, or worn or run down 
 by dogs, at or before the time when the same was butchered 
 or slain, or which hath died a violent or natural death, out of 
 the usual manner of slaying animals, or hath been killed by 
 accident, or casualty, or which is blown, stuffed, or in any way 
 unsound; and no person shall sell or expose to sale, any un¬ 
 sound eggs, butter, lard, or other damaged articles of provision; 
 and every person so offending shall forfeit and pay, for the use 
 of said city, a sum of not less than five, nor more than fifty 
 dollars; Provided, that each person to whom such offenders shall 
 have sold any of said unsound articles, shall constitute a sepa¬ 
 rate and distinct offence in the vendor; Provided, also, that all 
 articles exhibited in market, as though the same were in- 
 
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 tended for sale, whether the same be sold or not, shall be, and 
 is hereby declared to be an exposure of the same for sale, with¬ 
 in the meaning of this ordinance; and Provided , further , that 
 if an such offender shall be a butcher, owning or occupying a 
 stall, bench or block, in the market-house, he shall forfeit his 
 lease of said stall, bench or block, to said city, and shall never 
 alter be permitted to occupy any stall, bench or block in the 
 market-house. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That no butcher or other 
 person, shall sell or expose to sale in the market, the flesh of 
 an\ bull, boar, ram, dog, cat, or the flesh of any animal not 
 commonly deemed wholesome or fit food, without representing 
 to all persons wishing to purchase, the nature and true quali- 
 i ty, character and name of such animal flesh; and every person 
 so offending shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, for 
 each and every offence the sum of ten dollars; and if such of¬ 
 fender be a butcher, and the owner or occupant of a stall, bench 
 or block in said market, lie shall forfeit the same to said city, 
 and shall be subject to all the disabilities and penalties result¬ 
 ing from such disabilities which are imposed on butchers by 
 this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That no person or persona 
 whatsoever, not being the owner or occupant of a butcher’s 
 stall, bench oi block in the market house, shall be permitted 
 to cut up and sell, or ofler for sale, any kind of fresh meat by 
 less quantity than by the quarter; under the penalty of five 
 dollars, foi the use of said city, for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained. That no grocer, huckster, 
 or any other dealer in provisions shall purchase at market 
 more than ten pounds of butter, nor more than six dozen of 
 eggs, nor more than two dozen of chickens, nor more than fifty 
 pounds of bacon hams, either by themselves or agents, before 
 ten o’clock, a. m., every morning, and after four o’clock in the 
 evening; and all persons bringing butter to market shall have 
 the same weighed and sold by weight, and in no other manner 
 inder the penalty of not less than one, nor more than five dol¬ 
 lars, for the use of said city, for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 11 . Be it further ordained, That no butcher or other 
 
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 08 
 
 person whomsoever shall sell, or expose for sale, without the 
 limits of the market, any victuals or provisions of any kind, 
 which have been before purchased from any inhabitant of the 
 country, bringing or who had brought the same to said city 
 for sale, or within one mile thereof for sale, under the penalty 
 of ten dollars, for the use of said city, for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further ordained. That no person shall be al¬ 
 lowed or permitted to sell, retail, give away, or use any wines 
 or spirituous liquors, or any ale, beer, porter, cider, or any 
 brewed, fermented or mixed liquors or drinks, in or about the 
 market house, or upon the market lot; nor shall any person 
 be permitted to set up, or keep in said market house, or upon 
 the lot, any table, board, or any contrivance for the purpose of 
 eating or drinking at, about, or on the same, without the ex¬ 
 press leave of the Clerk of the Market, which leave shall not 
 extend beyond the regular market hours; nor shall any such 
 table, board or contrivance be set up, or kept in or upon any 
 other place than such place as shall be designated by said 
 clerk; nor shall any person be permitted or allowed to retail 
 or sell any meats, fish, vegetables, bread or breadstuff’s, in said 
 market house, or on the lot, to be there used or eaten, with¬ 
 out leave of said Clerk; nor shall any person be permitted 
 or allowed to throw, place, or deposit in, or upon said market 
 lot, or in the market house, any melon rinds or parings nor 
 the rinds or parings of any fruit, potatoes, turnips, or other 
 vegetables; nor shall any person be permitted to place or de¬ 
 posit upon said market lot, or in said market house, any re¬ 
 fuse, putrid or offensive animal or vegetable matter; nor shall 
 any person be permitted to use or smoke any pipe or cigar in 
 said market house, or upon said market lot, during market 
 hours; nor shall any person during market hours, kindle, or 
 burn upon said market lot, or in about said market house, any 
 wood, turf, coal, or other matter, be kindled or burned on any 
 other place on said lot, than such place designated by such 
 Clerk,; Provided , however that it shall be lawful for any per¬ 
 son, without leave, to kindle and burn charcoal upon said mar¬ 
 ket lot, and in the market house, in close earthern or stone 
 vessels; Provided^ that such vessels shall be moveable, and 
 
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 shall only be used as aforesaid during market hours, and at 
 such places and in such manner as the Clerk may direct, and 
 so as to- produce no inconvenience to persons being and pass¬ 
 ing in and about the said market house; and any person of¬ 
 fending against any of the prohibitions of this section, shall 
 for each and every separate offence, forfeit and pay for the 
 use of said city, the sum of ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be it farther ordained , That if any person selling 
 any victuals or provision in said market house, shall sell to 
 any other person any article by weight, by false weights, or 
 sell or expose to sale, as having been correctly weighed, any 
 such article, and as being of a certain weight, when in truth 
 and in fact the same shall fall short thereof, it shall be the du¬ 
 ty of the Clerk of the Market to take such article or articles 
 into his possession, and sell the same at their true weight for 
 the use of said city; and every person so offending shall also 
 forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not loss than one nor 
 more than ten dollars, for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further ordained , That the Clerk of the Mar¬ 
 ket, shall under the direction of the Committee on Markets, 
 form a set of rules for the government of the market, which 
 rules shall exhibit all the prohibitions and penalties contained 
 in this ordinance; also all regulations touching said market: 
 in a short and condensed form, which rules shall be printed on 
 a single sheet of good paper, in plain type, and shall be 
 smoothly pasted upon boards or canvas, of sufficient size, and 
 two, at least, constantly hung up, one at each end of the mar¬ 
 ket house, and others, if necessary, in the centre thereof, to be 
 kept and exhibited to all persons going to said market. 
 
 Sec. 15. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty 
 the Clerk of the Market to execute permits to all persons, au¬ 
 thorizing them to sell eggs, lard, butter, cheese, fish, poultry, 
 wild game, fruits and vegetables at the market house, or on 
 the streets and sidewalks adjoining the same, according to the 
 rules governing said market, upon the applicant paying to him 
 for a stall in the market house or for a stand outside the mar¬ 
 ket house for the season, such sum as the Committee on 
 Markets may direct. 
 
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 ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 16. Be it further ordained , That no person or persons 
 shall sell, barter or exchange any eggs, lard, butter cheese, 
 poultry, wild game, fruit or vegetables, which may have been 
 purchased by him or them at market, before the hour of eight 
 o'clock, A. M. on any day. All persons attending said market 
 with any cart or vehicle, shall place the same so that the back 
 end thereof shall be towards and at the side walk of said mar¬ 
 ket, and no such cart or vehicle shall stand lengthwise of such 
 sidewalk. Every person violating this section shall forfeit 
 and pay to the city of Quincy not more than ten nor less than 
 three dollars. 
 
 Sec. 17. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty 
 of the clerk, of the market to keep a market book, in which 
 he shall keep a correct account of all permits issued by him 
 showing the names of the persons to whom issued, the time the 
 same respectively run, the amount received for each, the time 
 the same issued and for what purpose, and also, ol all moneys 
 received by him as Clerk of the Market, of whom, in what 
 amounts and when received 5 and shall exhibit the same to the 
 city council and make full report to, and settlement with, the 
 city council at each stated meeting thereof. He shall pay over 
 all moneys due the city monthly to the city clerk, and take his 
 receipt therefor, and the same exhibit to the city council on 
 settlement with them- For any violation of this section or of 
 any section of this ordinance, the clerk of the market shall 
 forfeit and pay to the city of Quincy, not less than three nor 
 more than ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 18. Be it further ordained, That the clerk of the mar¬ 
 ket shall be provided with a bell, and it shall be his duty to 
 announce, by the ringing of the bell, the closing of the market 
 hours, at least ten minutes before the time of closing. 
 
 Sec. 19. Be it further ordained , That every owner or lessee 
 of a stall or stand in the market; and every person occupying 
 a place or stand in the market, shall within thirty minutes, af¬ 
 ter the ringing of the bell, cause his provisions, wagon, cart, 
 or other thing, to be removed from the market, to some conve¬ 
 nient place, under the direction of the Clerk of the Market; 
 and if the lessee of a stall or stand, he shall cause the same to 
 
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 be thoroughly cleansed, and all offal, garbage and rubbish to 
 be removed therefrom, and each butcher shall cause his tables, 
 meat blocks, and other fixtures, to be thorougly scraped and 
 cleaned daily. 
 
 Sec. 20. Be it further ordained, That no provisions or 
 other things shall be sold in the market, except during market 
 hours. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market to cause the 
 market house and market place to be thoroughly cleansed and 
 swept each day, and in the winter season to have the ice and 
 snow swept from the sidewalks and steps as often as may be 
 necessary. 
 
 No person not being the lessee of a butcher’s stall, shall sell 
 or offer for sale in the market, any sausage or sausuge meat; 
 and no other person other than farmers, not being the lessee 
 of a butcher’s shall sell or offer to sell in market, any bacon 
 hams, sides or shoulders. 
 
 No person not being the lessee of a butcher’s stall, shall 
 sell or offer for sale in the market, or any place within the 
 limits of the city, any fresh meat in quantities less than one 
 quarter. 
 
 No butcher or owner or lessee of any stall or stand in the 
 market, shall sell or offer for sale, any fresh meat, at any other 
 place within the limits of the city, except at the market house, 
 and there only during market hours. 
 
 Sec. 21. Be it further ordained , That nothing in the prece¬ 
 ding sections shall be construed to prevent any farmer or pro¬ 
 ducer from selling his meat by the quarter, or any person who 
 follows the business of packing beef or pork, from selling ba¬ 
 con of their own curing, or spare ribs, and sausage meat in 
 the winter months. 
 
 No person not being the lessee of a butcher’s stall, shall cut 
 and sell salted meat by the small quantity in the market. 
 
 Sec. 22. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 the committee on markets on the first Monday of April in each 
 and every year, to establish and grade the prices upon butch¬ 
 ers’ stalls in the market, and on the second Saturday of April 
 eaid committee shall proceeed to lease at public auction to the 
 
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 highest bidder, all the butchers’ stalls in the market, after hav¬ 
 ing given public notice of the time and place of said leasing. 
 
 Every person bidding of a stall, shall within three days 
 thereafter execute a lease for said stall bid off by him, provi¬ 
 ded with two or more securities, to be approved by the com¬ 
 mittee on markers who shall be jointly bound with the lessee 
 for the payment of the rents of the stall, monthly in advance. 
 
 If the lessee of any stand or stall, on demand being made, 
 shall fail or neglect to pay the rent thereof at the time the 
 Same shall become due by the terms of the lease, such lease 
 shall be thereby forfeited. 
 
 Whenever any stall or stand shall become vacant, or the 
 lease thereof forfeited, the Clerk of the Market may proceed 
 to let the same for the unexpired term. 
 
 Sec. 28. Be it further ordained , That every person offend¬ 
 ing against any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall for¬ 
 feit and pay for the use of said city, a sum not less than one 
 Ror more than twenty-live dollars for each and every -offence, 
 where not otherwise herein specially provided. 
 
 INTO. XVII. 
 
 Jin Ordinance relating to the Establishment and Maintenance of 
 
 Ferries . 
 
 Sec. 1. No Ferry to he established and maintained without a license 
 from the City Council—penalty. 
 
 2. Applica ion for license, how made—duty of City Clerk, whets 
 license is granted -license may be revoked—payment for li¬ 
 cense to be made to the City Clerk, who shall report the same 
 and pay to Treasurer. 
 
 8. Persons licensed, to keep good Steamboats—ferries regulated. 
 Penalty for breach of this section. 
 
 Rates of ferriage. 
 
 5. List of rates to be posted up on the Boat—penalty for re¬ 
 ceiving higher rate. 
 
 6. Persons aggrieved, to make complaint to Mayor. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 
 Quincy, That no person shall hereafter establish and maintain 
 
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 a ferry across tlie Mississippi river to and from any point 
 within the limits of said city, or keep and use any boat or oth- 
 er craft for the purpose of conveying any person or property 
 as aforesaid for hire, without having first obtained a license 
 from the city council therefor; and every person who shall es¬ 
 tablish and maintain a ferry, or keep and use any boat or oth¬ 
 er craft as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said 
 city, for every such offence, a sum not less than five dollars, 
 nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That any person wishing to 
 establish and maintain a ferry as aforesaid, shall make a writ¬ 
 ten application to the city council for license so to do; and the 
 city council, if deemed expedient, shall grant a license to the 
 applicant on such terms as they may think proper, and the city 
 clerk, on the payment of the terms so prescribed, shall make 
 out and deliver to said applicant a license as aforesaid,, to be 
 in force for the term of one year from the date thereof, subject 
 however, to be revoked by the city council, whenever the appli¬ 
 cant or any person managing said ferry shall violate any of 
 the provisions, or neglect to perform any of the requirements 
 of this ordinance, which condition shall be inserted in said li¬ 
 cense. Every person on such license being granted, shall pay 
 to the city clerk the sum required by the city councii to be 
 paid therefor, and one dollar as fees to the clerk; and the city 
 clerk shall pay over to the treasurer all such sums, exclusive 
 of his fees, and make report to the city council at the next 
 meeting after the receipt of the same. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That every person obtain¬ 
 ing a license as aforesaid, shall forthwith provide and keep in 
 good repair, good and sufficint steamboats for the ready and 
 safe conveyance of persons and property across the Mississippi 
 river as aforesaid, and give due and regular attendance at such 
 ferry from sunrise until sunset, with a sufficient number of 
 hands to work and manage such boats, and shall, without un¬ 
 necessary delay, carry as aforesaid, on application, at any 
 hour between sunrise and sunset, all persons and property as 
 aforesaid, when said river is passable; and every person licens¬ 
 ed as above, who shall fail to comply with either of the requi- 
 
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 sitions of this section, shall forfeit and pay for the nse of said 
 city for every such offence, a sum not less than five dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That every licensed ferry 
 keeper may demand and receive such fees as the city council 
 may establish and permit from time to time, and that all 
 wagons or teams containing or conveying produce from Mis¬ 
 souri; also, cattle and stock for the Quincy market, shall be 
 charged lor crossing and return only one-half the rates or 
 amounts demanded in other cases for the same kinds of wagons, 
 teams, stock and transportation. 
 
 Sec. 5- Be it further ordained , That it shall be the duty of 
 every licensed keeper of a ferry to cause a list of the forego¬ 
 ing rates to be posted and constantly kept up in some conspic¬ 
 uous place on his boat; and any keeper, or any person in his 
 employment, who shall demand and receive any higher or 
 greater rate for conveying as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay 
 tor the use of said city for such offence, a sum not less than 
 five dollars nor more than ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained. That any person aggrieved 
 by any breach of this ordinance, or any provision herein con¬ 
 tained, may made complaint thereof to the Mayor, who shall 
 cause suit to be institued forthwith for the recovery of any pen¬ 
 alty thereunto annexed. 
 
 NO. XVIII. 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the Measurement of Wood . 
 
 Sec. 1 . Fire Wood to be measured and certificate given on request— 
 contents of each corn. 
 
 2. Penalty for using false certificate. 
 
 3. Rates of fees for measuring, and how paid. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That all firewood purchased, to be used within said 
 city, by the cord, half cord, or quarter cord, shall be measured 
 by the wood measurer, and certificate thereof given, if requir- 
 
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 ed by the vendor or purchaser, provided the same be first piled 
 or corded up in bulk in such order as will admit of a measure¬ 
 ment with reasonable accuracy; and every cord so measured 
 shall contain one hundred and twenty-eight feet cubic meas¬ 
 ure, when closely and compactly piled together. 
 
 Sec. 2 . Be it further, ordained , That any person who shall for 
 the purpose of cheating, wronging, or defrauding another, ex¬ 
 hibit or use a certificate of the wood measurer, by making or 
 attempting to make the same applicable to any greater or less 
 quantity of wood, or any other tnan the full load, lot or par¬ 
 cel for which the same was originally given, shall forfeit and 
 pay for the use of said city, the sum of five dollars for every 
 such offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That there shall be allowed 
 for services under this ordinance, the following rate of fees : 
 One moity of which is to be paid by the vendor, and the other 
 moity by the purchaser, to-wit: For measuring one cord or 
 less, twelve-and-a-half cents; for each additional cord, when 
 the quantity does not exceed four cords, eight cents; when it 
 exceeds four cords and not exceeding twelve cords, six cents 
 for each additional cord; when more than twelve cords, and 
 not exceeding twenty cords, five cents for each additional cord; 
 when it exceeds twenty-five cords, four cents for each addi¬ 
 tional cord after the first cord. In addition to these rates, for 
 each load, lot or parcel of wood measured at a greater dis¬ 
 tance than one square or block from the public square, and 
 from the wood measurer’s office or residence, and not exceed¬ 
 ing one-fourth of a mile from said public square, office or resi¬ 
 dence, twelve-and-a-half cents; a further sum, also, of twelve- 
 and-a-half cents in all cases, where the wood measurer is re¬ 
 quired to go more than one-fourth of a mile from said public 
 square, office or residence. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. XIX. 
 
 "■^ n Ordinance Relating to the Inspection and Measurement of 
 Lumber and ether Building Materials, and the Measurement of 
 Mechanical Work. 
 
 Sec. 1. All Lumber and other Building Materials to be measured on 
 request, and certificates given. 
 
 2. Mechanical work to be measured on request, and certificate 
 given. 
 
 3. Penalty foriising false certificate. 
 
 4. Rate of fees for service under this ordinance. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy, That all lumber and other building materials sold or 
 purchased to be used in said city, shall be properly inspected 
 and measured by the person selected by the city Council for 
 that purpose, if either party should require it, and certificate 
 thereof given, which inspection and measurement shall be ac¬ 
 cording to the judgment of the person so selected. 
 
 Sec. 2 . Be it further ordained , That all mechanical work, 
 done and performed within said city, shall be measured bv the 
 person selected as aforesaid, if either party concerned should re¬ 
 quire it, and certificate thereof given, which measurement shall 
 be in accordance with the most approved mode of measuring. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That any person who shall, 
 for the purpose of cheating, wronging or defrauding another, 
 exhibit or use a certificate of the measurer of the foregoing 
 materials and mechanical work of said city, by making the 
 same applicable to any greater or less quantity of lumber or 
 other building materials or mechanical work, or any other than 
 the materials or work for which the same were originally giv¬ 
 en, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said eity, the sum of 
 five dollars for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That there shall be allowed 
 for services under the provisions of this ordinance, the follow¬ 
 ing fees, one half of which is to be paid by each of the con¬ 
 tracting parties, to wit: for the inspection and measurement 
 ol lumber ten cents per thousand feet; for the inspection and 
 
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 measurement of building materials, fifty cents for One hour or 
 less, including the time occupied in going to the place where 
 the same are deposited, and twenty-five cents for each succeed¬ 
 ing hour. 
 
 NO. XX. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to the Size of Bricks . 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That all merchantable bricks hereafter made to be 
 sold within the city, in the ordinary course of manufacture 
 and sale, and to be used therein, shall be eight and a half 
 inches long, four and a fourth inches wide, and two and a 
 fourth inches thick when moulded; and every person who 
 shall manufacture or shall sell as aforesaid, any bricks of less 
 dimensions than aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the city, for 
 each offence, not less than one, nor more than one hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 NO. XXL 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the Storage of Gunpowder. 
 
 Sec. 1. Limitation of quantity of Gunpowder to be kept in stores, <fcc. 
 
 2. Such quantity how keot. 
 
 3. Penalty for violations of first and second sections. 
 
 4. Mayor in certain cases may issue a search warrant. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That no store or shop-keeper, or other person, shall 
 keep at the same time in any house, shop, store, cellar or 
 warehouse, or in any boat, within the limits of said city, more 
 than thirty pounds of gunpowder. 
 
 Sec. 2 . Be it further ordained , That the aforesaid quantity 
 of powder, allowed to be kept within the limits of said city, 
 shall be kept in close tin four-pound canisters, and in a good 
 4nd safe place. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That every person offending 
 against either of the foregoing provisions, shall forfeit and 
 pay the sum of twenty-five dollars, for the use of said city. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That it shall be lawful for tho 
 Mayor, whenever he shall be informed, upon oath that there 
 is probable cause to suspect any person of concealing or keep¬ 
 ing within said city, any quantity of gunpowder over and 
 above thirty pounds as aforesaid, to issue a search warrant to 
 examine into the truth of such allegation or suspicion, and 
 search any place whatever therein. 
 
 NO. XXII. 
 
 An Ordiaance Relating to the Poor. 
 
 Sec. 1. Who entitled to aid. 
 
 2. Certain relatives required to support poor relations—order 
 of liability—penalty for neglect to support, when able. 
 
 3. Provisions for minors, chargeable to the city. 
 
 4. Proceedings in cases of non-resident Poor. 
 
 5* “ to be had by Overseer, on application from per¬ 
 
 sons not entitled to aid by reason of non-residence. 
 
 6. Overseer to take charge of Poor on notice, &c. 
 
 7. Poor persons, when to be discharged—their ability to refund 
 expenses defrayed by the city. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of 
 Qiiincy , That every poor person, who shall have resided with¬ 
 in the limits of said city twelve months, and who shall be un¬ 
 able to earn a livelihood in consequence of any bodily infirmi¬ 
 ty, idiocy, lunacy, or other unavoidable cause, shall be entitled 
 to receive from said city such food, clothing, fuel, medical and 
 other aid in sickness, as the overseer of the poor may deem 
 necessary, in case of the neglect or refusal of the father, 
 grand-father, mother, grand-mother, children, grand-children, 
 brothers or sisters of such poor persons, to make the necessary 
 provision for them. 
 
 Sec. 2 . Be it further ordained , That all relatives of such poor 
 persons, if they or either of them shall be of sufficient ability to 
 
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 support them, are hereby required to make the necessary pro¬ 
 vision for them, and shall be notified by the overseer of the 
 poor in the order following, to wit: The children shall first be 
 notified to support their parents, if there be children of suffi¬ 
 cient ability; if there be none of sufficient ability, then the 
 parents; if there be no such parents, then the brothers and 
 sisters; if there be no such brothers or sisters, then the grand¬ 
 children; if there be no such grand-children, then the grand 
 parents shall be notified: Provided , that married females, 
 whilst their husbands live, shall not be liable to a suit under 
 this ordinance: and any relative of such poor persou, who 
 shall neglect or refuse to render such aid after being notified 
 as aforesaid, and being of sufficient ability to do so, shall be 
 liable to said city for all necessary expenses incurred by said 
 city for the support of such poor persons : Provided , that when 
 any persons become paupers from intemperance, or other bad 
 conduct, they shall not be entitled to any support from any 
 relative except parent or child. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That when any minor shall be¬ 
 come, or likely to become chargeable to said city, either be¬ 
 cause of being an orphan, or because the parents or other rela¬ 
 tives are unable or refuse to support such minor, it shall be 
 the duty of the overseer of the poor, under the direction of 
 the city council on his representation, to bind such minor as 
 an apprentice to some respectable householder of the city or 
 county by written indenture, which si)all bind such minor to 
 serve as an apprentice, and shall in all respects be in tenor 
 and effect as required by the laws of this State concerning 
 apprentices. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That when any non-resident 
 or person not coming within the definition of a pauper, who 
 shall fall sick or die in said city, not having money or proper¬ 
 ty to pay his board, nursing and medical aid, it shall be the 
 duty of the overseer of the poor, upon application of any in¬ 
 habitant of said city, to give or order to be given such assistance 
 to such poor person as he may deem just and necessary; and 
 if said sick person shall die, then said overseer of the poor 
 shall give, or order to be given to such person a decent burial: 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 and all bills of expense occurring under this section, sliall be 
 by him presented to the city council for approval 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That whenever any applica¬ 
 tion is made to the overseer for relief, and it shall appear to 
 him that the person requiring relief has not resided in said city 
 for twelve months prior to such application, he shall, under the 
 direction of the city council, proceed to remove from said city 
 such poor person, at the expense of said city, to the county or 
 State where such poor person may have had his or her last 
 place of residence; or said overseer of the poor may notify 
 such poor persons to leave said city forthwith, and no person 
 
 so notified shall be entitled to relief from said citv. 
 
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 Sec. 6 : Be it further ordained , That the overseer of the poor, 
 on application for relief of any poor person, shall immediately 
 cause such person, if entitled to relief under the provisions of 
 this ordinance, to be removed to such place as may be provi¬ 
 ded by the city council for the use of such poor persons, unless 
 he may deem such removal inexpedient, in which case such 
 poor person shall be supported by the city in such place as the 
 said overseer may direct. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That all persons receiving aid 
 from said city shall receive no further aid after such person, 
 in the opinion of the attending physician, or the overseer of the 
 poor, become able to support themselves, and should such per¬ 
 sons thereafter become able to pay any expense incurred by 
 said city in extending relief to them, they shall be liable to re¬ 
 fund the amount of such expense to said city 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 NO. XXIII. 
 
 An Ordinance providing for the Subscription to the Capital Stock 
 of the Northern Cross Rail Road Company and for other 
 purposes. 
 
 Sec. 1. Mayor authorized to subscribe. 
 
 2. To issue bonds. How issued. Bonds payable to Company.— 
 Rate of interest, and when payable. 
 
 3. Shall be delivered to Company in payment of stock. 
 
 4. Tax to be levied. Interest paid. 
 
 5. Tax to be kept separate. 
 
 6. Tax pledged to payment of interest. Sale of stock and divi¬ 
 dends to go to liquidation of bonds. 
 
 7. Bond’s may be exchange ! for stock. 
 
 8. Mayor to cast vote of city at Company election. 
 
 W hereas, by the provisions of an act entitled an act supple¬ 
 mental to an act entitled ‘'An Act to provide for a General 
 System of Railroad Incorporations / 5 approved November 6th, 
 a. d. 1849, notice was given on the 27th day of January, A. D. 
 1851, at the usual places of voting in the city of Quincy, to 
 ascertain the wishes of a majority of the people in reference to 
 the subscription by the common council of said city to the 
 capital stock of that portion of the Northern Cross Railroad, 
 lying between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers., to the 
 amount of one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in bonds 
 of said city; having twenty years to run, and bearing an annual 
 tax of six per cent, payable semi-annully. 
 
 And Whereas, said election was held agreeably to said no¬ 
 tice, and the act aforesaid, and the returns thereof in due form 
 made to the city council, who canvased the same at their regu¬ 
 lar meeting held on the 3d day of March, a. d. 1851, when it 
 appeared that there had been cast, “ For Subscription / 5 one 
 thousand and seventy-four votes, “Against Subscription / 5 nine¬ 
 teen votes. The number of votes given for subscription being 
 nearly equal to the entire vote polled at the last general elec¬ 
 tion in said city, and a much larger vote than that required by 
 the act aforesaid to authorize said subscription of one hundred 
 thousand dollars. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Now, Therefore, Be it ordained by the City Council , of the 
 City of Quincy, as follows : 
 
 Section 1 . That the Mayor is hereby empowered, author¬ 
 ized and directed to subscribe, in the sum of one hundred thou¬ 
 sand dollars, to the capital stock of the Northern Cross Rail¬ 
 road Company, having the management of that portion of the 
 said Northern Cross Railroad extending from the Mississippi 
 to the Illinois river, on behalf and in the name of said city; 
 by which said act of its chief executive officer, the faith of said 
 city shall be irrevocably pledged to said company in the sum 
 of one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. That whenever a regular assessment shall be lev¬ 
 ied, and made payable upon the stockholders of the said North¬ 
 ern Cross Railroad Company, the Mayor and city clerk for 
 the time being, shall execute the bonds of said city, for the 
 sum of one thousand dollars each, for the amount so assessed 
 upon the stock so subscribed by said city, signed by the Mayor 
 and countersigned by the city clerk, with the corporate seal of 
 said city affixed—all of which said bonds shall be dated on 
 the first day of July, or on the first of January, in the year in 
 which they shall be issued, and shall be made due and payable 
 twenty years from the date thereof. 
 
 The said bonds shall be made payable to the “ President, 
 Directors and Company of the Northern Cross Railroad 
 Company/’ principal and interest at the Phoenix Bank in the 
 city of New York—and shall bear interest at the rate of six 
 per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, and for which 
 coupons bearing same date as the bonds aforesaid, signed by 
 the Mayor, shall be attached; said bonds shall in other re¬ 
 spects be in the usual form, and shall be entitled “Northern 
 Cross Railroad Bonds/ 7 upon the backs of which this ordi¬ 
 nance authorizing their issue shall he printed. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the said bonds, when executed as provided in 
 the preceding section, shall be delivered to the directors of 
 the Northern Cross Railroad Company, in payment of the 
 subscription by said city to the capital stock of said company^ 
 as the city council may from time direct. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it f urther ordained , That an annual tax shall be 
 
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 levied by said council on the assessed value of all the real es¬ 
 tate within the limits of said city, and all the personal proper¬ 
 ty of the inhabitants thereof, sufficient to pay the interest for 
 one year on all said bonds so issued and delivered lo the direc¬ 
 tors of said company, after deducting such dividends on said 
 stock as may from time to time be made to said city by said 
 company, said dividends, so far as the same may extend, to be 
 applied to the payment of said interest. And when said coun¬ 
 cil shall have made such levy, it shall be the duty of the city 
 council to extend the same on the collector’s books for the 
 year in which said levy shall be made, and in a separate col¬ 
 umn, to be denominated “railroad tax/ 7 which tax shall be col¬ 
 lected in the same manner as the other taxes of said city; and 
 the payment thereof to be enforced by the same regulations 
 and provisions of statute and ordinance as obtain in reference 
 to all other taxes of said city. 
 
 Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said 
 city to keep all moneys arising from the collection of said rail¬ 
 road tax, separate and apart from the ordinary funds of said 
 city, to be paid out by him on the order of the Mayor, counter 
 signed by the city clerk, to the satisfaction and payment of 
 the interest semi-annually accruing and due on said bonds, and 
 for no other purpose or purposes whatsoever. 
 
 Sec. 6 . That the railroad stock of which said city shall 
 become seized and possessed by the subscription herein before 
 provided for, and all dividends arising therefrom, are hereby 
 pledged and set apart to the payment of the principal and in¬ 
 terest of the bonds of said city, issued for and in payment of 
 said subscription; and whenever any of said railroad stock 
 ’shall be sold by said city, the proceeds of every such sale shall 
 be applied forthwith to the redemption of said bonds, so far 
 as the same may extend thereunto, and for no other purpose 
 whatsoever. 
 
 Sec. 7. That any owner or holder of any or all said city 
 bonds may at any time deposit the same with said city, and re¬ 
 ceive in exchange therefor an equal amount of railroad stock; 
 Provided , the application for such exchange shall be made bo- 
 
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ORDINANCES. 
 
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 fore said city shall have sold or otherwise disposed of said rail¬ 
 road stock, so applied for. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That at all elections of di¬ 
 rectors for said Northern Cross Railroad Company, or other 
 elections in which the stock holders of said company, by the 
 rules and regulations thereof, are authorized or entitled to 
 vote, such vote or votes as said city of Quincy may be entitled 
 to cast, by virtue of her said subscription of one hundred thou¬ 
 sand dollars, shall be thrown on behalf of said city by the 
 Mayor for the time being, or such other person or persons 
 as the city council of said city may designate for such pur¬ 
 pose, or by such proxy or proxies as may by him or them 
 so designated by said council, be appointed in accordance with 
 the by-laws of said cmpany; said stock of said city to be repre¬ 
 sented by her delegated authority in the same manner and to 
 the same extent, subject also to the same restrictions as stock 
 owned and represented by individuals in said company. 
 
 NO. XXIY. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Police Magistrate’s Court and Reg¬ 
 ulating the Proceedings therein. 
 
 Sec. 1. Prosecutions how commenced. 
 
 2. Prosecution may include several, and shall not be dismissed 
 
 for want of form. 
 
 3. Summons, form of same. Service and return. 
 
 4. Special service of summons. 
 
 5. May be served by copy, or by posting in certain cases. 
 
 C. Capias may issue; form of capais. Defendant may give bail; 
 form of bail bond. Breach of bond. 
 
 7. Proceedings against bail. 
 
 8. Officers to be governed by State Laws.. 
 
 9. Officers competent witnesses. 
 
 10. Garnishee process. 
 
 11. Parents, guardians, masters, &c., of minors liable for fines, to 
 
 be notified. 
 
 12. Persons arrested without warrant, officer to report facts. 
 
 13. Officer omitting to attend as witness, may be attached. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 14. Persons under arrest entitled to trial. Case may be continued. 
 
 15. Bail given on continuanee. Breach of bail bond. 
 
 16. Defendant refusing to give bail on continuance, to be commit- 
 ed. Police Mag. to issue commitment. Time of continuance. 
 
 17. Marshal to briDg persons under arrest before Court. 
 
 18. All motions to dismiss aod for continuance to be made in 
 writing. 
 
 19. Defendant failing to appear, judgment by default may be en¬ 
 tered. 
 
 20. Police Magistrate may issue attachment and punish contempt. 
 
 21. Depositions may be taken. 
 
 22. Jury may be demanded. 
 
 23. Executions to be issued; form of same. 
 
 24. Defendant committed for want of property, and time of im¬ 
 prisonment. 
 
 25. Aho may make affidavit of complaint. 
 
 26. Sessions of Court. 
 
 27. Absence of Police Magistrate to continue cases. Hold to bail 
 or commit. 
 
 28. Appeals may be taken. 
 
 29. Costs and fees of Police Magistrate’s Court. Costs to be col¬ 
 lected off defendant convicted. Costs to be paid by city, but 
 not to exceed penalties collected. How penalties ascertained 
 and applied to costs. 
 
 30. Police Magistrate’s costs when acting as Justice of the Peace. 
 His costs under the Ordinances. 
 
 31. Marshal, Police Constable’s costs to pay over to Police Mag¬ 
 istrate. 
 
 32. Witnesses costs. To be paid by city. Defendant to pay, and 
 if required, city to pay. 
 
 33. Jurors Costs. Party demanding Jury to advance fee. Incase 
 of acquittal, returned to defendant and city to pay. 
 
 34. Capias. Ad respondendum , form of. 
 
 35. Special bail not to be taken. 
 
 36. Judgment. Execution. Commitment. 
 
 37. Labor on Streets. Custody of. 
 
 38. Explanatory of. 
 
 39. Police Magistrate, Constable and Marshal to bo governed by 
 State laws, where no provision by Ordinance. 
 
 40. Prosecutor to pay costs, if prosecution malicious. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That penalties for violations of any ordinance shall be 
 recoverable by suit, in the nature of an action of debt, before the 
 Police Magistrate’s Court; and suits shall be commenced, (except 
 
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 ORDINANCES, 
 
 in cases otherwise provided for by ordinance or the city charter,) 
 by the filing with the Police Magistrate a statement, signed 
 by the city Attorney, the Mayor, the Marshal, the Clerk, any 
 police officer, or any responsible citizen of Quincy; which 
 statement shall be in form, substantially as follows: 
 
 A. B. to the city of Quincy, Dr. To dollars for 
 
 breach of ordinance, (here insert the title thereof,) passed the 
 day , A. D. 185 , in this to-wit (here 
 
 describe the particular breach in the language of the ordi- 
 dinance,) between the day of , A. D. 185 , and 
 
 the day of A. D. 185 . 
 
 (Signed,) C. D. 
 
 Sec. 2 . No suit shall be dismissed for any defects of form 
 in the statement, if it substantially sets forth the nature of the 
 violation alleged. The statement may include several persons 
 charged with the same violation. 
 
 Sec. 3 . Upon the statement being filed with the Police 
 Magistrate, or when made out by him upon the information of 
 any officer or citizen, he shall fill up, seal and attest, and sign a 
 summons in the following form, as nearly as circumstances 
 will admit. 
 
 State of Illinois, ) ss. 
 
 City of Quincy, and Couunty of Adams, J The people of the 
 
 State of Illinois to the Marshal or Police Constable of the city 
 of Quincy, or any Constable of Adams county, greeting : 
 
 You are hereby commanded to summon A. B. to appear be¬ 
 fore me, the undersigned, Police Magistrate of the city of 
 Quincy, at my office on the day of 
 
 A. D. 185 , at o’clock M., to answer the 
 
 complaint of the city of Quincy, in a plea of debt for a failure 
 to pay to said city, a fine, forfeiture or penalty of 
 dollars, for a breach of an ordinance of said city, (here insert 
 the title) passed the day of , A. D. 185 , in this 
 
 to-wit: (here describe the particular breach in the ordinance 
 as set forth in the written statement,) and thereof make due 
 return as the law directs. Given under my hand and seal at 
 my office in Quincy, the day of A. D. 185 , 
 
 Police Magistrate, [l. s.] 
 
 Which summons may be returnable on any day, (Sundays' 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 oxcepted,) within fifteen days, and not within five days from 
 its date; and the same must be served at least three days be¬ 
 fore the day set for trial. 
 
 Sec. 4. That every summons for breach of any ordinance, 
 issued by the Police Magistrate, shall be served by reading the 
 same in the hearing of the defendant or defendants, if he or 
 thev will remain to hear it read; but if he or they refuse to 
 hear such summons read, or absent him or themselves after 
 said summons has been produced to be read, and the contents 
 or objects thereof mentioned to him or them, such offer on the 
 part of the officer in such cases, shall be deemed and taken to 
 be a sufficient service of such summons, which facts shall be 
 specially stated by the officer in his return on said summons. 
 
 Sec. 5. That when any defendant shall absent or conceal 
 himself, or shall be absent, or a non-resident in said city, the 
 summons aforesaid against such person, may be served by 
 leaving a copy thereof at his residence or usual place of abode, 
 with any white person of the family in which he resides, over 
 the age of fifteen years, at least three days before the day set 
 for trial in such summons; but if such person have no house, 
 family, or known place of abode in said city, whereat service 
 of a copy can be made as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the 
 officer charged with the summons, to stick up a copy of such 
 summons on the front of the Court House in said city, which 
 shall be deemed and taken to be a sufficient service of any 
 summons within the meaning of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That if any credible person, 
 as agent of said city, shall make oath that there is danger that 
 the debt or claim of said city will be lost, unless the said de¬ 
 fendant be held to bail, and shall also state, under oath, the 
 cause of such danger, so as to satisfy the Police Magistrate 
 that there is reason to apprehend such loss, and shall file the 
 written charge or statement required by the fourth section of 
 this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the Police Magistrate to 
 issue a capias to apprehend such offender, which shall be, as 
 nearly as circumstances will admit, in the following form, 
 to-wit; 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 State of Illinois, Adams county, ) 
 
 City of Quincy. f ss ' The people of the State 
 
 of Illinois, to the Marshal of the city of Quincy, or any ('on - 
 stable of Adams county, greeting : 
 
 You are hereby commanded to take the body of A. B., and 
 bring him forthwith before me, the undersigned Police Magis¬ 
 trate of said city, unless special bail be entered; and if such 
 bail be entered, you wfill then command him to appear before 
 me, at my office, on day of a. d. 185 , at 
 
 -o'clock, , to answer the complaint of the city of Quincy, 
 in a plea of debt, for a failure to pay to said city a fine, for¬ 
 feiture or penalty of dollars, for a breach of an ordi¬ 
 nance of said city, entitled [here insert the title thereof,] pas¬ 
 sed the clay of a. d, 185 , in this, to-wit: [here 
 
 describe the particular breach in the language, of the ordi¬ 
 
 nance, and as set forth in the written charge or statement,] 
 and make due return as the law directs. Given under my 
 hand and seal, at my office in Quincy, this day of 
 
 a. d. 185 C. D., [seal.] 
 
 Police Magistrate. 
 
 And in till cases the defendant shall have the right to release 
 his body arrested by virtue of such process, by giving special 
 bail to the officer executing the same, which shall be endorsed 
 on tiie back of the capias, in the following form, as nearly as 
 the case will admit, to-wit: I, E. F., acknowledge myself 
 special bail for the within named A. B. Witness my hand 
 this day of a. d. 185 , E. F., which endorse¬ 
 
 ment shall be signed by one or more sureties, to be approved 
 by the officer executing the writ, and the liabilities which shall 
 
 attach to such security or bail in such case, shall be as follows, 
 to wit: If the defendant shall not personally appear before 
 the said Police Magistrate’s Court as required, on the day set 
 for trial, and if he shall fail to pay whatever judgment may be 
 obtained against him, or shall not surrender his body in exe¬ 
 cution, when charged, within thirty days from the judgment, 
 “then, and in such case, the bail shall pay the judgment and 
 vCOStS. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 Sec. 7. In all cases where a party is arrested without a 
 writ, and who gives a recognizance as is provided in section 
 twelve, of “An ordinance establishing and regulating the 
 police department,” and in all such cases as are provided 
 for in the preceding section, where the recognizance or bail is 
 forfeited, it shall be the duty of the Police Magistrate to note 
 on the papers the forfeiture, and to issue a summons against 
 the party or parties liable in behalf of the city of Quincy, and 
 upon trial, to give judgment against the defendant or defend- 
 fendants so liable, according to the provisions of this ordi¬ 
 nance; but allowing the same defence that is allowed for the 
 non-appearance of the principal that is allowed under the gen¬ 
 eral laws of the State, in like proceedings before justices of 
 the peace. The summons to be issued in such case, in form to 
 be as nearly as possible like the summons in the preceding sec¬ 
 tion six herein; but said summons shall be considered good if 
 
 it substantiallv set forth the nature of the cause of action. 
 
 */ 
 
 Sec. 8. That the officer who shall execute any writ or 
 other process issued by the Police Magistrate, shall, unless 
 otherwise directed by this or some other ordinance of said city, 
 proceed in the execution of his duty in the same manner as 
 constables are required to proceed under the laws of this 
 State, and the Police Magistrate in issuing process and on the 
 return thereof, shall, unless otherwise directed by this or some 
 other ordinance of said city, be governed by the laws ol this 
 State, appertaining to like proceedings before other justices 
 of the peace. 
 
 Sec. 9. That in all prosecutions in behalf of the said city, 
 any officer thereof is hereby made a competent witness, not¬ 
 withstanding such officer may be entitled to a portion oi the 
 fine, forfeiture or penalty sued for, or to a fee from the same. 
 
 Sec. 10. That whenever any execution in which said city 
 is plaintiff, shall be returned by the officer charged with the 
 service of the same, “No property found,” the Police Magistrate 
 may, upon oath being made, as in similar cases before the jus¬ 
 tices of the peace, by any officer of said city, or by any citizen, 
 .issue a garnishee process under the provisions of the laws of 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 this State, and every such officer, for such purpose, shall be 
 deemed and taken to be the agent of said city. 
 
 Sec. 11. 1 hat parents, guardians, masters and mistresses, 
 shall bo bound for the payment of any fine, forfeiture or pen¬ 
 alty assessed against any minor under their respective care or 
 charge under the provisions of any ordinance of said city, and 
 execution shall issue thereon as in other cases. Provided , it 
 shall be the duty of the Marshal or Constable to notify any 
 such parent, guardian, master or mistress of such minor, if they 
 are known, of the time and place of trial for any violation of 
 ordinance, and in case such parent, guardian or master is not 
 known, or resident of the city, the Marshal or other officer, 
 shall, in his return or statement, make known such fact. 
 
 Sec. 12. No summons or warrant shall issue aa&inst a 
 person who shall have been lawfully arrested and brought 
 before the Police Magistrate without a warrant; or in case 
 where the party has been arrested without warrant, and shall 
 have given bail; but in such case, a trial shall be had upon a 
 written report to be made by the officer making the arrest. 
 The Police Magistrate shall in all such cases, where the party 
 is present, note the fact of his appearance, and proceed to hear 
 and determine the case in the same manner as if a summons or 
 warrant had been issued; and in all cases where the officer 
 making* the arrest fails to file the report, if the defendant 
 consent, the cause may proceed without it; but if he or she de¬ 
 mands said report, the Police Magistrate shall allow a reason¬ 
 able time for its being made out or filed. 
 
 Sec. 13. Officers shall attend as witnesses against persons 
 who they have arrested, without being summoned, nor shall 
 the Police Magistrate issue any subpoena for them; but if they 
 fail to appear at the time for trial, they may be attached and 
 punished for contempt as witnesses summoned. 
 
 Sec. 14. Any person arrested and held in custody, shall be 
 entitled to a trial within twenty-four hours from the time of 
 the arrest, [except when Sunday shall intervene,] unless the 
 trial be postponed by the Police Magistrate for good cause, or 
 from unavoidable circumstances. 
 
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 Sec. 15. A person in custody without a warrant for a vio- 
 ation of ordinance, where the cause is continued at his or her 
 nstance, or where it is continued from some unavoidable cir¬ 
 cumstance, may release him or her from custody by givingbail, 
 oy executing a bond to the city with sufficient security, to be 
 ipproved by the Police Magistrate in double the amount of the 
 penalty provided by the ordinance for the violation alledged. 
 Provided, however, said bond shall in no case be taken for 
 nore than one hundred dollars; which bond shall be condition¬ 
 ed, that he or she appear upon a day therein named, before 
 the Police Maodstrate’s Court, to answer for the violation of 
 which he is accused, and there to wait his or her trial of the 
 charges against him. Which bond, if forfeited, shall be sued 
 upon in the same manner as is provided in section seven of 
 this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 16. A person in custody, who cannot be tried because 
 of the absence of witnesses, or other cause, and who cannot 
 give bail for his or her appearance, shall remain in the keeping 
 of the calaboose keeper until a trial can be had. In such 
 case, the Police Magistrate shall deliver to the Marshal or Po¬ 
 lice Constable a commitment, stating therein the cause of de¬ 
 tention. But no continuance under this section shall exceed 
 three days, unless at the instance of the defendant. 
 
 Sec. 17. At the opening of the Police Magistrate’s Court, 
 the City Marshal or Police Constable shall bring before the 
 court for trial, all persons in custody for any violation of ordi¬ 
 nances. 
 
 Sec. 18 . Motions for dismissal on account of informality, 
 or illegality in the papers or proceedings, and all pleas, all ap¬ 
 plications for continuances, must be made in writing and filed 
 and argued when the suit is called up for trial, and at no other 
 
 time. 
 
 Sec. 19. When a defendant, duly summoned, fails to ap¬ 
 pear at the time the suit is set for trial, the Police Magistrate 
 shall hear and examine the testimony offered on the part of 
 the city, and shall render judgment by default against the de¬ 
 fendant for such amount, under the ordinance, as he may deem 
 justice to require. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 20. The Police Magistrate may issue attachments to 
 compel the attendance of witnesses and jurors who shall have 
 been summoned, and he may also punish for contempt, in like 
 manner, as justices of the peace are authorized to do by the 
 laws of the State. 
 
 Sec. 21. Depositions taken in conformity to the laws of the 
 State, may be read before the Police Magistrate, on any trial, 
 where the witness, by reason of sickness, old age or bodily in¬ 
 firmity, is unable to attend to and cannot safely attend at the 
 trial; or where both parties agree in any case to the reading 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 22. In all cases before the Police Magistrate for any 
 violation ot ordinances of the city, the defendant may demand 
 a jury trial. The jury shall consist of such number, and pos¬ 
 sess the same qualifications as is required by the general laws 
 of the State in justices courts; and all jury trials shall be con¬ 
 ducted as nearly as possible, in the same manner as jury trials 
 before justices of the peace. 
 
 Sec. 23. Upon the rendition of a judgment against a de¬ 
 fendant for any violation of any ordinance before the Police 
 Magistrate, he shall immediately issue an execution in the fol¬ 
 lowing form, as near as may be : 
 
 State of Illinois, ) 
 
 City of Quincy and county of Adams, j ss ‘ The people of the 
 State of Illinois, to the Marshal or Police Constable, or any 
 other constable of the city of Quincy, greeting : 
 
 Whereas the city of Quincy has this day obtained judgment 
 before the undersigned, Police Magistrate of the city of Quin¬ 
 cy, against C. I)., for a violation of ordinance of said city, for 
 the sum of dollars with her costs in this behalf, these are 
 therefore to command you to levy said debt and costs of the 
 goods and chattels of the said C. D., within the city of Quincy, 
 and expose the same to sale agreeably to law; and for want 
 of sufficient property wherewith to levy the said debt and costs, 
 you are commanded to take the body of the said C. D. into 
 your custody, and convey him to the calaboose of the city of 
 Quincy, and him there safely keep until he pay said debt and 
 costs, to serve the same out in said jail, in the time and man- 
 
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 ter specified in tlic 98th section of chapter lix, concerning jus- 
 ices of the peace and constables, revised statutes of Illinois, 
 845, page 329. And you are also hereby commanded to 
 aake return of this execution within seventy days from the 
 late thereof, with your return thereon, stating how you have 
 executed the same. Given under my hand and seal, at my 
 iffice in Quincy, this day of a. d. 185 . 
 
 Police Magistrate, [l. s.] 
 
 Sec. 24. If sufficient property of the defendant be not 
 bund to satisfy the execution, the marshal or constable shall 
 ■oinmit the defendant without delay to the calaboose, and there 
 •etain him for forty-eight hours, unless before that time the 
 lebt is paid. And if the debt exceed ten dollars, the said de¬ 
 fendant shall remain in said jail or calaboose twenty-four hours 
 or every five dollars over and above the said ten dollars, and 
 :o on in proportion to the amount of said debt or fine. 
 
 Sec. 25. When an affidavit on the part of the city, shall be 
 •equired in any case in the Police Magistrate’s court, it may 
 )e made by any city officer, or by any person to whom the 
 acts are known. 
 
 Sec. 26. There shall be a regular session of each Police 
 \Ia gistrate’s Court every day, [Sundays excepted,] to be open- 
 id at 8 o’clock, a. m. 
 
 Sec. 27. In all cases of arrest of any person or persons 
 mder any warrant or process issued by a Police Magistrate, 
 n case of the absence of the Magistrate who issued the same, 
 )r inability to try the cause, from whatever cause, such writ or 
 process, and all process issued in such cause, shall be taken 
 and deemed returnable, and shall be returned with the parties 
 n custody to the other Police Magistrate of the city, who shall 
 proceed with the cause the same as if such warrant or process 
 lad been issued by him. And in case of ordinary process by 
 summons, without arrest, as well as in case of the absence or 
 inability of both of the Police Magistrates as aforesaid, the 
 3ause shall stand continued from day to day until in case of 
 orocess by ordinary summons, the Magistrate who issued the 
 same can proceed to the trial of the cause. And in case of 
 arrest, until such Magistrate or the other Magistrate, can pro- 
 
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 ceed to the trial thereof; and in case of tlie absence or inabili¬ 
 ty of both Magistrates to try the cause, where the defendant or 
 defendants is in custody, the officer may take special bail for 
 the appearance from day to day, before the Magistrate who 
 issued the writ until trial can be had, or may commit the par¬ 
 ty in custody to await trial. 
 
 Sec. 28. Appeals shall be allowed from all decisions in the 
 Police Magistrate’s Court, arising under the city charter or 
 any ordinance of the city, as well on the part of the city, 
 as to any defendant or plaintiff, to the Circuit Court of Ad¬ 
 ams county; and any such appeal shall be taken and granted 
 in the same manner and with like effect as appeals are taken 
 from and granted by Justices of the Peace to the Circuit Court 
 under the laws of the State. 
 
 Appeals on the part of the city may be taken by any city 
 officer or citizen, upon the execution, by such officer or citizen, 
 ol a bond to pay all costs in said appeal, in like manner as is 
 provided in section 101, page 330, Revised Statutes 1845, chap¬ 
 ter lix. In cases where an appeal is advised by the city coun¬ 
 cil, the bond shall be executed by the Mayor and Clerk, in 
 their official character in the name of the city of Quincy, and 
 said bond, thus executed, shall be binding on said city. 
 
 The praying an appeal by any defendant in any suit by said 
 city, for a violation of any city ordinance, shall in no case, sus¬ 
 pend the issuing of execution, unless and until a good and suffi¬ 
 cient appeal bond is executed and filed. 
 
 Sec. 29. The Police Magistrates, Constables, Marshal’s 
 witness and jurors’ fees, shall be taxed in all cases where the 
 service lias been performed. But no city officer or watchman 
 shall be allowed to charge for his attendance as a witness. In 
 all cases where there is a conviction of the defendant, all costs 
 shall follow and be collected from the said defendant. But in 
 cases where the defendant is acquitted, or in cases where he 
 serves out the fine or judgment in the calaboose, or pays the 
 same by labor on the streets, the city shall pay to the officers 
 the costs. Provided , that in no case shall the amount of costs 
 paid by the city in any one year, exceed the whole amount 
 collected for fines, forfeitures, penalties and breaches of ordb 
 
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 anccs. And it is hereby made the special duty of the city 
 ouncil to see that vouchers or orders on the treasury for 
 osts, shall be kept within the amount so collected from said 
 mes, forfeitures and penalties. And to this end, vouchers for 
 osts shall be issued at intervals of three months, and the 
 mount thus issued, shall never exceed the amount on hand 
 rom such fines and forfeitures, as herein specified. Whenever 
 he amount of costs claimed, and which may appear due to the 
 •fficers, shall exceed the amount on hand from said fines, pen¬ 
 nies, judgments and forfeitures, the same shall be allowed by 
 he city council, in proportion to the several claims and the 
 mount to be divided. The Police Magistrates shall quarterly 
 urnish to the city council a list of the same, which shall in- 
 ;lude witness, jurors’ and other fees; leaving blank columns in 
 aid list in which to mark the word paid, when vouchers or 
 •rders are issued for the whole, and a column for stating the 
 mount paid when only a portion is so allowed. Said list 
 hall be dated and signed by the Police Magistrate, and may 
 )e used as evidence of claims for costs before the city council 
 or two quarters only, and shall be entered in a book kept for 
 hat purpose by the city clerk; and if the same is not paid in 
 fill at the end of two quarters, by reason of there being no 
 finds on hand so collected from fines, forfeitures, penalties or 
 udgments for violation of ordinance, the said officers shall 
 lave no further claim upon the city for said costs. 
 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 30. The Police Magistrate when acting as a Justice ol 
 the Peace under the general laws of the State, shall charge 
 the same fees as other justices are allowed for similar services. 
 
 When acting under the city ordinances, his fees shall be as 
 follows, to-wit 
 
 For every warrant, summons, subpoena, or fee bill, 
 
 For each continuance, 
 
 Administering each oath, . . 
 
 Dedimus to take depositions, 
 
 Entering judgment or order, 
 
 Issuing execution, 
 
 Entering appeal from judgment, 
 
 Transcript of judgment proceedings on appeal, 
 
 Taking and approving appeal bond, 
 
 Docketing each suit, ..... 
 
 For each jury warrant, 
 
 Taking recognizance, 
 
 For taking special bail. .... 
 
 Entering verdict of Jury, 
 
 For each mittimus, 
 
 Sec. 31. The Marshal and Police Constable shall receive 
 the same fees for serving, executing and returning process, and 
 
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 25 
 
 25., 
 
 25.. 
 25- 
 25 
 50 
 15 
 25 ' 
 50 
 25- 
 15. 
 25 
 
 as keeper of the calaboose, that are allowed to the Constables 
 of the State under the general laws of thereof, for similar du¬ 
 ties; and the same as are received by jailors under the State 
 law, for similar services. 
 
 For taking recognizance and making out a statement 
 where he arrests without a warrant,. . . 25 
 
 But in all cases where the recognizance is taken by a •watch¬ 
 man or Alderman, there shall be no fees charged for the same.. 
 The Marshal or Police Constable shall pay to the Police Mag¬ 
 istrate all fees collected by him except his own fees. 
 
 Sec. 32. Witnesses duly summoned in any suit before the 
 Police Magistrate’s Court, and attending the trial, shall be en¬ 
 titled to fifty cents in each case. In all cases wdiere a witness, 
 is summoned at the instance of the city, his fees shall be paid 
 by the said city, but the city shall, in case the defendant isu 
 
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 convicted or judgment found against him, be entitled to recov¬ 
 er the same from said defen ant. 
 
 In all cases where a witness or witnesses is or are subpoe- 
 ned at the instance of any defendant, the said defendant shall 
 be bound to pay said witness or witnesses; but in case of ac¬ 
 quittal or no conviction or judgment had against said defend¬ 
 ant or defendants, he, she or they shall have judgment against 
 the city for said witness fees. The same rule as the number 
 of witnesses which may be summoned to prove one fact, that 
 obtains before Justices of the Peace, shall apply under this 
 ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 33. Jurors summoned and serving in the Police Mag¬ 
 istrate’s court shall receive in each case, each fifty cents. In 
 no case shall a jury be summoned to try any case in the Po¬ 
 lice Magistrate’s Court for any violation of city ordinance, 
 until the party demanding the jury shall have first paid and 
 advanced to the Police Magistrate the jury fee; and in case 
 the defendant is acquitted, the jury fee shall be immediately 
 paid back to said defendant, and the city shall pa,y the fee to 
 the said jurors. 
 
 Sec. 34. Be it further ordained , That in all cases when com¬ 
 plaint shall be made in writing on oath, before any Police 
 Magistrate, charging any person or persons with violation of 
 the city ordinances, such Police Magistrate may, instead of is¬ 
 suing summons or capias with directions, to take special bail 
 for appearance, and without further affidavit issue the writ of 
 “Capais Ad-respondendumf which writ may be in the following 
 form'—• 
 
 State of Illinois, V 
 Adams county, >• ss. 
 
 City of Quincy. ); 
 
 The people of the State of Illinois, to the Marshal or 
 Police Constable of said city or any Constable of Adams 
 countv, Greeting:— 
 
 Whereas complaint has been made on oath that A. B. 
 (here insert the charge substantially) in violation of the 
 Ordinances of the city of Quincy Therefore you are com¬ 
 manded that the body of the said A. B., you take if found im 
 
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 said city, and safely have before me forthwith, together with 
 this writ and due return hereof, to answer unto said complaint. 
 
 Given under mv hand and seal, this day of 
 
 A. D. 185, 
 
 C. D. [l. s.] 
 
 Police Magistrate, of said city of Quincy. 
 
 Sec, 85. In case of such arrest, special bail shall not be 
 taken, but the Police Magistrate before whom the cause is 
 is pending, may, for cause shown, continue the trial and re¬ 
 quire bail for appearance, and in default of such bail commit as 
 in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 36. In all cases where the defendant is found guilty 
 •of violation of the city ordinances, the Police Magistrate may 
 enter up judgment substantially as follows : “That the defend¬ 
 ant make and render unto the city of Quincy the line and for¬ 
 feiture of dollars, together with costs of 
 
 of prosecution;” and in all cases of rendition of judgment for 
 violation of the city ordinances, the Police Magistrate may 
 either issue execution against the goods and chattels, and in 
 default thereof, against the body of the defendant, as hereinbe¬ 
 fore provided by ordinance, or may in default of payment of 
 of such judgment, order that the said defendant stand commit¬ 
 ted until the same is paid, and may issue his writ of commit¬ 
 ment for that purpose as in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 37. In all cases of commitment for non-payment of any 
 fine and forfeiture recovered, or costs of same, the party com¬ 
 mitted shall be subject to labor on the streets of the city, in the 
 custody and under the direction of the Marshal, Police Consta¬ 
 ble or Street Commissioner of the city, at the rate of one dol¬ 
 lar per day, until the whole amount of the judgment rendered 
 against-him, including costs of the city, shall at that rate be 
 paid; but if not required to perform such labor, and while not 
 so laboring, shall remain in the common jail or calaboose of 
 the city; and upon full payment as aforesaid, such party shall 
 be discharged. The writ of commitment issued by the Police 
 Magistrate, or a copy thereof, certified by such magistrate, 
 shall be sufficient warrant to the Marshal. Police Constable 
 or Street Commissioner to compel performance of such labor, 
 
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 and to hold the custody of the body of such party for that 
 purpose. 
 
 Sec. 38. Sections 34, 35, 36 and 37 of this ordinance are 
 
 declared to be cumulative, and not in substitution of the other 
 
 sections of the ordinance regulating proceedings for violation 
 
 of the citv ordinances. 
 
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 Sec. 39. The Police Magistrate, Police Constable and City 
 1 Marshal, in all matters pertaining to the duties of their respec¬ 
 tive offices, concerning which there is no specific provision by 
 ordinance, shall be governed by the laws of the State of Illi¬ 
 nois regulating proceedings in justices courts, and the duties 
 of justices of the' peace and constables, so far as the same may 
 be applicable. Provided , the jurisdiction of the Police Magis¬ 
 trate, for any breach or violation of ordinance, shall in no case 
 extend to any amount over one hundred dollars. And, ‘pro¬ 
 vided, further, the Police Magistrate shall, in all process, be 
 described as “Police Magistrate of the city of Quincy.” 
 
 Sec. 40. When a defendant is acquitted, the informer or 
 prosecutor may be adjudged to pay the costs, if it appears to 
 the Police Magistrate that the prosecution was instituted vexa- 
 tiously, maliciously or without probable cause. 
 
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 NO. XXVI. 
 
 An Ordinance concerning Offences affecting Public Peace and 
 
 Quiet. 
 
 Sec. 1. Unlawful assembly. Penalty for. Police Magistrate may re¬ 
 cognize persons to answer to indictment. 
 
 2. Unusual noises. Penalty for. Licensed persons permitting, 
 to forfeit license. 
 
 3. Obscene language, quarreling and disturbance of neighbor¬ 
 hood. Penalty for. 
 
 4. Violating the Sabbath. Penalty for. 
 
 5. Disturbing religious and other meetings. Penalty for. 
 
 6. False alarm of fire. Penalty for. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city 
 of Quincy, That any three or more persons who shall in this 
 city assemble together with an intent, or being assembled, 
 shall mutually agree to do an unlawful act, with force or vio¬ 
 lence, against the property of the city, or the person or proper¬ 
 ty of another, or against the peace, or to the terror of others, 
 and shall make any movement or preparation therefor; and 
 every person present at said meeting or assembly, who shall 
 not endeavor to prevent the commission or perpetration of 
 said unlawful act, every such person so offending, shall forfeit 
 and pay for the use of the said city, not less than three nor 
 more than fifty dollars for each and every offence. Provided , 
 however, that in all cases arising under this section, if, in the 
 opinion of the Police Magistrate, the defendant or defendants 
 shall be deemed guilty of a riot as defined by the laws of the 
 State, the said magistrate shall, instead of entering judgment 
 for the fine, hold the said defendant or defendants to bail, or 
 commit to answer an indictment in the circuit court of Adams 
 county. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person shall suffer hallooing, shouting, 
 bawling, screaming, profane or obscene language,'fighting dan- 
 cingy singing, whooping, or quarreling, or any other unusual 
 nofees or sounds, in his or her house, in such manner as to dis- 
 turdjthe neighborhood, or those passing through the streets; 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 and* every person so offending shall forfeit and pay, for the use 
 of said city, not less than two dollars, nor more than twenty- 
 dollars for the first offence, and for every subsequent offence, 
 not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars; and if 
 the person so offending, be the keeper of a house licensed by 
 said city, such person shall, upon a second conviction, incur a 
 forfeiture of his license. 
 
 Sec. 3. That no person shall halloo, shout, bawl, scream, 
 use profane or obscene language, dance, sing, whoop, quarrel 
 or make any unusual noise or sound, in any house or in any 
 part of said city, in such a manner as to disturb the good 
 people of the neighborhood, or those passing through the 
 streets; and every person so offending shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use of said city, not less than two dollars, nor more 
 than twenty dollars for the first offence, and for every subse¬ 
 quent offence, not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful for any military company, or 
 any procession, or any body of persons, to march or pass 
 through the streets of the city on Sunday, accompanied by 
 the sound of music; or for any person on Sunday to play in 
 said streets upon any musical instrument. Whoever shall vio¬ 
 late this section, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, . 
 not less than three nor more than twenty dollars. Provided , 
 that this section shall not be construed to prohibit the use of 
 music on said day in connection with funeral ceremonies. 
 
 Sec. 5. Y\ r hoever shall in this city, disquiet or disturb any 
 congregation or assembly, met for religious worship, by mak¬ 
 ing a noise, or by rude and indecent behavior, or profane dis¬ 
 course within their place of worship, or so near the same as 
 to disturb the order or solemnity of the meeting: or whoever 
 shall, in this city, disturb any lawful assemblage of people by 
 rude and indecent behavior or otherwise, shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use of the city, not less than one nor more than fifty 
 dollars for every such offence. » 
 
 Sec. 6 . It shall not be lawful for any one, in this city, to 
 give*or make a false alarm of fire; and every person so offend¬ 
 ing, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not less than 
 three nonnore than fifty dollars, for every such offence. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. XXVII. 
 
 Jin Ordinance concerning Offences against Public Morals and 
 
 Decency. 
 
 Sec. 1. Drunkenness. 'Penalty for. 
 
 2. Indecent exposures, exhibitions, pictures, &c. Penalty for. 
 
 3. Public bathing. Penalty for. 
 
 4. Gaming houses. Penalty for keeping. 
 
 5. Permitting persons to come together for gaming. Penalty 
 for. 
 
 6. Amusements and business on the Sabbath. Penalty for. 
 
 7. Gaming devices. Gaming. Penalty for. Devices for, and 
 may be destroyed. 
 
 8. Bawdy houses. Penalty for keeping. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That it shall not be lawful for any person to be 
 found in this city in a state of intoxication, in any highway, 
 thoroughfare, or other public place; and every person so 
 offending, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not 
 less than one nor more than twenty dollars for each and every 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall in this city, appear in any public 
 place in a state of nudity, or in a dress not belonging to his or 
 her sex, or in any indecent or lewd dress, or shall make any 
 indecent exposure of his or her person, or be guilty of any in¬ 
 decent or lewd act or behavior; or shall exhibit, sell or offer 
 to sell, any indecent or lewd book, picture or other thing, or 
 shall exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play 
 or other representation, and every person so offending, shall 
 forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than five, nor 
 more than 'fifty dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. No personshall be allowed to bathe, wash or swim 
 in the Mississippi river, or in any other watercourse, pond or 
 pool in this city, between sunrise and one hour after sunset, 
 being naked or insufficiently clothed to prevent improper ex¬ 
 posure of his person; and every person so offending, shalkfor- 
 feit and pay for the use of said city, not less than one nor more 
 than ten dollars for each and every offence. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 Sec. 4. That no person shall, by himself, herself, servant 
 or other agent, or for his or her gain or profit, keep, have, ex¬ 
 ercise or maintain a common gaming house, table, room or 
 place whatsoever, within the limits of said city; and> every 
 person so offending, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said 
 city, not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dol¬ 
 lars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. That no person in any house or place occupied by 
 him or her, within the limits of said city, shall procure or per¬ 
 mit any persons to frequent or come together, at any time, to 
 play for money or other valuable thing at any game; and every 
 person so offending shall forfeit and pay for the use of said 
 city, the sum of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty 
 dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 6 . No person in this city, shall play on Sunday at bil¬ 
 liards, ten pins, or other game of amusement, or at any game 
 of amusement in any highway or other public place; nor shall, 
 on that day, sell or offer to sell any merchandize, or fermenb 
 ed or distilled liquors; nor shall keep his store, shop or other 
 place of business open; and every person so offending, shall 
 forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not less than ten nor 
 more than one hundred dollars, for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 7. No person shall, within this city, set up or keep any 
 kind of gambling device or thing, at which any game of chance 
 shall be played for money or property, or any thing represent¬ 
 ing money or property; nor shall at any such device or game 
 of chance, bet, win or lose any money or property in specie, or 
 by means of any thing representing the same; nor shall suffer 
 any such device, at which any game of chance is played, to be 
 set up or used in any tenement in his possession or under his 
 control; and every person so offending, shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use of the said city, not less than five nor more than 
 one hundred dollars for every such offence. And it shall be 
 in the power of the Police Magistrate, on receiving satisfacto¬ 
 ry information of any such device or thing being so set up 
 and used, to issue his warrant to the City Marshal or Police 
 Constable, commanding him to destroy the same, which warrant 
 shall be immediately executed. 
 
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 Sec. 8. No person shall, in this city, keep a bawdy house, 
 house of ill-fame, or of assignation, or permit any tenement in 
 his possession, or under his control, to be used for any such 
 purpose; and every person so offending, shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use of said city, not less than twenty-five dollars nor 
 more than one hundred dollars for every such offence. Pro¬ 
 vided, that it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, upon in¬ 
 formation given him of the keeping of any such house, or of 
 any police officer of said city, under his direction, to enter such 
 house peaceably, or forcibly, if resistance is made, and arrest, 
 without warrant, any and all persons found therein, and com¬ 
 mit them to the calaboose (if special bail be not given) until 
 the opening of the next session of the Police Magistrate’s Court, 
 and tor making such arrest he shall have full power to call to 
 his aid any male citizen of said city over eighteen years of age, 
 and any person so called upon, who shall refuse to render 
 such assistance, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, 
 not less than three nor more than one hundred dollars for 
 every such refusal. 
 
 NO. XXVIII. 
 
 An Ordinance concerning Offences affedmg Public Safety . 
 
 Sec. 1. Firing guns, pistols, crackers,,&c. Penalty for. 
 
 2. Kindling fires in streets, &c. Penalty for. 
 
 3. Immoderate riding, driving, &c. Brutal treatment of animals. 
 Penalty for. 
 
 4. Mode of vehicles passing in streets. 
 
 .Section 1 . Beit ordained by the City Council of the city 
 of Quincy , That no person shall, within the limits of said 
 city, fire or discharge any cannon, musket, rifle, fowling piece, 
 or other fire-arms, or air-gun, except in cases of necessity, or 
 in the performance of a public or lawful act of duty, or dis¬ 
 charge or set off any cracker, rocket, torpedo, squib or other 
 fire-works, within the limits of said city, without permission 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 first obtained from the Mayor or one of the Aldermen, Police 
 Constable or Marshal of said city; and every person so offend¬ 
 ing, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than 
 one dollar, nor more than ten dollars for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person shall, in any of the streets, lanes, 
 avenues or alleys of said city, or upon the public squares there¬ 
 in, make or kindle any fire, without first having obtained per¬ 
 mission as provided in the preceding section; and every per¬ 
 son so offending shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, 
 not less than one dollar, nor more than ten dollars for every 
 such offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall in this city, ride or drive any beast 
 of burden, in any highway, thoroughfare or other public 
 place beyond a moderate gait, unless in a case of urgent ne¬ 
 cessity; nor shall ride or drive any such animal, as to cause 
 such animal or any vehicle thereto attached to eome in collis¬ 
 ion with, or strike any other object or any person; nor shall leave 
 any such animal standing in any public place without being fas¬ 
 tened, or so guarded as to prevent its running away; nor shall 
 inhumanly, unnecessarily or cruelly treat, injure or otherwise 
 abuse any such dumb animal; and every person so offending, 
 shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not less than 
 three nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 4. In all cases of persons meeting each other in vehi¬ 
 cles, in any highway or thoroughfare in this city, each person 
 so meeting, shall turn off and go to the right side of the highway 
 or thoroughfare, so as to enable such vehicles to pass each 
 other without accident. Whoever shall violate this section, 
 shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not less than one 
 nor more than ten dollars for every such offence. Provided , 
 nothing herein shall prevent the party injured from maintain¬ 
 ing his action at law against the wrong doer. 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 no. xxix. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to Offences concerning City Property f 
 Public Squares, the Streets and Private Property. 
 
 Shc. 1. Injuring fences and trees, sidewalks, or any city property. 
 Putting animals into public grounds. Penalty for. 
 
 2. Riding or driving on sidewalks. Fastening animals, &c. Pen¬ 
 alty for. 5 
 
 3. Obstructions or pits in streets. Penalty for. 
 
 4. Eaves and conductors of houses.' Penalty. 
 
 5. Leaving open cellar doors, vaults, &c. Penalty for. 
 
 6. Sidewalks to be kept open. Obstructions removed. Penalty 
 for obstructing. 
 
 7. Obstructing streets with vehicles. Penalty for. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city 
 of Quincy, That no person shall walk or run on the cap¬ 
 ping of any fence or fences, around any or either of the pub¬ 
 lic squares in this city, or in any wise deface or injure said 
 fences, or cut, hack or injure any tree or trees standing in said 
 squares, or growing in any street or sidewalk in said city; nor 
 deface or injure any other property belonging to the city, or 
 wilfully injure any property belonging to any fire company’ or 
 hook and ladder company, or any property pertaining to the 
 fire depaitment; nor shall wilfully injure any public well, cis¬ 
 tern or pump; nor shall turn any cow, horse, or other domestic 
 animal into said public squares or either of them; and every 
 person so offending, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said 
 
 city, not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars for 
 every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 2. Xo person shall, in this city, lead, ride, drive, or 
 place any beast of burden or vehicle, on any paved sidewalk 
 
 or foot way, otherwise than in going into or out of premises 
 owned or occupied by him, or his employers; or shall hitch or 
 fasten any animal to a fire plug, pump or hydrant, or to any 
 fence, or ornamental or shade tree, lamp-post or awning post, 
 not belonging to him or his employers; and every person so 
 o ending, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not 
 
ORDINANCES. 137 
 
 less than one nor more than fifty dollars for each and every 
 such offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. No city officer, contractor or other person in the 
 city, shall make any excavation in any highway or thorough¬ 
 fare, without providing,, during the night, a temporary fence 
 or suitable obstruction around or in front of the same, to pre¬ 
 vent persons animals, or vehicles from falling into the same; 
 and every person thus offending, shall forfeit and pay for the 
 use of said city, not less than five nor more than fifty dollars 
 for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every person owning or occupying any building in 
 this city, shall cause the pipes conducting the water from the 
 eaves of the building, to be so constructed or altered, as not to 
 spread the water over the sidewalks; and every person ne¬ 
 glecting to comply with this section, shall, for every such of¬ 
 fence, forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than one 
 nor more than ten dollars, for every week he or she so neglect 
 to cause the said pipes to be so constructed or altered, as not 
 to spread the water over said sidewalk. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person shall, in this city, leave open any cellar 
 door,.grating or vault, on any highway, thoroughfare, or side¬ 
 walk, or suffer any such door or grating belonging to premi¬ 
 ses occupied by him, or any such place, to be in an insecure con¬ 
 dition, whereby passers may be in danger of falling into a 
 cellar or vault; and every person so offending, shall forfeit 
 and pay for the use of said city, not less than one nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, for each and every such offence. 
 
 Se.c. 6.. That every person owning, acting as agent for or 
 occupying any building or lot in said city, fronting on or ad¬ 
 joining any sidewalk in said city, shall keep or cause the said 
 sidewalk to be kept open, and free from all obstructions, bar¬ 
 riers and impediments of every description; and the Street 
 Commissioner shall cause every such obstruction, barrier or 
 impediment to be immediately removed; in case the same is 
 not removed within a reasonable time by the owner, agent or 
 occupant of the building or lot fronting on or adjoining such 
 sidewalk, on being notified by the Street Commissioner; and 
 
138 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 if such notice is not complied with, such owner, agent or occu¬ 
 pant shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than 
 two nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such offence, 
 as well as all expense incurred by the Street Commissioner in 
 removing or causing the same to be removed, Provided , that it 
 shall and may be lawful for any citizen of said city to prefer 
 complaint before the Police Magistrate's Court for any viola¬ 
 tion of this ordinance; prior to the giving of the notice herein- 
 before set forth, upon such complaint being made by any citi¬ 
 zen, the party found guilty of violating the provisions of this 
 01 dinance shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, not less 
 than one nor more than ten dollars for every such offence; Pro¬ 
 vided, further , that the Street Commissioner shall permit tem¬ 
 porary obstructions to persons in receiving, selling or remov¬ 
 ing fuel, lumber, plank, boxes of merchandize, and other arti¬ 
 cles of trade, if such obstructions be removed within twenty- 
 four hours. 
 
 Sec. 7. That all drays, carts, wagons or other carriages 
 of any description, laden or unladen, unemployed or when 
 making temporary stoppages in any of the streets, lanes, ave¬ 
 nues or alleys shall be placed by the drivers thereof on either 
 side of the street, lane, avenue or alley, lengthways close to the 
 curb stone, or in such a position that the centre of the street, 
 lane, avenue, oi ahey may be left open and free for all carriages, 
 drays, carts, wagons or other conveyances going to and fro; 
 but no such dray, cart, wagon or other carriage, shall be plac¬ 
 ed in any street or near the intersection of any street, lane, 
 avenue or alley, in such manner as to cross the footway, or 
 prevent a free passage in such pathway, street, lane, avenue or 
 alley. Nor shall any dray, cart, wagon or other carriage 
 when unemployed, be left or permitted to stand in any street, 
 lane, avenue or alley without leaving at least thirty feet of the 
 centie of such street, lane, avenue or alley for travel to and 
 fro. Provided, that no person shall be permitted to place any 
 wagon, cart, dray or other carriage lengthways of the curb 
 stone as herein before provided, except he or she be the ow- 
 nei of the lot before which the same shall be placed, and eve- 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 139 
 
 y person violating of any of the provisions of this section, shall 
 >rfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than one nor 
 lore than fifty dollars for each and every ofience. 
 
 NO. XXX. 
 
 in Ordinance concerning Offences against Official Authority , and 
 Concerning the abuse of Official Authority and the Negleetffcf 
 Official Duties. 
 
 sec. 1. Assuming official authority. Resisting officers, &c. Penalty 
 for. P. M. may recognize persons resisting to answer to in¬ 
 dictment. 
 
 2. 0fficers refusing to perform duties. Penalty for. 
 
 3. Officers may be removed, and proceedings therein. 
 
 4. Officers to surrender books, &c. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of 
 luincy , That no person shall, in this city, falsely repre¬ 
 sent himself to he an officer of this city, or shall, without being 
 luly authorized by the city, exercise or attempt to exercise 
 my of the duties, functions or powers of a city officer; or shall 
 under, obstruct, resist or otherwise interfere with any city 
 ifficer in the discharge of his official duties, or attempt to pre¬ 
 vent any such officer from arresting any person, or attempt to 
 rescue from such officer any person in his custody; and every 
 person so offending shall forfeit and pay for the use ol said city, 
 lot less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, for each 
 md every offence. Provided , however, that if in the opinion 
 ff the Police Magistrate after hearing evidence, the defendant 
 >r defendants appear to be guilty ol any indictable offence un- 
 ier the general laws of the State, it shall be the duty of the 
 Police Magistrate to hold said defendant to bail, or commit 
 him or them to answer said indictment in the Adams county 
 Circuit Court, and in such case the Police Magistrate shall in¬ 
 flict no fine under this section. 
 
 Sec. 2. Every officer appointed by the city council, who 
 shall fail or neglect to perform any duty assigned him by or- 
 
140 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 dinance, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay for thi 
 use of said city not less than five nor more than one hundrec 
 dollars for every such offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any officer appointed by the city council 
 ma} be lemovod by a majority of said council for incompe 
 tency, or any dereliction or violation of duty, on the com 
 plaint in writing of. any inhabitant of said city, or whenevei 
 die said council shall think the interests of said city recjuirc 
 said removal; Provided , however, that no officer shall be re¬ 
 moved as aforesaid, until he shall have had notice of such in¬ 
 tended removal and of the charge or charges preferred against 
 him, served on him by the city clerk, and an opportunity to ex¬ 
 culpate himself before said council. 
 
 Sec. 4. that each officer herein mentioned, on his resigna¬ 
 tion, removal, or expiration of his term of office, shall deliver 
 to his successor, all books, papers or other property pertaining 
 to such office. 
 
 NO. XXXI. 
 
 4 ‘ 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning Penalties in the Police Magistrate r s 
 
 Court'. 
 
 Sec. 1. Penalties not provided for, what to ba. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That whoever shall be convicted in the Police Magis- 
 t 1 ate s Court under any ordinance of the city, in case where no 
 specific penalty is prescribed, shall forfeit and pay for the use of 
 said city, a sum not less than three nor more than one hum 
 dred dollars for any such offence. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 141 
 
 NO. XXXII. 
 
 Jin Ordinance Relating to the Public Schools of the City. 
 
 ;|ec. 1. Superintendent to have control of Schools. Superintendent’s 
 powers and duties. To be under supervision of City Council. 
 
 2. Superintendent to keep record of his acts and account of ex¬ 
 penses. To make reports to Council. Other powers and duties. 
 
 3. Council to appoint Board of Visitors. Their powers and du¬ 
 ties. To examine teachers; make report to Council. 
 
 4. How expenses of Schools paid, and claims how allowed. 
 
 5. City Treasurer, School Treasurer. His duties and compen¬ 
 sation. 
 
 G. How enumeration of children taken. Compensatson. 
 
 Section 1. Be it Ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy. That the Superintendent of Schools shall have the 
 control and direction of the Public Schools of the city. He 
 ihall employ teachers, fix their respective salaries, and he is 
 aereby authorized to draw orders on the City Treasurer, quar- ’ 
 terly, for the amount of salary due to each respectively, direct 
 their labors, decide on the books, maps, globes, charts and ap¬ 
 paratus to be used in the public schools, attend to the condi¬ 
 tion and repair of school houses, provide furniture necessary 
 or school rooms, provide fuel for the several schools, person¬ 
 ally visit each school once in two weeks, and examine into the 
 condition and conduct of the same. He shall attend to fur- 
 aishing the respective schools with whatever may be necessary 
 for the convenience of the teachers and scholars, of ordinary 
 use in public schools, and certify to the city council the amount 
 due any person for teaching when required. He may dis¬ 
 charge teachers for incompetency, or other reasonable cause, 
 subject to the approval of the city council. He may estab¬ 
 lish a code of rules for the government of the public schools, 
 and alter or annul the same. He shall be under the supervi¬ 
 sion of the city council and said city council may generally 
 direct him in the discharge of his duties, and sanction or an¬ 
 nul his acts and doings at pleasure. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That said superintendent 
 shall keep a record of his actings and doings, and an account 
 
142 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 of all expenses arising from the public schools. He shall keep 
 an account with each teacher, as well as between himself and 
 the city, and the same shall be a public record of the city, sub¬ 
 ject at all times to the inspection of the city council and’per¬ 
 sons interested, and shall be submitted to the city council, to¬ 
 gether with his annual report hereinafter mentioned. He 
 shall make annual reports to the city council in writing on or 
 before the first day ot July of each year, showing the expen¬ 
 ses of the public schools for the previous year and the items 
 thereof, and shall so soon as practicable thereafter, make set¬ 
 tlement with the city council for the previous year. The an¬ 
 nual report provided for in this section shall also exhibit and 
 show tne number of public schools within the city, the number 
 of school houses and school apartments, the number of teach¬ 
 ers employed, male and female, and the salary of each; the 
 number of children admitted to the several public schools du¬ 
 ring the previous year, the average number of scholars attend¬ 
 ing, and the total number of days attendance; the branches of 
 earning taught, the leading books used, and such other statis¬ 
 tical miormation relating to the public schools as he may be 
 able to obtain; and to which report said Superintendent shall 
 append such information, recommendations and suggestions as 
 lie may deem advisable. A synopsis of said report shall be 
 published m the city newspapers, so. soon as practicable after 
 the same shall be made annually. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That the city council shall 
 appoint, so soon as practicable, a board of Public School Visi- 
 tors, consisting of three residents of the city, who shall hold 
 icir offices until the next annual organization of the citv 
 council, and who shall thereafter be appointed annually in 
 manner provided by ordinance for the appointment of e’itv 
 officers by the city council. Said Board of Visitors, or a ma- 
 jon j ° them, shall examine alb teachers and decide on their 
 qualifications, and shall grant certificates of qualification to 
 teachers; and no teacher shall be employed without such cer- 
 , l “A of qualification: Provided, in case of the absence or 
 inability of a majority of said board, teachers may be employ¬ 
 ed, until such examination can be made. Said board of visb- 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 143 
 
 tors shall, on request of the Mayor, and as often as once in 
 every three months, visit the several public schools of the city, 
 and enquire into and examine the mode of teaching, the books 
 and apparatus used, the competency and conduct of the teach¬ 
 ers, the proficiency of the scholars, and the general condition 
 of the schools, and shall make report in writing, of the condi¬ 
 tion thereof, appending to their report such information, re¬ 
 commendations and suggestions in relation to said schools as 
 they may deem advisable. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That the expenses of the 
 public schools shall be paid out of the district school fund, and 
 in case the same shall be insufficient, the deficit shall be paid 
 out of the common treasury of the city, as the city council may 
 from time to time order. All claims against the city, or any 
 fund thereof, accruing on account of the public schools, except 
 salary of Superintendent and salaries of Teachers, shall be 
 audited by the Auditing Committee, and before they are paid, 
 allowed by the city council. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That the City Treasurer 
 shall be ex officio treasurer of the Quincy School District, and 
 shall perform such duties and receive such compensation, where 
 not otherwise provided by ordinance, as treasurers of school 
 townships may be entitled to in like cases, under the laws of 
 this State relating to common schools; and shall perform such 
 other duties as may be required of him by the city council. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That the City Treasurer 
 shall take or cause to be taken correct enumerations of the 
 children within the Quincy School District, and make return 
 thereof to the School Commissioner of Adams county, at the 
 time and in the manner provided by the laws of this State 
 relating to common schools; and the city council shall allow 
 him such compensation therefor as may be equitable.. 
 
144 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. XXXIII. 
 
 A n Ordinance Concerning Assessments for Paving , Planking or 
 - Me A damizing the Streets and Alleys. 
 
 Sec. 1. When majority petition. Committee to estimate and re.porJ 
 plan. 
 
 2. Order. Form of. 
 
 3. Commissioners to assess. 
 
 4. Clerk to notify. Oath to be taken. 
 
 •5. Notice of commissioners. Certificate to be attached. 
 
 6. Assessment Roll. Form of &c. 
 
 7. Return of assessment. Clerk to give notice of. 
 
 8. Confirmation of assessment. 
 
 9. Collectors warrant. Form of. 
 
 10. Collector. Powers of. 
 
 11. Assessment when valid. 
 
 12. City to improve. Compensation of Commissioners. How 
 paid. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy, That whenever a major part of the owners or holders 
 of real estate, either of lots or parts of lots fronting on any 
 street or alley, or part of street or alley, shall petition the city 
 council for paving, planking or macadamizing said street or al¬ 
 ley oi part of street or alley, and the said council shall deem it 
 necessary to cause the same to be so paved, planked or macada¬ 
 mized, the subject shall be referred to an appropriate committee 
 of not less than three, whose duty it shall be to prepare and re¬ 
 port to the council the plan of such improvement, with an accu¬ 
 rate estimate of the expenses thereof, including the supposed cost 
 oi making the assessment as hereinafter provided; it-shall‘be the 
 duty of the City Engineer to assist the committee in making 
 said estimate; said estimate shall be made in writing, and shall 
 be submitted to the council in connection with the report. 
 
 Sec. 2 . Whenever such improvement shall be ordered by 
 the council the order therefor may be in the following form: 
 
 Ordered that street, from street t© 
 
 street be planked, (or otherwise improved as the case 
 may be,) with (here describe the materials of planking, &c.,) 
 and the sum of dollars be assessed upon the real eg- 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 145 
 
 tate in the division of the city benefited thereby, to defray 
 expenses of such improvement. 
 
 Sec. 3-, When the assessment shall be ordered, the city 
 council shall, by ballot, elect, three reputable freeholders resi¬ 
 ding in the city to make the same; if elected at time of said 
 order, the names shall be recorded by the clerk in connection 
 therewith, as follows 
 
 “ The city council thereupon proceeded to make choice by 
 ballot of three Commissioners to make such assessment. On 
 the first ballot (or as the case may be) A. B. C. D., Ac., re¬ 
 ceived ballots each (or as the case may be,) which being 
 the majority of all the Aldermen of the city, they were de¬ 
 clared duly elected as Commissioners to make the said assess¬ 
 ment; (if the election be held subsequent to the passage of 
 any order for an assessment, the order should be so changed 
 as to conclude after the word commissioners as follows, to as¬ 
 sess the sum of dollars, on the real estate in the 
 division, benefitted by the (state the nature of the improve¬ 
 ment,) in pursuance of an order of the city council, passed 
 
 185 .” 
 
 Sec. 4. The clerk shall make out notices of the appoint¬ 
 ment to the Commissioners, requiring them to appear and be 
 qualified as such within five days after the service of notice. 
 Notices shall be served by the City Marshal. Commissioners 
 shall take the following oath, to be entered upon or attached 
 to their assessment roll. “ The undersigned Commissioners, 
 appointed by the city council of the city of Quincy, to assess 
 the sum of dollars upon the real estate, by us deemed bene¬ 
 fited by the planking-of (or otherwise improving,) 
 street, in proportion to the benefits resulting thereto, as near¬ 
 ly as may be, do solemnly swear that we will faithfully and 
 impartially execute our duty according to the best of our 
 ■ability. 
 
 A. B.) 
 
 C. D. y Commissioners. 
 E. F.) 
 
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of 
 
 185 . - 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 5. Before entering upon their duties, the said Com¬ 
 missioners shall give at least six days notice in a public news¬ 
 paper printed and published in the city of Quincy, of the time 
 and place of meeting, for the purpose of making their assess¬ 
 ments; and they may, if necessary, adjourn from day to day. 
 Such notice may be in the following form : 
 
 COMMISSIONERS NOTICE. 
 
 Public notice is hereby given to all persons interested that 
 the undersigned Commissioners appointed by the city council 
 of the city of Quincy, to assess the sum of dollars on the 
 real estate in the division, by us deemed benefitted 
 
 by the (here state the substance of the order.) will meet at 
 in said division, on the day of at the 
 
 hour of o’clock, m,, for the purpose of making said assess¬ 
 ment 
 
 A. B.l 
 
 C. D. > Commissioners. 
 
 E. F.j 
 
 Quincy,-,185 . 
 
 The Commissioners shall attach to their assessment roll a 
 certificate of such publication, signed by the proprietor of such 
 public newspaper. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Commissioners shall be present at the time 
 and place mentioned in such notice, for the purpose of making 
 the assessment. When the same shall be completed, it shall 
 be entered in a well bound book to be provided by the city, 
 the roll shall contain the names of the owners of real estate 
 when known, a description of the lots and parts of lots which 
 may be assessed, the valuation of each separately, and the 
 sums of money assessed thereon. It may be in the following 
 form : 
 
 ASSESSMENT ROLL. 
 
 A description of the real estate in the division 
 
 of the city of Quincy, deemed benefitted by the planking, (or 
 otherwise as the case may be,) street, (or part of street 
 as the case may be,) with the valuation thereof, and the sums 
 of money severally assessed thereon by the Commissioners* 
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ORDINANCES. 
 
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 When the said roll shall be completed, the Commissioners 
 shall attach thereto a return which may be in the following 
 form : 
 
 The undersigned freeholders and residents of the city of 
 Quincy, duly elected and appointed by the city council of the 
 city of Quincy, to assess the sum of dollars on the real es¬ 
 tate in the division of the said city, by us deemed benefit- 
 t,ed by the planking street,: (or otherwise improving the 
 same,) do hereby report to the city council : That in pursu¬ 
 ance of said appointment they were duly qualified before en¬ 
 tering upon their duties as appears by the oath recorded here¬ 
 in, that they published a notice of the time and place of their 
 meeting for the purpose of making such assessment in the 
 a public newspaper printed and published in the said city, for 
 the period of six consecutive days previous to such meeting; a 
 certificate of which publication is hereto annexed, that they 
 were present at the time and place and for the purpose desig¬ 
 nated in the said notice, and did then and there, and do here¬ 
 by in pursuance of said appointment, assess the said sum of 
 money upon the real estate hereinbefore set forth and describ¬ 
 ed as benefitted in the respective proportions of said sum set 
 opposite to each lot and part of lot respectively, in the forego¬ 
 ing assessment roll, having first fixed a valuation on said real 
 estate, which is likewise set forth in the said roll. 
 
 All of which is respectively submitted. 
 
 A. B. 
 
 C. D. y Commissioners. 
 
 E. F. 
 
 -185 , 
 
 Quincy, 
 
148 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 7. The commissioners shall complete the assessment 
 roll and file the same in the office of the City Clerk, within 
 twenty days after their appointment, unless further time shall 
 be given them for that purpose. The Clerk shall thereupon 
 cause a notice of the return of such assessment, to be published 
 lor six days in some public newspaper published in said city, 
 and a certificate of the propriety thereof shall be written upon 
 or attached to the roll. The notice may be in the following 
 form : 
 
 ASSESSMENT NOTICE. 
 
 City Clerk’s Office, 1 
 City of Quincy, 185 . j 
 
 Public notice is hereby given to all persons interested, that 
 the Commissioners appointed by the City Council of the city 
 of Quincy to assess the sum of dollars on the real estate 
 in the division benefitted by (here state the substance of 
 the order) have completed their assessment, and made return 
 thereof to my office. Any person wishing to appeal from said 
 assessment, must file their objections, in writing, in my office, 
 on or before the day of , 185 , at o’clock, m, 
 
 as the City Council will then at that time meet at my office 
 to hear all objections to the assessment, and will revise and 
 confirm, or annul the same. A. B., Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 8. When all objections to the assessment shall have 
 been heard, and the roll revised and corrected by the City 
 Council, an order of confirmation shall thereupon be entered 
 by the Clerk, (if such order shall be made,) which order may 
 be in the following form, to wit : 
 
 Whereas, due notice has been given by the City Clerk, of 
 of the return of the assessment made by the Commissioners 
 appointed by the City Council, on the day of 185 , 
 to assess the sum of dollars on the real estate in di¬ 
 vision, benefitted by the (here state the nature of the assess¬ 
 ment,) and all objections to such assessment having been 
 duly heard and disposed of by the City Council, (or “no ob¬ 
 jections thereto having been made,” as the case may be,) it is 
 therefore ordered, that the said assessment, as revised and cor¬ 
 rected by the City Council, be and the same hereby is confirm- 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 149 
 
 cd. It is further ordered that a warrant be issued for the col¬ 
 lection thereof, returnable within thirty days from its date. 
 
 Sec. 9. Warrants issued for the collection of any special 
 assessment, may be in the following form : 
 
 collector’s warrant. 
 
 State of Illinois, \ 
 
 City of Quincy, j The people of the State of Illinois, to 
 to the Marshal and Collector of the city of Quincy, greeting : 
 
 Whereas, the City Council of the city of Quincy did on the 
 day of 185 , confirm the assessment duly made and filed 
 in the City Clerk’s office, by the Commissioner’s appointed by 
 the City Council to assess the sum of dollars on real es¬ 
 tate in the division of said city, deemed benefitted by 
 (here state the terms of the original order,) in proportion to 
 the benefits resulting thereto, in pursuance of an order for said 
 assessment made by the City Council on the day of , 
 185 , (if the roll has been revised by the Council then add 
 “after duly revising and correcting the same,”) and did there¬ 
 by assess the said sum of money upon the real estate described 
 in the roll of said assessment, in the respective proportions 
 thereof marked “assessments,” set opposite to each lot, or part 
 of lot, and described in said roll, which roll is in the words 
 and figures, to wit : 
 
 assessment roll. 
 
 (Here insert a true and perfect copy of the corrected assess¬ 
 ment roll, with a blank column for the entry of payments.) 
 
 Now, therefore, you are hereby commanded to make levy 
 and collect, of the goods and chattels of the respective owners 
 of the real estate above described, the several sums of money 
 assessed thereon, for which each may be liable as aforesaid, 
 and hereof make due return in what manner you shall execute 
 this writ, within thirty days from the date thereof. 
 
 Witness : (J. W.) Mayor of the city of 
 
 [l. s J Quincy, and the coporate seal thereof, 
 
 this day of 185 . 
 
 J. W. Mayor. 
 
 Attest: A. B. Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 10. The Collector shall have the same powers in the 
 
150 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 collection of warrants for assessment as for general taxes. If 
 any part of the assessment shall not be collected by the re¬ 
 turn day of the warrant, he shall make return thereof in the 
 manner required for the return of the delinquent list under 
 the revenue act of said city, and the same order of sale, and 
 notice thereof, shall be made and given in the same manner as 
 prescribed by the ordinance of said city, relating to the 
 revenue. 
 
 All assessments for special tax, as aforesaid, shall be charged 
 to the Marshal as Collector, and said Marshal shall be liable 
 therefor in the manner and to the same extent as for general 
 taxes. 
 
 Sec. 11. No assessment shall be deemed to be invalid in 
 any case where the same shall be made in conformity with law, 
 though the same should not be made in conformity with the 
 proceedings and forms herein prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 12. That whenever the city shall order an assess¬ 
 ment for any of the improvements herein, the city shall, at the 
 cost ot the city, make the like improvements at the squares or 
 cross streets, and make the gutters on each side of the street 
 where the improvements are made, and also in front of all. 
 alleys and public ground. 
 
 The commissioners appointed under this ordinance shall ro 
 oeive as a compensation for each day’s actual service, the sum 
 of two dollars; and the same compensation shall be allowed 
 the person collecting said tax, as is now provided for like ser¬ 
 vice under the revenue ordinance of the city. Said services 
 to be paid out of said assessment, and to be made a part of the 
 estimate of the cost of said improvement. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 NO. XXXIV. 
 
 An Ordinance to Establish and Regulate the Police Department* 
 
 Sec. 1. Establishment of—aDd what. 
 
 2. How appointed. 
 
 3. Term. Salary. 
 
 4. Mayor to have control of. May remove. 
 
 5. Police Constable chief of. Duties and powers of. 
 
 6. Watchmen. Duties of. Powers of. Prohibitions. 
 
 7. Watchmen. Age of. Oath. Bond required. 
 
 8. Fine. Removal from. 
 
 9. Calaboose. Keeper of. 
 
 10. Power to arrest. How—when and who. 
 
 11. To call assistance. Penalty for refusing. 
 
 12. Bail maybe given. Form of. Statement of officer. 
 
 13. Police. Who may call out. 
 
 14. Bond. Who approved by. 
 
 15. Fines paid over. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That there shall be and hereby is established a Po¬ 
 lice Department, to consist of the mayor, a police constable, 
 and such watchmen as may be appointed in the manner here¬ 
 inafter prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 2. The police constable and watchmen shall be ap¬ 
 pointed by the city council, and any candidate for either of 
 said offices receiving a majority of the votes cast shall be de¬ 
 clared elected, any ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 Sec. 3. The police constable and watchmen shall hold their 
 appointment for the time specified in the order making their 
 appointment, (unless discharged as hereinafter provided) and 
 shall receive such salary as shall be designated therein. 
 
 Sec. 4. The mayor shall have the general supervision and 
 •control of the city police. He shall from time to time make 
 such regulations touching their duties under the ordinance, as 
 to him shall seem best for the maintainance of order in the 
 city, and for enforcing a due observance of the ordinances 
 thereof. He shall require of the city police a strict perform¬ 
 ance of their duties; and in the case of the neglect or refu¬ 
 sal of any officer appointed under and by virtue of this ordi- 
 
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 nance to perform his duty, or for any drunken or riotous 
 conduct, it shall be his duty to discharge the officer so neglecting 
 or refusing, from the service of the city, and appoint a substi¬ 
 tute to serve until the next meeting of the city council thereaf¬ 
 ter. 
 
 Sec. 5. The police constable shall be chief of the city 
 police, (subordinate only to; the mayor and council in session) 
 and all the- watchmen shall be in subordination to him, except 
 in cases otherwise provided by ordinance. It shall be his duty 
 to collect all dues coming to the city (not peculiarly within 
 the province of the marshal to collect.) He shall see that the 
 sidewalks, streets and alleys are kept free from rubbish and 
 other impediments, and that the ordinances are strictly con¬ 
 formed to. It shall also be his duty to see that the watchmen 
 are on duty every night; appoint their different districts or 
 beats each evening, and in case of the sickness or necessary 
 
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 absence of any of the watchmen, to employ a substitute or sub¬ 
 stitutes until his or their return to duty, or until the next meet¬ 
 ing of the city council. It shall also be the duty of the police 
 constable to report to the city council, at their stated meet¬ 
 ings, monthly, the number of nights each watchman has perform¬ 
 ed duty in the preceding month, which report shall be verified 
 by the oath of said constable.. 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the watchmen to meet at 
 such places as may be designated by the police constable, 
 every evening at nine o’clock, and to- continue in active duty 
 until four o’clock, A. m., from April the first until October the 
 first,-' and until five o’clock, a. m., the remainder of the year, 
 under such rules as may be provided by the mayor or police 
 constable. The watchmen shall have power and authority for 
 the purpose of making arrests and quelling disorders while on 
 duty; to enter in a peaceable manner, or if resisted, after de¬ 
 mand made, with force into any house, store, shop, grocery or 
 other building, whatever, where any illegal practices or viola¬ 
 tions of the ordinances are being carried on. But no watch¬ 
 man shall, while on duty as such, enter any public house, dram 
 shop or drinking saloon, except for the purpose of making ar¬ 
 rests or quelling disorders. 
 
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 Sec. 7. Every person appointed on the police of the city as 
 icreinbefore provided for, shall not be less than twenty-five 
 md not more than fifty years of age, and at the time of his ap- 
 >ointment shall have resided in the city at least two years 
 lext preceding his appointment, and he shall be able to speak 
 ;hc English language distinctly, and not interested or employ- 
 id in the keeping of any tavern, inn, coffee house, beer house 
 >r dram shop; and before entering upon the duties of his office, 
 :ake and subscribe an oath that he will, during his continuance 
 in such office, faithfully discharge the duties of the same to 
 the best of his ability, and shall give bond with security' the 
 oolice constable in the sum of $1,000, and the watchmen in the 
 sum of $200 each, to be approved by the city council. 
 
 Sec. 8. Any person appointed to any office under the pro¬ 
 visions of this ordinance, who shall be derelict in the perform¬ 
 ance of his duties therein in any particular, shall on conviction 
 thereof, be fined in a sum not less than five nor more than fifty 
 dollars, and shall forfeit all arrears that may be due him from 
 the city for services in said office, besides being subject to re¬ 
 moval as hereinbefore provided; said fine to be sued for and 
 recovered as in cases of other breaches of the city ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 9.. There shall be designated from time to time by 
 the city council, a calaboose, jail, or city prison, within the 
 limits of said city, for the punishment of such offenders by im¬ 
 prisonment therein, as shall fail or refuse to pay the lines and 
 forfeitures which may be rendered against them, or shall re¬ 
 fuse or fail to give bail when arrested to answer for any vio¬ 
 lation of any ordinance of the city, or shall be subject to im¬ 
 prisonment under the authority of any ordinance. The police 
 constable shall have charge of the calaboose, subject to and 
 under the supervision of the mayor. 
 
 Sec. 10. The members of the city police shall be regular 
 and punctual in the discharge of their duties; they shall to the 
 best of their abilities, preserve order, quiet and peace through¬ 
 out the city; they shall arrest without warrant, any person 
 found violating any law or ordinance; any person making loud 
 and unusual noises, or otherwise disturbing the quiet and 
 order of the city; any person found at any time of day or night, 
 
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 being in a state of intoxication, in any street, sidewalk, alley 
 01 other public or exposed place in said city * any person who 
 shall be exhibiting in said city any indecent act or conduct, 
 calculated in any way to disturb the peace and good order by 
 collecting crowds on the streets, sidewalks or elsewhere in 
 said city or otherwise; any person using in any public or ex* 
 posed place in said city, obscene or boisterous language. They 
 shall also arrest without warrant all persons who may be 
 found lurking about under suspicious circumstances, and secure 
 them for examination; the officer making any such arrest shall 
 forthwith take the party arrested before a police magistrate, 
 to be dealt with according to law and as provided by the or* 
 finances. Should the officer make such arrest in the night, 
 or at any other time when a police court is not in session, he 
 shall convey the party to the calaboose, and there detain him 
 until the sitting of the next police court thereafter, unless bail 
 be given as provided in section “twelve” of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 11. I he mayor, marshal, and every member of the 
 police department, are hereby severally authorized to call 
 upon am inhabitant ot the city to assis-t in quelling anv riot* 
 
 . duct, or to aid in arresting or safe keep- 
 ing any person accused of crime or breach of the law or ordi¬ 
 nance; and any inhabitant so called on who shall neglect or 
 refuse to give such aid and assistance to the best of his ability, 
 shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than 
 fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered as in other cases of 
 other breaches of city ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 12. Any person arrested without warrant for any of¬ 
 fence, under any ordinance, shall have the right to release him¬ 
 self or herself from custody by giving bail or recognizance for his 
 appearance at the opening of the next police court thereafter, 
 and for his remaining to answer said offence, which said recog¬ 
 nizance shall be in form and substance substantially as follows: 
 
 State of Illinois, 1 gg 
 
 City of Quincy, f ss * Know all men by these presents, that 
 we, A, B. and C. D., are severally and jointly held and bound 
 unto “the city of Quincy/' in the penal sum of 
 dollars, for the payment whereof we hereby jointly and sever- 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 155 
 
 lly bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, or administrators, 
 igned and sealed this day of A. D. 185 . 
 
 The condition of this recognizance is such, that whereas, 
 ie above bonnden A. B. has this day been arrested by M. N*, 
 dice constable for the city of Quincy, (or C. P., watchman, 
 s the case may be.) charged with a violation of an ordinance 
 f said city, (here insert the title thereof,) in this, to wit: 
 here describe the particular breach in the language of the or. 
 inance.) on the day of A. D., 185 . Now, if the 
 aid A. B. shall personally be and appear before the police 
 ourt within and for the city of Quincy, at the first regular meet- 
 lg thereof next to be holden, and shall remain and abide the 
 rder of the court, and not depart without leave, then the re- 
 ognizance shall be void, otherwise to remain in full force and 
 Irtue. Acknowledged before me 
 
 M-N-, Marshal, or 
 
 C-P-, Watchman, or 
 
 J-R-, Police Constable. 
 
 To which recognizance thus executed and ackowledged, the 
 >erson making the arrest shall add a statement of tire form 
 md effect following, to wit: 
 i-B-, to the city of Quincy, Dr. 
 
 To dollars, for breach of ordinance, as specified in 
 
 he above and foregoing recognizance. The amount of said 
 'ecognizance and statement shall in no case exceed one hundred 
 lollars, and may be varied according to the penalty for the 
 violation charged, and the same shall be filed with the police 
 nagistrate, on or before the opening of the court. 
 
 Sec. 13. The city police shall be subject at all times, day 
 Dr night, to be called out by the mayor, aldermen or police 
 magistrates, to make arrests, quell disorders, maintain peace, 
 Dr suppress riots in said city. 
 
 Sec. 14. In all cases of arrest, when the parties arrested, 
 wish to give bond for appearance as herein above provided, 
 said bond shall be approved by a police magistrate, if conve- 
 lient, when such approval is not convenient to be had, said 
 Dond shall be approv ed by the officer making the arrest. 
 
 Sec. 15. All fines and penalties collected under this ordi- 
 
 A-B- [l. s,] 
 
 C-D- [l. s.] 
 
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 ORDINANCES* 
 
 nance, shall be paid by the officer collecting to the police ma^ 
 istrate, and by him paid over to the treasurer.. 
 
 NO, XXXY. 
 
 Jin Ordinance Regulating the Erection and use of Scales m 
 
 Streets, fyc. 
 
 Sec. 1 . License required. Terms of. 
 
 2. On private property. 
 
 3. Register to Keep. 
 
 4. Fee for Weighing. 
 
 5. Penalty. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it Ordained by the City Council of the city o 
 Quincy, That all persons now owning or renting Hay Scales 
 or any scales used, being built or to be erected on any street 
 alley or public grounds within the limits of said city, shall ob 
 lain license for the use thereof from the city council of said city 
 in the same manner that other licenses are now granted. Th( 
 turns and condition of said license to be determined by the 
 council, whenever application is made therefor. 
 
 Sec. 2. All persons having,, or who shall hereafter erecl 
 scales on any private property or enclosure within the limits 
 of said city for hire or using for a compensation shall procure 
 a license therefor. 
 
 Sec. 3. All persons owning scales for hire shall keep a 
 Register of all commodities weighed by them. Said register 
 shov ing the true weight and tare thereto belonging, and shall 
 hold the said register subject to the inspection of all persons 
 interested therein. 
 
 Sec. 4. All persons owning scales may collect for the use 
 of said scales, and making and delivering the proper certificate 
 of the true weight and tare of any commodity, the sum of 
 
 “twenty cents f for each and every load or draft of the capacity 
 of said scales. 
 
 Sec. 5. All persons violating this ordinance shall forfeit 
 and pay for the use of said city, a sum of not less than ten nor 
 more than fifty dollars for every offence. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 157 
 
 NO. XXXVI. 
 
 An Ordinance to Restrain Bowling or Ten Pin Alleys. 
 
 sc. 1. Licenses required. Price of. 
 
 2. Penalty. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 \uincy , That no person shall keep a Bowling or Ten Pin Al¬ 
 iy, within the limits of the city, without having first obtained 
 license therefor from the city council; which license shall be 
 ranted for one year, on payment to the city clerk of the sum 
 f fifty dollars, and at that rate for a shorter time. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That any person who shall 
 iolate the provisions of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay 
 } the city, not more than twenty-five nor less than five dollars 
 )r each and every offence, which shall be collected as other 
 enalties are for violation of city ordinances. 
 
 NO. XXXVII. 
 
 hi Ordinance authorizing and requiring the City Clerk tope?form 
 the duties of Inspector of Weights and Measures in certain cases. 
 
 )EC. 1. City Clerk to inspect. 
 
 2. Clerk’s fee. 
 
 3. Penalty for refusing to permit Clerk to examine. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 luincy , That the city clerk be and is hereby authorized and 
 equired on application of any party interested, to repair to 
 he place of business of any person designated in such applica- 
 ion, and inspect, seal and deliver certificate of inspection of 
 .ny and all weights and measures then held for use at such 
 )lace of business as the applicant shall require. 
 
 Sec. 2. The clerk shall receive from the party making 
 uch application, the sum of one dollar for each and every cer- 
 ificate of such inspection, as fees for his services. 
 
 Sec. 3 Any owner or person using scales or implements of 
 
158 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 weights and measures who shall, in any manner refuse to pe 
 mit or prevent his weights and measures being examined b 
 the city clerk on application, of said clerk within reasonabl 
 business hours, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said cit 
 the sum of ten dollars for each and every offence; said pei 
 alty to be collected in the same manner as other fines an 
 penalties. 
 
 NO. XXXVIIL 
 
 An Ordinance entitled u An Ordinance for the protection of Ga 
 Lights , and the interests of the Quincy Gas and Coke Company . ; 
 
 Sec. 1. No person shnll turn on. Penalty. 
 
 2. No person shall break, &o. Penalty. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city o 
 Quincy , That no person not authorized by the city council o 
 said city or by the Quincy Gas and Coke Company, shall tun 
 on, open or shut off the Gas, or in any manner deface or inter 
 fere with the Gaspipes or in any way obstruct the light of the 
 lamps in the streets of the city. Every person so offending 
 shall forfeit and pay for the use of said city, not less than five 
 nor more than one hundred dollars for each and everv offence, 
 Sec. 2. Any person who shall deface, break or in any 
 manner injure any lamp, lamp-post or any fixture or attach¬ 
 ment to lamps, lamp-posts, burners, gas works, or any other 
 construction of the Quincy Gas and Coke Company of the city 
 of Quincy, or shall drive against or tie any horse or other ani¬ 
 mal to, or in any manner injure the lamp-posts in said city, 
 shall forfeit and pay for the use of said Gas and Coke Compa¬ 
 ny, not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for 
 every offence; this penalty to be sued for by the agent of said 
 Gas and Coke Company, before any Magistrate having juris¬ 
 diction. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 NO. XXIX. 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the issuing of Licenses , fyc. 
 
 Sec. 1. Application made to Council. 
 
 2. Power to revoke. 
 
 3. To be closed. Hour of. 
 
 4. To complain. Who may. 
 
 5. Penalty. Revocation. Notice Clerk to give. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy, That hereafter no license shall be issued by the city 
 clerk, for the keeping of Restaurants. Eating-houses or Sa¬ 
 loons, wherein spirits, spirituous liquors, wines, beer, or ale 
 are sold, until the application for the same shall have been 
 presented to and approved by the city council, and an order 
 made for the issuing of the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That all licenses hereafter 
 issued for the keeping of groceries, restaurants, eating-houses 
 or saloons, wherein spirits, spirituous liquors, wines, beer or 
 ale arc sold, may be revoked and rendered null and void, 
 whenever the city council shall so declare, by a majority of the 
 votes of the members of the Board present. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That all restaurants, eating- 
 houses, saloons and all places at or wherein spirits, spirituous 
 liquors, wine, beer, or ale are sold, shall be closed at all times 
 at and after eleven o’clock in the evening. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That it may be lawful for 
 any citizen, and it shall be the duty of the City Marshal, Po¬ 
 lice Constable and Night Watch, to make complaint before 
 the Police Magistrate for any violation of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That any proprietor or oc¬ 
 cupant, having charge of any restaurant, eating-house, saloon 
 or place of public resort who shall violate this ordinance, shall 
 forfeit and pay for the use of said city, the sum of twenty dol¬ 
 lars for the first offence, and not less than forty dollars for the 
 second and each subsequent offence, to be recovered as other 
 penalties for violation of the city ordinance; and if the person 
 convicted shall be the keeper of a licensed house, the city coun¬ 
 cil shall have power, and it shall be lawful for them to declare 
 
160 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 said license forfeited; and upon the forfeiture of any license 
 under this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the city clerk tc 
 give to the party whose license has been declared forfeited, a 
 written notice thereof within twenty-four hours thereafter. 
 
 NO. XL. 
 
 Jin Ordinance Relating to the sale of Spirituous or Vinous Liquors. 
 
 Sec. 1. License required. 
 
 2. Application tor. Time of. 
 
 3. Keep one place only. Proviso. 
 
 4. Not assignable. Proviso. 
 
 5. Amount to be paid. 
 
 6. Bond required. 
 
 7. Clerk to keep register. 
 
 8. Penalty. 
 
 9. Clerk’s fee. 
 
 Section 1. Re it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That no person or co-partnership shall in the city of 
 Quincy, directly or indirectly in person or by another person 
 sell, barter, or deliver, or knowingly permit to be sold, bar- 
 teied or delivered for or on his or their account, any spiritu¬ 
 ous or vinous liquors in less quantities than one gallon with¬ 
 out a license first obtained according to the provisions of this 
 ordinance as a grocery or drinking saloon. 
 
 bEC. 2. Any person wishing to keep a grocery or drinking 
 saloon, shall make application to the city" council therefor, and 
 if said application shall be granted by said council, upon pay¬ 
 ment to the city clerk by said applicant of the sum hereinafter 
 required; he shall issue license to said applicant to keep a gro¬ 
 cery or drinking saloon as applied for, not less than six nor 
 more than twelve months from the date of the license at the 
 place designated in said application. ' 
 
 Sec. B. No person or persons so licensed, shall, under such 
 license, keep a grocery or drinking saloon at any other place 
 than the place so designated; Provided , that he or they may re- 
 mo\e the carrying on of such business, during the continuance 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 of such license from the tenement designated therein to any 
 other tenement upon permission from the city council. 
 
 Sec. 4. No license granted under this ordinance shall be 
 assignable or transferable, only by permission of the city coun- 
 cil and upon such transfer being made, the party to whom 
 transferred shall give bond with good and sufficient security 
 the same as in the granting of a new license. 
 
 Sec. 5. For a license for a grocery or drinking saloon 
 there shall be paid by the applicant, before granting the same, 
 the sum of two hundred dollars for twelve months or one hun¬ 
 dred dollars for six months, and any such license shall author¬ 
 ize the keeping of said grocery or drinking saloon at one place 
 Only. 
 
 Sec. 6. The applicant before the license is granted as afore* 
 said, shall execute a bond payable to the city of Quincy, in the 
 penal sum of five hundred dollars with one or more securities, 
 to be approved by the city clerk conditioned, that the applicant 
 will keep an orderly house, and keep the same closed at all 
 times on the sabbath day, and not permit any unlawful gaming or 
 riotous conduct in his house at any time, and that he will observe 
 and keep all the ordinances of said city then in force, or that 
 may be passed during the continuance of said license, touch¬ 
 ing and governing groceries or drinking saloons, or any order 
 made in relation thereto by the city council. 
 
 Sec. 7. The city clerk shall keep a registry of the licenses 
 granted under this ordinance, to whom granted, the time when 
 granted and the time the same expires, and shall pay all mon¬ 
 ies arising therefrom into the city treasury* 
 
 Sec. 8. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this 
 ordinance, shall for the first offence, forfeit and pay for the use 
 of said city not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, and 
 for the second and each subsequent offence not less than twen¬ 
 ty nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered as other 
 penalties. 
 
 Sec. 9. There shall be paid by the applicant to the clerk 
 as his fee for making out said license and taking bond the sum 
 of one dollar. 
 
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ORDINANCES. 
 
 162T 
 
 NO. XLI. 
 
 Jin Ordinance Relating to the sale of Fermented Liquors. 
 
 Sec. I. Licenses required. 
 
 2. Keeper of. Defined. 
 
 Si. Prohibition. 
 
 4. Not transferable. Proviso. 
 
 5. Application for. 
 
 6. Time of. Amount to be paid. 
 
 7. Clerk to keep register. 
 
 8. Not to be kept open—when. 
 
 9. Bond required. 
 
 10. Penalty. 
 
 11. License forfeited. 
 
 12. Clerk’s fee. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of 
 Quincy , That no person, or copartnership of persons, except 
 those having a grocery license, shall in the city sell or keep 
 for sale to be drank on the premises by the small or glass, any 
 beer, ale or other fermented liquors, or shall suffer the same 
 to be so bartered or sold without license first obtained, accord¬ 
 ing to this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. A keeper of a beer house is a person permitted by 
 law, being licensed according to the provisions of this ordi¬ 
 nance, to sell fermented liquors in any quantity less than one 
 quart, to be drank at the place of sale. 
 
 Sec. 3. No keeper of a beer house shall barter or give 
 away beer his at house, any wine or spirituous liquors under 
 any pretence whatever. 
 
 Sec. 4. No license granted under the provisions of this or¬ 
 dinance, shall be assignable or transferable, nor shall a person 
 so licensed keep a beer house at any other place than the one 
 designated by his application. Provided , however , that he may 
 remove the carrying on said business during the continuance 
 of said license, to any other tenement in the city, or assign or 
 transfer the said license only upon permission of the city 
 council. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person wishing to keep a beer house in said 
 @iity shall make application to the city council therefor, and if 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 said application shall be granted, upon payment by said appli¬ 
 cant of the sum hereinafter required, the Clerk shall issue 
 license to said applicant to keep a beer house. 
 
 Sec. 6. The rate of license shall be as follows, to-wit: for 
 six months the applicant shall pay the sum of twenty-five dol¬ 
 lars, for twelve months the sum of fifty dollars, and no license 
 shall be granted for a less time than six months, nor for a 
 longer time than twelve months at any one time. 
 
 Sec. 7. The clerk shall keep a registry of the names of all 
 persons taking out license under the provisions of this ordi¬ 
 nance, and the place where the business is to be carried on, and 
 the time when granted, and when the same expires; and shall 
 pay all money received therefrom into the city treasury. 
 
 Sec. 8. No person licensed under this ordinance shall un¬ 
 der the provisions thereof, under any pretext whatever keep 
 open Ills house for the sale of. his liquors, or for the purpose 
 of permitting the same to be drank therein on the Sabbath 
 day. 
 
 Sec. 9 . The applicant before the license is granted, as afore¬ 
 said, shall execute a bond, payable to the city of Quincy, in the 
 penal sum of two hundred dollars, with one or more securities, 
 to be approved by the City Clerk, conditioned that the appli¬ 
 cant will keep an orderly house, and keep the same closed at 
 all times on the Sabbath day, and not permit any unlawful 
 gaming or riotous conduct in his house at any time, and that 
 he will observe and keep all the ordinances of said city then 
 in force, or that may be passed during the continuance of said 
 license touching and governing beer houses, or any order 
 made in relation thereto by the city council. 
 
 Sec. 10. Whoever shall violate the provisions of this ordi¬ 
 nance, shall forfeit and pay to the city, to be collected as other 
 penalties for violation of city ordinances, the sum of not less 
 than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars for the first offence, 
 and for the second and each subsequent offence, not less than 
 
 twentv nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 •/ 
 
 Sec. 11. If any person having a license under this ordi- 
 aance shall barter, sell or give away to be drank in his house, 
 
164 
 
 ordinances. 
 
 any spirituous liquors under color of his license, upon convic* 
 tion his license shall be forfeited. 
 
 &lc. 12. The Clerk shall receive as a fee for granting a 
 license under this ordinance, and taking bond, the sum of one 
 dollar. 
 
 NO. XLII. 
 
 Ordinance Relating to Streets and Capitation or Road Tax, 
 for improving and repairing the same , 
 
 Sec. 1. Tax levied. Proviso, 
 
 2. Fire companies. Secretaries of. 
 
 3. Duties of clerk. Marshal to collect, &c. 
 
 bECTiON 1. Re it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That every male inhabitant of said city, not exempt 
 by law from road labor, over the age of twenty-one years, and 
 under the age of fifty years, shall pay annually as a capitation 
 or road tax, the sum ol one dollar and fifty cents, for the 
 purpose of improving and repairing the streets throughout 
 the city . Provided , that all clergymen shall be exempt from 
 said tax. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That the Secretary of each 
 and every fire company be and is hereby required to file with 
 the Clerk of the city on or before the first day of May, in each 
 and cveiy } ear, a lull and complete list of the acting members 
 thereof, which list shall be taken as evidence of membership) 
 therein, and all persons so returned shall be exempt from the 
 tax levied by this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That the City Clerk shall 
 make out and deliver to the City Marshal a list of all persons 
 liable to said tax, so far as known, which tax list, wdien so de- 
 Ik ered to said Marshal, shall be collected by him in the same 
 manner that other taxes are, and said Marshal shall have the 
 same powei to collect said tax list, as he has for collecting the 
 general revenue under the ordinances of the city, and shall 
 receive the same per cent for collecting. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 NO. XLIII, 
 
 An Ordinance Defining the Lamp District, and authorizing the 
 levying of a Special Tax on the Real Estate therein. 
 
 Sec. 1. Definition of. Extended how. 
 
 2. Tax to be levied. 
 
 3 How levied and collected. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy, That all real estate situate within two hundred feet 
 of the public Lamp Posts which may be erected in any street, 
 lane or avenue on the first Monday in April in each year, shall 
 be deemed the Lamp District of the city. The limits of said 
 district may be extended from time to time by the extension of 
 public lamps by a resolution of the City Council. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That on all real estate situ* 
 ate within said lamp district, that an annual tax shall be levied 
 sufficient to defray two-thirds of the expense of the gas and of 
 lighting the public lamps therein. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That said tax shall be levied 
 and collected at the same time and in the same manner that 
 the general taxes are levied and collected. 
 
166 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. XLIV. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Assessment of Taxes and the Col¬ 
 lection of the Revenue. 
 
 Sec. 1. Wards. Division of. 
 
 2. Assessors. Appointment of. Duties of. 
 
 3. Clerk to make list for Assessors. 
 
 4. Form of. 
 
 5. Personal list. 
 
 6. Assessor’s duties. 
 
 7. Powers of. 
 
 8. Assessor’s return—and form of. 
 
 9. Notice to be given by Clerk. 
 
 10. Confirmation of Rolls. 
 
 11. City Clerk to deliver copy of list to Marshal. 
 
 12. Marshal to give bond. Bond to be filed with Clerk. Marshal 
 to collect taxes. 
 
 13. Marshal to call upon tax payers. May give notice of place 
 and time of receiving taxes. Marshal’s duties. 
 
 14. Marshal may seize personal property for tax. Marshal’s 
 duties. 
 
 15. Marshal to return tax list. To make out delinquent list—to 
 certify and file the same. 
 
 16. Marshal to be credited with delinquent list. City Clerk to 
 collect. City Council may require settlements of Marshal 
 and sue on official bond. 
 
 17. City Clerk to give bond and file same with Treasurer. 
 
 18. Delinquent list to be advertised. How advertised. Clerk’s 
 duties. Printer to certify. 
 
 19. Taxes may be paid till sale. How sold and whfit portion. 
 
 20. Manner of sale. Duties of Clerk. 
 
 21. Clerk to pay over money to Treasurer. To make settlement 
 with City Council. Record of settlements to be made. 
 
 22. Redemptions. Clerk’s duties. 
 
 23. Deeds to be executed. Clerk’s duties. Effect of deed. 
 
 24. Notice to be given before deed executed. 
 
 25. Dupii-eate certificate may issue. 
 
 26. Sales in error—taxes refunded. 
 
 27. Duty of officers to list property omitted. 
 
 28. Fees d£ officers, and how paid. 
 
 29. Repealing clause. 
 
 Section 1. Re it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 
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 Quincy , That tho city of Quincy shall be divided into three as¬ 
 sessment divisions, for the purpose of assessment for taxes. 
 
 The first division shall embrace all property included in the 
 first ward of the old city limits prior to the supplementary act 
 of the Legislature to incorporate the city of Quincy, approved 
 January 17th, 1855, together with all the property north of 
 Main street outside of the old and within the new city limits. 
 
 The second division shall embrace all the property included 
 in the second ward of the old city limits prior to the act afore¬ 
 said. 
 
 The third division shall embrace all the property in the 
 third ward of the old city limits prior to the act aforesaid, to¬ 
 gether with all the property south of Main street, outside of 
 the old and within the new city limits. 
 
 Sec. 2. The City Council shall on the first Monday of Feb¬ 
 ruary in each year, or so soon thereafter as is practicable, ap¬ 
 point three Assessors, one for each division as aforesaid, in 
 the same manner as other officers are appointed, who shall 
 hold their office for one year and until their successor or suc¬ 
 cessors shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed 
 by the Council. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Assessors of the several divisions, 
 before entering upon the duties of their office, to take and sub¬ 
 scribe the following oath or affirmation: 
 
 OATH OF ASSESSOR. 
 
 I. A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) 
 that I will faithfully, diligently and impartially perform all 
 the duties required of me by the laws ol the State and the or¬ 
 dinances of the city of Quincy, as the Assessor of taxable pro- 
 per tv in the division of said city. 
 
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 Sec. 3. The City Clerk shall on before the second Mon¬ 
 day in February in every year, make out and deliver to the 
 Assessor of each division, a well bound book containing a list 
 :and description of all taxable lots and lands lying in their 
 
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 several divisions, the description of lots and lands to be in nu¬ 
 merical order as far as practicable. The names of the owners 
 shall be set opposite to their real estate, when known, and 
 when unknown, a blank shall be left for the entry thereof by 
 tic Assessor; and it shall be the duty of the Assessor to fill 
 the blank whenever he can ascertain the name of the owner. 
 it any real estate shall be omitted by the Clerk, or if it should 
 e desirable for the convenience of the owners that subdivision 
 o. any ot or other real estate should be made on the roll in 
 ei ler case it shall be lawful for the Assessor to enter such 
 real estate, and make such sub-divisions. 
 
 Hec. 4. The following may be the form of the assessment 
 roll, to wit 
 
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 the Assessor s rolls for the entry of personal estate subject to 
 taxation. The names of owners of taxable personal property 
 s all lie entered by the Assessor in alphabetical order, and 
 said roll may be in the following form : 
 
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 the city of Quincy, with the names of the owners and the valu¬ 
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 Sec. 6. The Assessors shall, on being respectively provided 
 with the rolls aforesaid, proceed without delay to ascertain the 
 value of all real and personal property in their respective di¬ 
 visions, by going when practicable, to every owner of such* 
 property. They shall be governed in their valuation by the 
 cash value of the property, and if they shall deem it necesary, 
 nay require every owner to give in, under oath, either by him¬ 
 self or agent, a list and description of all his real estate with 
 the improvements thereon, together with the value thereof. 
 The Assessor shall in the presence of such person, enter the 
 same in his book, and value each lot and parcel of real estate 
 ind each species of personal property separately, placing the 
 iescription and value opposite the name of the person owning 
 )r listing the same; and said Assessors shall have full power, 
 md are hereby authorized to administer any oath relating to 
 die assessment of property required by this ordinance. When 
 Assessors shall have completed their assessments, they shall 
 xdd up the several columns of their rolls, and carry the sev¬ 
 eral amounts forward, so as to show at the end thereof the to¬ 
 tal valuation of real and personal estate respectively. 
 
 Sec. 7. If the Assessor shall not be able to find the owner 
 }f any real or personal estate in his division, or if any person 
 shall refuse to take the oath when required by the Assessor, or 
 shall give in less than the real and true value of his property, 
 )r shall refuse or fail to deliver a list of his taxable property 
 when called on for that purpose, the Assessor shall, in every 
 such case assess the value of the property of such person ac¬ 
 cording to the best information he can procure. Personal 
 property shall be assessed to the owner or person in possession 
 
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 thereof, in the division of the city in which the same shall be 
 found. Any real or personal estate which shall be omitted ir 
 the assessment of any year or years, shall when discovered bj 
 the Assessor, be .noted in the roll and shall be assessed with 
 the arrearages of taxes. 
 
 Sec. 8. When the Assessors 'Shall have completed their as¬ 
 sessments they shall meet together and revise, equalize and 
 correct the same; and having, completed such revision, they 
 shall sign the several rolls and return them to the city council 
 on or before the third Monday of March in everv year, unless 
 further time shall be given for this purpose. The form of their 
 return may be as follows : 
 
 assessors’ return. 
 
 ‘Office of the Board of Assessors ,} 
 Quincy,---185 . f 
 
 The undersigned, Assessors of the several divisions of the 
 city ol Quincy, do certify and return to the city council, that 
 after they had severally completed their assessment rolls, they 
 met together for the purpose and revised and equalized the 
 same, and that the foregoing is the revised and corrected as¬ 
 sessment roll of taxable real and personal estate in the 
 division of said city for the year 185 
 
 A. B., Assessor of 1st Division. 
 
 C. D., Assessor of 2d Division. 
 
 E. F., Assessor of 3d Division. 
 
 Sec. 9. On return of said rolls the city council shall fix a 
 day for hearing objections thereto, and the city clerk shall 
 give notice ol the time and place of hearing the same, when 
 and where all persons feeling themselves' aggrieved by the as¬ 
 sessment of their property, may appear at the time specified 
 and make or file their objections. Notice may be of the fol¬ 
 lowing form: 
 
 Office of the City Clerk, ) 
 Quincy,-185 * j 
 
 Public notice is hereby given, that the assessment rolls of 
 taxable real and personal estate in the city of Quincy for the 
 year 18 have been completed and returned to the city 
 
 council by the Assessors. All ^persons feeling themselves ag- 
 
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 grieved by the assessment of their property, are hereby re¬ 
 quested to make or file their objections in my office, on or be- 
 ore the day of at which time the same will 
 
 oe heard. A. W. B., City Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 10. When said rolls shall have been revised and cor¬ 
 rected by the city council, the same shall be filed and an order 
 )f confirmation shall be entered, which order may be in the 
 bllowing form : 
 
 CONFIRMATION OF ROLLS. 
 
 The assessment rolls for the several divisions of the city of 
 Quincy for the year 18 having been duly made and return- 
 3 d by the Assessors, and revised and corrected by the council, 
 after due notice to persons aggrieved thereby and full hearing 
 of all objections thereto, it is hereby Ordered, That the said 
 rolls and the several assessments therein contained, as revised 
 and corrected by the city council, be and the same are hereby 
 confirmed; and that the same be placed on file with the city 
 clerk. 
 
 The city council shall thereupon, by ordinance or resolution, 
 levy upon the real and personal estate described in -said rolls, 
 such sum or sums of money as may be required for any pur¬ 
 pose for which they may be authorized to levy a tax. 
 
 Sec. 11. The city clerk shall, within thirty days after the 
 confirmation of said assessment list, make out a fair copy of 
 said list and deliver the same to the City Marshal, with his 
 certificate of authentication, under the corporate seal thereto 
 appended. The city clerk shall take the Marshaks receipt for 
 said assessment list, showing the total amount of taxable prop¬ 
 erty and the total amount of taxes therein, which receipt he 
 shall file in his office. 
 
 Sec. 12. The Marshal, before receiving said -assessment 
 list, shall give bond with security to the satisfaction of the city 
 council, to the city of Quincy, in a penalty of double the amount 
 of the whole taxes in said list, and conditioned for the faithful 
 discharge of his duties in the collection of the city taxes, and 
 for the payment of the amount thereof by him to be collected 
 into the city treasury, which bond shall be filed with the city 
 clerk. The Marshal shall, upon the receipt of said assessment 
 
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 list, forthwith proceed to the collection of the taxes therein 
 specified. 
 
 Sec. 13. In the collection of taxes, the Marshall shall per¬ 
 sonally call upon the inhabitants of the city respectively, or at 
 their respective places of business or residence, and make de¬ 
 mand personally, or by leaving a written or printed notice of 
 the taxes due from them respectively. He may also give no¬ 
 tice by handbills printed in English and German and posted 
 up in the city, of a time and place when and where he will at¬ 
 tend with the tax list and receive taxes. Any person may 
 pay taxes on such portion of any real estate as he may have 
 claim to, provided he will furnish the Marshal or Collector 
 with a plain and certain description thereof. Upon the pay¬ 
 ment of any tax to the Marshal or Collector, he sfiall first 
 make an entry in his tax list of the name of the person paying, 
 of the total amount paid* and if payment is made on property 
 bj diffeient description, or in different parts or parcels from 
 the description thereof made by the Assessor and shown by 
 said tax list, he shall enter a particular description thereof; 
 aftei which he shall deliver to the person paying, a receipt 
 stating the time of payment, bv whom payment is made, a cor¬ 
 rect and plain description of the property paid on, the total 
 amount paid, and the year or years for which the taxes are paid. 
 
 Sec. 14. The Marshal may, after the expiration of thirty 
 daysfiom the time of the delivery of said tax list to him for 
 collection, and before that time in case of probable loss to the 
 city revenue, and after demand aforesaid, or endeavor to make 
 demand of the taxes due the city on property, real or personal, 
 on said tax list, seize any personal property of the owner, or 
 any person having listed or consented to the listing in his 
 name of such property, of sufficient value to satisfy the taxes 
 and costs due thereon, and may from time to time make such 
 further seizure as may be necessary for that purpose. He 
 shall cause any property so seized to be advertised for sale for 
 ten da^s, by posting a notice thereof in front of the court 
 house in the city, containing a description of the property and 
 stating the time and place of sale thereof, and on the day of 
 sale shall sell the same at public vendue at the place named 
 
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 n said notice, to the highest bidder, and apply the proceeds 
 o the satisfaction of the taxes and costs for which the same 
 vas seized, after deducting live per centum thereon for making 
 ?uch seizure and sale, and shall pay the overplus if any, to the 
 >wner thereof on demand. The said tax list shall be suffi- 
 fient warrant for the Marshal to make such seizure and sale. 
 
 Sec. 15. After having made due effort to collect the taxes 
 lue on said tax list, and on or before the first day of August 
 n each year, the Marshal shall return said tax list into the of- 
 ice of the city clerk, there to be filed and remain, and shall 
 Iso at the same time make out and return to the city clerk a 
 lelinquent list, truly taken from said tax list, and in the same 
 orm of said tax list, of the taxes remaining unpaid thereon, 
 ind for which he can find no personal property to satisfy the 
 ame and costs. The Marshal shall append to said delinquent 
 ist a certificate, as near as may be, in the following form : 
 
 I do certify, that the foregoing delinquent list contains a 
 rue copy from the tax list of the city of Quincy, for the year 
 .8 , of the taxes remaining unpaid on said list, and for 
 
 vhich I have been unable to find personal property to satisfy 
 he same. -Marshal 
 
 Sec. 16. Upon the return aforesaid of said original delin¬ 
 quent tax lists, the city council shall, so soon as practicable, 
 examine the same, and shall allow and credit the Marshal all 
 lelinquent taxes in said delinquent list contained, which they 
 hall be satisfied could not have been collected by due dili¬ 
 gence, and shall make final settlement with the Marshal of the 
 •evenue aforesaid, collected by him. Upon the examination 
 md settlement aforesaid, the city clerk shall receive and file 
 he said delinquent tax list, and shall execute to the Marshal 
 •eceipt therefor, showing the total amount of taxes remaining 
 mpaid on said delinquent list, which receipt the Marshal shall 
 lie with the City Treasurer, and the city clerk shall from 
 hence stand charged with the collection of said delinquent 
 axes. The city council may from time to time, by order di¬ 
 rect the Marshal to pay into the city treasury all taxes collect- 
 id by him, or to make settlement therefor with the city council, 
 
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 and may, by order, in their discretion, allow to the Marshal fur¬ 
 ther time, not to exceed twenty days, to make collection, return 
 and settlement aforesaid. In case of default of the Marshal in 
 any matter material to the security or collection of the city 
 revenue under this ordinance, the city council shall cause the 
 Marshal’s bond aforesaid, to be put in suit for such default. 
 
 Sec. 17. The city clerk shall give bond with security to 
 the satisfaction of the city council,, to the city of Quincy, in a 
 penalty of double the amount of taxes remaining unpaid on the 
 said delinquent tax list, and conditioned for the faithful dis¬ 
 charge of his duties in the collection thereof, and for the pay¬ 
 ment of the moneys collected thereon into the city treasury, 
 which bond shall be filed with the City Treasurer, and the city 
 clerk shall thereupon be authorized to receive the taxes unpaid 
 on said delinquent tax list. 
 
 Sec. 18. The city clerk shall, so soon as practicable after 
 the filing of the delinquent tax list aforesaid in his office, adver¬ 
 tise the' real estate therein described for sale, to satisfy the 
 taxes and costs due thereon,. Said advertisement shall contain 
 a copy, as near as may be, of said delinquent tax list, with a 
 notice thereto- appended by the city clerk, in the following 
 form, as near as may be : 
 
 All persons are notified that the foregoing is a list of lots 
 and parts of lots within the city of Quincy, upon Which the 
 taxes due to said city for the year therein set forth remain un¬ 
 paid; and that the said lots and parts of lots will be severally 
 and separately sold at public vendue, at the court house in the 
 city of Quincy, commencing on the day of ,18 r 
 at the hour of 10 o’clock, A. M., of said day, for the taxes and 
 costs due on them respectively, to such person or persons as 
 shall bid the amount of such taxes and costs for the least quan- 
 
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 tity of said lots and parts of lots respectively. 
 
 City Clerk of the city of Quincy. 
 Said notice and advertisement shall be published in some 
 newspaper printed in the city of Quincy, for ten days, prece¬ 
 ding the day of sale; and when so published, a copy of the samor. 
 
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 175 
 
 hall be filed in the clerk’s office of the city, with the certificate 
 f the printer or publisher thereto appended, as near as may 
 •e in the following form : 
 
 I certify that the foregoing tax notice and advertisement 
 vRs published in the , a newspaper printed and 
 
 mblished in the city of Quincy, for days preceding the day 
 
 if sale therein named. *-•-, 
 
 Publisher of said newspaper, 
 
 Sec. 19. Any person may pay the taxes and costs remain- 
 ng unpaid on any lot or part of lot on said delinquent list, to 
 he city clerk, at any time after the return and filing thereof 
 iforesaid in his office, and before the sale of the same; and 
 he clerk shall, upon such payment, make the same entry in 
 said delinquent list, and deliver to the person paying the 
 same, a receipt therefor as is herein before required in case 
 )f payment of taxes to the City Marshal. In selling said 
 ots. the city clerk shall offer the whole of each tract or 
 ot for sale for the amount of taxes and costs due there- 
 >n; and so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be 
 ■struck off to the lowest bidder—-that is, to the person who 
 hall offer to pay the amount due as aforesaid for the least 
 quantity of ground. When a portion of a lot shall have been 
 .truck off on any such bid, it shall be taken off the east side of 
 aid lot, extending the whole length of said side, provided said 
 ots have a northerly or southerly front; and from the north 
 side, extending the whole length as aforesaid, should said lots 
 lave an easterly or westerly front. 
 
 Sec. 20. At the time of sale mentioned in the notice afore¬ 
 said, the city clerk, shall proceed and sell, at the place and in 
 he manner named in the said notice, the several lots and parts 
 >f lots in said advertisement described, upon which the taxes 
 md costs, or any portion thereof shall remain unpaid for the 
 !satisfaction of such taxes and costs; and if no bid shall be made 
 or any lot or part of lot offered, the amount of taxes and costs 
 ffereon, the same shall be struck off to the city of Quincy for 
 he taxes and costs unpaid thereon; and the city shall, to all 
 ntents and purposes, be the purchaser thereof. The city clerk 
 hall receive all moneys at said sale, and shall execute to the 
 
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 several purchasers certificates of purchase, stating the name ol 
 the purchaser, the date of the purchase, the year or years for 
 which the taxes accrued, the amount of taxes and costs on the 
 tract purchased, and a plain description of the property pur¬ 
 chased. The clerk shall keep a correct list of such sales, show¬ 
 ing in each case the name of the owner, if known, the date of 
 the sale, the year or years for which the taxes accrued, a plain 
 description of the lot or part of lot sold, the name of the pur¬ 
 chaser and the amount paid, and which shall be kept in the tax 
 sale book of the city as a public record. 
 
 Sec. 21. The city clerk shall pay over all moneys by him 
 received and collected on said delinquent tax list, to the city 
 Treasurer, and take his receipt therefor, and so soon as practi¬ 
 cable after said sale, shall make final settlement on said delin¬ 
 quent tax list with the city council; and whenever final settle¬ 
 ment is made, either with the City Marshal or city clerk, by 
 'the city council, a record thereof shall be made. 
 
 Sec. 22. The same rights and privileges of redemption from 
 sales under this ordinance shall exist, as is provided by the 
 eighty-ninth chapter of the revised statutes of Illinois, of 1845; 
 and in cases of redemption from such sales, the redemption 
 money shall be paid to the city clerk, and the city clerk shall 
 thereupon execute to the person redeeming a certificate, stating 
 the date of the sale, the year or years for the taxes of which 
 the sale was made, the name of the person to whom sold, the 
 amount for which the same was sold, a plain description of the 
 property sold and redeemed, the name of the person redeem¬ 
 ing, and the amount paid thereon, and shall make an entry op¬ 
 posite the property redeemed in the sale book of the date of 
 the redemption, the name of the person redeeming and the 
 amount paid thereon, which amount he shall pay to the pur¬ 
 chaser or his assignee on demand and presentation of the cer¬ 
 tificate of purchase, and shall note in such certificate of pur¬ 
 chase the redemption aforesaid; and the person receiving such 
 redemption money shall receipt the same in said sale book or 
 other book kept for that purpose. The city clerk shall file in 
 his office all written evidence of right to redeem, and in all 
 things such redemption shall have the same force and effect as 
 
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 is provided in case of redemption from sales for State and 
 county taxes, by the chapter of the revised statutes aforesaid, 
 and certificates of purchase issued under this ordinance shall 
 be assignable, as is provided by said chapter, and all such as¬ 
 signments shall, have the same force and effect. 
 
 Sec. 23. After the expiration of two years from the day of 
 sale of any lot or part of lot, under this ordinance, the purcha¬ 
 ser thereof, his heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to a deed 
 therefor, provided the same shall not have been previously 
 redeemed, and provided such purchaser, his heirs, or as¬ 
 signs, shall have complied with the provisions of the next sec¬ 
 tion of this ordinance; and the city clerk shall, in such case, 
 upon the surrender of the certificate of purchase thereof, exe¬ 
 cute to such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a deed for such lot 
 or part of lot. The deed to be executed as aforesaid, shall, 
 for all purposes, vest in the grantee and his heirs a perfect 
 title to the premises in such deed described; and all deeds exe¬ 
 cuted by the city clerk under this ordinance, shall, for all pur¬ 
 poses and to all intents whatsoever, have the same operation, 
 force and effect as is provided by the said eighty-ninth chapter 
 of the revised statutes of Illinois, of 1845, in case of deeds exe¬ 
 cuted by sheriffs or collectors, on sales made for taxes due for 
 State and county purposes, under the State revenue laws afore¬ 
 said. 
 
 Sec. 24. The purchaser of any lot or part of lot under this 
 ordinance, his heirs or assigns, shall, at least three months be¬ 
 fore the expiration of two years from the time of sale, cause to 
 be served on every person in possession of such lot a written 
 notice of such purchase; in which notice he shall state when 
 inch lot or part of lot was purchased, a description of such lot, 
 and when the time of redemption will expire. In like manner 
 le shall serve on the person or persons in whose name or 
 lames such lot or part of lot is taxed a similar written notice, 
 f such person or persons shall reside in the county of Adams; 
 md in the event that the person or persons in whose name or 
 lames such lot or part of lot is taxed, do not reside in the 
 county of Adams, he shall publish such notice in some newspa- 
 
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 per printed in said county; which notice shall be inserted three 
 times, the last time being not less than three months before the 
 expiration of two years from the time of sale of such lot or 
 part of lot. The purchaser, his heirs or assigns, shall, before 
 a deed is executed to him, by himself or agent make an affida¬ 
 vit of his having complied with this section, stating particular¬ 
 ly the facts relied on as such compliance; which affidavit shall 
 be delivered to the city clerk and by him filed in his office and 
 entered on the records thereof, and. preserved among the files 
 of his office. In case any person shall be compelled under this 
 section, to publish a notice in a newspaper, then before any 
 person who may have a right to redeem such lot or part of lot 
 from such tax sale, shall be permitted to redeem, he shall pay 
 to the city clerk the printer’s fee for publishing such notice, 
 and costs of being sworn to such affidavit and of filing the 
 same as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 25. In case any purchaser, his heirs or assigns, shall 
 have lost, or for any cause is unable to produce his certificate 
 aforesaid, the city clerk shall execute a duplicate certificate 
 thereof, upon such person filing with him an affidavit of such 
 loss or inability to produce the same, and that the same is his 
 rightful property. 
 
 Sec. 26. If it shall appear to the city clerk that any taxes 
 for which any lot or part of lot shall be sold, had been paid 
 previously to the sale thereof for taxes, he shall present the 
 case to the city council at their next meeting, and if it shall ap¬ 
 pear to the city council that the same was so paid, an order 
 shall be drawn on the City Treasury, in favor of the purchaser, 
 his heirs or assigns for the amount paid therefor, and such sale 
 shall be cancelled. And if it shall appear that any moneys 
 have been paid on such lot or part of lot, cither to the City 
 Marshal or City Clerk, and have not been properly credited 
 on the tax list and accounted for, the officer to whom the same 
 was paid shall refund the amount thereof and costs to the city. 
 
 Sec. 27. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal, and also 
 of the city clerk, to keep a list of all real estate within the city, 
 which in the collection of the city taxes they and each of them 
 
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 may discover to be omitted in the assessment list, and the same 
 list to iile in the city clerk s office for the use of the Assessor 
 of the next year’s revenue. 
 
 Sec. 28 . There shall be allowed for collecting the city 
 revenue from taxes, the following fees : 
 
 To the city Assessors for making annual assessments, such 
 sum as may be ordered at the time of making said appoint¬ 
 ments. 
 
 To the printer for publishing the delinquent tax list notice, 
 on each lot and part of lot 10 cents. 
 
 To the City Marshal on all moneys collected by him. on the 
 general tax list and all special tax lists and paid over, two per 
 centum. 
 
 For making and returning to the city clerk the delinquent 
 tax list on each lot or part of lot five cents. 
 
 To the city clerk for advertising and copying the delinquent 
 tax list, on each lot or part of lot five cents. 
 
 For making sale on each lot or part of lot, and entering the 
 same in the sale book fifteen cents. 
 
 For cacli redemption certificate, twenty-five cents. 
 
 For filing and recording affidavit of purchaser at tax sale, 
 preliminary to obtaining deed, twenty-five cents. 
 
 For duplicate certificate of purchase in case of loss, twenty- 
 five cents. 
 
 For each deed on tax sale, seventy-five cents. 
 
 The last four items shall be paid by the person demanding 
 the services, and all other expenses arising out of the city reve¬ 
 nue from taxes, shall be laid before the city council by the 
 person interested to be acted upon by them, and allowed or 
 disallowed, as shall to them appear equitable. 
 
 There shall also be allowed to the city clerk, on amount col¬ 
 lected by him on delinquent list each year, before the sale each 
 year three per centum; and also for making copy for assessors 
 one cent for each lot or part of lot or tract of land; and also 
 for making copy for collector, one cent for each lot or part of 
 lot or tract of land and carrying out the tax thereon. 
 
 Sec. 29. All ordinances coming within the purview of this 
 ordinance, and in any manner repugnant therto, are hereby re- 
 
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 pealed. But all rights and liabilities accrued under any ordn 
 nance hereby repealed, are hereby saved and declared valid 
 and binding and may be enforced. 
 
 NO. XLY. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to the Public Landing . 
 
 Sec. 1. Public Landing—extent thereof. 
 
 2. Landing within certain limits to be exclusively for use ol 
 Steamboats. Penalty for breach of this section. 
 
 3. Harbor Master to assign places to boats. Penalty for not com¬ 
 plying with his orders. Exception. 
 
 4. Goods, &c., landed on a certain part of the Landing, to be 
 removed. Left over twenty-four hours, to be taken charge of 
 by the Harbor Master. 
 
 5. Time of leaving rafts in the water limited. Penalty. 
 
 6. Goods, &c., to be permitted to remain, on payment of wharf¬ 
 age. 
 
 7. Harbor Master to have custody of boats, &o., and a lien for 
 charges. Charges not paid within twenty-four hours, boats, 
 Ac., to be sold. How sold. 
 
 8. Proceeds of such sale—how disposed of. 
 
 9. No person appearing to take charge of boats, &c. } left at Pub¬ 
 lic Landing. Harbor Master to take charge—lien created for 
 fees and charges. 
 
 10. Owner appearing, property to be restored on payment of 
 charges; not appearing, property to be sold—and how sold. 
 Special provision and exception. 
 
 11. Proceeds of sale—how disposed of. 
 
 12. City entitled to a per cent, on such proceeds paid out. 
 
 13. Rates of wharfage. 
 
 14. Term landing defined. 
 
 15. Attachment may issue. 
 
 16. Harbor Master to keep an account of money received, and re¬ 
 port monthly to City Council, &c. 
 
 17. Penalty for defacing or injuring Landing, or appurtenances. 
 
 18. Suits to be brought for fines, if necessary. Duty of Harbor 
 Master in such cases. 
 
 19. Ferry boats excepted from the operation of this Ordinance, 
 on condition. 
 
 20. Wharfage on other crafts. City Council to fix amount. Har¬ 
 bor Master to see that this Ordinance is enforced. May take 
 and retain possession of boats. Penalties. 
 
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 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That the Public Landing of said city shall comprise all 
 that ground lying south of the centre line of block six, in the 
 original survey of the town (now city) of Quincy, as extended 
 west to the Mississippi river, and north of a line extended from 
 Front st. to said river, at a point fifty-six feet south of York 
 street, and west of Front street, excepting River Fraction of 
 lot six in block sixteen, and River Fraction of lot four in block 
 twenty-five in said original survey; also, all that ground lying 
 south of the northwest corner of lot four in block fifty-three, 
 and north of the southwest corner of block fifty-four in Wood 
 & Holmes’ addition to said city, and west of the west line of 
 the aforesaid blocks fifty-three and fifty-four. Provided , that 
 all that part of said city lying north of said Public Landing, 
 and owned by the Northern Cross Rail Road Company, bor¬ 
 dering upon the Mississippi River, or the Bay adjacent there¬ 
 to, is hereby declared to be a Public Landing, and subject to 
 all the laws and ordinances of said city in relation to the col¬ 
 lection of wharfage thereat. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That all that portion of the 
 Public Landing lying south of the centre line of block six 
 aforesaid, and north of the north line of the River fraction of 
 lot six in block sixteen aforesaid, shall be specially appropria¬ 
 ted to the landing and use of steamboats, and no other boat, 
 craft or raft shall land or remain at said part of the public 
 landing; and all persons landing or having charge of any such 
 boat, raft or other craft at said portion of the public landing, 
 shall immediately, on notice so to do by the Harbor Master, 
 remove the same, and on failure so to do, shall forfeit and 
 pay to the city not less than five nor more than one hun¬ 
 dred dollars, to be collected by the Harbor Master, and the 
 Harbor Master shall cause the same to be removed at the ex¬ 
 pense of the owner, or person in charge or possession thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it f urther ordained , That the Harbor Master, 
 whenever it may be necessary, shall assign places for all boats 
 and rafts, giving the preference to steamboats, in the order of 
 their arrival, and every person in charge thereof, shall cause 
 the same to be removed to the places assigned; and every per- 
 
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 son failing so to do, on being notified by the Harbor Master, 
 shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said ciy, the sum of not 
 less than five nor more than one hundred dollars : Provided , 
 that no boat or raft shall be compelled to leave the place oc¬ 
 cupied by it, or assigned to the same, to give place to a steam¬ 
 boat, while such boat or raft is actually employed in discharg¬ 
 ing or receiving a cargo. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That all goods, wares, mer¬ 
 chandise, wood, lumber, or other things, which may be landed 
 south of the centre line of block six aforesaid, and north of 
 the north line of the River fraction of lot six in block sixteen 
 aforesaid, shall be removed as soon as practicable, and if suf¬ 
 fered to remain over twenty-four hours, the Harbor Master 
 shall cause the same to be removed to some suitable place at i 
 the charge of the owner. All such as may be landed above 
 or below said points may remain so long as the said Harbor 
 Master may permit, not exceeding ten days; and if suffered to 
 remain beyond that time, he shall cause the same to be remov¬ 
 ed to some suitable place at the charge of the owner. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That no raft shall remain 
 in the water at any part of the Public Landing for a longer 
 time than ten days, unless by special permission of the Harbor 
 Master, a longer time is granted for the purpose only of hav¬ 
 ing the same drawn out; and every person having charge there¬ 
 of, who shall neglect to draw out said raft within said time so 
 limited and specially granted, shall forfeit and pay, for the use 
 said city, the sum of fifteen dollars. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further ordained , That nothing herein contain¬ 
 ed shall be so construed as to prevent the Harbor Master from 
 permitting any goods, wares, merchandise, lumber, or other 
 things to remain on the landing a longer time than is herein¬ 
 before specified, Provided , the owner thereof shall pay to the 
 said Harbor Master, for the use of the city, a certain amount 
 of wharfage to be agreed upon between the owner and the 
 Harbor Master. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That all boats, rafts, and other 
 property before mentioned, shall be retained in the custody of 
 the Harbor Master, until all fines, forfeitures and charges, 
 
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 mentioned in the preceding sections, and all charges for wharf- 
 ige, shall be paid by the owner or person having charge there¬ 
 of; and if said fines, forfeitures and charges are not paid 
 within twenty-four hours, the Harbor Master shall sell every 
 such boat, raft or other property at public auction to the 
 highest bidder for cash, first having given at least fourteen 
 da} 7 s previous notice of the time and place of said sale, in 
 such newspaper as may be selected by the City Council, for 
 the time being, for publishing their proceedings. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That the proceeds of every 
 such sale, after deducting such fines, forfeitures, charges and 
 expenses of sale, shall be paid by the Harbor Master into the 
 city treasury; and such proceeds after the deduction herein¬ 
 after mentioned, shall be paid to any person authorized to 
 receive the same by the Treasurer, on the presentment of an 
 order from the Mayor, countersigned by the City Clerk; Pro¬ 
 vided the same shall be claimed within twelve months after 
 such sale. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That if no master, owner, or 
 agent, shall appear to take charge of any boat or raft which 
 may be found lying at the Public Landing, or any other pro¬ 
 perty landed therefrom, the Harbor Master shall take charge 
 of the same, and take all necessary measures to secure the 
 same, and all proper charges and expenses incurred by him 
 shall create a lien thereon. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained , That if the master, owner, 
 or agent, shall appear within sixty days, and pay to the Har¬ 
 bor Master all fees, costs and charges, for which any such boat, 
 raft, or other property, may be liable, the same shall be re¬ 
 stored to such master, owner, or agent; but if no such master, 
 owner or agent, appears within said sixty days, or appearing, 
 shall fail to pay as aforesaid, the Harbor Master shall sell such 
 boat, raft or other property for cash, at public auction, to the 
 highest bidder, first having given thirty days previous notice 
 of the time and place of sale, by posting up the same in three 
 public places in said city, and also by a publication thereof in 
 the newspaper aforesaid : Provided , however , that if such boat, 
 raft, or other property, shall, in the opinion of the Harbor Mas- 
 
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 ter be of less value than ten dollars, or of a perishable na¬ 
 ture, then the Harbor Master shall not be required to wait 
 sixty days, but proceed to sell such boat, raft, or other proper¬ 
 ty as herein directed, first having given thirty days notice by 
 posting as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further ordained, That the Harbor Master, 
 after deducting all fees, cost, and charges for which the boat, 
 raft or other property was liable, shall pay the proceeds into* 
 the city treasury, and the balance, after the deduction herein¬ 
 after mentioned, shall be refunded to any person authorized to 
 receive the same, as in the cases of sale herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further ordained , That out of the proceeds of 
 all sales made under this ordinance, the city shall retain two 
 per cent, to be deducted when the same is paid over to the 
 person or persons entitled thereto. 
 
 Sec. IB. Be it further ordained , That the following rates of 
 wharfage fees shall be levied by the city and collected by the 
 Harbor Master, to wit: 
 
 1st. From the master of every steamboat which may regu¬ 
 larly or temporarily ply between New Orleans and St. Louis, 
 Quincy, Warsaw or Kekouk, five dollars for every landing. 
 
 2nd. From the master of every steamboat which may regu¬ 
 larly or temporally ply between St. Louis, Quincy, Warsaw 
 or Keokuk, five dollars for each trip. 
 
 Bid. From the master of every steamboat which may regu¬ 
 larly or temporarily ply between St. Louis and Quincy, five 
 dollars for each trip. 
 
 e 4th - From Ihe master of every other steamboat not men¬ 
 tioned in this section, two dollars for each landing. 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further ordained , That the term landing, as 
 used in the preceding sections, shall be construed to mean 
 and apply to all cases where a boat shall stop at and use said 
 wharf for any purpose whatever. 
 
 Sec. 15. Be it further ordained, That every steamboat land¬ 
 ing at said wharf as aforesaid, shall be liable for the wharfage 
 on the same, as well as her owner or owners, or master or 
 other person having charge of said boat for the time being, 
 and suit may be brought by said city to recover said wharfage 
 
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 against the owner or owners of such boat, or her master, or 
 other person having her in charge for the time being, and 
 prosecuted and conducted as is provided by ordinance for the 
 prosecution of other suits by said city lor the violations of 
 other city ordinances 5 or said city may have an attachment 
 to recover said wharfage, to be issued by any Police Magis¬ 
 trate of said city, either against the owner or owners of such 
 boat by their proper names, or by the name and style of 
 their copartnership, or against such boat by her name or de¬ 
 scription only, authorizing the seizure and detention ol such 
 boat, with her engines and machinery, and all other property, 
 furniture, or goods belonging to or appertaining to such boat, 
 by the city Marshal or other officer, to whom said writ may 
 be directed; said writ to be issued upon the Harbor Master or 
 any other officer making affidavit of the justness of the de¬ 
 mand sued for, and thenceforward to be prosecuted to final 
 judgment, as in cases of attachment before justices ol the 
 peace, under chapter vm of Itevised Statutes of the State of 
 Illinois of 1845. 
 
 Sec. 16. Be it further ordained ,, That the Harbor Master 
 shall enter in a book kept for the purpose, all moneys re¬ 
 ceived by virtue of this ordinance, the names of persons or 
 boats from whom the same is received, the specific amount re¬ 
 ceived from each, and for what so received, and shall account 
 to the city council, at their stated monthly meetings, for the 
 same. The amount accruing to the city shall immediately be 
 paid into the treasury by the Harbor Master, and the Treasu¬ 
 rer's receipt filed with the City Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 17. Be it further ordained , That if any person shall de¬ 
 face, or in any way injure any post ring, or other appurte¬ 
 nance to the public landing, or do any act tending in any wise 
 to the injury of the public landing, he shall forfeit and pay, 
 for the use of said city, the sum of five dollars for every such 
 offence, and pay all the expenses of repairing or replacing the 
 thing injured. 
 
 Sec. 18. Be it further ordained , That whenever the Harbor 
 Master shall, by any means, be unable to collect any fines, for¬ 
 feiture, penalty, cost, charge or expense accruing under this 
 
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 oidinance, on demand from the boat, raft, or other property 
 herein specified, he shall and cause a suit to be instituted 
 forthwith against any person liable therefor; and nothing 
 herein contained shall prevent the Harbor Master from giving 
 
 testimony in any such action, whenever the same may be ne¬ 
 cessary. 
 
 Se c. 19- Be it further ordained , That every ferry boat ply¬ 
 ing betwecu said city and the opposite side of the Mississippi 
 ri\ei, by virtue of a license from the city council, shall be ex¬ 
 empt fiom the payment of the usual rates of wharfage; 
 Provided , that every such boat shall occupy but one place of 
 landing. 
 
 Sec. 20. Be it further ordained , That there shall be levied 
 and collected from the master, owner, or person in charge of 
 all boats, other than steamboats, crafts and rafts, such wharf- 
 age fees as the city council shall from time to time order.-— 
 The city Harbor Master shall see that the provisions of this 
 ordinance are fully enforced, and may take possession of and 
 retain any boat, raft or craft for any fees, fines or penalties 
 due the city from the same, or master, or persons having 
 charge of the same, accrued under this ordinance. And for 
 any violation of the provisions hereof, the person committing 
 such violation shall forfeit and pay to the city of Quincy five 
 dollars, where not otherwise provided by this ordinance. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 NO. XLYI. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to the Quarantine and Sanitary Regula¬ 
 tions of the City of Quincy. 
 
 Sec. 1. Who not to be brought into the city without permit. 
 
 2. Dead bodies not to be brought into the city. 
 
 3. Paupers not to be brought in. 
 
 4. Penalty. Complaint—whom by. 
 
 5. Attachment may issue. 
 
 6. Who may arrest. Penalty for refusing to assist. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That hereafter no person sliall be brought into said 
 city from any point by any land conveyance, or landed, or 
 taken from any steamboat, or any water craft of any kind, 
 within the city limits, or within the distance of one Statute 
 mile thereof, then having the Small Pox, Cholera, Ship Fever, 
 or any evident symptoms of said diseases, or any other infec¬ 
 tious or contagious disease, without the special permit of the 
 Mayor, Health Officer, City Physician or Harbor Master of 
 said city. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That no land conveyance shall 
 bring into the city, nor any steamboat, canal boat, raft, or 
 other water craft, shall, at any time hereafter, land, put 
 off, or in any manner leave or cause to be left, on the wharf or 
 river bank, within the city limits, or within one Statute mile 
 thereof, any deceased person, or the remains of any dead 
 person or animal, without the special permit of the Mayor, 
 Health Officer, City Physician or Harbor Master of said city. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That no land conveyance 
 of any kind, or steamboat, canal boat, barge, raft, or any other 
 water craft, shall hereafter land or leave within the limits of 
 the city, or at or on any wharf or river bank, or any float con¬ 
 nected therewith, within the city limits, or within one Statute 
 mile of said city limits, any sick, disabled or infirm pauper or 
 person, without means of sustenance or support for at least ten 
 days, without having first obtained the especial permit of the 
 Mayor, Overseer of the Poor, City Physician or Harbor Mas¬ 
 ter of said city. 
 
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 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That any person who shall 
 violate this ordinance, or any part thereof, shall forfeit and; 
 pay for the use of said city, not less than twenty-five nor more 
 than one hundred dollars for each and every offence; said fine 
 to be collected on the complaint of the Mayor, Health Officer, 
 City Physician, Harbor Master, or any Police officer, in the 
 same manner as other fines and forfeitures are now collected 
 before any magistrate having jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That every steamboat, canal 
 boat, barge, or water craft, violating this ordinance, or any 
 part thereof, shall be held liable for the penalty thereof, as 
 well as the master, owner or owners thereof, or other persons 
 having charge of such boat, barge or water craft, and the 
 Mayor, Health Officer, City Physician, Harbor Master or Po¬ 
 lice Officer, shall have for the use of said city, an attachment 
 against said steam boat, canal boat, barge, raft, or water craft, 
 in the manner prescribed in an ordinance entitled “An Ordi¬ 
 nance relating to the Public Landing. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained, That the Mayor, Health- 
 Officer, Harbor Master, or any Police officer, shall have power 
 to, and are hereby authorized and empowered, to arrest any 
 and alP persons found violating any of the provisions of this 
 ordinance, either with or without warrant, and hold them to 
 bail under such penalty as shall be deemed proper at the time, 
 by the officer making said arrest; and for the purpose of mak¬ 
 ing such arrest, they are hereby fully empowered to call to 
 their aid any citizen of said city, and any person so called 
 upon, who shall refuse to render such assistance, shall be sub¬ 
 ject to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, 
 for such refusal. 
 
ORDINANCES-. 
 
 189 
 
 NO. XLYII. 
 
 Jin Ordinance regulating Omnibuses , Hackney Carriages , W agons 
 
 and Drays. 
 
 Sec. 1. Omnibuses and Hackney carriages—what declared to be. 
 
 2. Shall be numbered, registered, &c., and how—transfer, how 
 made. 
 
 3. Persons wishing to keep such carriages, to apply to Clerk for 
 license—license, how given—penalty for using without li¬ 
 cense. 
 
 4. Annual tax for omnibuses. 
 
 5. Annual tax for hackney carriages. 
 
 6. Wagons and drays, not to be used for hire unless num¬ 
 bered and registered—tax to be paid and certificate given— 
 amount of tax for each—penalty. 
 
 7. Penalty for not entering and registering. 
 
 8. New certificate to be taken out annually. 
 
 9. Penalty for neglect to do so. 
 
 10. Penalties to create a lien on wagons and drays. 
 
 11. Penalty for refusing, whilst unemployed, to hanl a load. 
 
 12. Rates of fare for hauling— penalty for demanding and receive 
 ing a higher rate. 
 
 13. Price to be charged. 
 
 14. Baggage to be carried. 
 
 15. Certain exceptions to this ordinance. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That -every four-wheeled earriage, drawn by two or 
 more horses, having a door opening in the end thereof, which 
 shall be kept or used within said city, for the purpose of car¬ 
 rying persons to and fro, through the city, (mail stages only 
 excepted,) or from said city to places without the same, or from 
 places without the city to any place within the same, for hire 
 or payment received by the owner, agent, or driver thereof, is 
 hereby declared and taken to be an omnibus, and any other 
 carriage used for the same purpose, is declared to be a hack¬ 
 ney carriage, within the meaning of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further m’dained. , That no owner or owners of 
 any four-wheeled carriage kept or used for hire as an omni¬ 
 bus or hackney carriage within the limits of said city, shall 
 himself employ or use, or suffer to be employed or used, any 
 
190 
 
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 carriage kept or used for the purposes aforesaid, within the 
 limits of said city, unless such carriage be first entered, num¬ 
 bered and licensed in the following manner, to wit: each one 
 shall be numbered in some conspicuous part of the body there¬ 
 of, with plain and conspicuous figures in oil paint, or of metal, 
 not less than two inches in length, to begin with number One 
 and so on progressively to the extent of the number of such 
 carriages; and the same and all assignments and tranfers shall 
 be entered and registered, together with the name and place of 
 abode of the owner or owners thereof, by the City Clerk, in a 
 book kept for that purpose, and such license shall not be as¬ 
 signable or transferable without the consent of the Mayor of 
 said city. J 
 
 Sec. 3. ^ Be it further ordained, That any person wishing to 
 keep any four-wheeled carriage, as an omnibus or hackney car¬ 
 riage, within the limits of said city, as aforesaid, shall make 
 application to the Clerk for a license to keep the same; and 
 the Clerk on the payment of the fee as hereinafter specified, 
 shall issue such license. Any person keepng or using or 
 who shall permit to be kept and used, any four-wheeled car¬ 
 riage for the purpose aforesaid, without first obtaining a li¬ 
 cense therefor, and causing such carriage to be numbered and 
 registered as hereinbefore directed, shall forfeit and pay for 
 the use of said city, the sum of ten dollars for each and every 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it farther ordained, That the amount to be paid 
 to the City Clerk, for the use of said city, for a license to 
 keep a four-wheeled carriage as an omnibus, shall be ten dol¬ 
 lars per annum, or six dollars for six months.. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it farther ordained , That the amount to be paid 
 to the City Clerk, for the use of said city, for a license to keep 
 a four-wheeled carriage as a hackney carriage, shall be five 
 dollars per annum, or three dollars for six months. 
 
 Sec. 0 . Be it farther ordained, That no owner or owners of 
 wagons or drays, employed in the transportation of articles 
 of any kind, within the limns of said city, for hire or pay, 
 shall himself employ, or suffer to- be employed, any such wagon 
 or dray, for the purpose aforesaid, within the limits of said 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
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 city, unless such wagon or dray be first numbered and entered 
 in the following manner, to wit: they shall be numbered with 
 plain and conspicuous figures in oil paint or of metal, not less 
 than three inches in length, on the outside of the near shaft or 
 side, to begin with number One , and so on progressively to the 
 extent of the number of such carriages, and the same shall be 
 entered and registered, together with the name and place of 
 abode of such owner or owners, by the City Clerk, in a book 
 kept for that purpose. Any person becoming the owner or 
 purchaser of any such carriage, and upon which a tax has been 
 paid, as hereinafter provided, shall, within three days thereaf¬ 
 ter, have the same entered and registered in his own name, in 
 the manner aforesaid; and upon failure thereof, every owner 
 as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, the 
 sum of ten dollars; and the City Clerk shall thereupon give a 
 ccrtideate of such entry, and shall receive, for the use of said 
 city, from the owner or owners of wagons and drays aforesaid, 
 the sums following, to wit: for each and every wagon, five 
 dollars per year, or three dollars for six months, or two dol¬ 
 lars for three months; and for each and every dray, three dol¬ 
 lars per year, or two dollars for six months; and the samo 
 course and proceedings shall be had and adopted in all future 
 cases of persons setting up or following the said business or 
 employment; Provided, that in cases of transfers of wagons or 
 drays, the purchaser shall not be required to pay any addition¬ 
 al tax thereon. 
 
 Sec. T. Be it further ordained , That every owner or owners 
 of wagons or drays, who shall fail to enter and register his 
 wagons or drays as herein required, shall forfeit and pay, for 
 the use of said city, for each and every day the same shall 
 remain unentered and unregistered, the sum of two dollars. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained , That the owner or owners of 
 anv wagon or dray shall, unnually, appear at the office of the 
 City Clerk, and take out new certificates, for which certificates 
 they shall respectively pay the City Clerk the sum before men¬ 
 tioned. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That the owner or owners of 
 wagons or drays, who shall fail to take out new certificates, as 
 herein required, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, 
 
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 for each and every day which he shall be in default, the sum 
 of two dollars. 
 
 Sec. 10 . Be it further ordained , That the penalties hereby 
 imposed shall be and continue liens on the wagons and drays, 
 in respect whereof they may have been incurred, till the same 
 are paid and satisfied. 
 
 Sec. 11 . Be it further ordained , That no driver of a regu¬ 
 larly licensed wagon or dray, shall, whilst unemployed, refuse 
 to haul a load or loads, for any person or persons, who shall 
 tender him the regular fee, under a penalty of five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 12 . Be it further ordained , That the fare of wagons 
 and drays for hauling, shall not exceed the following rates, to- 
 wit: for a wagon or dray load, two squares or less, twenty 
 cents; over two squares and not exceeding half a mile, thirty- 
 five cents; over half a mile, fifty cents; and any person who 
 shall demand and receive a higher rate than those herein speci¬ 
 fied, shall forfeit and pay, for the use of said city, the sum of 
 five dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be it further ordained , That the prices to be 
 charged by the owner or owners, or driver of any omnibus or 
 hackney carriage for the conveyance of passengers within said 
 city, shall be as follows : 
 
 For conveying a passenger to any point within said city, 
 twenty-five cents. 
 
 For conveying children between five and fourteen years of 
 age, half the above prices may be charged, but for children 
 under five years no charge shall be made. 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further ordained , That every passenger shall 
 be allowed to have conveyed upon such vehicle without 
 charge, his ordinary traveling baggage, not exceeding in any 
 case, one trunk and twenty-five pounds of other baggage. For 
 every additional package, where the whole weight of baggage 
 is over one hundred pounds, the owner or driver shall be per¬ 
 mitted to charge ten cents. 
 
 Sec. 15. Be it further ordained , That this ordinance shall 
 not apply to persons residing out of said city and coming to 
 market, who shall transport, for hire or pay, any article from 
 said city to any place without the same. 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 193 
 
 NO. XLVIII. 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating the Erection of Awnings or Sheds and 
 C7'oss-signs over the Sidewalks throughout the city . 
 
 Sec. 1. Height of, &c. 
 
 2. Signs, height of. 
 
 3. Awnings and signs to conform. 
 
 4. Nuisance in certain cases. 
 
 5. Street Commissioner. Duty and power of. 
 
 6. Penalty. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That all awnings or sheds erected over sidewalks 
 throughout the city, shall be of one uniform pattern, and in all 
 their lateral parts at least thirteen and one-half feet above the 
 outer edge of the sidewalks. The posts supporting the same 
 to be turned and painted white, and not to be used in any man¬ 
 ner for the exhibition or sale of any kind of goods, and no de¬ 
 vices or signs shall be placed or painted upon any of said posts 
 or awnings, nor any person be permitted to post notices of any 
 kind upon them. 
 
 Sec. 2 . Be it further ordained , That no person shall be per¬ 
 mitted to suspend signs of any kind across any side walk with¬ 
 in said city, unless the same shall be at least twelve feet above 
 said sidewalks. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordamed, That the Street Commis¬ 
 sioner be and he is hereby authorized to permit the erection 
 of awnings or sheds and cross signs in conformity to this ordi¬ 
 nance. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That all awnings or sheds 
 and all cross signs over sidewalks throughout the city now 
 erected or which may hereafter be erected, not in conformi¬ 
 ty to this ordinance, are hereby declared to be nuisances. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That it shall be the especial 
 duty of the Street Commissioner to sec that all awnings or 
 sheds, and all cross signs are made in conformity to this ordi¬ 
 nance, and said Street Commissioner is hereby fully authorized 
 and empowered (after giving three days notice to parties violating 
 this ordinance) to remove all such awnings or sheds, and cross 
 
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194 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 signs peaceably, if permitted, or forcibly if resisted, and for 
 this purpose lie shall have full power and authority to call to 
 his aid any or all the Police of said city. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further ordained , That any person who shall 
 violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall forfeit 
 and pay for the use of said city not less than five nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, as also all expense incurred in re¬ 
 moving such awning or shed or cross sign. 
 
 NO, XLIX. 
 
 Jin Ordinance for the Prevention of Fires, 
 
 Sec. I. Fire limits defined. 
 
 2. Buildings to be erected. Exceptions. 
 
 3. Outside and party walls. 
 
 4. How constructed. Heights of. 
 
 5. Joists, &c. How separated. 
 
 6. Space between walls. 
 
 7. End walls. Heights of. 
 
 8. Sheds and privies. Ash houses. 
 
 9. Repairs. How made. Permit for. 
 
 10. Penalty. 
 
 11. Power to remove. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That all that part of said city embraced within the 
 following limits, shall be hereafter known as the Fire Limits, 
 to-wit: From Seventh street to the river, and between Ver¬ 
 mont and Jersey streets. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That no building shall be 
 hereafter erected within the Fire Limits (except as hereinafter 
 excepted,) unless the same shall be constructed in conformity 
 with the following provisions : 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all outside and party 
 walls shall be made of stone, brick or other fire proof material. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it farther ordained , That all outside and party 
 walls, exceeding twenty-four feet in height, from the top of the 
 sidewalk to the under side of the roof, joist or rafters,, shall not 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 195 
 
 be less than twelve inches in thickness if of brick, and not less 
 than sixteen inches in thickness if of stone; if exceeding said 
 height of twenty-four feet, and if of three stories high, then 
 not less than sixteen inches for the first story, and not less 
 than twelve inches for the second story if of brick, and not less 
 than twenty inches in thickness for the first story and not less 
 than sixteen inches for the second story if of stone. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That all joists, beams and 
 other timbers in outside and party walls, shall be separated at 
 least four inches from each other, with stone or brick laid in 
 mortar, and all wooden lintels or plate pieces in the front or 
 rear walls, shall recede from the outside of the wall at least 
 four inches. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That there shall not be more 
 than thirty feet space between the party or outside walls of 
 any building, unless such building shall be supported by iron 
 or other columns or supports, of fire proof material. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That all end and party walls 
 where the buildings connect shall extend above the sheeting 
 of the roof at least seven inches or three courses of brick, and 
 in no case shall the planking or sheeting of the roof extend 
 across any party or end wall. 
 
 Sec. 8. Sheds not exceeding twelve feet in height at the 
 
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 peak or highest part thereof, and privies not exceeding ten 
 feet square and twelve feet in height at the peak, may likewise 
 be constructed of wood, and shall not be subject to the provi¬ 
 sions of this ordinance. But all depositories for ashes, within 
 or without the fire limits, shall be built of brick or other fire 
 proof material without wood in any part thereof. 
 
 Sec. 9. No wooden building or part of building within the 
 fire limits shall be raised, repaired, enlarged or removed to 
 any other place within the same; nor shall any such building 
 be removed into the fire limits. Nor shall any wooden build- 
 ing within said limits, which may hereafter be damaged by 
 fire be repaired or rebuilt without a special permit from the 
 city council. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained , That any owner, builder 
 or other persons who shall own, build or aid in the erection of 
 
196 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 any building or part of building within the fire limits, contra- 
 ry to or in any other manner than authorized by the provi¬ 
 sions of this ordinance, or who shall own, remove or assist in 
 removing any such building from without said limits into the 
 same, or own, repair, or assist in repairing any damaged wood¬ 
 en building contrary in either case to any provision of this or¬ 
 dinance, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five 
 dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, in the discre¬ 
 tion of the Police Court, for the first offence, and to a like fine 
 for every forty-eight hours such person shall fail to comply 
 with the provisions of this ordinance, or continue in the viola¬ 
 tion of this ordinance. If any person shall violate any other 
 provision of this ordinance he shall be subject to a like fine. 
 
 Sec. 11. Any wooden building which may be erected, en¬ 
 larged, removed or repaired, or in process of erection, enlarge¬ 
 ment, removal or repair, contrary -to this ordinance, shall be 
 deemed a nuisance; and upon information, it shall be the duty 
 of the Mayor, after due notice to the owner or builder thereof 
 to abate the same, by an order in writing to require the Police 
 Constable to raze such building to the ground. The expenses 
 of such removal shall be reported by the Police Constable to 
 the city council for assessment, and may be collected of the 
 owner of such building by suit. 
 
 NO. L. 
 
 Jin Ordinance entitled an Ordinance Regulating the width-of Side¬ 
 walks, and the Curbstones thereof . 
 
 Sec. 1 . Width of. How constructed. 
 
 2. Curbstones. Size of, &c. 
 
 3. Penalty. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , That all sidewalks throughout the city shall be of the 
 width of twelve feet, and laid with brick or rock, where the 
 same have not already been established by order of the coun¬ 
 cil of some other width, or where the same shall not hereafter 
 
ORDINANCES, 
 
 197 
 
 Be ordered of some other width in the order directing the same 
 to be constructed. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it farther ordained , That all curbstones through¬ 
 out the city, shall be of four inches in thickness, and said curb¬ 
 stones shall all be smoothly jointed for the depth of at least 
 ten inches, so as to prevent the sand from running through the 
 same, and all corners of curbing at the intersection of streets, 
 shall be made with a curve or circle. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That whoever shall violate 
 any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay 
 for the use of said city not less than one nor more than one 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 NO. LI. 
 
 An Ordinance Providing for Standing Committees. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of 
 Quincy , That the Standing Committees shall be as follows : 
 
 1st. An Ordinance Committee, to consist of one Alderman 
 from each Ward. 
 
 2d. A Committee on Ferry and Wharf, to consist of one 
 Alderman from each Ward. 
 
 3d.. A Committee on Markets, to consist of two Aldermen. 
 
 4th. An Auditing Committee, to consist of three Aldermen. 
 
 5th. A Committee on Gas Lights, to consist of one Aider- 
 man from each Ward. 
 
 All of the foregoing Committees to be appointed by the 
 Mavor. 
 
 6th. There shall also be a Finance Committee, to consist 
 of two, who shall be elected by the Council by ballot. 
 
198 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. LII. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to the Compensation of City Officers . 
 
 Sec. 1. Mayor’s salary. 
 
 2. City Clerk’s salary and fees. 
 
 3. Treasurer’s compensation. 
 
 4. Marshal’s fees. 
 
 5. Engineer’s salary and fees. 
 
 6. Overseer of the Poor—his salary. 
 
 7. Clerk of the Market—his salary and perquisites. 
 
 8. Harbor Master’s compensation. 
 
 9. Fire Warden’s do. 
 
 10. Sexton’s do. 
 
 11. Wood Measurer’s do. 
 
 12. Measurer of Lumber do. 
 
 13. City Physician. 
 
 14. Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 15. Street Commissioner. 
 
 16. Aldermen. 
 
 17. Restrictions. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy , Tnat the Mayor of said city shall receive a salary of 
 two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, together with such 
 compensation as may be provided by ordinance or resolution 
 of the City Council, for^ any extraordinary service required 
 of him, or other duty than such as properly belongs to his 
 office of Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That the City Clerk shall 
 receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, and the fol¬ 
 lowing fees : for entering order levying a special tax, on each 
 lot or part of lot, twenty-five cents; for advertising, in case of 
 special tax, on each lot or part of lot, including sale thereof, 
 in case of sale, twenty-five cents; for each certificate of re¬ 
 demption from such sale, twenty-five cents; for each lot or 
 part of lot deeded, including acknowledgment of deed, seven¬ 
 ty-five cents; for issuing license, fifty cents, except ferry 
 licenses, which shall be one dollar; for a license and taking 
 bond, one dollar; for writing each official bond and certificate 
 of qualification, fifty cents; but none of said fees shall be paid 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 199 
 
 out of the city treasury. He shall, also, receive such fees as 
 may be provided for in the revenue ordinances of the city, or 
 may be allowed by ordinance or resolution of the City Council. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That the City Treasurer 
 shall receive as a compensation for his services, one per cent, 
 on all moneys, other than the school moneys, received by him, 
 to be deducted at the time of receipt: and on all school moneys 
 received by him two per cent., to be deducted as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further ordained , That the City Marshal shall 
 receive the same fees for services of process issued from the 
 I Police Magistrate’s Court, as is or may be allowed by the 
 laws of this State to constables for like services; and also, the 
 same fees in case of arrest without process, as if such arrest 
 had been made on due process; ten per cent, on all fines, for¬ 
 feitures and penalties for violation of any ordinance, collected 
 without suit, when no special compensation is provided for by 
 such ordinance; for every dog or slut killed by him by authori¬ 
 ty of any ordinance, fifty cents, to be paid out of the city 
 treasury; for the registry of each dog or slut, twenty-five 
 cents; twenty-five cents for keeping each hog or pig taken up, 
 and fifty cents for the sale thereof; and also, such other fees 
 as may be provided by the revenue or other ordinances of the 
 City Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further ordained , That the City Engineer 
 shall receive a salary of seven hundred dollars per annum, 
 and shall pay for all assistance needed in his department; he 
 shall also receive the following fees : for surveying any pri¬ 
 vate lot in said city and marking the corners thereof, one dol¬ 
 lar and fifty cents, to be paid by the person requiring the ser¬ 
 vice to be performed; for surveying and marking as above and 
 subdividing the same, an additional fee of twenty-five cents for 
 each subdivision, to be paid by the same person; for designa¬ 
 ting the line or grade of any street, lane, avenue or alley, on 
 which any person is desirous of building a house, erecting a 
 fence, grading or paving a sidewalk, or where a sidewalk is 
 ordered by the City Council to be made, one dollar for each 
 line and grade so designated, to be paid by the applicant 
 or owner of the lot: Provided , the grade shall have been es- 
 
200 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 tablished by the City Council. He shall,, also, be entitled to 
 flucli other fees and charges as may be allowed him by ordb 
 nance or resolution of the City Council. 
 
 Sec. 6 . Be it further ordained , That the Overseer of the 
 Poor shall receive a salary of three hundred and fifty dollars 
 per annum. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further ordained , That the Clerk of the Mar¬ 
 ket shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars per annum, 
 and ten per cent, of all fines, forfeitures and penalties collected 
 ; 0 ) him Avithout suit; and also, such other fees and perquisites- 
 as may be alloAved him : by ordinance or resolution of the, City 
 Council. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further ordained That the city Harbor, 
 Master shall receive,.as a compensation for his services, ten 
 per cent, of all money received by him as wharfage, and fifty 
 per cent, of all fines, forfeitures and penalties by him collected,* 
 and in addition, thereto, ten per cent, on all sales made by vir¬ 
 tue of the ordinance relating to the public landing, said fees 
 to be deducted.at the time of collection. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further ordained , That the Fire Warden 
 shall leceise a salary of one hundred dollars per annum, and 
 his assistants shall receive such compensation as the city coun¬ 
 cil may, from time to time, determine. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further ordained, That the City Sexton shall 
 receive such compensation, in addition to fees which may be 
 allowed to him by ordinance of. the city council,.as may be 
 deemed reasonable by the city council. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further ordained 7 That the City Wood Measu¬ 
 rer shall receive as a compensation for his services, such fees 
 as may be provided by ordinance of the city council. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further ordained , That the City Measurer of 
 Lumber and so forth, shall recei\ r e, as a compensation for his 
 
 services, such fees as may be provided by ordinance of the 
 city council. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be it further ordained , That the City Physician 
 shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per an¬ 
 num, which shall be in full for services, as 'swell as medicines 
 used in the discharge of his duties as physician. 
 
 
ORDINANCES. 
 
 201 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further ordtiined, That the Superintendent 
 of Schools shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars per 
 annum. 
 
 Sec. 15. Be it further ordained, That the Street Commis¬ 
 sioner shall receive a salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars 
 per annum. 
 
 Sec. 16. Be it further ordained, That each Alderman shall 
 receive as salary two dollars for each stated monthly meeting 
 of the council, when present, and fifty cents for each special 
 meeting of the council, when present. 
 
 Sec. IT. Be it further ordained, That the salary of no officer 
 herein mentioned, or that of any other officer rendered neces¬ 
 sary by the creating of any office hereafter, shall either be in¬ 
 creased or diminished during the term for which he is elected. 
 
 -:-o-:- 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Wherever the words ({ Police Constable” occur on pages 74 and 75, 
 read “City Marshal.” 
 
 On page 108, 5 lines from the top, for the word “Mayor,” read 
 
 Police Magistrate” 
 
202 
 
 ■ORDINANCES. 
 
 NO. LIIL 
 
 An Ordinance Adopting a Code of Revised Ordinances . 
 
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 Sec. 1. Revised Ordinance adopted. Exceptions. 
 
 2. Ordinances—how construed. Exceptions. 
 
 3. Special exceptions from repealing clause. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of 
 Quincy, That the foregoing Kevised Ordinances shall be in 
 force, and of full authority within the city, from and after the 
 seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. And 
 all ordinances of the city, the subject matter of which is therein 
 treated on and provided for, be and the same are hereby re¬ 
 pealed from and after the said seventeenth day of April, eigh¬ 
 teen hundred and fifty-six : Provided , however, that such repeal 
 shall in no wise affect, or invalidate, any act done, right ac¬ 
 crued, offence committed, penalty incurred, prosecution or 
 proceeding commenced before the day and year aforesaid; but 
 all such acts, rights, offences, penalties, prosecutions and pro¬ 
 ceedings, shall be and remain in the same condition, and of 
 the same force and effect in all respects as if this ordinance had 
 not been made. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained , That whenever, in any ordi¬ 
 nance, any subject matter, party, or person is described or re¬ 
 ferred to in the singular number, and any two or more such 
 subject matters, parties, or persons are equally within the rea¬ 
 son and object of the ordinance, the language thereof shall be 
 so construed as to embrace them; and if, in like manner, 
 words are used, importing the plural number, they shall be 
 held applicable, under like circumstances, to any single mat¬ 
 ter, party, or person referred to; and if the terms of the ordi¬ 
 nance refer to males only, they shall be understood, in similar 
 cases, to include females also Provided , that these rules of 
 construction shall not prevail, if there be any special provision 
 in such ordinance, or anything in the context, or in the sub¬ 
 ject matter thereof, plainly repugnant to such an interpre¬ 
 tation. 
 
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 203 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further ordained , That all ordinances of the 
 city establishing any street or streets, lane, alley or avenue, or 
 establishing, changing or altering the grade of streets, or of 
 any street, lane, alley or avenue within the city, and all ordi¬ 
 nances of a purely special character, and local, only, to a par¬ 
 ticular object, or the intent and purpose of which has been 
 fully accomplished and executed, and which remains, only, as 
 authority for such act or execution, the same not being provided 
 for in the foregoing Revised Ordinances, shall remain in force 
 and unrepealed. 
 
 Passed in Council, this seventeenth day of April, a. d. 1856. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 "Actions..15, 115 121, 127 
 
 Alleys.9, 21, 81, 144 
 
 Appeals.15, 124 
 
 Assessments, 10, 144 to 150, 166 
 
 to 171 
 
 Auctioneers.10, 65, 66 
 
 Auditing claims.85 
 
 Arrest.116, 117,153 to 156 
 
 Attachment.122,185 
 
 Attorney;.62 
 
 Awnings.193,194 
 
 Bail.118, 119, 121, 124, 155 
 
 Billiard tables....68 
 
 Bonds.Ill to 114 
 
 Bricks.107 
 
 Bawdy Houses.134 
 
 Buildings in Fire Limits 194 to 196 
 
 ^Bowling Alleys.157 
 
 Calaboose.153 
 
 Capias.118, 127 
 
 •Cemetery, Quincy.85, 89 
 
 (( Woodland.46, 89, 90 
 
 City Records.37 
 
 City, Randolph’s Addition to....38 
 City Council, powers of, 4, 5, 8 to 
 12, 14, 20 to 34, 79 
 
 City Contracts.83, 84 
 
 County Tax.49 
 
 Committees and Curbstones.197 
 
 City Charter & Amendments 1 to 34 
 (i Laws relating to.......35 to 49 
 
 (i Boundaries of.21 
 
 “ Elections.7, 17, 19 
 
 “ Legislative powers.7 to 12 
 
 <c Private property, taking of 22 
 
 to 31 
 
 u Miscellaneous matters 14 to 16 
 
 “ Officers.. '.....56 
 
 Mayor, his powers and duties, 6, 7, 
 12, 13, 17, 51, 75, 134, 151 to 
 
 156, 187 
 
 Aldermen.,.4, 5, 50, 51 
 
 Marshal...16, 19, 20, 58, 60, 61, 68 
 “ His fees, 70 to 77, 114 to 129, 
 159, 164, 171 to 174, 179 
 Clerk of Council, 23 to 34, 57, 64, 
 80, 157, 161, 164, 179 
 
 Treasurer.58, 113, 143, 198 
 
 Overseer of poor 59, 108 to 110,187 
 
 Assessors.34,167 to 170 
 
 | Engineer...59,198 
 
 | Clerk of the Market, 59, 94 to 102 
 
 Harbor Master.60, 180 to 188 
 
 j Fire Warden.60, 90 to 93 
 
 | Sexton.60, 85 to 89 
 
 Lumber and Wood Measurer, 56, 
 
 61, 104 to 107 
 
 Watchmen.151 to 156, 159 
 
 Police Constable, 48, 151 to 156, 
 
 159 
 
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 Physician, 56; his duties, 62, 187 
 Superintendent of Schools, 56. 63, 
 
 141 to 143 
 
 School Visitors..142 
 
 Street Commissioner, 
 
 34,56, 69 to 71, 81 to 85,137 
 Officers — how appointed — to 
 give bond—take oath—may 
 be removed—to deliver doc- 
 ments to successor—to make 
 settlements; vacancy, how 
 
 filled.56, 57, 61, 62 
 
 City Police...151 to 156 
 
 City Warrants.35, 85 
 
 Contracts—how let.81 to 83 
 
 Contempts.120 
 
 Costs...125 to 127 
 
 Dead Animals.71 to 72 
 
 Depositions....122 
 
 Dogs...71,74, 75 
 
 Drays./..190, 191 
 
 Damages.23 to 31 
 
 Driving immoderately.135 
 
 Disturbing peace and meetings, 
 
 130, 131 
 
 Drunkenness.132,133 
 
 Elections.7,17,19, 51 to 54, 62 
 
 Evidence.12, 37,121 
 
 Execution.122,123 
 
 Errata.201 
 
 Ferries.102 to 104 
 
 Firemen..36, 164 
 
 Fires...90 to 93 
 
 Fire Limits.194 to 196 
 
 Fiscal Exhibit.14, 57 
 
 Fire Arms.134,135 
 
 False alarm of Fire.131 
 
 Gas.158 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Gan Powder.107, 108 
 
 Garnishee.. 
 
 Gaming. .*133 
 
 Groceries.150' 
 
 Hallooing, &c.. 
 
 Harbor.180 to 186 
 
 Health.70 to 73, 187 
 
 Hackney Carriages.189, 190 
 
 Hay Scales... 155 
 
 Indecent Exhibitions, &c.132 
 
 Inspection of lumber &C.104 to 107 
 “ Weights & Measures, 157 
 
 Imprisonment.14, 39 , 122 , 124 
 
 Jurors. 122 , 127 
 
 Licenses for Shows, &c.63 
 
 Stores, Brokers, Pedlers, 
 
 Auctioneers, &c.63 
 
 Manner of granting &c.64, 159 
 
 for sale of Lumber.67, 68 
 
 Billiard Tables. 68 
 
 Bowling Alleys. 157 , 
 
 power to revoke.159 
 
 Vinous & Spirituous Li¬ 
 quors. .160 
 
 Fermented Liquors.162 
 
 Omnibusses, Carriages, 
 Wagons and Drays...189 to 192 
 
 Keeping dogs.74, 75 
 
 Hay Scales.156 
 
 Lots, authority to grade... 3 Q 
 
 “ How graded.. . ZZ.JL 
 
 “ Owners to fill up and grade 
 
 78 to 80 
 
 Labor on streets for penalty, 
 
 r * • * ’ 39 > 128 
 
 Lamp district.165 
 
 Market. 94*to*102 
 
 Mad dogs.. 
 
 Measurer of lumber and wood ” 
 
 m • 104 to 107 
 
 Macadamizing.21 144 
 
 Nuisance.39**69 to 74 
 
 Oa lots.39, 78 to 80 
 
 Hogs. 74 , 75 
 
 „ Hogs.76, 78 
 
 Officers neglecting duty. 139 
 
 Offenses against official authority 
 
 139 
 
 Obstructing street, &C...136 to 139 
 
 0ffic er...114 to 129 
 
 Ordinances revised. 202 , 203 
 
 Hf vin £.21, 81, 144 
 
 Planking. 21 , 144 
 
 Penalty, Awnings.194 
 
 Judges of Election, &c. 55 
 
 Penalty, Auctioneers, &C..63 to 66 
 
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 Billiards. . 68 
 
 Omnibuses, Carriages, &c., 
 
 189 to 192 
 
 Obstructing streets, &c., 
 
 136 to 139 
 
 Nuisance.69 to 80 
 
 Cemetery.85 to 90 
 
 Fires.90 to 93 
 
 Market. 94 to 102 
 
 Public Landing....180 to 186 
 
 Quarantine.187 to 188 
 
 Wood......105 
 
 Bricks.107 
 
 Powder.. 107 
 
 Resisting and refusing to 
 
 aid officers. 139 
 
 How collected. 115 
 
 Who liable for..120 
 
 To whom paid.124, 125 
 
 Unlawful assemblage.130 
 
 Disturbing the Peace.131 
 
 Violating the Sabbath 
 
 131 to 133 
 
 False alarm of Fire.131 
 
 Drunkenness.132 
 
 Indecent Exhibitions.132 
 
 Gaming, &c.,. ..133 
 
 Bawdy Houses. 134 
 
 Firearms, Fires, &c. 
 
 90 to 93,196 
 
 Has • ». 158 
 
 Highways, Sidewalks, &e., 
 135 to 138, 197 
 Liquors, vinous & fermented 
 
 160 to 164 
 
 Where no special provision 
 
 140 
 
 Police.. 
 
 Paupers.108 to 110 
 
 Powder. 107 
 
 Privies.70, 72*195 
 
 Police Magistrate’s Court, 
 
 „ 47, 48, 114 to 129 
 
 Police Constable, duties of, &c. 
 
 151 to 156 
 
 Public Property.136 to 139 
 
 Public Improvements.80 to 85 
 
 Quarantine.187. 188 
 
 Revenue, 18, 19, 21 , 32, 39 , 40, 
 
 „ 45, 164 to 180 
 
 Rail Roads.*.32, 43, 45 
 
 Revised Ordinances. 202 , 203 
 
 Schools.is, 141 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Salaries, Police.151 
 
 i( Mayor an i Clerk.198 
 
 f( Treasurer, Marshal, Engi¬ 
 neer, Overseer of Poor, 
 Clerk of Market, Har¬ 
 bor Master, Fire War¬ 
 den, Sexton, Measurer, 
 Physician, Superinten¬ 
 dent of Schools, Street 
 Commissioner, and Al¬ 
 dermen.199, 200, 201 
 
 Streets, obstructing of...136 to 139 
 “ Grading of, Contracts for, 
 
 &e. 80 to 85 
 “ Tax levied for, &c .31,164 : 
 
 Scales.156 
 
 Swine.76 to 78 
 
 Signs.;.193 
 
 Unlawful Assemblage,.130 
 
 Union School district bonds for..33 
 
 Violating Sabbath.133 
 
 Visitors of Schools.142 
 
 Wards.9 
 
 <£ Election.50 
 
 s( Assessment.167 
 
 Wharf and Wharfage....180 to 186 
 
 Wagons.190 to 192 
 
 Wood...,.104 to 105 
 
 Weights and Measures.157