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Fast riding and driving.
SEC. 28. Any person who shall ride or drive any horse or other animal immoderately, or shall drive any horse or other animal attached ;to any carriage or vehicle of any description; in or upon any street, alley, or public ground within the city, in such a careless manher, or at such afrate; of speed as to endanger life, limb, or property, shall be subject to a fine.
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Kites, fire- crackers, &c.
SEC. 24. Any person who shall fly any kites, or roll any hoops on any street, alley or avenue devoted to business, or cause or aid in causing fire-crackers, torpedoes or other explosive thing to be fired, exploded, or thrown upon the public streets, alleys or grounds, of upon any private grounds without permission of the owner or occupant, or shall participate in any sport or exercise likely to scare horses, injure/ passengers, or embarrass the passage of vehicles on the streets, shall be subject to a fine.
Bridges, fast driving pro- hibited.
SEC. 25. That the riding or driving of any horse For other animal, or team of horses, mules or other animals, over or upon any public bridge over the Des Moines or Raccoon rivers, within the city of Des Moines, at a rate of speed or gait faster than' a walk,
is hereby prohibited; and any person violating any provision of this section shall be
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subject to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offense, upon ;conviction thereof. . SEc. 26. No person shall keep or leave open any collar Collar doors. door or grating of any vault, on only highway or sidewalk, or suffer the same to be left or kept open, or suffer any sido- walk in front of his or her premios to become or continue sidewalks ro- so broken as to endanger life of time; any person violating patted this section shall be subject to alfine.
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Sec. 27. Any person who shall wear or carry under his loudly worp. clothes or concerted about or uppe his person, any pistol or var carrying other fire-arms, slung-shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of prohibited. lead, brass, or other metal or material, or any dagger, bowie- knife, dirk- knife or other dangerous knife or instrument for cutting or stabbing, or any other dangerous yor deadly weapon within the city of Des Moines, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof. shall be subject toia fine: provided, that this section shall not De Peace .officers construed to prohibit any officer of the United States, an'y excepted. peace officer of this State, or of any county thereof, or any. ! officer of the city from wearing and carrying such weapons as may be convenient, necessary and proper to be carried 'and used by such officers in the discharge of their official duties.
SEc. 28. Any person who shall dig any hole, drain, or Holes in street. ditch, in any street, alloy, or public ground, or shall remove or carry away, or cause the same to be done, any sod, stone, Earth not to carth, sand of gravel, from any street, alley, lane or public be removed ... or private ground in this city, or shall place any stone, gravel, dirt, or other obstructions of whatever kind, in or upon any street, alley or public ground, without first having Earth not to obtained written permission from the Council or Street be put on. Commissioner or dinner, shall be subject to a fine.
- SEC. 29. No person shall injure, destroy, or assist in Public prop- injuring or destroying any public buildings or property belonging to the city, or any bridge, pavement, side- for cross-walks, drain, sewer, or any part thereof, without due authority, or shall binder or obstruct the making or repairing Repairing of any pavement, side- or cross-walk, or any person employed strepto, by the Street | Commissioner in making, or repairing any public improvement or work ordered by the Council. Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine!
erty not to b injured,
SEC. 30. No person shall bitch or fasten any horse for Injury to trops. other animal, to any fence, railing, ornamental or shade tree, or shall injure or destroy any ornamental or shade-tree,
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shrub, lamp-post, or railing, or fence, upon any street, alley, avenue, or other public grounds, or upon any private property. Any person who violates this section shall be subject to a fine.
Not to drive on sidewalk.
SEc. 31. No person shall push; draw, lead, ride or drive any horse, caft, wagon, sleigh, wheelbarrow or other vehicle, upon any sidewalk, unless it be in crossing the same to go into a yard or lot, which shall be done on a walk, or for the! ; purpose of unloading such vehicle. Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine. 1
SEC. 32. No person shall drive upon and leave any Horses to. not carriage, wagon, cart, sleigh, or other vehicle, with or with- to stand on cross walk. out horses attached, standing across or upon any sidewalk . or cross-walk; or shall hitch any team in such a way as to obstruct the free use of the same, or shall drive any team through any funeral or other procession, so as to disturb the same. Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine. --
Boxes &e. not to be left on sidewalk.
SEC. 33: No person shall place or deposit upon any sifle- walk or street, any box, crate, goods, wares, merchandise, lumber, coal, wood or stondl or other substance or material, except in receiving or delivering such goods, in which case they shall not obstruct the whole of the street or walk, or allow the same to remain upon any street pr sidewalk longer than twelve hours, except as provided in cases of the erection of buildings. Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine.
SEC. 34. No person or persons shall place upon or Goods for sale suffer to be placed upon any sidewall in this city, any goods, or show. wares or merchandise, for sale nor for show, beyond three Three feet al.' lowed. feet from the front line of the lot where such goods may be exposed, or suspend the same within eight feet of tho side- walk. Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine.
Wood not left ou stroet.
SEc. 35. No person shall place and allow to remain upon any street or alley for a longer period than twelve hours, any wood or fuel of any kind, or cut saw or split the same upon any sidewalk.
¡Any person violating this section shall be liable to pay any damage resulting therefrom to the city . or to any person, and shall also be 'subject to a fine.
SEc. 36. No group, for! company of men or boys, shall Groups of men collect or gather together of any side walk, so as to obstruct; on sidewalk. the free passage thercon, and it shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of such premises, and the officers of the - city, to disperse such gathering, and any such person or
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persons who shall refuse to disperse at the request for com- mand of the owner or occupant of the adjoining premises, or of the Mayor, Marshal, Policeman or any Trustee, shall be subject to a fine.
SEC. 37. ; No person shall, without written permission Well in the . from the Council, construct or build any sewer, Yhult, cistern street. or well, in any street, alley, or public ground, or shall, without permission of the Mayor, move or cause to be moved Moving houses. any building into, along, or across any such street, alley or public ground. Any such permission is revocable by the Coun- cil at any time d Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine .! | Any person who shall either, with for without any such written permission, do any of the nets hereinbefore, specified, shall also be liable to the city, orito! any person, in a civil action for any damage done by, for resulting from the doing of any of said acts, to the city or to any person.
SEC. 38. | Any person making any excavation in the Guard excava. streets or public grounds or alleys, shall secure; the same tions. during the night-time by an enclosure thereof at least three feet high. ' Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine.
SEC. 89. Whoever shall willfully cut, hack or injure in any Injury to prop- manner, any | awning-post, Jamhp-post, ornamental or shade-ferty .. tree, railing, fence or other enclosure, or any other property belonging to any person, or any property belonging to the city, or to any society or corporation, shall be subject to a. find.
SEC. 40. Whoever shall in part, anyi advertisement, order of the City Council or of any city officer, shall be subject to a fino.
delhace pr tear down, in whole or Advertisom'ts; ordinance or notice posted by do.
SEC. 41. Whoever shall catch fish or attempt to patch Sunday fishing fish by any means, within the city limits, on Sunday, shall - be subject to a fine !! SEC. 12. I shall be the duty of every person to remove Bouw on side. 'in front of the premises owned walk ; the snow from the sidewalk or occupied by him within twelve hours after the game has! ! fallen, and whoever fails so to do shall be subject to a fine. i
SEc. 43. Whoever shall without authority but fout any Putting out gas-light, or light any public gas lamp, or willfully injure or lights, do. destroy any, gas-pipe or water pipe, or open the same by any turning cook or otherwise, or injure or destroy the ; property of any corporation or person in any street, alley or public ground, shall be subject to a fine.
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Throwing Stones, &c.
SEC. 44. Whoever shall willfully or carelessly throw any stone or stick, whereby any person may be, or shall be hit or hurt, or any window broken or other property injured or destroyed, shall be subject to a fine.
SEC. 45. Whoever shall resist the Marshal or Policeman Resisting off. in making any: arrest, or any officer of the city in the exe- cution of any of his official duties, shall be subject to a fine.
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SEc. 46. If any person shall move into or occupy any 'Occupying va- room, house or other building, without authority or permis- cant houses. sion from the owner or his authorized agent, he shall be subject to a fine.
SEC. 47. It shall be unlawful for any person to offer Auction sales prohibited on the street. goods or property of any kind for sale at auction upon any sidewalk, public street, alley or public grounds without per- mission of the City Council. It shall be unlawful for any person to ring any bell, or make any loud or unusual noise Auction eriers, with any instrument, or by; outcry, upon any street or in any public place, or procure another to do so, for the purpose of attracting people to any auction-room, or for any other pur- pose. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine.
bell ringers, and other noisy persons punished.
Gliding, &c.
SEc. 48. Any person who shill skate, coast or slide upon any sidewalk in this city, or who' shall slide upon any sled or other vehicle upon any traveled street or highway, shall 'be subject to a fine.
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SEC. 49. Whoever shall be convicted for a violation of any provision of any ordinance of the city, shall be adjudged to pay a fine upon the first conviction of not exceeding twenty dollars, and for any subsequent conviction, of not exceeding forty dollars, except another fine is provided in. any section of any ordinance, or ordinances, for a violation thereof, and the defendant shall pay the costs of suit in addition to such fine; and the Court shall order the defend- ant committed to the jail of Polk County until such fine and costs are paid or he be discharged by due course of law
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SEC. 50. Whoever shall be convicted of a violation of Fines when not any ordinance of the city where no punishment therefor is provided in such ordinance, shall be adjudged to pay a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars and the costs of prosecution, and to stand committed until 1 paid, or the defendant is discharged by due course of law.
Passed December 16, 1803: Published January 28, 1869.
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LICENSES.
NUMBER 17.
LICENSES.
AN ORDINANCE Concerning and Requiring Licenses in Certain Cares.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the Who shall pro- city of Des Moines.That every person engaging in any of cure. the vocations hereinafter named, shall first procure a license herefor, and for which shall be paid the sum hereidafter designated for such vocation, namely : Auctioneers shall pay fifty dollars semi-annually Auctioneers. SEC. 2. : Billiard-table keepers shall pay twenty five Billiards, & dollars annually for each table. SEC. 3. ; Bowling-alley keepers shall pay twenty-five Bowling alley. dollars annually for each track.
SEc. 4. Bagatelle-table keepers shall pay twenty-five Bagatelle! dollars annually for each table .! Any table whereon games may be played with balls and gues, not a billiard-table, shall be deemed a bagatelle-table
. SEC, 5. Circus lowners or managers shall pay not less cifous. than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars for Blonde each day's exhibition ; and the owners or managers of each . side show " accompanying any circus or menagerie shall. pay twenty five dollars for each day's exhibition
SEC. 6. Draymen shall pay ten dollars annual + for each Drags. dray. SEC. 7. Exhibitors of wild animals, or menagerles, shall Menageries. pay one hundred dollars for each day's exhibition,
SEO. S. Expressmen shall pay ten dollars annually for Expressmen! cach express wagon. Every person carrying goods from one part of the :city to another, for hire, on any vehicle other than a drayi shall be deemed an expressman.
SEC. 9. Itinerant agents and officers of any Insurance Traveling in- Company whose business it is to solicit the taking of policies of any kind, shall pay a license fee of twenty-five dollars for one month, or fifty dollars for three months, orsone hundred dollars for one year.
surance agents.
SEC. 10. : Itinerant agents for the sale of books! maps, or Book agents. other publications, except newspapers and magazines, by subscription, shall pay a license of ten dollars per month or twenty five dollars for three months.
SEC. 11. | Itinerant vendors of patent or manufactured Quack medi- medicines of any kind whatever, whose business it is to sell oine vendors. byjretail, shall pay a license of ten dollars per month. :
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Spc. 12. Other peddlers shall pay ten dollars per annum. Other peddlers Any person retailing any goods, wares or merchandise, fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, or eatables, along or upon the public streets, or from house to house, shall be deemed a peditler: provided, however that no license shall be issued granting the privilege of selling from, or keeping any stand, or standing place for any vehicle! on any street or sidewalk, except upon the consent of the owner or occupant of the premises opposite andi nenrest to such stand, and such place shall be designated in the license. This section shall not be construed to apply to any person retailing productions of their own raising or manufacture; and the presumption shall be in any action brought, that the defendant is liable to procure a license, and the defendant's own oath may be taken upon such issuc as competent evidence, :
Sec. 13. Restaurant or eating-house keepers shall pay Eating houses. twenty-five dollars per annum.
Any person keeping a house or room for the sale therein of entables, ice-cream or lemon- ade, shall be deemed a restaurant or dating house keeper.
Shows,
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Sec. 14. Traveling exhibitors of legerdemain, wax- figures, paintings, statuary, theatrical plays, and any person engaged in giving any public entertainment or exhibition, of any kind whatsoever, for reward, shall pay a sum not exceed- ing ten dollars for each day's exhibition ; and such sum shall be fixed by the Mayor: provided, no license shall be required for lectures, nor for concerts or other public entertainments given by amateurs, for charitable uses, or for the public benefit.
SEC. 15. Before any license shall issue, the applicant Bond for dray- shall pay thej value there:pr to the City Treasurer, whose men. receipt therefor shall
Bond for drays men and expressmen
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be presented to the Mayor ; and. dray- shall jexecute a hond in the' penal sum of five hundred dollars, to said city, conditioned for the, faithful performance of their duties as public draymen and common carriers, and to fhit'sfully deliver all articles, within a reasonable time, entrusted to their care, with sureties to be approved by the Mayor. And auctioneers shall execute a like bond, in the penal sunt of one thousand dollars, condi- tioned for the faithful performance of their duties and prompt payment of all moneys received by them to the person entitled thereto, with sureties to be approved by the Mayor ; and the Mayor shall then issue such licenses.
SEc. 16. The owners of agents of omnibuses, hackney- Omnibuses &c., carriages, or other vehicles running for hire to the several obtain license. railroad-depots in the city, or from one part of the city to
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another part of the city, carrying passengers, shall procure a license therefor, for which shall be paid the sum of ten dollars per annum for each vehicle.
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SEc. 17. The owner or driver of any omnibus, carriage Pay for carry- or other vehicle licensed as above shall be entitled to demand 18 Passengers. and receive not exceeding twenty-five cents for any one passenger conveyed any distance not exceeding |one-half mild, and not exceeding fifty cents for any one passenger conyeyed any greater distance ; [ and they shall convey any passenger received by them to such part of the city as he- may require.
SEc. 18. Any owner, ngent or driver of any Hackney penalty. carriage, omnibus or other vehicle, who when required shall fail, neglect br refuse to carry any passenger or his ordinary baggage, or who shall ask or demand for conveying any per- son more than the sums allowed by this ordinance, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance relating to the business ofowners, agents for drivers of omnibuses, carriages or other vehicles shall be deomed guilty of a mis- demeanor and shall be subject to a fine.
SEC. 19. Draymen and expressmen may charge twenty- Charges of five cents for carrying cach ordinary load any distance less than half a mile, and for over that distance and within the city, they may charge thirty five cents ; and it shall be the duty of draymen and expressmen to safely receive, transport and deliver any goods, wares or merchandise whenever such service is required of them by any person.
SEC. 20. All licenses shall be for the terms severally Terms. herein mentioned. SEC. 21. Any person violating the conditions of his bond; Violation. pr who shall commit, or permit the commission by another, of any misdemeanor, or offense against any ordinance of the city, in or upon the premises whercin such business shall be conflucted, or about or in pursuing the business so licensed, shall forfeit such fconse and the same may be revoked by the Mayor, upon satisfactory proof thereof.
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SEC.| 22. No license shall be transferrable without the Transfers. written consent of the Mayor indorsed thereon.
SEC. 23.
Any person required | by this ordinance to pro. Penalty. cure license, and failing to do so, shall forfeit and pay to the pity a penalty lof double the amount of such license for the least term for which it may be issued. . And every person violating any provision of this ordinance shall upon conviction tlfereof pay a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars, lind a fine
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of ten dollars for each day of the continued violation thereof; and in default of payment discharged in due course of
hall be imprisoned therefor, till, awa
Passed December 16, 1868 ;: Published January 29, 1869.
NUMIER 18.
AN ORDINANCE to Provide for LI ensing and Regulating the Business of Saloon-Keepers.
License saloon keeper.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Des Moines, That saloon keepers shall pay the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum to the city as a license for the transaction of their business.
SEc. 2. Any person keeping a house or room for the sale therein of native wine or beer, or any kind of malt liquor, shall be deemed a saloon-keeper.
Penalty for allowing disor- derly conduct.
SEC. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the Mayor, Mar- shal, and Policemen, whenever they deem it necessary, in case of any disturbance, no syl brawls or drunkenness, in any saloon, to order the proprietor, agent, clerk or bar- tender, to close. the same. or bar-tender shall refuse, it
f such proprietor, agent, clerk shall be sufficient cause of arrest of the proprietor, clerk, bar-fender' or agent, and the forfeit- ure of his license, and fine of
imprisonment, or both."
Bond.
SEC. 4. Before any licen e shall issud, the applicant shall pay the value thereof to the City Treasurer, whose receipt therefor shall be presented to the |Mayor, and saloon- keepers shall also execute & bond to the city in the penal sum of one thousand dollars conditioned to keep an orderly house, where drunkenness, fighting, quatreling, disturbances or breachds of the peace, I.centious of indecent conduct, shall not be permitted or allowed ; and to pay any damage any person may sustain that may result from the drinking of wine or beer, or any liqhor got at such house, kept by such obligor, which bond shall be with sureties, to be approved by the Mayor. i
Transfer.
SEC. 5. No license shall be transferralle without the written consent of the Mayer.
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city a penalty of double the amount of such license for the Penalty for least term for which it may be issued. 'And every person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon convic- tion thereof, pay a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars, and a fine of ten dollars for each day of the continued viola- tion thereof; and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned therefor till discharged by duf course of law.
failure to prod cure license.
SEC. 7. Saloon-keepers, before receiving their license, Moral charac- shall present; a certificate of good moral character to the tor Mayor, signed by five respectable citizens of Polk county.
SEC. 8. All berson's carrying on the business of saloon- keepers, or licensed as such under the provisions of this ordinance, shall be required to close their places of business on or before eleven o'clock of each night, and on Saturday nights they shall keep their places of business closed from said hour in the afternoon and exclude all persons from their saloons or any part thereof until the following Monday morning at six o'clock. The right is also reserved to the city to require any or all such saloons to be closed tempo- rarily by proclamation of the Mayor, or by order of the Mayor given through the Police, orally, whenever in the opinion of the Mayor, on occasions of unusual excitement; he may deem it necessary for the preservation of the public peace.
Passedi December 21, 1868 : Published January 14, 1869.
NUMBER 19.
NEW FIRE LIMITS ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE to Declare and Establish Fire Limits, and to Define Certain Nuisances and to Provide for the Abatement thereof, and to Provide for the Removal of Buildings made of Combustible Material within Certain Limits
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SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City, Des Moines, That within the limits hereinafter described shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to erect,
it or to establish by removal or otherwise, any building on addition to any building not made and built with outer walls composed of iron, stone, brick and mortar, or other non- combustible material, and all persons are hereby prohibited from hereafter crecting or establishing any building, or addition to any building, within said limits, the outer walls
Time of closing saloons.
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of which are composed of wood or other combustible mate- rial, or from keeping or maintaining any lumber yard within said limits, and any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine.
Penalty.
SEc. 2. That for the purposes of this ordinance the foll Fire limits de- lowing limits shall be known and are hereby established as fined and bounded. the City Fire Limits, and shall aiclude all that part and portion of the city wilbin the limits and boundaries defined and described as follows, to-wit : Commencing at the north east corner of Block Thirty-three ((33) of the Original Town ot Fort Des Moines, running thence southerly along the west line of Water street to the north line of Vine street|; thence westerly along the north line of Vine street to the east line of Sixth street ; thence northerly along the east line of Sixth street to the south line of Locust street ; thence easterly along the south line of Locust street to the place of beginning.
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