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And at the same rate for every fractional part of one hundred tons.
3. From the Evansville and Cairo packets, which may land at any of the public landings, the sum of three dollars ($3) per week, to be paid each week.
4. From the owner or person in charge of every keelboat. flatboat. barge, or other water-craft, which may land at any of 4
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the public landings, the sum of one dollar ($1) for each and every landing. and remaining three days or less. and fifty cents (50c) for every succeeding day or less the same may remain.
§ 3. That any steamboat or other water-craft anchoring in front of said wharf, or lying alongside of any boat. or which may be in front of said wharf, shall be charged and required to pay the same wharfage as if such boat was fastened to said wharf or shore.
§ 4. It shall be the duty of the wharfmaster to enter in a book kept for that purpose all money received by virtue of this ordinance, the name of the persons or boats from whom the same is received, the specific amount 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 city treasury by the wharfinaster, and the treasurer's receipt therefor filed with the city clerk. The wharfmaster shall receive such compensation for his services as the council may from time to time determine.
$ 5. That one dollar ($1) per foot, in length, shall be paid per annum on all wharfboats which may be placed or kept at . any of the public landings in said city. the amount to be paid into the city treasury monthly.
§ 6. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to place or keep a fish-boat or boats at the public landings in said city without first having obtained a license so to do. as hereinafter provided ; and every person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not exceeding ten dollars ($10) for every offence.
§ 7. Licenses may be granted for the purposes set forth in the foregoing section for the sum of one dollar ($1) per month for every boat.
§ 8. That the following shall be the rates on all freight pass- ing over any wharfboat licensed according to the provisions of this ordinance :
For corn 02 cents per sack.
For wheat and oats 03 cents per sack.
For merchandise.
60 cents per ton.
For wet barrels ..
05 cents each.
For flour and meal in barrels 05 cents each.
For lime, cement. and salt in barrels. 03 cents each.
For tobacco. 50 per hogshead.
Passed April 29. 1872.
NUMBER VIII.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE PAYMENT OF THE REVENUES OF THE CITY INTO THE CITY TREASURY.
§ 1. All revenues must be paid into the fifty dollars.
city treasury-Duty of collector.
§ 2. Duty of treasurer.
§ 3. Treasurer must deposit all sums over |
§ 4. Revenues derived from license to be paid into the city treasury-Duty of the clerk.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That hereafter all the revenues of said city, derived from any source whatever, which may be collected by any officer of said city,
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shall be paid by such officer into the city treasury each month, on the Monday preceding each regular meeting of the city council : and the city collector, in addition to paying over the amount of his receipts as herein required, shall make and file with the city treasury a report, in writing, setting forth the amount of revenue received or collected during the preceding month, on what account the same was received, and what pro- portion was received in money, what amount in city orders, and what amount in levee orders.
$ 2. Whenever any officer of said city shall pay any sum into the city treasury, the treasurer shall give him a receipt setting forth the date of the payment, and on what account it was col- lected and paid, and the proportion or amount of money and city and levee orders received ; and the officer obtaining such receipt shall, within two days thereafter, file said receipt with the city clerk, who shall give the officer filing such receipt a written acknowledgment thereof; and the clerk shall thereupon charge the treasurer with the amount of such receipt, setting forth the proportions of cash, city and levee orders. as stated in such receipt.
§ 3. Whenever the city treasurer shall hereafter receive any money belonging to said city, amounting to fifty dollars ($50) or upwards, he shall, unless otherwise directed by the city coun- cil. deposit the same with either of the national banks of said city. payable on call, with such interest as the bank may allow on such deposits ; and the treasurer, upon his final settlement with the city council, shall account for the interest which may acerne and be received by him on all such deposits.
$ 4. All revenue of the city derived from licenses of every kind shall be paid directly into the city treasury by the persons applying for license, and the receipt of the treasurer shall be filed, by the person to whom it is given, with the city clerk, who shall thereupon issue the proper license and charge the treasurer with the amount thereof; and the treasurer shall in all receipts for licenses state whether the amount was paid in money or orders, and, if orders, whether city or levee.
Passed March 26. 1872.
NUMBER IX.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING DOGS.
§ 1. Must pay taxes on. each year. licensed.
§ 2. The clerk. the duty ot, to license, etc.
§ 3. The marshal must kill all dogs not
§ 4. Must prevent dog-lights.
§ 5. Persons resisting, penalty.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That each and every person who is now, or shall hereafter be, the owner of, or shall harbor or have the care of, any animal of the dog kind, within said city, shall annually, on or before the first day of July of each year, pay taxes for such animal at the fol- lowing rates, to-wit: For each dog, owned or kept, one dollar ($1) ; and for each bitch the sum of five dollars ($5) : Provided.
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that a license for a bitch shall not be held or understood as a permit for such animal to be allowed to run at large, but only as permission or authority to keep such animal : And provided further, that nothing in this ordinance contained shall prevent the city council from declaring all dogs running at large in said city to be a nuisance and provide for the killing of the same ; and any person violating this section shall, on conviction, for- feit and pay not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than twenty dollars ($20).
§ 2. The clerk shall issue a license to each owner of any dog applying therefor, describing therein as well as he may be able to do the kind of dog or dogs for which such tax is paid. The clerk shall also furnish and deliver to each applicant a medal of iron, brass, or copper marked and numbered to correspond with the license. He shall keep a register, in which shall be entered the name of the applicant, the number of the license and medal, and the amount paid therefor. For each license and medal the applicant therefor shall. at the time of receiving the same, deliver to the clerk the receipt of the treasurer for the amount required to be paid therefor, as fixed by this ordinance. He shall also pay to the clerk a fee of fifty cents (50c).
§ 3. It shall be the duty of the marshal of said city to kill every animal of the dog kind found running at large within the limits of said city at any time after the said first day of July of each year, without the medal required by this ordinance.
§ 4. Any person or persons owning or having the care of any animal of the dog kind and permitting the license medal to remain or be kept upon the collar or neck of such animal after the expiration of the year for which such medal was given, or using any false medal in imitation of the medal required by this ordinance, shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50).
§ 5. It shall be the duty of the marshal and his deputies to prevent dog-fights ; and, for this purpose, they may kill any dog or dogs found fighting within said city, if they find it impracti- cable otherwise to prevent the same.
§ 6. Any persons resisting the execution of this ordinance shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars ($10).
Passed March 26, 1872.
NUMBER X.
AN ORDINANCE LICENSING AUCTIONEERS, ETC.
§ 1. Must not sell at public auction with- ont license-Exception.
§ 2. Must not hawk or peddle goods without license.
§ 3. Shows and menageries must be
licensed.
§ 4. Billiard tables must be licensed.
$5. The price of license regulated.
§ 6. Must not admit minors under eighteen years.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That it shall be unlawful for any person within said city to exercise the business. trade. or vocation of an auctioneer. or to sell at
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public auction or outcry any property, real or personal, or any article of commodity whatever, or any interest therein, without first having obtained from said city a license for that purpose, as hereinafter provided ; and every person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence : Provided, that sales at public auction or outery made by sheriff's, masters- in-chancery, coroners, collectors, marshals, constables, executors, and administrators, by virtue of their respective offices. are hereby exempted from the operation of this section.
§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city to exer- cise the business. trade, or vocation of a hawker or peddler of goods, wares, or merchandise, or a retailer of the same at any stand or table in any public place, without first having obtained a license from said city for that purpose, as hereinafter required ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence.
§ 3. It shall be unlawful for any caravan, animal. menagerie, or other collection of animals, or show of any natural or arti- ficial curiosity, any eirens, panorama, theater, museum, or other show, exhibition, amusement, concert. or musical entertainment, any tricks, such as are played by persons generally known by the name of magicians, rope and wire dancers, or any sleight-of- hand with cards, cups, balls, or other things, when pay shall be required for admission to hear or sec the same, to be shown, exhibited, or performed within the limits of said city, until a license so to do has first been obtained, as hereinafter provided ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) for every offence : Provided, that for musical parties, concerts, or exhibitions given or exhibited by any individual resident in the City of Shawneetown, or by any company or association the whole or a majority of whose members are resi- dents of said city, no license shall be required.
$ 4. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city to keep any billiard table or tables for the purpose of gain, either directly or indirectly, or where money is charged for the use of, or for playing on the same, without first having obtained a license from said city for that purpose, as hereinafter provided ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dol- lars ($100) for every offence.
$ 5. The prices of licenses contemplated by this ordinance shall be as follows, to-wit :
1. To auctioneers, for one day, two dollars ($2) ; two days, three dollars ($3) ; one month, ten dollars ($10) ; and for the period of one year, the sum of fifty dollars ($50) : Provided, that persons licensed to sell at auction shall not permit other persons to sell under their license.
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2. To foot-peddlers or retailers at stands or tables, one dollar and a half ($1.50) per day; and to persons peddling from wagons. carts, or other vehicles. three dollars ($3) per day, or ten dollars ($10) per week. This clause shall not apply to farmers or gardeners when retailing the products of their farms or gardens.
3. For any circus or menagerie. not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) per day.
4. For any animal, or show of any natural or artificial curi- osity, theater, museum, or exhibition, performance, or entertain- ment of any kind contemplated by this ordinance, not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than twenty dollars ($20) per day.
5. To keepers of billiard-tables for the period of one year. the sum of thirty dollars ($30) for every table : and for any period less than one year, at five dollars ($5) per month for every table : Provided, that before such license is granted the applicant therefor shall execute a bond, with security to be approved by the mayor, in the penal sum of two hundred dollars ($200), payable to the City of Shawneetown, the condition of which bond shall be substantially as follows, to-wit :
That whereas, on the - day of -. A. D. - , the above bounden. A. B .. applied for and obtained from the mayor of said city an order for a license to keep a billiard-table (or billiard-tables, as many as may be), at , in said city ; and, whereas, a license is about to be issued to the said A. B .. for the purpose aforesaid, now, therefore, if the above bounden. A. B., shall faithfully observe and keep, and cause his agents and servants in his employ. under said license, to observe and keep, all the ordinances of the City of Shawneetown now in force or that may be in force during the period of such license, and shall suffer or permit no gaming or disorderly conduct of any description in or abont the room or place in which such billiard-table or tables may be kept, or in or about the premises occupied by the said A. B., and shall not keep open, or permit to be kept open. on Sunday the room or place in which such table or tables are kept, or play at or upon such table. or permit others to play at or npon it, on Sunday. then this bond shall be void; otherwise to be in full force and virtue.
§ 6. It shall not be lawful for the keeper, owner, or occupier of any billiard-table, licensed under the provisions of this ordi- nance, to suffer, allow, or permit any boy or boys under the age of eighteen years to visit or remain in any such room or place where such table or tables may be kept, or to use or play upon such table or tables.
Passed April 29, 1872.
NUMBER XI.
AN ORDINANCE LICENSING AND REGULATING VEHICLES.
§ 1. Vehicles must be licensed.
§ 2. Terms and price of license.
§ 3. Licensed vehicles must be num- bered, and. herein. of the duty of the clerk-Penalty for neglect, etc.
§ 4. Fees allowed to teamsters under ordinances.
§ 5. What services to be rendered for the fees.
§ 6. Penalty for overcharging.
§ 7. Licenses may be transferred.
§ 8. Not to apply to certain kinds of hanl- ing.
§ 9. When a person is duly licensed.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That no person shall demand, charge. or receive any sum of money. or other valuable thing, for hauling or transporting any article of personal property whatever, in or upon any wagon, cart, dray, hack. or other wheeled vehicle, nor for the hire or use of the
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same within the limits of said city. without first having obtained a license so to do as hereinafter provided ; and any person vio- lating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than two dollars ($2) nor more than twenty dollars ($20) for every offence.
§ 2. License may be granted for any of the purposes herein specified, at the following rates : For three months, five dollars ($5) ; for six months, eight dollars ($8) ; and for one year. twelve dollars ($12). And no license shall be granted under this ordinance to run beyond the second Saturday in June next succeeding the issning thereof.
$ 3. It shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of any vehicle contemplated by the first section of this ordinance to report the same to the city clerk, that the same may be registered ; and to pay into the city treasury the price of license for such vehicle. and take the treasurer's receipt therefor, and file it with the clerk. who shall thereupon make out under his hand and the seal of the city a license in pursuance of this ordinance. The clerk shall also give to the person applying for and receiving the license the number of his vehicle, which shall be painted on a metallic plate, and furnished by the elerk. Said plate shall be attached to the vehicle licensed in some conspicuous part, in such a manner as to render the number distinctly visible ; and every person who shall refuse or neglect to keep his vehicle numbered with the number furnished by the clerk, as herein required, or shall have more than one number on the same, or shall place his number on an unlicensed vehicle, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars ($5), and the further sum of five dollars ($5) for each day he shall use said vehicle without hay- ing the same numbered as aforesaid.
$ 4. The charge allowed to teamsters. draymen, cartmen, drivers of express wagons, and other vehicles licensed under this ordinance, shall be as follows : 1. For hauling each load to or from railroad or wharfboat, the sum of thirty cents (30e). 2. For hauling trunks to or from railroad depots or wharf, the sum of twenty-five cents (25c).
§ 5. That the services to be rendered by the person in charge of a licensed wagon, cart, dray, or other vehicle, for the charge herein specified, shall include the loading, hauling, and unload- ing of the property.
§ 6. If any owner, driver, or person having charge of any licensed vehicle, licensed under this ordinance, shall charge, receive, or demand any higher charge than is allowed by this ordinance, he shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for each offence ; and the city judge may, in his discretion, enter up, as a part of the judg- ment, the forfeiture of his license.
$ 7. Licenses issued under this ordinance may be transferred with the vehicle licensed ; but in all such cases the person to whom the license is intended to be transferred shall have the
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same registered with the clerk, who shall endorse on snch license a memorandum of the transfer, and such endorsement shall con- tinue the license in force in favor of the transferee until the expiration thereof : and every person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than five dollars ($5) for every offence.
§ 8. This ordinance shall not apply to vehicles kept by mer- chants for the free delivery of goods sold by them, nor to owners or drivers of teams coming to market or trade, who shall trans- port for pay any article from the city to any place without the same, nor to the hauling of brick, sand, lime, mortar, stone. coal, wood, hay, and straw. nor to any vehicle employed on any public improvement of said city. nor to any vehicle employed in digging cellars and foundations where buildings are to be erected : Provided. That said vehicles are not used for other purposes of hire.
§ 9. No person shall be deemed to be duly licensed under this ordinance unless he has paid the amount charged for the same, and unless the license has been actually issued and deliv- ered to him.
Passed April 19. 1872.
NUMBER XII.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY FOR TAXES.
§ 1. City collector, duty of.
|| §2. Fees of, must be collected with taxes.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That whenever a levy shall be made by the city collector, on personal property, for taxes, in compliance with section six of article eight of the city charter, he shall proceed to sell the same at public sale to the highest bidder, for cash, after having given at least ten days' previous notice of the time and place of sale by posting up notices thereof in three of the most public places in said city, and enumerating therein the articles of property to be sold ; and out of the same, realized by such sale, he shall deduct the amount of taxes of the person whose property has been thus sold ; and if there should be any surplus after paying the taxes and costs of sale, he shall pay the same over to the person entitled thereto. In case the owner is not a resident of said city, the collector shall proceed to levy and sell within ten days after the day fixed in said notic ..
§ 2. The collector, in addition to the fees allowed by ordi- nance, shall be entitled to the same fees that are allowed to sheriffs for similar services in this State, which fees shall be collected with the said tax.
Passed April 29. 1872.
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NUMBER XIII.
AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES OF STREET COMMISSIONER.
$ 1. Duty of, must keep streets clean.
§ 2. Must have every able-bodied man to labor ou streets.
§ 3. Must notify parties in the months of September and October.
§ 4. Must pay over money coming into his hands by virtue of this ordi- nance.
§ 5. Negligence of duty-penalty.
§ 6. Fee of the street commissioner.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That it shall be the duty of the street commissioner to see that the streets, alleys, and wharf of said city are kept clean and in good repair, under the direction of the mayor and city council.
$ 2. The street commissioner is hereby authorized. and it shall be his duty, to require every able-bodied male inhabitant of said city, over the age of twenty-one years, and not exempt from road labor under the statutes of the State of Illinois, to work on the streets, alleys, wharf, or other public work of said city, at least three days in each and every year : Provided. that any person required to labor, as aforesaid, may, in lieu of such labor, pay to the street commissioner one dollar ($1) for each and every day he may be required so to labor.
§ 3. It shall be the duty of the street commissioner, in the months of September and October, to notify all persons liable to labor under this ordinance, which notice shall conform in all respects to the notice required by the road laws of this State, and if any person duly notified to labor, as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to perform such labor on the days for which he was called out. it shall be the duty of the street commissioner, within ten days after such failure. to report the name of such person to labor to the city judge, who shall forthwith issue his warrant directed to the marshal of said city, and the said city judge, on the appearance of such person. shall proceed as in other cases of violation of city ordinances ; and, if convicted, such person shall be fined one dollar ($1) for each day he shall refuse or neglect to work as aforesaid : Provided, that the person required to labor, as aforesaid, may pay to the street commissioner the sum of one dollar ($1) for each day he shall fail to work in satisfaction of such labor any time before his name is reported to the said city judge.
$ 4. It shall be the duty of the street commissioner to pay over to the city treasurer, monthly, all moneys coming into his hands by virtue of this ordinance, and the same shall be expended only by order of the city council. No claim for services or work on the streets or other public works shall be paid unless allowed by the city council. and warrants drawn as in other cases.
$ 5. Should the street commissioner, either through negligence or indulgence, fail to carry out the provisions of this ordinance,
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and thereby said city lose the labor due from any person liable to such labor, the street commissioner shall be personally responsible for the amount thus lost, and the same shall be . deducted from his salary falling due next thereafter.
§ 6. The street commissioner shall receive not exceeding two dollars ($2) each day actually engaged in working out the road labor.
Passed April 19, 1872.
NUMBER XIV.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO NUISANCES.
§ 1. Each tenement must be provided with suitable privy-Penalty for neglecting or refusing.
§ 2. Privy must be kept clean-Penalty for allowing to become offensive. § 3. Certain business prohibited.
§ 4. Must not keep a cow stable, etc .. in
an offensive condition.
§ 5. Owner of dead animal must remove the same-Penalty for neglecting.
§ 6. Must not deposit anywhere the re- mains of any dead animal.
§ 7. Marshal must remove dead animals.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That each and every tenement in said city, used as a dwelling-house, shall be furnished by the owner or agent of the same with a suitable privy, the vault of which shall be sunk under the ground at least seven feet deep, and shall be walled up with brick or stone, or well curbed with plank. and shall be so constructed that the outside of said wall shall be at least three feet distant from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner of the adjoining lot shall otherwise agree, and shall also be at least five feet distant from every street or alley ; and every owner or agent refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars ($5). and the further sum of five dollars ($5) for each and every day he shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section, after his conviction.
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