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§ 2. Whenever any privy in said city shall be kept in such condition that the smell arising therefrom shall become offensive to any portion of the inhabitants. the same shall be deemed a nuisance, and the owner, occupant, or agent of the lot or prem- ises on which any such privy is located shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding ten dollars ($10) nor less than five dollars ($5). and the further sum of ten dollars ($10) for every day he shall suffer said nuisance to continue after said conviction : Provided, that such person shall have five days' written notice by the marshal.
$ 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry on in said city a slaughtering business, or keep, main- tain, or use any house or place in which the business of slaughtering any animals may be carried on ; nor shall it be lawful for any person or persons in said city to conduct any other offensive trade, manufacture, or business whatever, which
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shall produce an offensive or nauseous smell, or that shall endanger the health of any portion of the inhabitants of said city ; and every person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance. and, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence ; and every repetition or continuance of the offence after a conviction shall be deemed a new offence, for which he shall be fined as herein required : Provided, that the city council may, in their discretion, grant a permit to any person or persons to carry on any branch of business prohibited by this section, upon such terms, conditions, and provisions as said city council shall deem proper ; but such permit may be revoked by the council at any time upon sufficient cause being shown.
§ 4. It shall not be lawful for any person in said city to keep a hog-pen, cow-stable, stable, or other thing or place in such a condition that the smell arising therefrom shall be offensive to any person or neighborhood ; and any person violating this section shall be fined not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25) for every offence ; and every day the offence is continued after conviction shall be deemed a new offence, for which the party shall be fined as herein required.
§ 5. It shall be the duty of the owner of any dead animal to remove the same, forthwith, beyond the limits of the city and bury it, whether such- animal be found on or about his own premises or anywhere else within said city ; and if the owner of such animal shall neglect or refuse to remove and bury the same, as herein required, within ten hours after being notified by the city marshal, or his deputy, so to do, the marshal shall cause the same to be removed immediately, and shall also cause suit to be commenced against the owner of such dead animal, or against the person who deposited it, or caused the same to be deposited ; and such person, upon conviction, shall forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for every offence.
§ 6. Any person placing or depositing, or causing to be placed or deposited, at any place in said city, any dead horse, cow, hog, dog, or the carcass or remains of any animal whatever, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and, on conviction, shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than fifty dol- lars ($50) for every offence, and all expense of removing and burying the same, which shall be taxed and collected as costs against such person.
§ 7. When any dead animal shall be found in said city and shall not be removed, as herein provided, within a reasonable time, it shall be the duty of the marshal of said city, or his deputy, on complaint thereof being made by any person, to cause the same to be removed and buried at the expense of the City of Shawneetown.
Passed April 29, 1872.
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NUMBER XV.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO RAILROADS ENTERING OR PASSING THROUGH THE CITY LIMITS.
§ 1. Obstructing streets, alleys. etc.
§ 2. Rate of speed.
§ 3. Penalty.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That all railroad companies whose track or tracks enter or pass through. or shall hereafter enter or pass through, the corporate limits of said city, are hereby prohibited from obstructing any sidewalk, crossing, alley, or street. in said city, by placing or leaving thereon any locomotive, car, truck, or freight for a longer period than ten minutes at any one time.
§ 2. That it shall not be lawful to run, drive, or propel any locomotive, engine, tender, or railroad car propelled in whole or in part by steam, or by any other means or agency, within the limits of said city, at a greater speed than five miles per hour.
§ 3. Any railroad company which shall, by its officers. agents, or employees, violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) : Provided, the violation of section one of this ordinance is not caused by some accident, or by any cars, truck, or locomotive occupying a side-track in order to let trains pass.
Passed April 29, 1872.
NUMBER XVI.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING VAGRANCY.
§ 1. Persons who shall be considered -
§ 2. Must be brought before the city vagrants.
judge-Penalty.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That every person who shall, within said city, get his livelihood by gaming, and every person able to work and support himself in some honest and respectable calling, not having wherewithal to maintain himself, who shall be found loitering or strolling about, frequenting public places where liquor is sold, begging, or lead- ing an idle, immoral, or profligate course of life, shall be deemed and taken to be a vagrant.
§ 2. It is hereby made the duty of the city judge, upon com- plaint as in other cases of breach of ordinance, to cause to be brought before him every person suspected of vagrancy, and shall proceed as specified in section forty-two of article six of the charter.
Passed April 19, 1872.
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NUMBER XVII.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND SAFETY.
§ 1. Must not use lighted candle, lamp. etc., not enclosed in lantern, in any stable, etc.
§ 2. Throwing stones, etc .- Penalty.
§ 3. Must not stop teams on cross- ings. etc.
§ 4. Must check up teams at crossings.
§ 5. Must not leave teams unfastened- Penalty.
§ 6. Must not hitch horses so as to ob- struct sidewalks or injure trees.
§ 7. Riding over sidewalks prohibited.
§ 8. Discharging fire-arms in city-When allowed.
§ 9. Leaving wagons on the streets and alleys-Penalty.
§ 10. Must not injure or obstruct side- walks, etc .- Merchants may use four feet-In what manner.
§ 11. Must not throw, cut, or saw wood, or feed on sidewalk-Where the same may be so placed.
§ 12. Dogs, etc., penned up disturbing neighborhood.
§ 13. Boys must not play about railroads. § 14. Must not dig or remove earth from city land.
§ 15. Must not dig holes in wharf.
§ 16. Marshal must remove obstructions from wharf, etc.
§ 17. Must not deposit filth, etc .. on Main Street.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown, That it shall not be lawful for any person to use any lighted candle, lamp, or other artificial light not enclosed in a lantern, or to smoke or handle any lighted cigar or pipe in any barn or stable containing hay, straw, or other matter easily ignited ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).
§ 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to play at ball or throw any stone, brickbat, stick, or other hard sub- stance along, across, or over any street, alley, or sidewalk within the city, or to indulge in any other practice having a tendency to annoy any person or endanger life or property, or to frighten teams. horses, or other animals ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than five ($5) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).
§ 3. Any person having the care or control of any dray, cart, wagon. carriage, buggy, or other wheeled vehicle, who shall allow or cause the same to be stopped on any crossing or footpath, at the intersection of any streets, or at the intersection of any street and alley, within the city limits, shall be subject to a fine of one dollar ($1) for each and every offence.
§ 4. All persons in said city riding any animal, or in charge of, or driving any horse or horses, or any other animals, in any vehicle, when approaching any regular crossing on any street, alley, or public place, shall hold in the animals and slacken their speed until such crossing is passed ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for each and every offence.
$ 5. No person in said city shall leave standing unfastened any horse, mule, or other animal, or any team of either, in harness, or attached to any wagon, carriage, dray, cart, or other vehicle, so that the same may be liable to run away ; and any person convicted under this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25)
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for every offence. This section shall not apply to draymen load- ing or unloading at the wharf or railroad depots.
§ 6. If any person shall hitch any horse or other animal without securing the same from going upon or over any side- walk within the city, or shall hitch any such animal to any shade or ornamental tree in such a manner that such animal can injure the same, he shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10).
§ 7. Any person who shall lead, ride, or drive. or cause to be led, rode, or driven, any horse, mule, or ox, or any wagon, dray. or other vehicle, upon, along, or across any sidewalk, or in any other manner injure the same. shall be subject to a fine of not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for each offence : Provided, that the occupiers or owners of lots may pass to or from their stables with their stock across the sidewalk in front, where they have no other convenient passway thereto.
§ 8. That any person in said city, without permission from the mayor or city marshal, who may fire or discharge any cannon, musket, rifle, fowling-piece. pistol, or other fire-arms, except it is done in cases of necessity, or in the performance of a public act of lawful duty, or by military companies on parade or in the discharge of duty. shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for every offence : Pro- vided, that any person wishing to discharge his gun or pistol for the purpose of cleaning or repairing it may do so under the river bank, and must discharge the load toward the water.
§ 9. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to permit any wagon, dray, or other vehicle, when not in use, to be placed or remain upon any street or alley of said city ; and every per- son violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for every offence.
§ 10. Any person or persons who shall, in said city, in any way or manner, injure or obstruct any gutter, pavement, curb- ing, or sidewalk, or cause the same to be injured or obstructed. shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence : Provided, it shall be lawful for merchants, storekeepers, and traders in said city to use and occupy four feet, and no more, of the sidewalk extending from the front of the building occupied by them, for the purpose of exposing goods, wares, and merchandise for sale.
§ 11. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or persons. in said city, to place or deposit, or allow to be placed or deposited, any stone-coal or fire-wood, or to cut, split, or saw any fire-wood, npon any sidewalk of said city ; any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for every offence : Provided, that any person may unload his or her fire-wood or other fuel in front of his or her house, shop, or store, and outside of the sidewalk in such manner as will not obstruct the free passage of the street, alley,
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or gutter, and the water along the same, but all fire-wood or other fuel deposited as aforesaid shall be removed before the expiration of two days from the time the same may be deposited. Sundays excepted : And provided further, that persons who are building may use one-half of the street in front of the lot on which the building is to be erected, in such a manner as will not obstruct the free passage of the water along the gutter.
$ 12. No person shall. in said city, keep any dog. whelp. bitch. or other animal shut up or tied up in any yard, house, or other place, which, by barking, howling, or by other noises, shall dis- turb the peace and quiet of any family, individual. or neighbor .. hood ; 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.
$ 13. It shall be unlawful for any boys or other persons, in said city, to play on or about any railroad track or depot, or in, about. or upon any railroad car or locomotive ; nor shall it be lawful for boys to jump or climb upon, or jump from any such car or train of cars while the same are in motion, nor to jump from one car to another ; and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for every offence.
$ 14. It shall not be lawful for any person to dig or remove any earth or sand from any land belonging to said city. without permission from the mayor and committee of public improve- ments first obtained so to do : and in no case shall any earth or sand be dug or removed from the said lands within three hun- dred feet of the north line of the levee ; and any person violat- ing the provisions of this section shall be prosecuted by the city attorney to the full extent of the law.
$ 15. Any person or persons who shall hereafter dig any hole or holes in the wharf, or break through the paved surface thereof, by removing any boat, or in any other manner, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).
$ 16. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to tie, or in any way fasten, any wood, timber, logs, rafts, or other obstruction to the paved portion of the wharf of said city ; 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. It is hereby made the duty of the marshal of said city to remove all timber, logs. wood, rafts. or other obstruction found at the paved portion of the wharf, as aforesaid.
$ 17. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to place or deposit any filth, ashes, shavings, rags or any other matter or substance whatever, on any part of Main Street south of First North Street : and every person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than ten dollars ($10) for every offence.
Passed April 29, 1872.
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NUMBER XVIII.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC PEACE AND MORALS.
§ I. Drunk on street, etc .- Penalty.
§ 2. Disturbances of the peace.
§ 3. Disorderly conduct. assaulting, fight- ing, etc.
§ 4. Not to engage in business or keep open house on Sunday.
§ 5. Not to engage in amusements or ex- ercises on Sunday.
§ 6. Must not disturb religions assem- blies.
§ 7. Must not disturb any lawful as- sembly.
§ 8. Must not urge dogs to fight-Pen- alty.
§ 9. Must not bathe in day-time-Pen- alty.
§ 10. Indecent exposure, lewd acts, etc. -Penalty.
§ 11. Lottery tickets, sale of prohibited -Gift enterprises prohibited.
§ 12. Horses and jacks, indecent exhibi- tion of prohibited.
§ 13. Gaming and gambling houses pro- hibited.
§ 14. Houses of ill-fame prohibited.
§ 15. Must not resist or interfere with officers-Penalty.
§ 16. Aiding and abetting others.
§ 17. Minors under the age of eighteen years of age to be arrested after 9 o'clock P. M.
§ 18. Must not carry deadly weapons.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the City of Shawneetown. That every person who shall be found drunk or intoxicated in or upon any street, alley, public square, or public place within the limits of said city, or in or upon any private premises, without the consent of the occupant, shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay not less than fifteen dollars ($15) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for every offence.
§ 2. That any person or persons who shall, within said city. make or create, or assist in making or creating, any loud or unusual noises, disorder, or tumult, or permit such noises, dis- order or tumult, to be made in or about his, her, or their house or premises, or who shall at any time disturb the peace or quiet of any street, lane, alley, neighborhood or person by loud or boisterous laughing, singing, bellowing, whooping, screaming, hallooing, scolding, tradueing, threatening, quarreling, swear- ing. cursing, challenging- to fight, uttering obscene language, or by creating false alarms. or by any other device or means whatever, shall be fined not less than three dollars ($3) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence.
§ 3. Any person or persons who shall, within said city, fight by agreement, or strike. fight, or assault any other person or persons, or commit an assault and battery upon the person of another, or who shall conduct himself or themselves in a tumultu- ous, riotous, indecent, disorderly, or offensive manner, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence.
§ 4. Any person who shall, within said city, engage in any ordinary labor, trade, or business, or keep open any house of trade. shop, or place of business or amusement, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday (works of necessity and charity excepted), shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence : Provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent the sale of medicines by druggists, nor
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the sales of victuals and provisions made to travelers, boats, or passengers thereon ; nor to prevent the conveying of passengers, or the loading or unloading of freighits ; nor to prevent the due exercise of the rights of conscience by any person who may think proper to keep any other day as a Sabbath than the first day of the week.
§ 5. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons in said city, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, to engage in the amusements or exercises of dancing, fiddling, jump- ing, drilling, skating, running foot-races, running horses, play- ing at ball, billiards, cards, marbles, or other games, wrestling, boxing, pitching quoits, fishing, hunting, or any amusements or exercises of the like nature ; and every person convicted of any of the offences enumerated in this section shall forfeit and pay not less than two dollars ($2) nor more than one hundred dol- lars ($100) for every offence.
§ 6. Any person who shall, within the limits of said city, disquiet or disturb any congregation or assembly met for pur- poses of worship, by making a noise, or by any rude, indecent, (lisorderly, boisterous, or immoral behavior, or profane discourse, within their place of worship, or so near the same as to disturb the order or solemnity of the meeting, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hun- dred dollars ($100) nor less than ten dollars ($10).
$ 7. Whoever shall, in said city, disturb or disquiet any law- ful assemblage or association of people, by rude and indecent conduct, or by any other means, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) nor less than ten dollars ($10).
§ 8. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to cause or incite dogs to fight ; and any person violating this section shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay not less than one dollar ($1) nor more than fifty dollars ($50).
§ 9. If any person. for the purpose of bathing, or for any other purpose, shall in the day-time, or during twilight, by any means, expose his naked person, within the limits of said city, he shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay not less than three dollars ($3) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for every offence.
$ 10. If any person shall, in said city, be guilty of any inde- cent or lewd acts or behavior, or shall in any public place make any indecent or immoral exhibition or exposure of his or her person. or cause or procure any person or persons to do the same in the presence or view of any other person or persons, or shall exhibit, sell, or offer to sell, or dispose of in any manner, any indecent or lewd book, picture, or other thing, or shall exhibit or perform. any indecent, immoral, or lewd play or other representation, such person shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for every offence. 6
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§ 11. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, in said city, to keep an office, room, or place for the sale or other disposition of lottery tickets ; nor shall it be lawful for any person or persons, body corporate or politic. in said city, to vend, sell or otherwise dispose of any lottery ticket or tickets ; nor shall it be lawful for any person or per- sons, in said city, to sell or dispose of, in any manner whatever, any tickets, figures, numbers, or characters for any prize, gift, present, gift-enterprise, gift-distribution, or for any thing of like name or nature, where money or other property is directly or indirectly pledged, paid, or to be pledged or paid, for a share or chance, or for participation in the same, or where numbers, figures, characters, gifts, prizes, presents, or donations are to be drawn, disposed of, or received by any person in any manner whatever ; and every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) for every offence.
§ 12. If any person shall indecently exhibit any jack or stud- horse, or other animal, or let or offer to let any such horse or jack to any mare or jennet, anywhere within the limits of said city, unless in some inclosed place, entirely out of public view, such person shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every offence.
§ 13. If any person or persons shall, in said city, set up, have, keep, or maintain any gaming house, table, room, alley. or place whatsoever, or any gambling device, either by himself, herself, servant, or other agent, at which any game of chance shall be played for money or property, or anything representing money or property, or shall suffer any such house, table, room, alley, place, or gambling device, at which any game of chance is played, to be set up, kept, or used in or about any tenement in his possession, or under his control, for the purpose of gain or profit, or shall gamble or play, or permit persons to gamble or play in, at, or upon, any such house, table, room, alley, place, or gambling device for money or property, or anything repre- senting money or property, every such person shall, upon con- viction, be fined in the sum of fifty dollars ($50) for every offence, or for each and every game of chance played in or upon any such house, table, room, alley, place, or gambling device.
§ 14. Whoever shall keep, remain at, frequent, or be found at, any house of ill-fame, bawdy-house, or house of assignation, or any other building or place wherein indecent or lewd prac- tices are indulged in or permitted, within the limits of said city, shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every offence.
§ 15. Whoever shall obstruct, resist, or interfere with, or aid, encourage or countenance another person in obstructing, resist-
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ing, or interfering with any officer of said city in the execution or performance of his official duty, or shall obstruct, resist, or interfere with any person called upon or authorized by any such officer to assist him in the discharge of his official duties, shall. upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay not less than ten dol- lars ($10) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) for every offence.
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