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SEC. 18. Every person so licensed shall keep a sign over the outside of the principal entrance from the street of the building in which the powder is kept, on which shall be printed in capitals the words, " Licensed to keep and sell Gunpowder ;" and every person owning or keeping gunpowder above the quantity of five pounds within the city shall forthwith notify the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department where the same is kept, and shall comply with any directions of said Engineer respect- ing the part of the building assigned by him for its future keep- ing or storage.
SEC. 19. No person shall keep for sale or sell any gun- powder within the city without a license from the City Council.
SEC. 20. No person, except on military duty in the public service of the United States or of this Commonwealth, shall keep, have or possess, in any building, place or vehicle, within one rod of a dwelling house, any explosive compound other than gunpowder in quantity exceeding one-fifth of a pound.
Provided, That the City Council may license any suitable
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person to keep, store and sell such compound, in accordance with the foregoing provisions.
SEC. 21. Any member of the Police or Fire Department may enter the building or premises of any person licensed to sell explosive compounds, and examine and ascertain if the laws, rules and regulations relating thereto are strictly observed, and on alarm of fire may cause the explosive compounds there de- posited to be removed or destroyed, as the case may require.
SEC. 22. The City Council may license any suitable per- son to keep for sale and sell any of the fireworks called rockets, crackers, squibs or serpents. Such licensee shall pay for the license to the City Clerk for the use of the city the sum of two dollars and such license shall continue in force until the first day of May then next ensuing, unless sooner revoked.
SEC. 23. No person shall within the city sell or offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any toy pistol in which explosive compounds are used, or of which such com- pounds form a part, without a license from the City Council ; and no person shall in any public street, public place, or within any grounds or buildings belonging to or in use of the city, use, discharge or set fire to any toy pistol, toy cannon, or any other toy in which explosive compounds are used. The City Council may license any suitable person to keep for sale and sell such toy pistols as aforesaid. Such licensee shall pay for the license to the City Clerk, for the use of the city, the sum of two dollars, and such license shall continue in force until the first day of May then next ensuing, unless sooner revoked.
SEC. 24. Camphene, Naphtha, etc. No person shall keep for sale or sell in any building within the city any camphene, naphtha, burning fluid, or other similar explosive or inflammable fluid without a license from the City Council ; said Council may grant such licenses. The licensee shall pay therefor to the City Clerk, for the use of the city, the sum of two dollars. All such licenses shall continue in force until the first day of May then next ensuing, unless sooner revoked.
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SEC. 25. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
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No. 13.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING TELEGRAPHI, TELE- PHONE, AND OTHER ELECTRIC WIRES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
SECTION 1. The City Council shall have the exclusive power to license the erection and maintenance of telegraph, telephone and other electric lines of wires within the city. Whenever they are applied to for a location for such lines they shall, if they grant the same, first determine the streets through which said line shall run, and shall then require the company or person so applying to furnish a plan of the streets so designated therefor, upon a scale of not less than 150 nor more than 200 feet to the inch ; and the City Council shall then determine and specify on said plan where each post may be located and shall thereupon issue to the party applying therefor a certificate specially enumerating the streets where the lines may run. and the location of each post thereon, as exhibited on said plan. the kind of posts, the height at which all wires must be placed, and the dimensions and location of the underground conduit, if said lines or any part thereof shall be laid under ground. Said plan and a copy of said certificate shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk; and the construction of the line shall conform thereto in every particular, and any post placed otherwise than as therein designated shall be forthwith removed. Any license granted hereunder shall be subject to the right of the city, free of charge, to place its fire alarm telegraph or other electric lines upon the posts or through the conduit so licensed to be main- tained ; and to the right of the city to license the location of lines by any other person or company upon said poles and through said conduits, upon payment to the owner thereof of a reasonable compensation, to be determined by the parties, and they failing to agree, it shall be determined by the Mayor. Whenever a location is granted upon posts already erected, a plan of the streets so traversed need not be required.
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'SEC. 2. All corporations, companies and individuals licensed to erect poles and fixtures shall first, before procedure, give to the city an agreement in writing satisfactory to the City Solic- itor, saving harmless said city against any and all claims for damages, costs, expenses or compensation for, on account of, or in any way growing out of, the erection, maintenance or use of said poles on said streets.
SEC. 3. Every such line of wire along or across streets, ways, or other public places, shall be placed underground, or at a height not less than twenty feet from the ground, except under bridges, upon suitable poles, or from building to building, except that such electrical conductors and fixtures as may be required in the construction, maintenance and operation of electrical rail- ways may be not less than eighteen feet from the ground. Every such line of wire shall be so constructed, placed and maintained as not to interfere with any other line, nor with the operation of the fire alarm telegraph ; and all unused lines of wire shall be forthwith removed. Except for street railway purposes, no more than one line of posts or one conduit shall be maintained in any street ; and no tree upon any street or other public place shall be cut or trimmed to make room for such wires, without the consent of the Commissioner of Public Works.
SEC. 4. Every employee, official or agent in the employ of any telegraph, telephone or electric company, who desires access to any premises within this city, upon business of the company, appertaining to the repairing or laying of lines over, through or along said premises, shall be furnished by the company with a certificate of his authority to act therefor, and shall not enter upon said premises without first exhibiting such certificate to the owner or occupant thereof, and receiving permission to so enter.
SEC. 5. The posts shall be kept well painted, of a uniform color, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and the name of said company shall be distinctly painted or imprinted on the cross-bar used and occupied by said company, on said posts ; and the location of any posts, when once erected, shall not be changed without the permission of the Commis- .sioner of Public Works.
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SEC. 6. The city shall have the exclusive use of the upper cross-bar, and the top of each post, free of cost, for the purpose of placing wires thereon ; said cross-bar shall be a four-pin cross-bar, of not less than five feet in length, and shall be placed at not less than three feet from the cross-bar next to it.
SEC. 7. The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department shall have the supervision of all telegraph, telephone and other electric lines of wires within the city, and shall see that all laws. and ordinances in relation thereto are enforced.
SEC. 8. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence.
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No. 15.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE WOODWARD FUND AND PROPERTY.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
SECTION 1. A Board of Managers of the Woodward Fund and Property is hereby established.
SEC. 2. Said Board shall consist of the Mayor, City Treasurer, City Clerk and Auditor of Accounts, and one citizen, not a member of the Council, to be elected by ballot by the City Council in the month of January.
SEC. 3. Said Board shall have the management of said fund and property, and exercise all the powers and duties of the government of the City of Quincy in relation thereto, as pre- · scribed by the last will and testament of Ebenezer Woodward, deceased.
SEC. 4. Said Board may make such rules and regulations. for their own government, and for the government of all subordinate officers in their department, as they deem expedient ..
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No. 17.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING STREETS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
SECTION 1. No person, unless authorized by law, shall break or dig up any part of any street or square or erect thereon any staging for building, or place thereon any lumber, brick or other building materials without a written license from the Commissioner of Public Works. Any person intending to erect or repair any building upon land abutting on a street, shall give notice to the Commissioner of Public Works, who may, at the owner's request, set apart such portion of the street as they shall deem expedient for such use. Such person shall, before the expiration of his license, remove all rubbish, and restore such street, square or park to its former condition, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Public Works. Every person so licensed shall, in writing, agree to indemnify the city against all damage or loss to the city, accruing from the doing of any act or thing under such license, and sureties may be required by the Com- missioner of Public Works, and every person who, when so licensed, shall obstruct or render unsafe any public street, square or sidewalk, shall guard the same by a proper fence or railing, and by lights during the night time, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Public Works. Such license may be revoked at any time by the Commissioner of Public Works or by the City Council.
SEC. 2. If a person shall dig a cellar, or other cavity, in the ground near to or adjoining any street, he shall, so long as the Commissioner of Public Works may require, keep a railing or fence on or near the line of such street, sufficient to protect travellers from falling into the place so dug, or being injured thereby.
SEC. 3. No person shall make or cause to be made, any aperture in or under any street or sidewalk, which can interfere
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with the rights or control of the city therein, constructing coal- holes, or receptacles for any other articles, or for light and air, or for any other purpose, without a license from the Com- missioner of Public Works ; and no person shall leave such coal-hole open or unfastened except while actually in use.
SEC. 4. No person shall place or maintain over any street or sidewalk any sign, awning, shade or other obstruction, unless the same is safely and securely supported, and is not less than eight feet from the ground at its lowest part ; and such awning, if built over a sidewalk, shall extend as far as the outside edge thereof.
SEC. 5. No person shall suffer his building to shed water upon any street or sidewalk in this city, to the injury or in- convenience of passengers, nor allow any sink water, or other impure water, to run from the house, barn or lot occupied by him or under his control into any highway or public place.
SEC. 6. No person shall place or cause to be placed or deposited, upon any street, sidewalk or other public place in this city, merchandise, ashes, shavings, house-dirt, filth, offal, or rubbish, which shall in any way obstruct and disfigure the same ; nor suffer his wood and coal to remain unnecessarily' on any · street or sidewalk. And no person shall saw or split wood, or pile the same on any sidewalk ; provided, that ashes may be placed in the streets for collection, in such manner and on such days as the Board of Health may direct.
SEC. 7. No person shall place or keep any table, stall, booth, or other structure in any street or sidewalk, nor place or keep the same in any of the public grounds of the city, for the sale of fruit or other things, without permission in writing from the city officer or board having the same in charge.
SEC. 8. No person shall climb, peel, deface or injure any ornamental or shade tree, shrub or vine growing in any of the streets or public grounds of the city, without a permit in writing from the board of officers having such street or public ground in charge ; and no person shall tie or fasten any horse, mule or team of any kind to any ornamental or shade tree, shrub or vine, or to any fence or other structure erected for the protection of
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such tree, shrub or vine, in any street or public place in the city or in any way injure or deface the same.
SEC. 9. No person shall suffer any horse, mule or team of any kind, belonging to him or in his charge, to remain standing in any street or public place in the city, not in the care. of some competent person, without being properly weighted, or securely fastened to some post or immovable thing, not prohibited in the previous section, nor suffer such horse, mule or team to go at large in any such street or public place, without a rider or driver.
SEC. 10. No person, being the owner, keeper, or having the custody of any horse, cow, or other animal, shall permit or suffer the same to pasture, with or without a keeper, upon any street, sidewalk, or any public ground in this city, or to go at large therein, nor suffer such horse, cow, or other animal to go, or remain upon any sidewalk in said city.
SEC. 11. No person shall stop with any team or carriage in or on any street in this city, in such a manner as to hinder or obstruct the travel over such street, nor at the side of, or so near to another team as to obstruct public travel.
SEC. 12. No person shall stop with any team or carriage, or place any obstruction of any kind upon any flag or stepping stone, or other foot-walk across any street in this city.
SEC. 13. No person shall ride in any carriage, or drive any horse or horses in any street in this city at a rate of speed exceeding eight miles per hour, nor in such a manner as to en- danger or unreasonably inconvenience passengers on said streets.
SEC. 14. No person shall drive any horse, cart or carriage, or wheel, push, or draw any wheelbarrow, handcart, or other vehicle, or ride any bicycle or tricycle on the sidewalk of any street of this city, except for the purpose of crossing such side- walk, in order to go in or out of some adjoining enclosure ; pro- rided, that this section shall not apply to children's or invalid's carriages propelled by hand.
SEC. 15. No person shall coast or slide down, across, or along any of the streets or sidewalks of this city, upon any sled, board, or other vehicles for coasting or sliding, except in such
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places and under such restrictions as the Commissioner of Public Works or City Council may designate and require.
SEC. 16. No person shall stand, or remain alone, or with or near others in any street in this city, in such a manner as to obstruct a free passage for passengers therein, or over any foot- way or sidewalk ; nor shall any person sit or lounge upon any fence or post in front of or enclosing any of the public grounds of this city.
SEC. 17. No person shall wilfully injure, mar, deface or destroy any fence, signboard, guideboard, awning, lamp-post, lamp, or lantern in any street or public place in this city ; and no person shall light or extinguish any public lamp in any street or public place, except by virtue of a contract with the city, or permission from the Commissioner of Public Works.
SEC. 18. No person shall, in any way, injure any of the drinking fountains and watering-troughs in the streets and public grounds of the city, nor throw or place any substance into the same.
SEC. 19. No person shall make, write, print or post any indecent or obscene marks, words, figures or signs upon any fence, building, post, tree or other object exposed to public view, nor, without a license from the Commissioner of Public Works first obtained, post up any placards, show-cards, hand-bills or posters upon any tree, post or buildings, within any street or public places in the city, or upon any buildings, structure, or land be- longing to the city.
SEC. 20. No person shall ring, or cause to be rung, any bell or use, or cause to be used any horn or other instrument to give notice of his business or calling, or to sell any articles, unless licensed by the Commissioner of Public Works.
SEC. 21. No person shall walk, stand, or lounge upon any portion of any street or public grounds in the city especially prepared and devoted by the officers in charge thereof to the growing of grass or flowers, nor in any way dig up, injure or deface the same.
SEC. 22. No person shall expose himself in swimming or bathing in the day time, in any of the ponds, streams, or waters,
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within the limits of the city, in view of spectators from any street, public ground, dwelling house, railroad or steamboat, unless properly clothed.
SEC. 23. No person shall behave himself in a rude or dis- orderly manner, nor use indecent, profane or insulting language in any street, public place, or public building in this city, nor be or remain upon any door step, portico or other projection from any such building, nor in any public hall, or entrance thereto, to the annoyance or disturbance of any person ; nor shall any per- son wilfully frighten any horse or other animal, nor engage in game, sport or amusement in any street of the city, whereby the free, safe, and convenient use thereof, by travellers thereon, shall, in any way be interrupted, or the occupants of adjoining estates unreasonably annoyed and disturbed.
SEC. 24. No person shall take hold of, or ride upon any carriage or sleigh, or other vehicle, while the same is passing through any street or publie place of the city, without the con- sent of the owner or driver thereof.
SEC. 25. In case of fire, the Fire Department, its officers and members, with their horses, machines, and equipments, shall have the right of way in the public streets and ways of the city, as against all other persons, vehicles, or animals, and no person shall hinder or obstruct them in the free passage therein, nor drive over any hose belonging to the Fire Department, with any carri- age, or other vehicle, nor remove, injure, or in any manner disturb the members thereof, their horses, machines, hose or equipments, when stationed, located, or laid in any such public street, except under the direction of the officer in command thereat.
SEC. 26. No person shall move any building through any street in the city, unless by authority of a license from the Commissioner of Public Works, and under such restrictions as said Commissioner may see fit to prescribe.
SEC. 27 The City Council may order all buildings front- ing on any public street or way to be numbered in regular suc- cession, and may, in such order, determine the character of the numbers to be affixed, and the place, order and succession
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thereof. The owner or occupant of any building, subject to such order, shall, within thirty days after being notified of the same, comply therewith.
SEC. 28. No person shall fire or discharge any gun or pistol, or other firearms, in or across any of the streets or public places within the city ; but this section shall not apply to the use of such weapons at any military exercise or review, under the authority of a commissioned officer of the militia, nor in the lawful defence of the person, family or property of any citizen, or in the performance of any duty required by law, nor to any person firing a salute by leave of the Commissioner of Public Works.
SEC. 29. The owner or person having the care of any building so located, abutting upon or near to any public street or way, that snow or ice may fall from the roof thereof, shall cause all snow and ice to be removed from said roof within twenty-four hours after the same shall cease falling or forming.
SEC. 30. Whenever the word "street" or "streets" is used in this ordinance, it shall be understood as meaning to include lanes, alleys, courts, public squares, and sidewalks, unless other- wise expressed.
SEC. 31. No person shall sing or play or perform on any musical instruments in the streets or public places of the City of Quincy, except in connection with a funeral, military parade or a procession of a political, civic or charitable organization, for which a police escort is provided, unlicensed thereto by the Commissioner of Public Works.
SEC. 32. Whoever drops or lets fall or permits or allows to drop or fall, upon any way or highway of the city, from any wagon, cart or vehicle, any piece of stone or granite, or other article of such a size or character as may endanger public travel, unless the same be immediately removed from the limits. of the way or highway, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than twenty dollars for each offence.
SEC. 33. Whoever violates a provision of any ordinance of the city, shall, unless other provision is expressly made, be liable to a penalty of not more than twenty dollars for each offence.
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No. 18.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING SALARIES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
SEC. 1. The compensation to be paid the several officers mentioned in this section, for each municipal year, shall be fixed at the annual rates herein set forth, and shall be payable in equal monthly instalments, from the appropriations made for the payment of the salaries of city officers, to wit :
City Treasurer
$1200 00
City Solicitor
700 00
City Auditor 600 00
City Physician
300 00
City Messenger
250 00
City Clerk
1200 00
the fees and emoluments of the office to be paid into the city treasury.
Commissioner of Public Works 2000 00
he to furnish his horse and carriage, and pay for its keeping.
Tax Collector 600 00
and five per cent. on all single poll taxes col- lected before the first day of January.
Overseer of the Poor
400 00
and his expenses incurred in visiting the poor outside of the city, to be paid by the city.
Chief Engineer of Fire Department
400 00
Clerk of Council .
200 00
Principal Assessor
600 00
Six Assistant Assessors, each
350 00
Three members of the Board of Health, each
150 00
Clerk to Board of Health 50 00
Inspector of Milk
150 00
Inspector of Animals and Provisions 300 00
Clerk of Committees, (Council)
300 00
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Inspector of Plumbing, $3.00 per building requiring plumbing.
SEC. 2. The compensation to be paid the several officers mentioned in this section shall be fixed at the sum herein set forth and paid from the appropriations made for the payment of the salaries of city officers, to wit :
Four Registrars of Voters, each
100 00
per annum
Sealer of Weights and Measures
15 00
Ward clerks
7 50
per
day
Deputies
1 50
66
Wardens
7 50
66
Deputies
1 50
66
Inspectors
7 50
66
66
Deputies
1 50
66
.
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No. 20.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING £ THE GRADE OF CELLARS.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
SEC. 1. Before the construction of any cellar is commenced a notice in writing shall be sent to the Commissioner of Public Works.
SEC. 2. No cellar shall hereafter be built or dug, the bot- tom of which is below a grade approved by the Commissioner of Public Works.
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No. 21.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE INSPECTION AND SALE OF MILK.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
SEC. 1. The Mayor shall annually, on or before the first Monday in February, appoint an Inspector of Milk, who shall be a resident of Quincy, and who shall hold his office one year from the first Monday in February of the current year and until his successor is appointed. He shall receive such compensation as the City Council may determine.
SEC. 2. He shall keep an office and books for the purpose of recording the names and places of business of all persons en- gaged in the sale of milk within the city. He may enter all places where milk is stored or kept for sale and all carriages used for the conveyance of milk, and when he has reason to believe that any milk found by him is adulterated he shall take specimens thereof and cause the same to be analyzed or otherwise to be satisfactorily tested, and shall make a record of the result of such analysis or test and preserve such record as evidence.
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