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be found upon the lot, or ground, possession, or in the building of any person or persons, the city marshal shall give notice to the occupant, or owner of the premises, to cause such nuisance to be corrected or removed within the time specified in said notice, which shall not be more than twenty-four hours; and should such occupant or owner of the property fail or refuse to correct or remove such nuisance in the time prescribed, the city marshal shall have the same corrected or removed at the expense of the city. 4th, For every failure, refusal or neglect by any occupant or owner of any premises, to remedy or remove any nuisance existing thereon, when notified thereof, as above directed, by the city marshal, such occupant or owner shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of not less than one, nor more than one hundred dollars, as well as all expenses incurred in removing such nuisance; to be recovered by the city as other fines, penalties, or forfeitures. 5th, The city marshal shall at the end of each month render to the city council of said city an account of all expenses for cleaning the city, and all such expenditures as he may have made on behalf of said city. 6th, The city marshal shall patrol the city, and endeavor, as far as in his power to prevent all viola- tions of the ordinances of the city, or the laws of the land. He shall give information to the recorder of all vagrant, disorderly, or suspicious persons, lurking about the city without any visible means of support. 7th, That for each failure or refusal to discharge the several duties enjoined upon him by the charter and ordinances, said marshal shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay said city not less than one, nor more than twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered as other forfeitures.
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the city marshal to collect and pay over all fines and forfeitures, jailor's fees adjudged to be paid by the recorder of the city of Richmond, immediately after the same shall be collected, to the city treasurer, and also to collect and pay said recorder, city attor- ney, witnesses and jurymen, their fees whenever called on after the same has been collected. Any failure to comply with this provision shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and for each offense he shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hun- dred dollars, to be recovered as other fines and forfeitures.
SEC. 5. The city marshal shall hereafter be subject to removal from office for incompetency or neglect of his official duty, by a two-thirds' vote of the city council of said city, and in case of such removal, the vacancy shall be filled as is now provided by the laws and ordinances of said city.
SEC. 6. The salary of the city marshal shall be, in addition to the commissions and costs now allowed him by the laws and ordinances of said city, four hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, in full pay- ment for his services, for himself and deputies.
SEC. 7. That said city marshal shall make a settlement with the city council at each and every regulary meeting thereof, and with the city treasurer on the first secular day of each and every month, and that upon said settlement with the city treasurer, he shall pay into the city treasury all moneys then in his hands belonging to the city, and take triplicate ยท receipts therefor, one to be filed with the city recorder, one with his set- tlement with the city council, to be received as a voucher on said settle- ment, one to be retained by the marshal.
SEC. 8. That the city marshal shall not directly or indirectly receive
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from any person or persons, firm, company or corporation whatever, any warrant or warrants for a greater amount than the indebtedness of the city to the party or parties offering said warrants, and shall upon each and every settlement with the city council exhibit in a written statement, duly sworn to by said city marshal, a full list of all warrants received as afore- said, and not previously in like manner herein reported, the names of par- ties from whom received, and the amounts received from each party.
SEC. 9. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be, and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. 10. This ordinance to be in force from and after its publication. Approved November 21, 1878. GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor. W. C. PATTON, Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE TIME OF CLOSING BUSINESS HOUSES AND THE DUTIES OF THE CITY MARSHAL IN RESPECT THERETO.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows :
SECTION 1. That all business houses within the city of Richmond shall be closed by the owners, proprietors, or tenants thereof, or the agents of such owners, proprietors, or tenants having such business houses under their charge, between the hours of 10 o'clock P. M. and 4 o'clock A. M., from the first day of April to the first day of October of each year; and between the hours of 11 o'clock P. M. and 6 o'clock A. M., from the first day of October to the first day of April of each year.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the city marshal to see that the provis- ions of the preceding section be enforced.
SEC. 3. Any owner, proprietor, or tenant of any business house in said city, or agent of such owner, proprietor, or tenant, having control of such business house, who shall fail or neglect, or refuse to comply with the requirements of the first section of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding ninety dollars, nor less than one dollar and costs.
SEC. 4. This ordinance to take effect from and after its publication. Approved December 21, 1874. JOHN T. QUIRK, Mayor. Attest: A. J. RIFFE, Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows:
SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the city council of the city of Richmond, on or before the third Monday in April of each year, to cause to be published in some newspaper published in said city, a full, complete and detailed statement of all moneys received and expended by the said city during the fiscal year next preceding such publication, and on what account received and expended, classifying each receipt and expenditure under its appropriate head.
SEC. 2. This ordinance to take effect from and after its publication. Approved November 21, 1878. GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor. Attest: W. C. PATTON, Clerk.
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AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO LICENSES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows :
SECTION 1. No person or company of persons shall exercise the busi- ness, trade or vocation of an auctioneer, peddler, broker, or pawn-broker; or shall any person or company of persons open or offer for exhibition, any show or amusement of any kind, or keep for public use any ten pin, or ball alley, nor offer for sale any chance or ticket in any gift enterprise, nor sell or give away any intoxicating or malt liquors, within the city of Richmond, without first having obtained a license, and paid the tax in the manner herein prescribed.
SEC. 2. All licenses shall be granted for the term of six months, (except gift enterprises, shows, amusements, auctioneers and peddlers, which shall be licensed as hereinafter provided,) and no longer, commenc- ing with the first day of January in each year, and subject to renewal every six months thereafter, except upon the first application of any per- son or company of persons for a license required, such licenses shall be granted from the time of application to the first day of January or July, next succeeding, as the case may be, and the tax thereon shall be in pro- portion to the tax for six months. Applications shall be made by each person or company of persons wishing to exercise the business or voca- tion for which a license is required, to the city recorder, who shall prepare the same, and deliver them to the city collector, who shall receive and collect the same.
SEC. 3. The following shall be the rate of license tax: Upon every keeper of a ten pin or ball alley, the sum of forty dollars for every six months; upon shows and amusements as follows: circuses or menageries, for each day exhibition, fifty dollars, and upon every side show traveling with the same, five dollars; negro minstrel exhibitions, concerts, sleight of hand performances, puppet shows, rope dancing and all other kinds of amusements, the sum of five dollars for each exhibition; theatres or the- atrical performance, five dollars for each performance or exhibition, or fifty dollars per month; gift enterprises or any like business in which prizes or gifts are distributed by chance, shall each pay the sum of fifty dollars per month; every pawn broker shall pay fifty dollars for every six months; every auctioneer shall pay one dollar and fifty cents per day, or ten dollars for every six months, and when any person shall keep a regu- lar auction room, the license shall be twenty-five dollars for every period of six months; every peddler or person selling or offering to sell goods or merchandise, of any description, in said city, without having a fixed and permanent location therein, shall pay a license tax of two dollars and fifty cents per day, or twenty-five dollars for every six months, if his business be conducted on foot, and five dollars per day or fifty dollars for every six months, if he uses a wagon or any vehicle to convey such goods around; each broker or company of brokers, including produce-and merchandise brokers, and bill brokers, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars for every six months; every person who shall keep a dram shop or tippling house, or who keeps for sale, or suffers to be drank upon his premises, intoxicating or malt liquors in quantities less than one gallon, shall pay a license tax of fifty dollars for every period of six months: Provided, how- ever, that nothing contained in this ordinance shall be construed so as to require druggists and apothecaries to take out a license to sell intox-
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icating or malt liquors in quantities less than one gallon, for selling liquors to fill prescriptions for the sick, made by any regular practicing physician.
SEC. 4. No license issued under the provisions of this ordinance, shall be construed so as to authorize any person or persons to sell or give away any intoxicating or malt liquors to any minor or habitual drunkard, and any person or persons convicted of any such act, shall in addition to the penalty otherwise provided by law, forfeit his or their license, which may be so declared in the court where such conviction is had, and all licenses are granted with this expressed provision.
SEC. 5. Application for license to keep a dram shop should be made to the city council, by petition, and shall state where the dram shop shall be kept.
SEC. 6. Every applicant for such license shall, at the time of his appli- cation to the city council, deliver a statement in writing, verified by affida- vit, of the amount of liquors received at his stand within six months next preceding the date of such statement; on which amount there shall be levied and collected an ad valorem tax for city purposes, of the same amount as paid by merchants on merchandise.
SEC. 7. Before such license shall be granted, the council shall require the person applying therefor to give bond, with sufficient security, to be approved by the city council, in the sum of one thousand dollars, condi- tioned that the person obtaining such license shall keep at all times an orderly house, and that he will not sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of, or suffer the same to be done about his premises, any intoxicating liquors, in any quantity, to any minor, without the consent of the parent, guardian, or master of such minor.
SEC. S. In no case shall the license be delivered to any dram-shop keeper, until he shall produce the receipt of the collector showing that the tax has been paid.
SEC. 9. Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty, nor more than ninety dollars, before the city recorder, who shall have jurisdiction of every such violation.
SEC. 10. The license shall be signed by the clerk, for which he shall receive a fee of fifty cents; and in no case shall such license be transferred or assigned.
SEC. 11. Licenses granted under the provision of this ordinance shall be as near as practicable in the form following, viz:
"I, ... . ..... , recorder of the city of Richmond, Missouri, to all who shall see these presents, send greeting:
Know ye, that whereas, .... , of said city, on the .... day of .... , A. D. 18 .. , paid to the city collector, the sum of dollars, being the license tax for the business hereinafter mentioned, therefore the said .... , is hereby authorized to .... for the period of .... from the .... day of .
A. D. 18 .. , subject to the ordinances and laws of the city of Rich- mond, Missouri.
Given under my hand this day of .... , 18. . C. D. ... , City Recorder."
And the city collector shall endorse upon each license, "Granted this .... day of .... , A. D., 18 ..
B. C. , City Collector."
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SEC. 12. Every person and company of persons who exercise or attempt to carry on any business, trade, or auction for which a license is required by the provisions of this ordinance, open or offer for exhibition any show, or amusement of any kind, or keep for public use any ten pin or ball alley, or offer for sale any ticket or chance in any gift enterprise, or keep any tippling-house or dram-shop, or sell or give away any intoxi- cating or malt liquors in quantities less than one gallon, within the city of Richmond, without having first paid and obtained a license therefor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not less than five, nor more than ninety dollars, with costs of suit for every such offense.
SEC. 13. The fee for issuing each license shall be fifty cents, which shall be paid the recorder by the party applying for the same, on his application for license, and the recorder shall not prepare any license until said fee be paid.
SEC. 14. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the pro- visions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SEC. 15. This ordinance to take effect from and after its publication. Approved November 21, 1878. GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor. W. C. PATTON, Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE LETTING OF CONTRACTS.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows :
SECTION 1. All permanent improvements, of whatever character, which may be contracted by the city of Richmond, shall be let out to the lowest responsible bidder, before any such work shall be authorized or commenced, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prevent the repair of streets, avenues, alleys, culverts, buildings, or other city property, so far as may be necessary for their pre- servation when such repairs shall have been ordered to be made by the city council.
SEC. 2. Whenever the city council may contemplate any improvement or work, as provided in the preceding section, and shall order that pro- posals to do the required work be advertised for, it shall be the duty of the city recorder to advertise for at least twenty days, in some newspaper printed in the city, that sealed proposals will be received in his office, dur- ing that space of time, for doing the work in contemplation, giving a gen- earal description of the work, and giving notice that full plans and specifi- cations shall have been furnished by the city attorney, at or prior to the the time of ordering such advertisement for proposals. Such notice shall also contain the statement of the fact that the city reserves the right to reject any or all proposals.
SEC. 3. Proposals to do public work, shall contain full and explicit statements of prices of each and every part of work to be done, with des- cription of quality, quantity and price of all material to be used, price of labor, and number of laborers employed, and the time in which the work will be completed, and terms of payment, so that the city council can easily determine the cost of the work contemplated, and the time required for its completion.
SEC. 4. The recorder shall note on the back of each proposal the time
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of receiving the same, and shall file the same in his office for reference. No proposal shall be filed by him unless it is securely sealed, and all such proposals shall have an endorsement on the back, " Proposals for public - work," and directed to the city council. No proposals shall be withdrawn from the recorder, or the seal broken by any one, until the meeting of the city council to examine the same.
SEC. 5. After the time shall have expired for receiving proposals, the city council shall convene and examine all proposals made, and shall award the contract to the lowest bidder, provided, if all such proposals are deemed too high, the city council may reject all.
SEC. 6. The city council shall require any person or persons whose bid may be successful, to give bond with good security, to be approved by said council, conditioned for the faithful performance of such work and contract, and in default of providing such bond within some time specified by them, such bid or bids shall be rejected.
SEC. 7. Whenever any contract shall be awarded and bond filed, as herein provided, the city attorney shall draw up the terms of each contract in duplicate, which said contract shall embody all the particulars specified in the proposals, and shall further bind the contractor to perform the work in a good and workmanlike manner. Such contracts shall be signed in duplicate by the mayor, under the seal of the city, and the contractor, under their hands and seals. One copy of such contracts shall be deliv- ered to the contractor, and the other held in the office of the city recorder.
SEC. 8. No such work shall be received or paid for until it shall have been examined by the committee of improvements of the city council, and shall have been approved by them as constructed according to contract, and these conditions shall be embraced in every contract entered into.
SEC. 9. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this are hereby repealed.
SEC. 10. This ordinance to be in force from and after its publication. Approved December 21st, 1874. J. T. QUIRK, Mayor. Attest: A. J. RIFFE, Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE PAYMENT OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows:
SECTION 1. Whenever the city of Richmond, shall become liable to any person, in any sum of money, the payment of which is not otherwise provided for, the claimant shall make out a detailed account thereof and shall then present the same to the city council, who shall carefully examine the same, and if in their opinion the account is correct and should be paid by law, they should allow the same, and the city recorder shall endorse on such accounts the allowance thereof, and a warrant shall be issued by the mayor, countersigned by the city recorder, in favor of such claimant, pay- able out of the city treasury.
SEC. 2. The city council may refer any claim so presented to them for payment to the committee of claims for examination and adjustment, but all such claims shall be reported back to the city council for approval and final action.
SEC. 3. The city treasurer shall keep a book in which shall be kept a
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correct record and list of all warrants, presented to him for payment, noting the number of the warrant, time of presentation, amount for which drawn, and in favor of whom payable, and shall pay such warrants in the order they are thus presented and registered for payment, such payment to be made out of the general fund of the city.
SEC. 4. Whenever there shall be any money in the city treasury, and warrants registered for payment, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to tack up in some conspicuous place in the office of the city council a list of such warrants next to be paid, and for which he has money in the trea- sury, giving the name of the person to whom payable, number and amount of warrant, and notifying the holder thereof to present such warrant or warrants for payment, and any warrant which shall not be presented for payment within twenty days from the time the same shall be posted, shall be stricken from its place in the registry, and the money appropriated to the payment of the next warrant or warrants in the order in which they occur on the registry; provided, that all warrants that may thus lose their order of payment, shall be re-registered for payment at any time as if they were new warrants, but the city shall not be held liable for any interest or damages on such warrants from and after its being posted for payment.
SEC. 5. Such public list of warrants to be paid shall be renewed from time to time as there may be money on hand for the payment of any war- rant or warrants, so as to keep the warrant holders accurately notified of the time of payment of their warrants.
SEC. 6. Any city treasurer who shall pay any warrant, out of the order of its payment, as shown by the register of warrants, and as herein provided for, or who shall fail to keep a record of warrants as herein set forth, or who shall fail to post any warrants for payment, as and when the same shall be entitled to payment, as provided for in the sections next preceding, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars, and not more than ninety dollars, and costs for every such offense.
SEC. 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this are hereby repealed; Provided, however, that all warrants now registered for payment with the city treasurer, shall be paid in the order in which they now are registered, the same as if originally registered under this ordin- ance, and shall in all respects be so treated, and such warrants as may hereafter be recognized, shall be registered in order, commencing next after the last warrant heretofore registered for payment.
SEC. 8. This ordinance to take effect from and after its publication. Approved December 21, 1878. GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor.
Attest: W. C. PATTON, Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE CITY TREASURER.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows:
SECTION 1. On Tuesday after the first Monday in April of each year there shall be elected a city treasurer, who shall hold his office for one year, and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.
SEC. 2. He shall give bond in such sum as the city council may require with approved security, conditioned for the faithful performance of his official duties.
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SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the city treasurer to receive and keep the money of the city, and to pay out the same on warrants drawn by the mayor, or other officers authorized by ordinance to draw them, in the manner and form prescribed by ordinance.
SEC. 4. In case of death, resignation or removal from office of the city treasurer, the mayor, with the approval of the council, shall have power to appoint a city treasurer for the residue of the term, until the next gen- eral election of city officers.
SEC. 5. The foregoing ordinance to take effect and be in force from and after its publication.
Approved November 21, 1878.
Attest: W. C. PATTON, Clerk.
GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO CITY RECORDER.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows :
SECTION 1. On Tuesday after the first Monday in April of each year, there shall be elected a city recorder, who shall hold his office for one year, and, until his successor is duly qualified.
SEC. 2. He shall be ex-officio clerk of the city council. He shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the council, record in a separate book all ordinances and resolutions appropriating money, keep a record of all offi- cial acts of the mayor, and when necessary attend them; he shall keep and preserve in his office the common seal of the city, and all records, public papers and documents not properly belonging to any other office, and perform such other duties as the council may direct.
SEC. 3. As recorder he shall preside in the city court, and have the same jurisdiction as a justice of the peace, within and for the limits of the city. He shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all cases arising under any ordinances of the city, subject, however, in all cases to an appeal to the circuit court of Ray county, and every such appeal shall be granted as pro- vided by the charter and ordinances of this city.
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