People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sec 1. Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That the Trustees of the School corporation of the City of Rensselaer be and the same are hereby ordered and required to make a report of their official actions and an exhibit of the financial condition of the said school corporation to the Common Council of said City, at the first meeting in August in each year, and that they shall present such report to said Council at its first regular meeting after the date aforesaid. Sec. 2. If the said board shall fail so to report, as herein provided, each member thereof shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not to exceed Five (15.00) dollars. Sec. 3. This Ordinance shall be in force two weeks from and after its publication in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer.

ORDINANCE NO. 30. School Property. An Ordinance Protecting school property in the City of Rensselaer. (Ordained and Established June 22nd, 1896.) Sec. 1. Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person who shall cut, break, deface, or other wise injure any part of any school house being in or belonging to the City of Rensselaer, or the furnture thereof, or who shall intentionally break any glass or sash in the windows of said school houses, or who shall cut break orotherwise injure, or destroy any tree growing on grounds belonging to the City, and surrounding said school house, or who shall break or destroy any tree box or boxes protec ting said trees, pr who shall injure in any way the fences or gates inclosing said school-houses and grounds, shall, on conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than, Five. ($5.00) Dollar# nor more than Fifteen (#15.00) dollars, and,, if sn<oh p#rqon so convicted be a minor, said parent pr guardian- > •»force,&VO, and after in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer. '