People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 35. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 35.

Show Lieense. An Ordinance Relative to licensing and regulating certain extraordinary trades and establishments. (Ordained and established June 22, 1896.) Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person who shail exhibit in said City, for payment or reward, charged, demanded or received, any theatrical performance, any show of puppets, wax figures or animals, any display of tumbling feats, rope or wire dancing, or sleight of hand, any circus, natural or artificial curiosity, deception or representation, or any musicial concert, swing or any display or performance of the same general description, without license therefor, made out, attested, signed and sealed according to the provisions of the next ensuing section, shall, tor every such offense, on conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than One ($1.00) Dollar nor more than Fifty ($50.00) dollars, with costs of suit. Sec. 2. All licenses for such exhibitions shall be made out and attested by said Clerk, signed by said Mayor, and sealed with the seal of said city, and shall state the name or names of the party applying therefor, with the intended purpose and expected continuance thereof; and shall, also, in case of any theatrical performance, circus, menagerie, or show of wild animals, designate the building or piace of holding the same; and said Clerk may demand and receive from every party obtaining such license the sum of One(sl. 00) dollar as his fee therefor. Sec. 3. Said Clerk shall issue such license on receiving from the party applying therefor the receipt of said Treasurer for the sum charged therefor, as fixed in the fifth section of this ordinance, or on the order or resolution of said Council, and not otherwise. Sec. 4. No provision in this ordinance shall prevent the giving of any concert, or the conducting of any exhibition not indecorous or Immoral, and the net profits of which shall be devoted exclusively to an/y religious, charitable, literary, or scientific purpose, or to the benfitof any fire company in said City. Sec. 5. The amounts to be paid for such licenses shall, until otherwise ordered, be fixed as follows, viz: One ($1.00) dollar per day or night Five ($5.00) Dollars per week, Twelve (sl2) for six months or Twenty (S2O) per year forraance. held within doors; Twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per day or night for any circus or menagerie, and dollars per day or Teo ($10.00) for any show or performance other than a circus, menagerie or theatrieal performance, and Ten ($10.00) Dollars per day for a circus alone. Sec. 6. Any person convicted of having occupied any street, square or common belonging to said city for the performance or exhibition on of any circus or jnenagerie shall be fined therefor in the sum of not less than One nor more than Twenty-five dollars. Sec. 7. Auy person convicted of having interrupted or disturbed any such exhibition, or any spectator or auditor thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than One ($1.00) Dollar nor more than Ten ($10.00) dollars, with costs of suit. Sec. 8. Said Council, may at any session thereof, by order or resolution, except auy party being a bona fide resident in said city from the necessity of obtaining such license, as pre-requisite to the holding of any musical concert or other musical performance, to be held exclusively by

such party, but not otherwise. Sec. 9. This ordinance shall be in force two weeks from and after its passage and publication in the Ordinances of the City or Rensselaer.