People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 39. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 39.

Dangerous Amuseynewts. An Ordinance to prohibit certain dangerous amusements. (Ordained and established June 22nd, 1896.) Sec. 1. Be i„ ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana: That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to throw and catch or to throw any ball, stone, clod board, stick or any other substance whatever, on any street, alley or sidewalk of s r aid City, either out of the hands of such person or persons, or from a sling or any other thing used for throwing of missiles; and every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be fiued in any sum not less than One nor more than Ten dollars. Sec, 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to play ball or explode any fire crackers, paper caps, toy pistols or fire works of any desejiption on any street bordering on Blocks Three (3) Four (4) Nine (9) Fourteen (14) and Fifteen in ihe Original Plat of the City and any person violating thts this section shall be fined not less thau One .nor more than Ten Dollars. Sec, 3. Whereas : An emergency exists, this' ordinance shall be in force from and after its publication according to law.