People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 34. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 34.

Assignation Houses. An Ordinance to prevent vice and immorality within the City of Rensselaer. (Ordained and established June 22, 1896.) Sec. 1 Be ir Ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensseladr: That all persons owning, occupying or controlling any hotel, inn, boarding house or other building within the corporate limits of said city, and permitting or allowing the same, or any part thereof, to be used or occupied by persons for the purpose of illicit sexual intercourse, shall be deemed a keeper of a house or assignation, and upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than Five ($5.00) Dollars nor more than Twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. Sec. 2. Be it further Ordained by th£ Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person owning, occupying or controlling any hotel, inn, boarding house or other building within said City, and who shall knowingly bring thereto any woman of ill-repute for chanty for the purpose of illicit sexual intercourse, or who shall allow any such woman to remain about his or her house, though not having brought her thereto for the purpose of illicit sexual intercourse, or who shall allow or permit any woman to remain about his hotel, inn or boarding house, knowing that she or they are having illicit intercourse, or of having good reason to believe that such a woman or women is or are having illicit sexual intercourse in or about said house, shall upon conviction therefor for either of said offenses, be fined in any sum not less than Five (SS.OJ) DjHars nor more than Twenty five ($25.00) dollars. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained by the Common Council of said City; That any person or persons owning, occupying or controlling any hotel, inn or boarding-house within said city, and shall keep any woman or women thereat for any purpose whatever, and shall allow or permit illicit sexual intercourse by such woman or women with other persons, or who shall have good reason to believe that such woman or women is or are having illicit sexual intercourse, and failing to expel such woman or women from such hotel, inn or boarding-house, shall, upon conviction therefor, be fined in any sum not less than Five ($5.00) nor more than Twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be in force two weeks from and after its passage and publication in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer.