Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — ORDINANCE NO 01. [ARTICLE]

ORDINANCE NO 01.

An Ordinance Providing for the Removal of all Hitching Rings, Hitching Posts, Sign Posts, Awning Posts, Plank Over the Gutters, and to Prevent the Throwing of Rubbish in Certain Parts of Washington street, in the Town of Rensselaer, and Providing Penalties foe Violations Thereof. Section I. Be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of the Town or Rensselaer, in the State of Indiana, in regular session on the first Monday of September, 1881, that it shall be unlawful for ahy property owner, agent or tenant to retain in or near the sidewalk on either side of Washington street, between Front and Cullen streets, in the town of Rensselaer, any hitehing rings, hitohing posts, sign er awaing posts, or to pat in, or cause to be pnt in, any , such rings or poets, .or retain any plank er other oovering over the gutters or ditches, or put, or cause to be put, any plank or other covering over such gutters or ditohss, or to throw, or cause to bis thrown, any old tin eans. straw, paper, bones, or any rubbish of any kind in said part of said street; provided, thet no port of this ordinance shall conflict with any ordinance authorising the construction «4f crossings on said street; provided further, that this ordinance shall not prohibit the construction of hitehing posts and rails or posts and chains on the southerly side of said street, in front of the Public Square. Section 11. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, npon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than one ($1.00) dollar nor more than five ($5.00) dollars. Section 111. Whereat, an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this ordinanoe, the same shall, thsrefore, taks effect and bo in force from and after

its psssage.

JOSEPH H. WILLEY,

Attest; Pres’t Board. Jambs C. Mohoan, Clerk.