Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — The City Council. [ARTICLE]

The City Council.

The City Council has been in session every night this week, until 11 o’clock working on a full set of city ordinances. Up to Tuesday night 17 of them had been adopted and 28 or more were to be considered. When all are adopted they will be published in book form. Some of the most important points of the ordinances already adopted, are here noted. The- bicycle and fast driving ordinance, was amended by striking out the provision requiring bikes to be belled. Peddlers are to be taxed $1 per day license. People selling their own produce, and milkmen and bakers are excepted. Street fakirs of all kinds, quack doctors, auction store men, and all that ilk are taxed 85 per day. Saloon licenses are raised to the limit, 8250 per year. It applies to present saloonists for what time their licences have yet to run. Draymen, hackmen, freighters and all the rest of that inoffensive bro-ther-hood, will have to pay a license of 85 per year. One day men $1 per day; or 82 per week. Billiards and pool tables and all kinds of games, like chuckluck, wheels of fortune, “Old Hi” and the rest, 85 per day, 810 per year. Teams hitched to vehicles must not be left untied. Buildings not to be moved not building material in streets without permission. » Cellar doors on streets not to be left open after dark. Gates not to swing outward. Horses or other “critters” not to be tied to shade trees. Good, healthy fines are attached to all these ordinances for their violation. In short, it is evident that the Council is getting out a set of ordinances which, when in force, will soon demonstrate the wisdom changing from town to city government.