Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — Town Ordinances. [ARTICLE]

Town Ordinances.

An ordinance to enforce the provisions of existing ordinances in relation to sidewalks and to extend the time for the completion of the same and prescribing the duties of the Marshal in relation thereto. Section 1. Be It ordained by the Board of Trustees of the town of Rensselaer, that the time for the completion of sidewalks ordered to be built by existing ordinances, be and is hereby extended to the Ist day of July, 1870. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, that if said sidewalks, or any part thereof, remain unfinished on said Ist day .of July, 1870, it shall be the duty of the Marshal to have the same completed according to the form of the ordinances and laws in relation thereto now in force. . Sec. 8. Be it farther ordained that the Marshal shall, in relation to sidewalks, perform all the duties of street commissioner, under existing ordinances. Passed in council, April 4th, 1870. JOSHUA HEALEY, Attest: Pres. Board of Trustees. F. J. Pubcupile, Town Clerk.

An ordinance in relation to working the streets of Rensselaer. Section 1. Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of the town of Rensselaer, that the Marshal of the town shall call out all able bodied male persons who are residents of the town and over the age of 21 and under 50 years, during two days in the month of May or June, or as soon thereafter as practicable, of each year, and shall require each of such persons to work on the streets In the town eight hours each day and to furnish in such labor any tool the Marshal may direct, if the demand therefor be a reasonable one. Sec. 2. Any person liable to work on the streets may be exempted therefrom by paying to the Marshal one dollar and fifty cents for each day he is liable to work thereon, and the Marshal is authorized to employ some person or persons to work out such money at the rate of one .dollar and fifty cents per day, or failing so to do, he shall, by the Ist day of November, in each year.pay over all such money into the town treasury to be expended as the Board of Trustees may direct, for the benefit of the streets. Sec. 8. In all masters not herein expressly provided for, the Marshal may perform all the duties and exercise all the powers of road supervisors under the laws of the State of Indiana, and he and all persons liable to work on the streets shall be governed by the same rules and regulationsand subject to the same penalties as apply to supervisors and persons liable! to work on public highways. < Sec. 4. The Marshal with the provided for by this ordinance smll j>lace and keep the streets, crossings in as good °f such labor will admit of. the hit Mondays in July, September and November, in each year, make a full and succinct report, under oath to the Board of Trustees, of his proceedings, showing the names of all persons liable to, or who have performed labor on the streets, theamount of commutation money received, from whom received, how and to whom the sum has been expended, and the balance on hands. He shall be allowed for his services, to be paid out of the general fund of the town on the order of the Board of Trustees, the sum of that he may be actually employed in calling out laborers or in superintending work on the streets, provided that he shall not be entitled to charge or receive any compensation whatever for two days of such services in each year. Sec. 5. The treasurer of the town shall receive from the treasurer of the county the road fund due the town and shall pay the same out only upon the order of the Board of Trustees. Sec. 6. When necessary the Marshal may with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees make contracts pertaining to the improvement of the streets, to be paid for out of the road fund in the hands of the treasurer, but in no case shall any such contract be made or any of such road funds expended until the labor provided for in the Ist Section of this ordinance shall have been as far as practicable exhausted. unless it be for procuring necessary material for bridges or street crossings. Sec. 7. All ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed: and as an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this ordinance, therefore the same shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Done in special meeting this 9th day of May. 1870. C. R. HOUGH. Attest: President, pro tern. Wm. L. McConnell, Clerk. Two good dwelling houses for sale in Rensselaer. Apply to Hammond & Spitler.