Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-05-16
CRDINANCE-NO. IL.

An Ordinance relative to Flrc-Arms ana DIVINE
EBIG il ordained by the President and
ID Trustees Of he village of Souhporta las follows
SECTION |. That it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons to shoot or discharge any firearms,
within the corporate limits of said village under the
penalty of one dollar for the first offence, and two
dollars for each subsequent offence, to be sued Tor
and collected IN an action Of debt before any court
having Jurisdiction; caid fine to accrue to the bene-
TIT OF the corporation.
SEC 2 The foregoing section shall not be so
construed to prohibit the discharge OF cannon and
firearms on days Of public festivals and celebrations
nor to prohibit manufacturers and repalrcrs OF tire
arms from di5chargng such pieces as they or either
of them may repair or manufacture for the purpose
of sighting the same, provided that hcence for
such purposes be first obtained from the President
and Recorder
SEC. 3. Il shall be tie duty OF the Marshall to
cause to be brought before proper tribunal, all
persons who shall violate the provisions OF the two
preceding sections.
STC. i. No person or persons shall suffer or per-
NIT his or their swine to run at large within the
corporate limits OF the village of Southport, ana 1t
shall be the duty of the Marshall upon the written
complaint Of any person that any swine is running
al large within the corporate limits of said village,
nrthwith 10 impound such swine III some suitable
place to be provided by the Marshal, and TO post up
written notices in four OF the most public places IN
eaid village; that unless the owner or owners OF
appears and pays all charges within five days, such
swine will be sold public auction, to the highest
bidder, 10 pay such charges, and the ovcrpius, II
any, to be paid 10 the person proving said property
- be his by his own affidavit, or that OF some one
ia his behalf, before some proper officer, and II not
ao proved, the oycrpIus to accrue to the beneht OF
tie corporation.
SIC. 3. The Marshal shall be entitled to the sum
81 fifty cents for the impounding and giving notice
aforesaid for each and every swine sucking
Pigs excepted so impounded, and in case OF sale
the expenses of such sale, and the further sum of
twelve and half cents, fer each and every days
keeping, not exceeding in all six days.
SEc. g. Ordinances No. >, :, and 6, are hereby
repealed. JOHN w. MKOY, Pres.
JoHN b. JUISoN, Rec. May >, IS43.
. In Y.-WALWORTH DISTRICT
COURT.
Lewis G.. Osbourn, and)
Isaac Strait, Wisconsin Territory.
VS.. ( WalwOrth County, SIS.
Samuel Ross,
1t satisfactorily appearing to the court that a sub
rocna to answer, has been duly issued to the sher-
III of said county, in the above entitled suit, and
shat the same has been returned by the sheriff of
said county, and that the said defendant cannot be
found in said county; and it further appearing BY
affidavit, that the said deendent is nonresident
OF this Territory 1t is therefore ordered by the said
court, on motion of G. NJ. Baker solicitor for COM
plainants that the said defendant appear and plead
answer or demurr 10 the said complainants bill OF
complaint, on or before the Goth day of August 1643
or that in default thereof the said bill be taken as
confessed against him. And it is further ordered
that copy OF this order shall within twenty days
by inserted in the Southport Telegraph, newspa
per printed in the county of Racine, in said Terri
tory; and be published therein six weeks, success
lively, atleast once in each of said weeks
LIE GRAND ROCKWELL, Reg.
G.. M. BAKER, Solicitor. 4f
Dated at Elkhorn this 2Sth day of April 1s43