The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-29

MAYORS OFFICE, April 2s.-Jud ging from the
very frequent violations of the following provis-
ions of the ordinances of the city am induced to
believe that they have never been generally known
to the citizens, or if known, Il at they have been
as generally forgotten, and therefore now cause
them to be published
The ordinances of the city are as much the law
OF the city as az the laws of the Common wealth.
and the good order of the city requires that they
should be enforced against all offenders.
JOSEPH MAYO, Mayor.
IMPROPER DISTRACTIONS.
S4 A person may carry from his lot, and put
on a street or public alley on that part of the
rage way nearest to the gutter or DRAIN ashes dirt
| or rubbish provided the same be tree from often.
sive matter, and be removed by him from said
street or alley within twenty four hours, or if
| Commissioner OF Streets for the Ward in which
the said lot is, shall in writing allow longer time
| for the removal, then within such time may be
| SO allowed.
| s 5 Every person occupying house or lot
shall as far as such lot extencs, caused the paved
gutter or drain in street public alley opposite
| thereto, to be constantly kept open and free from
| obstruction and if he fail to do may be fined
not less than dollar, more than ten dollars
and for each day after the first that such obstruc
| ton re mains shall be hled not less than two nor
| more than twenty dollars.
| D. II any EuUUisuI dsuesJ UIIt, stOH0S OF
other thing be carried from lot other place and
| put asreet or public alley, OF If any nuisance
| obstruction whatever be put or caused or remain
therein, in any case in which it is EOt authorized
under one of the preceding sections, the per
who puts it, is in fault in respect to
50 remaining, may for any such offence be fined not
less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, and
for each cay after the hrst that the same is upon
the streetor alley, shall be fined not less than two
| nor more than twenty dollars. An awning over
sidewalk shall be deemed such nuisance ebstruc.
tion ii it be supported in whole in part by posts
in the sidewalk any other part of the street; and
| an awning, of whatever kind, shall be deemed
nuisance or obstruction, II 1t remain at night in
| over sidewalk or any other part of street. or If
any part of the awning frame be less than eight
| feet above the sidewalk. An article deposited in
| the street within thirty feet from the northern
| margin OF the dock shall not be deemed such nui
| sance obstruction, unless there be failure to
remove il within the time prescribed by the goth
section of this ordinance. And a machine, car or
| other vehicle of a railroad company placed upon
| Its railroad or rail track in a street shall not be
| deemed such nuisance or obstruction, unless the
| said machine car vehicle remain in the street
| upon such railroad or track longer than is neces
sary to deliver Its contents, or longer than is neces
| sary to enable the compsnys train to be made up.
| ID No part of asldewalk (whether paved
street or noD shall be used for tying horse there
on. And ON part of it shall person lead horse
or ride on horseback, or drive wagon dray cart
or other vehicle, except across such part as Is ar
ranged for horses vehicles to pass thereon be-
tween the carriage way and adjacent lot and of
a sidewalk which is paved such part shall not be
deemed to be 80 arranged in sufficient manner
unless it be paved with granite tagging stone
Nor shall person place sidewalk of a street
or public alley. the carriage way OF which is paw.
ed any wheelbarrow, handbsrrow, handcart or
hanccGrrage, except in passing across the eide
walk from or to a house or lot to or from street
or alley. But this sect on shall not prevent the use
on Sidewalk OF hand carriage to ride or carry
on 1t a child. A person violating this section in
any respect shall, for each offence, il free, pay
hne OF not less than one dollar nor more than
dollars, and If a slave may be punished with
stripes.
ID. If any owner or driver of 3 wagon dray
or cart, whether licensed not, shall permit the
horses, mules or other animals by which the same
Is drawn, to 60 into a street public alley faster
than a walk, or to be fed therein every such often
der, If free, orif the driver be slave the owner of
the vehicle SHALL for each offance, pay ine of not
less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars The
like fine shall be imposed upon the owner or keeper
OF wagon, dray, cart or mack, when the person
who drives the same a sidewalk, in violation of
the preceding section, is slave, Notwithstanding
the slave may be punishable.
10. LII any owner driver OF q wagon, whe
Their licensed or not shall in street public al
ley which is paved, drive such wagon with wheel
locked, after being forbid SO to do by police Of
hcer, or if any owner or driver Of a wagon, dray
or cart, whether licensed not, sha wantonly
crack his whip, to the annoyance of others, or suf.
fer his vehicle, when not receiving or discharging
load, to pass or stand upon a street puoic alley
without holding the reins in his hands, every such
offender shall, for each offence, pay fine of not
less than one more than ten dollars.
10. ANY driver of a vehicle meeting any other
vehicle in street or public alley, shall sessonaby
drive to the right hand, so that each may pass the
other without interference. And when in street
or public alley vehicle 10 overtakeu by any other
vehicle, the driver of the former shall bear to the
right, and the driver of the latter shall bear to the
left until the latter shall have passed. In no in.
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cart stop the same in the middle OF a street or pub
lie alley, or opposite to interesting street or al
ley, or upon any granite crossing, but he shall al
ways stop the same as near to the Sidewalk as he
can, withju being on il or in the gutter A driver
Vioating this section IN any respect shall for each
offence, pay hne of not lass than one dollar nor
more than five dollars.
CONCERNING SLAVES
|. Be it ordained by the Council of the city of
Richmond, That the cage bell shall be rung every
night at candletght; and a slave may be punished
with stripes, If any night after one hour from the
time the bell is rupg he be found in this city, absent
from his employers tenement without such written
pass is herein after mentioned, by which it may
appear that the absence is by the employers per-
mission.
Z q The pass shall designate the particular place or
places to which or the purpose for which the slave
may CO. If it designate more places than one 1t shall
be good only for single night Ii 1t designate SIM
gle house to which the slave may go before eleven
O'clock at night it may be given for time not ex-
ceedipe one month provided the assent of the occu-
pier of such hous the slaves staying there be sig
ified by his signing his the back of the pass
If the slave be detained by his employer after eleven
o'clock at night there must be special stating
that fact.
CONCERNING NUISANCEs.
81 Be it ordained by the Council of the city of |
Richmond That if any person shall put to be
nut into the canal locks dock, any basin of the
James River and Kanawha Company, upon the |
margin of said canal locks dock BASIN OF
an animal or filth of any kind, he shall pay fine Of
not less than FIVE, more than twenty dollars A
like fine shall be paid by the said Company if it per-
init any boat with offensive stagnant water therein
remain than twenty-four hours in such canal |
locks, dock or basin Every such nuisance shall be
removed by the officers of police at the expense
OF the company permitting it, of the person so put
ting causing it. If he be known and be free; other
wise at the expense Of the city. Whatever expense
the company or any person may be liable for under
this section, may be recovered in the name of the
city BY suit or warrant, according TO the amount
e If any person shall put or cause to be put any
NTH or nuisance OF any kind, into cellar house,
or upon any lane, alley other land owned or oc.
like fine. FNJ
2 J. fla person shall employ slave to remove from