The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-06-02
AN ORDINANCE
On the subject Of licenses.

Wv 80 ~ -
Sec. l.. Be ii ordained by the Council Of
the city of Lancaster, FIksT-That no per-
son shall make or exhibit, within said city,
any theatrical performance. or any concert.
show, play, or exhibition, OF any kind or de-
scription, whatsoever, for which money, or
other reward, is demanded or received:
SEcoSD-No person shall vend, exchange,
or in any manner dispose Of, within said
city. as n pedIer or hawker or huckster, any
goods, wares, merchandise, or other articles
Of property except persons having an OK.
listing license, auth rizing the same, OBJ
tanned under the laws OF the State; and the
prohibition, contained in this clause, shall
extend to, and include, said Aforementioned
persons, after the expiration OF said license:
F. TMRD-No person shall sill. in the high
ways or public grounds Of said city, by auc-
ton or out-cry, any horse or other domestic
animal, except as is excepted in the second
clause: and the prohibition shall take effect
at the time, and as is provided in said excep-
ton:
FouRrH-No person shall keep, within
said city, any tavern, or other house Of pub
ic entertainment, or any ale or porter shop
or house, or any place for ''significant or
habitual resort for tippling," except as is ex'
ceptcd in the second clause; and the prohi-
bition shall take effect at the time, and as is
provided in said exception:
Without the authority, in each OF the
foregoing cases, ola license, authorizing and
allowing the same granted to such person
or persons, under the authority, and in be-
half ofsaid city.
SEC. .. That the Mayor of said city 10
hereby authorized, empowered and required,
in virtue Of the authority Of said city, and
in its behalf, to grant and issue a license, to
continue for any terra not exceeding one
year, for the objects, business and pursuit,
specified in the several clauses of the first
section of this ordinance, under the limita,
tons and r.strictions in this section con-
tained; and to demand aud receive, from the
applicant therefor, before the granting and
issuing of such license, the sum in each case
herein specified or provided for:
For the license required in the first clanst
of the first section Uf this ordinance, not les;
than three dollars, nor more than twenty.
five dollars, for each day; but the Mayor
may discriminate, as to the sum-, in respect
to concerts, or exhibitions tending to pro-
mote useful knowledge, where it is proposed
to continue the same longer than one day
For the license required in the sec0R,
clause, a sun proportional to the term ofthC
license, and the character, quality, amour
and value of the stock of the applicant; 6u
such SUN shall, in no case, be less than on
dollar, ncr more than thirty-five dollars;
For the license required in the third clause
not less than one dollar, nor more than fit
teen dollars;
For the license required in the fourt
clause, such sum, in each case therein emu
merated, as may be determined upon by tn
City Council.
All applications for licenses, under The
fourth clause, shall be made TO the Cit!
Council, by petition, signed by at least teI
freeholders, resident in the ward IN wheel
the business, which the license is applied
for, 10 proposed TO be carried on; and a!
such applications. shall be filed with the
Mayor, and be by him presented to the COun
Gil; and the Council shall, in cgec they gram
the license, fix the term thereof, which shall
in no case, exceed one year, and determine
the sun TO be paid therefor, which shall moi
be less than five dollars, nor more than ont
hundred dollars.
SEC. 8. That the commission or permit
ting of any r%iotous, disorderly or indecent
conduct or behavior; or any disturbance OIL
breach of the public peace, or any drunken
ness or intemperance, by any person, WHO
shall obtain a license for either Of the OBJ
iects or purposes enumerated in the fourth
clause of tie first section OF this ordinance
on the premises by him occupied, under such
license, or in carrying on the business fol
which he obtained the m shall be helC
and deemed a forfeiture of such license; and
on proof and conviction thereof, said license
shall be declared forfeited and void, anC
shall thereupon cease and determine; and thu
person so offending, on such conviction
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding on,
hundred dollars, at the discretion of the May
or; and shall, thereafter, be subject to tn
fines and penalties prescribed in the fourtI
section of this ordinance.
SEC. 4. That the doing or committing o
any or either of the acts or things. prohib
tied by this ordinance, is hereby declared un
lawful and an offence, for the doing and com
mission Of which every person, on convic
ton thereof, shall forfeit and pay, for eacl
and every day Of the continuance ofsuch vi
olation and offence, a sun not less than tel
dollars, nor more thar, twenty dollars, q