The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-02

DITT TOWNSHIP ORDINANCE.-AT A
i Special meeting held this first day of Dec.
A. D S53, do ordain the following ordinance,
viz:
SEC 1st. Be it ordained by the Trustees of
Pitt Township, in the county of Wyandot and
State of Ohio, that if any person or persons,
either by him, her OF themselves, or by his, her
or their agent or agents, servant or servants,
shall be guilty of keeping any house, shop or
store within the limits of this township in which
any Intoxicating liquor is sold or disposed of
in any way or manner, as beverage, or shall
keep any house, store or shop where persons do
habitually resort for tipping or intemperance,
such person or persons so offending, shall upon
conviction thereof, forfeit and pay to the town
ship of Pitt for the use of common schools, for
the first offence, the sum of twenty dollars and
costs of suits, and imprisonment in the county
jail, not less than ten days nor more than twenty
days; for the second offence, the sum of forty
dollars and costs, and imprisonment, not less
than fifteen days nor more than twenty days;
and for the third and every subsequent offence,
the sum of fifty dollars, together with the costs
of prosecution, including the fees of the Sheriff
and jailor, and Imprisonment in the county jail
not less than fifteen days nor more than twenty
days. The fines above mentioned to be collect
ed by an action of debt before any Justice of
the Peace of said Township.
Sec. Cd. That ON trial of such case, it shall
be sufficient in order to establish the fact of
keeping such house, store or shop, to prove that
the defendant has disposed of Intoxicating IL
quors to be drunk, or that they were drank on
his her or their premises since the taking effect
of this ofdinace.
See. 3rd. That any person or persons dispos
ing of Intoxicating liquors from any house, store
or shop, whether ON his own account or as an en-
ployee of another or others shall be subject to
the same fines and penalties as though he, she
or they where owners of the premises.
Sec. 4th. That if in any case the Judgment for
fines &costs rendered under this ordinance shall
not be satisfied and an execution issued therefor
shall be returned without the Judgment being
satisfied. The Justice of the Peace having
jurisdiction snail issue order to the proper
officer to commit the defendant to the Jail of
Wyandot county for term which when added
to the first term of commitment shall make his
whole term of Imprisonment twenty days, if the
Judgment for fines and costs are not sooner sat
isfed.
Sec. 5th. That this ordinance shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after the 5th day
of January, A. D. 1854.
H.H. HoLDRIDGE, , Trustees
C. R. FOWLER, of
JACOB A. BREWERY Pitt Tp.
December 1st, A. D. 1853.
I, c. V. D. WoRLEY, Clerk of Pitt township,
do certify that the foregoing is correct copy of
the ordinance published by the Trustees of Pitt
township, Wyandot county, Ohio.
c. V. D. WORLEY, TIP. CLERK.
Little Sandusky, Dec. /, 1853. 3l-4ins
Pr. f. 81 so
NOTICE IN PARTITION.-IN wy
~ ANDOT COMMON PLEAS Albert
Noble, Andrew Noble, and G. W. Golfer and
Mahala Golfer of fFayette county, Ohio, will take
notice, that a petition was filed against them,
on the 18th day of December, A. D., 1853, in the
court of Common Pleas of Wyandot connty, O.,
by Robert Roberts, and is now pending, wherein
the said Robert Roberts demands partition of
the following Real Estate, situate in the coun-
ty of Wyandot and State of Ohio, described as
follows. The north west quarter of section
fifteen in township one, south of Range four
teen, containing one hundred and sixty acres
of land be the same more or less, and also of the
west half of the north east quarter of section
fifteen, township one, south of range fourteen,
in the county and state aforesaid, containing
eighty acres, be the same more or less. And
at the next term of said court application will
be made by the said Robert Roberts for an or
der that partition may be made of said premises.
ROBERT ROBERTS,
By Brackley & Heaton, his Atty.
December 14th, 1853. n33.