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.Hn Ordinance relatiue to the Fire Department
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I'm Ordinance re7atiue to the Fire Department
-.-,-,,..~-. efthe City Of st. Paul.
THE Mayor and Common Council of the City
- OF St Paul, do ordain as follows -
z Sec. /. The Fire Department of said city
shall consist of Chief Engineer. two Assistant
Engineers, one Of whom shall be eaiiedth 1st
Assistant Engineer. and the other the I'd As
sistant Engineer, and three Fire Wardens who
shall be appointed in the manner prescribedby
sections four and five of chapter nine of the act
Incorporating the city Of st. Paul.
Sec. 2. The Aldermen of this city shall be
exoficio Fire Wardens for their respective
Wards; and at every fire. every appointed
Warden shall report himself to the Chief Engi-
neer. and he subject to his directions and to
the directions of the Assistant Engineers of the
And # shall be the further duty of said Fire
Wardens to prevent the hose from being trod-
den on, and to keep all idle and suspected
persons from the fire and its vicinity, and also
to use all proper exertions for the preservation
of goods and other property endangered at
| fires and all citizens are hereby enjoned and
required to comply with the directions of the
Chief and Assistant Engineers and Fire War
dens. s
Sec g. All the Engineers, on an alarm Of
fire, shall Immediately repair to the place
where the same is and report themselves to
the person having command of the Fire Depart
ment for the time being, under a penalty for
every wilful neglect not exceeding fifty dol
lars. 'a''' IDOL
Sec 4. The Chief Engineer shall have full
power, control and command over all persons
whatever, at any fire, except members of the
Common Council, and in his absence. the First
Assistant Engineer shall perform his duties.
In the absence of the Chief and First Assistant
Engineer the Second Assistant Engineer shall
discharge them and in the absence of all the
Engineers, the Mayor shall act as Chief Engi-
neer.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the Chief En-
gineer to direct at all fires all such measures as
he may deem most advisable for the effectual
extinguishment of the same, and also, once in
every six months, to examine the condition OF
the fire engines and other apparatus together
with engine houses belonging to the Corpora
ton, and report the same to the Common COun-
Gil. accompanied by the names and number Of
all the members of the Fire Department, and the
respective associations to which they belong,
which shall annually be published in the month
of October in each yearly the Clerk OF said CT
ty. in the official newspaper. And whenever
any of the said fire engines, or other fire appa-
ratus shall require to be repaired, the Chief
Engineer shall cause the same to be well and
sufficiently done, and he shall report in writ
ing, all accidents of fire that may happen in
GnS city, Will Cue CduSCS tueTeOl DIS well DIS Cttl
be ascertained. and the number and description
of the buildings destroyed or injured, together
with the names of the owners and occupants, to
the Common Council and the Clerk OF the city
shall keep faithful register of the same.
Sec 6. Whenever twenty or more persons,
possessing requisite qualifications, shall petit
ton the Common Council for leave to form a
Fire Company, the Common Council shall take
the same into consideration, and if the Common
Al
pettiOning shall be formed into a fire company
and shall become members If the fire depart
ment of this city, with all the rights and piivi-
leges appertaining to the same; and each COM
pany so formed shall have the right to select
its own members in such manner as they by
their bylaws may provide. -....
Sec. l. The fire engine men shall be divided
into companies, to consist of as many members
as the Common Council shall direct. one of
which companies to be assigned to each of the
fire engines belonging, or that may hereafter
belong to the city, and each of the said compa-
MES shall and may choose out OF their own
number foreman, assistant, and clerk, in such
manner and at such times as they may think
proper
f And it shall be the duty of said fire engine
men, as often as any fire shall break out in said
city. to repair, Immediately upon alarm there
Of, to their respective fire engines, and convey
them to or near the place where such fire shall
happen, and then in conformity with the direc-
tions given them by the chief or assistant engi
neers, shall work and manage the said fire en-
gnes, hose and other implements and instru-
ments thereto belonging, with all their'sk
and power and when the fire is eXtnguished.
shall not remove therefrom but by the direc-
tion of the Chief Engineer, or of the other Engi-
neers which direction being obtained, they
shall return with their respective fire engines,
and with the hose and other implements to
their several places of deposite, as soon as may
be thereafter, wash and clean the same; and
for the more effectually keeping and preserv-
ing the fire engines from decay the said fire
engine men, when the season Of the year will
permit, shall, by order of the Chief Engineer
draw out the said fire engines in order, to wash
cleanse, and exercise them and if any fire ell
CINE man shall neglect said duty he shall for
felt and pay for every default, one dollar; and
if he shall neglect to attend to any fire afore-
lsald or leave his fire engine while at any fire,
without permission, or not perform his duty on
such occasion, without reasonable excuse he
shall for every default forfeit and pay sum not
exceeding five dollars, and also be removed
and displaced from his station.
Sec. 8. The hose, hook, ladder, axe and bag
men, shall be divided into companies, to con-
sist of as many members as the Common Coun-
Gil shall direct, and each company shall choose,
out of their own number a foreman, assistant.
and clerk in such manner and at such times as
they may think proper, and it shall be the duty
of such hose, hook, ladder, axe and bag men, to
cause their hose, hooks ladders and other i'm
plements, to be conveyed to the place where
any fire may happen, and to apply and use the
same agreeably to such directions as they may
receive from the Chief Engineer, or other En-
gineers and after such fire shall be extinguish-
ed, to return the same, when dismissed by the
Chief Engineer to the places where they are
usually deposited, and as soon as may be there
after, wash and cleanse the same ; and if any
hose, hook, ladder, axe or engine man shall
wllfully neglect to perform any of the duties
aforesaid, he shall forfeit sum of not exceed
ing five dollars for every such neglect, and al
so be removed and displaced from his station.
Sec. 8. Whenever any fire engine man hose.
hook ladder, axe and bag man is elected a
member of any fire company or to supply any
vacancy therein. it shall be his duty to call on
the Clerk of the city and procure a certificate
within one month from the date of his election.
specifying the name and number of the oompa-
ny to which such fire engine man, hose hook,
ladder, axe and bag man shall be elected : and
if any fire engine man hose, hook. ladder, axe
and bag man, whose Office, from any cause NAV
become vacant, shall be reelected, he shall
take up a new certificate as aforesaid; and it
shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer to GER
tify on each certificate whether a vacancy ex-
lists in the company to which any fire engine
man. hose, hook, ladder, axe and bag man shall
be elected as aforesaid. And if such certificate
shall not be procured within the time above
prescribed, such appointment shall be null and