The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-06-23

eer," and on front of the I'd Assistant
Engineers cap shall in like manner be
painted the words and figures I'D As
sists It Engineer
Sec. %. The fire wardens and Mar
shall shall at fires severally wear leath-
er cap with the words Fire Wardens,
division" or ward and Marshal
printed thereon in white letters.
Sec. &C. The City Marshal under the
direction Of the Mayor and such Alder
men of the City as may be present, may
prescribe limits in the vicinity of any fire
within which no person excepting those
who reside therein, members Of the fire
department, and those admitted by order
of fire wardens, marshal, policemen, or
officers of the Fire Department, or of the
City, shall be permitted to come, and it
shall be the duty of the policemen and
watchmen to aid in carrying into effect
the provisions and requirements OF this
section.
Sec. u. Daring The time Of fire,
and for and during period of thirty-six
| hours after It's extinction, it shall be law
full for any fire warden. Chief Engineer,
aud Assistant Engineer, Mayor, Alder
men, Marshal Foreman and Assistant
Foreman of Fire Company, Tor the
officer in command Waterman and pc
| lice constable, in any part Of the City, to
arrest any suspected person, or any per-
son hinderlng, resisting, conducting IN 4
noisy and disorderly manner, or refus-
ing to obey any such officer while acting
in the discharge of his duty, and to COM
nit such person forthwith to the watch
house, if any, and if none, to the County
Jail Said officers shall be severaliy
vested with the usual powers and auth
GRITTY Of police officers to command all
persons to assist them in the performance
of such duty and any person who may
be so committed to the watch house or
county jail as aforesaid, shall remain
there until released by the order of a
court having competent jurisdiction and
power IN the premises.
Sec %. It shall be especially the
duty Of the Chief Engineer, and under
him, of the two Assistant Engineers, to
see at all times the provisions and re-
quirements Of this ordinance carried out
and fulfilled, particularly in reference to
the members of the fire department.
Sec. %. Every person, not FIRE
man, who shall be present at fire, shall
be subject and obedient to the order Of
the Chief and Assistant Engineers, the
Mayor and Aldermen, Wardens, Mar
shals, ard the police constables Of the
City, in extinguishing the fire and the
removal and protection OF property, and
In case such person shall refuse to obey
such orders he shall forfeit and pay for
every offence, the sum OF five dollars !:
P'0Uided, that no such person shall be
bound to obey any Of said officers, unless
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badges Of Office or their official character
shall be known or made known to them !;
and all such officers shall have power
to arrest any person or persons so rctus-
ing to obey such lawful orders as afore
said, and to hold them in custody until
after the fire is extinguished, when he or
they shall be taken before a magistrate to
be dealt with according to law
Sec. 80. 1t snail be lawful for the
foreman, assistant foreman, or officer in
command Of any fire company, or for the
Mayor, Aldermen, Chief Engineer, or
either of the assistant Engineers, to re-
quire the aid Of any citizen, inhabitant,
or by -stander, in drawing or conveying
any engine or other fire apparatus to the
fire, and in working and using the same
while at FIRE; and on the refusal or
neglect OF any person 70 comply with
such requisition, the offender shall for
every default forfeit and pay penalty Of
one dollar.
See. 81. Any person who shall will
fully offer any hinderance to any officer or
fireman in the performances OF his duty
at a fire, or shall wilfuiiy in any manner
injure, deface, or destroy any engine OF
fire apparatus belonging to the City OF
Manitowoc, or shall wilfully resist the
Mayer and Aldermen OF said City or any
person duly authorized by them, in tax
ing possession OF any such engine Or fire
apparatus, shall for every such offence
forfeit and pay penalty OF twenty I've
dollars, and shall furthermore be liable
for all danlag IS or injury done.
Sec. 30. Any member Of the Fire
Department who shall be elected Mayor
Aldermen, Chief or Assistant Engineer
or Marshal, shall be exempt for the
time he shall hold such Office from al
company duties in the company to which
he may belong.
Sec 80. All the penalties incurred
under the twelfth, sixteenth, twentieth.
twenty ninth, thirtieth. and thirty-frst
sections Of this ordinance, shall be PAID
into the City Treasury for the use of the
Fire Department of the City Of Mantle
woe, and shall together with all taxes paid
into said treasury by foreign insurance
companies, be annually divided equally
among the several companies Of said de-
partment. And there shall also annu
ally be paid from said treasury to every
Engine Company, the sum of fifty dol
lars, and to every Hook and Ladder
Company the sum Of thirty dollars. and
to every Bucket Company fifteen dollars,
payable quarterly at the time of making
the reports required from the Chief En-
gineer, by section nine Of this ordinance
R0U{dcd that no such payment shall be
made to any of said omDanies which
shall not, at all times during the quarter
next proceeding the time fixed for said
payments, have kept all the engines and
other fire apparatus entrusted to their
care, in perfect order for immediate use
and provided further that none Of said
companies shall receive any payment or
consideration for fire wood, oil, lights, Oh
any other material used for, or for any
work done in cleaning and keeping in
good working order, such engines and
other fire apparatus.
| Sec. 81. All ordinances or parts OF
ordinances heretofore adopted, relating
to the establishment and regulation OF
the Fire Department, conflicting with or
conravening the provisions of this
ordinance arc hereby repealed.
Sec. So This ordinance shall take
effect from and after its passage and
publication as required by law.
Adopted this 9th day OF June a. D.
1870.
Z. JOHNSTON.
Mayor.
| VIM. HEMsCHEAIEYER.