Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
CITY
License

tS@-SN GAaA aBBAE IL AANAAt W llE may VI Ol Sdll
city, setting forth therein the proposed place and
kind OF business, and number anu names of per
sohS interested IN me same, and IN no case
place OF business be changed without the con-
sent of the Common Council, and such license
shall not be granted for a longer period than one
year.
SEC. 3. Before any person or persons will be
permitted TO sell, vend or cry any dry goods, sta
pie goods, or goods OF any KING or description, at
auction, within the city OF Plymouth, he or they
shall apply to and receive from the Mayor OF said
city 4 license therefor, tor which he or thew shall nav
the city treasurer, Tor the use and benefit OF said
city, the suas of $500 per day for each and every
day such license shall be granted to any applicant.
The term Auction as used in this ordinance. is
Understood to apply to all cases where sales are
made tie competing bidders or by selling to the
highest or lowest bidders, provided that Il license
may pc granted for one month fer SIS and for any
period over one month at the rate of 81 per dav for
every day thereafter; provided, that the provisions
OF this section shall EOI apply to sales made by any
Sheriff, Coroner, Constable, Commissioner, kxecu-
tor, Administrator, or other officer in the official
discharge OF nus duty, nor TO families selling their
household goods or other property. Any person
violating any OF the provisions OF this section shall
upon conviction before the Mayor, be fined in any
sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars for each and every offense.
SEC. 4. Any person convicted before said Mayor
OF having given notice OF auction sales, by ringinga
Dell or crying SAID sales by loud noise on the streets
OF the city, snail be fined tor each and every Of
tense III any sum not exceeding ten dollars nor
less than one dollar.
SEC. 5. No street peddler, hawker. or other itin-
Grant dealer, by retail or wholesaie, in goods, wares,
or merchandise, Excepting producel shall offer the
same Tor sale IN any vehicle or otherwise, within
sald city, without license therefor first obtained,
from the Mayor as herein before provided, and
such license shall be for one or more davs. for
which he shall pay the Treasurer OF said city, the
sum of three dollars Tor each and every day such
person or persons shall sell or offer tor sale said
goods; provided, the Mayor shall have authority
IN his. discretion TO reduce the amount per day to
any sum not less than one dollar; provided that
license may be granted to any party herein named.
Ior the period OF one year on the payment OF SO.
as heretofore provided. ANY person violating any
OF the provisions OF this section, shall on convic-
ton before the Mayor, Dc fined IN any sum not less
than flve nor more than nfteen dollars for each and
every o1ense.
SEC. g. No person or persons shall exhibit or
participated exhibiting Tor gain or profit, in the
city of Plymouth, any theatrical performance OF
any KIND or description, any SHOW Of puppets, wax
ngures, menagerie, caravan, or collection Oh AMI
mals, any performance OF 1eats and tumbling, rope
or wire dancing, balancing, sleight OF hand. or
tricks OF legerdenain, or any circus, or any nat
ural or artllclal curiosity, or description, or repre-
sentation OF any kind whatever (either real or fcti-
touS) or any musical performance OF any kind
whatever, Tor which compensation or money is
charged or demanded, without first obtaining a
license therefor from the Mayor as in other cases.
Tor which they shall pay the following sums OF
money INTO the Treasury OF the city: For each circus
or menagerle, twenty-five dollars per day or night,
ana 50 Tor each and every other show or exhibition
enumerated IN this section, and in addition to the
above sums, each person shall paw $500 as fees
to the Clerk and Mayor. ANY person or per-
sons convicted before SAID Mayor OF violating any
OF the provisions OF this section shall be fined in
any sum not less than ten dollars, nor lnore than
one hundred dollars for each and every offense.
Provided; no provision OF this ordinance shall pre-
Vent the giving OF any concert, or OF
or immoral, and the net profits OF winch
snail Dc devoted exclusively to any religious, char
liable, literary or scientific purpose or the
benefit OF any fire company of said city.
SEC. 4 Any person or persons TO whom such
hcen2e may have been granted, who shall be con
ylcted OF having coaducted such exhibition or show
mdecently or immoraliy, shall Tor every such Of
tense, be fined in any sum not less than three nor
more than fifty dollars.
SEC :. Any person convicted of having occu-
pied any street, square or common, belonging to
SAID city, without having first obtained the written
consent OF at least three OF the members of said
Council for that purpose, for the performance or
exhibition OF any circus, menagerie or other show.
! shalI De nned IN any sum not less than five dollars
nor mere than Twenty-Five dollars.
SEC. >. ANY person convicted of having inter
rupted or disturbed any show, exhibition. concert
or performance, contemplated by this ordinance, or
any auditor or spectator thereof, snail be fined
there = in any sum not less than one dollar nor
more in twenty-five dollars.
SCI. AZ. Any person convicted Of having erected
In open air, or established III said city, any booIll,
shed, stanu or other place Tor the purpose OF selling
at auctioL or otherwise. any goods, wares, or mer-
chandlse, or any refreshments, 1ruIt, confectionery
or other articles, without having first Obtained a
license therefor rom the Mayor, as in other cases,
snail be fined In any sum not less than one dollar,
nor more Imam tn dollars.
SEC. II. The amount for such licenses required
by the last preceding section, shall be five dollars
per day tor auction ee-s license, and two dollars
per day Tor each license Tor selling otherwise than
at auction.
SEC. u. All licenses shall be signed by the May
or and countersigned by the Clerk. The Clerk
Shall keep Il record OF all licenses issued under this
ordnance, for which the zee aforesaid shall be u
full compensation.
SEC. Is. No person shall be permitted to keep
tor hire or pay, within the hints OF said city, any
Billiard Tables, Bagatelle TabIes, Ball Alleys, Ten
Pm Alleys or any otner machines, devices or
places OF any kind for sports o. James, without
nrsl obtaining d license therefor, at the rate pre-
scrloed IN the nexi succeeding Sc cbon, and any
person convicted before the Mayor eI she violation
Oh the provisions OF this section, shat be nned III
any sum not exceeding thirty dollars Tor each and
every days continuance OF such violation.
SEC. IA. That the license to be paid as in the
foregoing section shall be for each and every Bill
lard or Bagatelle table five dollars per year; for
each and every Dali or ten pin alley, ten dollars per
year, and any other machine, device or place Tor
games ana sports not specially enumerated, i've
be transferred.
SEC. 10. Any keeper of such establishment. or
any agent OF such keeper, who shall permit gaming
10 De carried on IN the same, shall be fnea upol.
conviction thereof before the Mayor, for each ana
every offense in any sum not exceeding fifty dol
lars.
SEC. 16. Any person who shall by PLAYING or
oettng, at or upon any game within said city, eth
er lose or win any article OF value, shall upon con-
Ylction thereof before the Mayor, be fined in any
sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
SEC. Il. Each and every billiard saloon, baga-
lelle table, ball or ten pin alley, and place where
liquors are sold as in section il of this act pro-
vlded; licensed within said city, shall be closed on
each night before. or promptly at half past ten
O'CLOCK And any keeper OF such saloon, table or
auey, VINO snail tail to close the same, ana shall
after said hour permit said instrument, machines
or devices to be used, shall, upon conviction there
OF before said Mayor, be fined not exceeding ten
dollars Tor each and every offense.
DEC. 10 Any keeper or any such establishment,
or MS agent, who snail permit any minor to remain
ldllng, lounging around, or playing at such estab-
nsnment, or who shall give to or sell, directly or
indirectly, any spurious liquors to any such minor.
snail upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum
not exceeding twenty dollars; and every such min
OF convicted before said Mayor, of having induced
sucn keeper or agent, to sell or give him, any
spurious or Intoxicating liquors, under the false
representation that he was not a minor, shall he
nneo IN any sum not G ~zceeding ten dollars.
SEC. 10. The keeping or exhibition of any
sWeat cloth, roulette, shuttle board, or faro bank.
ana the using of dice for any game of chance for
distribution OF property or prizes, within said civ.
Is hereoy prohibited, and each and every person
convicted before said Mayor of violating this nro-
VISION shall for each and every offense, be fined in
any sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
AGO. HORACE CORBIN, Mayor.
ATTEST, A. L. THOMSON, Clerk.
Passed May %, 1873.