The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-02-12
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.

REpoRT OF COMMITTEE.
To ne Mayor and C5lRel;
The Committee on Ordinances would
report in reference to the matters referred
to them by Council, that they have pre-
pared and herewith present IN ordinance
amending the "0rdinancc containing the
Rules for the Government Of the Council
Of the City Of Wheeling," Said ordinance
contains an additional rule in relation to
adjournment Of Council styled Rule Al.
In relation 10 tic legislation necessary
to enable Council to establish work
house, the Committee would report that
the charter Of the city, section %, ?. 20 Of
the printed ordinance book, gives Council
all the authority necessary Tor the estab-
lishment Of a city prison, but section ~,
page IS, restricts the time that any person
may be imprisoned or compelled TO labor
for violating any ordinance OF the city TO
thirty days at the farthest, and in the
opinion OF the Committee it will be neces'
sary to have the term Of confinement in
work.house extended to longer time to
make it desirable for the city 10 under.
take the erection and maintaining Of city
prison, BY request OF the Committee the
City Solicitor has prepared an aCt amend
Ing the charter Of the city in relation TO
this matter, and Il ia herewith presented
for your consideration. II the Council
thinks that tho proposed amendment IL
necessary, before proceeding further in
the matter Of establishing city prison or
work.house, tho COMMITTEES would sug'
gcst that, In the event Of the accompany
Ing act being approved by Council, the
Clerk b. directed 70 forward 1t at once to
Charleston, as the Legislature now in ses-
sion there will adjourn on the 9Th day
Of this month, q. BAIRD,
Chairman Committee on Ordinances
COPY OF THE ACL
An act to amend and re.enaCt sections
twentylhine and seventy OF an act Of the
General Assembly Of Virginia, entitled
IAN Act to incorporate the CityOf Wheel
ing, in Ohio county" passed March llth,
1886.
Be Il enacted by Tho Legislature Of Wei VI.
GINA:
|, That sections twenty.nine and rev.
enty Of an act Of the General Assembly Of
Virginia, entitled IAN Act to incorporate
the City Of Wheeling, in Ohio county"
passed March 18th, 1896, be- and the same
arc hereby amended and rG-enactcd, 80 rs
to read as follows:
"9g. Tho Council shall have authority
to pass all Ordinances mot repugnant to
the Constitution and laws OF the United
States, or Of this State) which shall be
necessary or proper to carry into full
effect any power, authority, capacity or
Jurisdiction which Is or shall be granted
10 or vested In said city, or in the COun-
Gil, or any officers in said city; and to en-
force any or all their Ordinances by
reasonable fines and penalties, and by i'm.
prisouingitho offender or offenders, and
by compelling them to labor, without
com pensation, at the city prison, or ut any
Of the public works or improvements TIM
dGrtaken or to 10 undertaken by sald city,
or by any or all Of the said modes, FRO.
videl, however, Tint no person shall be
imprisoned or compelled to labor rs Afore.
said more than one year, or be fined ex'
Ceeding two hundred dollars for any one
offence"
40, All fines and penalties accruing or
arising under this Act, or any bylaw or
Ordinance, rule or regulation Of said city,
not exceeding twenty dollars, shall be re-
cOyerablo in The name Of the city before
the Judge Of the Municipal Court Of said
city or before such persons as shall he up.
pointed by the Council Of said city TO OK.
ercisc tho police Jurisdiction Of said
Court. So may any debt or demand, not,
exceeding twenty dollars, in favor Of, or
against said city.
And all fines and penalties accruing
under this act, or the bylaws or ortli.
nances Of said city, exceeding twenty dol.
lars, may be recovered In the name Of said
city before the Judge Of said Municipal
Court or before such persons as shall be
appointed by the Council Of said city to
exercise the police Jurisdiction Of said
Court, lie calling to his assistance, to try
the facts SHOULD the same be demanded
by the offender before trial., a Jury Of
true, disintercsted men.
On cases within the police Jurisdiction
Of the said Municipal COurttlic judgment
Of said Court shall be subject to appeal to
tho Circuit Court Of Ohio county in the
manner and mode as il provided In the
eth section Of nh net Of the Legislature
Of West Virginia entitled AN net to Is.
tablish court Of limited Jurisdiction In
the City Of Wheeling" passed February
9th, 1906.
This act shall take effect from and
after ia passage. and all acts amd parts Of
ucts inconsistent with tho provisions Of
this act arc hereby repealed.