The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-04-22
AN ORDINANCE

To Prevent Disturbances of the Peace,
Public Drunkenness and other lndecen-
CieS.
SECTION /. BE IT ORDAINED by the
Town Council of Anderson, That any person
who shall in any of the houses or streets OF
the Town, engage in fight or brawl, or strip
his clothes with the show of an intention to
fight or who shall disturb the peace hy loud
hallooing, or who shall be drunk in any pubic
place, or who shall be guilty of any act inde-
cent and offensive to the public morals, may be
fined by Council not more than fifty dollars,
nor less than one dollar.
SEC. 2. That any person who shall, within
the corporate limits, leave a horse hltcneo
without food and water from SUNSET until sum
rise. or who shall for two consecutive days Ire
ouent a shop for retailing liquors, without
visible employment, and having no residence
within the Town, and being required oy any
member of Council to leave the Town, shall
thereafter be found intoxicated within the cor
porate limits, such person may be tined not
more than twenty dollars, nor less than one
dollar.
SEC 3. That if any person shall stop cart
or wagon on any pavement or before any door,
whereby access to the house is prevented, un-
less for the purpose Of unloading, and for such
time alone as, is necessary therefor, or shall
encamp for night in the public square, or IN
any road or street within four hun dred yards OF
the Court House, ,.he or she may be fined not
exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than one
dollar
SEC. 4. That any person who shall shoot
gun or pistol, or throw sling shot, unless up
on some necessary OCCASION, or fly kite III
any settled part of the Town, or within one
hundred yards of public street, or who shall
run horse.or mule in the streets or highways
within the Town, whereby the safety of others
may be endangered, or cast stones or other
missiles endangering the persons or property
of citizens may be fined by Council not ex-
ceedng twenty dollars, nor less than one dol
lar.
SEC. S. That it shall be the duty of the
Marshal and his Assistants, or either OF them,
to arrest aud commit to the Guard House OF
said Town, every person who shall be found
violating any of the provisions of this Ordl-
nance, to be dealt with according to law, Pro-
vided, That nothing herein contained shall
prevent any person arrested from giving bond
of not less than one hundred dollars for their
appearance for trial.
SEC. 6. That any person who shall refuse to
aid any member of Council or its officers to
suppress an afray, breach of the peace or 9TH
er outrage, or in arresting one who has been
guilty of such offence, when called on for such
assistance, may be fined not exceeding ten
dollars, nor less than one dollar and amy per-
son who shall in any manner oppose any mem
Der of Council or its officers in the discharge
of their daty, may be fined by Council not ex-
ceediug twenty dollars, nor less than one dol
lar -
SEC. I. That it shall be the duty of al! lot
holders, apd of those having charge of lots in
the Town of Anderson, to keep them at all
times CLEAN and as dry as may be, to hll up
all low places within their enclosures, so as to
pass the water into the streets, and to remove
from their lots all dccayed and decaying vege-
table or animal substances, and to abate and
remove any nuisance whereby the health OF
the citizens may be endangered, or their COM
fort greatly and improperly abridged and on
complaint of any person agreved, or on notice
by the Marshal, any person failing in the per-
formance of the duty herein enjoined, may be
fined by Council not exceeding ten dollars, nor
less than one dollar.
SEC. 8. 1t shall be the duty of all owners
of stock residing within the limits OF the
Town, in case of their dying in the streets,
open lots or elsewhere within the limits of
said Town, to remove the carcasses forthwith,
on ascertaining or being notified thereof, to
some place sufficiently distant from any resi-
dencc or public thoroughfare to afford all
proper security against offensive smells and
such like annoyance, either to the inhabitants
or travellers; and for any default herein, the
party delinquent may be fined by Council not
exceeding ten dollars, nor less than one dollar.
Done and ratified in Council, and the seal Of
the Corporation of said Town affixed
[sEAL thereto, this 10Th day of April, A. d
1875.
JOHN R. COCHRAN,
Intendant.
JAS. II. BEWLEY,