The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-14
dDRDTNANCES.

! EASLE1, y. C., April Zlst, 1877.
Al full meeting Of Council held this day,
| the following Ordinances were adopted and
I. ordered to be published in the PICKENs SEM
TINEL, to wit:
SBoTIoN 1. Be 10 ordained by the Intend
ant and Wardens of the Town of Easley,
South Carolina, and by authority of the same,
that from and after this date, drunkenness,
fighting, or attempting to fight, or acting in
o boisteroua manner on the street, is pro-
hibited, and any person or persons 80 offend
ing shall DO arrested by the Town Marshal
and be brought before the Council, and on
conviction thereof shall pay fine Of not less
than five nor more than fifteen dollars, at the
discretion Of the council. 49,.
SEC. 2. Any person or persons convicted
of using profane or vulgar language on the
streets or sido walks, shall pay O fine of not
every such offense.
SEC. 3. Any person or persons guilty of
obstructing the side walks by riding, or driv.
ing wagons and vehicles of any kind whats
soever thereon, or by hitohing horses to
fences or gates, shall pay fine of one dollar
Sec. 3. Any person or persons found guilty
| OF shooting on the streets or public highways
within the incorporate limits, shall pay O fine
ofone dollar.
Sec. 5. Any person or persons horse
| racing inside of incorporation, shall be deem
| ed guilty Of an offence, and on conviction
| thereof, shall pay fine Of not less than five
nor more than fifteen dollars, at the discretion
| of council.
SEC. 6. Be it ordained by the Intendant and
| Wardens, that any person or persons found
loafng in town for more than Eve days, and
not engaged in some industrial pursuit, shall
| he arrested by the town Marshal and brought
before the council, and upon failing to
| show some visible means Of support, such
person shall be requested to leave the town
within the next twenty four hours. and upon
| failing to do so, shall be prosecuted for va.
grancy under the law of the State.
Sec. 7. BE it ordained, that any bar keeper
| or other persons licensed to sell spirituous
| liquors, ard who allows o drunken and tur-
bulent crowd of men to congregate in and
| around his place of business to the disturb
ance and good order of the town, shall be
deemed guilty of fostering nuisance and
upon being found guilty, shall forfeit their
licenses or be fined at the discretion of the
council.
SEC. 8. Be it ordained, that every person
persons, living within the incorporate limits
of this town and owning O dog or dogs shall
pay a tax Of one dollar for each and every
such dog, and shall put upon the neck of
each dog leather collar, inscribed by the
Town Marshal with the initial letters, r. T.
TAX Paid) and all dogs found rowing in the
town without this collar on, shall be killed
by the Marshal Provided, that this ordinance
she'll not apply to dogs in the country that
follow :heir owners into town. This ordin-
anco to take effect on and after the first day
of May next
Sec. 8. Be it ordained, that it shall be the
duty Of the Town Marshal te promptly arrest
any person or persons who is found guilty Of
violating any of the preceding sections and
confine Them in the Guard House uutil they
are discharged by the council
SEC. 10. BE it ordainod that if any per-
son or persons convicted under the preceding
sections, shall fail or refuse to pay the fine
or fines with cost imposed, tho council may
| compound them and received street labor,
one days labor to be equal to one dollar in
current funds; Provided, in all such cases
the laborer furnishes his own meals.
Approved Aprial 81, 1877.
JOHN r. GOSSETT, Intendant.
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