Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-10
THE NEW BROOM.
A Good Start to Make a Clean Sweep.
What Our Legislative Council Have
Done and win Do, Etc, Etc.

PUBIC works met on Saturday ana
adopted a series of rules or laws to
govern this community. The leading
points therein appear herewith, with
the penalty added for misdemeanors.
1t is declared unlawful
To keep a gambling-house or gam
bling tools, or follow the business, or
to possess thieves tools. Fine, SIS
to $50.
To keep houses of ill-fame or assig-
nation, or rent the same, or sell OBJ
scene books. Fine, $25 to $50.
To sell liquor on Sunday; fine, s25
to $50; to play games, to run vehicles,
to permit people to enter saloons, to
keep business houses open, to keep
saloons open after midnight or before
4 o'clock in the morning, to battle or
expose nudity in public, to be an in
mate of a house of ill-fame, to walk
the streets after 8 pm, if a lone wo-
man of the town, or to be a vagrant-
are all to be fined IS to $50, at the
discretion of the authorities, as to the
enormity of the %offense.
Fines of $40 to $50 will be inflicted
on persons for fast driving, overlooking
or treating animals cruelty.
Fines of$5 to $50 will be imposed
on drunkards, also for bad language
in public places or anywhere else that
may be annoying to others. This will
catch takers in churches and theaters.
The same penalty is fixed for assaults,
rude language, keeping disorderly
houses, public organ or trick players,
false fire alarm starters, disturbing
election polls, or burying in Winches-
ter Cemetery, and to buy anything but
old rags and paper from minors at the
junk stores. Keepers of the latter are
to preserve a careful record of their
purchases, to be at all times open to
inspection, under penalty of $25 to $50
for each offense.
Masked balls given without author
ity are to be fined $25.
Leaving teams unattended, s. to
$50 fine. The same for a driver to
get drunk or go to sleep on duty, or
for careless driving, or to stop at public
crossings.
Kite flyers, stone throwers, or fire
cracker peppers, s. to $5e fine.
Discharging fire arms, carrying
weapons, leaving cellar doors or graf
ings open, s. to $50 fine, Open gates
are not included.
Fines of s. to $50 are to be charged
for leaving a dangerous wall standing
after being notified allowing mis-
chievous animals, including cow and
other stock, to range at large; or to
handle and sell powder, except under
suitable regulations.
Fines are also to be charged for
offensive advertising driving wagons
with Illuminated posters; dis6guring
property with show or handbills,
hitching to awning and lamp-posts or
shade trees using water from. or be-
fouling public c%isterns.
Throwing dirt or rubbish in the
streets, or throwing peelings, rinds
and other nuisances on the sidewalks.
or permitting the same to lay thereon
are also fneable offensGs.
House occupants or owners are to
keep the, sidewalks and cutters in
front of their premises Clearly swept,
under penalty of a fine.
Nuisances are to be fined s. to $50,
and the following are declared such
To build or keep a slaughter pen; to
build improper vaults or privies, or to
allow them to get full to throw filth.
noxious substances or dead carcasses
into the streets; to throw water and
Stops from upstairs windows; to KEEP
u%nclean stables; to haul dirt impro-
perly protected, or to obstruct the
public grounds.
Prowlers will be fined S. to $50
also persons entering other peoples
premises unlawfully. The same fine
will be put upon improper milk-ven.
ders and State-law violators.
Dog owners are to be fined s. to S5(
if their brutes go about unmuzzled
and the police are to kill the stray
CANNES without mercy or time fo1
prayers. Hogs and goats must be KEEP
off the streets, and a pound will BE-
established where they can be re.
deemed within three days at 81 pei
head, or they will be sold.
All business firms are to have signl
properly displayed under penalty of ;
fine, and awning-posts or sign-boardi
must not be put up so they will OBJ.
struct wayfarers.
Doors of theaters, churches anC
halls must be swung on double hinges
to permit people to get out in case O
fire, under penalty of $50.
Sand diggers are prohibited from
undermining the bluffs or tunneIlinl
property for the same, Fine S. to $50
From s. to S25 will be put upor