Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-20
NAPOLEON HILL. .FONTANE. rru JEROME Hu1
RI HILL FONTAINE & co.
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Cotton Factors.
AND WHOLESALE GROCERS, b
|298 Front Street. Memphis.

District acting in obedien Q to aw or ordi.
Section 1l-It shall not be lawful to burn
Pu! any chimney, stoyepipe or hue Of any
Duifuihg, except when II Is raining, or the
tbee da s eyveaeu Win snow, and then only in
Section 12-Whenever a 6re NAV occvr i,
this District, if the president Of tho board of
Of tb SI Iagl RInse sS so@mi:sionsrs, two members
IL necessary to pull down, blow up or destroy
any building in order to arrest the Are, the sad
mouse shall be removed or destroyed, as those
parties shall direct, and the District shall pay
'us ONner ialr compensation for the same.
cecton lS-Rhenever any building shall
nave been reported to the chief Of the Are de-
partment OF the District as being hazardous
2I aangerous to other property, or as imperil-
w : sne saiety OF persons, the said officer shall
~ Ohce communicate the same to the presi-
aent OF the board Of FIRE and police commiS-
sieners, who shall, without DELAY, adveriisai in
one or more Of the daily papers for Eve dave
s : " sne property describing the same as well
w may pei has been so reported, and notify
ing all persons in interest TO appear befoSe f6e
hre committee Of the legislative council. Inc
cnlei OF the IRE department and the enQineer
on O, . aay' ana at a place and hour. to be desiR-
hateu IN SAID advertisement, such ADVERTISED
ment to be in lieu of all other notice. ana
SAID COMMITTEES shall, on the day mentioned
IN sald advertisement, examine into the COM
plant, and shall hear proof and make sueh
Pti3nai eAahlhatlOn OF the remise as may
enspie them 10 arrive at a proper Judgment.
Section l4-It shall be the duty of said com
mittee, after making the examination, IN
report their decision to the president Of the
board OF fre and police commissioners who
snail thereupon, if he concur therein, order
kne owner or agent Of the property to
moved within such time as NAV be-
prescribed by said committee. "A fall
ure 70 promptly comply with such order is
hereby declared a misdemeanor, for which, on
conviction before the president of the board az
nre and police commissioners, any one 80 ~
Tending shall be fined mot less than ten nor
more than nifty dollars for each and every day
nv sald order isnot complied with; provided.
Snas mnere, from non,residence, notice cannot
DC gwen, or an order be served, as also in cases
Oh persistent refusal Of owners or agents. such
unSate anu dangerous building shall or may
ne removed by the District at the expense Of
Section l5-The %cornices of buildings bers-
after to be erected within the ere limits' or
oIher parts Of buildings, which project beyond
the line OF the street, shall either be formed
w4n some hreproof material, or be entirely
UoFelod Win some metallic covering, so that
NO comouStlble portion be exposed externally.
section l6-It shall not be lawful for any
uray' cart, wagon, street r~ail-car, or any other
venice Whatever, TO pass over any Of the fre
nose belonging to the District or fire depart.
ment, whether such hose have water In them
or not. ~ 'A"
Section lT-It shall be unlawful for any ner-
SON OF persons to store, or cause, or suffer, or
permit TO be kept or stored within the follow
ing limits Of the District, to-wit; Between
Auction and South streets and the Mississippi
river and, Bayou Gayoso. a quantity greater
than hve barrels in any one locality, 0f any
crude petroleum or rock oil, or any camphene r
or burning fluid, or any of the products pro-
uuced by the distillation Of coal, petroleum..
or rock oil, asphaltum, shale or neat, known
unueL the various names of coal oil, petro oil,
i've barrels hereby allowed to be kent in any
one locality shall DO kept in tin cans, and
snail not be drawn or sold by any artificial
ilgnt. Any person or persons guilty Of a vio-
laton OF this section, in letter or spirit, shah.
upon conviction thereof, be fined IN any sum
not less than one nor exceeding fifty dollars
for each and every o%ffense. The articles here
IN named shall not BIO stored outside Of the
limits herein specified unless in freproof
buildings, located by and with the APPROVAL
OF the chief Of the FIRE department, and with
q sign conspicuously placed on the outside
thereof designating the character of storage.
1910