Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-18

ing the safety Of persons, the said officer shall
az once communicate the same to the presi-
dent OF the board Of Ere and police commits
slsners, who shah, without delay, advertise in
one or more of the daily papers for five days,
mat the property describing the same as well
as may Del has been so reported, and notify
Ing all persons in interest to appear before the
hre committee Of the legislative council, the
chief of the FIRE department and the engineer
on 0 day, and at q place and hour TO be desia-
mated In said advertisement, such advertise
ment TO be in lieu of all other notice, and
said committee shall, ON tho day mentioned
in said advertisement, examine into the com
plant, and shall hear proof and make such
personal examination of the premises as may
enable them to arrive at a proper judgment.
Section 14-It shall be tho duty Of said com
mittee, after making the examination, 10
report their decision to the president Of the
board OF IRE and police commissioners, who
shall thereupon, II he concur therein, order
the owner or agent OF the property 10
have such building or buildings re-
moved within such time as may be
prescribed by said committee. A fall
ure 70 promptly comply with such order is
hereby declared O misdemeanor, for which, on
conviction before the president OF the board Of
ire end police commissioner, any one so Of
Tending shall be fined not less than ton nor
more than fifty dollars for each and every day
the said order isnot complied with; provided,
that where, from non residence, notice cannot
be given, or an order be served, as also il cases
OF persistent refusal OF owners or agents, such
unsafe and dangerous building shall or may
be removed by the District at the expense Of
the property.
Section B-Tho e%ornices Of buildings here
alter 10 be erected within the fro limits, or
other parts Of buildings, which project beyond
tue line Of the street, shall either be formed
with some %hreprOof material, or be entirely
covered with some metallic covering, so that
no combustible portion be exposed externally.
Section l6-It shall not be lawful for any
dray, cart, wagon, street ~rail-car, or any other
vehicle whatever, to pass over any of the Ere
hose belonging to tho District or Gre depart
ment, whether such hose have water In them
or not.
Section 17--It shall be unlawful for any per-
son or 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 five barrels in any one locality, of any
crude petroleum or rock oil, or any camphene
or burning fluid, or any of the products pro-
duced. by the distillation of coal, petroleum,
or rock oil, asphaltum, shale or peat, known
under the various names of coal oil, petro oil.
naptha, kerosene, b%enzine, or benzole; the
hve barrels hereby allowed to be kept in any
one locality shall be kept in tin cans, and
shall not be drawn or sold by any artificial
light. Any person or persons guilty of a vio-
latlon OF this section, IN letter or spirit, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum
not less than one nor exceeding fifty dollars
for each and every o%iense. The articles here
in named shall not be stored outside of the
llmlts herein specified unless in ireproOf
buildings, located by and with the approval
OF the chief of the FIRE department, and with
a sign conspicuously placed on the outside
thereof designating the character of storage.
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