Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-10-03

r~esists, or attempts to resist, any Of
ficer while he is arresting any person,
or performing any other legal duty,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be fined in any sum not exceed
ing n hundred dollars and with all
costs.
Observation-Disclosures any per-
son or persons, under the age of twenty
n years caught jumping ON or off any
car or train OF ears, while said car or
train of lars are inside the incor-
porated town of Benton City, Au-
drain county, Missouri, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding twenty dollars,
with costs of prosecution.
Twenty-ninth-It shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to keep open,
or suffer to be kept open, for business,
or otherwise, any house or place where
in such person shall keep any dram
shop or any gaming table, alley or
other device whereunto people resort
for gaming, or to play for treats or
sport, between the hours of eleven
o'clock in the afternoon and four o'clock
in the forenoon. Every person con-
victed of violating this ordinance shall
be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty
dollars and the costs of prosecution.
Thirtieth-Any person carrying con-
cealed deadly weapons in said town,
on conviction thereof, shall suffer the
same penalty as set out in section thir-
ty-two of this ordinance.
Thirty-first-The town Marshal, on
the arrest of any offender, shall confine
him or them, without delay, in the
town jail, unless a bond for appearance
is given, or the aus ready for trial.
Thirty-second-All convicted per-
sons under any town ordinance, fail
ing or refusing to pay any fine, PEN
atty o costs, they having nc visible
means whereon to levy the samel,
shall work the same out on the streets
or elsewhere, at the rate of n dollar
per day, for each dollar, or fractional
part thereof, Of the fine and costs and
on refusal to so work, shall be confined
in the town Jail at the same rate as te
time, and during such confinement
shall be fed on bread and water alone,
Thirty-third-Any person not hav-
ing any visible o of support, who
shall be found lettering in the town
NllIkout lilly liJiIoI L BUSINESS SAiAIi
be requested by the Marshal to leave
the town, and upon refusal to do so,
shall be and is hereby declared a va.
grant, and on conviction shall be fined
not less than II nor more than ten
dollars.
STREETS, SIDEWALKS, CROSSINGS, ETC,
ART. VIII. SEC. /. All streets
.hnl1 ha nnAtnI trnnrAunh anH 20,
paired, according to the provisions OF
this ordinance.
{. Application for the establish.
ment of new streets or alleys, shall be
made by a petition of the Board Of
Trustees, signed by at least ten resi-
dent tax paying citizens of the town,
and notice of such application shall
be posted up ten days at the door OF
the council house before the presenting
of the petition /; and unless continued
for cause shall be acted upon at the
time of representing the petition, and no.
tice shall be filed and recorded, and
the petitioners shall pay the clerk
therefor.
8. Such streets and alleys shall
be opened according to the provisions
of the present road law of Missouri
as near as practicable, and the Street
Commissioner shall view and report
upon all streets and superintend all
working and improvements thereon.
4. The majority of the residents
of the town being property owners OF
any block or blocks, may petition the
town Board to order a sidewalk of such
material, construction and make as
may be described in said petition,
n lonr tho giIna ar fr0nta inf Soid hlnnH
or blocks, and the same shall be or
dered constructed.
2 ). The Street Commissioner shall,
without delay, put in suitable street
crossings at all points where they are
needed to connect sidewalks, and shall
repair any sidewalk that needs re-
pairing, at the expense of the adjoin-
ing proprietor, as soon IS he has the
knowledge of the need of such re-
pairing.
3 6. The Board shall order without
any petition the construction of any
sidewalk, or improvements of any
sidewalk, bordering the main travelled
route from the school house to the rail
road depot.
II. Whenever any sidewalk or inn
provements shall be ordered construct
ed or made, the clerk shall deliver a
COPY of the same at the door of the
Council Room, which is all the notice
that shall be required, and after fif-
teen days shall have elapsed after
such posting up, the Street Commits
sioner shall proceed to construct such
sidewalks or make such improvements
in all such places, when the proprie-
tors have failed to construct or rebuild
the same.
g.. All such improvements or side
walks done by the Commissioner shall
be paid for by road tax payers or by
warrants on the treasury, after the
bills therefor are allowed by the Board
which amounts shall become a special
lien against the adjoining real estate.
8. AS soon as such bills as men,
ton in section 8 shall be audi
ted by the Clerk, a judgment in favor
of the inhabitants shall be rendered
against the delinquents by the Chair
man of the Board, and an execution
issued therefor against the person in
default, with a special clause against
the property, and if said execution is
not paid in ten days, with costs, the
Marshal, in default Of finding personal
property sufficient to levy upon, shall
advertise the said property for saleby
posting up three written notices of the
time and place of such sale, in public
places in said town, ten days before
the day of such sale, and such sales
shall be in some public place of said
town.
10. After having sold such prop
erty, the Marshal shall, in the name OF
the inhabitants of the town, execute
sign, acknowledge and deliYer to the
purchaser a proper deed therefor on
the payment to him of the price, and
one dollar and fifty cents for such
deed.
II. In all cases when the
owner of such property cannot bt
! found, or is unknown, all proceedings
may be against any fictitious person
or against unknown" and shall be a:
effectual as though against the rea
owner in proper person and name.
II. The Street Commissioner shall
give three days verbal notice to worl
| to any person who is liable to work Oh
the streets, and on their default FOL
one day so to do, may proceed to col
| lect the road tax as road overseers MAJ
do by the present State law.
IS. All costs and expenses occur
ring to any town officer by virtue o
this ordinance, shall be paid by tn,
parties receiving the benefit thereof, O
by the person in default of his duty
unless for good aus ordered to b.
paid by the town, and the fee
shall be as follows, to-wit: the mem