The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-11
THE new CHARTER.

IIlE NEW UIlAnIEn.
An Act To Incorporate Dalles City
and to Define its Powers.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislative assembly
Of the State of Oregon:
CHAPTER ".
3. To tax, license, regulate and
restrain saloonkeepers, bartenders, bar
rooms, drinking shops, tippling houses
or places where spirituous or malt or
vinous liquors are kept, sold or disposed
of in any manner whatever, and for the
purpose of this act to define what con-
stitutes the same; provided, that no
license to sell spirituous, malt or vinous
liquors shall be granted, except upon
the following conditions, viz: The per-
son wishing to apply for such license
shall post in three of the most public
places in the ward in which the business
is to be carried on, notice stating that
in thirty days thereafter he will apply to
the council for license to sell spirituous
malt or vinous liquors within the limits
of said ward, which notice must be dated
and signed by the applicant; such per-
son shall execute and present to the
council for approval at the same time he
presents his proof of posting notice, a
bond in the sum of five hundred dollars,
with two or more sureties, conditioned
that he will keep an orderly house and
comply with all the requirements of this
act and of the ordinances i'll behalf
passed; thereupon the council may, in
its discretion, grant license to the appli-
cants for not less than six months nor
more than one year; prOUided, further,
that no license to sell spirituous, malt or
vinous liquors shall be granted to any
woman, or to any minor, or any person
who shall permit women or girls or male
minors to frequent his place of business,
either as guests, servants, walters,
waitress, dancers, singers, actors or
musicians; and, prouided further, that if,
after license to sell spirituous, malt or
vinous liquors shall have been granted,
the person to whom it has been granted.
or any one in his employ, shall give or
sell any liquor to any common drunkard,
or to any intoxicated person, or to any
woman or girl, or to any minor, or to any
Indian, or shall permit any woman or
girl, or male minor to frequent his place
of business, either as guest, servant,
waiter, waitress, dancer, singer, actor or
musician, the common council shall, up
on the sworn complaint of the marshal or
any other person whomsoever, revoke
the license and shall not grant another
license to such person for the period of
one year; proUided further, that the re-
vocation of the license shall not in any
manner operate to relieve the person to
penalty as by ordinance may be prescrib-
ed for the violation of any of the pro-
visions of this act.
6. To prevent and suppress gaming,
gambling houses, or places where any
games of chance are carried on or play
ed for anything of value, and to punish
any person who plays, carries on or en-
cages in any way in any such game or
gambling, or any person who frequents
games are played, carried on or engaged
in, and, for the purpose of this Act, to
define what constitutes the same.
q. To prevent and suppress bawdy
houses, houses of assignation or places
where fornication is carried on or enact
ed, and to punish any inmate, keeper
or frequenter thereof, and to define what
shall constitute any such houses, places
or acts.
8. To prevent and suppress opium
smoking or the smoking of any other
similar drug, and to suppress any house,
den or place kept wholly or partly there
for, and to punish any keeper or frequent
er of anv such house. den or place.
6. To prevent and suppress any dance
house or place where dancing is carried
on or permitted, Independent of or con-
nected with any other business in any
manner, and to punish any inmate,
keeper or frequenter of any such place
or house.
10. To provide the city with water
for all necessary or useful purposes, and
to erect and construct any and all neces-
sary, useful or convenient water works
within or with out the limits of the city,
and TO collect water rents and dues for
water.
IL. To provide for lighting the streets,
alleys and other public places within
the city limits with electric, gas, oil or
other light; provided, that the council
may grant the privilege and franchise
for lighting the streets to any private
corporation, person or company, upon
such terms and conditions as may be
just.
II. To define what shall constitute
vagrancy, and to provide for the support,
punishment and employment of vag-
rants and paupers, and to force and
compel any such to work upon the pub
lie streets of Dalles City, and to punish
any one who refuses to work.
13. To prevent and suppress the
sale, circulation or disposition of any
immoral or obscene books, papers, pic
lures, prints, literature and the like, and
to punish any person who sells or offers
to sell, give away or distribute or dispose
OF, IN any way, any such books, pictures,
papers, prints or literature, and to define
what books, papers, pictures, prints or
literature are obscene or immoral.
IA. To erect or repair public wharves
and docks, and to fix the rates offerriage
on all ferries plying between the city
and any other point; to allow and regu-
late the laying down of tracks for street
or other railways upon such street or
streets as the council may designate.
15. To regulate the rate of speed up
on all railroads or street cars within the