The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-03

owner of the premises.
Thirteenth. To direct the location of
buildings scoring gunpowder and other
com bustible and explosive Substances.
and to regulate the sale and use of gun
powder, hre-crackers or fireworks, manu-
factlred or prepared therefrom, kero.
sene oil, nitro.glycerinc, camphene,
burning fluid, or other com bustible ma.
terial; to regulate tho exhibition of
fireworks, the discharge of firearms,
the use of lights and candles in barns,
stables and other buildings, and to re-
strain the making of bontires in streets
and yards.
Fourteenth To prevent hogs, dogs
and other animals from running at
large in the city, and may subject the
same to cOnfscation, regulations and
taxes as they may deem proper.
Fifteenth. 10 prevent the riding and
driving OF horses or animals at an i'm
proper speed, throwing stones or engag-
ing in any employment or sport on the
streets, sidewalks o. public alleys. dau-
gerous or annoying to passengers, and
to prohibit and punish tho abuse or
cruel treatment of horses or other ami
mails in said CITY,
| Sixteenth. To restrain and punish
drunkardS, Migrants and street beg
| ghrS; to prevent vice and INN orality; to
preserve the public peace and good order
to prevent and quell riots, disturbances
and disorderly assemblages; TO suppress
houses Of ill-fame, and gambling houses;
to prevent and punish lewd, Indecent
and disorderly conduct or exhibitions in
said city, and to expel therefrom per-
sons guilty of such conduct who have
not resided therein as much as one
year.
Seventeenth. To prevent, forbid and
punish the selling or giving liquors and
intoxicating drinks to be drunk in any
place not duly licensed, and the selling
or giving to be drunk any Intoxicating
liquors to any child or minor, and the
selling or giving of cigarettes to any
minor under fifteen years of age, and
for any violation of any such ordinance;
may impose fines in addition to those
prescribed by the laws of the State.
Eighteen: To prevent the coming into
the city Of persons having no osteusible
means of support, and of persons who
may be dangerous to the peace and
safety of the city.
Sec. 2. First Any member of said
Council being voluntarily absent from
its meetings consecutively for three
months, the seat shall be deemed vacant
and the unexpired term shall be filled
according to law.
Second. The City Council is empowered
to hold such lands as may have been al
ready acquired by the city CT Roanoke,
tho dead, and to acquire, by
purchase or otherwise, such adj
ditional lands as may be necessary for
that purpose. The said Council shall
also have power to prescribe and en-
force all needtul rules and regulations
not inconsistent with the laws of the
State, for the use, protection, preserva-
ton and ornamentation of the cemetery
or cemeteries; to set aside in their
discretion, by metes and bounds, an
apportion thereof, for the interment
of strangers, and the INDECENT poor:
to divide the remainder into burial
lots, and sell OF lease the same, aud
to execute all proper deeds or other
writings in evidence of such sale or
lease, and to prescribe what class
and condition of persons shall be ad-
mitted to interment in tho cemetery
or cemeteries. The cemetery or Gene
teries, when established and enclosed
with the property included in them
shall be exempt from all State, county
and municipal taxation.
Sec 3. Where, by the provisions of
this act, the Council have authority
to pass ordinances on any sub
ject, they may prescribe any pen
atty not exceeding five hundred
dollars for violation thereof, and NAV
provide that the offender, ON failing to
pay the penalty recovered, shall be i'm
prisoned in the Jail of the city for a
term not exceeding ninety days. which
penalties may be prosecuted and recov-
cred with costs in the name of CITY OF
Roanoke, or shall compel them to work
on the streets or other public improve
ments in the said city. The accused,
If convicted, shall have the right to
appeal to the Hastings Court Of said
city.
Sec. 4. The Council shall not take.
damage or use any private property for
public purposes without making to the
owner thereof just compensation for the
same; and where the Council cannot, by
agreement with the owner, obtain the
title to or the use of such property for
such purposes, it shall be lawful for
said Council to institute and prose Gu to
proceedings for the condemnat there
OF, according to law.
Sec 5. In every case whore street
in said city has boen or shall be en-.
croached upon by any fence, building,
or otherwise, the Council may require
the owner Qf known. or ifunknown, tho
occupant of the premises encroaching),
to remove the sane; and If such removal
be not made within the time prescribed
by the Council, they may impose pen
atty OF five dollars Tor each and every
day it Is allowed to continue thereafter,
and may ,ause the encroachment to BIO
removed and collect from tho owner all
reasonable charges therefor, with costs,
by tho same process that they are hers
| matter Empowered to collect taxes, or
by suit or motion, and whatever amount
the occupant or tenant may have to pay