Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-08

ber "a, 1901. The penalty prescribed
was five dollars, one-half of which
| went to the inforner. If the person
| violating the law was slave or in
| dentured servant the penalty was ten
lashes, unless two dollars was paid by
| his or her master or mistress.
An act to prevent goats from running
| at large was passed in 1796, giving per-
sons power to kill all goats found run
| ming at large, and to sell the same at the
market-house to the best advantage,
the person doing so to retain one-half
the money received and the corporation
to receive the other half. September 1,
1904, an act was passed to keep dogs out
of the market-house, where it.appeared
they went to get meat and other vege-
tables from the stands. A tax of one
dollar was assessed on dealers whose
dogs were found within the walls of the
market, but country dogs were not
troubled, provided they were kept re.
spectacle distance from the stands. A
penalty of $40 was provided under act
of March, 1906, for the keeping of any
public gaming table, whether "A, +,
c." IL, S, DE, o." or other game. A
subsequent act, entitled an Ordinance
to restrain vice." included "rooley
pooley," or faro bank, faro table and
hazard, and prescribed the same pen
atty. ...
An act approved April 80, 1908, regu-
lated and fixed the size of loaves of
bread offered for sale. The loaves were
to be made in size according to the quail
ity of the flour used and were to sell
at the same price per loaf. The va
grancy act under which Migrants are
now prosecuted fixes the term of inn
Prisonment at not more than 20 days.
The act also provides that if he fails to
pay the jailer's fees he shall. with con-
sent of the mayor, be sold at vendue to
serve and labor for any time not exceed
ing four months. There are other acts
OF the old corporation regulating conf
merce and protecting the river and vari-
GUS business interests. The chimney
sweep is required, under penalty, to
faithfully perform his duties, and to his
advantage a penalty is prescribed for
placing stove-pipe through the eN-
terror wall of any frame building or
through the roof of any house, so that
stove pipes, under the law, are not per-
mitted to pass through the frame parti-
tons of summer kitchens.
1T would be almost impossible to en-
force many of these laws" said a police
man, yet when complaints are made,
and the law is found, there is nothing
else to do, and, until congress acts in
the matter, West Washington will re-
main under the old laws. We work
under too many laws" continued the
officer. Inside the city limits we have
one set of laws and in the county we
have an entirely different set. What is
an otfense in one place is permitted in
another. Within the limits of West
Washington man may stri p off his
clothing and walk the streets in de-
| tiance of the officers because there is no
law to punish him, but if he does the
same thing on the river shore and goes
bath ng before, nine O'Clock in the
evening he may be arrested for unlaw-
full bathing. On the eastern side of
Rock creek the same state of affairs
exists.
persons can do an act not in violation
of the law on one side of Boundary
street, but if they repeat it on the other
side they soon find themselves in the
hands of the law. Then. again, there
are some offenses punishable by heavy
fine in one section, while the penalty in