The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-08


 manner provided by the charter of tho City.
 Soc. 9, The Director of Public Works shall. on or before the fifteenth day of March in each year, determine the actual cost of sprink- ing: and watering the streets of said City by the City during the preceding season, and determine the amount to be assessed against each property owner in accordance with the terms and specifications of the act passed by the General Assembly or the State of Con- necticut, ard approved April 22d, 1897 and report the same, with the amount assessed against each piece of property bordering on streets spr!nkled or watered by it, and tho name of the owner of said property, together With the amount assessed against each street rallWay company in accordance with the terms and provisions of said act to the Court of Common Council, who shall accept or amend said report, and having fixed the amount to De paid by each owner of the property and each street railway company, and the time snail give said account and assessment to the Tax Collector of said City. w | Sec 5. Said Tax Collector shall thereupon proceed to collect the sums assessed, and in due accordance with the provisions of the act and shall see that proper liens to enforce said assessments, as provided in said act, are duly signed and lodged with the Town Clerk.
 Sec. 4. All ordinances inconsistent here- with are hereby repealed.
 Sec. 4l6. Every person who shall hang, afilx or fasten any guy rope. sign, show-bill, advertisement or other thing, of any descrip- ton whatever, upon or to any tree, in any street or public square of said City with out the authority or permission of said De- partment,. shall forfeit and pay g penalty of not less than two, nor more than fifty dollars l for every such pffense. e 1 Sec. 4l6 Any railroad company already chartered or hereafter chartered, for the pur- | pose of transporting passengers for hire through the streets of said City. shall. in ths construction and maintenance of their rail- road tracks within the limits of said City, conform to the grades of the several streets used by them as the same are now or may hereafter be established, so that the public travel shall in no case be hindered obstructed or endangered thereby: and they are hereby required to restore all streets traversed by said railroad tracks, to as good condition, 1 with reference to surface material, and free- dom of travel. as they were in before such railroad company entered thereupon.
 Sec. AT Whenever the City shall construct in any street, over which the railroad tracks stone or other pavement, said railroad com ] pany shall bear a pr0portionate part of the l expense of such paving. and shall thereafter keep in proper repair all that portion of such | street lying between the rails of their rail- road tracks, and extending to a width of two ] feet on both sides of such railroad tracks; such repair to be done to the satisfaction and I approval of the Director of Public Works. ] The Director of Public Works is hereby directed tossee that said railroad companies, in the construction and maintenance of their l railroads, conform to the provisions of their the state, and that the provisions of the fore going sections of this Ordinance are com | piled with.
 Sec. 4ls. Any such railroad company of- tending against any of the provisions of the foregoing section of this Ordinance shall for- l felt and pay penalty of one hundred dollars l for every such offense; and a like penalty for every day that the railroad tracks of any such railroad company shall remain in viola l ton of any of the provisions of the fore- l going sections after such railroad company has received notice from the Department of Public Works to repair or other wise change < the same.
 Ordinance de Street Cars.
 Sec.s5 Every street railway company operat- I ing street railway cars propelled by any motive power other than horses, shall equip every such car with good and effective lenders and \ of such design and type as shall be recom- mended by the Railroad Commissioners of the I State a. t visors, for the supervision of portable and T stationary steam boilers, in said City. Said Board shall consist of three judicious mens skilled in the management of steam boilersy I elected by the Court of Common Council. Said Court shall annually in the month of j May, elect a member of said board. who shall lI hold office for three years from the first Tues- d day of June next succeeding his election, and \ until another shal1 be chosen and qualihed 4 in his stead. And in case of the death Tesig5 nation or removal of any member, of said Board, said Court shall immediately elect < another to fill the vacancy. v M G 4Ass Sec. 422. Said Board of Supervisors Ehall make such rules and regulations for the man- ner of setting and using portable and station- i ary steam boilers in said City, as they shall deem necessary for safety, and Tor thorough I and convenient inspection. M S Sec. 423. Said Board shell annually appoint some suitable practical engineer to De an in j speetor of portable and stationary steam boil ers who shall be removable by said Board for cause. .sa ss sss {. @ q Sec. 425. No person shall hereafter set or [ cause to be set, or put in operation. or coI- tinue in operation, in said City, any portable 4 or stationary steam engine or portable or stationary steam boiler, except by permission of said Board of Supervisors upon written application therefor, under the hand of the proprietor. as <
 Every application for permission under this section shall state the precise location in which < such engine or boiler is to be, placed, the size or power of the boiler and engine the purpose for which 1t is to be used, and any other 1 par ticulars required by the rules of said Board
 Sec. 426. Every person owning or, operating any portable or stationary steam boilers tn said City, shall have them examined by said Speastf at least once s0n in s each year and sha pay said inspector for examining the same, at the rate of one dollar per hour including the time spent in going and returning, before receiv7s ing his certificate and shall forthwith conform to the rules of said Board, and the orders of said inspector # A
 Every person who shallsu or cause to bc used. in said City, any portable or stationary steam boiler, without first having received 2 certificate of the inspector, as heretofore pro-
 vided, within the year next preceding, and upon the last preceding inspection, or without first complying with the rules and regulations of said Board, and the orders of said inspector,
 shall forfeit and pay penalty of fifty dol-
 lars for every day in which such boiler shall be so used. 1
 Every person who shall violate any other provision of this Ordinance, shall forfeit and
 pay a penalty of not less than five, nor more
 than one hundred dollars for every such of fense.
 Sec. 49s Said Board shall make and keep record of all portable and stationary steam
 boilers used in said City, and of all reports ana complaints made to them, and Of all their acts under this Ordinance, and shall annually make report thereof to the Court of Common Coun- ell.
 Sec 429 The engineer in charge of any
 portable or stationary steam boiler shall be responsible for the good condition of the same.
 and of the steam and water guages pumps and pipes connected herewith when in use. Every engineer in charge of any portable
 or stationary steam boiler shall forfeit and
 pay a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for every day in which he shall suffer
 such boiler to be used with any of sa!d ap-
 paratus out of order. n. And the proprietor of any such boiler shall
 forfeit and pay like penalty for every day
 in which he shall knowingly suffer or permit the same to be used in violation or the fore-
 going provisions Of this section.
 Sec. 4S5. Whenever the Board of Finance