Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
oRDIN A ES
OF THE TOWN OF WALHALLA
An Ordinance Respecting the Streets,
Pavements and Ways of tho Town Of
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al oiuiIiaiiCc RcSl'cCIltP llc OCIcctS,
Pavcmcnts and Ways of the Town of
Walhalla.
BE IT ORDAINED by the intcntialt and
Wardcns of the Town Of Walhalla in
council assembled and by authority of
tho same: SECTION /. That it shall be
unlawful to run a horse or mule on Main
street, and any person or persons SO do
ing shall be guilty of a misdomcanor.
SECTION 2. That it shall DC misdc-
mcanor for any person or persons to cut
trees on any streets of the town.
SECTION 3. That it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to injurc any
shade trees by hitching horses, mules OF
other 1.-Two stock thereto, or otherwise
committing any act which is calculated
to injurc said trees
SECTION 4. That it shal! be unlawful
to leave melon rinds or other such trash
on the streets and any person or persons
SO doing, who shall refuse to remove tho
same on request of the Mayor or
Marshal, shall be guilty of misdc-
mcanOr.
SECTION B. That it shall be unlaw ful to
leave any piles or accumulationS of lum-
ber, iircwood, rocks or other material on
the streets, except South Broad street,
along the line of railroad or lumber yard,
and any person or persons so doing shall
be guilty Of n misdcmcanor.
SECTION 6. That it shall be unlawful
for any merchant, clerk or other person
to allow to accumulate on Main street,
in front of their promises, any swcopings
or collections OF papers, paper boxes, tin
cans, broken glass Or CrUCkCTy, 0i o:!!C;
such trash; and it shall be Il misdcmcanor
for any person or persons so to do.
SECTION I. That ball playing or other
amuscmcnts on Main street arc prohibit
ed, and it shall be the duty of tho Mar
shal to arrest all persons so engaged and
bring them before the Mayor to be
dealt with according to law. The Mar
shall shall also diSpcrso any crowd or
crowds assembled on the sidewalks of
SECTION s. That it shall be unlawful
to shoot guns, pistols or other firearms,
firc-crackers or slingshotS, or to throw
fire balls, within tho incorporate limits
of the town, and any person or persons
SO doing shall be guilty of mstlc-
mcanor: Provided, a person may shoot
firearms on his own premises for the bona
lidc purpose Of protecting lis property
nature: Provided, further, that the dis
charge of balls or shot from any firearms
by any person for tho purpose aforesaid,
within tho incorporate limits, shall be
confined to the premises owned or occu-
pied 10y the person shooting.
SECTION 9. That it shall he unlawful to
ride or drive upon the sidewalks, or to
lead II horse thereon, except to cross the
same at regular crossing, or to place
any obstruction which may impede a free
passage on or along any sidewalk, and
any person or persons so doing shall be
guilty of a misdcmcanor: Provided,
that drayman may drive or back his
wagon on the sidewalks for the purpose
OF loading or unloading heavy trunks,
boxes, &C., at once, but must drive OF
Immediately after so doing.
SECTION TO- That it shall he eunlawful
to ride q bicycle on the sidewalks of
Main street between tho Court House
square and ihc cross street at d. w. Ilol-
lcman's residence. Any person so doing
shall be guilty of misdcmcanol. Pro
vldcd, that any person ridinga bicycle
who shall collide with person walking
on the sidewalks shall be guilty Of mis-
dcmcanor.
SECTION IT, That tile game of cock
rate limits of the town, and any person
or persons taking part in or witnessing
such game, rs either participant or spec
tator, shall be subject to fine or impris-
onmcnt, at the discretion of the In tcndant
within the limits of his authority.
SECTION u. That it shah bc unlawful
Tor any person or persons, other than
employees, or passengers coming i'm or
going OF, to assemble at tho depot in
Walhalla and get on the trains. 1t shall
be the duty of the Marshal to be at the
depot on the arrival and departure of the
trains and arrest all persons getting on
the cars, or attempting to get on, other
than employees or passengers as aforc-
said, and bring them before the Intcndant
To be dealt with according to law.
SECTION 10. That any person or per-
sons violating any Of tho foregoing pro
visions of this ordinance shall be liable
to arrest and fine or imprisonment at the
discretion Of tho Intcndant within the
limits of his authority.
SECTION If. That this ordinance shall
be deemed general and perpetual, shall