Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-07-23
ORDIN A NOES
OF THE TOWN OF WALHALLA,
Number 1.

An Ordinance Respecting the Streets
Pavements and Ways of tho Town OF
Walhalla.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the Town of Walhalla. in
council assembled, and by authority OF
the same:
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful
to run horse or mule on Main street
and any person or persons so doing shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. That it shall be misde.
meanor 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 injure any
shade trees by hitching horses, mules OF
other live stock thereto, or otherwise
committing any act which is calculated
to injure said trees.
SECTION 4. That it shall be unlawful
to leave melon rinds or other trasl,
on the streets, and any person or persons
so doing, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor.
SECTION 5. That it shall be unlawful to
leave any piles or accumulations of lum-
Der, firewood, 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 misdemeanor.
SECTION 6. That it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to allow to
accumulate on Main street, in front OF
their premises, any sweepings or collec-
tions OF papers, paper boxes, tin cans,
broken glass or crockery, or other trash
and it shall be misdemeanor for any
person or persons so to do.
SECTION 7. That ball playing or other
amusements OH Main street are prohibit
ed. Any person or persons so doing
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 8. That it shall be unlawful
to shoot guns, pistols or other firearms,
iire-crackers or slingshots, or to throw
e-balls, within tho incorporate limits
OF the town, and any person or persons
meanor: Provided, a person may shoot
firearms on his own premises for the bona
tide purpose of protecting his property
from damage by animals or birds wild by
nature: Provided, further, that the dis
charge of balls or shot from any firearms
by any person for the purpose aforesaid,
within the incorporate limits, shall be
confined to the premises owned or occu-
pied by the person shooting.
SECTION 8. That it shall be unlawful to
ride or drive upon the sidewalks, or to
lead horse thereon, except to cross the
samo at a regular crossing, or to place
any obstruction which may impede free
passage on or along any sidewalk, and
any person or persons so doing shall be
guilty of q misdemeanor.
SECTION 10. That it shall be unlawful
to ride a bicycle on the sidewalks of
any street within the incorporate limits.
Any person so doing shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
SECrIoN II. That tho game of cock
fighting is prohibited within the incorpo-
rate limits of the town, and any person
or persons taking part in or witnessing
such game, as either participant or spec
tator, shall be subject to fine or impris-
onment, at the discretion Of the Mayor
within the limits of his authority.
SECTION 12. That it shall be unlawful
for an. person or persons, other than
employees, or passengers coming in or
going off, to assemble at the depot in
Walhalla and get on the trains.
SECTION 13. That any person or per-
sons violating any of the foregoing pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be liable
to arrest and fine or Imprisonment at the
discretion of the Mayor within the limits
of his authority.
SECTION d. That this ordinance shall
be deemed general and perpetual. shall
go into effect upon it's publication, and
continue of force until repealed or
amended.
Done In Council and ratified under the corpo-
rate seal of the Town of Walhalla on
IL. 81 the 9th day of February, 1902, and i'm
the i2Gth year of the sovereignty and
Independence OF the United States of America,
G. w. Pitchford, Clerk