Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-02-12
ORpIN AN sJES
OF THE TOWN OF WALHALLA
Number L.
An Ordinance Respecting the Streets,

An Ordinance Respecting the Streets,
Pavements and Ways of the 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 a 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 or
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 trash
on the streets, and any person or persons
SO doing, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor.
SECTION s. That it shall be unlawful to
leave any piles or accumulations of lum-
ber, tirewood, 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 misdemeanor.
SECTION q. 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 crac kerry, ~ other trash;
and it shall be lnisaumeanor for any
person or persons so to do.
SECTION 7. That ball playing or other
amusements on Main street are prohibit
ed. Any person or persons SO doing
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION s. That it shall be unlawful
to shoot guns, pistols or other firearms,
fire crackers or slingshots, or to throw
c-balls, within the incorporate limits
of the town, and any person or persons
so doing shall be guilty of misde-
meapor: Provided, a person may shoot
firearms on his own premises for the bona
iide purpose of protecting his property
from damage by animals or birds wild by
nature: Provided, further that the dis
charge of balls or s. OF 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
same at regular crossing, or to place
any obstruction which may impede q free
passage on or along any sidewalk, and
any person or persons so doing shall be
guilty of misdcmeanor.
SECTION. 10. That it shall be unlawful
to ride bicycle on the sidewalks of
any street within the incorporate limits.
Any person so doing shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
SECTION IL. That the 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 II. That it shall be unlawful
for any 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 l3. 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 the Mayor within the limits
of his authority.
SECTION IA. That this ordinance shall
be deemed general and perpetual, shall
go into effocS 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 Wahala on
Il. 81 the 9th day of February, 1902, ari ia
the l2Gth year Of .i3G SGToivignty AMI
independence of the United states of America,
j. NJ. WARD, Mayor.
G. w. Pitchford, Clerk.