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hereby directed to mark the said state
ment and assessment roll, filed as or
this date, and to enter the same on the
minutes of Council for due authentica-
tion and preservation.
Sec. q Be it further ordained, that
the treasurer of the city of Savannah
is hereby directed TO make out and send
to the property owners a bill for the
respective amounts due by them, as
provided for by said ordinance. Should
said bills be not paid within thirty
days from the date of the bills, then it
shall be the duty of the treasurer to
issue executions as provided for by
said ordinance, which shall be made
and levied as are executions for city
taxes.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, that
all ordinances and parts of ordinances,
in conflict with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
first time Aug. 81, 1904, read a second
time Sept. IA, 1904, and laid on the
table:
BY the Committee on Fire:
An ordinance amending an ordinance
entitled, can ordinance providing for
the control, regulation and better eff
cheney of the fire department of the
city of Savannah" adopted by Coun-
ell Sept. Is, 1903
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and.Aldermen of the city of Sa-
vannah, in Council assembled, That
the above recited ordinance be and the
same is hereby amended by adding
to Article 5, Section+2, the following:
Upon recommendation of the SUI
perintendent of the fire department,
the Mayor shall assign one of the reg
ularly appointed engineers as inspector
of engines whose duties lin addition
to those already prescribed) shall be
to make all necessary repairs to ma
chinery Tin so far az the tools and
implements of the department will en-
able him), when so directed by the SUI
perintendent of the fire department,
and to make inspections of engines and
machinery at such time and place as
the superintendent of the fire depart
ment may direct.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That
all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance be and
the same are hereby repealed.
Ordinance read in Council for the
first time Aug. 81, 1904, read a second
time Sept. IA, 1904, placed upon its
passage and passed:
By Alderman Oliver
An ordinance requiring the inspec-
ton of poles now erected, or which
may be erected hereafter in the city
OF Savannah, and the removal of all
unsafe and unused poles in the city
of Savannah, and to provide penalties
for violation of this ordinance.
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city Of
Savannah in Council assembled that
from and after the passage of this
ordinance it shall be the duty of the
superintendent of the fire department
to inspect, or to have inspected by
the members of the fire department,
all poles now erected in the city of
Savannah or which may be erected
hereafter, such inspections shall be
made at least once in every six months
and full written report of the same
must be made to the Mayor by the
superintendent of the fire department
once every year.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained that
in the event of the finding of any pole
which is, in the opinion of the super
intendent of the fire department, un-
safe, dangerous or menace to public
safety or public or private property,
the said superintendent of the fire de-
partment shall make immediate report
to the Mayor and shall notify the per-
son, firm or corporation to whom the
said pole belongs ITO have it removed
within twenty-four (24) hours from
the date of such notice
Sec. g. Be 1t further ordained that
any person, nrln or corporation own
ing, using or operating, such con-
demned pole who shall refuse, neglect
or fail to remove the said pole with
in twenty-four (2D hours after the re-
ceipt of such notice from the superin-
tendent of the fire department shall,
upon conviction before the Police
Court of the city of Savannah, of own
ing, using or operating a pole unsafe,
dangerous or a menace to public safe
ty or public or private property, be
subject to fine not exceeding fifty
(5O dollars or to Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding thirty 800 days. either or
both, in the discretion of the presiding
officer for every day the said pole is
allowed to remain.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained that
nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as relieving in any way any in
dividual firm or corporation from Ii
ability or responsibility for injury or
damages resulting to either persons
or property through any unsafe, de-
fective or dangerous pole. whether the
same has been reported or condemned
as herein provided.
Sec. s. Be it further ordained that
all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance be and
the same are hereby repealed.
RESOLUTIONS.