The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
ENSLEY'S NEW CODE HAS BEEN ADOPTED Has Many New Laws and
 Ordinances SOME RACE LEGISLATION 6arbers Are Required to Provide Sep arate Chairs and Utensils for Shaving Whites and Blacks.
 Gambling Laws.

Ensley, September 10.-(Special) )-The new city code of Ensley. which has just been completed by Attorney Frank Deed meyer and City Attorney Romaine Boyd, and which was adopted by the city coun- cil at the meeting of that body last Thursday night has many features of vital interest not only to the citizens of Ensley, but to the state at large.
 Some of the new ordinances in the code are very progressive and their az gressiveness is so pronounced that 1t Is possible that some of them will be sub jected to test in the federal courts. The chapter on race legislation has several items that are being protested against by negroes and there are threats that they will be tested in the federal courts.
 The ordinance which has created the most comment is as follows: No person, firm or corporation conducting the barber business in this city or within the police jurisdiction thereof shall use the same razor, brush. linen or other article or lm- plement in shaving or in cutting the hair or beard of whites and negroes and separ- ate chairs for whites and negroes shall be used and provided in all barber shops
 where whites and negroes are received as customers"
 Shaved White and Black.
 This ordinance was deemed necessary from the fact that some shops conducted by negroes for negroes in the city of Ensley have been in the habit of receiving white customers who ignorantly enter the places and are not told that the shops are for the use of negroes. Many foreigners and others not acquainted en-
 ter barber shops where negroes are re- ceived as customers and the proprietors
 wait upon them without notifying the prospective customer that the shop is for
 the custom of negroes only.
 Another ordinance is as follows: Ne groes and whites shall not play together at games of any kind in any saloon or other public place within this city or
 within the police jurisdiction thereof"
 Still another ordinance provides for sep crate toilet rooms or closets for the two races, and places a penalty upon those employing whites and negroes who do not make such separate provision. These three ordinances carry a penalty
 of a fine of not less than $1 nor more than s100, and in addition an imprisonment in
 the city jail or hard work on the streets of Ensley for not more than six months
 at the discretion of the mayor. The new code is very comprehensive
 and for municipal purposes is one of the | most complete ever published by any city In the state. It will go into eff l feet October l. Seventyfve copies are to be printed and each copy will contain about 300 pages.
 | Besides the charter of the town of Ems ley the new city code contains every act
 of the legislature of Alabama relating to
 Ensey, also an act establishing the Ems | ley school district.
 When the city of Ensley was chartered l in 1900 a city code was established which l in the last two years, by reason of the rapid growth of the city. had been found | entirely insufficient to the general and growing needs The old code in a measure | has been made the basis of the new one | with many additions and changes. The | following new chapters have beene incor- | porated In the code:
 New Chapters in Code. Bonds, city prison, sanitary officers, coal delivery, fees and costs, fire depart | ment, green grocers and hucksters, hacks. wagons and vehicles, labor brokers, H. brary. milk inspection, pawn brokers. plumbing, quarantine regulations, relief l of the poor. vital statistics, weights and measures.
 | The chapter on coal delivery provides | that coal sold to private consumers must | be weighed on public scales and an off, | hcial weigh bill delivered by the driver | to the consumer.
 The chapter on labor brokers is intended to prevent the driving away of labor from Ensley.
 The new code provides that the milk in- spector shall be entitled to sample of all milk sold Tn the city of Ensley by any person, which he must tes-, and It prohibits under severe penalty the sale Of impure milk.
 The quarantine rules provided by the