The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-25
ELY NOW A REGULAR
INCORPORATED CITY
CHARTER HAS BEEN RECEIVED
FROM SECRETARY OF STATE
SOME ORDINANCES.

Ely is now an incorporated city of
the third class, a certificate having
been received by City Clerk Oldfield
from the secretary of state. The
council held a meeting Wednesday
night and transacted the first legal
business of the new municipality.
A number of proposed ordinances
were read and referred to City At
torney Walker. They will later be
referred back to the council, when
they will be taken up again and after
certain alterations are made will be
passed.
One ordinance will fix the salaries
of the city officials. The amount of
compensation the officials are to re-
ceive is not stated as yet and will be
decided upon at later date by the
council.
The meeting night of the council
is fixed for each Tuesday of the week.
The mayor and two members OF the
council can call a special meeting by
notifying the other members. Any
member refusing to attend a meet
ing when notified by the marshal
that his attendance is needed to make
a quorum, or any member leaving
meeting and breaking quorum,
shall be subject to a fine not to ex-
ceed $50.
An ordinance will be adopted fix
ing the time when all ordinances
shall 20 into effect as Immediately af-
ter its passage, approval and publica-
tiOn.
All saloons, liquor manufacturing
IsrL &c 10 rd
rooms are to be taxed. The license
will be decided upon at some future
meeting of the council.
One of the proposed ordinances
has to do with board of health,
which is to be composed of three
members to be appointed by the
mayor. This board will attend to all
the functions necessary In keeping
the city as free from disease as pos
sible. The ordinance is similar to
that adopted by Reno. The board
will be given the right to quarantine
all houses where a person or persons
are confined with contagious dis
ease and will have the right to en-
force such quarantine. Anyone
breaking the regulations is liable to
arrest and is guilty of misde-
meanor.
Ordinance No. 3 relates to crimes
and the punishment for the same.
Assault is fixed as misdemeanOr.
Disturbing the peace Is also fixed as
a mfsdemeanor, as are negelecting to
assist officers in quelling disturb
ances when necessary, to disturb any
lawful assemblage of people, to be in
toxicated, to escape from Jail, to aid
any prisoner in escaping from jail,
to mistreat dumb animals, hitching
horses to trees, to tear down public
signs, to throw waste material In the
streets, and to use obscene language.
Two petitions were read by the
city clerk, one being from property
owners on Mill street south to Can
non street. They request that the
street be graded and sidewalks be
constructed. The matter was re-
ferred to Mayor Clark and one men,
ber of the council with power to act.
The second petition is from the
Townsite company and reads that the
regular road through what Is known
as the Hermanson and Magnuson ad-
dition, a part of Ely, is being block
| AIDED with buildings and that the
thoroughfare has never been graded
The council is requested to cause the
grading to be done, SO the public can
travel over the thoroughfare. The
matter was referred to the mayor
and an engineer.
Councilmen Hall and Root were
appointed on a committee 10 pur'
J chase $500 worth of fire hose.