Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-10
ORDINANCE
 ID TAX AUTOMOBILES
lt Win Probably Be Passed By the Council on Tues
 day Night

The ordinance requiring automo- bi es to carry a license tag and a tail light win probably be put through the council at a special meeting ro be held. Thursday night The meet ing was to have been held last night. but owing to the fact that Mayor Nj. Newman was in Tombstone, the meet ing was postponed.
 The news that the council intended to tax automobiles created a stir .Qf Interest among auto owners, but nOth- ing more The wonder. to them, was that this had not been done sooner, as it has been done in other cities the size of Bisbee in the sOuthewst While the skeleton of the ordinance already drawn. does not state the amount of the tax, it is understood that it win be g. per year. not a very heavy burden.
 A controversy that ragged hotly in Fl Paso on the occasion of the pas sage of a similar ordinance may be reproduced in Bisbee One autOmo- bic owner and a prominent citi- zen. said that he would not object to being taxed. but he saw no reason why buggies, hacks and carriages should ont also be compelled to carry lights at night Such ordinances seem to presume that while the buggy and it's occupants are in danger from the automobile. an automobile and it's oc- oupants are not in danger from the buggy. This auto-owner, however, does not admit this, and the council may be asked to compel all drivers of buggies and similar conveyances to provide themselves with red lights when travelling within the city limits at night
 The ordinance that will be proposed for passage at the Thursday night meeting Of the council VII be along the following lines:
 BE IT ORDAINED By the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Bisbee, as follows:
 Section 1. All automobiles, motor cycles. and vehicles Of like charac' ter, in use upon the streets and high. ways Of this City teXcepting those kept and housed at points more than miles outside Of the corporate limits of the City) shall whi,e being driven upon any of said thoroughfares have displayed conspicuously thereon, numbered sign, to be furnished by the City Marshal. and to be displayed and kept on such vehicle in such man. ner and at such place thereon, as he may from time 10 time direct
 Section ? Before any vehicle shall be entitled to carry such sign. there shall be paid to the City Marshal for the benefit of the Street Fund of said City. annually, the sum of S- for automobiles and S---for motorcye' es and other vehicles, upon receipt oi which the Marshal shall issue his li cense tax receipt therefor on account Of such vehicle, and shall furnish such sign and direct how and where it shall be placed and carried thereon.
 Section 3. Any person who shall drive or use, or cause to be driven or used. any vehicle upon which the license tag has not been paid as here in required, or upon which the mum bered sign herein required shall moi be displayed cOnspicuously as direct ed by the City Marshal shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine nol to exceed the sum of S-or by iE prisonment in the City Jail for a per fine and imprisonment
 Section { This ordinance shall take effect upon November l, 1911 after its due publication as required by law.