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Sec. 2.

Any person who shall be boisterous or quarrelsome or who shall make any noisy disturbance upon any premises of the railroad company within the limits of said city, and who shall refuse or neglect to leave the premises or grounds of the railroad company, or to cease such noise or disturbance forthwith, when requested by the station agent of said company, shall be liable to pay a fine, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of said city, of not less than one nor more than five dollars.

Sec. 3. It shall not be lawful for any hotel runner, hackman, drayman, or any other person to solicit custom for any hotel, hack, dray, or livery, upon any of the grounds, or within any building, railroad car, or premises of the railroad company, within the limits of said city, except at such places as shall be designated by the station agent of said company; and any person who shall offend against the aforesaid provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of said city, pay a fine of not less than one nor more than five dollars; Provided, however, That no complaint shall be made for any such offense by any person other than the station agent of said railroad company.

Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful for any boy or boys to get on any railroad train, car or locomotive, for the purpose of riding and jumping off, or riding from one point to another, within the limits of said city; nor to get on to the steps or platform of any passenger train standing within the limits of said city (unless for the purpose of taking passage on such train); and any boy or boys offending against the foregoing provisions shall, on conviction thereof, on complaint of the station agent, before any justice of the peace of said city, pay a fine of not less than one nor more than five dollars.

Sec. 5. It shall be lawful for the marshal or any constable of said city, whenever called upon by the station agent of the railroad company in said city, to arrest any person or persons offending against the provisions of any section of this ordinance, and to take such person forthwith before some justice of the peace of said city, to be dealt with according to law; and

if the said station agent shall fail or neglect, for one hour after notice of such arrest, to appear before such justice of the peace, and prosecute such complaint or arrest, the person or persons so arrested shall be forthwith discharged.

Sec. 6. If any person convicted as aforesaid for offending. against the provisions of this ordinance, shall fail to pay any fine imposed by the court pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance, within such time as the court may direct, the said court before whom such conviction was had, may commit such person to the city lock-up until such fine is paid, not exceed ing five days; and any person so convicted as aforesaid, shall be discharged from said lock-up upon payment of such fine, together with the costs of imprisonment.

Sec. 7. All fines collected by any justice of the peace, or other officer, pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance, shall be paid to the city treasurer within five days thereafter; and if any officer shall neglect to pay over as aforesaid any fine for a longer period than five days, he shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than twentyfive dollars.

Made and passed in common council at the city of Ypsilanti this twenty-sixth day of August, A. D. 1861.

JOHN MCCREADY, Clerk.

P. DAVIS, Mayor.

No. 4.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

That an alley commencing ten rods north of Pearl street, on the west side of Stuck street, and running from thence, west, parallel with said Pearl street, to the west side of Stuck's

addition, be and the same is hereby vacated; and that said alley is hereby laid out and established one rod farther south and on the north end of lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, in said Stuck's addition to said city of Ypsilanti.

Made and passed by the common council of the city of Ypsilanti, this nineteenth day of April, A. D. 1869.

PARMENIO DAVIS, Mayor.

J. WILLARD BABBITT, Clerk.

No. 5.

AN ORDINANCE TO PUNISH DRUNKENNESS.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. That any person who shall be drunk or intoxicated in any hotel, inn, saloon, or place of public business, or in any assemblage of people collected together in any place for any purpose, or in any street, lane, alley or highway within the corporate limits of the said city of Ypsilanti, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding twentyfive dollars and the costs of prosecution, and on failing to pay the fine imposed forthwith, shall be imprisoned in the county jail of Washtenaw county or in the Detroit house of correction for a term not exceeding ninety days.

Sec. 2.

It shall be the duty of the marshal and constables of the said city of Ypsilanti, whenever they shall find any person so drunk or intoxicated, forthwith to arrest such person and bring him before any justice of the peace of said city of Ypsilanti, to be dealt with according to the provisions of this ordinance.

Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be published by the city clerk one week in the Ypsilanti Sentinel, and the Ypsilanti Com

mercial, weekly newspapers published in the said city of Ypsilanti.

Made and passed in common council, at the city of Ypsilanti, this twenty-sixth day of January, A. D. 1874.

WATSON SNYDER, Mayor.

CHARLES M. WOODRUFF, City Clerk.

No. 6.

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE FEES OF THE JUSTICE OF THE
PEACE, OF THE CONSTABLES, WHEN ENGAGED IN CASES FOR
THE VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCES OF THE SAID
CITY OF YPSILANTI.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. For the services mentioned in this ordinance, hereafter done or performed, by the officers hereafter named when engaged in cases for the violation of the ordinances of the said city of Ypsilanti, the fees hereinafter prescribed shall be allowed.

FFES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Sec. 2. The fees of the justices of the peace of the city of Ypsilanti when engaged in cases for the violation of the ordinances of said city, for any services herein specified to be rendered by them respectively, shall be as follows, namely: For a summons, warrant, or venire, fifteen cents; for trying each cause, one dollar for the first day, and for each additional day the sum of one dollar; for entering any cause upon the docket after return of process, twenty-five cents; for making all other entries upon the docket in any cause not otherwise provided for, twenty-five cents; for each subpoena, not exceed

or

ing four, ten cents; for swearing a jury, ten cents; for swearing each witness in a cause, ten cents; for entering every final judgment, twenty-five cents; for every continuance adjournment at the request of the party, fifteen cents; for drafting any bond or recognizance requisite in any case arising under the ordinances of said city before a justice of the peace, thirty-five cents; for approving any bond or recognizance, ten cents; for reducing to writing the evidence, objections to evidence, and exceptions taken by either party, upon the trial of any cause, ten cents for each folio; for making and filing return upon appeal, one dollar; for taking depositions or confessions, ten cents for each folio; for entering a discontinuance or satisfaction, ten cents; for making returns on special appeal or certiorari, two dollars; and no justice of the peace of the said city of Ypsilanti shall receive any other fees or compensation for any services rendered in any cause arising under the ordinances of the said city, than such as are hereinbefore provided.

FEES OF CONSTABLES.

Sec. 3. For serving a warrant, fifty cents; for serving a summons, twenty-five cents; for a copy of every summons delivered on request, ten cents; for serving a subpoena, fifteen cents for service upon each witness summoned by him; for serving an execution on the body, or goods and chattels of the defendant, fifty cents; for committing a defendant to prison on execution, fifty cents; for traveling in the service of process, ten cents for each mile necessarily traveled from the place of service to the place of return; for summoning a jury, seventyfive cents; attending upon a jury, fifty cents; for collecting and paying over money on executions, four per cent upon the sums collected; advertising sale of property, fifty cents; for selling property, fifty cents; for making arrests without process, under ordinance to prevent drunkenness, fifty cents; for making arrest without process, in all other cases, fifty cents; for every commitment to city lock-up, twenty-five cents; and no constable of the said city of Ypsilanti shall receive any other compensation for any services rendered in any cause

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