Made and passed in the common council this eleventh day of February, A. D. 1878.

Approved February 11th, 1878.

Attest:

FRANK JOSLIN, City Clerk.

L. A. BARNES, Mayor.

No. 14.

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF THE PUBLIC STREETS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES BY PERSONS KNOWN AS

"NEWSBOYS" IN PLYING THIS TRADE

OR BUSINESS.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti, ordain :

Section 1. No boy or boys or other persons known as "newsboys," shall ply this trade or business in any of the streets, avenues, parks or other public space within the city without a permit from the city clerk, countersigned by the mayor, as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. The city clerk is hereby authorized to grant permits in writing to the class of persons known as "newsboys." to ply this trade or business in the streets, avenues, alleys, parks or other public spaces of this city. No permit granted under this ordinance shall last for a period longer than one year, from the date of the issuing of such permit.

Sec. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the city clerk to furnish to each person to whom a permit is granted a number made of tin, or other metal; he shall endorse such number upon such permit, and shall keep correct record of the name

of each person to whom a permit is granted, with his place of residence, the trade or business he is permitted to pursue under this ordinance and the number with which he is supplied.. He shall collect the sum of twenty-five cents from each person to whom the number herein provided for is issued.

Sec. 4. Each person to whom a number is issued under the preceding sections of this ordinance, shall, while plying his trade or business, wear said number on the front of his hat or cap or on the breast of his coat, so that the same may be plainly seen.

Sec. 5. The mayor, the city clerk and the common council,. or either of them, may revoke the permit herein provided for;. and it shall be deemed a sufficient cause for such revocation, that the person whose permit has been revoked, has been guilty of using indecent or profane language or of committing. any act of a disorderly or dishonest nature; and the permit issued any "newsboy" may be revoked as aforesaid, if he shall sell or offer for sale, circulate or deliver or carry, any newspaper, pamphlet, magazine or printed matter within said city,. the sale or circulation of which, within said city, may be, or shall have been prohibited by an ordinance, or by a resolution. of the common council of said city.

Sec. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this. ordinance, shall be punished by a fine, not to exceed two dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and on failing to pay forthwith such fine and costs, may be imprisoned in the county jail of Washtenaw county, for any term, not exceeding. fifteen days, unless payment thereof be sooner made.

Sec. 7.

its passage.

This ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after

Sec. 8. This ordinance, immediately after its passage, shall be published once in the Ypsilanti Sentinel, and once in the Ypsilanti Commercial, weekly newspapers printed and circulated within the city of Ypsilanti.

Made and passed in common council this eleventh day of February, A. D. 1878.

Attest:

FRANK JOSLIN, City Clerk.

L. A. BARNES, Mayor.

No. 15.

AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES OF THE DEPUTY CITY MARSHAL, DEPUTY CLERK, AND SPECIAL DEPUTY MARSHALS.

Repealed November 27, 1891. See Ordinance No. 52.

No. 16.

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO PUBLIC POUNDS AND TO ANIMALS AND FOWLS RUNNING AT LARGE.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. There shall be two or more public pounds in the city of Ypsilanti, to be located in such places as may be designated by the common council, and which shall be kept open during the entire year, for the reception of all fowls and animals taken as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2.

Pound-masters shall be appointed by the common council, and shall hold their office for the period of one year, subject however to removal at any time, and shall receive for their services the fees hereinafter provided.

Sec. 3. No horse, mare, colt, mule, jackass, cow, calf, bull, ox, heifer, steer, swine, or geese, shall run or be permitted to run, at large anywhere within the limits of the city of Ypsilanti, or be tethered, herded, or in anywise pastured in any street or alley in said city, nor shall chickens or fowls of any kind be permitted, from April 15 to November 1 of each and every year, to run at large anywhere within the limits of the city of Ypsilanti.*

Sec. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the pound-masters, marshal, deputy marshal, special deputy marshals, and constables, and it shall be lawful for any other person of the age af eighteen years and over, to take up and convey to one of the public pounds any animals or domestic fowls, running at large or tethered, herded or pastured contrary to the provisions of section three of this ordinance; and for such service the person performing it, shall be entitled to receive the sum of fifty cents for each animal, and twenty-five cents for each fowl, so driven or taken to the pound.

Sec. 5. The pound-masters shall receive, keep, tend, feed any animal or fowl which may be brought to the pound, under the foregoing provisions.

Sec. 6. It shall be lawful for the pound-master to demand and receive as his fee, for taking in each and every such animal or fowl so impounded by virtue of this ordinance, ten cents, which fee, together with the fees for driving such animal or fowl to pound and the charges for keeping and feeding the same therein, (twenty-five cents per day for each animal and ten cents per day for each fowl) shall be paid to the poundmaster, by the owner thereof, or some person for him, before such animal or fowl shall be released from said pound; and if the owner of any such animal or fowl, impounded as aforesaid, shall not pay the aforesaid fees, for driving to pound, taking in, and keeping and feeding the same, within three days after the same were impounded, then it shall be the duty of the city marshal to sell such animal at public vendue, giving three days previous notice thereof by advertisements posted up at *As Amended November 27, 1891.

the pound where such animal or fowl was impounded, and at the postoffice; and from the moneys accruing from such sale, to retain the aforesaid fees for the respective parties who may be entitled to the same for the driving to pound, taking in and keeping and feeding such animal or fowl, together with ten per cent upon the avails of such sale for advertising and selling animal, which ten per cent shall belong to said city, and be paid, together with the surplus, into the city treasury, such surplus, however, subject to the order of the common council, who shall upon proof restore the same to the owner of such fowl or animal.

Sec. 7. In no case shall the pound master deliver to any person any animal or fowl, lawfully impounded, before receiving the established fees, except by order of the marshal or any alderman.

Sec. 8. No person shall hinder, delay, or interfere with any one who is driving or carrying any animal or fowl to the public pound.

Sec. 9. No person shall break, or attempt to break, or assist in breaking into any pound.

Sec. 10. No person shall take up, drive or carry to the public pound any animal or fowl not legally liable to be impounded.

Sec. II. If any animal or fowl, that may have been lawfully impounded, shall escape or be rescued, any poundmaster, or the marshal, deputy marshal or any special deputy marshal or constable, may, within seven days thereafter, retake such animal or fowl, and the same may be held and sold, as if no escape or rescue had taken place.

Sec. 12. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one nor more than ten dollars, together with the costs of prosecution; and on failure to pay forthwith such fine and costs, may be imprisoned in the Detroit house of correction or in the county jail of Washtenaw county for any term not exceeding ninety days, unless payment thereof be sooner made.