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Shops, 10 hands or under drinking and washing only.
each additional hand.............

Sprinkling lawn 4-inch jet 66 feet or less front by 100
feet or less in depth. including one-half the street
in front three hours per day......
Sprinkling, each additional foot front....

carts, I horse use of water not to exceed 3,000 gallons per day, rate per month..... Proportionate increase of rates for further consumption. Steam boilers for heating buildings, each horse power water to test per 1,000 gallons

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Steam engines, stationary, each horse power up to ten

hours per day..

engines, over ten horse power, each horse power

Schools, private, each scholar

Telephones and telegraph battery rooms.

Urinals, private automatic closing..

hotel, saloon, restaurant, boarding, eating
house or public hall, automatic closing...

Wash basin, private.............

hotel saloon, restaurant, boarding house, eating house or public hall..... Water closets, private, pan or self-closing,. double acting valve ...........

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Elevators..

Fountains...

Greenhouses and Graperies..

Gardens.....

Gas Engines
Gas Works...

Halls, Public
Hotels

Livery Stables..

Malt Houses

Motors

Paper Mills.

Public Buildings..
Pop Manufacturers
Railroad Depots..

Railroad Engines..
Saloons

Soap Factories

Sprinkling Carts..

Schools

Tanneries..

Troughs.....

Theaters..

Urinals private, flowing...

hotel, saloon, restaurant, boarding house, eat

ing house or public hall, flowing..

public trough......

Water Closets, continuous flow......

All rates not herein enumerated shall be estimated by the board and charged proportionate to the water consumed.

Sec. 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in any manner conflicting with any of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, in addition to all other fines, penalties and forfeitures by this ordinance provided, be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty 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 ninety days, unless payment thereof be sooner made.

Sec. 4.

This ordinance shall take effect from and after the

22d day of April, A. D. 1898.

Made and passed in common council this 11th day of April, 1898.

Approved April 15, 1898.

P. W. CARPENTER, City Clerk.

N. B. HARDING, Mayor.

No. 70.

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE LICENSING OF DOGS AND REGULATING THE RUNNING AT LARGE AND SLAYING OF DOGS.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to own, possess or harbor, or have the care or keeping of any dog, male or female, over the age of three months, within the city of Ypsilanti, without first obtaining a license therefor from the said city of Ypsilanti. The fee for which (said) license shall be: For a male dog and a spayed female dog, one dollar; for a female dog, two dollars. No license shall be granted for a period exceeding one year, and all licenses shall expire on the first day of May succeeding their issue.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of every person owning or having the possession or care of any dog, male or female, to cause such dog to be registered in the office of the city clerk, in a register kept by said clerk for that purpose, and to pay the license fee provided in Section 1 of this ordinance, into the city treasury; and also pay a fee of twenty-five cents to the clerk of said city for the issuing and recording such license;

also to obtain the city clerk's receipt for said license so paid and the metalic plate or check hereinafter described, under the penalties herein provided.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said city to provide such number of metallic plates or checks as may be necessary, of such size and shape as he may deem expedient (the shape of such check or plate to be changed each year), having stamped thereon numbers indicating the year for which the tax is paid, the number of the license and the letters Y. D. T., and to deliver one of these metallic plates to each person so paying for a license upon any such dog.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of such owner, possessor, keeper or harborer of any such registered dog, to place or cause to be placed around the neck of any such dog, a substantial collar, and on such collar securely to attach or cause to be attached the metallic plate or check so furnished by the clerk of said city; and if any person shall place or cause to be placed upon the collar or around the neck of any such dog, any counterfeit of the metallic plate or check so furnished by the city clerk, or any such metallic plate without the license for the keeping of such dog, having first been paid, he or she will be liable to the penalties herein provided.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the pound master of said city to take up and impound any dog, male or female, found running at large, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, in the city of Ypsilanti, not having a collar around its neck with the metallic plate or check aforesaid attached thereto; and, if said dog shall not be redeemed as hereinafter provided, within four days after such dog shall have been impounded, it shall be the duty of the poundmaster to slay or cause to be slain the same; or if the animal is worthy and valuable the same shall be sold by the poundmaster, at the pound, by public outcry, to the highest bidder, at the hour of noon next succeeding the said four days. All moneys over and above the poundmaster's fees, arising from the said sales, shall be paid to the city treasurer by the said poundmaster within thirty days from said sales. But it is hereby provided, that any such dog so im

pounded may be redeemed or taken from such pound, upon exhibiting to said poundmaster a receipt of the city clerk, showing that the license in this ordinance imposed has been paid for such dog, and (upon) the payment to said poundmaster of a pound fee of one dollar and the further sum of twenty-five cents per day for each and every day such dog shall have been impounded.

Sec. 6. It shall be lawful for any person, and it shall be the duty of the marshal and each patrolman of the city of Ypsilanti, to seize, take up and deliver to the poundmaster any dog, male or female, found running at large in said city in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance.

Sec. 7. The poundmaster of said city is hereby authorized to collect the fees provided for in Section 5 of this ordinance, for all dogs impounded, and he shall retain such fees as compensation for his services as poundkeeper under this ordinance: Provided, That when any dog which shall have been delivered to said poundmaster by some person other than the marshal or a patrolman in said city of Ypsilanti, shall have been redeemed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of this ordinance one-half of such redemption fee shall by said poundmaster be paid to the person who delivered said dog to the poundmaster as provided in Section 6.

Section 8. It shall not be lawful for any owner, possessor or person having in charge or care, a fierce or dangerous dog, to permit or allow the same to go at large at any time in said city, to the danger or annoyance of any of its inhabitants. Whenever any person shall have been convicted of violating the provisions of this section of this ordinance, and shall permit or allow such dog to run at large after such conviction, it shall be the duty of the police authorities of said city to kill such dog.

Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful for the owner, possessor, keeper or harborer of any licensed female dog, knowingly to permit her to run at large while in heat, and it shall be the duty of the police of said city to seize, take up and deliver to the

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