AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE COLLECTION OF THE CITY REVENUE.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. For the support of the city government, and improvement of the city, the city council shall have the power to levy and collect taxes not exceeding one-half of one per centum upon the assessed value of all property in the city, made taxable by law for state and county purposes, the amount to be determined by the city council in every instance.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the city marshal, as an officio collector of the revenue, to collect all the taxes placed in his hands for collection, to collect all licenses from merchants, dramshop-keepers, and all other persons requiring a license, and to pay to the treasurer all money collected by him on the account of the city, on the first Wednesday in each month, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be filed by the collector with the city recorder, the other to be retained by himself.

SEC. 3. If any person shall fail to pay any taxes levied upon his or her property, the city collector may enforce payment, and for that purpose such collector shall have power to seize and sell the goods and chattels of the person so failing to pay such tax in the manner that goods and chattels are, or may be seized and sold under execution issued on judgments at law, and no property shall be exempt from seizure or sale for taxes; provided, that no seizure or sale for taxes shall be made until the collector has demanded payment of them either by personal application to the party liable to pay the same, or by leaving a written notice at his place of abode with some member of his family over the age of fifteen years, nor for ten days after such demand; nor shall the collector receive a credit for delinquent taxes until he shall have made affidavit that he has been unable to find any personal property out of which to make the taxes in each case to returned delinquent; provided further, that whenever taxes shall be collected by seizure or sale of goods and chattels, the collector shall have power to levy and collect, additional to the tax and interest thereon, the necessary cost of the proceeding; and provided further, that if any person charged with taxes is about to remove from the city without paying the same, the collector may seize and sell goods and personal property of such person without having made the ten days demand; and provided further, that if taxes are due by a non-resident, demand for taxes due by such may be made of the agent or attorney of such non-resident.

SEC. 4. On the first Wednesday of April in each year, if the collector shall be unable to collect any taxes specified on the tax book, having diligently endeavored and used all lawful means to collect the same, he shall make two lists thereof, one to be called the personal delinquent list, on which shall be stated the names of all persons owing taxes on personal property whose taxes cannot be collected, alphabetically arranged with the amount due from each; and the other to be called the land delinquent list, on which shall be stated the names of all persons owing taxes on lands and town lots, where taxes cannot be collected, with the full description of said lands and lots, and the amount of taxes due thereon set opposite each tract of land and town lot, which amount of delinquent taxes is to be placed to the credit of the collector.

SEC. 5. The collector of the revenue shall, on or before the first day of May, annually, return to the county collector, a list of lands and lots on

which the taxes or special assessments levied by the city, remain due and unpaid, as provided in sections 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, of the revenue law in the state of Missouri, of act approved March 30, 1872, and section 14 of the revenue law for the state of Missouri, of act approved April 28, 1877.

SEC. 6. The personal delinquent list allowed to the collector, shall be delivered back to the collector or his successor in office, who shall collect the same and account therefor as other moneys collected, the amount of which shall be charged against the city collector by the city recorder. SEC. 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. passage.

This ordinance to take effect and be in force from and after its

Approved November 17, 1878. Attest: W. C. PATTON, Recorder.

GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO MERCHANTS' TAX.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of all merchants dealing as such, to furnish the city assessor, on the first day of August in each year, a full and complete statement of goods, wares and merchandise then on hand and kept by them for sale.

SEC. 2. Upon all such goods, wares and merchandise, there shall be levied an ad valorem tax equal to the tax levied upon personal and real property.

SEC. 3. The provisions of this ordinance shall not be applicable to dramshop dealers.

Approved November 19, 1878.

W. C. PATTON, Clerk.

GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO NUISANCES.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. No person shall throw into any highway, thoroughfare or other public place, within the city, any animal or vegetable substance whatsoever, likely to create a nuisance.

SEC. 2. The owner or possessor of any dumb animal, which may die within the city, shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, cause the same to be removed beyond the limits of the city.

SEC. 3. The owner or occupant of any livery or other stable, within the city, shall keep his stable clean, and shall not permit more than two cart loads of manure to accumulate and remain in or near the same, at any time between the first day of May and the first day of November. SEC. 4. No person shall deposit any dead animal, or excrement, or filth from privies, upon any ground in the city.

SEC. 5. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine not less than one nor more than ninety dollars for each and every violation, and five dollars in addition for each and every day such violation shall be suffered or continued.

Approved August 21, 1867.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows:

SECTION 1. That every hog pen, slaughter house, privy, mud hole, stable or other places in the limits of the said city of Richmond, in a stinking or unhealthful condition, or in a condition calculated to endanger the health, or interfere with the comfort of the citizens of said city, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and any owner or possessor thereof, or any person who shall be the cause of either of the aforesaid nuisances, shall forfeit and pay to the city of Richmond, a sum not less than one or more than ninety dollars, and also five dollars for each day such nuisance is allowed to remain after notice to the party causing or permitting the same, as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. All notices required to be given under this ordinance shall be given by the city marshal, and shall require the party violating the same to correct, remove, or abate all such nuisances in twenty-four hours.

SEC. 3. If any nuisance is not corrected, abated, or removed in twentyfour hours after such notice, the city marshal shall correct, remove, or abate the same at the cost of the city, and the persons creating or permitting such nuisance shall, in addition to other fines and forfeitures, forfeit and pay all costs incurred by the city, to be recovered by the city as other fines and forfeitures.

SEC. 4. This ordinance shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage. GEO. I. WASSON,

Approved November 19, 1878. Attest: W. C. PATTON, Clerk.

Mayor.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION. 1. When any building or property is declared a nuisance by the city council of the city of Richmond, and a notice of the fact thereof is given to the owner, occupant, or agent thereof, it shall be the duty of such owner, occupant, or agent to remove the same within five days from the time said notice is given.

SEC. 2. And if any owner, occupant, or agent of such property shall fail to comply with the provisions of the preceding section of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the street commissioner to remove said property at the cost of such owner, occupant, or agent, and he shall make out and certify to the bills against said owners, occupants, or agents, chargeable with the costs of such work, and deliver the same to the city collector, and take his receipt therefor.

SEC. 3. And the city collector shall present said bills for payment to the persons charged, or their agent, within five days after receiving the same; and if the said bills be not paid within ten days after demand is made by the collector, as provided in the next preceding section, the collector shall deliver the same to the city attorney, who shall commence suit thereon before the city recorder, or other officer having jurisdiction.

SEC. 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 15, 1870.

Attest: WILLIS WARINNER, Clerk.

JAMES W. BLACK,

Mayor.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO STREETS, SIDEWALKS, ETC.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever the city council shall direct, by an order entered on the city journal, sidewalks to be made on any street in the city, it shall be the duty of the street commissioner to give notice to the owners and occupants of property fronting on such street, to set, curb, and pave such sidewalks, and it is hereby made the duty of such owners to construct such sidewalks and pavements at their own expense, within such time as may be directed by the city council.

SEC. 2. If any owner of such property fronting on any street where pavements or sidewalks are required to be made, fail to curb and pave the sidewalk, as directed by the street commissioner, and within the time prescribed by the city council, then it shall be the duty of the street commissioner to perform said work at the cost of said owner or owners, and in all cases where he has performed the work, he shall make out and certify to the bills against each person chargeable with the cost of said work, and deliver the same to the city collector, and take his receipt therefor, and the city collector shall present said bills for payment to the person or persons charged, or to their agent, within five days after receiving the.

same.

SEC. 3. If the said bills be not paid within ten days after demand is made by the collector, as provided in the next preceding section, the collector shall deliver the same to the city attorney, who shall commence suit thereon, before the city recorder, or other officer having jurisdiction.

SEC. 4. If any person obstruct any sidewalk, he shall be fined in a sum not less than one, nor more than five dollars, to be recovered as other fines are before the city recorder.

Approved August 21, 1867.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE FISCAL YEAR.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. That the fiscal year of said city shall terminate on the first Monday in April of each year.

Approved, August 21, 1867.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO WARDS.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. All that part of the city which lies east of the Knoxville street, and north of the street running east and west immediately north of the public square, shall be designated and known as ward No. 1.

SEC. 2. All that part of the city which lies north of the public square, and west of Knoxville street, and east of the street running north and south immediately west of the public square, shall be known and designated as ward No. 2.

SEC. 3. All that part of the city which lies north of Main street and west of the street running north and south immediately west of the court house, shall be known and designated as ward No. 3.

SEC. 4. That part of the city which lies south of Main street and west of the street running north and south immediately west of the pub

lic square to the college ground, thence west to Camden street, thence with said street south to the boundary line, shall be known and designated as ward No. 4.

SEC. 5. All that part of said city which lies south of Main street and east of ward No. 4, and west of the second street, immediately east of the public square, running north and south, shall be known and designated as ward No. 5.

SEC. 6. All that portion of the city lying east of the second street east of the public square, known and designated as Shaw street, and extending upon the north to north Main street, and upon the east and south to the city limits, shall be known and designated as ward No. 6. Approved August 21, 1867.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. Every person who shall offer for sale any live stock, produce, forage or other articles usually sold by weight, if required by purchaser, shall cause the same to be weighed on the city scales, or other standard scales, and if such person shall fail or refuse to have such articles so weighed, when required so to do, he shall upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not exceeding five nor less than one dollar.

SEC. 2. The lawful weights and measures in this city shall be the same as those prescribed by the general statutes of the state of Missouri. Approved August 21, 1867.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE EXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRES, AND THE PREVENTION THEREOF, AND IN RELATION TO CHIMNEYS, AND THE REPAIRING OF FLUES.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Richmond, as follows: SECTION 1. No person owning or occupying any dwelling or business house within the limits of the city of Richmond, shall store or keep any combustible material in such house in such manner as likely to catch on fire.

SEC. 2. If any person so having any such combustible material, fail for five days to remove the same after ordered by the city council, the same shall be removed by the city marshal, at the expense of such person so owning or occupying such premises.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the city council to order the same to be removed upon the complaint of any one, when they believe it to be necessary.

SEC. 4. All persons owning any dwelling house or business house within the limits of said city, the chimneys or stove flues of which need repairing, shall repair the same within five days after being ordered so to do by the city council.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this ordinance shall not be so construed as to prevent any person from keeping any hay in their stables or barns within said city.

SEC. 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved August 19, 1878.

W. C. PATTON, Clerk.

GEO. I. WASSON, Mayor.