No. 29.

AN ORDINANCE TO PRESERVE THE PUBLIC PEACE AND TO APPREHEND AND PUNISH VAGRANTS, DISORDERLY PERSONS, MENDICANTS, AND DRUNKEN PERSONS.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti, ordain :

Section 1. All able-bodied persons who, not having visible means of support, are found loitering or rambling about, or lodging or loitering in drinking saloons, tippling houses, beer houses, houses of ill fame, houses of bad repute, sheds or barns, or in the open air, and not giving good account of themselves, or begging in the street or elsewhere, all keepers or exhibitors of any gaming table or device, and all persons who, for the purpose of gaming, or for the purpose of watch stuffing, travel about or go from place to place, and all persons upon whom shall be found any instrument or thing used for the commission of burglary, larceny, or for picking locks or pockets, or anything used for obtaining money under false pretenses, or who carry concealed firearms, dirk-knives, or other deadly weapons, and who cannot give a good account of their possession of the same, and all fortune-tellers, shall be deemed vagrants, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of the immediate payment thereof, shall be committed to the Detroit house of correction or the county jail of Washtenaw county until such fine is paid, provided such time of imprisonment shall not exceed the period of ninety days.

Sec. 2. Any person or persons who shall make or assist in making any noise, disturbance or improper diversion, or any rout or riot, by which the peace and good order of the neighborhood are disturbed, or shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 3. No person shall be guilty of using indecent or immoral language, nor be guilty of any indecent or immoral conduct or behaviour, or use any insulting or abusive epithets to

any other person, in any public street, lane, alley, square, or space in said city.

Sec. 4. All mendicants and drunken persons shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 5. Any person who shall, by talking, laughing, or otherwise, interrupt the service in any place of Divine worship, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 6. Persons shall not collect, stand in crowds, or remain loitering on the sidewalk, or at the corners of the streets, so as to hinder or impede the passage of pedestrians, or in front of any church, or any public hall or place of worship, during service or the gathering or departing of the congregation.

Sec. 7. No person shall make any indecent exposure of his or her person in the streets, lanes, alleys, or public places of said city.

Sec. 8. No person shall show, sell, or offer for sale, or exhibit any indecent or obscene picture, drawing, engraving, book or pamphlet.

Sec. 9. Any violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of the immediate payment thereof, the offender 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.

Sec. 10. This ordinance shall take effect on the eleventh day of March, A. D. 1882.

Made and passed in common council this twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. 1882.

Approved February 28th, 1882.

Attest:

FRANK JOSLIN, City Clerk.

H. R. SCOVILL, Mayor.

No. 30.

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO DISORDERLY HOUSES, GAMBLING INSTITUTIONS AND BUCKET SHOPS.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. No person shall keep, within the city of Ypsilanti, any house of ill fame, house of assignation or house for the resort of common prostitutes, or a disorderly saloon, barroom, tavern, beer hall, grocery, theater, room or building for gaming with cards, dice, billiards, nine or ten-pin alleys, wheels of fortune, boxes, machines or other instruments or devices whatever, or shall in any manner contribute to the support, carrying on or keeping of any such house or place.

Sec. 2. No person shall knowingly let or lease any house, saloon, bar-room, tavern, theater, store, room or building of any kind to be used as a house of ill-fame, house of assignation, place for the resort of common prostitutes or disorderly.characters, or for the purpose of gambling for money or other property, or as a disorderly house, saloon, bar-room, tavern, theater or room, or, knowing his or her house, building or place to be so used, shall willingly permit its further use for any such purpose.

Sec. 3. No person shall keep, carry on or maintain, or aid in keeping, carrying on or maintaining, any lottery, policy, pool or bucket shop or any like scheme or place for drawing or disposing of any money or other property within the city.

Sec. 4. No person shall play, participate in, aid or encourage within the city limits any game, gambling, lottery, trick, device or scheme, the purpose of which is to secure or obtain money or other property by chance, fraud or deceit.

Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, and in case of failure to pay forthwith such fine and costs may be imprisoned in the Detroit house of correction or in the county jail of the

county of Washtenaw until such fine and costs be paid; provided, however, that the term of such imprisonment shall not exceed ninety days.

Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect on the eleventh day of March, A. D. 1882.

Made and passed in the common council this twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. 1882.

Approved February 28, 1882.

Attest:

FRANK JOSLIN, City Clerk.

H. R. SCOVILL, Mayor.

No. 31.

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. No person shall destroy, injure, or in any manner deface the city hall, any school building, fire engine house, fire apparatus, street lamp, lamp-post, or any public building or property whatsoever, in the city of Ypsilanti, or the appurtenances, fences, trees or fixtures thereunto belonging or appertaining.

Sec. 2. No person shall injure any public reservoir, or break, or enter the same, or throw or deposit any substance therein, or draw of any water therefrom, except in case of fire, or for the use of the fire department, without authority from the common council, the mayor of the city, or chief engineer of the fire department.

Sec. 3. No person shall destroy, cut or injure, or in any way deface, or hitch any animal or animals of any kind to any shade or ornamental tree standing in any street, avenue, public space or square, in the city of Ypsilanti. This section shall not be construed to prohibit any person owning or occupying any lot in front of or adjacent to which there may be any shade or ornamental trees from trimming the same.

Sec. 4. No person or persons shall ride or drive any horse or horses, oxen or other animals, on, over or across any bridge in said city constructed of iron, or of wood and iron combined, faster than a walk, nor drive on, over or across any such bridge, at any one time, more than twenty head of cattle; nor shall any persons congregate upon any bridge in this city to exceed fifty in number at any one time; nor shall any person or persons injure, deface or impair any bridge or any part of any bridge or its abutments in said city.*

Sec. 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not less than five or more than twenty-five dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and on failing 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 exceed ing ninety days, unless payment thereof be sooner made.

Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect on the eleventh day of March, A. D. 1882.

Made and passed in common council this twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. 1882.

Approved February, 28th, 1882.

Attest:

FRANK JOSLIN, City Clerk.

H. R. SCOVILL, Mayor.

*As Amended October 25, 1886, to take effect November 20, 1886.