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the written permission of the Mayor, which permission shall
limit the time of such firing and shall be subject to be revoked
at any time by the Common Council.
Sec. 2. Any person who shall be found guilty of vio-
lating this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more
than One Hundred Dollars or by imprisonment in the Detroit
House of Correction, the City Lockup or the Washtenaw
"County jail for a period of time not exceeding ninety days,
or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the
Court.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force on and
after ten days from legal publication.
Passed in Common Council this 21st day of December,
A. D. 1896.
GLEN V. MILLS, City Clerk.
Approved this 22nd day of December, A. D. 1896.
WARREN E. WALKER, Mayor.
AN ORDINANCE To AMEND AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO
LICENSES.
The Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor Ordain:
Section i. That section 7 of an ordinance entitled
"An Ordinance Relative to Licenses" approved July 15th,
1891, as amended by ordinance approved February 15th,
1895, and by ordinance approved March 17th, 1896, be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 7. Every hawker, peddler or person going about
from place to place, orwho makes use of any of the streets or
open places in said City, selling or offering for sale goods,
wares, merchandise or any species of property, shall pay a
licenses therefor in the sum of one hundred dollars per year,
or fifty dollars for a period of six months. And for a period
of less than six months such person shall pay a license there-
for as follows; that is to say: If he intends to travel on
foot, one dollar per day; if he intends to travel with one
horse, one dollar and fifty cents per day; if he intends to
travel with two or more horses or other animals, two dollars


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per day for every vehicle so used. Any person selling or
exposing for sale any such goods or property from any
wagon, hand-cart, show-case or stand, in any street or open
place, shall pay the sum of three dollars per day; and in
granting license for any such purpose in any street or open
place, the Mayor shall designate the street and place where
any such wagon, hand-cart, stand or show-case, shall be
located, and shall have power and authority to change and
re-locate the same from time to time in his discretion. Pro-
vided, this section shall not apply to persons selling domes-
tic fruits, dairy, farm or garden produce (of their own pro-
duction,) nor to bakers or merchants delivering goods to
their customers in said City.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
on and after ten days from legal publication.
Passed in Common Council this 18th day of January A.
D. 1897.
GLEN V. MILLS, City Clerk.
Disapproved this 19th of January A. D. 1897.
WARREN E. WALKER, Mayor.
Passed in Common Council, the veto of the Mayor, not-
withstanding this, 1st day of February, A. D. 1897.
GLEN V. MILLS, City Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION, MAIN-
TA1NANCE AND OPERATION OF AN ELECTRIC TELEPHONE
EXCHANGE WITHIN THE CITY OF ANN ARBOR.
The Common Conncil of the City of Ann Arbor Ordain:
Section i. That the New State Telephone Company,
a corporation organized under The Laws of the State of
Michigan, be and hereby is licensed and given permission
and authority to construct and maintain in the City of Ann
Arbor an electric telephone exchange, and for this purpose
to erect, maintain, operate and use in the public streets,
avenues and alleys of said city necessary poles, masts, wires
and other apparatus, and to rent and collect rent therefor,
telephones, subject however, to the conditions and limit-
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Sec. 2. All poles, masts and wires shall be placed and
erected under supervision of the board of public works of
the City of Ann Arbor, whose duty it shall be to see that
such poles, masts and wires are erected and constructed and
maintained in such manner as not to annoy or interfere un-
necessarily with the owners or occupants of property in said
city, or with shade trees, and in such manner as not to
inteafere with the traffic upon the streets, avenues and alleys
of said city.
Sec. 3. Whenever said New State Telephone Com-
pany, or its successor or assigns, shall propose to enter up-
on any street, alley or avenue in said city for the purpose of
erecting poles and masts therein and stringing wires therein,
it shall, five days previous to the delivery of any poles in
said street, avenue or alley, and five days previous to the
erection of any pole or mast or the stringing of any wire in
said street, .avenue or alley, give notice to the Board of
Public Works of its purpose and intention in this behalf;
and the Board of Public Works shall have the right, and it
shall be the duty of said board to prescribe such reasonable
regulations and rules for the setting of any such posts, poles
or masts and the stringing of wires in said street, avenue or
alley, and concerning the digging up of said street, avenue
or alley and the restoring of the surface of the same, as it
shall deem proper and necessary. Such notice to the board
shall be in writing, and shall designate the street, avenue or
alley proposed to be entered upon and the distance therein
by blocks that it is proposed to erect poles, masts or other
electric apparatus, and as nearly as possible the places in
said streets, avenues, or alleys where it is proposed to set or
erect posts, poles or masts. The rules and regulations made
by said board concerning the erection of such poles, masts
and wires, shall be by resolution and entered upon its
minutes.
Sec. 4. Wood or iron poles or masts may be used.
If wood, the poles or masts shall be reasonably straight and
shaved and painted the entire length thereof, and shall be
set upright in the ground, and such as may be hereafter pro-
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masts within the City of Ann Arbor. On all paved streets
such poles, posts or masts shall be placed between the curb
and the sidewalk, and upon all parked streets said poles,
posts or masts shall be placed in line with the shade trees
upon said parking, except where such position is occupied
by poles not belonging to The New State Telephone Com-
pany. All wires shall be strung at least twenty feet from
the surface of the ground except when entering buildings.
Plant, wires, insulators and all apparatus shall be modern
and first-class in everv respect. No wire or wires shall be
attached to buildings except by consent of the owner.
Sec. 5. All poles, posts and masts erected under this
ordinance shall be subject to, and this ordinance is granted
expressly upon, condition that the city may use the top
twenty-four inches of any and all of said poles, posts or
masts for the purpose of stringing thereon and supporting
electric wires for fire alarm and police purposes, without
charge to said city and without compensation to said New
State Telephone Company, or its successor or assigns and
said New State Telephone Company shall leave the top
twenty-four inches of each pole vacant.
Such use of said poles, posts or masts to be in all cases
without interference with the carrying on of the business of
said New State Telephone Company or its assigns.
Sec. 6. The said New State Telephone Company and
its successors and assigns, shall at all times furnish to the
City of Ann Arbor, free, and without cost to said city, ten
telephones and ten other telephones at half the regular
cost of same to said City for official use and fire protection
with the necessary and proper service, said telephones to be
placed in such offices and places as the Common Council
shall by resolution direct. If more than said twenty tele-
phones are required by" the said City at any time, the price
charged said city for any number of telephones in excess of
twenty shall be one-half the price fixed by this company for
business places and no more.
The said Company is required to move any or all of
said twenty telephones free and without cost to said city,
whenever required so to do by resolution of the Common


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Council on the day and the time mentioned in such notice
shall meet at the Council chamber, sitting as a Board of
Review, and shall proceed without adjournment to review
any such special assessment roll. The Common Council
sitting as such Board of Review shall have power and author-
ity to change any description of land contained therein and
the foot frontage thereof and to add thereto lands omitted
therefrom and to do and perform any other act or thing
whatever in and about any such special assessment roll to
the end that every such special assessment roll shall be made
just, true and fair; that any person interested therein may
be heard in person, by his agent or attorney and all matters
of complaint shall be duly considered, and after any such
special assessment roll shall have been duly considered the
Board of Review shall approve or reject the same and shall
certify their determination to the Common Council and the
Common Council at that meeting or the next meeting shall
confirm any such special assessment roll so approved by the
Board of Review, and shall order the sum or sums of' money
fixed and determined upon as the estimated cost of such
street pavement, street crossings and intersections excepted,
and one-fifth of the balance of the cost also excepted, to be
assessed and spread upon any such special assessment roll
and on and upon each and every of the regular annual assess-
ment rolls in said city for the year in and during which any
such special assessment shall or may be payable and levy the
assessment against the owners or occupants of the lands set
down therein, and shall levy and assess the said sum or
sums of money on, upon and against the lands set down in
and valued upon any such special assessment roll as per foot
as aforesaid, and shall certify the said special assessment
roll and order and resolution of assessment to the City
Assessor.
Sec. 6. After any such special assessment roll and
order of assessment shall be certified to the City Assessor,
the City Assessor shall without delay proceed to spread the
sum or sums of money mentioned in any such order of
assessment upon any such assessment roll, and assess the
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such board of review shall have completed the review of any
such special assessment roll, they shall so declare by reso-
lution, whereupon at the next meeting of the Common
Council the City Clerk shall report the proceedings of the
said board of review to the Common Council, -when the
question shall be, "Shall the special assessment roll be
confirmed?'.' which shall be determined in the affirmative
only by a majority vote of all the aldermen elect. When-
ever any such special assessment roll shall have been thus
confirmed by the Common Council, it shall be final and
conclusive, and shall from the date of such confirmation
be and continue a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of
land assessed and set down therein, and shall be a charge
against the person or persons to whom assessed until paid.
Sec. 14. After the confirmation of any such special
assessment roll, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to
certify the said assessment roll, together with the reso-
lution of confirmation to the City Assessor, who shall forth-
with attach thereto his warrant directed to the City Treas-
urer commanding him to collect from all, each and every
of the persons assessed in said special assessment roll, the
sum of money assessed to and set opposite his name therein.
The said taxes or assessments shall become payable and due
in four equal annual installments; the first installment in
the month of July next after any such assessment roll shall
have been confirmed, along with the city taxes, and annually
thereafter until fully paid. All of the said taxes or assess-
ments shall draw interest annually from the date of con-
firmation of any such assessment roll, at the rate of five per
cent per annum until paid. Any person against whom any
such tax or assessment shall have been assessed shall have
leave and be at liberty to pay the same or any installment
thereof at any one payment at any time after such assess-
ment roll shall have been certified to the City Treasurer,
with interest from the date of confirmation only, Provided,
That- at any time after a special assessment has become pay-
able, the same may be collected by suit in the name of the
City, against the person assessed, in an action of assumpsit,
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such notice, to make connections with the main water and
gas pipes and sewers that may be laid in said streets, except
where such connections have already been made.
Sec. 17. If along the line of said street there is any
vacant or unoccupied lot, lots or premises, and the owner,
owners, agent or agents thereof cannot be conveniently
found, the said Board of Public Works shall post such
notice, as aforesaid, in some conspicuous place upon said
lot, lots or premises.
Sec. 18. In case of default or negligence on the part
of any owner, occupant, or agent to connect with the service
pipe and sewers as aforesaid, or in case the notice posted on
any vacant or unoccupied lot, lots or premises, shall fail to
come to the notice of the owner, owners, agent or agents
thereof, and such notice has expired, or if such owner,
owners, agent or agents shall not within thirty days make
such connections, the City shall then cause such connections
to be made, and the expenses thereof shall be assessed up-
on the property for the benefit for which connection was
made-, and such assessment shall be a lien upon the said
property until paid, and such lien shall have the same force
and effect as is provided in case of other special assessments.
Sec. 19. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after legal publication.
Passed in Common Council this 19th day of December,
A. D. 1898. GLEN V. MILLS, City Clerk.
Approved December 23, 1898.
CHAS. E. HISCOCK, Mayor.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AN ORDINANCE ENTITLE!) "AN ORDI-
NANCE RELATIVE TO LICENSES," APPROVED JULY' 15, 189I,
AS AMENDED BY AN ORDINANCE APPROVED FEBRUARY
15, 1895, AS AMENDED BY AN ORDINANCE
APPROVED MARCH 17, 1896.
The Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor Ordain:
Section i. That Section u of an ordinance entitled
"An Ordinance Relative to Licenses," approved July 15th,
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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Sec. 8. The cost and expense of sprinkling the streets
which intersect or cross any of the streets in any such street
sprinkling district shail be a charge,upon the street fund and
sum of money proportionally equal to the contract price
which the width of the street intersecting or crossing the
streets in any such street sprinkling district bears to the
whole of the taxable foot-frontage of any such sprinkling
district, shall be deducted from the contract sum or price,
and the remainder only shall be charged against, spread and
assessed upon the taxable lands, tenements and premises in
any such street sprinkling district.
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Board of Public
Works to advertise for tenders for such street sprinkling in
each of the said districts for the coming year and from year
to year until otherwise ordered by the Common Council.
Bids may be delivered sealed at the office of the City Clerk
at any time until the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon of
the fourth Monday of April, and the Board of Public Works
shall contract with the lowest responsible bidder, and after
any such contract shall be concluded, after the first contract,
the Board of Public Works shall report and certify the con-
tract price of sprinkling any such sprinkling district to the
City Assessor. The City Assessor, on receipt of any such
report. shall proceed forthwith to make or cause to be made
a duplicate special assessment roll for any such sprinkling
district for the year in which any such report shall be made,
and if any of the lands or premises in any such district shall
or may have been transferred or divided, the City Assessor
shall enter the name of any such purchaser or occupant on
the new assessment roll, and shall divide the amount of the
assessment on the whole parcel on the former roll and dis-
tribute and assess the same among the parcels into which the
said lands and premises may have been divided according to
the surface .area thereof. And when any such duplicate
assessment roll shall be computed, the City Assessor shall
attach his warrant thereto directed to the City Treasurer, and
the City Treasurer shall proceed to collect the sum and sums
of money spread and assessed thereon according to the com-