XXIX. AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE DUTIES OF CITY ENGINEER. The City Council of the City of Minneapolis do ordain as follows : SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to make or cause to be made all surveys, maps, plats and profiles relating to the streets, alleys, public grounds, levees, sewers and drains, and other improvements within the limits of the city, and such other work beyond the city limits, as the City Council or any Duties of city committee thereof may direct. He shall also, when requested engineer. by the Council or any committee thereof, submit detailed estimates together with suitable specifications of any proposed public work or improvement, and shall superintend in person and carefully watch the improvements of all streets, sidewalks, sewers and culverts, and see that the same are done in conformity with the contract, ordinance or resolution authorizing the same to be done. SEC. 2. He shall keep a book in which shall be recorded a map of all the streets opened, changed or vacated, with the streets adjoining to, or connected with the same to the extent at least of one block on each side, or the extremity of such street, opened, changed or vacated, with the name of such streets, and the location thereof. There shall also be written on said map the date of such opening, changing or vacating of any street, so recorded on said map, and the date of the ordinance or resolution effecting such change. SEC. 3. It shall be his duty to report a grade for all streets, lanes, alley, sidewalks and public roads at the time and in the order required by the City Council, and when required to report a change in the grade of any street, he shall also report plans and estimates for grading or changing the grade thereof, as the case may be, and he shall make a suitable plat or profile of all such surveys and grades to be filed in his office for reference; to establish landmarks for surveying or grading the streets by placing stones or other monuments from which such grade or survey may be readily ascertained. Shall keep a shall be reof all streets, book in which corded a map &c. shall report a grade for streets when. Shall preserve maps and de SEC. 4. He shall carefully preserve all maps, plats, surveys, books, reports and other things pertaining to his office, all of which liver to suche shall deliver over to his successor in office within five days after cessor when. the expiration of his term of office, taking duplicate receipts therefor, in which receipts such property shall be specifically enumerated, one of which receipts shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk of said city. SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication. Passed June 21st, 1873, ESTABLISHING A CITY WORKHOUSE AND PROVIDING The City Council of the city of Minneapolis do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That the county jail of the county of Hennepin is hereby established as the workhouse of the city of Minneapolis agreeably to the provisions of subdivision thirty-fifth of section three (3) of chapter four (4) of the City Charter of said city. SEC. 2. Any male offender convicted before the Municipal Court of any offense subjecting such person to imprisonment under the charter or ordinances of said city may be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor during the term of such imprisonment, and all male offenders convicted before said court of any offense under said charter or ordinances and committed for the non-payment of any fine imposed by said court may be committed to said workhouse to be kept at hard labor during the time he shall be imprisoned. SEC. 3. Any person committed under the provisions of this ordinance shall be kept at hard labor for eight hours at least per day, except Sundays, either at said workhouse or upon the public improvements or public streets of said city, as the Mayor of said city shall determine and provide from time to time. SEC. 4. The Chief of police shall from time to time detail such number of policemen as may be necessary for the duty of taking charge of such prisoners while at work and of keeping them safely in custody, and employed at the work provided for them to do. SEC. 5. Any person committed to said workhouse under this ordinance for the non-payment of any fine imposed by said court, shall be credited at the rate of eighty cents per day for each day he shall labor, in payment of such fine and costs of prosecution; but shall not be imprisoned for any longer time than the term for which he was committed. SEC. 6. Whenever any person so sentenced to hard labor is unruly or disobeys any order or regulation established for the management of said workhouse or for the government of such prisoners while at work on public improvements, or disobeys the order of any officer having him in charge, or refuses to work or labor as directed by such officer, such fact shall be reported to the Sheriff of said county of Hennepin, who shall thereupon put such prisoner in solitary confinement and cause him to be fed on bread and water only for a period not exceeding twenty days for each offense. SEC. 7. The Mayor of said city may from time to time direct upon what public improvements, and in what way, such prisoners shall be employed, and make such rules and regulations in respect to their labor and government while at work, as he may deem advisable. SEC. 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication. Passed the Council July 3d, 1878. XXXI. AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO SIGNS. No person The City Council of the City of Minneapolis do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. No person shall erect or maintain any sign of any shall erect any kind or material nor any wooden awning except as hereinafter provided, that shall extend into or upon, or project over, any sidewalk, street or alley of said city, more than three feet. sign except as provided. Conditions upon which signs may be erected. Provisions and exceptions. Penalty. May be declared a public nuisance when SEC. 2. Any person may erect and maintain in front of his place of business a post, to be set at the edge of the sidewalk in such manner and at such place as the chief of police may approve, upon which may be put such sign, lantern, lamp or bulletin boards, as may be desired, but in no case shall such post or any erection thereon, or appendage thereto exceed twelve inches in diameter, or extended more than six inches from the centre line of such post, and the same shall at all times be subject to removal upon the order of the chief of police whenever he shall deem the public travel to be obstructed thereby. SEC. 3. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prevent any person from hanging over or across any street or sidewalk any flag or banner on the twenty-second day of Februrary, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, or any other public holiday, nor to prevent any society or organization from hanging its flags or banners on any day of any convention or public gathering of such society or organization not more than two days in any one month; but no such flag or banner shall be at any time extended over any street, alley, or sidewalk so that the same shall come within twenty feet from the road-bed thereof. SEC. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof before the Municipal Court of said city be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and shall pay costs of prosecution, and may be imprisoned until such fine and costs are paid, not exceeding sixty days. SEC. 5. Every sign or other structure erected or maintained contrary to the provisions of this ordinance is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and any officer of the police of said city may remove or abate the same without any other warrant or authority than this ordinance. 1 SEC. 6. All parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance Repeal of are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication, except in respect to such signs and structures as are now in existence, in which respect it shall take effect from and after May 1st, 1880. Passed November 5th, 1879. Attest: C. L. SNYDER, Vice-President of the Council and President pro tem. SELAH MATHEWS, former ordinances. GRANTING TO THE MINNEAPOLIS EASTERN RAIL- The City Council of the City of Minneapolis do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That the Minneapolis Eastern Railway Company, its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct and maintain a single track of its railroad, with such switches and connections as may be necessary, upon, over and along the following described portions of streets in the City of Minneapolis, viz.: From, at or near the point where River street is crossed by the track of the railroad of the First Division of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company, along said River street to Hennepin Avenue, and across Hennepin Avenue to where said River street connects with Water street; thence along said Water street to its southeasterly or lower end; and to operate such railroad with cars and engines in the usual manner. May construct and maintain single track over and along certain streets. |