receipts and expenditures of and for his pound; and the comptroller shall, at least once a month, audit and adjust the accounts of such pound-keeper.

22. POUND-KEEPER'S SALARY.] Every pound-keeper shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly: Provided, however, that no payment shall be made to any such pound-keeper who shall be in default in complying with section seventeen of this ordinance. And provided, further, that no such pound-keeper shall receive any other compensation or perquisite except his said salary; but in case any member of the police force is appointed such pound-keeper, this proviso shall not be so construed as to affect his right to compensation or pay as such member of the police force.

23. APPOINTMENT OF POUND-KEEPERS-TERM OF OFFICE.] There shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the common council, one pound-keeper for each of the three divisions of the city of Chicago, to wit: One for the north division, one for the south division, and one for the west division of said city, and the term of office of such poundkeepers shall be for two years, and until their successors are appointed. And the police commissioners are hereby required to detail any members of the police force who may be appointed such pound-keepers, and a sufficient number of men, from the police force of the city, to take charge of the public pounds of the city and to properly enforce the pound ordinance thereof.

24. POWER TO REMOVE.] Every pound-keeper shall be subject to removal from office by the mayor of the city whenever he shall deem the interests of the city require such removal.

1. LIMIT OF SPEED.] Rev. Ord. 1866. No locomotive engine, railroad passenger car, or freight car, shall be driven, propelled or run upon or along any railroad track within said city at a greater speed than the rate of six miles per hour.

2. STREET CROSSINGS STAYING ON-PENALTY.] No railway company, railroad engineer, train conductor, or other person, shall cause or allow any

locomotive engine, car or cars, or train of cars, to stop in or remain upon any street and railroad crossing within said city, at which, by the provisions of this chapter. a flag-man is ordered to be stationed and kept, for a longer period than five minutes at any one time, nor upon any other street and railroad crossing in said city for a longer period than ten minutes: Provided, however, that in case a collision should take place at any, or either of the crossings aforesaid, reasonable time shall be allowed to remove any obstruction that may be caused thereby.

3. PROCEEDING WHEN CROSSING OBSTRUCTED.] Should any street and railroad crossing in said city be and remain occupied and obstructed, in whole or in part, by any train of railroad cars for and during the period of five minutes, it shall be the duty of each and every railroad company upon whose line of road such obstruction may occur, their agents or employes, on or before the expiration of said five minutes, when from any cause the entire train cannot be propelled or removed to any one side of any street occupied and obstructed as aforesaid, to cause such cars as may be on or near said crossing to be uncoupled, and some one division of the train, as thus made, removed from off the aforesaid street and railroad crossing in such manner as to leave said street entirely free and unobstructed, and said train, when again coupled, shall be removed forthwith from off any such crossing as aforesaid.

4. LIGHTS AT NIGHT.] Every locomotive engine, railroad car or train of cars running in the night time on any railroad track in said city, shall have and keep, while so running, a brilliant and conspicuous light on the forward end of such locomotive engine, car, or train of cars.

5. NOT TO OBSTRUCT STREETS.] No company, corporation or person shall be allowed to deposit or place in the street, any lumber or other material, nor shall they load or unload any car from the street, nor erect or maintain any switch-house, or other building, upon any street, highway, or alley within the city limits.

6. USE OF WHISTLE.] No railroad company shall cause or allow the whistle of any locomotive engine to be sounded within the city, except necessary brake signals, and such as may be absolutely necessary to prevent injury to persons and to property other than their own and that in their possession as freight.

7. BELL TO BE RUNG.] The bell of each locomotive engine shall be rung continually while running within said city.

8. SIGNBOARDS TO BE DISPLAYED.] Each railroad company running on any railroad within said city, shall erect at the entrance of such railroad within the city, a signboard, having thereon the words, "stop speed," "ring the bell," legibly painted thereon, and keep the same so erected.

9. ENGINEERS, ETC., TO HAVE COPY OF CHAPTER.] Each superintendent of any railroad shall furnish each engineer and train conductor of any railroad running within the city a certified or printed copy of this chapter, and shall moreover furnish to any officer of said city applying therefor the name of any person in the employment of said railroad company who shall have been charged with having violated any of the provisions of this chapter. 10. ESCAPE OF STEAM PROHIBITED-PROVISO.] No railroad company

shall cause or allow the cylinder cock or cocks of any or either of their several locomotive engines to be opened so as to permit steam to escape therefrom at any time while running upon or along any railroad track laid in any street, or when the engine is in immediate proximity to any street or railroad crossing in said city: Provided, however, that when such engine shall be standing at such point in said city, and for three revolutions of the driving wheel after being put in motion, the said cocks may be opened for the pur pose of allowing condensed steam to escape.

11. FLAG-MEN-WHERE TO BE STATIONED-BELL TOWERS.] Ord. Mar. 27, 1871. All railroad companies whose track or tracks cross or intersect any of the streets in the city of Chicago east of the west line of Western avenue, or north of the south line of Egan avenue, and also at all crossings of street or horse railways, shall station, keep and maintain at all times, at their own expense, at each and every of said street and railroad crossings, a flagman, whose duty it shall be to signal persons traveling in the direction of any or either of the crossings and warn them of the approach of any locomotive engine, or any impending danger; and at each and all crossings of street or horse railways there shall be erected and kept and maintained at their own expense by the railroad company whose track such street or horse railway may cross or intersect, a bell tower not less than fifteen feet in height, and in which tower shall be placed a good and sufficient bell, similar to the bell used on the drawbridges over the Chicago river and its branches, which bell shall be rung by the flag-man, or person in charge of such crossing, to warn all persons in vehicles and street cars or other conveyances of the approach of any locomotive engine, train of cars, or other danger, and said bells shall be kept ringing until such locomotive engine or train of cars shall have passed over such crossing, and it shall be deemed safe for persons and street cars or other conveyances to pass or cross such railroad track.

12. PENALTY.] Any railroad company or railroad corporation who shall, of themselves, their agents or employes, violate or fail to observe any of the foregoing provisions of this chapter, or any agent or employe of any railroad company or railroad corporation, or other person, who shall violate or fail to observe the same, shall, for each violation or failure to observe the same, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

13. EMPTY CARS ON CROSSINGS-PENALTY.] Rev. Ord. 1866; amend. Apr. 27, 1871. Any railroad company or railroad corporation who shall, by themselves, their agents or employes, or any agent or employe, or any agent or employe of any railroad company or railroad corporation who shall cause or allow any empty railroad car or cars to be detached from any locomotive engine and left to remain upon any street or sidewalk and railroad crossing within said city, east of the west line of Western avenue and north of the south line of Egan avenue, for a period longer than five minutes, shall be fined in the sum of ten dollars for each and every consecutive five minutes after the lapse of the first five minutes any such railroad car or cars detached as aforesaid shall be so permitted to remain on such street, sidewalk or railroad crossing.

14. MOIETY OF FINE TO INFORMER.] Any person or persons, excepting

members of the police department, who shall make complaint to the police justices of this city, or other proper authority, of the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter by any railroad company or railroad corporation, whether committed by themselves, their agents or employes, and upon whose evidence a final verdict shall have been obtained in favor of said city, from any court of competent jurisdiction before whom the case may be tried, shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the usual witness fees, one-half the fine imposed for each and every violation or failure to observe the same as aforesaid.

CHAPTER 42.

RIVER.

SECTION.

1. Dragging of anchor in, prohibited.
2. Tugs not to tow vessels dragging anchor.

SECTION.
3. Penalty.

1. DRAGGING ANCHOR PROHIBITED.] Ord. August 23, 1869. Hereafter all vessels, crafts, or floats navigating the Chicago river, or either of the branches thereof, or any of the slips on said river, or either of said branches, whether using steam or otherwise, are expressly prohibited from dragging their anchors in any part of the Chicago river, or either of its branches or slips.

2. TUGS NOT TO TOW SUCH VESSELS.] All tugs engaged in towing vessels or craft in the Chicago river, its branches, or slips connecting therewith, are hereby prohibited from towing any vessel or craft of any description while its anchor or anchors are dragging on the bottom of said river or any of its branches or slips.

3. PENALTY.] Any person or persons, having charge or control of any such vessel, craft, tug or float, who shall violate the provisions of this chapter, or any of the sections thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every violation; and all such persons, as well as the owner or owners of such vessels, crafts, tugs, or floats, shall be liable for all damages accruing by reason of the violation of this chapter, or any of the sections or provisions thereof.

Rev. Ord. 1866; act. Leg.,

1. BOARD OF HEALTH TO EMPLOY.] Feb. 1865. The board of health are hereby authorized to employ, from time to time, as many scavengers as they may deem necessary, upon such terms and with such appliances and conveyances as they may deem expedient, and to make, from time to time, such rules and regulations for the conduct of such scavengers as they may deem necessary.

2. NOTICE TO HAVE GARBAGE READY.] The board of health_shall cause a printed notice to be left at each and every hotel, tavern, eating-house and dwelling house in the city, stating that a scavenger will call for offal, garbage, swill (and on improved streets ashes), at certain times mentioned in the notice, and requiring that such offal, garbage, swill (and, on improved streets, ashes), be ready in light tubs, or other suitable vessels, for the scavenger when he calls for the same. A copy of the third section of this chapter shall be appended to such notice.

3. PENALTY FOR NEGLECT OF NOTICE.] Any person who shall, after notice, neglect or refuse to have the offal, garbage or swill, upon his or her premises, ready for the scavenger in the manner and at the time mentioned in said notice, shall pay a penalty of five dollars for each and every day such offal, garbage or swill shall remain on such premises after the same has been called for by the scavenger.

4. NIGHT SCAVENGERS LICENSE-BOND-FEE.] Any person or company who shall engage in the business of removing the contents of privy vaults within the city for hire or profit, shall be deemed night scavengers within the meaning hereof. No person or company shall exercise the calling of night scavengers within the city, without first obtaining a license in pursuance hereof. The mayor of said city is hereby authorized to license one or more night scavengers: Provided, the person applying therefor shall execute to the city of Chicago a bond, in the sum of five hundred dollars, with ample surety, to be approved by the mayor, conditioned that such night scavengers shall well and truly keep and perform all and every of the provisions and restrictions of this chapter: And provided, further, such night scavengers shall pay, for the use of the city, the sum of seventeen dollars, and no other fees. Such licenses shall expire on the expiration of one year from the date thereof.