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Second, The person so applying shall execute a bond to the city of Chicago in the sum of three hundred dollars, conditioned that the said applicant will in every particular conform to the requirements of this chapter, and with the requirements or provisions of any ordinance hereafter to be passed concerning junk dealers or dealers in second-hand goods, as the case may be, and thereupon the clerk shall issue a license under the corporate seal, signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk.

4. LICENSES WHEN TO EXPIRE.] All licenses issued under this chapter shall expire on the first day of August next after the issuing of the same. 5. RECORD OF PURCHASES-HOW KEPT SIGN ON BOAT-PENALTY.] Every person licensed as aforesaid shall keep at his or her place of business a substantial and well bound book, in which he or she shall enter a minute description of all personal property purchased by him or her, the date of purchase, the name and residence, or place of business, of the person or persons from whom such purchase was made, and particularly mentioning any prominent or descriptive marks that may be on such property, which said book shall be kept clean and legible, and all the entries therein shall be made with ink, and no entry therein shall be erased, obliterated or defaced; and every person so licensed, carrying on his business upon a boat, shall have his name, and the number of his license, plainly painted in letters and figures at least one and a half inches in size, in a conspicuous place, on the outside of each side of such boat; and every person so licensed failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

6. INSPECTION OF BOOK AND GOODS-PENALTY.] Every person so licensed as aforesaid, shall, during the ordinary hours of business, when requested by the mayor, general superintendent of police, or any police officer of the city, submit and exhibit said book, in the fifth section provided for, to the inspection of any of the above named officers, and shall also exhibit such goods or personal property to any of the aforesaid officers; and every such licensed person refusing to submit said book, goods or property as aforesaid, upon the request of any of the aforesaid officers, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars for each and every offense, and shall be subject, in the discretion of the mayor, to have his or her license revoked.

7. EXEMPTION OF PAWNBROKERS.] Nothing contained in this chapter shall affect the sale of second-hand goods by any person or persons now or hereafter licensed as pawnbrokers, and who shall in the course of their business, as pawnbrokers, sell any goods, wares or merchandise which have been pledged to them and remain unredeemed.

8. PURCHASES FROM MINORS PROHIBITED.] Ord. May 30, 1872. All junk dealers and dealers in second-hand goods are hereby prohibited from purchasing from or dealing with any minor or minors under the age of eighteen years, except in the purchase of old rags and waste paper, under a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

CHAPTER 25.

LAMPS.

SECTION.

SECTION.

1. Post office boxes may be affixed to lamp posts 2. Penalty for injuring lamp post or tampering -Penalty for injuring. with gas.

1. POST OFFICE BOXES ON-PENALTY FOR INJURING.] Rev. Ord. 1866. The post office department hereby have permission, under the direction of the board of public works, to attach and fasten post office boxes to the public lamp posts in said city; and any person or persons who shall deface or in any way injure such post office boxes, shall, for such offense, be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

2. INJURING OR TAMPERING WITH-PENALTY.] Any person who shall carelessly or maliciously break, deface or in any way injure or destroy any public lamp or lamp post in this city, or climb upon, or hitch any horse or other animal to any public lamp post, or hang or place any goods or merchandise thereon, or place any goods, boxes, wood or any other heavy material upon or against the same, or who shall extinguish, or cause to be extinguished, or light or cause to be lighted, any of said lamps, unless duly authorized so to do by the board of public works, shall forfeit the penalty of ten dollars for each offense.

CHAPTER 26.

LICENSES.

SECTION.

SECTION.

1. Licenses issued subject to ordinances-Penalty 5. Delinquents to be reported and their licenses

for violation of provisions of.

2.

Not transferable-Except when.

3.

Limitation of--Mode of issuing.

4. Collector to receive license fees and penalties -Payment to precede issue of license.

6.

revoked.

Surrender and transfer of license-New bond-
New license.

1. ISSUED SUBJECT TO ORDINANCE-PENALTY.]

Rev. Ord. 1866.

All licenses which may be issued under any ordinance of the common coun

cil, shall be subject to the ordinances and regulations which may be in force at the time of issuing thereof, or which may subsequently be made by the common council; and if any person so licensed shall violate any of the provisions thereof, he shall be liable to be proceeded against for any fine or penalty imposed thereby, and his license shall be subject to be revoked in the discretion of the mayor or of the court or magistrate before whom he shall be convicted of such violation.

2. NOT TRANSFERABLE-EXCEPT WHEN.] No license granted under any ordinance shall be assignable or transferable, without permission of the mayor, or common council, nor shall any such license authorize any person to do business or act under it but the person named therein, unless such ordinance shall otherwise provide, or as herein is otherwise provided.

3. TERM OF-HOW ISSUED.] No license shall be granted at any one time for a longer period than one year, and all licenses shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk, under the corporate seal; and in all cases where it is not otherwise expressly provided, the mayor shall have power to hear and grant applications therefor, upon the terms specified by the ordinances of the city; and all licenses shall be issued to such person or persons as shall comply in all respects with the different provisions of the ordinances of the city, and as the mayor, in his discretion, shall deem suitable and proper persons to exercise the occupation for which he, she, or they apply to be licensed, and to no others.

4. COLLECTOR TO RECEIPT FOR FEES AND PENALTIES-LICENSE TO ISSUE AFTER PAYMENT.] The collector shall receipt for all moneys for any licenses that may be applied for or granted under the authority of said city upon any account whatever. He shall also receipt for all auction dues, and all penalties incurred by the keeping of ball alleys and billiard tables within said city; also receipt for all moneys paid in from the licenses of theaters, shows, museums and other entertainments of like character. His receipt for the same shall be a discharge to the person to whom given, to the extent and purport thereof, but no person shall be deemed to be licensed in any case until the issuing of the license in due form as required by the ordinances of the city.

5. DELINQUENTS TO BE REPORTED AND LICENSE REVOKED.] Whenever it shall appear from the license register kept by the clerk, or the books of the collector, that any person holding any license, or permit of any kind, or privilege granted by the city, has failed to pay the amount due thereon, whether for a penalty for billiard tables (reckoning five dollars for every table per month) or other kind of penalty, license, fine, debt or liability whatever, the clerk or collector (as the case may be) shall report the fact to the mayor, whose duty it shall be to promptly revoke said license, permit or privilege. 6. ASSIGNMENT-SURRENDER-NEW BOND-NEW LICENSE.] Amends. April 18, 1870; November 14, 1870. Any person or persons to whom any license may have been issued under any ordinance of the common council may, with the permission of the mayor, assign and transfer the same to any other person or persons, and the person or persons to whom such license issued, or the assignee or assignees of such license, may (with the permission of the mayor) surrender such license, and have a new license issued for the unexpired term of the old license, authorizing the person

or persons so surrendering such license to carry on the same business or occupation at such place as may be named in such new license: Provided, that in all cases the party applying for such new license, shall give a bond, with securities, which shall conform, as near as may be, to the bond upon which such surrendered license was issued.

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1. LICENSE TO SELL FRESH MEATS-EXCEPTIONS - PENALTY-PROVISO.] Rev. Ord. 1866. No person shall, by himself, agent or servant, sell, or cut in pieces for the purpose of selling, any fresh meat, excepting fresh venison, poultry, fish or wild game in any quantity in the city of Chicago, without having first obtained a license as hereinafter provided, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense: Provided, that nothing herein shall prohibit any person from selling beef or other fresh meat by the quarter, or any greater quantity, at any time or place in the said city, the same being the produce of their own farm or raising.

2. UNWHOLESOME MEATS-EXPOSURE FOR SALE-PENALTY.] Rev. Ord. 1866; amended to conform to Reg. of B. of Health, May 26, 1868, under act Leg. If any person shall expose for sale in any market house or elsewhere in said city, any emaciated, tainted or putrid meat or provisions, which from these or other causes may be deemed unwholesome, such person shall, on conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense; and it shall be the duty of the sanitary superintendent or health officer to forthwith seize and confiscate all such meat or provisions.

3. FAT, SHANKS, ETC.-WHEN NOT TO BE IN MARKET-PENALTY.] Rev. Ord. 1866. No person shall, between the first day of May and the first day of November, in any year, bring into, or place, or suffer or permit to be brought into, or placed in any market or licensed stall, any untried fat, commonly called "gut fat," nor, at any time or season, the heads, shanks, or feet of any animal, unless the same be skinned or properly cleaned, nor any hides or skins of any kind, except the hides of calves (these shall be removed

from the market as soon as taken from the veal), under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.

4. WEIGHT BEFORE SALE-FRAUD IN WEIGHT-PENALTY.] Rev. Ord. 1866. All meats sold at the markets or licensed stalls, excepting shanks, offal, heads and plucks, poultry or wild game, shall be previously weighed in a scale, by weights or a beam, properly sealed; and in case any fraud shall be committed in the weight of any meat, and in case any meat, excepting as aforesaid, shall be sold without being weighed as herein directed, the person selling the same shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each offense.

5. MAYOR TO ISSUE LICENSES.] The mayor of the city of Chicago, shall, from time to time, issue licenses under his hand and the seal of said city, to exercise and carry on the business of butchers, in such places, other than the market, as may be designated in such licenses, but not elsewhere.

6. LICENSES WHEN TO EXPIRE.] Ord. July 14, 1871. All licenses so issued shall expire and cease on the first day of May after the granting thereof, unless sooner revoked, and shall be renewable by the mayor on application. For license issued, as aforesaid, on or after the first day of May, and prior to the first day of November, the sum of ten dollars shall be paid on the granting of the same, and for all licenses issued on and after the first day of November and prior to the first day of May, the sum of five dollars shall be paid on the granting of the same; and on the renewal of every license the sum of ten dollars shall be paid.

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CLEANLINESS-INSPECTION-PENALTY.] Rev. Ord. 1866; amend. act Leg. Feb. 16, 1867. Every butcher or other person shall keep his cellar and stall neat and free from filth of all kinds; and members of the board of health, the health officer, or the sanitary superintendent shall at all times. have free access thereto, under the penalty of five dollars, to be paid by the butcher or other person who shall refuse or prevent such access.

8. FILTH IN STREETS, ETC. PENALTY.] No butcher or other person shall sweep or deposit any dirt or filth of any description in or upon the public passage way or ways in such market or cellars, or in or upon the market grounds or streets adjacent to said market. Any person violating the provisions hereof shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars.

9. Offal, BRINE, ETC.-DISPOSITION OF PENALTY.] Any person who shall kill or dress any animal in or near any market, or who shall throw or permit any brine, bones, filth, slops, offal, water, or other liquid, or other substances to be thrown out of the doors or windows, or around or near any market house or any licensed stall, except in places which may be provided for the purpose, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor exceeding twenty dollars.

10. TO BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY-PENALTY.] All stalls or places in this city, licensed under any ordinance of this city, shall be closed before twelve o'clock on Saturday night of each week, and so be kept and continued closed until Monday morning following. Any person who shall open any such market, or stall, or place in said city upon Sunday, and within the hours above named, or shall sell, offer or attempt to sell in said city, any meat, fish, vegetables or other article or thing kept in such market, place or

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