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<br />GENERAL ORDINANCES 113
<br />1. The manager of the chain gang shall take out such prison-
<br />ers as may from time to time be delivered to him by the City jail-
<br />or and shall require them to perform such labor as may previously
<br />have been designated by the City Manager. The manager shall
<br />treat such prisoners humanely, using at the same time, however,
<br />all such measures as may be necessary to secure diligent service
<br />on the part of the prisoners and to prevent their escape.
<br />2. The assistant manager of the chain gang shall assist the
<br />manager in such manner as may be designated by him.
<br />3. Each prisoner who is assigned to said chain gang shall obey
<br />each and every proper order of the manager or assistant man-
<br />ager; he shall perform such work as required of him by the of-
<br />ficers in charge of said force; and shall work each day the force
<br />is out unless excused by sickness or by the City Manager.
<br />4. The manager shall not punish an offending prisoner on any
<br />street or other public place, but shall return him to the City � jail,
<br />there to be dealt with as provided by rule 6; and the manager
<br />may call upon the City Sergeant or Jailer for such assistance as
<br />he may require in dealing with an obstreperous prisoner.
<br />5. When a prisoner claims to be sick the Jailer shall promptly
<br />notify the physician of the jail, who shall visit such prisoner dur-
<br />ing the day in which he is so notified; if in his opinion the pris-
<br />oner is unfit for work, he shall so certify to the City Manager,
<br />and shall continue to visit the prisoner daily so long as he may re-
<br />quire medical attention.
<br />6. Should any prisoner or person assigned to work on said
<br />chain gang disobey any proper order of the officers in charge of
<br />said chain gang or any rules and regulations of the Council, he
<br />shall be punished by said officers in charge so that the same be
<br />not less than fifteen nor more than thirty-nine stripes or lashes
<br />in any one day. Such punishment to take place at the jail, or in
<br />lieu thereof, or in addition thereto such disobedience may be re-
<br />ported to the Civil and Police Justice who may add such addi-
<br />tional punishment as he may deem proper.
<br />Sec. 315. Prisoners --credit for good conduct—addi-
<br />tional allowance.
<br />Prisoners shall be allowed a credit upon their term of impris-
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<br />onment at the rate of four days per month for good conduct, and
<br />in addition thereto shall be allowed a credit of 50c per day for
<br />each day of confinement whether the same be on account of sen-
<br />tence imposed or for failure to pay fine or costs, but nothing
<br />herein contained shall prevent the City from collecting said fine
<br />and costs or any part thereof by Civil Proceedings.
<br />Sec. 316. Prisoners—limitation of confinement for fail-
<br />ure to pay fine and costs.
<br />If any person is confined in jail until his fine and costs, or
<br />costs where there is no fine, are paid, such confinement shall not
<br />exceed ten days when the fine and costs, or costs where there is
<br />no fine, are less than $5.00; when less than $10.00 it shall not ex-
<br />ceed twenty days; when less than $25.00 it shall not exceed one
<br />month; when less than $50.00 it shall not exceed two months,
<br />and in no case shall the confinement exceed three months.
<br />Sec. 317. Commitment and release of prisoners.
<br />No person shall be committed into the custody of the County
<br />Jailor except upon written order of the Civil and Police Justice
<br />or Chief of Police showing an indorsement thereon by the City
<br />Collector stating that a true copy of the original order has been
<br />delivered to him nor shall any person be released from the cus-
<br />tody of the County Jailor except upon a like order and indorse-
<br />ment.
<br />GENERAL ORDINANCES
<br />CHAPTER XXV.
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<br />REGULATING STORAGE, TRANSPORTATION AND HANDLING OV
<br />EXPLOSIVES -STEAM BOILERS.
<br />Sec. 318. Gunpowder and other explosives.
<br />Except as hereinafter provided no gunpowder, blasting pow-
<br />der, nitroglycerin or other high explosives shall be kept within
<br />the City limits.
<br />(a) No person shall keep within the City more than ten pounds
<br />of gunpowder or other explosive compound, except for purposes
<br />of sale.
<br />(b) Licensed retail dealers may, to supply their trade, keep
<br />any quantity of gunpowder or blasting powder not exceeding
<br />fifty pounds in all; provided such powder be kept in metal pack-
<br />ages, with good, close -fitting and well -secured covers thereon.
<br />No such retail or wholesale dealer shall keep in his store more
<br />than 40,000 loaded gun shells.
<br />(c) Wholesale dealers may, for the purpose of their trade,
<br />have in their possession elsewhere than in a magazine, between
<br />the hours of 7 A. M. and 5 P. M., any quantity not exceeding
<br />fifty pounds. But no dynamite or nitroglycerin in any of its
<br />forms shall be stored or kept for sale in any store within the cor-
<br />porate limits.
<br />(d) Every dealer in gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite
<br />or other high explosives shall place on the building containing
<br />the same, over or at the side of the front door thereof, a sign
<br />with the words "Powder for Sale" printed or painted thereon in
<br />legible characters, at least three inches in height; he shall store
<br />said powder or other explosives, including explosive cartridges,
<br />within fifteen feet of the front entrance to the building and shall
<br />notify the Chief of the Fire Department in writing that the same
<br />has been done. The Chief of the Fire Department is hereby au-
<br />thorized to enter any building in which powder or other explo-
<br />sives may be habitually kept for sale and familiarize himself with
<br />the location of such explosives, to the end that he may be able
<br />to take the necessary steps to prevent disaster therefrom in case
<br />of a fire.
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<br />(e) No person shall carry gunpowder, blasting powder, dyna-
<br />mite or other explosives on any vehicle in any part of the City
<br />unless the same shall be secured in kegs, boxes, or canisters, so
<br />that no part thereof can fall out or escape.
<br />(f) No person shall allow any vehicle under his charge or
<br />control, containing more than one keg or case of twenty-five
<br />pounds of gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite or other high
<br />explosives to remain within the City limits more than two hours;
<br />and no person shall permit more than the said quantity of any
<br />kind of the said article to be upon any street or sidewalk more
<br />than thirty minutes; provided, however, that said articles may,
<br />during the day, be brought from magazines or depots in such
<br />quantities as may be required to supply the trade of merchants
<br />and wholesale dealers.
<br />Any person who shall violate any of the clauses of the fore-
<br />going section in regard to gunpower or other explosives, or per-
<br />mit the same to be violated with his consent by any person in his
<br />employment or under his control, shall, upon conviction, be fined
<br />not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00, for each offense.
<br />Sec. 319. Gasoline filling stations prohibited.
<br />No person, firm or corporation shall operate a gasoline or oil
<br />filling station for public service within 300 feet of any hospital,
<br />sanitorium, church, public school or public library within the
<br />City. The 300 feet specified herein is to be measured over a
<br />straight course between the nearest point of the building of such
<br />proposed filling station, and the nearest point of such existing
<br />hospital, sanitorium, church, public school, or public library.
<br />This section shall net apply to filling stations already in opera-
<br />tion at the time of the pasup of this section, but no additional
<br />filling station shall be operated without a special permit from the
<br />Council.
<br />Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not
<br />less than $10.00 nor more than $25.00, and each day such viola-
<br />tion continues shall constitute a separate offense.
<br />Sec. 320. Gasoline, benzine or naphtha—sale and stor-
<br />age.
<br />(1) It shall be unlawful to store or keep for use or sale gaso-
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