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ed to be used as a new road as aforesaid, shall be subjlct to the same proceedings as directed in the preceding ordinance.
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IN BELATION TO GAMBLING.
*Sec. 104. That any person or persons gambling or keeping a gambling house or a bawdy, disorderly house, against the morals or the good order of said city, or any keeper or proprietor of such houses or auy person letting, or renting any houses, room •or tenement for any of the purposes aforesaid, or with knowledge of the same, shall on conviction be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or •both such fine and imprisonment, to be recovered before the •Mayor’s court.
'	• in'RELATION 10 PRISONERS WORKING ROADS.	,	•
Sec. 106. That any person or persons convicted of violating\ any of the laws and ordinances of said city, and who shall fail or \ neglect to pay such fine and costs as may have been imposed upon them, the Mayor shall have power to commute tl^e punisment’ so ordered and adjudged by him, to that of labor on the streets or other public works of said city, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per day until the fine and costs are paid; and the j>erson or persons who shall be convicted of violating any of the 'laws and ordinances aforesaid, and who shall have been sentenced to imprisonment therefor, the Mayor shall have power, and it shall .be in his discretion to commute said sentence to that of labor on the streets as aforesaid, at the rate of one day’s sentence for each day’s work.
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IN RELATION TO PERSONS NOT RKSIDINO IN THE OJTT, AND RUNNING THEIR TEIIIOLES WITHIN THE LIMITS #0B PROFIT.
Sec. 106. That any person residing svithin the limits of this city, who shall permit their carriages, carts, wagons or other vehicles to run within the limits of^this city for profit or hire, shall be liable to the provisions of the privi>ege license ordinance ; provided, however, that the same shall not apply to such persons as are using their carts, wagons or other vehicles exclusively for private use and not for profit or hire. . *
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IN BELATION TO INTKBFEBING WITH OFFIOKB8.
* • . 1 Seo. 107. That, if an person shall resist or in any manner
whatever interfere with the Marhal, or any police officer in said city, while on duty as such police officer, or shall aid any persoi) who has been arrested by the Marshal or any police officer to escape, (or who shall knowingly aid any person who has violated any ordinance of said city to escape before arrest), such
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person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, an therefor by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ■exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Mayor.
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. Sec. 108. That all male inhabitants, permanent residents of this
city, between the ages of eighteen (18)and fifty (50) years, shall ] work the roads Or streets of said city three days in each year, or • I pay two dollars in lieu thereof, and all persons failing to com-with the requirements of this ordinance, shall be liable to a Hi fine of five dollars,* to be recovered before the- Mayor’s court,
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\ active members of the fire department, and such otKerpersons who / t 1 \ are exempt by the laws of the State, shall be'exempt from the r^r	.	T .5*	:vf i'lPJ
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IN RELATION TO WIDTH OF FBqjJT ROAD.	-
" 'Sec. 100. That the front or beach road, within the entire limits of the City of Bay St. Louis, shall be opened and kept open for a public highway, forty-six (46) feet from the enclosure of all front property to the outer edge of the bank or bluff near the sea, in-^ -eluding banquet six feet wide' on the edge of said bluff or bank,
** ‘ and where there is no bluff or bank the same width of road shall.
V: be opened for public use.
-; Sec, 110. That all fences to be put up along the said road, shall * be placed to conform with section one hereof, and it shall be the duty of the street commissioner to see that this ordinance is com-, plied with.	■	*
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Be • it ordained by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen oj (he City of. Bay St. Louis, in the County of Hancock, in the State of Mississippi, fT^That .the foregoing Ordinances, and the Ordinances herein con-\lf\ tained, be and the same are hereby adopted, and approved and J ordained for the government of said city ; that the said Ordinances take effect and be in force from and after the seventh day of*
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