1. CONTRACTS-BIDS TO BE FILED.] Ord. July 23, 1866. Whenever, in any department of the city government, competition is invited for bids, by advertisement in the corporation newspaper, or otherwise, the original bids received by the department calling for the same shall, after the opening of the same, be filed in the office of such department and remain subject to the examination of all persons feeling an interest therein.

2. SPECIFICATIONS TO BE MADE-CHANGES PROVIDED FOR.] Ord. June 6, 1870. Whenever any department of the city government shall advertise for bids for any public improvement, or for material, there shall be prepared full and complete specifications for the same, and the bids accepted thereon shall be all the compensation paid for said improvement or material: Provided, however, that if it becomes necessary to make any changes in the original specifications, the price to be paid therefor shall be agreed upon before the making of the same; and if the expenses of said changes do not exceed five hundred dollars the same shall be submitted by the department making the change, to the mayor, comptroller and finance committee of the common council, for their approval, and if the amount thereof exceeds five hundred dollars, it shall be laid before the common council for their approval.

• 1. PURCHASERS-RIGHTS OF.] Ord. May 12, 1871. Each and every person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of selling coal in the city of Chicago, to be delivered within said city, shall either produce and deliver

to the purchaser, at the time of the delivery of the coal purchased, a certificate signed by a weigher duly appointed under the charter and ordinances of said city, showing the weight of the coal so delivered; or the seller of said coal shall, at the time and place of the delivery thereof, weigh, or cause to be weighed, the coal so delivered, which weighing shall be done in the presence of the purchaser, or his, or her, or their agent, if he, she, or they shall desire or see fit to be present.

2. A TON, TWO THOUSAND POUNDS.] Every person, firm, or corporation purchasing a ton of coal shall be entitled to receive two thousand pounds (and a proportionate amount for any portion of a ton purchased), and every person, firm or corporation shall deliver two thousand pounds of coal for each ton purchased from such person, firm, or corporation, and a proportionate amount for any part of a ton so purchased.

3. PENALTY. Every weigher who shall be guilty of giving a false certificate as to the number of pounds of coal weighed by him, as provided in section one, and every person, firm, or corporation who shall neglect or refuse to comply with any provision of this chapter, or who shall deliver to any purchaser a less quantity than two thousand pounds of coal for each ton purchased (or a proportionate amount for any part of a ton), or who shall practice any fraud or deceit in the sale or delivery of any coal purchased, to be delivered in said city as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction by any court having jurisdiction, be fined in a sum of not less than twenty dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for each offense, which fine shall be paid into the treasury of said city.

1. CONCEALED WEAPONS CARRYING OF, PROHIBITED.] Ord. Aug. 17, 1871. All persons within the limits of the city of Chicago are hereby prohibited from carrying, or wearing under their clothes, or concealed about their person, any pistol, or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, or dirk knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.

2. PENALTY-CONFISCATION.] Any such weapon or weapons duly adjudged by any police magistrate, or justice of the peace of said city, to

have been worn or carried by any person, in violation of section one of this chapter, shall be forfeited or confiscated to the said city of Chicago.

3. FURTHER PENALTY-ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT.] Any policeman of the city of Chicago may, within the limits of said city, without a warrant, arrest any person or persons whom such policeman may find in the act of carrying or wearing under their clothes, or concealed about their persons, any pistol, or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, and detain him, her, or them in the city jail or armory until a summons or warrant can be procured on complaint made (under oath or affirmation) for the trial of such person or persons, and for the seizure and confiscation of such of the weapons, above referred to, as such person or persons may be found in the act of carrying or wearing under their clothes, or concealed about their persons.

4. FORTHWITH SUMMONS TO ISSUE ON COMPLAINT UPON OATH.] Upon complaint made, under oath or affirmation, to any magistrate or justice of the peace in said city, that any person has been guilty of violating any of the provisions of section one of this chapter, a summons or warrant shall issue for the summoning or arrest of the offender or offenders, returnable forthwith; upon the return of such summons or warrant, such magistrate or justice shall proceed to the hearing and determination of the matter, and if it shall be adjudged that such person or persons has or have incurred any of the penalties fixed by this chapter, such magistrate, or justice of the peace, shall order that the weapon or weapons, concerning the carrying or wearing of which such penalty shall have been incurred, shall be kept and detained until it shall be adjudged whether or not such weapon or weapons shall be confiscated to the city of Chicago.

5. WARRANT FORM OF.] Upon any judgment having been rendered for a violation of any of the provisions of section one of this chapter, or upon complaint made under oath or affirmation, that any such weapon or weapons has [or have] been worn or carried, or is being worn or carried, by any person or persons in violation of section one of this chapter, the magistrate, or justice of the peace acting as a police justice, or other officer authorized by law to receive such complaint shall enter the cause on his docket as follows:

The city of Chicago vs. (here describe the weapon or weapons by general description); and shall thereupon issue a writ which shall be in form, as nearly as may be, as follows, viz. :

The city of Chicago vs. (here describe the weapon or weapons by general description). Το (here name the person accused, or who shall have been convicted as aforesaid) and all other persons interested:

You are hereby commanded to appear before me, at my office in Chicago, No.— ——Street (which day shall not be less than ten nor more than thirty days from the date of such writ), at the hour of a. m. (or p. m.), and show cause, if any you have, why the weapon described in the caption hereof shall not be confiscated to the city of Chicago, in accordance with the provisions of an ordinance concerning the carrying of concealed weapons, and the confiscation of such weapons. constable, or any other constable, of said county is hereby commanded to cause due service of this writ to be made, copies thereof to be duly posted, and to make due return of this writ as required by law; and also to seize and hold the said weap

ons until it shall be adjudged whether or not the same shall be confiscated to the said city of
Chicago.
Given under my hand and seal of office this
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day of

[SEAL.]

6. WARRANT-HOW SERVED.] The officer receiving said writ shall cause one copy of said writ to be posted, for at least five days prior to the day therein mentioned for the hearing, at the court house door of said city, one copy at the office of the justice or officer issuing said writ, and a like copy at two other public places in said city. He shall serve the person in such writ named, by leaving one copy thereof with such person or persons, and reading the same to such person or persons, at least five days before the day fixed for such hearing and shall make due return of such writ.

7. PROCEDURE FORM OF JUDGMENT.] Upon the return of any such writ, duly served in accordance with the preceding section, the officer issuing the same shall proceed, at the time designated in said writ, to the hearing of the cause, and shall hear all persons who may desire to be heard touching the matter; and if, upon such hearing, such magistrate or justice of the peace shall find that such weapon or weapons shall have been worn or carried in violation of section one of this chapter, he shall enter an order that the same be confiscated to the city of Chicago, and that "the same be delivered to the officer known as the custodian of stolen property," for safe keeping.

8. PENALTY FOR CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON.] Any person who shall be adjudged to have violated any of the provisions of section one of this chapter shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the house of correction, for a term not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the magistrate or court before whom such conviction shall be had.

9. EXEMPTION AS TO POLICE FORCE.] The prohibitions of this chapter shall not apply to the officers or members of the police force of said city, when on duty.

1. DOGS-REGISTRATION OF.] Ord Aug. 7, 1871. Hereafter no person shall be permitted to have or keep in his possession, within the limits of the city of Chicago, any dog over the age of three months, unless such person,

or the owner thereof, shall have caused the same to be registered, and the tax upon such dog, imposed by this chapter, to be paid.

2. TAX PRESCRIBED WHEN PAYABLE.] The tax on every dog in the city of Chicago, over the age of three months, is hereby fixed at two dollars for each year, commencing with the first day of January in each year, to be paid by the owner or person or persons having or keeping such dog, to the city clerk, for the use of the city of Chicago.

3. DOG OWNER-HIS DUTY.] It shall be the duty of all persons residing in this city, who shall own, have or keep, as aforesaid, any such dog, within thirty days after the first day of January of each year, to cause such dog to be registered (by name, if any, and general description) in the office of the city clerk, in a register for that purpose, to be kept by the city clerk, and to pay said tax, or if less than eleven months then remain of the calendar year-then in proportion to the time that shall remain of the year, and obtain the city clerk's receipt for the tax so paid; also to obtain from such clerk the metallic plate hereinafter required to be furnished to said clerk by the city comptroller, under the penalties hereinafter provided.

4. METALLIC PLATES-TO BE PROVIDED.] It shall be the duty of the city comptroller to provide such number of metallic plates as may be necessary, of such size and shape as he shall deem expedient (the shape to be changed each year), having stamped thereon numbers indicating the year for which the tax is paid and the letters C. D. T., and deliver the same to the city clerk; and it shall be the duty of the city clerk to deliver one of such metallic plates to the person so paying a tax upon any such dog.

5. METALLIC PLATE-ITS USE.] It shall be the duty of such owner or person having or keeping in possession any such registered dog, to place, or cause to be placed, around the neck of such dog, a collar, and on or to such collar to attach, or cause to be attached, with a metallic fastening, the metallic plate so furnished by the city clerk; and if any person shall place or cause to be placed upon a collar around the neck of any such dog any counterfeit of the metallic plate so furnished by said city clerk, or any such metallic plate, without the tax upon any such dog having first been paid, he, she, or they shall be liable to the penalties hereinafter provided.

6. VIOLATION-PENALTY.] Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this chapter, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, in the discretion of the justice or court before whom such conviction shall be had.

7. DUTY OF POLICE-POUND-KEEPER-REDEMPTION FEE.] It shall be the duty of the superintendent of police, his assistants, of all policemen, and of all pound-masters in the city of Chicago, to take up and impound in any city pound in which cattle are authorized to be impounded, any dog found in the city of Chicago not having a collar around its neck with the metallic plate aforesaid attached thereto, and if such dog shall not be redeemed, as hereinafter provided, within four days after such dog shall have been impounded, it shall be the duty of the pound-keeper of the said pound, wherein such dog shall be impounded, to slay or cause the same to be slain: But it is hereby provided, that any such dog, so impounded, may be redeemed or taken