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disease, forbid the admission of emigrants or others peculiarly liable thereto, into any or all of said quarantines or stations until in their opinion the health of the city will justify the same. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 1.

SEC. 2. Duty of police to arrest persons disobeying. It shall be the duty of said board whenever by them it shall be deemed necessary, to keep at the quarantine station or stations a sufficient police force, whose duty it shall be to enforce all regulations by this article required, or by said board to be established, and to arrest all persons violating said regulations or committing any breaches of the peace, and bring such persons before the judge of the police court of the city for trial, and to arrest and commit for trial all persons disobeying, interfering with or resisting any physician, health officer or other person in authority at such quarantine site, place or station. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 2.

SEC. 3.

Obedience to orders may be enforced.In case any boat, vessel, car or public conveyance shall leave any quarantine station, place or boundary without a permit as aforesaid, or shall fail to stop at the same when so, as aforesaid, required by the issuing of the said proclamation, or whenever the person in charge thereof, or any person under his command, shall fail or refuse to obey any regulation or command of said board, health officer, physician or person in charge of any quarantine station or place, or any provision or requirement of this article, the said board shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, if in their opinion the health of the city requires it, to send sufficient police force to such boat, vessel, car or public conveyance, and cause the same, with the crew and passengers on board, to be landed or stopped, or conveyed to the quarantine station or place, and there to remain until properly discharged by the permit, as aforesaid; and the owner, master or the person in charge of such boat, vessel, car or public conveyance shall be liable to the city for all expenses and costs incurred by reason thereof; and if any

emigrant, traveler or person so placed in quarantine as aforesaid, shall leave the same without permission as aforesaid, he may be arrested and taken back to said quarantine, and there retained until such permission shall be given. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 3:

SEC. 4. Regulations may be enforced.—The said board shall make such rules and regulations for the government of the quarantine or health of the city as from time to time they shall deem necessary; and the physicians or health officers in charge of any quarantine station or place, shall have power to make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary for the proper conduct and management thereof; and it shall be the duty of all persons in quarantine, and all agents, officers, policemen or others employed by the city in and about said quarantine stations or places, to carry out and obey the same. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 4.

SEC. 5. Board to employ proper agencies. The said board, by and with the approval of the mayor and common council, may appoint one or more competent physicians as quarantine physician, who shall be present at such quarantine stations as the said board shall designate, and at such times as said board shall direct, and attend to all the duties imposed by this article or by the regulations of said board, who shall receive each, for actual services rendered, and for such time as such services shall be actually required, not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars per day, to be allowed by the said board; also, the said board may employ such agents, servants, nurses or temporary medical assistance, for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects and intents of this article, or of any regulation of the board, as in their judgment shall, from time to time, be necessary, or authorize the employment thereof, by the physicians or health officers in charge of any quarantine or station. All the salaries, wages and expenses in this section contemplated are to be audited and allowed by the said board; and when so allowed, are to be paid out of the

fund set apart for quarantine purposes, or, in case of necessity, out of the contingent fund of the city: Provided, that when practicable, the persons taken in such quarantine or stations, and receiving the aid and care afforded thereby, shall each pay a sum of money sufficient to meet all expenses, labor and care incurred in his behalf, which said amounts shall be faithfully kept, reported and accounted for by the physician, health officer or other person in charge of said quarantine or station, to the said board; and all other expenses incurred or to be incurred by reason of this article or of any regulation of said board, shall be paid out of the fund set apart for quarantine purposes, or, when necessary, out of the contingent fund of the city. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 5.

SEC. 6. Regulations to prevent spread of disease. No person, master, captain or conductor in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad car or public conveyance, shall knowingly bring into this city any person or persons diseased of cholera, small-pox, ship fever or contagious or communicable disease whatsoever; and no vessel, boat, railroad car or public conveyance, at any time covered by the said proclamation, shall pass by any quarantine station or place without stopping, nor shall leave the same without the permit aforesaid; and no person stopping in said quarantine, or so as aforesaid received therein, shall leave the same without first obtaining permission as aforesaid, nor shall any person aid or abet any master, conductor, or person in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad car or public conveyance, in violating, neglecting or evading any provision or requirement of this article; nor shall any person interfere with, resist, neglect or refuse to obey the orders of any physician, health officer, policeman or other person in authority at any quarantine station, or place of quarantine, so as aforesaid established, nor do any act or thing in violation of or in disobedience to any of the provisions, clauses or sections of this article, nor shall commit any breach of the peace, or do any act calculated in any way to defeat or interfere with the

provisions or requirements of this article, or of any regulation of the said board, physician or officer in charge of any quarantine. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 6.

SEC. 7. Application of money.-The moneys appropriated to the quarantine fund shall be faithfully applied by the said board to the true objects and purposes of its appropriation, and the said board shall make reports of their doings and expenditures to the mayor and common council, whenever requested so to do. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 7.

SEC. 8. Penalty for violating, etc.-Any master of a vessel, conductor, captain or person whatsoever, who shall violate any clause, provision, requirement, duty or regulation of this article, or of any rule or regulation of the said board, or physician or health officer in charge of any quarantine, or who shall fail or neglect to comply with any such clause, provision, requirement, duty or orders, or who shall interfere with or in any manner resist any officer or agent of the city in the discharge of his duty, as herein contemplated, or who shali commit any breach of the peace or be guilty of any act or thing calculated to defeat or interrupt the carrying into effect any part of this article, or any regulation of the said board, in cases where no other penalty is provided, on conviction shall pay a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 59, Sec. 8.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

HIGHWAYS.

SECTION

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III. GRADING, IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR OF STREETS.
EXCAVATING IN STREETS.

IV.

V. OBSTRUCTION OF STREETS, SIDEWALKS, ETC.

VI.

VII.

CLASSIFICATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALKS.
REPAIR OF SIDEWALKS.

ARTICLE I.

NAMES OF STREETS.

1. Streets described and named shall be known by names herein designated in all records, acts or proceedings of the city.

2. Manner of describing boundaries of streets and avenues.

SECTION

3-141. Streets, avenues and roads designated by names, alphabetically arranged.

142-168. Streets designated by numbers, numerically arranged.

169-174. Avenues designated by numbers, numerically arranged.

SECTION. 1. Streets and avenues to be known by names herein designated. That the following described streets and avenues, in the city of St. Joseph, Buchanan county, Missouri, be and the same are hereby designated by the names and numbers respectively given thereto as hereinafter set forth: Said streets and avenues, from and after the passage and approval of this ordinance, shall be known by such names and numbers, respectively, in all records, acts or proceedings of the mayor and common council of said city and of all of said city's officers and agents. [G. O. No. 555, Sec. 1.

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SEC. 2. Manner of describing boundaries of street. When bounding the streets or avenues in the descriptions set forth in this ordinance, by blocks, or by lots or blocks, for brevity's sake, only the numbers of the blocks, or of the lots or blocks, at the ends of the street or at the boundaries of the addition through or along which the street runs, are given, the numbers of the blocks in the same row,

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