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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1906
Page
4
A Kennewick council ordinance outlines license requirements for trades shows and occupations within town limits including circuses theaters peddlers pawn brokers and auctioneers. Penalties include fines from one to one hundred dollars and jail time for unlicensed activity with enforcement to begin after publication.
The Kennewick Board of Health warns that typhoid risk rises in summer and requires disinfection of privies in the business district. Privies must be treated with air slaked lime twice weekly and private vaults sprayed with chloride of lime, under health director supervision.
The ordinance defines vagrants as able bodied persons lacking visible means of support or wandering, begging, or loitering in Kennewick. It charges the town marshal with arresting such individuals and presenting them to the Police Judge.
An 1906 town ordinance details vagrancy handling including testimony on character and the defendant’s right to present evidence. It prescribes fines between five and fifty dollars or jail from one to ten days, or both, with the measure effective after passage approval and publication. The document is signed by Clerk pro tem O L Hanson and Mayor Epw. Sheppard.
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