An Ordinance

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An Ordinance

An Ordinance To protect the public morals and to enforce good order:. Section 1: Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Albany: That it shall be unlawful for any person, while intoxicated, to loiter or lounge upon any public street or alley in said city.. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city to loiter or lounge upon any public street or alley, or about the premises of any citizen in the night time, after the hour of 11 o'clock.. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city to have possession of any tool, implement, or apparatus commonly used by burglars, counterfeiters, or pickpockets, unless the person possessing the same can affirmatively show they were not procured and are not held for any dishonest purpose.. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city, or within two miles beyond the corporate limits of the same, to make any assault, affray, or riot, or to engage in disorderly conduct, or to do or say anything in the presence or hearing of another person occasioning or tending to occasion a breach of the peace.. Sec. 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay to said city any sum not less than two, nor more than fifty dollars.. Sec. 6. The provision or provisions of any ordinance now in force, coming in conflict with this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repealed.. Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its due publication.. I, Matthew L. Huette, City Clerk of the city of New Albany, hereby certify that the above recited ordinance was regularly and duly passed at a meeting of the City Council, held in the Council Chamber on the 15th day of July, 1867...

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07/16/1867
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