HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 10.10.1921 - Prohibiting DisguisesAN OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.. �X.�S, PROHIBITSAN O
I_NG ONE OR MORE PERSONS IN DISGUISB, FROM _"PPEARING UPON,
,IESORTING UPON, OR PARADING UPON ANY OFTHE PUBLIC STREETS OR
A,LEYS, OF THISCITY, WITHOUT Ti-i.u`+' NRITTEN PERMIT OF THE MA'rOR
AND CTTY MARSJLPL OF THE SAID CITY, 94-D PROVIDr. G THE MEANS OF
ENFORCING THIS ORDINAI`TCE,ANTD PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
OF ANY OF THEI PROVISIONS 1=0F.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of George-
town, Texas that:
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any one or more persons,
masked or in disguise, so that they may not be readily and
easily identifeid, to appear together, resort together, or par-
ade together, upon any of the public streets or alleys of this
City, without first having obtained the written consent of the
Mayor and the City Marshal of the said City, upon a written
application, setting out fully the purposes of such proposed
resorting upon, appearing upon, or parading upon, said streets
or alleys, made and signed by at least three of the said per-
sons, so desiring to resort upon, appear upon, or parade upon
said streets or alleys; and that each and every person taking
part in such parade, in disguise, or in so appearing upon, or
resorting upon, said streets or alleys, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum
without such written permit, obtained in the said manner,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be fined in any sum not less than One and not more than
Two Hundred Dollars.
That such written application for such permit, shall be
filed with the City Clerk of the said City, and shall be by
him kept with the public records of the said City, and shall be
subject to the inspection of any person or persons desiring
to examine the same, at all reasonable times.
That whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the
Mayor or the City Marshal of the said City, that this ordin-
ance is being violated or that it is about to be violated, or
that preparations are being made to violate same, it shall
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be the duty of the Vayor or the City Marshal or either of
them, to at once deputize a sufficient number of the res-
idents of this City, as special police, to prevent such
violation; and that each and every person, so called as
special police shall have the power and it is made their
duty to arrest without warrant any person engaged in the
violation of this ordinance, or about to violate same.
PASSM AND APPROVED thb the ,10th, day of October
A.D. 1921.
Jno. M. Sharpe,
May or .
Geo. KeaheY,
Secretary.
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