By-Laws of the City of New Haven, May, 1840 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...the obAitering water structinor or altering the course of any run of water in said course in street, u-u.v.-i r i_ i c c Layin" heaps highways or streets; the laying of any heap or heaps of fire of firewood, wood, timber, planks, boards, shingles, hoops, staves, rails, fencing stuff, coal, box or boxes, any cask, barrels, hogshead, boxes, bricks, stove or stoves, iron, iron casting, lumber or rubbish, any pile st0ne, &c. in or piles of brick or stone, or any stone or brick, in and upon outgoodsDr'g said highway or streets, or on the side-walks in said city; or signs so as to inthe hanging out of goods or signs to incommode passengers; commode pasthe placing of hacks, carts or other carriages while in use, piadn- hacks more than one deep from the side-walk in any street in said &c. more than city, or drawing up the same or permitting them to stand in one deeP from any other manner than lengthwise with the line of the side-continu'inowalk; the continuing steps or cellarways that incommode steps or cellarpassengers on the side-walks, after having been notified by the ways a.ft" becommittee appointed, to remove the same, and the putting of Waning oAer any other incumbrance or obstruction in, over, or upon said incumbrance highway, streets or side-walks, whereby the traveling or pass-or obstruction ing thereon shall be obstructed or rendered inconvenient, shall sfde-walks01 each and every of said acts be deemed a nuisance; and the per-which shall obson or persons who shall erect or set up any house or shop orstruct passenbuilding of any kind, or any part of such house, shop, or build-rectin-building, in and upon the highways or streets of said city as afore-ing on street. said, shall for each such offense, forfeit and pay thirty-four Penal...