A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Meadville, Penn'a, in Force January 1, 1916: With Notes of Decisions ... from the Incorporation of the Borough in 1823 to 1916, Inclusive

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Tribune Publishing Company, 1916 - 560 pages
 

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Page 335 - The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same, without prejudice, however, to the filing of a new petition to the same effect.
Page 357 - An act dividing the cities of this State into three classes, regulating the passage of ordinances, providing for contracts for supplies and work for said cities, authorizing the increase of indebtedness and the creation of a sinking fund to redeem the same, defining and punishing certain offences in all of said cities, and providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class...
Page 525 - No dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of such a dealer, shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or possession, with intent to sell, exchange, or deliver, milk from which the cream or any part thereof has been removed, unless in a conspicuous place above the centre upon the outside of every vessel, can, or package from or in which such milk is sold, the words "skimmed milk" are distinctly marked in letters not less than one inch in length.
Page 151 - ... shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector...
Page 260 - All churches, meeting-houses, or other regular places of stated worship, with the grounds thereto annexed, necessary for the occupancy and enjoyment of the same; all burial-ground not used or held for private or corporate profit; all hospitals, universities, colleges, seminaries, academies, associations and institutions of learning, benevolence, or charity, with the grounds thereto annexed and necessary for the occupancy and enjoyment of the same, found, endowed, and maintained by public or private...
Page 141 - States, as a day of thanksgiving, or fasting and prayer, or other religious observance, shall, for all purposes whatever as regards the presenting for payment or acceptance, and of the protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of" bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes, made after the passage of this act, be treated and considered as the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday...
Page 335 - ... election; and should such proposition so submitted receive a majority of the votes cast thereon at such election, such ordinance shall thereby be repealed or amended accordingly. Whenever any ordinance or proposition is required by this act to be submitted to the voters of the city at any election, the city...
Page 356 - An Act to repeal an act approved the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine (Pamphlet Laws twenty two) entitled 'A Supplement to an act entitled 'An Act dividing the cities of this state into three classes regulating the passage of ordinances providing for contracts for supplies- and work for...
Page 96 - ... to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less...
Page 34 - ... understanding, expressed or implied, that his vote or official action shall be, in...

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