[ Cleveland Ordinances: 1836 - 1857 ]
[ Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. ]
[ Table of contents and selected ordinances ]
Hosted by: NCF[NCF] [W3C] [CDD] [The GNU Project] [AltaVista] [Dogpile] [Google] [HotBot] [Lycos] [MetaCrawler] [Webcrawler] [Yahoo!]Some Cleveland history links: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society The Western Reserve Historical Society [ The city record ] [Note 1.] [The [C]ity [R]ecord] [ Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. ] [or] [ ORDINANCE BOOK ] [ 1836 - 1857 ] [ Reel 001A ] [Transcription and editing notes] [Table of Contents] [page (i.), column one]: Date Ordinances Page [vert.] [Table of Contents] [i-xii] [blank page] [xiii] [blank page] [xiv] [1836] [March Act to Incorporate the City] [1-10] [blank page] [11] [blank page] [12] [blank page] [13] [blank page] [14] [Apr. 23] Street Commissioners 15 [May 4] Wood Inspectors 16 [May 5] Obstruction in Harbors 17 [May 7] Prevention of Fires 17 [May 7] To regulate fire Department 19 [May 9] To regulate Streets 23 [May 9] To prevent Nuicances [Nuisances] 25 [May 11] To prevent erection of Wood buildgs. 25 [May 14] To regulate licences 26 [May 14] Regulating Weights + Measures 27 [May 21] Listing And Appraising Property 28 [May 23] Regulating Side Walks 28 [May 29] To repair City Bridge 29 [June 4] Equalizing Assessments 29 [June 4] Amendt. to regulate Streets 29 [June 6] Levy + Collection of Taxes 1836 30 [June 13] Amendt. to prevent fires 30 [June 22] Collection of School Tax 30 [June 22] Public Shows + Exhibitions 31 [July 13] Flagging Side Walks 31 [July 13] Appointm. of Coal Inspector 32 [July 20] To regulate Board of Health 32 [Oct. 5] For laying out Street [+faintinscription]34 [Note 2.] *[There are 2 street laying ordinances on p.34.] [July 27] Taxing Owners of Dogs 34 *[Order of the three ordinances on page 34 is as follows] [July 27 Taxing Owners of Dogs 34] [Oct. 5 For laying out Street 34] [Oct. 26 For laying out Street 34] [Nov. 2] Playing Games +C +C [et cetera et cetera] 35 [Oct. 26] Continuing Center Street 35 [Dec. 21] Assesst. and Equaln. of Lake Street 36 [Dec. 28] To establish a City Watch 36 [Nov. 30] Amendt. to prevent fires 38 [Nov. 30] For cleaning Side Walks + Gutters 39 [1837] [Feb. 8] For regulating Elections 39 [Feb. 15] To establish [Crown?] Street 41 [Mar. 22] Repeal ordin.an wood Inspect 42 [Feb. 25] Amendt. regulating licences 42 [Mar. 8] Authorizing the destruction of Dog[] 43 [Mar. 4] Protection of Property a[] fi[..]s [at fires] 43 [Apr. 1] Amendt. to regulate fire Department 45 [blank page] [46] [page (i.), column two]: Date Ordinances Page [diag.] [Apr. 26] Bridges across the Canal 47 [May 17] Amendt. protection property at fires 47 [May 3] Capt. and Masters of Vessels 48 [May 6] support of the poor +C 48 [May 24] Equalize assessment of property 49 [June 21] Appoint.[] Board of Equalization 49 [June 8, 1838?] [above line in text: "28, 1837"] Do_____ Do ,, Do 50 ["Do" is probably an abbreviation for "ditto".] [July 7] Establishment of Common School[] 50 [July 5] To regulate [...k.t.] [Markets?] 51 [Aug. 2] Appoint.[] of Chief Engineers +C 52 [Aug. 16] To prevent [..]cing [..]cing [sic] [racing?] of animals 53 [Dec. 20] Amend.t regulating fire Department 54 [1838] [Jan. 31] Execution of Notes on the C[] of the City54 [blank page] [55] [blank page] [56] [Mar. 13] Alley from Euclid to Prospect Street 57 [This web site is under construction.] [Selected Ordinances] [page] 15 An Ordinance for the appointment of a Street Commissioner and defining his duties : Sec. 1 . Be it, and it is hereby enacted, by the City Council of the City of Cleveland, That there shall be appointed by said council, a General Street Commissioner for the City of Cleveland. Sec. 2 . And it is further enacted, That the General Street Commissioner shall have the immediate superintendence of all the Streets, lanes, alleys and highways in said city, and it shall be his duty to direct when, where and in what manner, work in the same shall be done. It shall also be his duty to examine the condition of the Streets, lanes, alleys and highways and report the same to the city council, or to the standing committee on streets. But when repairs are necessary to save the Streets from further damage, before he can have an opportunity to report as above, then he may repair the same forthwith, and report, to the city council or standing committee afterward, the place, nature and expence of such repairs. He shall also provide materials and do all other acts necessary for the construction and repairs of streets, highways, or alleys, subject, however, at all times to the direction of the City Council. Passed April 23[] 1836. John W Willey Mayor Henry B. Payne, City Clerk _ [page] 17 An Ordinance concerning obstructions in the Harbor. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Cleveland, That the Marshall be. and he is hereby directed to remove the Float Bridge, or any other obstruction in the Cuyahoga River . at the west end of Division Street: said bridge to be removed within twenty days from the passage hereof. Passed May 5.th 1836 John W. Willey Mayor Henry B. Payne City Clerk. [This web site is under construction.] [Last Modified: Thursday, April 03, 2003 circa 04:00 U.T.C. (Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Zulu Time or Greenwich Mean Time).] [This site is edited by RKSJR.]