Town Council. As we have traced the various town councils and officers through the history of Manning, we will give the report of the first meeting, in which is vested the law and order making body of our little city. Dated March 6, 1882. "On Saturday evening last the council elect of Manning met at the office of the Monitor, all being present except recorder Smith. S. L. Wilson, notary public, administered the oath of office and mayor Callamore called the council to order. The trustees then began to cast lots for the length of term that each should serve, which resulted in Turner and McQuaid for three years, Wilson and Hoffmann for two years and Emery and Tidd for one year.
Turner, Wilson and Emery were appointed a committee on town ordinances, with power to employ assistance in drafting the same. McQuaid and Tidd were named as a committee to procure a book for the use of the council, and Tidd and Hoffmann a committee to secure a place of meeting and mayor's office. The council took an informal ballot on the amount of license to be paid by saloons, which showed the average opinion to be $293, so license was fixed at $300, to be paid semi-annually in advance, and the bond of the saloon keeper fixed at $1000 for the non-violation of law."

For the benefit and enlightenment of the public we give a syllabus of all the ordinances up to date, that no one may be ignorant of the laws of the town. We give the various subjects covered by these ordinances, so that should any one be especially interested in any one ordinance, they can easily determine by the heading whether they are brought in contact with the same, and can easily obtain information by applying to the mayor for the ordinance book and reading the law in question.

ORDINANCES. Ordinance I. An Ordinance defining the boundaries, fixing the style of ordinance and establishing the seal of incorporation.
SEC. I. The boundaries of the town shall be the same as those named in the petition for incorporation now on file in the clerks office in Carroll county, state of Iowa.
SEC. 2. The style of ordinance shall be as follows: Be it ordained by the council of the incorporated town of Manning.
SEC. 3. The seal of the incorporated town of Manning shall be as follows: There shall be inscribed in the circle the words "Incorporated Town of Manning", and in the center the word "Iowa,"
Ordinance 2. An ordinance providing for the election of town officers. Setting the day of election on the first Monday in March of each year.
Ordinance 3. An ordinance defining the duties of town officers.
Ordinance 4. Fixing the compensation of officers.
Ordinance 5. Fixing the time for regular meetings of the council.
Ordinance 6. Defining the manner of commencing actions.
Ordinance 7. To regulate licenses.
Ordinance 8. Liscensing shows, theaters, concerts and performances.
Ordinance 9. Liscensing billiard, pool and similar tables. The amount of liscense shall be $10 a year, for each table. The hours for the running of those tables being between 5 a. m. and 10 p.m. The same shall be closed all day Sunday and gambling shall not be allowed at any time.
Ordinance 10. Liscensing and regulating ten pin and bowling alleys. The ordinance reads the same as ordinance No. 9 relating to running hours, gambling, and closing on Sunday.
Ordinance 11. Liscensing shooting galleries at $ 5 per month, with no time or gambling restrictions.
Ordinance 12. Liscensing and regulating auctioneers, transient merchants, peddlers and hawkers.
Ordinance 13. Regulating the sale of beer and wine. The city liscense for running a saloon or selling intoxiating liquor shall be $300 a year. The hours for opening shall be between 5 a. m and 10 p. m. on week days only.
Ordinance 14. Defining misdemeanors and fixing the punishment thereof. This ordinance includes, usage of profane or obscene language, gambling, boistrousness, assults, selling of obscene literature or pictures making lewd exposure of his person in public, drunkness, quarreling in public places, willful violation of the town ordinances, immoderate driving of stock teams and misusage of the same, unlawful obstruction of highway and dangerous unguarded exposures along same, careless handling of fire arms, false fire alarm, the placing of dead animals, filth and other nuisances on the property of another or in the road, the injuring of town or private property, vagrants or beggars, resistance of officers, and the unlawful storage of hay.
Ordinances 1 to 14 inclusive were passed May 22, 1882.

Ordinance 15. For the protection of property against fire, This ordinance relates to the safe construction of chimneys, fire boxes, stove pipes and keeping in repair the same as well as stoves and fire places, and the starting and care of fires.
Ordinance 16. Prohibiting the running at large of stock.
Ordinance 17. Liscensing drays and teamsters. AMENDMENT To ORDINANCE 17. Prohibiting the transfer of wares, merchandise or goods belonging to other parties, without a transfer or drayman's license. Passed June 20, 1890.
Ordinance 18. Providing for hitching animals of burden. It would be advisable to not only become familiar with this ordinance, but also with the laws of the state on this subject. It would avoid many accidents and much litigation, as well as financial embarrasments.
Ordinance 19. The taxing of dogs. This includes the marshal's duty regarding the violation of this law and the fine for same, also the killing of dogs.
Ordinance 20. Regulating the obstruction of streets and alleys.
Ordinance 21. An ordinance to define and punish certain offenses which are: The placing of straw, paper or rubbish on the street, or discharging of fire arms in street, alley or public place.
Ordinances 15 to 21 inclusive were passed May 25, 1882.

Ordinance 22. Establishing and regulating the office of street commissioner. Passed July 17, 1882.
AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE 22. Establishing the regulation of street commissioner.
Passed Feb. 1, 1886.
Ordinance 23. Requiring certain residents to perform labor on the street and alley of the town. This provides for the working out of the poll tax of all resident able-bodied men between the age of 20 and 50 years.
Ordinance 24. Regulating the sale of beer and wine. This ordinance varies but little from ordinance 13 and as it is repeated by ordinance 26, we will not state the change. Passed Feb. 6, 1883.
Ordinance 25. Regulating side walks on Main street. Passed April 1, 1883.
Ordinance 26. Regulating the sale of beer and wine. This ordinance provides that the parties licensed shall pay $300 per year, quarterly, in advance, and shall put up a bond for $1000 with acceptable surety and that in addition to the payment of a fine for the violation of this ordinance he shall forfeit $100, for each offense which sum may be recovered by ordinary legal proceedings. The maximum and minimum fines were placed at $l00 and $10, with costs. The section stipulating to whom liquor might be sold and the opening and closing hour were the same as in ordinance 13. Passed April 16, 1883.
Ordinance 27. To establish a plan of reference for the street and alley of the town of Manning, Iowa.
Ordinance 28. To establish the Grade of Main Street, Ordinances 27 and 28 were passed June 18, 1883.
Ordinance 29. To establish a night police. Passed January 7, 1884.
Ordinance 30. Regulating the burial or removal of the bodies of deceased persons. Passed October 6, 1884.
Ordinance 31. To license temperance bar keepers. "This paced the license for selling temperance drinks at $15 per month payable, in advance. Passed December 3, 1884.
AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE 31. Changing the rate of license for the sale of temperance drinks from $15 to $12.50. Passed April 5, 1886.
Ordinance 32. To govern plumbers.
Ordinance 33. Governing the consumers of water.
Ordinances 32 and 33 were passed May 5, 1885.
Ordinance 34. Authorizing the working of prisoners committed for violation of the town ordinances. Passed December 8, 1885.
Ordinance 35. To regulate dancing. No person shall exercise the business or calling of running a public dance of any kind between the hours of 6 o'clock A. M. and 5 o'clock P.M. Passed June 17, 1886.
Ordinance 36. Providing for the removal of all refuse weeds and other rubbish from the streets and alleys. Passed April 25. 1887.
Ordinance 37. Prohibiting the burial of the dead WON the incorporated limits, of the town of Manning. Passed May 3, 1888.
Ordinance 38. Creating a fire limit, or prohibiting the erection of buildings and additions upon certain ground in the town of Manning. Iowa. Unless the outer walls thereof are made of certain materials, and providing for the removal of buildings and additions erected contrary to such prohibition. Passed May 26. 1891.
Ordinance 39. Prohibiting the disturbance of the peace by disorderly and unlawful conduct in certain places of business and in other places in the incorporated town of Manning, Iowa. Passed April 21. 1892.
Ordinance 40. Prohibiting the riding of bicycles on the sidewalk, Of any of the streets in town. Passed July 17, 1893.
Ordinance 41. The repeal of ordinances 13, 18, 20, 21, and 36.
Ordinance 42. Prohibiting and punishing the improper or careless use of management of certain domestic animals and wrongful collisions.

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Ordinance 43. Prohibiting and punishing the injuring and removal of property belonging to the town or to its walks, crossings or foot ways. Passed Nov. 11, 1893.
Ordinance 44. Prohibiting and punishing the improper laying or maintainance of sidewalks.
Ordinance 45. Prohibiting and punishing negligence in the trimming of trees and other growths standing and growing along sidewalks.
Ordinance 46. Regulating and punishing the making of excavations and carelessness in connection with excavations or openings made.
Ordinance 47. Prohibiting and punishing the malicious injury or removal of trees and kindred growths standing along sidewalks.
Ordinance 48.Defining nuisance and providing for the abatement of the same.
Ordinance 49. To restrain and suppress gambling, abating the same as a nuisance, to abate and destroy gaming devices and punishing persons who resort to gambling houses.
Ordinance 50. An ordinance to suppress and restrain houses of ill fame, places resorted to for prostitution and lewdness, providing for the abatement of such and punishing certain offenses connected there with.
Ordinances 41 to 50 were passed Nov. 11, 1893.

Ordinance 51. Prohibiting certain offenses against the public peace and quiet, disturbances and riots and punishing the same.
Ordinance 52. Defining the time when certain public places are to remain closed and fixing the punishment for failure to do so. This ordinance stipulated only the saloons, gaming rooms, bowling and ten pin allies etc. which were to be and remain closed all day Sunday.
Ordinance 53. Prohibiting and punishing intoxication.
Ordinance 54. Prohibiting and punishing obscene conduct by or with reference to man or beast.
Ordinance 55. Prohibiting and punishing interference with town officers. Passed Nov. 13. 1893.
Ordinance 56. Prohibiting and punishing false fire alarms and police calls.
Ordinance 57. Prohibiting and punishing unlawful discharge of fire arms.
Or, Ordinance 58. To promote safety from fire and defining procedure under the same.
Ordinance 59. Prohibiting and punishing acts tending to make passage along the public places or walks of the town dangerous. Passed Nov. 13. 1893.
Ordinance 60. Punishing failure to procure are license required by ordinance.
Ordinance 61. The collection of fines and c sts.
Ordinance 62. Repeal of ordinance 14, ordinances 51 to 62. Passed Nov. 13, 1893.
Ordinance 63 Repeal of ordinance 39. Passed March 27, 1894.

Ordinance 64. To regulate the stacking of inflammable material within the city limits, with a view to promote safety from fire.
Ordinance 65. Consenting to the selling of intoxicating liquors and the keeping of the same with intent to sell, within the limits of the Incorporated town of Manning, and providing for an additional tax to be paid for so doing. This applied to persons who had complied with the provisions of sections eleven (11) and eighteen(18) of that law of the twenty fifth general assembly of Iowa, approved March 29, 1894, and entitled: An act to tax the traffic: in Intoxicating liquors and to regulate the control of the same". This required all such persons who had paid the state tax to also pay the town the sum of one hundred dollars, payable as follows, "one fourth of said additional tax shall be paid before such person, corporation or partnership begins such said business, and one fourth of the same shall be paid every three months thereafter."
Ordinances 64 to 65 passed May 24, 1894;

Ordinance 66. Establishing and regulating the office of city attorney. Passed April 14, 1895
Ordinance 67. To punish the violation of the rules and regulations of the Board of Health.
Ordinance 68. To regulate the building and repairing of side walks, for the levying and collection of special assessments therefore and repealing ordinance 25.
Ordinance No. 67 and 68 passed June. 21, 1895.

Ordinance 69. Extension of the Fire Limit. Prohibiting the erection of buildings and additions upon certain grounds in the town of Manning, Iowa, unless the outer walls thereof are made of certain materials, and providing for the removal of buildings and additions erected contrary to such prohibitions. Passed Oct. 3. 1895.
Ordinance 70. Fixing the penalty for violations of the provisions of chapter sixty two (62) of the acts of the twenty fifth (25) general assembly of Iowa, within the town of Manning, Ia. Passed Nov. 14, 1895.
Ordinance 71. Fining the salary of the Treasurer, and repeal of Section one (1) of ordinance No. 4. The salary is reduced from one and one Half per cent received by the treasurer by virtue of his office to one half of one percent of same. Passed February 5, 1897.