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AN ORDINANCE
Entitled an ordinance to prohibit
any person, firm or corporation
from opening his place of business
on Sunday for the purpose of selling
or offering for salegroceries, vege-�
tables, meats, fish, oysters or poultry
of any kind; providing for exemptions;-
prescribing a penalty for the violation
thereof and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIM CITY OF
BEAUMONT
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Section 1.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall open
his place of business on Sunday for the purpose of selling
or offering for sale groceries, vegetables, meats, fish,
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oysters or poultry of any kind shall be deemed guilty of•'-"
a misdemeanor and be subject to the penalty hereinafter
prescribed.
Section II..
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The above provision shall not apply to the kehcrs
of hotels, boarding houses and restaurants..
Section III.
Any person found guilty of violating the provisions
of this ordinance shall upon conviction in the corporation
court be fined in any sum not less than $20.00 nor more than
$50,00.
Section IV,
VorHEREAS, there is now no ordinance of the city of
Beaumont or lags of the State of Texas prohibiting persons,
firms or corporations from opening their place of business on
Sunday for the purpose of selling or offering for sale groceries,
vegetables, mento, fish, oysters or poultry of any kind and
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Hon. Mayor & City Council,
City.
Gentlemen: -
Beaumont, Texas, May 6th, 1918.
Vie your ordinance committee, to whom was -
referred the attached ordinance after careful consideration
recommend that same do pa
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believing that the best interest of our Government and
Society will be e"erved by prohibiting the sale of the
above articles on Sunday creates an emergency and a pub-
lic necessity that the rule requiring ordinances to be
read at'three regular meetings shall be suspended and this
ordinance take effect and be in full force from and after
its passage and lawful publication as required by the
Charter of the City of Beaumont
Passed, this the �� day of May, A.D. 1918.
Approved, this the `% day of May, A.D.1918,
ayor.
Attest;
y Secretary.