26. LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT FIRES.] The fire marshal, or assistant fire marshal in command, may prescribe limits in the vicinity of any fire, within which no person excepting those who reside therein, members of the fire or police departments, and those admitted by order of the officers of the fire department shall be permitted to come.

27. FIRES-POWER OF FIRE MARSHAL-DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERSPENALTY.] Every person not a fireman, who shall be present at a fire, shall be subject and obedient to the orders of the fire marshal and the assistant fire marshals, in extinguishing the fire and the removal and protection of property; and in case any such person shall refuse to obey such orders, he shall forfeit and pay for every offense the sum of five dollars: Provided, that no such person shall be bound to obey any of said officers, unless such officers shall bear their respective badges of office, or their official character shall be known or made known to them; and all such officers shall have power to arrest any person or persons so refusing to obey such lawful orders as aforesaid, and hold them in custody until after the fire is extinguished, when he or they shall be taken before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.

28. FIRES-FIRE MARSHAL AUTHORITY OVER LICENSED VEHICLESPENALTY.] It shall be lawful for the fire marshal and the assistant fire marshals to require the aid of any drayman with his horse and dray, driver of a licensed wagon with his team and wagon, or any citizen, inhabitant, or bystander, in drawing or conveying any engine or other fire apparatus to the fire, and in working and using the same, while at a fire; and on the refusal or neglect of any person to comply with such requisition, the offender shall, for every default, forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.

29. HINDERING FIREMEN, ETC. PENALTY.] Any person who shall wilfully offer any hindrance to any officer or fireman in the performance of his duty at a fire, or shall wilfully, in any manner, injure, deface or destroy any engine or fire apparatus belonging to the city of Chicago, shall for every such offense forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars, and shall furthermore be liable for all damage or injury done.

30. DISORDER AT FIRES-POWER OF FIRE MARSHALS TO ARREST-To COMMAND AID.] During the time of a fire, and for and during the period of thirty-six hours after its extinction, it shall be lawful for the fire marshal and the assistant fire marshals, in any part of the city, to arrest any suspected person, or any person hindering, resisting, conducting in a noisy and disorderly manner, or refusing to obey any such officer while acting in the discharge of his duty, and, as soon as their duties in relation to the extinguishment of the fire will permit, take such person before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law. Said officers shall be severally vested with the usual powers and authority of police officers to command all persons to assist them in the performance of such duty.

31. FIRE APPARATUS-SPEED ON RETURN-PENALTY.] No hose-carriage, hook and ladder carriage, or engine, shall be drawn faster than a walk on its return from a fire or an alarm of fire; nor shall any such carriage or engine be drawn on any sidewalk opposite a paved or planked street; nor shall any such carriage or engine be drawn to a fire or alarm of fire in a man

her calculated to endanger the safety of persons or property in the streets or alleys of said city, under the penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, to be paid by the person or persons committing the

offense.

32. CROSSING FIRE HOSE-PENALTY-HOSE PROTECTORS.] No person shall go over any unprotected hose of the fire department of the city of Chicago, when laid down to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, with any vehicle, without first obtaining the consent of the fire marshal, or his assistant in command, under a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the fire marshal shall procure and cause to be carried with each hose cart at every alarm of fire, efficient protectors of said hose, and cause the same to be laid down with said hose, when said hose is laid on any street, in such manner as to protect said hose from injury when vehicles go over the same, and he shall also cause all such hose to be taken up from the streets as soon as it is no longer needed to be so laid for use.

33. REMOVAL OF PROPERTY AT FIRES] Whenever it shall become necessary for the preservation of property from fire, or to remove property to prevent the spreading of fire, or to protect adjoining property from fire, the fire marshal or his assistant in command is hereby authorized to cause the removal of such property as may be necessary.

34. REMOVAL OF PROPERTY FROM RUINS-WHEN PROHIBITED-PENALTY.] Ord. Nov. 9, 1871. No person shall, between the hour of seven o'clock, p. m. and six o'clock, a. m. of any day within ninety days after any dwelling house or building shall have been in whole or in part destroyed by fire, carry off or remove from the lot, or part of lot, upon which such dwelling house or building was erected, any iron or lead pipe, iron railing, fencing, iron pillars, bars, rod, or other iron or lead fixtures, or other property of any kind, from the ruins of any such building, without a license from the superintendent of police so to do, and every person convicted of violating the provisions of this section, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every such

offense.

35. REMOVAL FROM RUINS WITHOUT CONSENT-PENALTY.] Any person who shall remove or carry away from any such lot or part of lot, any such iron or lead pipe, iron railing or fencing, iron pillars, bars, rods, or other iron or lead fixtures, or other property of any kind, from the ruins of any such dwelling house or building, within ninety days after such dwelling house or building shall have been destroyed by fire, without the consent or authority in writing, of the owner of such lot or part of lot, or of such dwelling house or building, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such offense. The penalties in this, and the preceding section mentioned, shall be collected as other penalties for a violation of city ordinances are collected.

36. ENFORCEMENT-SPECIAL PROVISION.] It shall be the duty of the mayor, board of public works, and board of police commissioners, to enforce the provisions of this chapter.

CHAPTER 12.

FIREWORKS.

SECTION 1. Storage of fireworks provided for and regulated.

1. FIREWORKS, HOW TO BE STORED-PENALTY.] Ord. Sept. 23, 1872. No squibs, rockets, crackers, serpents, or other fireworks containing powder or other combustible or explosive materials, shall be kept or stored within the limits of the city of Chicago, except the same be kept or stored in a fireproof vault. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and a like penalty for every twenty-four hours that said rockets, squibs, crackers or other fireworks containing the aforesaid materials, shall be kept or stored after the first conviction for a violation of this chapter.

1. BASE OF CITY LEVELS.] Rev. Ord. 1866. The grades hereinafter fixed are referred to the plane of low water in the year 1847, as established by the trustees of the Illinois and Michigan canal, and adopted by the late sewerage commissioners and by the board of public works of the city of Chicago, as the base or datum for the city levels, and was eight and twentythree hundredths (8.23-100) feet below the then water table of the then Loomis' store on the southwest corner of Clark and South Water streets, and was eleven and seventy-one hundredths (11.71-100) feet below the water table on the southwest corner of the main or central building of the then court house of Cook county in the city of Chicago, and is eleven and seven hundred and seventy-five thousandths (11.775) feet below the south corner of the water

table of Lind's block at the northwest corner of Randolph and Market streets. 2. GRADES ESTABLISHED.] Rev. Ord., 1866; amends April 22, 1867; Sept. 14, 1868; Nov. 8, 1869; May 31, 1869; March 14, 1870; July 20, 1871; Feb. 29, 1872. The grades of the top of the sidewalk, at the edge next to the street, on the streets of the city of Chicago, mentioned in the tables in this chapter contained, shall be at the intersections of said streets with each other, or with other objects, or at the points at which, if they were extended, they would so intersect, fixed at the heights shown by the figures (which indicate feet and decimal fractions thereof), set in the places where the spaces between the lines containing the names of such streets or other objects, at the left-hand side of said tables, intersect the spaces between the lines containing the names of such streets, or other objects, at the tops of said tables respectively.

An ordinance correcting the heighth of the bench mark, as shown by the revised ordinances passed January 20, 1873. [Passed March 31, 1873.]

WHEREAS; A clerical error has occured in the statement of the base, or datum, of the city levels (bench mark) in the first seetion of chapter 13 of the revised ordinances; therefore, Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago:

SECTION 1. That the words commencing on the ninth line of the first section of Chapter 13, of the twenty-seventh page of the revised ordinances of the city of Chicago, which read as follows, to wit: "and is eleven and seven hundred and seventy-five thousandths (11.775) feet below the south corner of the water table of Lind's block, at the north-west corner of Randolph and Market streets," shall read as follows: "And is fifteen and seven hundred and seventy-five thousandths (15.775) feet below the south-east corner of the water-table of Lind's block, at the north-west corner of Randolph and Market streets." SEC. 2 This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

I.

GRADES OF STREETS IN SOUTH DIVISION, NORTH OF TWENTY-SECOND STREET.

15.0 16.0 15.0 14.0

13.22

13.66

14.0

13.22