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AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR CERTAIN BUSINESS
HOUSES TO REMAIN OPEN FOR BUSINESS, %.%%g SK *M
VkS&V4 ON CERTAIN WEEK DAYS AFTER SEYNN O'CLOCK P.M.
UNDER-'rut is KAIbw 'AS THE DAYLIGHT SCHEDULE OF Tin-
FROM APRIL THE 18T UNTIL SEPTEVBER THE lot, AND
MIDING A EMALTX FOR VIOLAT 02 OF THI§ =jANCT,
Be it Ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the
City of Fort �,orth:
Section 1: It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation owning or operating a store, store
room, store house, or doing any kind or character of business,
except as hereinafter stated, to keep their place or pl ,.ces of
business open for the purpose of transaction of their business
or businesses after seven o'clock; P. M. on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays of any week between April
the let and September the let, under what is known as the
Daylight Schedule of Time.
Section Z: Section 1 of this Ordinance shall not
apply to drug stores, garages, newspapers, public eating houses,
places of amusement, cold drink dealers, Cigar and fruit stands,
and manufacturers •-orking on goverment contracts.
Section 3: Any person, firm or corporation who shall
violate any of the previsions of this ordinance shall be 1
deemed gallty of a.+misdameanor, and shall upon c;ouvictiou ti;uroof,
be fined iw u mum not less than Ten ;Dollars (910.00) nor more
than Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars, and each
of any of the terms of this ordinance shall be deemed a separate
offense.
Section 4: The purpose of this ordinance is to give
the people of the City of Fort Worth, and especially those
engaged as employees, an opportunity to advance the common
interest of the country In the cultivation of war gardens,
which gardens are now of greatest importance as a means
for conserving those commodities -so greatly needed by the
American soldiers and the soldiers of the allies of America
in Europe, and the courts will so construe this ordinance.
Section 5; This ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after its passage W
and during the full period of the war
between the United States and Germany.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance was
duly presented and unanimously passed and adopted by the
Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort _'orth, Texas,
at a regular session of said Board held Tuesday May 28th$
A.P.1918.