From City of Browning minutes books May 3, 1921 - 8-1-1944
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1921
* May 5 - poll tax ($2 per male of good health between 21 and 50).
* May 5 - 25 cents on $100 valuation to pay interest on public debt and create a sinking fund.
* May 5 - 25 cents on $100 valuation to pay current expenses.
* Jul 5 - prohibiting the sale of confetti or sneezing powder in any form.
* Jul 21 - levying a tax for oiling streets.
* Sep 1 - oiling certain streets.
* Oct 10 - levying a tax for oiling streets.
1922
* Apr 3 - repealing an ordinance about police judge.
* Apr 3 - office of mayor to add police judge job at $15 a month.
* May 2 - poll tax.
* May 2 - current expense fund.
* Jun 19 - to pay freight on oil.
* Jun 19 - oiling streets.
* Jul 13?- levy tax for oiling streets.
* Dec 5 - clerk instructed to make copy of ordinance #91 concerning taxes for oiling streets.
1923
* May 1 - oiling streets and providing for cost.
* May 1 - amending section 43 of an ordinance on misdemeanors.
* Sep 4 - operating a telephone exchange.
* Oct 9 - mentions a crossing to be made according to specs in ordinance #66.
1924
* Feb 11 - amending ordinance #79 by changing fees on male and female dogs.
* Mar 18 - business licenses on medicine, spice, grocery and household supplies.
* Mar 18 - poll tax.
* Mar 18 - city elections.
* May 9 - oiling streets and cost of same.
* Jul 22 - tax for oiling streets.
1925
* Jan 12 - public masquerades and balls.
* Mar 4 - repealing an ordinance relating to police judge; was #108 and vetoed by the mayor; referred to #93 and #94; was re-introduced and passed.
* Mar 4 - the office of the mayor; was vetoed, re-introduced and passed.
* Jun 2 - oiling the streets.
* Oct 6 - levying tax for oiling streets.
* Dec 1 - parking vehicles in zones adjacent to Main Street.
1926
* Apr 6 - paying police judge $10 a month and office rent.
* May 1 - oiling the streets.
* Jul 6 - preventing trespassing on roofs of business buildings.
* Aug 3 - levying a tax for oiling streets.
* Aug 3 - trespassing on roofs or walls of store buildings.
1927
* Feb 16 - repealing ordinance #46 and fixing license on insurance companies doing business.
* Feb 16 - authorizing mayor to sign quit claim deed conveying city land to state for highway purposes.
* May 16 - repealing an ordinance that repealed an ordinance about police judge.
* Jun 14 - Ordinance #107 suspended for the night of July 4 for public dance by Legion Post.
* Sep 26 - franchise to Central West Telephone company to operate an exchange.
* Oct 4 - suspend ordinance against dancing for two nights permission to Guy Peters.
1928
* Aug 27 - electing a police judge.
1929
* Apr 2 - giving the city attorney $15 to revise the city ordinances.
* May 8 - 25 cent levy.
* Jul 2 - #121 special election for $25,000 bond for gravelling streets.
* Aug 12 - #122 declaring results of the special election (passed).
NOTE: THE FULL TEXT OF THIS ORDINANCE IS FOUND IN THE BACK OF THE MINUTES BOOK (SEE PAGE 297).
* Aug 15 - #123 levying current taxes and tax for sinking fund for 1929 and repealing ordinance #119.
* Aug 19 - #124 authorizing issuance of bonds for gravelling certain streets and levying tax to pay interest and create a sinking fund for the principal of $25,000.
1930
* Jan 7 - filling stations being established in north half of block #17 of original town.