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Show Hewlett's OrdHir.co a QccJ Or.3. Councilman Hewlett's ordinance requiring the keeping of a register of guests in hotels, boarding-houses boarding-houses and rooming-houses which use tea or more rooms for sleeping purposes, is a good, measure. The Municipal Laws committee has passed favorably upon the bill, and it should be promptly passed by the Council. The proposed ordinance is as follows: It fs hereby made ths duty of all keepers ef hotels, boardlng-I boardlng-I houses and rooming-houses, which' have ten or mora sleeping ! rooms, designed for the use of guests, to kap a register In which such keeper shall require each gueat to strut his or her name be-. for occupying any such sleeping rooms. The reaiater shall at all; times be kept open for public inspection. Any prson, be he the owner, proprietor, -Clerk or any other person .bavin reg-ular or temporary charge of any hotel, boaraing-houaa or room in gr-housei gr-housei who shair violate any provlalon of this ordinance, sha.il be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, , shall b punished by a fine in any mm not exceeding S100, or by imprisonment not exceeding 100 days., or by both such fine and imprisonment. , ..,-!,. Salt Lake is a city of rooming-honses. Some "of thet.e places, according to the police, are hiding resorts re-sorts for criminals. The detectives complain that crooks may visit this city and .by living in the big rooming-houses which keep no. registers or other records rec-ords of their guests, may escape the watchful eye of the sleuths, no matter how great the vigilance which is exercised. There is more truth than poetry in the complaint of the police. Make the-rooming-housekeepers register their guests. : |