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Show NO DISORDERLY ROOMING HOUSES The city board of commissioners this morning passed an ordinance respecting re-specting the licensing of rooming house keepers in the city, "rooming" including all hotels and lodging places The provision is made that all applicants ap-plicants for such license shall report whether they have a government license li-cense for handling Intoxicants or a licence iroru the state or city. They also must give the exact location of the place, the Dumber of rooms used and the exact number of each room, and further state the kind of entertainment, enter-tainment, if an, the furnish their guests, and also give an account of the character of people they permit I to dwell In their places It is further provided that the parties par-ties must report to the chief of police po-lice the nature of the house they arc keeping, and before the license shall he granted the chief shall Investigate rg and report the facts lo the board of commissioners Tho license may be revoked at the will of the commissioners on the report re-port of the chief of police that the parties are violating tho lirpior laws of the city or htnte or thai the parties par-ties are not keeping orderly houses. The ordinance fixes the following scale of license fees to be charged annually an-nually One hundred rooms. $r.0; 75 rooms, $30; 50 rooms, $20. 25 rooms, $10; 15 rooms, $5; 10 rooms, $3. 5 rooms,; $2, less than 6 rooms. ?1 The chief of police shall have access ac-cess to the rooms at all times, to make such Investigations as he thinks proper, where there Is a question as to the manner of conducting ilu- I |