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LAWS OF FLORIDA 2213 of unusual noises,by any engine, locomotive or train within said City;to limit and regulate the rate of speed at and manner in which any engine, locomotive, train, cur or cans of any street or railway company or any automobile, truck, car, motorcycle and all other motor driven vehicles may be operated within the City limits; to require that no engine, locomotive, train, car or cars of any street or other railway company shall block or obstruct the passage of persons or vehicles at any strget crossing or other public Crossing in said City, and to limit the time that tiny engine, locomotive, train, car or cars may stand upon, obstruct or Mock any such street or other public crossing; to require any street or other railway com- pany operating any engine, locomotive, train, car or cars in or through said City, to provide sub-grade crossings or gates and sta- tions and keep watchmen at such public crossings of such railway within said City as the City Council may designate by ordinance, and it shall be the duty of such watchmen to care for and protect the public while passing over or using such track or tracks; and each day or portion of a day that such railway company shall fail or refuse to provide gates and keep a watchman at such crossing so designated shall constitute a separate offense, and for each such offense such company may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and the judgment or sentence therefor may be sued upon and recovery enforced in any Court of the State of competent jurisdiction; to require any street or other railway company doing business within said City to open, establish, pave or bridge,maintain and keep in repair a proper crossing, either surface or sub-grade, for the passage of persons and vehicles over and upon its track or tracks at any point where any public street, avenue or other public way of said City may now or hereafter be located or established, and to prescribe that if such railway company shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of any ordinance or resolution of the City Council ordering the opening, establishing, paving or bridging, maintaining or repairing of such crossing, within such time as may be prescribed, the Council or any person authorized by it,may open, establish, place, pave or bridge, maintain or repair any such Cross- ing and the City shall pay for the same and shall have a lien for tho amount so paid, which lien may be enforced by suit at law or in equity, or the City may maintain its personal action against such street or other railway company to recover said amount, or it may enforce its lien and also maintain its personal action until actually paid the amount due, and the same remedies may be pursued and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction. 130