EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That all connections with drain

pipes or sewers be in manner as follows : All connections with

Manner of said

connections.

drain pipes or sewer must be made with "Y" branches one-

eighth and one-sixteenth bend, and when a privy or well or

cesspool is to be connected to a sewer, private or public, a pipe

at least four inches in diameter must be used, and a joint must

be formed at least five feet outside the well. The said pipe

must be of extra heavy cast iron with a sanitary tee in the well,

with the bell standing upright, and at least eighteen inches of

pipe on lower end to project down into the water, the upper

end to extend as high as the surface of the ground or floor, as

the case may be, and securely plugged with a leaf screw ferrule,

and so constructed as to be easily cleaned out.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That all pavements, streets,

Pavements,

alleys, roads or ways in any said city or town must be relaid

streets, etc.

and placed in good condition as soon as practicable after the

work is finished, at the expense of the owner of the property

or the person or persons having the work done.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That all drain pipes laid in the

public streets, alleys, roads or ways shall be of extra heavy cast

Drain pipes.

iron or vitrified pipe, and connected with the best Portland

cement, nad must have a fall of not less than one foot to every

fifty feet, all exceptions to the preceding rule to be made only

with the approval of said Inspector, and all change in direction

must be made with curved pipes one-eighth or one-sixteenth

bend, and no steam pipe, blow-off, steam-exhaust boiler or drip

pipes shall be connected with the house drain or sewer, but ali

such connections must be made to the main sewer on the out-

side trap or main drain.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That all joints in vitrified drain

pipes shall be made with mortar composed of one part best

Joints in drain
pipes.

hydraulic cement and two parts clean, sharp sand, when same

is used on or in private ground.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That a running trap of extra

heavy pipe with double vent shall be placed on every house

Running trap

sewer at an accessible point, if practicable, within the wall of

and vertical
pipe.

the building, and a vertical pipe of the same diameter, providec

with a brass trap screw, shall be constructed over the trap to

admit of cleaning the same.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That every house sewer shall be

provided with a fresh-air inlet on house side of the running

Fresh-air
inlet for

trap of not less than four inches in diameter, of form to be ap-

house sewers.

proved by the Inspector of Plumbing, under the direction of