ART. 3.] HEALTH AND SANITARY OFFICERS. 211

clean the same whenever it may be f nil, or sooner on notice of
said sanitary officers, as made and provided for in section 118,
with like penalties therein prescribed for failure or neglect.

1884, ch. 512.

127. The earth-pits now in use for privies or water-closets
shall be filled up with dirt and the said boxes shall rest on or
over and above the earth surface; shall be easy of access; shall
be in their construction, location and situation, subject to the in-
spection of said sanitary officers, and if found by the said officers
defective in construction, location or situation, the necessary
changes so ordered by the sanitary officers shall be made, and on
the neglect or refusal of said property-owners to have placed
such boxes, or to have them made and located, as in the judg-
ment of the sanitary inspectors seems best, in either case a fine
of five dollars shall be imposed as in manner prescribed in sec-
tion 118; provided, that this and the preceding section shall be
intended to apply to earth privies and other defective water-
closets, and shall not be construed so as to preclude any other
kind of privy vaults built on correct sanitary principles.

Ibid.

128. It shall be unlawful to bury the contents of privies or
other offal, or deposit the same within half a mile of the limits
of any town, or within a reasonable distance from any dwelling-
house outside of town limits, in the districts named in the five
preceding sections, under a penalty of a fine of five dollars.

Ibid.

129. It shall be the duty of said sanitary officers, on the pre-
payment of a reasonable sum, not exceeding fifty cents per box, to
direct the garbage force to remove the contents of privies; such
money to be applied by the county commissioners to the sanitary
fund.

Ibid.

130. The said sanitary officers shall have full dower to ex-
amine into all alleys, by-ways and highways in their respective
districts, and upon the report of said sanitary officers of the con-
ditions of any alley, by-way or highway being prejudicial to the