ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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place in each and every privy, water-closet or out-

Place box.

house a water-tight box for the reception of all urinary

and faecal matters under a penalty of five dollars fine

Penalty.

for refusing or neglecting to supply the same, and that

such box shall be emptied by the occupant, and it shall

be the duty of the party occupying said premises to

clean the same whenever it may be full, or sooner, on

Duty.

notice of said sanitary officers as made and provided

for in section second of the act of eighteen hundred

and eighty-two, with like penalties therein prescribed

for failure or neglect.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the earth-pits now in

use for privies or water-closets shall be filled up with

dirt and that the said boxes shall rest on or over and

above the earth surface; shall be easy of access; shall

Boxes- where

be in their construction, location and situation subject

and how placed

to the inspection of the 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

judgment of the sanitary inspectors seems best, in

Penalty.

either case a fine of five dollars shall be imposed as in

manner prescribed in section two of act of eighteen

hundred and eighty-two; provided, that this and the

preceding sections (fourth and fifth) 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.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlawful

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 reasonable distance from any dwelling house
outside of town limits, in the districts over which this

act gives jurisdiction under a penalty of a fine of five

Penalty.

dollars.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the

duty of the sanitary officers, on the prepayment of a

reasonable sum, not exceeding fifty cents per box, to

Remove con-
tents.

direct the garbage force to remove contents of privies,

such money to be applied by the county commissioners

to the sanitary fund.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said sanitary

officers shall have full power to examine into all alleys,

Full power.