Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-26
[To BE CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.


NUIsANcEs IN THE TWELFTH WARD-The
VA TO R~ecommence.-The people of the
Twelfth Ward, it will be recollected, com.
menced vigorous measures some time since,
against the soap boilers in that vicinity, in
order to make them comply with the ordi-
nance regulating such institutions, and one
or two parties were fined; but suddenly the
prosecutions received a check, in the shape
of an appeal, by one of the defendants to
the Court of Common Pleas, which, of
course, stayed all proceedings in his case in
the Court below, until the constitutionality
of the ordinance under which the prosecu-
ton was commenced, had been decided. In
the mean time a dozen or more new arrests
were made, but the cases were all postponed
till after the action of the Court above could
be known, and they have been deferred sew
eral times for that purpose.
On Saturday last, the constitutionality of
the ordinance was argued before Judge Car
ter, and after q patient hearing and a careful
summing of all the authorities, that func-
tionary delivered an opinion to the effect
that Everybody was so bound to exercise
his own rights as not to interfere with those
of his neighbors, and held that the ordinance
was constitutional, and not oppressive on
any one in the case of true government"
The following are the sections of laws
under which the prosecutions are based:
1t shall be unlawful to cast, throw or
leave exposed in any street, lane, alley, lot,
common, public ground, or water course,
within fht1 nitu Sha danI asn,r - n II
any animal, or any putrid or unsound beef
pork, fish, or other putrid or unsound sub.
stance, or make, use, keep, or permit, in his,
her, or their dwelling house, shop, store,
factory, clubhouse, cellar, yard, lot, or any
other place within said city, any noisome or
offensive liquid, or substance, or stagnant
water, prejudicial to the health of the citi.
zens, or any annoyance to the neighborhood.
Another section provides:
1t shall not be lawful for any butcher, or
other person, tokill or slaughter any beeves,
sheep, calves, hogs, or other animals, within
said city, except the house, yard, pen, or
place where killing shall take place, be
paved with-brick or stone, and the earth be-
fore it made sufficiently solid to prevent its
being the receptacle Of filth and offensive
matter.
The pavement shall, in every case, be
made with a descent toward the gutter,
which shall pass through the same, and
leading to a tub or reservoir, which shall re.
ceive the blood or offal passing therein,
which shall be emptied at the end of each
day, when killing has been lone on the
premises; and, moreover, the whole shall be
washed and cleansed at the end of every
day; and, further, that each slaughter house,
or place occupied for the killing of animals,
aforesaid, shall be whitewashed at least once
in each and every month between the LIST Of
April and the LIST of November, in each year.
The penal section is as follows:
Any person violating any of the pro.
visions Of this ordinance, shall be fined in
any sum not exceeding 500, together with
the costs of prosecution. Every days con-
%tinuance of nuisances, or violation of any of
the provisions contained herein, shall be con-
sidered a distinct offense.
The war upon the butchers and soap
boilers will now be renewed in earnest.