Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-03-28
OR DINA NOE
Sanitary and Police Regulations
DE 1T ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF
ID Mayor and Aldermen OF the City of Mem

DE 1T ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF
ID Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Mem
phis
SRcrIos l. That from and after the passage
OF this ordinance. no person shall be permitted
10 throw any animal or vegetable substance,
straw, hay, oats, ashes, soot or other article or
substance whatever into any street, alley. ave-
nue., highway, thoroughfare, or other public
place OF the city.
SIC. 2. That no person shall be allowed to
conduct into any highway, street, alley, ave
nue., or other public place Of the city, any filth,
or sour. or unclean water, from his, her or their
house, kitchen or other tenement, or to suffer
any such filth or water 10 escape from his or
her premises upon any of the places above
named, or upon any property contiguous there
to-.
SEC. g. That all house offal, whether consist
ing of animal or vegetable substances, and all
articles enumerated in the first and second sec
tons of this ordinance, at private residences,
boarding houses, hotels, and other public
hou es, shall be safely gathered up, put into
convenient barrels or other vessels, kept in
some suitable place or places. and thrown into
the river every forty eight hours. or oftener if
necessary, to the health or cleanliness of the
city.
SIC. a. That no person shall allow any dirt
filth or distractions of any kind to accumulate
in the cutters in front Of his or her property;
and all owners or occupants of property in
front Of which cutters shall have been made,
shall keen them clean and free from trash, mud
and all distractions to the easy and rapid flow
of water through them to the river or bayou,
SEC. 5. That no owner, keeper or occupant of
a livery or sale stable, nor other person who
may keep horses. mules, oxen, cows or other
animals, on his or her premises, for private
use or for sale, shall allow any filth or often
sve matter to accumulate in or near such sta
BILE or residence, from the keeping or taking
care of any Of the animals above enumerated.
nor shall he or she, wash or clean any carriage
or animal, or cause it to be washed or cleaned
on any street, sidewalk or other public place I;
nor suffer any water used in washing horses,
other animals or carriages to flow over and
spread on any sidewalk, or into any gutter In
the city
SEC. g. That no person shall exhibit or cause
TO be exhibited within the limits of this city,
any bull fight dog fight, or .pugilistic contest,
or make any immoral exhibition whatever, or
gather together parties OF men for the purpose
Of aiding in or attending such exhibitions
SIC. Z. That it shall be the duty of the police
of this city, to see that the provisions of this
ordinance are properly enforced. and in case OF
violation, to arrest and carry the party or par
ties so offending for trial before the Recorder,
and in case any policeman shall fail or refuse
to comply with the provisions of the ordinance
so far it relates to the police, the same shall
be cause for dismissal from office, and on re-
moval. the party SO removed shall not be again
placed on the police during the corporate year
in which he or they may have been removed.
SEC 8. That any person. who shall violate
any one of the provisions of his ordinance, on
conviction thereof before the Recorder shall
be fined not less than Eve nor more than fifty
dollars for each and every offense, and all or
dinances or parts of ordinances conflicting IN
any wise with the provisions OF this ordinance,
| be, and the same are hereby repealed.
| Resolred, That the members of the day police
| force of the city be- and are hereby instructed,
| to examine Immediately the premises OF al
| property owners or housekoepers within the
| city limits, and wherever any nuisance may be
| found, to have it abated at once; and, in de-
fault Of any. party to have such nuisance re-
| moved within twenty-four house from the time
| Of notice being given to that effect by any
| policeman. to have such party brought before
| the City Recorder. and fined from day to day
| till all the nuisanees within the city limits are
| abated; and the Chief Of Police, the Captain
aud Lieutenant of the day police shall see that
this order is vigorously enforced in every part
Of the city.
Resoiped, etc, That the Chief of Police, and
| the whole police force of the city be. and are
hereby instructed to enforce vigorously the pro-
| visions of the city ordinance passed in March,
] 1864. for re Improvement OF the sanitary con
dillon Of the city and that all police officers or
| men failing or emitting to perform that duty
| shall be removed from Office, as provided in
| said ordinance.
Resolved. That the Mayor appoint four 80
citizens in ZACH ward of the city, who, with the
aldermen OF theirresp ectiye wards. shall consii-
| tute committee of slx, whose duty II shall be
| to examine the sanitary condition OF their
| wards, cause nuisanees TO be abated, ana report
| TO the Mayor and Police Committee for removal
| nom ONCE, all police officers OF men who shall
neglect to enforce the ordinance mentioned in
| the preceding resolution. 49,
ResoIgsd. further, That the Sanitary ordi-
| nance passed March, 1864, be published in the
| city papers, and that each policeman be. and is
hereby required to provide himself with q copy
| Of the same.
| Realized. That the force employed in accord
| ance with the provisions Of the ordinance Gre
| otng Health Office. be aud the same is hereby
/ placed in charge oftle Street Commissioner 10
i Re employed and distributed according to the
| orders OF the Health Officer. Adopted.
| Resoiued, etc.. That the City Register have
| published in the daily papers for one week, the
| notice regulations of the city as found on DIP.
| iOO-l0l Of Bridges Digest of the Charter and
| the Ordinances of the City" and that the Chief
| OF Police, the Captains and Lieutenants of the
| day and night police see that each policeman
has a copy OF said regulations, and that be per
| forms faithfully. vigantly and efficiently every
| duty therein enioined on the police Of the city
and In default of his doing so, to report him to
the Mayor for removal from office Immediately
JOHN PARK, Mayor.
Attest L. X. RICHARDS. City Register.
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