Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-03-24
Sanitary and Police Regulations
DEIT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF
ID Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Mem

DE II ORDAINED By The DOhh ND VI
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SECTION /. That from and after the passage
OF this ordinance, no person shall be permitted
TO throw any animal or vegetable substance,
straw, hay, oats ashes, SCOT, or other article OF
substance whatever into any street, alley, ave
nue., highway, thoroughfare, or other pubic
place of The city.
SEC. 2. That no person shall be allowed 10
nue., or other public place of the city, any filth,
o sour, or unclean water, from his, her or their
house, kitchen or other tenement, or to suher
any such filth or water to escape from his or
her premises upon any of the places above
named, or upon any property contiguous there
to.
SEC. 8. That all house offal, whether consist,
ing of animal or vegetable substances, and all
articles enumerated in 4he 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 II
necessary, to the health or cleanliness OF the
city. la .H
filth OF distractions of any kind to accumulate
in the cutters in front Of his or her property
and all owners or occupants oil properly 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 now
of water through them to the river or bayou, =.
SEC. 5. That no owner, keeper or occupant OIL
livery OF sale stable. nor Other person VINO
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
sive 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 70 be washed or cleaned
on any street, sidewalk or other public place
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 OF cause
TO be exhibited within the limits OF this city,
any bull fight, dog fight, or .pueilistic contest,
OF make any immoral exhibition whatever, or
gather together parties of men Tor the purpose
Of aiding in or attending such exhibitions.
SIC. I. That il shall be the duty Of the police
of this city, 70 see that the provisions OF this
ordinance are properly enforced, ana 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 tail or refuse
TO comply with the provisions of the ordinance
SO far as II relates to the police, the same shall
be cause for dismissal from once ana on re-
moyal 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.
SIC 8. That any person who shall violate
any one Of the provisions &C Ibis ordinance, on
conviction thereof before the Recorder. shall
be fined not less than five nor more than fifty
dollars for each and every otensei and al or
dinances or parts Of ordinances conflicting in
any wise with the provisions OF this ordnance
be. and the same are hereby repealed.
Resolced, That the members of the day police
force Of the city be, and are hereby instructed,
to examine Immediately the premises OF az
city limits, and wherever any nuisance may be
found 10 have il 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, 10 have such party brought before
the City Recorder and fined from day 70 day
till all the nuisances within the city limits are
abated: and the Chief of Police, the Captain
and Lieutenant Of the day police shall see that
this order is vigorously enforced IN every part
of the city,
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
1854, for e improvement OF me sanitary con
dillon of the city and that oil police oiiicers or
men FILLING or emitting 70 perform that duty
shall be removed from ONCE, as provided IN
said ordinance.
citizens in ach ward of he city, who with the
aldermen of their respective wards, shall consul
tute q committee OF six, whose duty II shall be
10 examine the sanitary condition Of their
wards cause nuisances TO be abated, and report
TO the Mayor and Police Committee for removal
nom Office, all police officers or men who SHAH
neglect to enforce the ordinance mentioned in
=" RssoIred. 5arfIer, That the Sanitary ordi-
nance passed March, 1864. be published in the
citv papers, aud that each policeman be. ana Is
hereby required to provide himself with copy
Rssoiced. Tha, the force employed in accord
ance with the provisions 81 the ordinance ere
at,pg Health Office. be aud the same Is hereby
placed in charge Oftse Street Commissioner. 10
be employed and distributed according 70 the
orders OF the Health Ofheer. Adopted.
Kerolced, etc., That the City Register have
published in the daily papers FOR one week, the
police regulations Of the city az found on pp.
fO1-lOl 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 copy OF snid regulations, and that he per
forms faithfully. vicilantly and efficiently every
drfy therein enjoned on the police Of the city
and in defanlt 81 his doing 50. 90 report him 70
the Mayor for removal from Office Immediately
Adopted. ,o-,,- r.pr A.
Attest: L. T.. RICHARDS. City Register
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