The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-02
CITY ORDINANCES.

DESC UTIoN
LIZ OF Request TO the Legislature for the Pre-
servation OF the Purity of the Schuylkill
Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the City of Philadelphia, That the Legis-
lature Of the State be and they are hereby re-
quested to pass without delay, and the Chairman
OF the Committee on Law shall appoint a sub
committee to go to Harrisburg to urge the pas
sege Of the annexed act,
A further supplement 70 an act to protect the
property OF the Mayor, Aldermen, and cltlzens
OF Philadelphia, at Fairmount and to preserve
the purity of the SchuyllSill water, passed the
9TH OF February 1882.
he it enacted by the Senate and House of
hepl eSentatves Of the Commonwealth of Penn
syNSnla, in General Assembly met, and IL Is
hereby enacted by the authority OF the same,
section !. That If any person or persons here
aller snail wilully take, lead, conduct, carry off,
tnIoW or empty, or shall cause TO be taken,
led, conducted, carried Off or thrown or
SI2h9P Pue9, into that part of the river Schuyl
Eli winch is between the Norristown dam, at
UI OF near iS NorllsIown, and the dam at Flat Rock,
IN lhe city oil Philadelphia, any carrion, or car
@ @cass oI any dead horse, or other animal, or any
eACLenenS OF hlth from any slaughter-hOuse,
vault. well, sink, culvert, privy or necessary
| any ofial or putrid or noxlous m latter from any
oye-house, stlll house, lanyard, or manufac-
| tory or mill, any refuse from any coal.oil re-
hnely, ,gas-works, or any other noxlous matter
water of said river impure, every such person
or persons, shall for each and every such
| ofense forfeit and pay a sum not less than
one hundred dollars or more than one tnou-
sand dollars; and the penalties imposed by the
hTst section Of AN Actto protect the property
II
| delphia at Farmount, and to preserve the
purity OF the Schuylkill Water" approved the
| seventh day of FebI uary, 1892 for the commits
| sion OF the oftenses therein mentioned, shall
| hereafter be not less than one hundred dollars
| nor more than one thousand dollars, the amount
| of the penalty in each case within the limit
| aforesaid, at the discretion of and recoverable
in the Court of Common Pleas of the county in
which the offense shall be committed; and all
suits for any penalty or penalties provided Tor
| in this act, or in the act to which this act Is
| supplementary, or in any act supplementary
to said original act shall be brought in the name
| and for the use of the city of Philadelphia, -
| Section 2. That 10 length of possession what
| ever shall be available to bar or prevent the
| correction or removal of any nuisance ex-
| listing, or which may hereafter exist, at or neal
| that part of the river Schuylktl which Is be-
| tween the dam at Flat Rock and the dam at o
| near Norrstown.
| Section 3. That so much of any act heretofore
| passed as is hereby altered or supplied be anC
| the same is hereby repealed.
| JOSEPH f. MARCER,
| President of Common Council.
| Attest
| BENJAMIN H. HAIEES,
| Clerk of Select Council.
| JOSHUA SPERING, .
| President of Select Council.
| Approved this thirtieth day of March, Ammo
Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty
seven "a. d. 1867. -
MORTON McMICHAEL,
| Ait Mayor of Philadelphia.