New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-30

parishes SAID inspectors shall be subject
to removal at the pleasure of said board.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
section six of said act shall be amended and
re-enacted SO rs to read as follows:
SEC. 6. That the Board of Health shall
have power to employ nurses and assistants
to attend the sick, and such other persons
as may be necessary to carry out proper
quarantine regulations, and to Fl z their COM
pensatlon: to fix the number of days of
quarantine for vessels liable to it under sec
tons ninth and thirteenth of this act, not TO
be less than ten days; to determine how
said quarantine shall be performed, and to
make all legal regulations not provided BY
this act, nor contrary to the same, and ne
cessary to carry out q proper system Of
quarantine, and to enforce the same by fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars; to make
rules and regulations for preserving good
order and police within the limits of the
quarantine ground, and to impose penalties
for the breach thereof; TO contract for the
necessary buildings ct the quarantine
grounds; to appoint secretary, who shall
act as treasurer, whose salary shall be if
teen hundred d0l!rrs o gear, and who
shall furnish security in the sum of ten
thousand dollars. It shall be bis duty
to keep a minute of the proceedings Of
the board and all vouchers aud expen-
ditures made by authority OF said board.
The said board shall have the power to re-
move or cause to be removed any substance,
matter OF thing which they may deem detri
mental TO health, whether such substance,
matter or thing be in the cities of New Or
leans or Jefferson, or in The parishes of Or
leans or Jefferson, on the right bank of the
Mississippi river, and the respective Street
Commissioners of said cities, and Police Jul
ries OF ssaid parishes, shall. without delay,
execute the orders Of said board with refer
ence TO the removal OF such substance, mat
ter or thing. aud the expenses necessarily
incurred in making such removal, as well as
those incurred for purposes of disnfec-
ton and removal of sick persons. shall be
borne, respectively, by said cities, and SAID
portions of said parishes from which such
removal or wherein such disintection shall
take place. The said board shall have power
to pass and enforce by adequate fine, not in
any case to exceed fifty dollars, sanitary or.
dinances for and within the cities of New
Orleans and Jefferson, and the parishes of
Orleans and Jeffereon, on the right bank of
the Mississippi river, and for the purpose of
enforcement of said ordinances, as well SIS of
this act and the act entitled IAN act to
establish quarantine for the proteC
ton OF the State" and the amend
ments thereto, the said board shall
have power to sue in its own name,
in any civil court having competent jurisdic-
ton, for any fines or pecuniary liza OIiities i'm
posed by said ordinances. or by said acts or
amended acts; and said fines or moneys so
recovered shall become a portion OF the
funds of said board. And should any
Street Commissioner, or street contractor, or
any person contracting or employed to
clean the streets, after having been duly
notified, neglect or refuse to obey any neces
cary sanitary order or ordinance OF said
board coming within the purview of this act,
Ctv
tractor, or person contracting or employed
to clean the streets. shall be held personally
liable, the same as if the matter or thing
of was by his original fault.
The board shall have control of the sanitary
police. within the aforesaid cities, and the
said portions of the aforesaid parishes
where such sanitary police is upon duty;
which force shall at all times consist OF Dot
less than one officer for each of the four
districts of the city of New Orleans, one for
the City Of Jefferson, and one for the par
ishes of Orleans and Jefferson, Oh the right
bank of the Mississippi river; and, in case
OF actual or threatened epidemic, said
board shall have power to cali upon the
Board OF Metropolitan Police for such ad-
dltlonal sanitary police force as said
Board of Health sh al deem proper.
The Board OF Health shall have power to
define the duties Of officers employed by
them and impose additional duties 30 Off |
GERS appointed under this ac.l to issue war
rants to any constable, police officer, or
sheriff in the State; to apprehend and re-
move such person or persons as can rot |
be subjected to the provisions OF
this act, or who shall have violated the /
same; and whenever it shall be necessary so |
TO do to issue their warrant TO the sheriff of |
the city or parish where any vessel may be,
having violated the provisions of this act, |
commanding him to remove said vessel TO /
he quarantine ground, and arrest the officer |
thereof: all which warrant shall be executed |
oy the officer to whom the same shall be !
directed, who shall possess the like power |
n the execution thereof and be entitled to |
he same compensation as if the same had |
neen duly issued out of any court of the |
State.
(oigned) MORTIMER CARR,
Speaker OF the House of Representatives. |
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the |
Senate.
Approved March Is, 1870.
(Signed) II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana. |
A true copy:
GEO. e. BovEE,