The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-11
Regular Meeting City Council.
Council CHAMBER.
COLUMBIA, s. c., JUNE 8, 1S'

Regular Meeting City Council.
Council CHAMBER,
COLUMBIA, s. c., JUNE 8, 1876.
Council met at 8 o'clock P. NJ. Pre-
sent-His Honor the Mayor, John Alex
ander; Aldermen Pugh, Carr, Swygert,
Davis, Wells, Brown, Simons, Purvis,
Thomas, Carroll and Griffin.
The minutes of last meeting read and
confirmed.
Report Of the Committee on Market
adopted.
Report of Committee on Aims House
and Hospital received as information.
The Committee on Licenses, to whom
was referred the following petitions, viz:
Mrs L. David, Miss c. Mordecai, Miss
Wittvcgel, Mrs. Blackwell, MrB. s. A.
Smith, Howie Il Allen and E. Hunt, dis
approve, and recommend that the City
Treasurer enforce the ordinance relating
thereto; Frank Mac, petition not grant
ed; +. Spellman, tavern license, they re-
commend; he having complied with the
ordinance.
Petition of G.. A. Shield, referred back
to Committee on City Hall.
Petition of j. H. Kohler, laid over to
next meeting.
Ordinances relating to Guard House
and Market received second and passed
to third reading.
Alderman Swygert introduced an or
dinanoe relating to deaths in this city,
which received a first reading:
AN ORDrANoE RESPECTING DEATHS Oc-
CUBRFG IN THE CITY.
SEC. l. BE IL Ordained Jy the Mayor and
Aldermen Of the City of Columbia, in 5un-
Gil assembled, and It Is hereby Ordained by
the authority Of the same, That the City
Physician, in addition to the duties spe-
Gifted in an ordinance regulating the du-
ties of the City Physician, ratified on the
9th May, 1871, shall be required to keep
public registry of the deaths occurring
in the city; and shall submit to the CITY
Council at the first regular meeting in
April Of each year, report showing the
performance of his duties, the state of
the public health in the past year, with
such recommendations as he may deem
expedient and proper.
SEC. q. That no hearse-keeper or other
person In charge of any hearse, shall re-
ceive or carry any corpse or dead body,
until he shall have first obtained O certi-
fcate of the kind hereinafter required to
be furnished by the attending physician
or Coroner; and it shall be his or their
duty TO deliver said certificate with the
dead body to the Sexton or other persons
in charge Of the burial ground in which
it is proposed to inter such dead body;
and for every violation of this section,
he, she or they shall forfeit and pay for
the use of the city S25.
No Sexton of any church, or person
having charge of any cemetery, vault or
other burial ground, shall make or per
same, until he shall have first obtained
from the hearse-keeper or other person
IN charge Of the hearse, such certificate
as he is required by this ordinance to de-
liver with such dead body; and it shall
be the duty of such Sexton or other per-
sons in charge of my place of burial, to
deliver each day as received the original
certifcnte or certificates to the City Phy-
sician; and for any and eyrry violation
hereof he shall forfeit and pay TO the CITY
$50. The City Clerk and Treasurer shall
furnish to each practicing Physician and
the Coroner blank certificates in the fol-
lowing form:
hereby certify thGt died on
No. st street; e aged 10 o' Years and ID
months; native of and resi- I
dent in Columbia years and
months, and pursued cs q profession
or trade NJ. D..
Attending Physician, or Coroner.
And when any person shall die in the
city, the physician or surgeon who shall
have attended such person, n physician
or surgeon shall fill up the blanks in such
certificates, to the best of his knowledge,
and sign the same with his name, and
shall deliver the same to some one of the
family in the house where such person
shall have died, upon application there
for; and in case any person shall die in
the city unattended by any physician or
surgeon, it shall be the duty OF the Coro-
ner to furnish such certifcate and for
each and every refusal or neglect of the
duty herein required, ench and every
person offending shall forfeit and pay for
the use Of the city $50.
On motion, Council adjourned.
RICHARD JONES, City Clerk.