The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-27
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
EXTRA SESSION OF 1877.
AN ACT
No. t4.l

| To provide for tho disposition OF offal, garbage
| nightsoil and dead animals within the par
| ishes OF Jefferson, 0rleeps, and Ut. Bernard,
| and TO provide for the disposition OF oftal
droppiDgs OF aughter.hotses and dead ami
mails in said parishes.
| SECTION l. DO ii enacted by The Senate and
House Of Representatives Of The Stale Of Louisiana
IN General Assembly conuened, That kom and
after the passage OF this act ID shall not be lawful
| for any person, firm, company or corporation act
ing under any city or parish ordinance, or under
any laws OF this btate to cause or 10 allow TO be
| dropped from any wharves or landings within
| the parishes OF Jefferson, Orleans and st. Ber-
nard any offal, garbage, nigat-sol or dead ami.
mails. That IL shall be the duty Of all persons,
frms, companies or corporations engaged in re-.
moving effli, garbage, night soil or dead animals
| TO provide or cause to be provided suitable boats
at each nuisance wharf or landing designated for
above mentioned paashes, 10 which boats oil
ofal, garbage, night-soil or dead animals shall be
dropped. That It shall further be the duty OF
said persons, firms, companies or corpoi atioDs TO
cause such boats TO be towed daily to the lower
| limits OF the city Of New Orleans, there to be
emptied In the middle OF tbs Mississippi river.
sBc. a. Be u further enacted, etc., That all boate
used for the purpose 9freceiying nightso shall DO
water. tight and provided with proper appliances
| for emptying the same; they shsl be covered
| with air-tight decks and matches upon which
| pipes Of heavy sail cloth or any other suitable
| material shall be adapted, and through which
| night.soil shall be dropped: An airhole shall DO
| provided on each Of said boats for the escape
| Of gases; on all such holes there shali be kept
| CONSTANT, burning charcoal furnace OF sutfi-
cient capacity to consume Bll gases escaping
therefrom, or any Other proper appliance APP
proved by the Board OF Health.
sEo. 3. Be IL further enacted etc., That IL shall
not be lawful for any person, firm, company or
corporation slaughtering ANIMALS, or disposing OF
the same In any manner, within tho parishes OF
Jefferson, Orleans end st. Bernard, 10 empty into
the Mississippi river, from wharyes or landings,
| any offsl or droppings OF said animals, or any
dead animals. II shall be their duty to provide
suit BILE boats, into which shall be emplied al
suea offal, droppings or DEAD animals, and to
cause the same to be towed daily 70 the lower
limits Of the city OF New Orleans, there 70 be
emptied in the middle of tho Mississippi river.
SEQ. A. Be ii further enacted, etc., That all per-
SONS violating any OF the provisions OF this act, or
causing the same 10 BIO violated, shall be guilty Of
misdemesnor, and shall be punished by fine and
imprisonment, ut the discretion OF the court; ell
fines not to exceed Eve hundred dollars, and i'm.
prisonment not to exceed thirty days. That IL
shall be the duty of the Board Of Health to pros
ecute ell persons violating any OF the provisions OF
ihia act. Any resident of the parishes above men-
tened shall have q right TO enjoin any and ell
parties from performing or causing to be per.
formed any action contrary to the provisions OF
this act; he shall further be dispenaed with fur
nishing any bond therefor.
FEC. g. Be IL further enacted, etc.,, That IL 10 the
true intent OF this act that Of Its provisions
shall be construed TO interfere with factories OF
tailow, oil and fertilizers; provided, such facto-
ries shall comply with the police and sanitary
ordinances Of the parishes In which they are sit
nated.
SEQ 6. BE IL further enacted, etc., That all laws
or parts OF laws contrary to the provisions OF this
act, or in conflict Herewith, hereby repealed,
aud that this act shall take effect from and after
Its passage. -
(Signed) LOUIS Bush,
Speaker OF the House of Representatives
(signedl LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the Senate.
Approved March %, 1877. .-
(signed) FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS,
Governor Of the stats OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
WILL A. STRONG,
Secretary of State.