The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-08-09

6. III. M. Bry, for collins and lumber
furnished paupers from September IL,
1877, to May %, 187S-$116 IS.
z. r. p. Richardson, sheriff, for
maintenance of city prisoners in parish
Jail from May LIST to May 31st,
1s7s-$79 40.
8. T. p. Richardson, sheriff, for
maintenance of city prisoners in parish
Jail from April 1st to April both,
1s7s-$93 GO.
Approved. FIR. ENDoNr, Mayor.
By Mr.. Renwick: A motion that
the committee on city cemeteries be in
structed to select a suitable lot of ground
for a new cemetery and ascertain
cost of same, and report to Council at
next meeting. Motion carried.
The following ordinance establishing
a quarantine against districts infected
with any contagious disease, and pro-
| viding for Board OF Health for Mon
adopted:
ORDINANCE NO. 366.
An ordinance to establish a quarantine
and to protect the public health.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Mayor
and City Council of Monroe, That it
shall be unlawful for any person COM
ing from any infected district to enter
the corporate limits of the city of Mon
roe, until said person shall have been
absent from said infected district more
than ten days.
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to bring within the corpo-
rate limits, from any infected district,
any goods or merchandise of any kind,
unless permit be obtained from the
health officer of the city of Monroe.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for
any steamboat, railroad, stage line, or
any common carrier, to bring within
the city limits any person sick with
yellow fever, or any contagious or in
fictitious disease.
Sec 4. That there shall DC established
at Bayou Lafourche bridge, v. S. & T.
II. r., quarantine station, and one ut
Fenner's bar on the Ouachita river.
All persons coming from any infected
district on tho V. S. & II. II. r., shall
be stopped at said Lafourchc bridge,
and all persons coming by river shall
| be stopped at Fenncr's bar; and per-
sons shall not enter the corporate limits
of tho city of Monroe without first OBJ
tanning permission from the health
officer, that he has been more than ten
days from any infected district, and
that there is no danger to be appre-
hended by his entering the corporate
limits.
Sec. 5. That there shall be established
a Board of Health to be composed of
three members. Said Board of Health
shall be elected by tho Mayor and City
Council, and shall elect their own
president, who shall be ec-oDicio health
officer of the city OF Monroe. Said
Board of Health shall make such rules
and regulations for their own govern
ment as they shall deem proper. They
shall also make such rules and regula-
lions and adopt such means as they
may think proper to protect the health
of the city of Monroe. They shall
have full authority to call upon the
police force of the city to enforce their
regulations, and any persons falling to
comply with their recommendations or
resisting the same, shall be fined in a
default of payment Of fine and costs,
on conviction shall be imprisoned not
more than ten days.
Sec. 6. That it shall be unlawful for
any person, except for officers duly au-
thorized to do SO, to board any vessel
coming from any infected district and
afterwards entering the corporate linn
its of the city of Monroe, before the eX
piration of ten days after being on said
vessel.
Sec. 7. That the Mayor shall imme-
diately issue proclamation declaring
the existence of quarantine and the
substance of this ordinance. He shall
designate what districts are infected,
and shall as often as necessary issue a
proclamation quarantining against any
place which in his judgment is infected
with any infectious or contagious dis
ease.
Sec. s. The police force shall arrest
all persons without certificates from
the health officer, within the corporate
limits, who shall have come from any
infected district, and will Immediately
take them before the Recorder. Said
person may be ordered to depart i'm
mediately from the city limits.
Sec. .. The Mayor shall make all
necessary arrangements to carry out
the provisions of this ordinance.
All persons violating any of the sec
tions of this ordinance, except section
4, shall he fined in sum of not less