Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-16

Total cost of pavement ,245 50
 Court of Common Council City of New Haven Read, accepted, order passed, and assessments laid reported.
 Approved August 12, 1884.
 Payable August 20, 1881.
 Attest, JAMES P PIGoTT,
 au16 St City Clerk Ordinance de Tenement Houses. FENO the Honorable Court of Common Council of 4 the City of New Haven: Your Committee on Ordinances, to whom was re ferred communication from the Board of Health de tenement housesy stem beg leave to report that they have attended to the business assigned, and que mn are oI 1e oPniGd tnae an nance system.
 tion of the following:
 All of which is respectfully submitted.
 HERBLRT E. BENTON, Chairman
 ORDINANCE TENEMENT HOUSES. Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council of
 the City of New Haven:
 That the following Ordinance be adopted as Sec, tion 40 of the Ordinances concerning ''Nuisancesn
 SEC. 40. The Board of Health when satisfied, upon due examination, that cellar room tenement or building in this city, occupied as dwelling place. want of cleanliness or other cause unfit for such occupants or the public, shall issue notice in occupants, requiring the premises to be iiness, or if they see fit requiring the occu- pants to quit the premises within such time the Board may deem reasonable. If the persons so ti1ed, or any of them, neglect refuse to comply with the terms of said notice, the Board may cause of the owner, may remove the occupants forci- ply and close the premises, and the same shall not consent in writing. of said Board of Health. If the owner thereafter occupies, or knowingly permits the same to be occupied. without such permission in writing from saidBoard, he shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.
 Court of Common Council, City of New Haven Read accepted and adopted.
 Attest: JAMES P. PIGoTT,
 au16 St City Clerk Amendments to Ordinances de
 NuiSanceS. FTNO the Honorable Court of Common Council of 4 the City of New Haven: Your Committee on Ordinances, having duly con ces de Nuisances, respectfully recommend their Ali of which is respectfully submitted.
 HERBERT E. BENTON, Chairman
 AMENDMENTS TO ORDINANCES DE NU1sANcEs. Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council That Section A. page 77, of the Ordinances de Nuisances be amended by inserting in the first and fourth lines of said section, after the word vault, the words 'or cesspool."
 That Section 16, pages Y and 78, be amended by vaults and privies and inserting in lieu thereof the words ''privies and cesspools.H in the second and fourth lines of said section after the word vault the words ''or cesspool." out in the last line of said section the word neigh borhood" and inserting in lieu thereof the word ing words: No person shall use abandoned well for cesspool or Privy vault
 So that said sections as amended shall read:
 Section A. No privy vault or cesspool shall be suffered to be at any time filled within two feet of the general surface of the ground around such prvy cesSpool No privy vault cesspool shall be drained into any hole excavation in the earth without per init therefor from the Board of Health but when the same requires cleaning, the contents shall be taken out and carted away as hereinafter pro- vided.
 The contents of any such vault or of any cess pool in said city shall not removed without per init from the Board of Health.
 Section 16. The Board of Aldermen may, on aDn1lpatiOn therefor a number of trustworthy persons to be licensed by the Board of Health, prescribed in the Ordinance concerning Licenses and Permits, to engage in the business of removing the contents of privies and cesSpools
 Section 1S No person shall remove the contents of any privy ceSSpool unless duly licensed as aforesaid, nor unless in a conveyance approved as aforesaid.
 No privy vault or cesspool shall be cleaned nor shall the contents thereof be carted through any street Of said city except between the first day of December and the 10th day of March then next ceeding, and between the hours of ten and o'clock in the night season, except as aforesaid provided however if it shall be necessary in the construction alteration of any building or in order to abate nuisance, to remove the contents of any vault at any other time, the clerk of the Board of Health may issue special permit therefor prescribing the time and manner of such removal, provided in the ordinance concerning Licenses and Permits Section go Every drain, sink and cesspool in said City shall be so constructed and maintained that the same shall not injure the water of any well become offensive, by its smell, to the public. No person shall use an abandoned well for cess pool privy vault. Section 30 It shall be the duty of every owner of any premises in said City and of the agent of such occupant of such premises, to keep and maintain the and the street in front to center free from any violation of the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance
 Court of Common Council, City of New Haven. Read, accepted and adopted.
 Approved August 18th, 1884