The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-06
ORDER OF TEAGUE.
SURFACE CLOSETS IN MoNTG0M-
 FRY MUST GO.
Sends Instructions to Sanitary Depart ment Telling Hts Head to Enforce Law Recently Enected by the Legislature.

Be 1t. resolved by the City Council of Montgomery as follows: That the Mayor and City Physiican be and are hereby requested. authorized and in- structed to enforce Section 366 of the City Code and the act of Legislature No. 326, approved March 12, 1907, re- lating to sanitary connections. effec- tually as the same may be done.
 Please see that the above resolu- tion Is enforced.
 w. M. Teague. Mayor"
 The above communication which has been received by the Sanitary Depart ment of the city government from the minutes of the last Council session and from. the chief executive of the city Is expressive of a victory that the of- ficials of the department have been for a number of years fighting to get. The administrations of Mayor Joseph. Carr and Teague have all been fraught with the problem contained in the leg islative act which will now be enforced in this city, and which will revolu- tionize the sanitary conditions here.
 Section 3s6 of the City Code calls the attention of the property owners to the fact that their premises must be con nected with sanitary sewerage, in the matter of cess pools, dry wells, sinks, etc The legislative act referred to calls the attention of the property own CTS to the same connections, and stip- ulates. besides, that all surface closets must either be removed from prem ises or connected as the act specifics.
 Section 366. further, points out 10 the Sanitary Department that the City Engineer is to be notified of all viola tions of the sanitary sewerage ordi- nances, stipulating that that official must order conformity with the regula- tions, and imposing a penalty for vio- lation. In accordance with that sec ton of the code printed notices Will be sent out the property owners In the course of the next few days, ana in accordance with the order from Mayor | Teague the resolution above referreo | to, which was introduced by Alderman l Holloway in the last CouncH session and passed, will be obeyed 10 the ie'' | ter.
 Mayor reague, in a conversation yes | terday. said that the resolution VII | he strenuously enforced, and that the surface closets will have to go. Ihs | oficials in the Sanitary Department say | that work preparatory to the enIorcs ment has already begun, and that al | tbe nreltuinaries for the removal have | been cleared away. Property owners
 will be given about two weeks, o'
 probably longer, in which to compi. with the law, after which they VII | be arrested for its violation. l The campaign on the part of the cltl against surface closets is not a new | one It has been a recurring one since | the last seven or eight years. every | administration urging the step yet no
 being able to get around the city cod' | and charter which has to do with suci | sanitary changes.
 The charter of the city, which hal | been found so inadequate to the growtl | of the city that a new one Is oeihe probed for, expressly stipulates that al | cess pools, sinks and dry wells mus be connected with sanitary sewerage but not surface closets" The code | hence the enforcement of the raoica | change could not be put into enect un | til special provision covering 1t na' | been authorized by a higher power | This power was furnished during tn | mast March when the 326th Act or tn l Legislature provided for the removal Q 1 the objection, and stated speciilcail 1 that the surface closets must go "he' so authorised by the city.
 l Montgomery is said to nave one | the best sanitary sewerage systems
 any city in the South. sewerage con
 nections reach to nearly every pom
 in the northern, southern, eastern ah'
 western extremfties of the city, an' | inc nines are of large bore and goo' | workmanship, When all of the oral
 nances governing and authorizing tn
 nIacine of sewers in the city have beel
 complied with and the changes CT
 Sected. 1t is said, the sanitary connec
 tion in the city will be practically com
 pleted, and the entire system put on | working basis.