The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-14
COUNCIL MINUTES
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A. ]. MITCHELSON, chrm,
GEO. H. COOK,
G. T. CALNAN.
Reports of Officers.


clerk, statement of expenditures for
same period. Ordered published and
filed.
From A. L. Owens, marshal, report
for month of July, 1912 Ordered
filed. slSk
From T. A. Mann, city physician, re-
FORT for month of July, 1912, accom-
panied by an ordinance regulating sur
face water closets, for introduction at
the request of the board of health. On
motion, the report and ordinance was
referred to the joint committees on
ordinances and sanitation
Resolutions.
By the Finance Committee.
! Be it and it is hereby resolved oy
the mayor and council of the city of
! Brunswick in council assembled, that
/ the mayor be and he is hereby au-
thorized to borrow on behalf of the
mayor and council the sum of five
/ thousand dollars, and to execute a
note or notes to the lender or lenders
of such money; such note or notes to
be payable within four months from
date or a shorter period, and to bear
interest at rate not greater than 8
l per centum per annum.
Further resolved that the mayor be
authorized to renew said note or notes
/ for the whole or any part of said sum,
| if the original be made for a shorter
period than four months from the date
of the original note or notes. Adopt,
ed
By the Finance Committee.
Be it and it is hereby resolved by
the mayor and council of the city of
Brunswick in council assembled, that
the mayor be authorized to execute
note to the light and water COM
pany, at three months, for the amount
of the June bills in terms of the con-
tract. Adopted.
A resolution by Alderman Leo ap-
propriating 5000 for the purchase of
a mule for the sanitary department,
also one appropriating $3.50 for dredg-
ing at the foot of Monk street landing,
was read and under the rule, laid on
the table until next regular meeting.
Ordinances.
The following ordinance was placed
, on first reading and referred to the
, ordinance committee and the commit
; tee on sanitation:
(By the Mayor
AN ORDINANCE providing for the
building and erection of priyies or sur
, face closets within the corporate lin
its of Brunswick; providing how the
7 same shall be maintained, kept anC
1 regulated; providing a punishment fol
violation of the ordinance, and fol
other purposes:
Section 1. Be it ordained, by thu
mayor and council of the city o
Brunswick, in council assembled, ant
it is hereby ordained by authority o
same, that from and after the passage
of this ordinance every building IL
said city used as a dwelling, store
livery stable, tenement house, mill o.
: foundry, shall be provided by the
owner thereof with water closet, privy
or surface closet where said privy OF
> surface closet can be lawfully main
tanned.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained by
the authority aforesaid, that no privy
or surface closet shall be erected OF
maintained on any premises in said
city to which a sewer and water line
is conveniently accessible, and nc
privy or surface closet shall be erect
ed in the city except under the di-
rection of the health officer, who shall
determine it's location and describe
rules for the construction of all such
Closets and any one erecting OF
maintaining a surface closet or privy
contrary to such rules, or the provis-
ions of this section, shall be subject
to trial in the police court, and upon
conviction shall be punished as pre-
scribed in section II of Johnson S
! Code of the City of Brunswick
Sec. 3. That all surface closets or
privies in said city shall be thorough
ly cleaSsed and disinfected at least
once in every fifteen Q5) days.
/ Sec. 4. That no person shall de-
lposit any human fecal matter in any
4 place except in some properly con-
! structed privy or water closet; nor
shall any person having removed the
contents or any part thereof of any
privy or surface closet in said city,
deposit, place or bury it anywhere
other than in a dumping station erect
ed and maintained for that purpose
under the authority of said city.
Sec. 5. That no part of the con-
tents of any privy or surface closet in
said city, shall be transported through
or over any of the streets or high
ways, except as the same shall be
removed and transported by means of
some tight covered receptacle or ap-
lparatus, pneumatic or other process,
so as to prevent the contents from
agitated or exposed to the open air
during the process of such removal