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3. Owners of wagons, drays, &c. to appear before register and take out license.
4. Applicants for license to give bond

5. Wagons, carts, and drays to be numbered.

6. Transfers of wagons, drays, &c. to be registered.

7. Persons wishing to obtain licenses before October, how to proceed.

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Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. The owner of any wagon, cart, or dray, employed in the transportation of articles of any kind within the limits of the city of St. Louis for hire or pay, shall pay to the city register for the use of the. city, ten dollars per annum, as a license for the same, and fifty cents for his fee for issuing the same.

§ 2. All annual licenses for the privilege and protection of said license, shall be issued between the first and fifteenth day of October in each year.

§ 3. The owners of wagons, carts and drays, shall annually, between the first and fifteenth day of October, appear at the office of the register aforesaid, and take out the said license, and shall give in their place of abode to the register, whose duty it shall be to enter the same, together with the number of such carriage in a book kept for that purpose.

§ 4. Before receiving a license under this ordinance each applicant therefor shall give bond to the mayor for the use of any person damaged, in the sum of one hundred dollars, with sufficient security, to be approved of by the register, conditioned for a faithful compliance with the requisitions of this ordinance, and that the obligee will pay and satisfy to any person damnified by the dray, for which a license is demanded, or by the driver thereof, by the non-performance or mal-performance of any contract of bailment entered into by the applicant for such license, or the driver of such dray, all damages incurred.

§ 5. Each wagon, cart, and dray, licensed as aforesaid, shall have its number as registered, in plain and conspicuous figures, in paint, not less than three inches in length, on the outside of the near shaft of such carriage.

§ 6. In cases of transfers of such carriages, the purchaser shall not be required to pay any additional license thereon, but the vendor of any such carriage shall, within three days thereafter have the same entered and registered in the name of the purchaser, in the manner aforesaid, and pay therefor fifty cents to the register, as a fee for registering such transfer, and until such transfer is registered the original owner shall not be exonerated from any responsibility incurred under this ordinance.

§ 7. If any person wish to set up or follow the said business or employment before or after the first to the fifteenth day of October, the same proceedings shall be had and adopted as herein before directed except that the license shall expire on the fifteenth day of October next ensuing for which the full sum of ten dollars, with the fee of the register shall be paid.

§ 8. No slave shall be permitted to drive any licensed wagon, cart or dray, or have the charge of any such wagon, cart, or dray, while the same is employed in the transportation of articles of any kind within the limits of this city, for which money is paid, or promised to be paid or demanded, under a penalty of ten dollars.

§ 9. Persons taking out such license shall be responsible for all goods, wares and merchandise delivered into their care for hauling, or the care of the person having the charge of such wagon, cart, or dray.

§ 10. If any person neglect or refuse to take out a license, as aforesaid, and shall receive or demand pay for hauling within the city, or shall demand or receive pay for the hire of any wagon, cart, or dray, he, she, or they, shall forfeit and pay for the use of the city, the sum of five dollars for each and every time he, she, or they, shall use or employ, or suffer to be used or employed, his, her, or their wagon, cart or dray, as aforesaid.

§ 11. If any person refuse or neglect to have and keep his, her or their, wagon, cart, or dray, numbered as required by this ordinance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay for the use of the city, five dollars upon each conviction.

§ 12. The owner or owners of slaves, or the person or persons having the charge or care of slaves, shall be responsible for the acts of such slaves, for the breach of this ordinance, or any ordinance, of this city.

§ 13. The city constable shall examine each wagon, cart, and dray, employed in the transportation of articles of any kind in the city, and

report without delay all breaches of this ordinance, or of the ordinance to which this is a supplement, to the city attorney, whose duty it shall be to prosecute the same without delay.

§14. The second chapter of the ordinance to which this is a supplement is hereby repealed.

§ 15. The city constable shall receive three hundred dollars, in addition to the sum now received by him, for the additional duties imposed on him by this and other ordinances and resolutions.

Passed by the board of aldermen, June 6th. 1835.

JAMES P. SPENCER, President.

APPROVED June 13th, 1835..

JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

An ordinance to re-organize the health department.

CHAPTER I.

Of the board of health.

SEC. 1. Board of health-how composed.

2. Members, how elected.

3. Register to attend meetings of the board of health,

4. City constable to obey orders of the board of health.

5. Street commissioner to carry into effect orders of the board of health.

Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. That the board of health of the city of St. Louis shall be composed of the health officer and one member of the board of aldermen from each ward, any three of whom shall constitute a board to transact business.

§ 2. The members shall be elected by the board of aldermen.

§ 3. The register of the city shall attend all the meetings of the board of health, record their proceedings, in books to be kept by him for that purpose, and act in all matters and things as clerk of said board.

§ 4. The city constable shall faithfully obey the orders of the board of health, carry their precepts, cause their regulations relative to the

cleanliness and salubrity of the city, to be punctually executed, and act in all matters and things as principal agent of said board.

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§ 5. The city surveyor and commissioner shall (without delay) cause to be carried into effect the orders of the board of health relative to the draining of ponds, raising or lowering ground, either on public highways or private property, within the limits of this city.

CHAPTER II.

Powers of the board of health.

SEC. 1. Board of health, when and where to meet.

2. Board of health to establish rules for preserving the health and cleanliness of the city.

3.

Board of health to cause all ordinances of the city in relation to the cleanliness thereof to be carried into effect.

4. Board of health shall cause to be removed from streets all things calculated to endanger the health of the city.

5. Board of health empowered to enter all places where nuisances are supposed to exist.

6. Nuisances existing on lots or in houses, board of health to issue notice to remove the same. 7. Nuisances existing on lots, &c. of non-residents, may be removed by the board of health, without notice.

8. If nuisances exist on lots, requiring immediate removal, board empowered to do so.

9. On report of the existence of the small-pox, the board to cause the persons infected to be removed.

10. Persons infected refusing to be removed, board to forbid all intercourse with infected house. 11. Board of health to employ assistants, if necessary.

§ 1. The members of the board of health shall meet, as a board, at the city hall, on the first Monday of every month, and at least once a week in the months of May, June, July, August and September, for the purpose of communicating and receiving all possible information relative to the health and cleanliness of the city, and to advise and consult with each other, respecting the preservation of the same, and to adopt such rules and measures to discharge the trust confided to them as may appear reasonable and proper.

§ 2. They shall draw from time to time such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient, for establishing, maintaining, and securing the cleanliness and health of the city, which rules and regulations they shall submit to the board of aldermen, for their approval, and, if approved, they shall have the same force as an ordinance.

§3. They shall cause to be executed all the ordinances of this city, relative to the cleanliness and salubrity of the same; and it is hereby made their duty to enforce them, as well as their own regulations in relation thereto.

4. They shall cause to be removed from the streets and all other public highways within this city, all offensive substances, which in their opinion may have a tendency to endanger the health of the citizens, also cause to be filled up and levelled, all low places and depressions, which may retain stagnant water, for which last object they shall apply to the city surveyor and commissioner.

§ 5. They shall have the power to enter and examine or cause to be entered and examined at any time, all houses, cellars, enclosures, and other places, shut up from public view.

§ 6. If any nuisance of whatever description, be found upon the lot, ground, possessions, or in the buildings of any person or persons, the board of health shall issue their written notice to the occupier, owner, or agent of such premises, to cause said nuisance to be corrected, within a time limited in their notice.

§ 7. When any nuisance shall exist in any house, or on any lot, occupied or not, of any non-resident who has no agent, within the city, known to the board of health, the said board shall have the power to cause the nuisance to be removed or remedied without giving any written notice.

§ 8. Should there be in any house, or on any lot, occupied or unoccupied, belonging to any resident or non-resident, any nuisance, the removal of which will not admit of delay, and the house or lot be fastened or enclosed in such manner as to preclude admittance in the ordinary way, the board of health shall cause the said house or lot to be entered, and such corrective applied as may be thought necessary, without giving any previous written notice.

§ 9. On report of any practising physician, or when there shall be cause to believe the existence of any case or cases of the small pox, or of any other contagious disease, the board of health shall cause the person or persons so infected, or believed to be infected, to be removed immediately to the hospital, or some retired place appointed for their reception: Provided, the patient or his friends consent to the measure.

§ 10. Should the infected person refuse to be so removed, the board of health shall prohibit all kind of intercourse with the infected house, or family, except by means of physicians, nurses, or messengers, or other persons to carry the necessary advice, medicines, and provisions, to the afflicted, as the circumstances of the case may render the one or the other mode in their judgment most conducive to the good of the city with the least private injury.

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