Section 9

Section 9. The said cities shall have the right to provide suitable places for the purpose of receiving therein the contents of privies, and other offensive substances, and when the same are provided it shall be lawful for said Bureau of Health to make proclamation thereof by advertisement in one or more of the daily newspapers of said cities, to be continued at least thirty days, and from and after the expiration of the said thirty days during which said advertisement has been published, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons employed in cleansing any privy or privies within the bounds aforesaid, to deposit, or cause to be deposited, the contents or any part of the contents thereof in any other place or places than such as shall be designated by the said Bureau of Health in its proclamation; and if any person or persons shall deposit or cause to be deposited such contents or any part thereof in any other place or places than as aforesaid without the consent of the said Bureau of Health, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay for every such offense a fine or penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. No person shall remove or cause to be removed, the contents or any part thereof of any privy-well until he shall have first obtained a permit from the said Bureau of Health, which permit shall specify the time within which the contents of the privy may be removed, and the place to which the said contents shall be conveyed and deposited, and if any person shall remove, cause or allow or assist in removing the contents or any part thereof of any privy-well before he has obtained such permit, or at any other time than that specified in the said permit, or shall convey to and deposit, or assist in conveying or depositing the same in any other place than that described in the said permit, he shall for any of the aforesaid acts forfeit and pay a fine or penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. Hereafter no person shall be permitted to remove or cause to be removed any portion of the contents of a privy-well within the limits aforesaid excepting in vehicles so constructed and operated as to be air tight, so as to prevent the emission of noxious smells, and if any person shall remove, cause or permit to be removed the contents or any part thereof of any privy excepting in vehicles constructed and operated as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay a fine or penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, and any constable, police officer or watchman is hereby authorized to seize and detain all vehicles, horses, implements and apparatus, actually taken with any person or persons detected in any violation of said provision, and deliver the same to the Bureau of Health for safe keeping, and as security for the payment of the penalties herein named.