Proceedings and debates of the third National Quarantine and Sanitary ConventionEdmund Jones, 1859 - 288 pages |
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Page 352 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embraces everything within the territory of a state, not surrendered to the general government ; all which can be most advantageously exercised by the states themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.
Page 650 - ... quit the premises within such time as the board may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them, neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, the board may cause the premises to be properly...
Page 645 - Sewers through, across, or under any Turnpike Road, or any Street or Place laid out as or intended for a Street, or under any Cellar or Vault which may be under the Pavement or Carriageway of any Street, and, after reasonable Notice in Writing in that Behalf, (if upon the Report of the Surveyor it should appear to be necessary,) into, through, or under...
Page 648 - ... communicate with and be emptied into such covered cesspool or other place, not being under any house...
Page 434 - Odyssey, a full stop of a very qualified import. Hoping that the immortality which you have given to the Fudges you will receive from them ; and in the firm expectation that, when London shall be an habitation of bitterns ; when St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey shall stand, shapeless and nameless ruins, in the midst of an unpeopled marsh...
Page 642 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 658 - Provisions as they think necessary as to the giving of Notices, as to the Deposit of Plans and Sections by Persons intending to lay out Streets or to construct Buildings, as to Inspection by the Local Board, and as to the Power of the Local Board to remove, alter, or pull down any Work begun or done in contravention of such Byelaws...
Page 656 - ... and extending along the entire frontage thereof, and upwards from six inches below the level of the floor thereof up to the surface of the said street or ground, an open space of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually drained...
Page 641 - In this Act, unless there is something inconsistent in the context, the following expressions shall respectively have the meanings herein-after assigned to them ; that is to say, " The jurisdiction of the Admiral...
Page 652 - ... clean, and shall not permit more than two cart loads of manure to accumulate and remain in or near the same, at any one time...