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Pig sties.

Exception.

Pound in
New street.

Pounds in

Twelfth and

Wards.

the last day of October in each year, under the penalty of five dollars for every swine above the aforesaid number.

14. All swine in the said city shall be kept in pens or sties, during the period mentioned in the 13th section of this chapter, which sties shall be properly and effectually cleaned at least once in every three days, under the penalty of five dollar for each and every violation of either of the provisions of this section.

§ 15. So much of the foregoing provisions as relates to swine, shall apply to the whole city of New York.

§ 16. The premises known as Nos. 81 and 83 New street, in the First Ward of the city of New York, are hereby designated as and for a public pound, and a poundkeeper is assigned therefor, without any compensation or salary to be paid by the Corporation.

§ 17. There shall be established in the Twelfth Ward Nineteenth of the city of New York, two public pounds, and also one other public pound in the Nineteenth Ward of said city, wherein shall be impounded all stray swine and cattle that shall be found at large in any of the streets, lanes, alleys, piers, wharves, or public places, or trespassing upon private grounds; and all such swine or cattle as shall be impounded shall be subject to the provisions set forth and prescribed by this chapter.

Pound on

King'sbridge road.

Pound in
Nineteenth
Ward.

§ 18. One pound shall be located as near as possible to the intersection of Kingsbridge road and One hundred and sixtieth street; and also one near the intersection of Seventh avenue and One hundred and twenty-third street.

§ 19. The public pound hereby authorized to be established in the Nineteenth Ward shall be located upon the grounds of the Corporation, at or near the corner of Fifth avenue and Eightieth street.

One hundred

street & 10th avenue.

§ 20. The premises known as the north east corner of Pound on One hundred and fiftieth street and Tenth avenue is here- and fiftieth by designated as and for a public pound, and a pound-keeper shall be assigned therefor, without any compensation or salary to be paid by the Corporation.

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§ 21. The premises known as the rear of lot on the Poun in One north west corner of One hundred and twenty-seventh twenty-s v street and Third avenue, is hereby designated as and for Third avenue a public pound, and a pound-keeper shall be assigned therefor, without any compensation or salary to be paid by the Corporation.

pounds

§ 22. The City Inspector of the city of New York is Control of hereby empowered and directed to assume the control, direction and supervision of the public pounds, created by the two last preceding sections, and the said City Inspector is also hereby further authorized and directed to cause the enforcement of all laws of the State and ordinances of the Common Council in relation to the public pounds in the said city of New York.

CHAPTER XLXIX.

Regulation for opening

of 86th stree.

OF THE INTERMENT OF THE DEAD.

§ 1. No person shall dig or open any grave, or cause graves soth or procure any grave to be dug or opened in any buryingground, cemetery, or church-yard, or in any other part or place in the city of New York, south of Eighty-sixth street, or shall inter or deposit, or cause or procure to be interred or deposited in any such grave, or in any vault or tomb, except in private vaults and private cemeteries now existing, any dead body, within the limits aforesaid, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars.

New Cemeteries prohibited.

Regulation for opening graves north

§ 2. No new cemetery or burying-ground shall hereafter be established in any part of the city and county of New York, and no person shall dig or open any grave, or cause or procure any grave to be dug or opened, in any such new cemetery or burying-ground, or shall inter or deposit, or cause to be interred or deposited, in any such grave, or in any vault or tomb, in any new cemetery or buryingground, as aforesaid, any dead body, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for every such offense.

§ 3. No person shall inter any corpse in any vault or of 86th street grave in the city of New York, north of the limits

Permission

to remove bodies,

mentioned in the first section of this chapter, unless such

vault or grave shall be at least six feet deep, and not less than six feet below the level of the adjacent streets, under the penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense.

§ 4. No person shall remove, disturb or expose any dead body or coffin, that is now or may hereafter be in

terred in any grave-yard in the city of New York, unless permission be first obtained from the Common Council, or as provided in this chapter, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each offense.

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§ 5. Every sexton or person having charge of any vault Sexton's reor burying-ground, in the city of New York, shall, be- als. tween the hours of nine and two o'clock of Saturday in each week, make and deliver to the City Inspector, a return of the persons buried in such vault or burying-ground, during the week, according to the form following:

FORM.

An accurate list of Interments in the Burial-ground belonging to

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Church bells

§ 6. No bell of any church shall be rung or tolled for Tolling of any funeral, without the permission of the Common Coun- for funerals. cil, under the penalty of twenty dollars, to be paid by the sexton or person having charge of the said church.

§7. Any person who shall violate the provisions of Fenalty section five of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of twenty-five dollars.

Sextons to bo furnished

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the City Inspector to furwith form of nish the sextons and other persons having charge of any

returns.1

No burial without certificate.

Permission

to convey

the city.

burying-ground or vault, with copies of the form set forth in section five of this chapter; and the said City Inspector shall report to the Attorney of the Corporation, all violations of any or either of the provisions of this chap

ter.

§ 9. No sexton or other person having charge of any place of interment in the city of New York, shall, under a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars, inter, or permit to be interred, any dead body therein, without having first received a certificate, stating the name, apparent age, birth-place, date, and place of death, and the disease of which he or she shall have died, signed by the attending physician, or in case no physician shall have attended such deceased person, then by some of the family of the deceased, or in case of an inquest having been held, by the Coroner, which certificate shall be deposited with the return, in the office of the City Inspector.

§ 10. No captain, agent or other person attached to bodies from any steamboat, ferry-boat, sailing or other vessel, or to any stage, railroad, or other conveyance, public or private, shall convey the body of any person who has died in the city of New York, beyond the limits of said city, without a permit from the City Inspector, under the penalty of two hundred dollars for each offense, to be collected from the person or persons so offending, severally and respectively.

Ibid.

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the City Inspector to grant a permit for the removal of the body of any deceased person from the city, which has not been buried, upon receiving a certificate of the death of said person, made in

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