places shall use, for rendering, close tanks with an aperture not exceeding two feet in diameter, which aperture shall have an air tight cover, which shall effectually prevent, during the process of rendering, any escape of steam or gas, and such cover shall, if necessary, be "packed" so as to prevent the escape of such steam or gas; such cover shall not be removed for the purpose of adding to the contents therein contained at any time after the rendering of such contents shall have commenced, and said tanks shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned before any new material to be rendered shall be placed therein; and after commencing the rendering of the contents of any tank the same shall be continued uninterruptedly until fully completed. All offal of the tank shall be removed from the tank within four (4) hours after such completion, and shall within one hour after such removal from the tank be carted away from such establishment or place, to some place outside of the city limits. 36. MANNER OF USE OF TANKS.] Fourth. All such tanks shall be supplied with a condensing pipe, of not less than one and a half inches in diameter, leading therefrom, and such condensing pipe shall (or by connection with a main condensing pipe), lead into a tank of water of suitable capacity (of not less, however, than six hundred gallons), in which tank there shall be a condensing surface of said pipe, of not less than nineteen square feet; such condensing pipe shall lead and discharge from such tank of water into a sewer, or body of running surface water. The water in such water tanks shall be kept at such temperature as will cause a condensation of the steam and vapor passing through said condensing pipe, and shall be changed as often as may be necessary. No condensing pipe shall lead into or pass through any tank or box used for the reception of the offal from the steaming or rendering tank, nor shall any such water tank, or water while in such tank, into which such condensing pipe shall pass, be used for any other purpose than above specified. 37. REMOVAL OF OFFAL.] Fifth. All offal from any such tank shall be removed from such tank directly into wagons to be carted away from such establishment or place into a box or tank preparatory to being placed in such wagon or wagons, and such box or tank shall be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected within one hour after the removal of such offal therefrom, and all wagons used for the removal of such offal shall have close fitting covers to be placed and kept thereon while removing such offal. 38. REMOVAL OF BLOOD.] Sixth. The blood from animals slaughtered shall be carried away in similar wagons to those above mentioned from any such establishment or place within eighteen (18) hours after the animal shall have been slaughtered. All blood vats shall be above ground, that neither blood, tank water, or the washings of any of the above named establishments be allowed to run over the ground, but that all tank water and washings be carried off by a drain or drains, said drain or drains to have a properly constructed catch basin, for the purpose of catching what organic matter may be contained in the material passing through them; and also, that for each thousand gallons of the tank water, etc., that may pass through the drain, a half gallon of the heavy oil that remains after the distillation of coal tar, be placed in said catch basin, for the disinfection of the material passing through, which catch basin shall be cleaned as often as necessary, and also whenever ordered by any policeman, or any person connected with the board of health of said city, and such drain or drains shall have such connection with a reservoir or body of water as the health officer shall direct. 39 DECAYED FLESH NOT TO BE RENDERED.] Seventh. No putrid, decayed, or offensive flesh, intestines or other animal matter, and no dead animals shall be rendered in or about any such establishment or place. 40. ESTABLISHMENTS OPEN TO INSPECTION.] Eighth. All such estab lishments and places and every part thereof shall be open to the inspection of any member of the police force, or officer or person connected with the board of health of said city, at any hour of the day or night, and full information as to any of the requirements of these regulations and as to any matter connected with the mode or manner in which any such establishment or place has been, or then is being conducted, shall be given upon request to any such member of the police force, officer, or person. The giving of false information (knowing to be false) as to any such matter or requirements, shall forfeit the permit issued for the carrying on of any such establishment or place. 41. FORFEITURE OF PERMITS, WHEN.] Ninth. The permit granted to any person or persons, shall, upon any violation of any of these regulations or any part thereof, be forfeited, and any slaughtering or rendering in any such establishment or place, after such forfeiture be prohibited. 42. PENALTY.] Tenth. Any person or corporation who shall carry on any such establishment or place within the period aforesaid, without having a permit, or shall violate any of the provisions of any of these regulations, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars to be collected and enforced as provided in Section 10, of Chapter 4, of the act supplementary to an act approved March 9th, 1867, "to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and revise the same, approved February 13th, 1863, and the several amendments thereto." By-law as to vaccination, etc. 1. 43. VACCINATION PRESCRIBED.] The sanitary superintendent, sanitary inspectors and health officers shall be authorized, and it shall be their duty, to vaccinate or revaccinate all persons in houses infected with small pox or to see that it is promptly done by others. 44. PENALTY.] 2. Any person or persons in any house infected with small pox refusing to be vaccinated or revaccinated shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. An ordinance authorizing the construction and operation of certain horse railways in the streets of the city of Chicago. [Passed August 16, 1858.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 1. PERMISSION TO BUILD AND OPERATE RAILWAY ON STREETS.] SECTION 1. That there is hereby granted to Henry Fuller, Franklin Parmelee, and Liberty Bigelow, and such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them, and to their executors, administrators and assigns, permission or authority and consent of the common council, to lay a single or double track for a railway, with all necessary and convenient tracks for turnouts, side tracks and switches, in and along the course of certain streets in the city of Chicago, hereinafter mentioned, and to operate railway cars and carriages thereon, in the manner, and for the time, and upon the conditions hereinafter prescribed: Provided, that said tracks shall not be laid within twelve feet of the sidewalks upon any of the streets. 2. FRANCHISE ON CERTAIN STREETS.] SEC. 2. That said parties are hereby authorized to lay a single or double track, for a railway, in and along the course of the following streets in said city, and extending the same as follows: Commencing on State street, at the south side of Lake street; thence south to the present city limits. Also, commencing on State street, at the junction of Ringgold place; thence on Ringgold place to Cottage Grove avenue; thence on Cottage Grove avenue to the present limits of the city of Chicago. Also, commencing on State street, at the junction of the Archer road; thence along the said Archer road to the present limits of the city. Also, commencing on State street, at the intersection of Madison street, and extending west along said Madison street to the present city limits. 3. ANIMAL POWER PRESCRIBED.] SEC. 3. The cars to be used upon said tracks shall be operated with animal power only; and said railways shall not connect with any other railroad on which other power is used, and no railway car or carriage, used upon any other railroad in this state, shall be used or passed upon said tracks. 4. How TO BE USED-COUNCIL TG REGULATE SPEED, ETC.] SEC. 4. The said tracks and railways shall be used for no other purpose than to transport passengers and their ordinary baggage, and the cars or carriages used for that purpose shall be of the best style and class in use on such railways. The common council shall have power at all times to make such regulations, as to the rate of speed and time of running said cars or carriages, as the public safety and convenience may require. 5. TRACKS, HOW LAID.] SEC. 5. The tracks of said railways shall not be elevated above the surface of the street; shall be laid with modern improved rails, and shall be so laid that carriages and other vehicles can easily and freely cross said tracks at any and all points, and in any and all directions, without obstruction. 6. RATE OF FARE.] SEC. 6. The rate of fare for any distance shall not exceed five cents, except when cars or carriages shall be chartered for a specific purpose. 7. GRADING AND PAVING STREETS-REPAIRS, ETC.] SEC. 7. The said parties, their associates and successors, shall pay one-third of the cost of grading, paving, macadamizing, filling or planking, on the streets or parts of streets on which they shall construct their said railways, and in the respects last mentioned shall keep such portion of the respective streets as shall be occupied by their said railways, or either of them, in good repair and condition during the whole time that the privileges hereby granted to said parties shall extend, in accordance with whatever orders may be passed, in that behalf, by the common council of the said city of Chicago; and said parties shall be liable for all legal or consequential damages which may be sustained by any person by reason of the carelessness, neglect or misconduct of any agent or servant of said parties, in the course of their employment in the construction or the use of the said tracks or railways, and said parties shall moreover pay to the property owners on any street so used by them, as aforesaid, for their said railways, which has, since the first day of January, A. D. 1858, been paved, macadamized or planked, and at any time between said date last mentioned, and the time of going into the occupation of either of said respective streets with the said railway by said parties, their associates or successors, may be paved, macadamized or planked, one-third of the reasonable cost and expense thereof so paid by said property owners respectively. 8. WHEN TO BE BUILT FORFEITURE The PROVISO.] SEC. 8. rights and privileges granted to said parties, by virtue of this ordinance, shall be forfeited to the city of Chicago, unless the construction of one of said railways shall be commenced on or before the first day of November, A. D. 1858; and unless the said railway commencing on the south side of Lake street and extending to Ringgold place, shall be fully completed and ready |