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Blackinton School-Grades nine, eight and seven, one room 28 ; Grades six and five, one room, 38; Grade four, 31; Grade three, 29; Grade two, 28; Grade one, 31; total, 185.
Greylock School-Grades two and three, one room, 25: Grade one, 26 : total, 51.
Walden School-Grades seven, six, five, four, three, two and one one, room, 28.
East Mountain School-Grades six, five, four, three, two and one one room, 23.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR. 1903.
January 5, 1903, to June 16, 1903; high school to June 26, 1903.
September 8, 1903, to December 19, 1903.
Vacations.
March 23, 1903, to March 30, 1903.
June 27, 1903, to September 8, 1903.
December 19, 1903, to January 5, 1904.
Holidays.
Thanksgiving day and the day after. Washington's birthday, Patriot's day, Memorial day.
School Sessions.
Primary schools, 9 a. m. to 11.30 a. m .; 1.30 p. m. to 3.50 p. m.
Recess, 10 minutes each session.
Grammar schools, 9 a. m. to 11.40 a. m .; 1.30 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Recess 10 minutes each session.
High school, 8 a. m. to 1 p. m.
Recess 11.05 a. m. to 11.25 a. m.
Storm Signals.
At 7.30 o'clock a. m. two blows of the whistle repeated fou times signifies no school for the morning. The same signal repeated at 11 a. m. signifies no school for the afternoon.
Salaries.
Salaries will be paid by the City Treasurer every fourth Friday of term time.
Truancy.
Notices of truancy will be received at the superintendent's Office each school day from 9 to 9.15 a. m. and 1.30 to 2. p. m.
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School Directory.
Isaac Freeman Hall. Superintendent of Schools. Office City Hall,
Elizabeth D. Lennox, Secretary,
61 Elmwood Avenue 69 Quincy Street
Drury School-High.
Latin, Herbert H. Gadsby; Principal,
English. F. William Memmott,
Science, Wallace E. Richmond,
Greek, William L. Spencer,
French, Frances E. Browne,
Mathematics, Annie Lund,
History, Annie M. Pugsley,
German. English, Ella B. Spencer,
History, Mathematics, Maria B. Goodwin,
Commercial Branches, Ethel L. Byfield, .
17 Willow Street 40 Blac kinton Street 42 Blackinton Street 25 Arnold Place 31 Chestnut Street 83 Chestnut Street 93 Church Street Academy Grounds 72 Quincy Street 45 Wesleyan Street
Grammar.
J. Marion Woodward, Principal,
GRADE
IX Christina Macdougall,
VIII May C. McCarthy,
VI1 Mary J. Doyle,
VIV
Dora A. Radlo,
IV III
Carrie L. Pratt,
II I I
Margaret R. Smith,
Elizabeth McGowan,
35 Willow Dell
26 Meadow Street 11 Union Street 53 State Street 32 Cherry Street 125 Hall Street 93 Church Street 141 River Street
Mark Hopkins School.
Mrs. M. E. Couch, Principal,
243 Church Street
GRADE
IX Harriet P. Ryder,
VIII Jo Winslow King,
VII Hannah E. Magenis.
VI Hannah P. Waterman,
VI . .. Mary L. Perley,
46 Davenport Street 46 Davenport Street 48 Center Street Lawrence Avenue 25 Dover Street
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VI Maud V. Elmer.
V
Emily D. Stacy,
V
Agnes E. Walker,
IV
F. A. Clarke,
Ada B. Bragg,
III Susan G. Lombard,
II Emma H. Tingue,
II
Julia Swift,
I Jessie Simonson,
I
Susan A. Cleghorn,
Kindergarten, Eva L. McConkey, Lillian S. Daniels, Assistant,
25 Dover Street 354 Church Street 65 Quincy Street 65 Quincy Street 46 Davenport Street 243 Church Street 65 Meadow Street 55 Quincy Street Hoosac Street 35 Chase Avenue Hoosac Street 354 Church Street
Freeman School.
Lily E. Blanchard, Principal,
GRADE
IX Mary A. Quinn,
VIII
Katherine B. Leary,
VII
M. Florence Williams,
VI
Sara L. Post,
VI Mary L. Madden,
V
Susan F. Whipple,
IV
Mary E Cummings,
III
Clara S. Kearn,
III Bessie M. Watson,
II Ethel T. Lee,
I Elizabeth Rowan,
I
Nettie E. Stewart,
Kindergarten, Annie Utman,
Josephine A. Cady, Assistant,
205 East Main Street
265 Houghton Street 48 No. Holden Street 21 Hoosac Street 21 Montgomery Street 33 Lincoln Street Summer Street, Adams 96 Liberty Street 166 Eagle Street 283 Houghton Street 5 Wesleyan Street 102 Liberty Street 255 Eagle Street 28 Porter Street 23 Wall Street
Johnson School.
Mary A. Hathaway, Principal,
13 E. Quincy Street
GRADE
VII Mary C. Raidy,
VI
Frances R. Sullivan,
V
Cecelia M. Collins,
VIV Idella Haskins,
31 Main Street 41 Brooklyn Street 105 West Main Street Dean Street
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IV III
Harriet A. Hathaway,
II
Harriet F. Brooks,
II
Harriet E. Brown.
I
Helen A. Browne,
24 Frederick Street 57 Frederick Street 22 Marietta Street 67 Liberty Street
Houghton School.
Rose G. Sherry. Principal,
183 Franklin Street
GRADE
VI
Ella L. Orr,
V
Maude H. Sullivan,
29 Holbrook Stree 129 Franklin Street 378 Main Street.
IV
Mary M. Sheldon,
III Genevieve Chapin,
II
Gertrude J. Orr.
II Frances Conlon,
I Ethel M. Winslow,
Kindergarten, Susan M. Cleghorn.
Clyde H Winslow, Assistant,
168 W. Main Street
Miner School.
Emma E Billings, Principal,
39 E. Quincy Street
GRADE
VII VII Helen O. Sheldon,
308 Church Street 38 Summer Street
VI V Joséphine I. Fuller,
IV Marion H. Ketchum,
514 West Main Street
III
Mary E. Heslin,
Anabel Jones, 267 Houghton Street 29 South Street 270 East Main Street
II I
Agnes E. Miner.
Brayton School.
Eva I. Haskins, Principal,
69 Holden Street
GRADE
VIII VII Katharine Collins,
VI
Ella I. Lillie,
V Jeanie Jarvie,
IV Mary A. Ketchum,
III II Elizabeth M. Harrison,
II Dora L. Cardany,
I Sarah A. Wells,
217 E. Quincy Street 155 West Main Street East Union Street 168 West Main Street 315 Main Street
105 W. Main Street 582 West Main Street t 923 West Main Street 496 West Main Street 781 West Main Street .
127 Pleasant Street 568 West Main Street
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State Street School.
VIV Sarah F. Haskins Principal,
GRADE
IV Jessie Manning, Assistant,
III Elizabeth Costello,
II Francis C. Welshy.
I
Margaret Heslin,
I Dorothy Darling,
I
Annie N. Pike,
307 Houghton Street 325 River Street 20 Bank Street 29 South Street 22 Marietta Street 141 Bracewell Avenue
Veazie School.
GRADE
I Alice C. Bulkeley, Principal.
I
Dora J. Gelinas,
Kindergarten, Carrie B. Peach. Alice R. Dyson, Assistant,
39 Hall Street
46 Bryant Street
Blackinton School.
GRADE
IX VIII VII Mortimer W. Thomas, Principal, 1101/W. Mam St. Mabel Phelps, Assistant,
Blackinton
VIV Helen A. Adams, Blackinton
IV Anna I. Crandall,
32 Marion Avenue Blackinton
III Anna C. Carpenter,
II
Nan A. Moloney,
Blackinton
I
Susan Rickards, Blackinton
Greylock School.
GRADE
III II Mary M. Ryan,
I
Annie E. Eadie.
Mansion House Bla· kinton
Walden School.
Ungraded Rhoda A. Barnicoat, ¡ E. Road to Adams
East Mountain School.
Ungraded Mary Hart, 1 Church Place
210 Eagle Street
94 Meadow Street Notch
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Music-Edwin A. Gowen, 138 Church Stree
Drawing- Willis B. Anthony. "Morningside". Adams
Mannal Training-Charles H. Stearns, The Berkshire, Iloosac St.
Truant Officer-Albert G. Whipple, 33 Bracewell Avenue
Evening Schools.
Evening schools are held during the winter months in the Drury. Houghton and Greylock buildings; the sessions consisting of 40 eve- nings. In order to keep up the interest and to prevent the Christmas holidays from interfering with the attendance, a vacation of two weeks is granted. thus dividing up the session into two parts.
The course of study includes all the ordinary branches taught in day primary and grammar schools. as well as such branches of high school work as are most useful in ordinary walks of life
The evening schools are under the same efficient supervision of Superintendent Hall, that is found in connection with our day schools. While the work done cannot compare in amount. with that completed in the ordinary primary and grammar courses it proves sufficient in quality to be of the greatest aid to those who need it, and who are compelled by law to attend the evening school.
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State Normal School.
Faculty.
FRANK F. MURDOCK, Principal,
Psychology, Pedagogy.
Rowland W. Guss,
Natural Science.
Charles H. Stearns,
Manual Training.
Lyman R. Allen,
History, Geography.
Rose E. Searle,
Mathematics, Music.
Mary A. Pearson,
Drawing, Painting.
Mary L. Baright,
English, Elocution.
Annie C. Skeele,
Physiology, Physical Culture.
Training School,
See Mark Hopkins School.
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Candidates for admission to any of the Normal schools must have attained the age of seventeen years complete, if young men, and sixteen years if young women, and must be free from disease or infirmity which would unfit them for the office of teacher. Their fit_ ness for admission will be determined :- 1, by their standing in a physical examination ; 2, by their moral character ; 3, by their high chool record ; 4, by a written examination ; 5, by an oral examina- tion.
Written Examinations. - The examinations will embrace papers on the following groups of subjects :
1. Language-(a) English, with its grammar and literature, ( b) either Latin or French
2. Mathematics-(a) the elements of algebra, and (b) the elements of plane geometry.
3. United States History -The history and civil government of Massachusetts and the United States. with related geography and so much of English history as is directly contributory to a know- ledge of United States history.
4. Science-(a) Physiology and hygiene and (b and c) any two of the following : Physics, chemistry, physical geography, and botany, provided one of the two selected is either physics or chem- istry.
5. Drawing and Music -(a) Elementary, mechanical and free- hand drawing, with any one of the topics,-form, color, and arrangement, and (b) music.
Oral Examination .- Each candidate shall be required to read aloud in the presence of the examiners. He will also be questioned orally either upon some of the foregoing subjects or upon other matters within his experience, in order that the examiners may gain some impression about his personal characteristics and his use of language, as well as give him an opportunity to furnish any evidence of qualification that might not otherwise become known to them.
Records of Scholarship .- The importance of a good record in the high school cannot be overestimated. Reasonable allowance in equivalents will be made in case a candidate, for satisfactory reasons, has not taken a study named for examination. Successful exper- ience in teaching is allowed to be taken into account in the determination of equivalents in the entrance examinations.
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Times of Examination .- Entrance examinations for candidates wishing to enter in September will be held :- The first examination on Thursday and Friday, June 25 and 26; the second examination on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9. Preliminary ex- aminations are allowed in June. Candidates are advised to present themselves at the first examination
General Two Yeaas' Course -This course is designed primartly for those who aim to teach in public schools below the high school grade.
Three Years' Course .- This course includes the subjects of the two years' course and additional elective studies from the math- ematics, science, language, art and psychology. This course will fit graduates for highest grammar grades and departmental teaching.
Kindergarten Course .- This course extends through a minimum of two years and includes such studies of the two years' course as immediately pertain to kindergarten work, instruction in the history and theory of kindergartens, and practice in teaching.
Special Course for Teachers .- Teachers of several years of suc- cessful experience in teaching, who give evidence of maturity, good scholarship, and of aptness to teach, may with the consent of the principal and of the board of visitors, select a course, including the course in psychology and pedagogy, and when such course is successfully completed they shall receive certificates for the same.
Tuition .- Tuition is free to all residents of Massachusetts. For others the tuition is fifty dollars a year. Text books and sup. plies are free as in the public schools. State aid to a limited extent may be granted to deserving persons, citizens of Massachusetts, after they have been in attendance for at least one term, provided they do not live in towns where normal schools are situated.
The Dormitory .- The dormitory provides accommodation for sixty students. Two students occupy one room. The rooms are furnished with the exception of bedding and towels. The price of board is $4 per week or $160 for the school year, payable in ad- vance, in four payments, one every ten weeks, beginning with the opening of school in September.
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Flag Days
The flag must be displayed on the public school buildings on days specified below:
January 6-Day of City Inauguration, 1896
February 12-Lincoln's Birthday, 1732
1809
February 22-Washington's Birthday
March 17-Evacuation of Boston by the British, 1776
April 2-Jefferson's Birthday, 1743
April 9-Lee's Surrender, 1865
April 19-Battle of Lexington, 1775
May 23-Foundation of Jamestown, 1607
May 30-Memorial Day, 1866
June 1-Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
June 17-Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775
June 14 -United States Flag adopted, 1777
July 4-Declaration of Independence, 1776
August 16-Battle of Bennington, 1777
September 3-Treaty of Paris, 1
1782
September 5-First Continental Congress, 1774
September 17-United States Constitution adopted, 1787
September 18-Surrender of Quebec, 1759
October 17-Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, 1777
October 18-Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781
October 21-Discovery of America by Columbus, 1492
November 25-Evacuation of New York by the British, 1783
December 16-Boston Tea Party, 1773
December 16-Day of City Election.
December 21-Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1620
Also on Labor Day, Annual State Elections, Inauguration of President of the United States and Governor of Massachusetts, opening and closing days of term, and other days as directed.
O
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Rules
OF THE
Board of Health
THE
WESTERN
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MASS
ADAMS
City of North Adams
1903
Board of Heath, North Adams.
DR. GEORGE F. SIMPSON, Chairman.
JAMES D. HUNTER, E. E. VADNAIS, D. D S.
JOHN Q. IRWIN, Clerk.
DR. ASA LYMAN JONES, Physician.
HENRY A. TOWER, Inspector of Meat and Provisions. Meeting Every Wednesday Evening at 8. FRANK P. NUGENT, Inspector of Plumbing.
Rules and Regulations
OF THE-
Board of Health.
The Board of Health of the City of North Adams hereby makes and publishes, as required by the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the following rules and regu- lations for the public health and safety:
Extract from the Public Statues, Chapter 80, Section 18.
"The Board shall make shch regulations as it judges neces- sary for the public health and safety. Whoever violates such regulations shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dol- lars ($100.00)."
DRAINAGE, PRIVIES, VAULTS AND CESSPOOLS. Chapter 74, Acts of 1890.
Section 1. No privy vault shall be established in a city which accepts this act either upon premises situated on a public or pri- vate street, court or passageway where there is a public sewer, opposite thereto, or upon premises connected with a public or private sewer, without permission in writing first obtained from the Board of Health of such city. And whenever there is in such city a privy vault so situated which, in the opinion of the Board
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of Health of such city, is injurious to the public health, said Board shall declare the same to be a nuisance, and forbid its continuance, and sections twenty-one to twenty-three inclusive of chapter eighty of the Public Statutes shall apply to such nui- sances so declared.
Sec. 2 .. This act shall take effect in any city of the Common- wealth when accepted by the City Council thereof.
Adopted by the City Council April 6, 1896.
Chapter 312, Acts of 1893.
An act relating to the repair of private drains in streets or ways.
Section 1. Every owner of an estate that drains into a private drain in a public or private street or way, who shall neglect to put such drain in good repair and condition for ten days after being notified by the Board of Health of the city or town that the drain is out of repair and condition, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for every day that such neglect continues after the expiration of said ten days.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect in any city when accepted by the City Council thereof, and in any town when accepted by a majority vote of the voters of such town present and voting at a meeting of said town duly called for that purpose. (Approved.) Adopted by the City Council of North Adams, April 6, 1896.
Rule 1. Every tenement in said city used as a dwelling house shall be furnished with a sufficient drain, underground, to carry off the waste water into a common sewer or reservoir; and also with suitable water closets, or with a privy, the vault of which shall be underground, built and kept in the manner pre- scribed in these rules, and of sufficient capacity for the number of occupants in such tenement.
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Rule 2. Every vault or privy shall be so constructed that the inside of the same shall be at least three feet from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner of such shall consent or agree otherwise; and also three feet from every street, lane, passageway or public place; and every such vault or privy shall be built in a thorough and substantial manner and kept water tight, and its contents shall never be within eighteen inches of the surface of the ground. Whenever any privy or vault shall become offensive the same shall be cleansed.
Rule 3. No privy, cesspool or vault shall be opened in any manner or time than at such time and in such manner as the Board of ealth may direct; and no person shall remove or carry through any public street, highway or square of the city the contents of any privy or vault, unless the person removing the same, and the cart, wagon or conveyance in which the same is carried, shall be licensed for such purpose by the Board of Health.
All such vaults shall be thoroughly cleaned out and the con- tents thereof removed once in each year, and oftener if the Board of Health so direct.
Rule 4. No sewer drain not water tight shall be allowed to pass within twenty feet of any well or other source of water used for culinary purposes, and no person shall allow any pool or stagnant water to be and remain upon his premises after notice to remove the same by the Board of Health.
Rule 5. The owners or occupants of estates abutting on a public sewer shall cause such estates to be connected by proper drains with public sewer. Whovere neglects or refuses to comply with such regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each day that such neglect or refusal continues.
Rule 6. No person shall permit the drainage of any building to enter any lake, pond or stream within the limits of the City of North Adams, the water of which is used for domestic purposes.
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CLEANLINESS OF HOUSES AND PREMISES.
Public Statutes, Chapter 80, Section 24, provides: "The Board when satisfied upon due examination that a cellar, room, tenement or building in this city, occupied as a dwelling house, has become, by reason of the number of inhabitants, want of cleanliness or other cause, unfit for such purpose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the inhabitants or the public, may issue a notice in writing to such occupants or any of them requiring the premises to be put in proper condition as to cleanliness; or if they see fit, requiring the occupants to quit the premises within such time as the Board may deeni reasonable."
Rule 7. No dwelling, or any part thereof, within the city shall be used for the sale, storage, sorting or handling of rags, without a written permit from the Board of Health.
Rule 8. No person shall collect, remove or carry in or through any of the streets, lanes, avenues, places or alleys within the City of North Adams, the contents of any cesspool, vault, privy or privy well, the drainage of any stable, dwelling house, slaugh- ter house, or other building in the city, unless expressly licensed therefor by the Board of Health, upon such terms and conditions, and by such methods, as the Board may deem that the public health requires, and upon failure to comply therewith, the license shall be forthwith revoked and canceled. No privy, vault or cesspool shall be cleaned between 6 p. m. and sunrise.
Rule 9. No putrid, decaying or decayed animal or vegetable matter shall be allowed to remain in cellars or outbuilding. No fish, slaughter house offal or other decaying and offensive animal or vegetable matter shall be left or permitted to remain upon the land for purposes of fertilization without being plowed in or otherwise rendered inoffensive.
Rule 10. Every owner or occupant of any building in this city shall keep such building and the yard belonging thereto free from all filth and substances liable to produce offensive odors, especial- ly fruit, meat and vegetable cans.
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Rule 11. No person shall burn on premises occupied by him any garbage, refuse woolen, silk, leather or India rubber goods, kreronsene or other substances so that the same shall evolve offensive odors and gases while burning.
Rule 12. No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited by any one occupying his premises, any house offal, bride, bones, dead animals, old leather, decayed fruit or vegetables, or any other rubbish in any streams, ponds, catch basin, street, lane, alley or public grounds of the city. Further, no person shall clean or wash fish or meat upon any street, lane, alley or public grounds of the city.
Rule 13. No person or persons shall deposit ashes or rubbish in any places within the city limits except in such places as shall be designated by the Board of Health.
Rule 14. No owner or occupant of land abutting on a private passageway, and having the right to use such passageway, shall suffer any filth or waste or stagnant water to remain on that part of the passageway adjoining such land.
Rule 15. No workman or other person shall commit any nui- sance in the cellar of any building while the same is in process of construction.
Rule 16. The owner or lessee of any lodging or tenement house within the limits of the city shall, when in the opinion of the Board of Health or its duly authorized agent, it is deemed neces- sary, whitewash, paint or otherwise clean and make wholesome the walls and ceilings of the rooms and passageways of the building.
HOUSE OFFAL.
Rule 17. Every house shall be provided with a suitable water- tight covered receptacle to keep garbage and swill until the same is removed by the licensed scavengers. This receptacle shall be kept covered at all times except when depositing or removing the garbage. It shall be kept where it shall be convenient of access.
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Rule 18. No person shall deposit in the garbage to be taken by the authorized scavengers any tin cans, water (dish water not excepted), ashes, glass, sweepings, oyster and clam shells, sawdust, corkdust, old boots or shoes, dead animals, lawn clip- pings nor any poisonous substances. Any garbage containing foreign matter of the kind enumerated above must be cared for by the owners at their expense.
Rule 19. No person shall go about, in or through the streets, squares or highways of the city collecting or removing swill, offal, butcher's waste, soap grease, rough tallow or slaughter house refuse unless duly authorized and licensed by the Board of Health.
Rule 20. All such refuse collected and carried through the streets, squares or highways as before provided shall be put and carried in a close covered vehicle, box or other tight vessel from which no odors can escape and which shall at all times, when not necessarily open for the purpose of depositing the material collected therein, be kept securly covered. If any of the con- tents shall be spilled or fall upon any street, walk or prmises, it shall be the duty of the keeper ordriver to replace the same and
STABLES.
'Chapter 213, Acts of 1895.
An act relative to the licensing and regulating of stables in cities.
Chapter 220, Acts of 1891, Section 2.
No person shall hereafter occupy or use in any city any build- ing for a livery stable or a stable for taking and keeping horses and carriages for hire or to let, within two hundred feet of any church or meeting house erected and used for the worship of God, without the consent in writing, of the religious society or parish worshipping therein.
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Rule 21. The conditions upon which liceses to occupy build- ings as livery or boarding stables shall be as follows:
Section 1. No person, party or corporation shall erect, oc- cupy or use any building for astable for more than four horses within the fire limits which the City Council may from time to time establish, unless licensed st to do by the Board of Health.
Chapter 220, Acts of 189.
Sec. 2. Every such stable shall be lighteu and ventilated in a . manner satisfactory to the Board of Health and the inspector ox buildings.
Sec. 3. Every stable shall be provided with a manure pit of sufficient capacity, the same to be water tight and constructed of brick or stone laid in cement, and provided with a proper ven- tilating shaft.
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