272 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 6922. [Creating artificial ponds, and stagnant waters.] 



Whoever builds, erects, continues, or keeps up, any dam or other ob- 

 struction, in any river or^stream of water, and thereby raises afi artificial 

 pond, or produces stagnant water, which is manifestly injurious to the 

 public health and safety, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. 



SEC. 6923. [Unlawful deposit of dead animals, offal, etc., into or 

 upon land or water.] Whoever puts the carcass of any dead animal, 

 or the offal from any slaughter-house, or butcher's establishment, packing- 

 house, or fish-house, or any spoiled meat, or spoiled fish, or any putrid 

 substance, or the contents of any privy vaults, upon or into any lake, 

 river, bay, creek, pond, canal, road, street, alley, lot, field, meadow, 

 public ground, market space or common, and whoever being the owner or 

 occupant of any such place, knowingly permits any such thing to remain 

 therein, to the annoyance of any of the citizens of this state, neglects 

 or refuses to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby, within 

 twenty-four hours after knowledge of the existence of such nuisance 

 upon any of the above described premises, owned or occupied by him, or 

 after notice thereof in writing, from any supervisor, constable, trustee, 

 or health officer of any municipal corporation or township in which such 

 nuisance exists, or from a county commissioner of such county, shall 

 be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars, and pay 

 the cost of prosecution, and in default of the payment of said fine and 

 costs, be imprisoned not more than thirty days, but the provisions here- 

 inbefore made shall not prohibit the depositing the contents of privy 

 vaults and catch-basins into trenches or pits not less than three (3) feet 

 deep, excavated in any lot, field or meadow, the owner thereof consenting, 

 outside the limits of any municipal corporation, and not less than thirty 

 rods distant from any dwelling, well or spring of water, lake, bay or 

 pond, canal, run, creek, brook or stream" of water, public road or high- 

 way; provided, that said contents deposited in said trenches or pits are 

 immediately thereafter covered with dry earth to the depth of at least 

 twelve inches ; nor shall said provisions prohibit the depositing of said 

 contents into furrows situate and distinct, as specified for said trenches 

 or pits ; provided, the same are immediately thereafter wholly covered 

 with dry earth by plowing or otherwise ; and provided, also, that the 

 owner or occupant of the land in which said furrows are plowed con- 

 sents, and is a party thereto ; provided, also, that the board of health 

 of any municipal corporation may allow said contents to be deposited 

 within corporate limits into trenches or pits or furrows, situate, distant 

 and to be covered as aforesaid. 



SEC. 69230. [Bodies of animals dying from contagious diseases 

 must be burned or buried.] The bodies of all animals dying from 

 contagious diseases shall be burned, or buried at least four feet below 

 the surface of the ground by the owner thereof. Any owner permitting 

 such dead animals to remain unburned, or unburied, or neglecting, or 

 refusing to comply with the provisions of this section within twenty-four 

 hours after having knowledge of the existence of such dead animals, or 

 after notice thereof, in writing from the trustees of the township in which 

 such dead animals may be found, it shall be the duty of said trustees 

 to proceed to dispose of such dead animals as provided in this section, 

 and such owner, so neglecting or refusing shall be fined in any sum not 

 less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, together with the 

 cost of suit, and all necessary expenses incurred by said trustees in dis- 

 posing of such animals. Action to recover fines, costs, and expenses as 



