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the property owner or agent thereof witliin forty-eight 

 liours after the promulgation of this ordinance, provided 

 that after the first day of October 1905, all property 

 owners shall be required to screen cisterns with wire 

 netting of the proper size mesh as required by the 

 Board of Health in such a manner as to prevent the 

 entrance of mosquitos. 



Section 3. — Tanks or barrels or similar containers to 

 be constructed in the manner provided for cisterns, or 

 in some other manner satisfactory to the Board of 

 Health. 



Section 4. — Buckets containing water for longer 

 than one week (such as fire buckets in cotton presses), 

 and other similar containers of stagnant water, shall be 

 covered in such a manner as to prevent the entrance 

 of mosquitos. 



Section 5. — Water in ponds, pools, or basins, in 

 public or private parks, places of resort or residence, or 

 in depressions, or excavations made for any purpose, 

 shall be stocked with mos(piito-destroying fish, or 

 covered with protective netting, or shall be drained off 

 at least once every week, or shall l)e covered with 

 coal oil in a manner satisfactory to the Board of 

 Health, by the owner or agent thereof within forty- 

 eight hours after the promulgation of tliis ordinance. 



Section (3. — The Board of Health may. in its dis- 

 cretion whenever deemed necessary, treat stagnant 

 water by applying oil to its siu'face in such a manner 

 as to destroy mosquitos. 



Section 7. — The penalty for ^•iolations of this 

 ordinance or any section tlicrcof shall be a fine of 

 not more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment 

 for not more than thirty days, or both, and failure to 

 comply with any provision shall be considered a 



