JURISPRUDENCE. 
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Ordinances which had been then and lately theretofore adopted by the 
previously existing Department of Health, which said Sanitary Ordi¬ 
nances, so adopted and conformed, became and were called the Sanitary 
Code, which was duly amended on the twentieth day of August, in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and wherein as so 
amended, among other things were contained, and thereafter and at the 
time of the commission of the offences and grievances by the person 
hereinafter named, and as hereinafter charged, formed a portion of such 
Sanitary Ordinances and Sanitary Code having the force of law, the 
words and language following, to wit: “ That no person shall keep, re¬ 
tain, or allow, or employ to be kept or retained at any place within or 
adjacent to the built-up portions of the City of New York, any horse, 
ass or colt having the disease known as glanders or farcy, but shall at 
once report the fact to the Board of Health of the said city; and under 
the direction of the Sanitary Superintendent shall remove such animal 
in the manner designated by such Sanitary Superintendent. No animal 
having glanders or farcy, or any contagious disease, or that shall die 
thereof, shall be removed, disposed of, or exposed in any street or public 
place in said city, without written permit from said Board of Health, 
and then only in accordance with the terms of such permit.” 
And the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further pre¬ 
sent : That afterwards, to wit, on the third day of October, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, Edward 
Garson, late of the Nineteenth Ward of the City of New York, in the 
County of New York aforesaid, being an evilly-minded person, and well 
knowing and intending the premises hereinafter set forth, wilfully, 
wickedly, and unlawfully, on the day and in the year last aforesaid, did 
keep and retain at a certain place known as the u Horse-market,” situated 
in East Seventy-fourth Street, in the Ward, City and County aforesaid, 
the same being a place within and adjacent to the built-up portions of 
the City of New York, a certain horse, which then and there had the 
disease known as glanders, and did not at once report the fact to the 
Board of Health of said City, and did not, under the direction of the 
Sanitary Superintendent, remove such animal in the manner designated 
by such Sanitary Superintendent. 
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say : 
That the said Edward Garson, the Code aforesaid, called and known as 
aforesaid, adopted and confirmed as aforesaid, to wit, the part and por¬ 
tion thereof contained in the words and language hereinabove stated and 
set forth, unlawfully and wilfully, in the manner and form aforesaid, at 
