of file of 
OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. 
Shis is to notify all p er sons engaged in the business of selling 
fish, that the following sections of the ordinances are published for 
their information, and that it is the? intention of the Soard of Stealth 
to cause the provisions of the same to be strictly enforced. 
C. E. DAVIS, Jr. 
Clerk. 
Sect. 53. No person, without the license of the board of health, shall throw into, OF leave ill 
OF upon any street, court, square, lane, alley, wharf, public square, public enclosure, vacant lot, or any 
pond or hotly of Water within the limits Of the city, any dead animal, dirt, sawdust, soot, ashes, cin- 
ders, shavings, hair, shreds, manure, oyster, clam or lobster shells, waste water, rubbish Or tilth of any 
kind, or any refuse animal or vegetable matter whatsoever. Nor shall any person throw into, or leave 
in or upon any dock, flats, or tide water within the jurisdiction of the city, any dead animal or 
other foul or offensive matter, except as provided in the fifty-sixth section of this ordinance. 
Sect. 56. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or shall sell, or offer for sale, any halibut, 
cod, haddock, or mackerel, until the same have been cleansed of their entrails and refuse parts; 
and such entrails and refuse parts shall be thrown overboard, below low water-mark; and shall 
never be kept beyond the flowing of the tide next after such fish are so cleansed ; and until SO thrown 
overboard they shall be kept, in a safe manner, on board the vessels or boats in which the fish 
were brought. And no person shall sell or deliver, from any stall, fish-box, cart, or other place, any fish 
of any kind except flounders, smelts, and other small fish, salmon and shad, until the same have been 
cleansed of their entrails and refuse parts ; and such entrails and refuse parts shall be kept in some tight 
vessel, and shall be thrown into the sea below low-water mark within twenty.four hours after the fish are 
so cleansed. And no person shall sell, or offer for sale, in the city, fish of any kind, unless the same be 
kept in covered stalls, fish-boxes, or other- houses, or covered carts, which shall always be kept clean and 
in good order, and well secured from the rays of the sun.