Document: Ordinance|Burgomasters and Schepenen concerning the building of privies and the rooting of hogs

WHEREAS many, even the greatest part of the burghers and inhabitants of this City build their privies even with the ground with an opening towards the street, so that hogs may consume the filth and wallow in it, which not only creates a great stench and therefore great inconvenience to the passers-by, but also makes the streets foul and unfit for use, —therefore to obviate it the Burgomasters and Schepens herewith order and command, that all and everybody, whoever they or he may be, shall break down and remove such privies coming out upon the street within 8 days after the publication hereof, rebuilding them in such places, that they give the least offense to the community under the penalty of 6 fl. for the first time, double as much the second and arbitrary correction the third time.
Furthermore as the roads and streets of this City are by the constant rooting of the hogs made unfit for driving over in wagons and carts, the Burgomasters and Schepens direct and order, that every owner of hogs in or about the City shall put a ring through the noses of their hogs, to prevent them from rooting, within 8 days under a penalty of 2 fl. for each time (?), that this ordinance is not obeyed and that it may properly be carried out, we charge and direct hereby our Officer to see to it and proceed against the transgressors after the publication hereof.
Thus done At the City Hall, August 19, 1658.