Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-07-13
nv ORDLA.4.N-CE.
For Establishing Market House on
Shnckoe HILL
ENQUIRER MARiEE list.

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WHEREAS, considerable h,,,.ber of respect
able inhabitants, residing i,s Monroe and Maisan
Wards, have pc lilo, ed the Common Hall t. es-
iabiish Market.m Monroe warl and il the sid
petition propose TO erect, At their expepcc, by
ioesns Of voluntary Subscriptions "A suitable aud
convenient house for that purpose and il appear
rg to the Hall, fro consideration Of III pre-
sent limits ri the City aud the population thereof.
That Market established ON Shockoe Hill, will
not ONLY add TO tie convenience and ADVANTAGE of
he Inhabitants the sal wards but bs Of great u
u.iiy 10 tie citizens generally:
|. Hc IL therefore OrJoined by The President
and Coni.noas Council efMe CRY IF i,icLmord. IN
Cannon RcNdssembled. and it isherebu Orddi,a-
Ell ty 0ufho'itv ofhte same, That Doctor William
Foushee, Be- janin Wolfe, Mann s. Yaienune,
john e.. Gamble, and Alexander Mcllae, gentle
men, be, aud they are here y appointed Commits
si''ners who, ora M iaiity OF whom, are hereby
auhnrist d snd empowered to fix the site ui TIE
ssit III use sixth street, curuFaeucne nj m al
ley running through the square between sixth aud
seventh Streets, and then cionT Tixth to T. street,
and that the horse be- thirty feet wide, and one
hundred ard iOrty let i1C", thc erOund of red
by James Wallace and Harry Tonr Gins and on
the conditions contained m said offer, provided a
deed for that purpose III executed b-iore The
Mgrk"t House IS bril,, nrd thc said Doctor William
20 shee, nlsmip Wolfe, Nann :. Valentine
John q. Gamble and Alexander MoRac, gentle
men, are hereby appointed Conn: is5.Dnera with
to receive the money already sun ci5ef, or which
may hereafter bc suts :.Jed, Tor the purpose Of
err cting TIE said Market house, which sh.Ii be
called and known by the name of the Shockoe
Hill Market, snd tc experd or apply the same TO-
wards the erection building such house with so
msny stalls stands FOR huIchers as they shall
deem sufficient for the purposes thereof and at tie
place ai0ressnl, and also in procuring the seales
weights aud measures, necessary Tor the SAID Mar
ket /; and when The Commissioners herein before
named, or majority OF them, shall be OF onnion
that The said house is finished as TO be fl for
the purposes of Ma Ret, rs aforesaid and hath
belonging thereto all the conven;cuces necessary
for the same, they shall so report TO the Common
Hall, and thenccfnr Market shall be held 81 the
sail house every day heween the first of April
aud first OF November, and every dsy~but Sun
days between the first of November and first of
April, which provision shall also extend to the Old
Market
Q. lind 6e it further Ordained, That any sur
plus fund arising from the rents. &c Of the Cid
Market heretofore, or which may hereafter arise
from the same, until the said Shockoc Hill Market
shall be reported to be finished, and ready for
| business, II. J be applied to the erection of a
house for the said Shockoe ill Market, together
with all the bricks, or the value thereof due from
John IinsIey and others, brick makers, for the
use OF dirt taken from the streets, and be placed in
the hands OF the Commissioners aforesaid towards
the erection of the said Market House
5. The Shockoe Hill Market shall be attended
and conducted in all respects, under tie rules
and regulations relstive to the Old Market
h. So much of airy Ordinance as is relative to the
Public Aiareetil this Guy, AS IS contrary 10 any
part Of this Ordinance, shall be- and is hereby re-
pealed.
S. This Ordinance shall commence and he IL
| force from the passage thereof.
II Copy.
II. SHEPPARD. Chrk.