Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1822-04-06
Gssnoratiun of aDiaebester,
AN ACT

-
>iaton Of Weights AMI Measures !; fer The rent Of
Butchers Stats; TO precent forestaIting, and for
ether purposes.
Sec. /. BE ii endcied By The President aud Com
anon Council ofthe Corporation Of Winchester. That
there shall be two Market DAYS each week, to
wit: Wednesday and Saturday.-That there
shall, be appointed, by the President and Common
Council, in the month of February, fit and pro-
per person to act as Clerk of the Market; and it
shall be the duty of the person appointed TO have
The Market House kept clean, and due regularity
observed; to keep the scales and weights ii good
order, and always in Market during Market
hours; to weigh all articles of provisions which
may be bought by any person, without fee or re-
w I'd; tn attend at the Market House every day
during Market hours, to enforce the provisions
of this act, by scizing ali articles forfeited under
the same, and to use his endeaVOrS to recover all
fines incurred; to make regular return, once n
quarter, to the Clerk of the Council, of all sez-
urcs made and fines recovered by him, and of the
manner in which they shall have been disposed
of; to pay into the Treasury, once III every month.
The amount of all fines recovered by him; to rent
out the Stalls ofthe Market House, and, after de-
lluc;ing Commission of five per Centum there
from, to pay the proceeds TO the Treasurer OF the
Corporation. and, III general, to enforce such pro-
visions in relation 10 the regulation vi the Market
as shall hcreafter be established.
Sec. 2. .aud be it further enacted, That the fol-
lowing boundaries prescribed as the Market
square, viz: 4 line running from the South East
corner of the wall Of Tho Episcopal Church Yard,
t The South West corner ofthe Lot owned by the
Heirs Of Daniel Conrad, decd. thence with the
East side of Cameron Street TO John Bells Lot,
10 n point opposite the corner Of the Lot owned
by John T.inn's Heirs; thence crossing Cameron
Street and with the line of the said Lot to a
point opposite the North East corner 0fthc Court
House; thence with the East Wall oi the Count
y e A.,
the Souih end of me Court House; thence with
the s::;l Wall and the end Of The Clerks Office
to the Church Yard Wall; thence with the said
Wall 80 the place Of beginning; and it shall not
be lawful for any person, during Market hours,
{" make sale of, or offer expose to sale, nor
shall any person purchase, amy Kind OF Meat,
Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Vegetables OF any other
description Of provisions, at any place within the
Corporation, except at the Market House, or
within the Market square before designated.-
Every person who shall sell. Offer OF expose
to sale. any of the articles aforesaid, and every
person who shall purchase the Same contrary to
this act, shall severally forfeit and pay two dol
las.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no per-
son shall. directly indirectly, buy, during Mar
ket hours, at the Market House, or iii or about
the Market square, for the purpose of being sold
again within the Town, or elsewhere, any kind
other provisions This restriction shall also ex-
tend to Rye, Germ, Oats, Buekwhcat and Corn
Meal, when the same shall DC brought within the
Market House, or Market space, by their owners
for sale. Every person who shall offend herein
shall, if white person, forfeit and pay two Dol
lars for each offence; if slave, he she shall
ccivc not exceeding ten lashes, unless the master
or mistress Of s&id slave shall pay the said fine.
Sec. 4. Ant be ii further enacted, That no
HuCk Gfpp, miner person, who uSualiV UUrChaGn
provisions Is The purpose of selling them again,
shall. dHrjng Market hours purchase at the Mar
iiet any greater quantity of provisions, there aX-
posed to sale, (Conprehending Rye, Corn, Oats,
HCl;wheat, corn Meai,) than what shall be
Sufficient for the use If his OF her family; any
person offending shall forfeit and pay the sum
OF five Dollars for every offence; nothing CON
tand in this section shalt be construed to extend
to Tavern keepers or tOnfectioncrs; who shall not
b" restrained in their right to purchase such ar
ii les rs may be necessary to enable them to pur-
sue their respective occupations.
Sec. 5. .gGd be 1T further enacted, That no per-
son or persons shall offer OF expose to sale arIy
blown, measly, tainted or unsound Meat at the
Market House, or at any other place within the
limits Of the COrpOraton.-Any person or per-
sors offending shall, for each offence, forfeit
and pay five Dollars; and all Meats so exposed
to sale shall be forfeited and seized by the Clerk
OF the Market and buried.
Sec. 6. find be it further enacted, That all But
Ie which shall be exposed to sale shall be sold by
veght.-All persons selling or buying, contrary
TO tile provisions Of this section, shall forfeit and
pay the sum Of one Dollar. All Butter in pic
Ces. or in cakes purporting to he of certain
weight. and which shall be found, on trial, not to
contain the weight pretended, shall be forfeited
and seized by the Clerk of the Market for the use
Of the poor of the PARISH and provided any per-
Ia JUU RmtCr SALE cioII t,gfi, IL, To-,