True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-11-20

for each offence. And no person shall be permitted
to snb.ease any stall table under penalty of
hlty dollars. Any Butcher, or other person, vending
in said market, if absent therefrom three days, leav
ing his stall or table unoccuped, shall be deemed to
have abandoned the same, and the farmer may hire
it to another,
Art 10. It shall be the duty of tho farmer, or
other persons authorized by this municipality to
collect the above established duties, to keep an
exact register OF the persons to whom he lets the
stalls, stands, tables and frames with hooks at
market hours and deliver certificates thereof to
persons occupying the same Any person occupying
any table, stand or stall without the consent of
the said farmer or collector, and who shall refuse
to deliver up the same on the first request which
shall be made to them by the commissary of the
MARKET shall pay fine of ten dollars for each
offence, and shall be compelled TO conform to the
provisions OF the present enactment.
Art ID. No person shall place within the market
house, on the tootway thereof on the space 81
tuated between the two sections of said market
any other stalls or tables than those fixed there by
authority of this council under penalty of five
dollars tor each offence, and the said tables
stalls shall besides be removed by the commissary
of the market.
Art Is. If any person shall sell or expose for
sale within the market aforesaid any blown, stale,
imperfect or unwholesome provisions, or meat of
any anlfsal that died of disease, such provons or
meat shall BIO seIzed by the commissary and be
thro"nlnto the nuisance boat and the offender
shall be fined from ten to fifty dollars for the first
offence, and for the second he shall be deprived Of
the right OF vending in said market or of hiring any
stall within its limits. 1t shall be the duty of the
commIssary OF the market, alone, With two assis
tants appointed hy the Recorder and sworn before
him, daily to mako strict inspection of the butch
ers' meat and Of other provisions exposed for sale
at the said market and to enforce the strict observ
ancc Of this regulation.
Art IL. Butchers, or other retailers of butchers
meats, shall not expose them for sale elsewhere than
at the markets established by law, under penalty
of 25 dollars for each offence. They shall be
compelled to saw the bones of the meai and they
shall not, under any pretext break them down with
hatchet, or ceaver under penalty of five dollars
for each offence.
Art II. 1t shall be obligatory on the commissary
OF the market always to have in the said market
scales and weights to be used the request OF any
person, who, at the time of purchase, may desire
to prove the right weight of any meat or other
provisions, and no scales and weights shall be
used in said market, unless they are proved and
stamped according to law, nor shall steeIyards be
used within said market under any circumstances
whatever Any violation of the provisions of this
section, or selling by false weights, shall subject
the offender to fine of $40 for each and every
offence
Art IL. Any person who shall forestal or cause to
DO forcstallcd any provisions at the market before
ten o'clock in the morning, shall pay n fine of
twenty dollars for each offence
Art ~ 1t is expressly forbidden, under penalty
OF fifty dollars for each offence, to sell or cause to
be sold within the said market or ON the footways
which surround it, any spirituous or ardent liquors
Art 2o 1t shall be tho duty of every butcher or
OTHER person selling butchers or other meat at the
said market to be cleany dressed, and moreover to
wear in selling the same, large white apron,
which shaI constantly be kept in the greatest state
OF cleanliness, and it shall not be- lawful 70, any
person vending in said market TO smoke while So
employed within said market under penalty of five
dollars for each offence if the offender is n free
person, and ten lasiics if IL slave
Art II. 1t is forbidden to all hawkers and pedlars
to sell any sort OF goods merchandise in the sale
market, or on the toolways surrounding the same
under penalty OF ten dollars for each uh.nce, il
the offender be a tree person, and ten lushcs if L
slave, unless the master prefer to pay SAID fine
Art ~. The surveyor shall cause the columns tr
be painted and the ceilings TO be wlite-washed o
said market ON or about the lst October of cacl
year. at which time Butchers and other pers on,
occupying sLands in said market shall ba bound {
repair, cleanse and paint in u proper manner thci,
respective stalls or stands, -. unour a penalty .
twenty-five dollars.
Art2 %. All vegatab es, melons, potatoes, onions
fish shrimp, crab, crawfis,, turtles and game, es
tuned Tor tho daily rupply of This }i1ncipullt
shall be brought to The markets. established by Law
tor the sale thereof, and all persons exposing 70
sale any of said articles in the streets or in an
other part than at said markets during Me hour
prescribed by this ordinance shall incur Il fine
from i've to fifteen dollars for every offence.
Art "a Carts or wagons for the conveyance c
all supplies whatever to said market shall be place'
under the inspection of the comlnissary of sal
market.
Art %. All persons are forbidden to stand, sit O
! lie IN q ST alS fables Of rlo+
penalty of two dollars if the offender be free, an
ten lashes if slave.
Art 49, The farmer shall furnish at his own ex
pense, all things necessary for sweeping and clean
ing said market, the foo ways thereof included
| The sweeping and cleaning of said market sha
be done by the negroes belonging to the chain gan
under tho superntondance of the ovcrscer Of sal
negroes and of the commissary.
Art 81. 1t shall be the duty of the commissary c
said market to see that the ordinances reatin
thereto are fully enforced, and that no offence
perpetrated against the farmer of the duties of sal
maj ket; to keep order in said market, to have al
rested all persons who disturb the public peace an
to conduct them before the mayor, the recorder,
any other magistrate, to be punished according
law. The said commissary shall always be presei
in said market, during market hours, except in cas-
of sickness and in such he shall give motto
to the mayor, who shall place another to do h
duty until the Council shall act thereon. In ca.
of neglect of his duties, the commssary silall pa
fine oftwonty dollars for each offence, and turtle
he shall be liable to he removed by the council
Art %. The said farmer shall be bound to comp
with all the regulations contained in this ordnant
in all that relates to him. He shall not be enlitlt
to any Naturalization from the Council under Il
pretext that tho ordinances, by virtue of which
has formed his contract not sufficiently clear
are not enforced, either by the negligence of Il
officers of the police nominated to protect Them
, by violations committed by individuals; the farm
having the right TO prosecute the said officers
| individuals as the case may be, to have the
punished with the fine or 9th penalties fixed f
these offences.
, Art 49, The farmer shall not under any prcte
whatever exact receive fees of any person sellil
many other places than those designated by Il
$ present ordinance. under u penalty of TWEEN
' dollars for zach offence.
r Art 80. All fines fixed by this Ordinance shall
s recoverable before any court of competent jurisd
S ton for the benefit OF this Municipality
Art 81. 1t shall ho the duty of the commissary
the market to cause to be posted up, at all times
at least six places in said market, this ordinance,
!. the French and English languages.
0 JOSHUA BALDWIN, Recorde
Sent to the Mayor, Sept, 26.
= Resolved, that alderman other officer
this Municipality shall be either directly or indire
ly interested in contracts for works to be done f
or for supplies to be furnished to this Municipal
that no alderman other officer of this Munich
4 ity shall either by himself or by any other pers
= for him, DO lessee or farmer of any branch of I