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

Concerning the Poydras ST. marketand providing
Tor flaming the revenue thereof.
The council of Municipality No, Two Ordain
fellows:
Art. /. On the first Of December, in each year,
the comptroller shall adjudlcate cause to be ad-
judicatod, this Office, the collection OF the reyc
of the Poydras street market, for one year.
He shall! give ton days notice in tic official ga
z4tte of the municipality of the day and hour at
which said adjudication shall take place.
Art ,. The contract To be entered into With the
comptroller, by the farmer or lessee for the col
cctl"n of tbs of said market, shalt be for
one year. from the first of January of each year
and at the end of said year. said contract shall be
renewed in tie manner prescribed i'll the preceding
article
Art 3. The f,rmcr icss"c shall within five
days after said adjudication, furnish HIS promissory
noscs endorsed 10 the satisfaction Of the council,
payable from the first day OF January al | 9, s. l.
s. g. z +, 9, 10, II and l2 months. Should he re-
fuse neglect to Furnish has notes aforesaid,
the comptroller is authorised to al
judc ltiGn to ho made for The account and risk of
SAID iilrincr or lessee
Art A. For the more aiaplc security for the pay.
n,cnt OF tie notes furnished fer said lease the tar
lessee shall affect and mortgage, in favor
of this municipality, all The rights which the
collection OF sa'd revcnHe is hereby tannod,
that IN default of payment of any OF the aforesaid
notes on their becoming due, the municipality may
have the power of sezlne Professionally the anre-
said rights affected and nortgnged pledge;
which it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to do
within three days after the protest OF any of the
aforesaid bills ar promissory notes.
Art 5. The farmer or lessee OF said revenue shall
not be entitled to collect other duties than those
hereinafter mentioned, 10 wit:
For every head of large horned cattle, eighty
seven and half cents, seven bits.
For every head of veal, mutton, pork or venison
twenty five cents or two bits. III being well un-
Gorstood that when the foreguartcr of veal shall
weigh more than forty pounds, the farmer or les
see Of the revenue may levy for the sale of said veal
eighty seven and a half cents, sevon bits, in
| stead Of twenty five cents or two bits)
For each stall and half table including the
frames with hooks on which to hang the meat, TWEEN
| ty five cents or two bits per day.
For every bench for the sale of fish, twelve and
half cents, or bit per day.
AL butchers and retailers of fish shall be an
swerab for Il e frames with hooks SO rented tc
them by said farmer.
Art6. All kinds of meat, fowls, game, fish, VIC
getabcs and all other articles destined for the daily
supply of tho city may be bought and sold at sale
market.
Art T. The surveyor is required TO chain
to be- placed at the ends of the two streets running
parallel with said market, in order to prevent thu
passing of carriages during market hours
Art 8. Said market shall open at the dawn o
day, and shall close at twelve o'clock precisel.
from the first April the first of November AM
at one o'clock in the afternoon during tho remain
der fhe year: and the closing of the market shall
be announced by the market bell, which it shall
be the duty of the conmissary to ring or cause Il
be rung.
Art 9. The two sides of the middle Alley Of sail
market from Circus street TO the end near fa
rome street with exception of the four feet pas
sages and the space occupied by Phlippa street, t.
d be 10: buchers-and i'll all the tables of sal
Alley not taken up by the butchers, tho ives,
extremity of the to be allotted retailer
of salt meat: provided always that whenever an
or all of the tables in demand for Butchers, O
required Tor them, that the SAID vendor or vendor
of salt meat give place to the Butcher Butcher
applying for the same.
The South Alley to be divided into six portion,
# from the entrance at Circus street TO that b.
rome street. The first portion situated at the west
ern extremity of said Alley to be for Fish. TIL
r second for salt meat. The third for poultry an
game. The fourth and fiji h for groceries, and ii,
sixth situated at tho eastern extremity of said A
= Icy to be for fruit. The cross passages and til
space occupied by Philppa street are excepted.
The North Alley in its whole extent from Circu
street to the end near Baronne street, with the C,
d ccption of all crossings, to be for vegetables.
a Art 10. When the various places within sal
market arc taken up, or occupied, the farmer
be, and he is herehy authorized to let the CORE
: pondng spaces on the footway without the marke
ranging THEM Immediately along the outer line
the columns, and in such way in to O.
struc the passages from tho sides of the mark
or the entrances at either extremity or end oft i
l. and preference must always be given to retaiIe
i OF such articles sold exhibited for sale
1t the inside of the market agrceably Art of tn
Ordinance.
II Art IL. When tho stalls or tables in said mark
appropriated therefor, shall not be occupied by so
r. of fresh meat the farmer lessee may let the
to retailers of salt meat. In cases where all Il
tables and stalls shall be occupied by sellers
fresh meat the vendors of salt meat shall bs plac
Is outside of said market and make their sales
n benches tables furnished at their cost, and f
n which they shall pay to the farmer or Jesse
70 twelve and halt cents, or a bit per day.
l. Art II. During the half hour Immediately folio
IS ing the closing of said market, the butchers a
= otner p hiring Occupying stalls shall
81 bound to scrape wash and cleanse their respect
'f stalls and tables to keep the snma in the hg
est state of cleanliness, and every person neele,
st ing to comply punctuallv with the disposition
h, the present article who shall not quit the $;
o. market the hours specified in article eight of
81 present ordnance, shall pay fine OF five doll,