New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-18
Market Of the Second District, at which NO fish,

Market Of the Second District, OF which no fish,
or vegetable, shall be sold.
ART. s. Every vendor Of meat, vegetables.
or other articles permitted to be sold in the
markets Of this city, is hereby required to have
his or her name painted on a tin sign, in n plain
and legible manner, with number on the
same. and to be affixed in conspicuous place
over the stall or place occupied; and, in case
any vendor, as aforesaid, shall not comply with
this resolution within thirty days from its pas
sage, or shall thereafter, at any time, for more
than three days consecntiyely, not have such
sign SO exposed, said vendor shall be liable to q
line OF ten dollars. recoverable before any Court
Of competent Jurisdiction, for the benefit Of
the city.
ART. g. Said markets shall open at the.
dawn Of day, and shall close ct twelve o'clock
n. precisely; and the closing Of the markets
shall be announced by the market bell, which
it shall be the duty of the Commissary to ring,
Tor cause to be rung. gg.
ART. Z. During the half hour Immediately
following the closing of said markets, the
butchers and other persons hiring or occupying
stalls, shall be bound to scrape, wash, and
cleanse their respective stalls and tables, 80 az
to keep the same in the highest state Of clean
punctually with the disposition Of the present
article, or who shall not quit the said market at
the hours specified in article six of the present
ordinance, shall pay fine Of FIVE dollars for
each offence And no person shall be permitted
to sub lease any stall or table. under q penalty
Of fifty dollars. Any butcher. or other person,
vending in said market, if absent therefrom
three days, leaving his stall or table unoccn-
pied, shall be deemed to have abandoned the
same. and the farmer may hire it to another.
ART. g., II shall be the duty of the farmer,
or other person authorized by the city, to cod
lect the above established duties, to keep an
exact register of the persons to whom he let's
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. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person to
erect Or keep any stand, or other incumbrance, on
any Of the banquettes of the markets of the city,
without permission Of the Common Council,
under o fine Of less than five dollars per day for
each stand, and if said stand be not removed
after six days notice, it shall be the duty Of the
Surveyor to cause the same to be removed, as
an incumbrance, at the expense of the owner pr
occupant: Provided, no stand now erected shall
be removed, except on the written request Of
| three or more residents of the vicinity It is
Thereby made the duty Of the Commissaries Of
the markets to have this ordinance executed.
ART. 10. If any person shall sell, or expose
for sale, within the market aforesaid, amy
| blown, stale, imperfect, or unwholesome pro-
vision, OR meat Of any animal that died Of
disease, such provision or meat shall be-seized
by the Commissary and shall be thrown into
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 vending in said markets, or Of hiring any
stall Itshall be the duty Of the Commissaries
appointed by the Recorders, and sworn before
them, daily to make a strict inspection Of the
butchers meat, and Of other provisions exposed
for sale at the said markets, and to enforce the
strict observance 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 twenty five dollars for each
offence They shall be compelled to saw the
bones of the meat; and they shall not, under
any pretcxt, break them down with hatchet,
or cleaver, under a penalty Of five dollars for
each offence.
ART. IL. It shall be obligatory on the Com
missaries of the markets, always to have in thu
said markets scales and weights, to be used q
the request Of any person, who, at the time Q
purchase, may desire to prove the weight of an.
| meat or other provision, and no scales an
weights shall be used in said markets, unles
they are proved and stamped according to law
Any violation of the provisions of this section
or selling by false weights, shall subject tn
offender to a find of ten dollars for each ant
every offence. ~
ART. 10. 1t is expressly forbidden, under a
penalty of fifty dollars for each offence, to sell
or cause to be sold, within said markets, or or
the footways which surround it, any spurious OF
ardent liquors. err
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peddlers to sell any sort of goods or merchandise
in the said markets, or on the feotways sur
rounding the same, under q penalty Of ten dol
lars for each offence Etf
ART Is. All vegetables, melons, potatoes
onions, fish, shrimp, crabs, crawtish, turtle, AM
game; destined for the daily supply Of the city
Eshall be brought to the markets established b,
law for the sale thereof, and all person
exposing for sale any said articles in the street
or in any other part, than at said markets
! during the hours prescribed by this ordinance
shall incur fine of from five to fifteen dollars
J for every offence. And the Commssaries, ant
Police of the city, are hereby ordered to seizt
} and detain all such articles exposed for sale il
contravention thereof, until the fine and expenses
thereon are paid. -
ART. 49, Carts or wagons, for the convey
ance of all supplies whatever to said markets
shall be placed under the inspection Of the Com
missaries of the markets.
ART. H.. All persons are forbidden TO stand
sit or lie, on the stalls or tables Of the markets
under penalty of two dollars. if the Offender
be free, and ten lashes, if a slave.
ART. 49, Tt shall be the duty Of the Com
missaries Of the markets, to see that the ordi
nances relating thereto are fully. enforced, ant
that no offence is perpetrated against the farmel
of the dues Of the markets, to keep order in thu
markets, to have arrested all persons who dis
turb the public peace, and to conduct then
before the Mayor, Recorder, Or any other magis
istrate, to be punished according to law. TIL
said Commissaries shall always be present il
said markets, during market hours, except il
case of sickness and in such case he or the.
shall give notice to the Mayor, who shall plac
another to do his duty until the Council shal
act thereon. In case of neglect Of his duties
> the Commissary shall pay a fine of twenty dol
/, lars for each offence, and further, he shall b
liable to be removed by the Council.
ART. 10. The farmers shall be bound to com
E ply with oil the regulations contained in thi
ordinance, in all that relates to them. The,
shall not be entitled to any indemnificatiol
from the Council, under the pretext that tn
ordinances by virtue of which they formed thei
contracts, are not sufficiently clear or are no
enforced, either by the negligence of the officer
!, or the Police nominated to protect them, or b.
: violence committed by individuals; the farmer
having the right to prosecute the said officers o
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