The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-23
LOCAL MATTERS.

THE OnDrNANcn CONCERNING NkcsoHs-Ano
following l. the ordinance passed ct the last meet.
Ing Of the Common Council:
N Ordinance Concerning Nsgroest-Be IL or.
dained by the Council of the city OF hicnmond,
that no negro shall walk or be 10 the Captoi square
or on the grounds adjacent to the City spring, City
Hall or Ashenum or within sne any
tend white person, being an infant, or sick, or In
firm, or to serve his owner or employer; nor thall
| negro walk or be within the brick walls of the
City Burying Ground on snocko4 Hi, unless to
of some of his family, or to serve his owner or EN-.
ployer, or by permission of the keeper of said
| Ground
So No negro shall smoke in any place men.
toned in the preceding section, or smoke in any
| street, alley, or other public place.
So. No negro shall keep cookshop or eating
house, unless he be licensed to keep an ordinary or
house of entertainment
81. No negro shall carry any cane in the night
unless because of his age or infrmity, or for bis
owner or employer.
So. negro meeting or overtaking, or being
overtaken by white person on a sidewalk shall
pass on the out sde and if ii be necessary 10 ena.
pie such white persons to pass, shall get off the
sidewalk
So. Not more than five negroes shall at any one
time stand together a sidewalk at or near the
corner of street. And negroes shall never stand
on q sidewalk to the Inconvenience of white per-
oonc having " pass DY. UHu the ist OF tSOru9rY.
1904 this section sha not operate between the "a
| OF December and 18th of January to prevent
slaves for hire from being on sidewalk or ia a
street convenient to the persons who agents to
hire them.
81. Any negro who shall violate any of the pre-.
| cealng sections may be punished by stripes.
90 II slave shall ride or be carried in licensed
hack or carriage without consent of his owner not
only may suit be prosecuted on the bond of the
owner or keeper OF the hack carriage, as provi
hv fna a -.
1851, concerning the taxes on carriages kept for
hire, but the said owner or keeper shall be fined not
exceeding $40, and the slave may be punished by
stripes.
50. Every slave shall be provided each day, by
his owner, or if hebs in the employment of another
person, by his employer, with food sufficient for
| his sustenance, and suitable place In which to
cook the same and shall be provided every night
with place Of lodging and with whatever is neces-
sary for his sleeping in the last mentioned place
For every day night on which there is failure to
make such provision to any slave, the person so
falling shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars
| such fine shall be imposed notwithstanding the
slave be furnished with food or other thing in lieu
| of board and lodging.
so. Where slave, absent at night from his EN-
ployer's tenement, has writing designed to show
| that the absence is by the employers permission
if such writing be signed by any other person than
his employer, member of his family, or when q
writing desguates house to which a slave may &c
| at night; if the on the back of such writing
be signed by any person other than the occupier OF
| such house, or mem Der of his family, the person
signing such writing or signing such name on the
back, may, for every such offence, be fined not ex
ceedng twenty dollars, and the slave may be pun
ished by stripes
| &ll. The word negro in this or any other ordi
nance, shall be construed to mean mulatto as wei
| as negro.
sic. The ninth section of this ordinance shall bt
in force and after the first day of January next
The other sections thereof shall be in force en- anc
after the first day of May next.