The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-18


NEeRors.-The following sections OF an ord.'
nance relating negroes were passed, az amended
a, the last regular monthly meeting Of the City
Council held Monday evening last. The ordinance
is not yet perfected and has TO come up, entire for
final action:
/. That no negro shall walk or be in the Ca
piol Square, or in the grounds adjacent to the CITY
Syringe City Hall or Athen Bun, or within the en-
closures OF any of the places known as Ci'y
Grounds unless to attend a white person, being an
infant, or sick or infrm, or to serve his owner or
empower; nor shall negro walk or be within the
brick walls of the Burying Gronnd on Shockoe
Hill, unless to attend the funeral of his owner or
employer or some of his fernily, or to serve his
owner or employer, or py permission OF the keeper
of said Grounds.
Sc. No negro shall smoke in any place men
toned in the preceding section, or smoke III any
street, alley, or other public place.
g. No negro shall carry any cane in the night
Time unless because OF his age or nnfmity, or Tor
his owner or employer.
"a. negro meeting or overtaking, or being
overtaken BY white person On a side walk, shall
pass on the outside; and if it be necessary TO ena
BILE such white person to pass, he shall get CT the
si fe walk.
IS Not more thsn FIVE negroes shall at any one
time stand together a side walk at or near the
corner of street. And negroes shall never stand
on a side walk to the Inconvenience OF white per.
sons naVllg 10 pass n.y. Outil tuO 1st ooy "a oo
ruary 1854, this section shall not operate between
tn oath of December and 18th Of January to pre-.
vent slaves for hire from being or side walk or IN
street convenient to the persons who are agents
to hire them.
s g. ANY negro who shall violate any of the pre-
ceding sections may be punished by stripes.
s T. If slave shall ride or be carried in Il
censed hack or carriage without consent OF his
owner, or the guardian or committee Of the
owcer, not only may suit be prosecuted on the
bond of the owner or keeper of the hack or car
riage, as provided by the ordinance passed the
10th Of February, 1851, concerning the taxes on
carriages kept for hire bat the said owner Or keep
er shall be fined not exceeding twentydollars and
the slave may be punished by stripes.
The last tive sections of the ordinance relating
to board money were made the special order Of the
evening for Monday next Theyar as follows
Every slave shall be provided each day, by his
owner, or, if he be in the employment OF another
person, by his employer, with food sufficient for
his sustenance, and in condition to be use2 by
him withou, further cooking, and shall be provided
every night with place for lodging, and witn what
ever is necessary for his sleeping in such place
For every day or ight on which there is failure
10 make such provision as to any slave, the person
SO falling shall pay fine OF not less than five nor
more than twenty dollars; he shall pay the same
Notwithstanding the slave be furnished with money
or other thing IN lieu of board and lodging.
The eighth section of this ordinance shall be IN
force on and after the first day Of January next
The other sections thereof shsll be ia terce and
after the - day Of - next.