Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09
TN COUNCIL FOR THE TOWN OF STAUNTON,
i August 81, 1857, the following Ordinance was
An Ordinance to Establish and Regulate
Market.

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An Ordinance to Establish and Regulate {
| Market.
1st Re Il Ordained by the Council of the town o
Staunton that Market shall be regularly held on ev
cry day, SUNDAYS e1ctptsd at the Market house IL
the town of Staunton.
Cd That every person having any articles Of provs
ions to sell or dispose of in the town, viz esh hsn
fowl butter eggs cheese, vegetables roots, fruit o
other things usually sold in well regulated markets
NAV bring them to the Market house-and any person
exposing 10 SALE actually selling any OF the afore
said articles provisions, at any other place Wnit
the town than ut the Market house, shall forfeit and
pay not less than one more than ten dollars oI
each offence and any person purchasing such provis
ions at any other place than said Market house, shall
incur like penalty for each such offence. =,
3D. That the Market Master shall attend the Marker
every day from daylight in the morning until sun
down. Tor so long may be necessary TO discharge
the duties of his office -he shall inspect all Provis-
ions offered there for sale and If on his own oDserVa
ton, the information OF Others ne snail olscoFe.
any unfit damaged tainted or unsound provisions Oh
fered in market he shall seze them and order the per-
son persons owning them or proposing TO sell the
10 remove them beyond the limits Of the town, under
penalty of two dollars for disObedience; nor shall
any person sell or offer for sale any such provision,
knowing it be So nor any 1esh or fowl that has deo
except BY slaughter nor any meat by any other than
its proper designation, under penalty OF not less than
two, nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
4th. That the Market Master shall within ten days
the Market house to the highest bidder after
public notice of such letting for at least one
PoUided Stall shall be rented for less than twelve
dolars-the tenants TO hold the same till the lst Mon
day in April 1858. No tenant or company to rent
more than one STALL and each tenant to pay the rent
half yearly in advance. And in all time thereafter, il
shall be the duty of said Market Master to rent said
Stalls the above terms, yearly, on the first Monday
in April having given ut least ten day previous notice
He shall collect said rents and pay them to the
han that the Market house kent clean
and in good order by the tenants OF the Stalls, and
others using the same, and take care that every
person selling in the market uses just weights and
measures and that the Ordinance in relation to the
Market be strictly enforced.
5th That no person shall purchase in public Market
any provisions usually sold there, and sell or expose
10 sale the same again in this town, under penalty
for each offence of not less than two nor more than
twenty dollars.
9Th That every butcher, or other person, occupying
Stall in the Market house, shall keep the same, with
his block bench and other furniture therein clean and
decent under penalty of one dollar for each offence.
7ih That any butcher, or Other person, erecting or
causing be erected within the limits OF the Market,
attaching placing in the Market house any block,
BENCH other furniture, for the carrying on OF his or
her trade, without first renting Stall shall forfeit and
pay five dollars for every day SO offending.
9Th. That any person who shall hitch or tie horse,
or other animal, TO the Market house, deposit any
rubbish, filth, dirt, other offensive NATTER in
bout the Market house, shall forfeit and pay for each
offence fine OF not less than fifty cents, nor more than
FIVE dollars.
9th. That for every beef sold in Market by any
other than regular butcher renting STALL the Mar
ket Master shall demand and receive fifty cents of the
owner, and for every veal or mutton sold twelve
aud half cents each.
10th. That dry measure alone shall be used in said
Market.
llth That any person offering for SALE or selling
any article by weight measure, which shall be found
deficient therein, the person offering selling know
ing such deficiency shall forfeit the Thing offered or
sold, and the Market Master shall sell the same, and
account therefor and pay over the proceeds to the
Chamberlain
18th That the Stalls in and about the Market house
shall be nube; ed by the Market Master and the num-
bers written thereon in plain figures.
18Th That all the fines, penalties and forfeitures in
Cured under this Ordinance, shall be enforced
covered before the Mayor Recorder or any Alderman
of the town; and the Market Master, for the duties
hereby imposed on him. shall receive such compeusa-
ton as may be deemed just by the Council.
14th That this Ordinance shall be in force ON and
after the first day of September next.
TEsrR, JAMES F. PATTERSON, Crk.
Aug. 28, ls57-St-Vind copy.