Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-03-05
. JAMES i. PATTERSON, Clerk.

JAMES +. PATTERSON, Clerk
| The Ordinance referred to in the above report,
| is in the words and figures following, to wit:
can Ordinance TO Establish and Reg
ulate a Market
| Be it ordained by the Council of the Town of
Staunton, that the Ordinance to establish and
regulate market, passed the 2lst day of August,
| 1851 be amended and re-enacted, so to read as
| follows:
lst That market shall be regularly held at
| the market House. in the town OF StauntOn, on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from daylight
until II O clock, A. NJ.
End. That any person having any articles of
provision to sell dispose of in the town, viz
Flesh, Fresh Fish, Fowl, Butter, Eggs Vegeta-
bles, Fruit, or other things usually sold In we'll
ket house; and any person exposing to sale or
actually selling any of the aforesaid articles at
any other place within the town, during market
hours shall forfeit and pay not less than one dol
| lar nor more than ten dollars, for each offence;
| and any person purchasing any such articles at
| any other place than said market House, during
| market hours, shall incur like penalty for each
such offence Prorided, that this Ordinance shall
not be construed to prohibit the sale purchase
| and delivery of Beef by the quarter or larger
| quantity or Pork by the hog or larger quantity,
or of Vegetables for winter supply or the sale OF
| Apples or other Fruit by Confectioners
Sd. The Chief of Police, who is, by virtue of
his office, market master, shall open the market
every market day at daylight by ringing the
market bell, and close the same at IL O'Clock, A
NJ, and any person selling or purchasing any ar
ticle in market before the market bell is rung
shall forfeit and pay not less than dollar, nor
more than FIVE dollars, for each offence.
4th 1t shall be the duty of the market master
to attend at the market house every market day.
during market hours, or so long as may be nee
essary to discharge the duties of his office. He
shall inspect all provisions offered there for sale,
and if upon his own observation, or the informa-
ton of Others, he shall discover any unit, DANA
| in
market, he shall seize them and order the person
or persons offering them for sale, to remove them
beyond the limits of the town, under the penalty
of two dollars for disobedience; and any person
who shall SELL offer for sale, any such prOvls-
| ions, knowing it to be so-or any flesh or fowl
that has died otherwise than by slaughter, or any
| meat by any other than its proper designation
shall forfeit and pay not less than two dollars nor
| more than twenty dollars, for each offence.
| 9Th. The Chief of Police, as market-master, ec
| oftcio, shall, annually, on the last Saturday in
| March, rent the stalls of the market-house by
| public auction to the highest bidder, having pre-
viously given notice OF such letting Tor at least
one week by printed hand-bills posted at the
market-house and other public places IN the town,
| provided however, that no stall shall be rented
by butcher for less than fifty dollars, or by 9TH
for other purposes for less than twelve dollars
The tenant to hold the same until the LIST OF April
| in the next succeeding year and, provided FUR
| Their, that no person. firm or company, shall be
permitted to rent, or occupy, more than one stall
| until there be stalls enough to accommodate all
| applicants.
The Chief of Police shall collect from each ten
ant the rent of his stall half yearly in advance,
that is to say, one half on the day of letting, and
the other half on the first day of October there
| after, and account tor such rents III the same
| manner that he accounts for taxes
9th. 1t shall be the duty of the marlet-master
to see that the market house is kept clean and IN
good order by the tenants of the stalls, and 9TH
ers using the same, and take care that every per-
| the market and
measures and that the Ordinance in relation to
the market be strictly enforced.
18th, That no person shall purchase IN public
market any provisions usually sold there for the
purpose Of exposing the same again to sale under
| the penalty of not less than two dollars more
than twenty dollars for each offence.
9Th, That every Butcher, or other person, own
! ING a 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.
9th That any Butcher, or other person, erect
ING or causing to be erected within the limits of
the market, or attaching, placing within the
market house, any block other furniture for
the carrying on of his or her trade, without first
renting STALL shall forfeit and pay FIVE dollars
| for every day offending.
10th. That any person Who shall hitch or tie a
horse or other animal to the market house, or de-
post any rubbish, filth, dirt other offensive
matter, in or about the market house. shall forfeit
and pay not less than fifty cents nor more than
/ IL
! 11th That for every Beef sold in Market by
any other than regular Butcher renting stall,
the market-master shall demand and receive fifty
| cents of the owner or person so selling, and tor
every veal or mutton so sold twelve and a half
centseach which he shall report and pay over to
| the Chamberlain
| 18th. The dry measure only shall be used in
| the market.
18th. That any person offering for sale, or SELL
ing any article by weight or measure, which shall
be found deficient therein, the person so offering
or selling, knowing such deficiency, shall forfeit
the thing so offered, or sold, and the market-mas
ter shall sell the same and make report and pay
! over the proceeds thereof to the Chamberlain.
| 18th. That the stalls in and about the market
house, shall be numbered by the market-master
| in plain figures.
10Th. That all fines, penalties and forfeitures in
Cured under this Ordinance, shall be enforced or
recovered before the Mayor, Recorder or any AL
| derman Of the town.
10th. That this Ordinance shall be in force from
| its passage,
Teste,
JAMES F. PATTERSON, elk.