Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-03-26
The Market LuaU,
IN COUNCIL FOR THE TOWN OF
Stanton. March End. 1867.

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Sfauntcn, March end, 1867.
The Committee to whom was referred the Ord.
finances concerning the Market, submitted Re.
port, which was adopted, in the words following
to wit
To the Council for the Ioaon Of Stanton
GENTLEMEN-You our Committee, to whom was
referred all Ordinances relating to the regulations
OF the Market, beg leave to submit the following
Report:
We have examined the Ordinances regulating
the market, and are of the opinion that they need
no alteration or amendment, but are ample, il
properly and rigidly enforced; we would recon-
mend that the Ordinances regulating the market
be published in the Staunton Spectator, until the
hrst day of April next; and thatthe Market Mas
ter be instructed to enforce, and after the 1st
day of April 1867, all the Ordinances now in
force regulating Market, and for failure to do
his duty, in whole, or in part, he shall be fined
not less than Ten, nor more than Twenty dollars
for each neglect of duty
Respectfully submitted,
JNO. B. EVANS,
ROBT. G. BICKLE,
III. III. PECK.
JAMES +. PATTERSON, Clerk
The Ordinance referred to in the above report,
IS IN the words and figures following, to wit:
IAN Ordinance to Establish and Reg
ulate a Market
Be 1t ordained by the Council of the Town of
Staunton that the Ordinance to establish and
regulate market passed the 21st day of August,
1851 be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows:
1st That a market shall be regularly held at
the market House, in the town Of Stanton on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from daylight
until IL O clock, A. NJ.
Ind That any person having any articles of
provision to sell dispose of in the town, viz =
Flesh, Fresh Fish, Fowl, Butter, Eggs, Vegeta-
bes, Fruit or other things usually sold in well
regulated markets, may bring them to the mar
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 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, Provided, 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
3D.. 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 clock, A.
NJ, and any person selling or purchasing any ar
tcle in market before the market bell is rung,
shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar nor
more than five dollars, for each efence
4th. 1t shall be the duty of the market master
to attend at the market house every market day,
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 unfit, DANA
ged, tainted unsound provisions offered 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, or offer for sale any such provis
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 lnarket-master er
o6iclo, 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 for at least
one week by printed hand-bils nosted at the
provided, however, that no stall shall be rented
by butcher for less than fifty dollars or by 9TH
ers for other purposes for less than twelve dollars
The tenant to hold the until the 1st 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 the day of letting and
the other half on the first day of October there
after, and account for such rents in the same
manner tnat he accounts Tor taxes.
9th. 1t shall be the duty of the mark et-maste1
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-
son selling IN the market uses just weights and
measures, and that the Ordinance in relation to
the market be strictly enforced
1th, 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 or more
than twenty dollars for naph offpDna
9Th, That every Butcher, or other person. own
ing stall in the market house, shall keep the
same with his block bench and other furniture
therein, clean and decent, under penalty of one
9th, That any Butcher, or other person, erect
ing or causing to be erected within the limits of
the market, or attaching or placing within the
market house, any block or 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.
10th. That any person who shall hitch or tie q
horse or other animal to the market house. or de-
post any rubbish, filth, dirt or other offensive
matter, IN or about the market house. shall forfeit
and pay not less than fifty cents nor more than
five dollars, for each offence
18th. 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 for
every veal or mutton so sold twelve and a half
cents each, 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 offered, or sold, and the market-mas-
ter shall sell the same, and make report and pay
over the proceeds thereof to the Chamberlain.
14th. 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.