Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-03-19


The Ordinance referred to in the above report,
is in the words and figures following, to wit:
ssAn Ordinance to Establish and Reg
ulate q Market
Be it ordained by the Council of the Town of
Staunton, that the Ordinance to establish and
regulate a market, passed the 21st day of August,
1857, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows:
LIST. That market shall be regularly held at
the market House, in the town of Stanton, on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from daylight
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 well
regulated markets, may bring them to the mar
ket house, and any person exposing to sale, OF
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 d like penalty for each
such offence, Provided that this Ordinance shall
not be construed to prohibit the sale, purchase
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 one dollar, nor
more than five dollars for each effence
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 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 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, &c
o6icio, 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-bills posted at the
market-hopse 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 lst of April
In the next succeeding year; and, provided fur
ther that no person, firm or company, shall be
permitted to rent, or occupy, more than one stall
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 that he accounts for taxes.
9th. It shall be the duty of the marl1et-master
to see that the market house is kept clean and in
good order by the tenants of the stalls, and 9TH
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.
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 or more
than twenty dollars for each offence.
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
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, or 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 so offending.
10TH That any person who shall hitch or tie O.
horse or other animal to the market house. 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
11th That for every Beef sold in Market by
any other than regular Butcher renting stall,
the marllet-master shall demand and receive fifty
cents OF the owner or person so selling, and for
every veal OF 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.
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 any AL
derrnan of the town.
10TH That this Ordinance shall be in force from
its passage
JAMES p p ATTERSON OH -