New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-25
MAYoRALrY OF NEW ORLEANS, I
City Hall, December "a, 1873.

1 - mo. Observation-Disclosures Series.
An ordinance to amend and reordain or
dinance No. 1877, Administration series,
adopted March 81, 1871, entitled "An Or
dinance for the government of the mar
kets of the city of New Orleans, and
providing for the sale of the revenues
thereof"
| Be it ordained by the Council of the city
of New Orleans, That the ordinance mum
bered and entitled as above be and 10
hereby amended and reordained SO as to
read as follows:
SECTION /. Be it ordained by the Council
of the city of New Orleans. That after five
days notice in the official journal, the Ad-
| ministratOr of Commerce shall sell at pub
lie auction. or adjudicate, on sealed pro-
| posals at his Office, as he may determine,
the monthly or yearly revenues OF the pub
| lie markets, each market separately, or col
| iectively, for the period OF one month, or
one year, or for the unexpired portion OF
the year, as the Council may elect, the city
| reserving the right to reject any or al bids.
Sec. 2. That the purchasers or lessees
shall furnish, in cash, at the time of said
| sales, the purchase price for one month;
| and should the sale be for longer period,
they shall, Immediately after the promulga-
tlon of a resolution OF the City Council, APP
| proving such sales and authorizing and or
dering the execution OF contracts with the
purchasers. such purchasers or lessees
shall appear before the city notary, and
execute contracts for said market revenues,
respectively at which time they shall exc
cute and furnish their prOmissory notes for
| the remaining months of the year, Endorsed
| to the satisfaction of the Mayor and the Adj
ministrator of Finance, payable on the first
days of the months tor which they are given.
| which notes, ii not paid when due, shall
| bear eight per cent interest thereafter until
i t..ct lftlGn
| or neglect to furnish his notes as aforesaid,
| the Administrator of Commerce is hereby
| authorized to resell such market revenue,
| after giving five days notice of such resale
| in the official journal OF the city; and the
cash payment made as provided for herein
shall be held as forfeited to the city by
reason Of such default, and such party 50
| in default shall also be liable to the city tor
| any difference or loss between the price at
which the revenues of such market were
originally sold and the price at which they
| may be resold.
SEC. g. That the purchaser or lessee of
such revenues shall not be entitled to col
lect other dues than those hereinafter men
toned, and the occupants of the stalls or
stands Of the several markets OF the city
| and the vendors in said markets are hereby
required to pay for said STALE, stands and
| privileges at the following rates:
| For butchers stalls, including block,
| sixty cents per day.
| For fish, game and vegetable stalls, three
| by four feet, fifteen cents per day.
For fruit and all other stands not speci-
fed herein, open all day, two cents per day
| for each and every square superficial foot
| of space occupied.
For coffee and chocolate stands, three by
| eight feet, seventy-hve cents per day, and
| two cents per day for every superficial foot,
! and for each corner table an additional
| sum of five cents, and it shall be the duty
| Of the City Surveyor to designate which are
| corner tables.
All occupants of stalls and stands are
required to return the same to the lessees
| in as good condition as when received, and
| the lessees of markets are required to re-
| turn the stalls, stands and fixtures of the
markets to the city in as good condition as
when received from the city.
SEC. 4. That all kinds of meat, fowl,
game, fish, vegetables and all other articles
of human food may be bought and sold at
all the markets, except that no fish, fruit
nor vegetables shall be sold in the Beef Mar
ket OF the Second District, and no fresh
meat of any kind shall be sold in the Vege-
table Market of the same district.
Sec. 5. That each and every person oc-
cupying a stall or stand in any market in
this city shall have their name painted on
a tin sign, in plain and legible manner,
place over the stall occupied by them; and
in case any person occupying stall or stand
as aforesaid, shall not comply with this sec
ton within thirty days from the passage
thereof, or shall thereafter at any time, for
more than three days consecutively, not
have such sign so exposed, shall be liable
to a fine of ten dollars.
Sec. 6. That the markets of this city shall
be open at the dawn of day, and shall close
at twelve o'clock NJ. all the year round. It
is not intended that this section shall apply
to persons occupying coffee stands or fruit
stands.
SEC. 7. That during the half hour imme-
diately after the closing OF the markets, the
occupants of stalls and stands are required
to scrape. wash and cleanse the same. so as
to keep them in the highest state of clean
illness.
SEC. s. Noperson or persons shall be per-
mitted to occupy or control, either directly
or Indirectly, more than two meat stalls or
stands in any one market; aud when any
stall or stand shall remain unoccupied
during three days consecutively, the lessee
of the market shall hold the same as aban-
dOned, and subject to the demand of any
other applicant.
Sec. 9. That it shall be the duty of the
lessees of the several markets to keep an
exact register of the persons to whom they
let stalls or stands, and to give certificates
to the occupants thereof.
SEC. 10. That each and every cart or
wagon conveying supplies to any public
market in this city for sale, shall pay for
each and every load, twenty-five cents; all
butchers carts, and all other carts and
wagons owned by occupants Of stalls and
stands in any of the markets and used in
conveying supplies to such stalls or stands, !
shall be exempt from this tax; no cart or
wagon shall remain at any of said markets |
between the hours of twelve O'Clock M. and |
3 p. M, from the first Of May to the thirtieth |
of September, and not between the hours of |
twelve o'clock M. and p. NJ, from the first |
of October to the thirtieth of April.
SEC. IL. That all persons are forbidden |
to stand, sit or lie on any Of the stands or |
stalls of the said markets.
SEC. II. No person shall SELL or expose |
or offer for sale, in any market i'll this city, |
any unwhOlesOme meat, or the flesh of any |
animal which was sick, wounded, over
heated, or run down by dogs or otherwise, |
at or before the time the same was slaught- |
cred Or which died from disease, accident,
casualty or other means than the usual |
manner of Strengthening animals for food |
nor shall any person sell, or expose or offer
for sale. in any of the markets of this city,
any putrid, blown, raised or unsound meat,
fish, eggs, poultry. or any unwholesome or
adulterated article of food: nor shall any
person sell, or expose or offer for sale the |
flesh of any dog, cat or any unclean animal,
or the flesh of any calf pig or lamb which
was slaughtered under the age of four
weeks.
SEC. l3. That no salt or corned beef or
pork shall be exhibited or offered for sale
on any stall except in clean white tray,
not painted, twenty six inches long. sixteen
inches wide and six inches deep. The occu-
pants of stalls may also keep tight box or
cask, of no larger dimensions than butch
ers block, for keeping such meat in. No
ice boxes will be allowed in any of the |