Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-20
AN ORDINANCE
To Regulate the Manner of Trading at the
Market House, TIA the City Of Knoxville
and for other Purposes.

TO Regulate the Manner of Trading at the
Market House. ia the City of Knoxville
and for other Purposes.
SECTION 1. Be at ordained 6y the Aoyo,
and Aldermen Of the City of Knoxville
That at the first meeting of the Board
after their election, they shall elect suit
able person as Market Master, to serve one
year from the time of his election, unless
sooner removed by the Board who shall
enter into bond, with security, conditioned
for the faithful discharge of the duties of
his office, and receive for his services the
same pay as the regular police force.
SEC. 2. Every day of the week shall be
| Market Day, except Sunday and market
hours shall begin atday-break, and end at
| 10 o'clock, A. NJ, except Saturdays as here
matter provided. It shall be the duty of
the Market Master to attend, either in per-
son or by deputy, at the market every
day during the market hours, and to ex-
ercise general care and custody of the
market house and all things therefore,
longing.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the Mar
ket Master to assign places to wagons or
persons attending the market, and to en-
force order among them, To examine the
quality of all articles offered for sale, and
see that nothing unsound or unwholesome
be sold.
Sec. 4. To see that the weights and
measures used in that market are correct
and to enforce order in the market, and de-
eide all disputes between buyers and SELL
market rules and regulations.
Sec. 5. All butchers meat, poultry, eggs,
butter, and every kind of fresh provisions
or vegetables, intending for the daily sup
ply of the city, shall be brought to the
market house to be sold and all persons
offering for sale, during market hours, any
of said articles in the streets or any other
place than the market house, shall pay q
fine of five dollars for each and every Of
fence; Provided, This section shall not be
construed as to operate against persons
keting, or to merchants.
SEC. 6. The rents of meat and vegetable
stalls shall be fixed from time to time, by
the Committee on Market and Buildings,
accordance to the Importance or advantage
belonging to each. No one shall be al
lowed to rent more than two stalls, nor sell
for any other person, without paying all
additional tax for the use of said stall or
stalls, under a penalty of five dollars.
Sec. z. The Market Master may set aside
one or more stalls for the use of individuals
who do not wish to rent stall by the week,
month or quarter, and charge SO much for
the daily use of the same and any person
selling beef by the quarter shall pay
twenty-five (25) cents for the privilege.
Sec. s. Persons selling fish, bacon and
other meats not sold at stalls, shall sell at
such places in and about the market house
as the Market Master and the committee
shall designate.
Sec. 8. 1t shall not be lawful for two or
more persons to combine to raise the price
of any article, or to prevent it from being
sold under price fixed by them any per-
son violating this section, shall be fined
five dollars for each offence.
SEC. 10. No person, whether licensed or
not, shall offer for sale any article of pro.
vision or marketing which he, she or they
may have bought at themarket house dur
ing market hours; Provided, that the Sat-
urday evening market shall not be i'm cluded
in what is termed market hours " in this
section any person violating this section
shall be fined the sum of five dollars, and
forfeit the article or articles so offered for
sale. Sc s9EET0
Sec. IL. No person shall buy or sell any
article of provision before the ringing of
the bell at the opening of the market.
Sec. II. No person shall sell or offer for
sale in the market house or elsewhere, the
flesh of any animal which was diseased, or
died natural death. or was killed by acct
dent, or otherwise than in the usual man.
ner of slaughtering animals for food; nor
shall any person sell or offer for sale any
blown, stale or unwhOlesOme meat, fish,
eggs, poultry or other articles of food or the
flesh of any animal not commonly deemed
wholesome for food any one guilty of
of this section, shall be fined the
same as for violation of section 10 of this
ordinance.
Sec. IL. No person shall tie an animal to
any part of the market house, or ride, lead
or drive an animal into the market house,
or on the brick pavement belonging there
to; nor shall any persons idly sit or lounge
about the stalls or benches, nor shall per-
sons congregate in the pass-ways between
the side and center stalls in the north end
of the market house, so as to prevent free
passage through the market house, unless
it be for the purpose of making purchases
Or attending to legitimate business.
Sec. IA. The Market Master shall remove
from the market house all disorderly per-
sons, and suppress all quarreling and fight
ing, or the using of obscene or profane Ian
yuage in or near the market house.
SEC. Is. Whoever shall violate any pro-
vision of this ordinance to which there is |
no specific penalty attached, shall forfeit |
any pay not less than five nor more than |
fifty dollars, according to the nature and |
of the offence.
SEC. 10. mat III any person desires to |
rent stall and buy and sell and operate at |
,he market house, in the products of the |
and such supplies as are brought |
70 said market for the daily use of the citi- |
,ens, he or they shall pay the sum of Ten
Dollars for one year; but no selling shall |
be allowed after the regular market hours,
nor shall persons doing business under
said license buy any country produce for
'ale before 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
Sec. II. The Saturday evening market |
shall commence at 4 o'clock, p. NJ, from
April 1st to October LIST and from October
st to April 1st market hours shall COM
nence at o'clock and close at o'clock.
Sec. Is. Be it ordained that this ordi-
lance take effect from and after its pass
lge.
Passed April 4, 1878.
VIM. RULE, Mayor.
G. M. WHITE, Recorder.
Local Misce1IanV.