The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-03-15
AN ORDINANCE
For Regulating the
Market.

Market.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and
Aldermen,of the Town of Newberry,
S. C. in Council assembled, and by the
/ authority of the same:
Sec. L. That from and after the pas
sing of this Ordinance, the Market on
Nance street, in the Town of Newber-
| ry shall be known and designated as
| the Public Market.
Sec. 2. That for the use OF persons
! residing outside of the corporate linn
! its Of the Town of Newberry, who
shall send or bring meat into the Town
of Newberry for sale, there shall be
! reserved one stall in the public Mar
ket; and that such persons so using
said stall shall pay therefor to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the Town
Council OF Newberry, the sum OF fifty
cents for every beef, the sum OF TWEEN
ty cents for every hog, and fifteen
cents for every sheep or goat sold
therein.
Sec. 3. No butcher or other person
shall have the right to dispose OF or to
transfer his or her stall to another but
cher or any other person whomsoever !;
Provided however, that nothing here
in contained shall extend or be consid-
cred TO extend, to exclude the widow,
or child or children of the holder of a
stall upon his decease, from the fur
ther use and possession thereof, whilst
he, she or they, or either OF them do
in good faith carry on the butcher bu-
siness. Any person or persons violat-
ing this section shall be subjected to a
fine of five Dollars for every offence.
Sec. 4. No fresh beef, pork, veal,
mutton, lamb or other meat shall be
offered for sale at any place within the
Town of Newberry, other than at the
public Market thereof. under the pen
atty OF ten dollars for every offence :;
Provided, however, that the provisions
| of this section shall not be construed
so as to deny to any butcher or other
person who shall occupy a stall in the
public Market Of the Town Of New
berry the power to deliver to his or
their customers any meat sold by them.
See. ). No bullock, OK, cow, cattle,
sheep, swine, calves or goats intended
for sale, shall be killed within the
limits of the Town of Newberry except
at such places as the Town Council
may, from time to time, designate in
writing. And every person violating
the provisions OF this section or any OF
them shall be subjected to fine OF not
more than twenty-five dollars for each
offence, or imprisonment of not more
than ten days; and no meat shall be
received by any butcher or his agent
in the public Market during Sunday.
Sec. 6. Every day in the week Sun
day excepted) shall be and is hereby
appointed public Market day within
the Town of Newberry. And any
person or persons who shall offer for
sale any meats within the corporate
limits of the Town Of Newberry on
Sunday shall be fined fifty dollars.
| Sec. Z. No person or persons shall
sell or offer for sale in the public Mar
ket any unwholesome or stale articles
of provisions or any poor, carrion,
brown or unsound meat or measly pork
under penalty of ten dollars for each
offence against the provisions OF this
section.
| Sec. s. No steelyards shall be used
in the public Market of the Town OF
Newberry; but all meats or provisions
sold by weight or measure shall be
respectively weighed by weights or
measured by measures. And if any
person shall be guilty of selling in said
public Market by steelyards, or shall
use any unfair trick or deception in
weighing or measuring, or shall be
guilty Of selling by scales miustly
balanced or by false measurement, he,
she or they SO offending shall be fined
ten dollars for each and every viola
ton of the provisions of this section.
Sec. 9. Ii any person or persons
shall assault, strike or in any manner
or way molest, abuse, maltreat or
obstruct butcher or butchers or other
persons regularly authorized to sell or
dispose of beef, or other meat, fish,
vegetables, or other provisions in the
Market, so as to interrupt him, her or
| them in the pursuit OF his, her or their
business, or shall seize, take and carry
by force or iniure or destroy the beef,
or other meat, fish, vegetables or other
provisions of the butcher or butchers,
or other person or persons in the use
and occupation of the stalls orhuckster
stalls, until assigned or allowed to
such person, every one so offending
shall be subject to fine of not more
| than twenty dollars and not less than
| five dollars for each and every viola
| ton of the provisions of this section.
Provided, however, that if any butcher
or butchers. or other person or persons
who shall occupy stall in the said
public Market, shall offend against the
provisions of this section hereinbefore
| recited, such butcher or butchers, or
other person or persons so offending
shall. at the discretion of the Town
Council, in addition to the fine herein
| before recited. be subjected to a for
| feiture of the stall occupied by such
person or persons so offending in the
public Market.
Sec. 10. No person shall offer to sell
or sell in the said public Market any
cured meat, hides, grain or cotton, or
store the same in said Market; and
any person who shall violate the pro-
visions OF this section shall be fined
five dollars for such offence.
Sec. II. Any person who after having
| rented stall or stalls in the public
| Market. and who shall refuse to pay
for the same for the five days immedi-
ately succeeding the day in each month
when the rent shall become due, or
who shall voluntarily resign the same
| to the Town Council shall be consider
ed as having forfeited the right to the
| use of said stall or stalls by him rented,
and it shall be in the power of the
Town Council to rent the same to any
person or persons.
Sec. u. 1t is hereby declared to be
the duty of the Chief of Police, or in
case of his unavoidable or necessary
absence some one OF the assistant
policemen by him to be designated fol
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