The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-03-18


shall or Constable to appear before
the Council to testify as witness in
any case who shall fail, neglect or re-
fuse to do so, or shall refuse to an
swer any question propounded to
them by the Council, shall be fined
not more than five dollars or be i'm
prisoned in the guard house not more
than twenty-four hours.
ARRESTS, ETC.
SEC. 80. Any person or persons
who may be charged with violating
any ordinance OF the town, shall be
arrested by the Marshal Or Constable
Of said town, If the offense be COM
mitted within their view; If the
offense be not committed within their
view, the Council upon information
on oath being given them, may issue
their warrant of arrest for the
offender or offenders, which said war
rant shall be executed by the Mar
shall or Constable.
Sec. 40. Whenever the Marshal or
Constable shall have arrested any
person as provided in Section 49, he
shall cause such person to appear be-
| fore the Iutendant, who shall require
the person so arrested to put up
| forfeit Of not more than fifty dollars
or be committed to the guard house
| to await trial, unless such person be
ready for trial in which case the In
tendant shall summons the Council
together.
SEC. Al. That the streets Of the
town as laid off on the diagram shall
be deemed public streets and shall
be known by the names shown on
said diagram.
MEAT LICENSE.
SEC. 43. That from and after the
passage of the following ordinances,
the same shall be the law governing
the sale of carcasses, or parts OF ca
casses, of fresh meats within the
incorporate limits Of said town:
First: That carcasses or parts OF
| carcasses of fresh meats and all fresh
fish and oysters, sold within the in
corporate limits of the said town of
Lexington at retail, shall be cut up
and sold in the market house Of said
town; and the person or persons so
selling shall pay the following license
for the use of stall and the privilege
of selling each carcass, or parts Of
carcass as follows: On each beef, or
part thereof, the sum of fifty cents,
and on each hog, sheep or goat, or
part thereof, the sum Of twenty-five
cents, and upon each lot of fish and
oysters the sum of twenty-five cents,
and upon each lot of fish twenty cents,
and upon each lot Of oysters fifteen
cents. Provided, however, That all
parties who shall rent any of the
stalls in said market house by the
month shall be exempt from the pay
ment of such license, as above pro-
vided, while such stall is being
rented.
Second; That all parties who shall
cut up carcasses, or parts OF car
casses, of fresh meats outside of the
incorporate limits of said town, but
who shall deliver the same within the
Incorporate limits thereof, shall not
so deliver the same until he, she or
they shall have first paid for the
privilege of such delivery the follow
ing amounts of license to wit: Upon
every beef, or part thereof, the sum
fifty cents and upon every hog, sheep
and goat, Or parts thereof, the sum
of twenty five cents.
Third: That the amounts Of said
license as above setforth shall be
payable to the Intendant or the Clerk
of said town, who shall issue a re-
ceipt therefor in every instance.
Fourth: That all parties who will
violate either of the First or Second
Section of this ordinance shall, for
each ofrense, be fined the sum Of
fifty dollars or be imprisoned in the
guard house of said town for thirty
days.
Ratified in Council, this the 9th
day April, A. D. 1896.
There is also an ordinance with
fine or imprisonment, for drinking in
open view, on the streets.