New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1899-01-14
SPECIAL. MEETING or THE BOARD
or TRUSTEES.
MARKET ORDINANCES.


New IBERIA. LA.. Jan 10Th. 1899.
The Board of Trustees Of the town o
New Iberia met this day in special session
pursuant TO call. with Mayor John Fishc
III the chair and the following member
present, to-wit: Messrs. j. Dreyfus, J
Lanpcr"z. Z. Il. Dupcricr and A. J
Fagot. Absent Mcssrs. W. K. Burk,
and L. A. Patin.
The Mayor stated the object of tho meet
ing TO bo to pass an ordinance prescribing
the limits within which markets shall b,
kept from and after the lst day of March
1899, in the town of New Iberia. and ais,
an ordinance fixing the rent of stalls ant
stands and establishing rules and regula
tionS governing tho Main Street Contra
Market
Mr. J. Drcyfus presented the following
ordinance, to-wit
An ordinance prescribing tho limits
within which markets shall be kept within
tho town of Now Iberia. from and after
the first day of March, 1899, and the
penalties for the violation thereof. 1t was
moved by Mr.. j. Dreyfus, seconded by Mr..
i. Il. Duperier. that the same be adopted
and on vote being taken thereon said
ordinance was adopted on tho following
vote, to-wit Yeas Messrs. j. Dreytus,
J. A. Fagot, Z. X. Duperier. and J. Lam
perez. Nays-none. Said ordinance,
entitled as above. was then presented to
tho Mayor for examination and after ex-
animation was returned by him approved
and signed with the seal of the Corpora
ton thereto affixed.
The ordinance reads as follows: BE it
ordained, by the Mayor and Board of
fFri ufpo Of hn Of hut
it shall be unlawful for any person or
persons, firm or corporation, to establish,
maintain or keep private market for the
barter or sale of fresh meats of any descrip-
ton or such pershable food, as fish,
vegetables, poultry, game, and all other
articles usually sold at markets (oxcept
potatoes, onions, cabbage, beans and
peas, which may be sold at the grocery
stores outside Of the New iberia Main
Street Central Market, which adjoins the
Court House Square, within the territory
embraced within the corporate limits of
the town of New Iberia. on the east side
of the Bayou Teche, and all that territory
on the west side of tho Bayou Teche
beginning at u point where Prairie avenue,
if extended would strike the Bayou, aud
running in a westerly direction along
Prairie avenue to Madison street thence
along Madison street to Bank avenue
thence along Bank avenue to Alfred
street thence along Alfred street to
Hacker street ; thence along Hacker
street to Iberia street, thence along Ibe-
ria street to Robertson street j; thence
along Robertson street to Hopkins street
thence along Hopkins street to the Bayou
Teche from and after the first day of
March, 1899 and any person or persons
violating the provisions of this ordinance.
on conviction, shall be fined not less than
Five Dollars nor more than Twenty-Five
Dollars for each day or part of n day the
market shall be kept OPEN. Thus read.
adopted, signed and seal affixed in open
session, his 10th day of Jan, 1899.
JOHN FISHER, Mayor.
Mr. J. 'Dreyfus presented the following
ordinance, to-wit
An ordinance governing the letting and
leasing of the stalls and stands of the New
Iberia Central Market, to individuals and
firms, fixing the rates and charges and
prescribing the penalties for the violation
thereof, from and after the first day OF
March, A. ID. 1899.
1t was moved by Mr.. J. Dreyfus, seconded
by Mr.. J. Lamperez, that the same be nd
opted, and on vote being taken thereon,
said ordinance was adopted on the follow
ing vote, to-wit: Yeas-Mcssrs. J. Drey-
fus, J. A. Fagot, +. X. Duperier and J.
Lamperez. Nays-none.
Said ordinance entitled as above was
then presented to the Mayor for examina
ton and after examination was returned
by him, approved and signed with the seal
of the corporation thereto affixed.
The ordinance reads as folows See. |.
Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Board of
Trustees of the town of New iberia, that
the Market House .recently erected on
Main street in the town of New Iberia. is
hereby established rs n public market and
shall be known as the Main Street Central
Market.
Sec H. Be it further ordained That
all kind of fresh meats, fowls, fish, game.
vegei ables, eggs, and'such other pershable
food intended for the daily supply of the
town, shall be taken to and sold in the
market house. within the market limits,
subject to the following regulations, ,restric
tions. rents and charges.
See III. Be it further ordained: That
the following shall be the rates for rent
of stalls and stands for the sale of various
articles:
For each butchers stand. or STALL not
less then sixty cents per day. the same to
be let and leased to the last and highest
bidder.
For each stand or stall for the sale of
luncheons, coffee and chocolate, not less
than fifty cents per day, the same to be
let and leased to the last and highest bid
der.
For each stand or stall for the sale of
fish, twenty-five cents per day.
For each stand or stall for the sale of
vegetable, twenty five cents per day.
For each stand or stall for the sale of
game poultry and eggs, twenty cents
per day.
For each table or stand for the sale Of
coffee and tea by the cup, twenty cents
per day.
See " Be it further ordained That
any butcher or other pcison who shall ex-
pose or offer for sale in the Market House,
or in the streets, or at any other place
within the city, any meat, fish, poultry,
or other provisions, which may be tainted
or decayed, or which have been diseased,
shall, on the complaint of the market
keeper, Board OF Health, or other person,
be arrested, and on conviction, fined not
it shnll be the duty Of the market keeper
or city police, to arrest the person or
persons so offending, and to take him with
the condemned provision before the Mayor,
for trial-when, if convicted, the person
or persons found guilty shall, in addition
to said fine, pay the expense of removing
said condemned article beyond the limits
of the city.
See V. Be it further ordained That
any butcher or other person or persons
having game, other than dressed venison,
bear meat, or poultry for sale, must not
expose them OH or above the butchers
stalls, but must in all cases sell them at
the stands provided for such articles, un-
aar 2entalty Of five dollars.
{. VI. Be it futher ordained That
butchers and other retailers of butchers
meat, shall not expose it for sale elsewhere,
during market hours, than at the regular
stalls established in the public market
house, under penalty Of twenty five dollars
for each offence.
See. VII. Be it further ordained: That
all vegetables, melons, ,celary, live poultry.
small game, eggs, etc., intended for the
daily supply Of the town, within the
rl-a&1 .hon ~ r.