purchase and commonly called Cart's lot, adjoining the Methodist hold a Burying church yard, to the eastward, as a Burying Ground, Ground. for free persons of colour and their descendants only. 2. That no interment shall be made in the Burying ground aforesaid, either after dark or before dayNo interment light, and that the said free persons of colour and to be made af- their successors, shall be subject to such regulations fore day light as the City Council of Charleston may hereafter pre ter dark or be Passed, Nov. scribe. Whereas since the importation of slaves from Af19th. 1805. rica, several instances have occurred, of dead human bodies having been thrown into the waters of the harbour of Charleston. And whereas such practices are extremely disgraceful, and ought to be prevented by the severest penalties, that can be inflicted by the City Council: Preamble. 1. Be it ordained, That in future no person or perForfeiture for sons whatsoever, shall throw, or cause or order to be throwing dead human bodies thrown, any dead human body or bodies, into any of into the rivers. the rivers, creeks or marshes, within the harbour of the city, on pain of forfeiting for each and every such offence, the sum of one hundred dollars with costs of suit. Offenders to be 2. That the name of every person, herein offendexpose in the ing, shall be published by the City Coroner, in the public prints. several Gazettes of Charleston, to hold up every such offender to public detestation. How the fines posed of, 3. That every fine, recovered by virtue of this orare to be dis- dinance, shall go to the informer, and that every informer be considered as a competent witness, for proving such offence or offences, notwithstanding his interest in the fine or fines. Passed, Aug. TITLE (L.) Livery Stables. Whereas the practice of using wooden buildings as 24th, 1801. Livery Stables, in the city of Charleston, has frequently been found injurious to the property of the citizens by fires originating within the same: to be erected slate or tile. 1. Be it ordained, That from and after the passing Livery Stables of this ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any per- of brick or on or persons, to erect within the city of Charles- stone, and coon, any building or buildings, to be used as Livery vered with Stables, unless the same be built of brick or stone, and covered with slate or tile: And if any person or Fine for erect persons shall hereafter erect any wooden buildings, ing wooden and use the same as Livery Stables, or convert any wooden building now erected into a Livery Stable, he, she or they, shall, on conviction thereof before the Court of Wardens, be liable to a fine, in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars, for each and every day on which such wooden buildings shall be used as Livery Stables. stables. to be of brick 2. That the place or places for receiving and de- Place for repositing the fodder to be used in such stables, to be ceiving fodder hereafter used as Livery Stables, shall also be built or store, &c. of brick or stone, and covered with slate or tile, and the windows and doors thereof covered on the outside with plates of tin or iron; and if any person or persons, shall use any wooden building for the reception of fodder for such Livery Stables, such person or persons, shall, on conviction thereof, before the Court of Wardens,* be liable to a fine, in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars, for every day on which such wooden building shall be so used. Fine. fodder to be 3. That it shall not be lawful for any person or Not more than persons, to keep for the use of his, her or their Livery 3000 weight of Stables, at any time, more than three thousand kept at one weight of hay, blades, straw or other fodder. And if time. any person or persons, shall be found offending herein, he, or they, for every such offence, shall, on con- Penalty. viction thereof, in the Court of Wardens,* be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars. TITLE (M.) Manufactures. 1. Be it ordained, That from and after the first day of March next, ensuing the day of the passing of this Passed, Nov. ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any person or 21st, 1798. persons, within the limits of this city, to carry on, or * Now Inferior City Court., dlause. keep the trade or trades, manufactory or manufactoEnacting ries of starch making, or hair powder making, on pain that each and every such person or persons, who shall carry on or keep such trade or trades, manufac tory or manufactories, shall for each and every of fence, on information thereof be prosecuted in the Court of Wardens, as for a nuisance: and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay the sum of eighty dollars for each and every time he, she, or they shall be convicted as aforesaid. Fine. Passed, May Markets. 1. Be it ordained, That from and after the passing of 6th, 1807. this ordinance, the Market in Market-street, throughout its whole extent from Meeting-street to the chan Market-street. nel of Cooper river, shall be known and distinguishName and es- ed by the name of the Centre Market; and the comtablishment of missioners thereof shall have the power and authority, the Market in and they are hereby instructed and required, to cause the brick building in Market-street aforesaid, to be fitted up with all convenient speed for the accommodation of butchers and venders of beef and other meats; also to cause to be erected without delay a temporary wooden building or shades, in Marketstreet aforesaid, between Maiden-lane and Churchstreet, for the accommodation of persons selling vegetables and other provisions; and further to cause to be constructed, as soon as may be practicable, a suitable building for a Fish Market, in Market-street aforesaid, to the eastward of the Governor's Bridge; and generally to make or cause to be made, all such other appendages and improvements in Market-street aforesaid, as to the said commissioners or a majority of them, may appear proper and conducive, to render the Centre Market aforesaid, the principal Market in and for the city of Charleston. Provided however, That all expences, attendant on, or incident to, the building appendages and improvements aforesaid, as well as all costs, of keeping the same in proper order and repair, shall be solely and entirely defrayed out of the funds and revenues of the Markets. Proviso. 2. That every white or free person of colour, selling Penalty and or offering for sale any beef or other meat, or any ve- punishment getables or other provisions, other than at the Centre Market aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars; and every slave, committing a like offence, shall be put for one hour in the stocks at the Centre Market, and be liable to receive at the same. not less than ten nor more than twenty lashes on the bare back, to be adjudged by any two commissioners of the said Market, and to be inflicted by the Clerk thereof: Provided however, that, if the owner of any Provise. such offending slave, or the agent or representative of such owner, shall, before the expiration of the market hours, or before the execution of such punishment, tender and pay to the Clerk of the Market. the amount of the fine, which for a similar offence is payable by a white person or by a free person of colour, as aforesaid, such slave shall thereupon be released from the corporal punishment, by him or her incurred as aforesaid. 3. That the commissioners of the Centre Market aforesaid shall have power and authority, and they commissionare hereby instructed and required, to place all the ers' duty. stalls and shambles of the Centre Market aforesaid on the south and north sides of the inner part thereof, and to distribute such stalls and shambles, without demanding or taking any fee or payment for the same, rents excepted, as herein after provided. And in making such distribution of stalls and shambles in the Centre Market aforesaid, the said commissioners shall take care, to assign to every butcher a situation, as nearly equal as possible to the one, formerly by him or her possessed or occupied, and to that end, to number the stalls in the Centre Market aforesaid, beginning at the north east corner of the said brick building, and ending at the south east corner of the same. And those butchers, who previously held the first and last stalls at the west end of the brick building in Queen-street, shall again be entitled to the Manner in first and last stalls at the east end of the brick build- which the ing in the Centre Market; but those butchers, who distributed. previously held the two front stalls at the west end of the brick building in the Centre Market, shall U stalls are to be Six stalls to be reserved for planters. be entitled to the opposite corner stalls at the same end. 4. That for the use of planters bringing or sending the use of meat of their own stock or raising to market, there shall be reserved six stalls in the Centre Market, and in such part or parts on the side thereof, as the commissioners of the said Market may determine, but the other stalls shall be let or hired out by the said Sum to be paid commissioners in the manner above mentioned. And to the Clerk every person, to whom the use of a stall or stalls now for stall hire, is or hereafter shall be granted, shall pay to the Clerk lowed for pay- of the respective Market a monthly rent of four dol and time al ment. Proviso. transfer or dis possession of Proviso lars for each stall, and shall forfeit all right and title thereto, on failing or neglecting to pay such rent on or before the fifth day of every month. Provided however, that the Commissioners of the Markets shall be authorized, with the approbation of the City Council, to alter the amount of stall rents and the time of payment, giving to the parties concerned one month's previous notice of any such alteration. Butchers not 5. That no butcher or other person shall have a permitted to right, to dispose of, or to transfer, his or her stall or pose of their stalls to another butcher or any other person whomstalls. soever; but the Commissioners of the Markets, or a Commission- majority of them, shall have full power and authoers to grant rity, to grant according to their discretion the use and vacant stalls. possession of every stall, on its becoming vacant by the forfeiture or expulsion of the former holder, or by his or her retirement from the trade of a butcher: Provided however, that nothing herein contained,shall extend, or be construed to extend, to exclude the widow or the child or children of the holder of a stall, upon his or her decease, from the further use and possession thereof, whilst she, or they, or either of them, do bona fide continue to carry on the butcher's business: And provided also, that an additional and adjoining stall may be granted by the Commissioners of the Markets, or by a majority of them, to a butcher, whose business may require more than a single stall, if it can be done, without debarring at the same time another applicant, who is desirous of pursuing the trade of a butcher, and who, being without a stall, cannot |