be otherwise accommodated by a vacant stall in the ame Market. ers to give cer stalls. 6. That the Commissioners of the Markets, when Commissiongranting in future the use and possession of a butch-tificate to the er's stall, shall give to the grantee thereof a certifi- holders of cate, signed by a majority of them, and countersigned by the Clerk of the Market, which certificate shall specify the number or other description of the stall, and the terms of its tenure. And if any person Punishment shall use or occupy a stall or part of a stall in any or occupying and penalty Market of the city, without having previously obtain- a stall without ed a certificate as aforesaid; or shall occupy a stall certificate. or part of a stall, other than specified in the certificate aforesaid, he or she, if a white person or a free person of colour, shall forfeit and pay a sum, not exceeding ten dollars, for each and every such offence, and for each and every day or part of a day, while such offence is committed; or if a slave, he or she shall incur such punishment, as is pointed out in the second clause of this ordinance, respecting slaves, unless therefrom released on the terms stated in the said clause. at other places 7. That no fresh beef, pork, veal, mutton, lamb, or Penalty and other meat, shall be cut up and exposed for sale at punishment for exposing any place within the city, other than one of the pub- meats for sale lic Markets, where sale thereof shall be permitted by than the pubthe City Council; under a penalty of ten dollars, for lic Markets each and every such offence, and for each and every day, when such offence is committed, if the offender be a white person or a free person of colour; but if the offender be a slave, on pain of receiving such punishment, as is pointed out in the second clause of this ordinance, concerning slaves, unless released therefrom on the terms stated in the said clause. within the city place as shall 8. That no bullock, ox, cow, or other grown neat Neat cattle &c. cattle, intended for sale, shall be killed within the not to be killed limits of the city; and that sheep, swine, calves, and except at such goats intended for sale, shall not be killed in any be assigned; part of the city, except in such place or places, as nor more than the Commissioners of the Markets or a majority of kept in any them may appoint; and that no more than six hogs pen under or calves, shall be kept at any one time within any punishment. six penalty or thro' the city nor to bring it lot or private pen in the city, under a penalty of ten dollars, for each and every such offence, and for each and every day, when such offence is committed, if the offender be a white person or a free person of colour; or on pain, if the offender be a slave, of incurring such punishment as is pointed out in the second clause of this ordinance, respecting slaves, unless released therefrom on the terms stated in the said clause. Meat, &e not 9. That it shall not be lawful to or for any butcher to be carried or other person, to transport, or cause or suffer to be unless covered transported, any kind of meat, either to or from the into the city Market, or through any part of the city, in a waggon, before an ap cart or wheel-barrow, unless the same be under cover; pointed hour on Sunday af- or to bring, or cause or suffer to be brought, any kind ternoon, nor of meat into the city on any Sunday afternoon, before sheep, &c. in six o'clock from the first day of April to the last day any market of September, or before five o'clock from the first Sabbath under day of October to the last day of March; or to shut punishment or up any sheep, swine, calves or goats, one or more, to confine pen during the penalty. Carts, &c. not the Market in er time than or punishment in any open pen attached to any of the public Markets in the city, from Saturday night until Monday morning, under a penalty of ten dollars for each and every such offence, if committed by a white person or by a free person of colour; or if committed by a slave, on pain of incurring such punishment, as is pointed out in the second clause of this ordinance, respecting slaves, unless therefrom released on the terms stated in the said clause. 10. That no butcher or any other person, bringing to remain at meat or provisions of any kind for sale to any of the any other man Markets within the city, shall keep his or her waggon, ner for a long-cart or other carriage, horse or mule, one or more, shall be affixed nearer any of the said Markets or for a longer space under penalty of time, or shall range them or any of them in another manner and form, than as shall or may be regulated by the Commissioners thereof, and directed by the Clerk of the same under a penalty not exceed ing ten dollars for each and every such offence, if committed by a white person or free person of colour; or of such punishment if committed by a slave, as is pointed out in the second clause of this ordinance, res pecting slaves, unless therefrom released on the terms stated in the said clause. Price of stand for selling ve ing and terms. paying, the ar seized. 11. That every person, to whom the Commissioners of the Centre Market shall or may assign, or cause to be assigned by the Clerk thereof, a stand for the getables, time selling of vegetables or other provisions at the said of its continuMarket, shall pay to the said Clerk twenty-five cents in advance, which payment shall entitle such person to the use of such stand for one week and no longer, and which payment in advance shall be continued every week, while such person brings or sends vegetables or other provisions to the said market for sale; but any transient person, who brings only occasionally vegetables or other provisions to Market, shall pay twelve and a half cents per day for the use of a stand. And every person, coming to the said Mar- In case of not ket with vegetables or other provisions for sale, and ticles to be failing or neglecting to make such payment in advance or per day, as the case may be, shall be exexpelled therefrom, and shall not be permitted, to sell or offer for sale any article or articles whatever within the limits or in any part of the said Market, until such payment be duly made; on pain of having every article, which he or she may bring to the said Market for sale, seized by the Clerk thereof.-Provided however, that the Commissioners of the Markets shall be authorized, with the permission of the City Council, to alter the foregoing rates from time to time; and that the present rates for stands of the aforesaid description at the Centre Market and at the Market in Queen-street shall be payable, until the discontinuance of the Market in Queen-street as aforesaid. And every person, resorting to any public Mar- Punishment or ket in the city, for the purpose of selling vegetables penalty inflictor other provisions, shall occupy no other stand or who deviate place at the same, than the one assigned to him or from the or =her by the Commissioners or Clerk thereof, under a the Clerk, penalty of five dollars for each and every such offence, and for each and every day or part of a day, on which such offence is committed, if the offender be a white person or free person of colour; or on pain, if the offender be a slave, of incurring such punishment, as is pointed out in the second clause of Proviso. ed upon those ders given by -1 this ordinance, respecting slaves, unless therefrom released on the terms stated in the said clause.. Milk, fruit, fish 12. That it shall be lawful to and for any person, to allowed to be carry milk for sale about the streets of Charleston sold about the with or without a ticket, on any day, from morning streets. till the beating of the tattoo by the City Guard, ex and provisions Proviso. cept on Sunday, when it shall not be permitted after nine o'clock in the forenoon, nor before four o'clock in the afternoon; and likewise to carry for sale about the streets of Charleston, grain, fruit and provisions of every kind, on any day (Sundays excepted) from nine o'clock in the forenoon till sun-set, and victuals, fresh fish and other aquatic animals, from nine o'clock in the forenoon till the beating of the tattoo by the City Guard. Provided however, that every slave carrying grain, fruit, victuals, or other provisions, about the streets for sale, (fresh fish and other aquatic animals excepted,) shall have a ticket under the signature of his or her owner, or of some other free person, having the care or government of such slave, in which ticket the name of such slave, as well as the quantity and quality of the articles, by him or her carried for sale as aforesaid, shall be specified: And provided also, that every such article shall have been raised or cultivated by or for the owner or employer of such slave, and shall then be offered for sale at the first hand. And any white perpenalty inflict- son or free person of colour, herein in anywise ofers against this fending, shall for each and every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars; and every slave shall for each and every such offence sustain such punishment, as is pointed out in the second clause of tendered for this ordinance, respecting slaves, unless therefroin resale by a slave leased on the terms stated in the said clause. And every article, offered for sale by a slave without a proper ticket as aforesaid, shall moreover be forfeited to any person or persons seizing the same. Punishment or ed on offend clause. All articles without a ticket, liable to seizure. Waggons with poultry, &c. claase. . 13. That all persons, bringing poultry or other live stock, fruit or any other species of provisions, in regulated by waggons or carts from the country to the city for sale, shall resort to no other place than the Centre Market, and there take such stands, and draw up in such manner and form, as the Commissioners thereof shall or may regulate, and the Clerk thereof direct; and no such waggon or cart shall be removed from the Centre Market, before nine o'clock in the morning from the first day of May to the last day of October, or before ten o'clock in the morning from the first day of November to the last day of April, unless. every article brought for sale in the same, shall have been previously sold and taken away at the said Market. And every person, herein in any wise offending, shall, if a white person or a free person of co- Penalty or four, forfeit and pay for each and every such offence, punishment: the sum of five dollars; or, if a slave, shall incur such punishment, as is pointed out in the second clause of this ordinance, respecting slaves, unless therefrom released on the terms stated in the said clause. Stalls to be ap per one is be removed 14. That the Commissioners of the Markets shall propriated for have power and authority, and they are hereby in- Fish Market, structed and required, after the discontinuance of the until the proBeef Market in Queen-street as aforesaid, to give up erected. a certain number of butcher's stalls in the said Beef Market, for the temporary use of a Fish Market, and thereupon to apply as much of the present Fish Market building in Queen-Street, as may be fit for use, to the construction of a similar building in Market- Fish Market to street to the eastward of the Governor's Bridge. And and notice to as soon as the latter building is finished, the Fish Mar- be given thereket, heretofore kept in Queen-street as aforesaid, shall be discontinued, and then and from thenceforth no other Fish Market shall be held and kept in the city, except the one in Market-street to the eastward of the Governor's Bridge, as aforesaid; which event the Commissioners of the Centre Market shall duly notify in all the Gazettes of Charleston, at least two weeks. before it is to take place. of. of fish. 15. That fresh fish shall not be sold at the Fish Regulations Market, or in any part of the city, otherwise than for the selling under such regulations with regard to strings or weight. as may from time to time be established by the Commissioners of the Markets; and that every person, selling or offering for sale fresh fish at the Fish Market in Queen-street, while the same is continued, or in Market-street, after the same is there established, as aforesaid, shall pay to the Clerk thereof a weekly |