of the City may adjudge, to be inflicted at the public market in Market street. And all fines, so recovered, shall belong to the respective owners of the slaves, so harboured or concealed as aforesaid.

If Warden, &c.

slave in a lot,

them to the

4. That, if any Warden or other officer of the city shall be informed, or have cause to suspect, that any suspect the reslave or slaves is or are residing, sleeping in, or sidence of any otherwise possessing or occupying, any house, out &c to enter house, building or enclosure, or is or are harboured or and commit concealed, within the city, contrary to this ordinance, Work-House, such Warden or other officer of the city shall have &c. full power, and is hereby required, to enter into such premises, and upon finding any slave or slaves, residing, sojourning, harboured or concealed therein, contrary to this ordinance, to commit the same, if in the day time, to the Work-House, and if at night, to the Guard-House, to be from thence carried on the following morning to the Work-House; and such slave or slaves shall be detained in the Work-House, until so much of the foregoing fines, costs and expences, as shall be due by the owner thereof, be fully paid.

mitted to as

Any officer of

rized to enter

5. That no grown negroes or other people of co- Negroes, or lour, being more in number than seven, shall at any people of cotime (except when attending funerals, or on other our not per'occasions as hereinafter provided for) assemble or semble togeth meet together, either in any house building or lot er, &c. within the city, unless some white person is present, or stays on the premises, or in any street, lane, alley or other public place of the city, unless some white person is with them. And it shall and may be lawful to and for any Warden or other officer of the city, or the city authoany of the members of the City Guard, or any other any premises white person, to apprehend all such grown negroes and apprehend and people of colour, and any of them, so assembled "egroes, &c. and met together above seven in number, without any white person being on the premises or present with them, as aforesaid; and for that purpose, they and either of them are hereby authorized and required, to enter into any house, building or lot within the city, where more, than seven grown negroes or people of colour, may assemble and meet together, Z.

How treated

hension.

in the manner and under the circumstances aforesaid. And every grown negro or person of colour, so apafter appre prehended in the day time, shall immediately be carried before one or more of the Wardens of the city, who is, and are hereby authorized and required, to order such corporal punishment and imprisonment, or either, for the said offence, as he, or they, in his or their discretion may think proper; or if apprehended at night, he, she, or they, shall be brought to the Guard House, and there confined until the next morning, then to be carried before one or more of the Wardens, and dealt with as before directed.

to dance with

the Warden,

6. That no assembly of negroes or people of colour Negroes, &c. not permitted in any place or part of the city, for the purpose of out leave from dancing or other meriment, shall take place, without a written permission being first obtained from the Warden of the ward, in which it is to take place, and no such assembly shall continue later than ten o'clock at night, from the twentieth day of March to the twentieth day of September, nor later than nine o'clock at night, from the twentieth day of September to the twentieth day of March, under a penalty of fifty dollars with costs, for each and every such offence, payable by the owner or occupant of the premises, where such offence is committed. And every Warden or other officer of the city, any of the members of the City Guard, or any other white person, finding negroes or other people of colour, so assembled, without permission from the Warden, or after the hours above specified, shall have power, and they and each of them are hereby required, to carry every such negro and person of colour immediately to the Guard House, to be there confined, and proceeded against in the same manner as all negroes. and persons of colour, taken up after the setting of the guard, are directed to be dealt with, in and by Persons resist the ordinance respecting the City Guard. And every

Penalty.

ing liable to penalty.

owner or occupant of any house building, or enclosure within the city, who shall deny admittance or make resistance to any of the aforesaid persons, coming to the premises for the purpose of taking up such negroes or persons of colour, as may be assembled for dancing or other meriment without permission

from the Warden of the ward, or as may remain assembled after the hours aforesaid, shall for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars with costs.

Penalty,

to

7. That no owner, or other person having the charge Slaves not and government, of a slave or slaves, shall permit any exercise aty such slave or slaves, to carry on any mechanic or mechanical handicraft trade, in any shop or other place within business, &c. the city, in the name or on account of such slave or slaves, on pain of forfeiting one dollar for every day that any and every such slave shall carry on any such trade as aforesaid; nor shall any person whatever Slaves not perput a slave as an apprentice, or otherwise, under the mitted to take charge of another slave, to be instructed by the lat- apprentices. ter in any mechanic or handicraft trade within the city, under the penalty of fifty dollars for the first offence, and one hundred dollars for every repetition of the said offence. But nothing herein contained, shall extend, or be construed to extend, either to prevent any mechanic or handicraftsman, from instructing or employing his own slave or slaves, in the trade by himself exercised, on condition, that every such mechanic or handicraftsman shall have, and constantly employ, one white journeyman or white apprentice, for every six slaves, so taught or employed by him ; nor shall any owner of a mechanic slave or slaves be prevented from employing him or them in his or her own lawful work, as he or she may please, or from hiring him or them to any free person, whom he or she shall choose, under such regulations as are set forth in this ordinance.

mitted to own

8. That no negro or other slave shall be per- Slaves not per mitted, to own any boat or vessel whatever, except a boat, fisherfishermen and fisherwomen, who shall enter in the men excepted. office of the Commissioners of the Markets, the dimensions of his or their boat or vessel, with the tackle appertaining thereto, and the number of hands employed on board the same, with their and their respective owner's names, whereupon the commissioners shall give him, her or them a licence, Fishermen to for fishing and selling fish and other acquatic animals, have a licence but nothing else; which licence shall be numbered boat to be and renewed in the first week of January in every numbered, &c.

marked and

keep a boat

year. And every fisherman or fisherwoman, obtaining such licence, shall have the number thereof, and his If a fisherman or her name, painted in large legible characters, on without enter- the inner part of the stern of his or her licenced boat. ing her, he for- And if any fisherman or fisherwomen shall keep any and to receive boat or vessel, without first making the proper entry corporal pun- thereof, and obtaining a licence therefor, or without

feits the same

ishment.

Slaves not per

ure, &c.

Proviso.

having such licence renewed, or without exhibiting the number thereof, and his or her name, in the manner aforesaid, he or she as the case may be, shall for each and every such offence, forfeit such boat or vessel to any person seizing the same, and be subject to such correction, as the Commissioners of the Markets shall think proper to adjudge, not exceeding twenty lashes, to be inflicted by the Clerk of the Market or his deputy.

9. That no negro or other slave (except those above mitted to trade excepted, under the restrictions aforesaid) shall on his without being liable to seiz or her own account buy sell, barter, trade, trafic or deal in any goods, wares, provisions, grain, or commodities, of any kind whatsoever, upon pain of forfeiting the same; and all goods and articles, so forfeited, shall belong to the person or persons seizing the same. Provided however, that, if any goods, which may be seized by virtue hereof, shall have been stolen or found by a negro or other slave, or otherwise come in his or her possession, without the knowledge, privity or consent of the person, having the property in, or the lawful custody of, any such goods, the same shall be restored, if such person claims them within a fortnight after their seizure, and at the same time makes oath to the effect or in the words following, viz:-"I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm) "that I have a just and lawful right or title to cer"tain goods, seized and taken by C. D. out of the possession of a slave named E. and that I did not "directly or indirectly permit or suffer the said negro "slave whatever, to use, keep or employ the said goods, for the use benefit or profit of any slave whatever, or to sell, barter, or give away the same-So "help me God.

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10. That no negro or other slave (except those above excepted, under the restrictions aforesaid) shall

mitted to sell

any article

et.

e permitted, to sell within the City of Charleston, Slaves not pern account of his or her owner, or on account of any ther white or free person, either with or without a without a tickvritten licence or ticket, any article or commodity vhatever, except butcher's meat, poultry, fruit, vegeables, and other provisions, which articles so excepted, shall be sold by them, or any of them, under such restrictions and regulations as are hereinafter lirected; and all articles sold or hawked about, or ofered for sale, contrary to this ordinance, shall be orfeited to any person or persons seizing the same.

articles for sale

ble to forfeit

11. That no negro or other slave, exposing any ar- Slaves placing icle or commodity for sale, shall place a bench, ta- on a stall in ble, or other board, in any street, lane, alley or pub- the street lia lic thoroughfare, or on any wharf, within the city, the whole. but shall take a seat or station in the open market, and there comply with such regulations, as have been or shall be made, by the Commissioners of the Markets respectively; and every negro or slave taking a seat or station, contrary to this ordinance, shall forfeit the articles and commodities, there exposed for sale, to such white person as may seize the same: Pro- Proviso. vided however, that nothing herein contained, shall extend or be construed to extend, to prevent any articles or commodities not prohibited by law, from being carried about the streets for sale, conformably to the regulations herein set forth, viz:-Every negro or ed to sell cerother slave shall be permitted to sell milk without a tain articles. badge or ticket, and also such grain, fruit, victuals, and provisions of any kind whatever, as the owner, or other person having the care of such negro or slave, shall have sent, brought or received, from his or her plantation or farm, or reared or cultivated on his or her lands within the city, the same to be then offered for sale at the first hand, and the quantity and quality thereof, as well as the name of the negro or slave, offering the same for sale, to be specified in a ticket under the signature of the owner, or other person having the care or government of such negro or slave.

12. That no person or persons whatever, vending goods, wares, and other merchandize, or retailing spiritous liquors, in a public or open shop within the

Slaves allow