Negroes corrected,

Commissioners to have drains cleansed; to contract for the same,
To keep the drains and grates in repair,

White persons breaking or injuring grates, to be fined,

Negroes corrected,

Penalty for keeping water course above ground,

May build diagonal drains under ground; fine for having a trunk,
Commissioners to order drains that are choaked to be cleansed,

If not obeyed, to be done at the owners expence, and assess for the same,
White persons molesting workmen cleansing private drains to be fined,
Negroes how to be treated,

Penalty for communicating privy, with public drains,
Putrid matter, &c. to be removed; fine for refusing,

Council to order city sheriff, &c. to remove nuisances,

Fine for molesting city officers; negroes offending to be whipped,
Regulations for sinking wells, and placing pumps,
Penalty, if a white person, for injuring pumps,

Negroes to be whipped,

Penalty for washing horses, &c. at pump,

Persons not permitted to fire squibs,

Not to burn shavings, or fire guns, or fly kites; penalty; punishment,
Seizure of articles, and penalty for opposing persons seizing the same,

Persons not permitted to game in the street,

Whites to pay a penalty; negroes to be whipped,

How fines are to be recovered, and punishments inflicted,

All fines imposed, payable with costs,

Tenant to pay fines, and deduct from rent,

By whom city scavenger and lamplighter are elected, and when,
City Marshal and clerk of commissioners, to have cellar doors repaired,
Penalty,

Clerk of commissioners of streets & lamps, salary augmented to $400.
Commissioners' Power

To remove their officers, with the approbation of council,

Constables

Time of electing them; in case of vacancy, how to proceed,

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ib.

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When elected to take oath, within five days, before the wardens in their wards,

Their duty; penalty; to attend fire,

To aid and assist in enforcing city ordinances,

Persons opposing constables, liable to penalty,

Number of constables elected; fine for refusing to act,

Persons exempt from serving,

Drawing small coaches, &c. on pavement forbid; fine,

Coroner

To be elected by the city council, for the parishes of St. Philip and
St. Michael; his oath, duty and fees,

63

Court of Wardens,

Complaint against city officers to be made to inferior city court,

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65,66

Sheriff's fees-city sheriff to hold his office for one year-commissi- page oned by the intendant-to give bond for $10,000-oath, salary and emoluments-sheriff to appoint deputies-their oath, Their duties; persons opposing sheriff or deputies, to be fined, Deputy sheriff to produce his deputation-sheriff's duty, as to keep

Shall preserve public papers,

ing accounts; to make return on oath monthly; penalty,

Recorder to be commissioned by the intendant; his salary,

Vacancy, how to be filled; oath of office; his duties,

67

ib.

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ib.

Three months absence, vacates his office,

One dollar to sheriff, for every case docketed,

Transcient persons committing offences against city ordinances, and

about to depart the state, recorder to give an order for bail, and
if bail be not given, defendant to be committed to prison,
Fines imposed by ordinances, recoverable in the court of wardens, to
be recovered in the inferior city court,

Clerk of the Inferior City Court
Fees of the clerk and sheriff fixed,

Clerk of Council

His salary,

Clerk of Council and Treasurer

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Fees to the clerk and treasurer, for vendue licences,

72

Dispensary, Shirras'

Shirras' bequest; his will,

Sum appropriated for establishment of dispensary,

Intendant, president of St. Andrew's society and president of the me

dical society, for the time being, appointed trustees,

Twelve citizens to be annually elected commissioners,

Appointment of consulting physicians,

Annual accounts to be rendered to council,.

Persons of colour and negroes not to keep dogs, unless well secured,
Penalty; persons authorized to kill dogs found at large,
Marshal and others protected in their duty,

Dogs to be secured,

Duty of marshal; to be indemnified,

To cause collar to be place on the city marshal's dogs,
Harbour Master to notify all masters of vessels,

Drains

Duty of commissioners of streets,

78

Proprietors of wharves, benefited by drains, to be assessed,
Directions, respecting future drains, to be observed,

ib.

ib.

Drums

Beating of drums prohibited, except by city sheriff, by militia officers when summoning their men, and the continental troops; marching on the pavement not allowed; penalty for beating drums,

Elections

City officers elected annually; how to proceed in case of vacancy,
New elections, when to take place,

Entertainments (Theatrical)

Public house-keepers, permitting exhibitions in their houses, forfeit page

their licences,

Time of granting licences; fine for exhibiting without licence,
Negroes and persons of colour not to be admitted to them,

No play, farce, interlude, or afterpiece, interdicted by council, to be

represented,

Fire-Masters

Their election; hooks to be procured,

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82

Fire-masters to appoint managers to engines,

83

Persons elected fire-masters, fined $60, for non-performance of duty,

ib.

Mulattoes and free negroes, attached to the company,

Engines to be kept clean; penalty for articles lost,

- Term of service,

Company of axmen to be raised, and subject to the command of supervising committee,

Duty of fire-masters; pay of firemen,

Fire-masters to have wells sunk; duty of guard in time of fire,

Intendant, wardens and others to attend fires; fine for not attending,
Fire-masters to command aid at time of fires,

Penalty for not obeying; houses to be blown up, if necessary,
Fire companies, for removal of goods, to be distinguished by badges,

Places of deposit for goods,

Number of men to be under arms in time of fire,

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87

ib.

Riding through the streets, in time of fire, prohibited,

Buckets to be provided by the city, and owners of houses,

Owners of wooden houses to provide ladders,

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Duty of Scavengers; persons indemnified in the execution of duty,
Persons employed at the engines to obey fire-masters,
Intendant and wardens, their duty,

Pitch, tar and turpentine, not to be boiled in the city, except in such
places as three or more fire-masters may agree to; or on board
any boat or vessel not afloat,

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ib.

Gunpowder, conyeyed through the city, to be secured,

Quantity of powder permitted to remain in stores; penalty,
Description of stills allowed; number of stills permitted,

Description of houses to be used by tallow-chandlers and soap-boilers,
Negroes, to carry buckets to the place of fire,
Fire-masters, to render account to the intendant for rewards,
Clerk of the board of fire-masters; salary $500; to give bond,
Houses may be entered by fire-masters, to search for combustibles,
Chimnies, dangerous, to be altered or pulled down, by fire-masters,
Engineers to be appointed; city divided into 28 fire-master's divisions,
Fire-men appointed to each division; their duty,
Fine for not serving,

Ladder, fire-hook and rope, to be provided for each division,
Fire-men removing, other persons to be appointed in their division,
Clerk of the board of fire-masters' salary, $500.

Gaming

Fine for playing at EO table; table to be forfeited,
Tavern-keepers, allowing such table, to forfeit their licence, and not
to obtain another,

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95

96

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97

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page

Rolly polly, and all games of hazard, prohibited,
Keepers of billiard tables, forfeit their licence if they permit the game
of rolly polly, or game of hazard, faro-bank and pas-dice; and are
prohibited, under a penalty of $80, on the owner or keeper of said
bank or table, and $40, on such as do play,

Gass Company

To lay pipes, &c; earth removed, to be re-placed to the satisfaction of commissioners,

Factories and furnaces, number not to exceed five,

Terms of lighting the city,-council may contract for the same,

Guagers

Appointment of

Qualified persons to guage; to use Gunter's scales,

Beef to be re-packed and branded before sale,

Coals to be sold by the ton,

Weighers, neglecting duty, fineable; measurement of wood,

Billet wood not to be corded; for so doing the cord is forfeited,
Lumber, &c. to be marked,

Penalty for measurer's non-performance of duty; fees,

City Guard

Establishment of-captain and lieutenants, elected annually,

Oath; to provide uniform; city to provide uniform for sergeants and men; clothes, arms and accoutrements to be deposited at the main guard-house fines,

Warden to visit city-guard; captain to present list of defaulters, Attending warden's duty; officer charged with misconduct to be reported to the intendant,

Fine not to exceed monthly pay; punishment, what,

Officer's duty; to beat the tattoo and reveille,

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ib.

99, 100

Duty of captain,

Captain to reside at the main guard house,

Company to be exercised,

Picquet guard to march to and from the main guard-house,

108

ib.

Time of posting centinels,

ib.

ib.

Sergeants to report on their return,

109 ib.

Time of sending out patroles; how armed when relieved,

Officers to regulate their duty and keep a roster,

Guard-how to be regulated during fires,

Sergeants to apprehend robbers; how to proceed if his force is insufficient,

If in pursuit of fugitives, enclosures to be entered,

Warrant, to be issued for the apprehension of fugitives,

Private signals, fixed on by the captain of the guard,
Prisoners not to be released until morning,

110 ib.

ib.

111

ib.

When apprehended for felony to be committed to gaol,
Regulations for prisoners,

Fines for not assisting the city guard,

Punishment on negroes and persons of colour,

Guard to remain on duty, at public festivals,

To patrol streets on sunday; when relieved,
Sergeants to report to commanding officer,
Centinels to be relieved,

ib.

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113

ib.

114

ib.

115

ib.

Picquet guard, to send prisoners to main guard-house,

Patrole to apprehend slaves offending,

Guard to be fined for neglect of duty, and for receiving bribe,
Fine for assaulting guard; how to be recovered,

Guard to be enrolled, and sign articles,

Pay; duty of captain; uniform and duty of guard,

Penalty, for giving ticket to negroes, without consent of owner,
Punishment of slaves, taken up after beating of tattoo,
Duty of master of the work-house,

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ib.

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117

118

ib.

ib.

Guard, to be augmented; lieutenant to be elected, by council,
Attending warden, or guard committee, authorized to exercise his or

their discretion in remitting entirely, or in part, the penalty or pun-
ishment for any offence whatever, inflicted by, or specified in the
city ordinances

Pay; guard detecting robberies to be compensated,
Harbour-Master

Vessels subject to

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122

regulations; when laying at wharves, how regulated, 120 Captains of vessels to make out a list of passengers, Harbour-Master to furnish captains of vessels with copy of city ordinances, and receive $1, as a fee,

Captain, or owner, refusing to comply with regulations; penalty,
Captain, bringing a pauper passenger, to give bond,

Captain, refusing to deliver list and certificate, as required, the vessel
is liable to all expences,

Harbour-Master's duty; penalty for opposing harbour-master
Further duty-to keep an office; to keep a file of all certificates,
His oath; to give bond; to be commissioned by council,
To appoint a deputy; his compensation and duties,

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