City Treasurer, to return, on oath, a statement of all taxes remaining page unpaid, and to close his accounts before the second monday in july,

annually, except as to non-residents,

Sheriff, to pay all monies received, monthly,

136

What term of residence constitutes an inhabitant,

Non-residents, to return property,

Blank receipts to be furnished-and duplicates to be retained,
Salary of inquirer and assessor, $800.

Interments

Establishment of city burial ground,

Burials, not to be made within the city, except in the cemetaries
owned by the different religious congregations,

Superintendant, to reside on lot or square attached to city burial ground
Superintendant, to keep fences, &c. in order,

Partition fence, between white persons and persons of colour & negroes
Graves, how to be opened; ground to be œconomized,
Two grave-diggers to be employed,

No interments after dark or before day-light,

Offenders-how prosecuted,

Superintendant, to keep books; account of interments to be kept,
Books to be open to inspection; fees and perquisites,

ib,

ib.

139

ib.

ib.

ib.

140

Dead, from the orphan and poor houses, to be buried, by the superintendant, free of expence,

To open grave yard for the inspection of council,

Superintendant, to be elected annually; when, and by whom,
Vacancy, how to be filled; superintendant to give bond, his oath,
Committee on city lands to visit burying ground; marshal to visit it,
Interment fees,

Independent religious congregation of free persons of colour, allowed to keep a burial ground in the city

No interments to be made after dark or before sun-rise,
Penalty, for throwing dead bodies into the rivers,

Offenders, to be exposed in the public prints; fines, how disposed of,
Livery Stables

To be erected of brick or stone, covered with slate or tile,
Fine for erecting wooden stables,

Place for fodder to be of brick or stone; fine,

ib.

Not more than 3000 wt. of fodder to be kept at one time; penalty,

ib.

Meat, to be sold at the centre-market; penalty for selling elsewhere,

'ib.

Duty of commissioners, stalls, how to be distributed,

148

Six stalls, reserved for the use of planters,

149

Sum to be paid for stall hire, and time for making payment,

ib.

Butchers, not to transfer or dispose of their stalls,

ib.

Commissioners, to grant possession of vacant stalls,

ib.

To give certificates to holders of stalls,

Penalty for holding stall without certificates,

Penalty and punishment, for exposing meat for sale, except at market,

150

ib.

`ib.

Neat cattle, to be killed in the city, only at places assigned,
Not more than six hogs, calves, &c. to be keep in a private pen,
Meat, not to be carried about uncovered,

page 150

Not to be brought into the city before a certain hour, on sunday,
Sheep, swine, calves or goats, not to be confined in the market pen
on the sabbath day,

Carts or waggons, not to remain longer than a certain time at market,
Price of stand for selling vegetables; if not paid, articles to be seized,
Punishment of such as disobey the order of
Milk, fruit, fish and provisions may be sold about the streets,
Slaves, selling without ticket, articles liable to seizure,

dommissioners or clerk,

Waggons or carts, with poultry, live stock, fruit, or any other species

of provision, shall take their stand at the centre-market,

Regulations for selling fish,

Ground of queen-street market to remain as a public street,

Market on south-bay, abolished,

Market, and market days; market hours,

Fish and meat may be sold on sunday, from day light, until eight o'clock, in the morning,

ib.

151

ib.

ib.

ib.

152

ib.

153

ib.

154

ib.

155

ib.

156

ib.

Any articles, excepting fish and meat, offered for sale by slaves on sunday to be seized,

157

Penalty for selling unsound meat, or stale provisions,

158

Uuwholesome to be destroyed,"

ib.

Forestalling and regrating prohibited; slaves not to sell on commission,

159

White persons over charging commissions, to be fined,

Penalty and punishment, for refusing to have the same weighed,
Commissioners standard for weights and measures,

ib.

ib.

Denomination of weights, &c.

ib.

Commissioners to inspect weights and measures, where groceries and

Clerk to be elected, and give bond, with two or more sureties,

Vested with the powers of a city constable, his oath,

Clerk not to employ a deputy, but with the approbation of the

Fines; how recovered and disposed of,

166

ib.

Clerk to place up in the centre market, the ordinances respecting the same,

Commissioners to render quarterly accounts to the city treasurer,
Rules made relative to fish, confirmed,

Penalty for obstructing the clerk of the market in his duty,
Butchers and others to wear aprons, and appear clean; penalty,
Salary of the clerk of the market $900, and deputy $600.

ib.

161

ib.

5. ib.

169

167

ib..

ib.

Marshal, Messenger of Council, and Keeper of City-Hall

Duties to be discharged by the city marshal; salary of marshal $1000, page 169

To be elected annually; his oath,

To give bond with security, to be approved of by council,

To employ deputies,

To pass through the streets twice on sunday, attended dy his deputies,

To seize articles, carried about for sale on sunday,

To attend the intendant and wardens, for the purpose of weighing bread, To accompany commissioners of the market, in the examination of weights and measures,

To seize and destroy goats and swine,

To direct porters and day labourers to their stands,

To fix stands for public chairs,

To apprehend horses running at large,

To prosecute persons breaking horses,

To prevent slaves from placing stalls in the streets, for exposing articles for sale,

To cause the removal of all nuisances; to report nuisances,

To find out where private drains are connected with public drains, and if choaked, to give notice thereof to the commissioners of streets and lamps,

To require the removal of rubbish,

To require persons to pull down decayed walls and houses; penalty for interruping him in his duty,

170

ib.

ib.

171

ib.

172

ib

ib.

173

ib.

ib.

ib.

174

ib.

ib.

175

ib.

To remove incroachments on the streets,

ib.

To attend council when granting licences, and give information against offenders,

To oblige licenced retailers, to take down painted boards, after the expiration of their licences,

To serve process and rules on city sheriff, and receive fees,
To keep book of record of his proceedings,

To use every means to carry into effect all ordinances of the city,
To receive all proceeds of goats and swine, the lawful costs and
charges for taking up horses, and one half of every fine recovered,
for any offence against the city ordinances, upon prosecuting the
offender to conviction,

sih.

ib.

City Marshal subject to be fined for every neglect of duty, and removal from office, by the city council,

178

City Marshal's furher duty

See pages 20, 21, 30, 37, 39, 40, 41, 59, 76, 77, 143, 162, 188, 190, 191, 219 ,222, 226, 241 and 249.

Negroes

Slaves not permitted to occupy, reside or sleep in any house, out-house,
building or enclosure, other than his or her owners, or his or her
owners representative, without a ticket from their owner, or from
their agent or agents, expressly describing the places, and period
for which the same is granted; punishments not exceeding twenty
lashes, or a fine not exceeding five dollars.

Penalty of $20, for renting house or lot to a slave,
Penalty for harbouring slaves,

179

ib.

ib.

Free persons of colour liable to penalty for harbouring a slave, and also to corporal punishment.

ib.

ib.

2

Wardens suspecting residence of a slave in a lot, may enter and com- page mit them to the work-house,

Negroes and persons of colour, being more in number than seven,
shall not, at any time, (excepting when attending funerals) assem-
ble or meet together, either in any house, building or lot within the
city, unless some white person is present, or stay on the premises,
or in any street, lane, alley or other public place of the city, unless
some white person is with them,

Any officer of the city authorized to enter any premises and appre-
hend such negroes or free persons of colour,
Corporal punishment and imprisonment, or either, for said offence,
Not permitted to dance without permission of warden of the ward.
Opposing guard or city officers, liable to penalty,

No owner, or person having charge of a slave, to permit them to carry
on any mechanic or handicraft trade, on their own account, or to
take apprentices,

Penalty of $50 for first offence, and $100 for every repetition,
Slaves, not permitted to own a boat, fishermen excepted,

Fishermen to have a licenced boat, marked and numbered, to be re-
newed once a year,

Slaves not permitted to trade on their own account,

Not permitted to sell any article without a ticket,

Placing articles in a stall in the street liable to forfeit the whole, Slaves allowed to sell, without a badge, certain articles, raised on his or her masters plantation, the quantity and quality to be specified in their ticket,

Milk may be sold without a ticket or badge,

Slaves not permitted to sell in a shop, unless in presence of a white
person,

Penalty for hiring out a slave without a badge; price of badges,
No inhabitant allowed to hire out more than six slaves, without pay-
ing trebble the price for a badge,

Slaves not intitled to badge, if his owner does not live in the city,
Widows and orphans excepted,

180

ib.

ib.

181

ib.

ib.

182

ib.

ib.

ib.

183

184

ib.

ib.

ib.

185

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

186

ib.

ib.

4

187

ib.

bib.

ib:

188

ib.

ib.

189

ib.

ib.

190

T

Guard, liable to a penalty for not apprehending negroes or mulattoes smoking and carrying clubs in the streets,

Harbour-Master's duty, to acquaint captain of labourer's wages, and page the necessity of having badges,

Fines to be paid into the city treasury, one half to the prosecutor,
Slaves not to smoke in the streets

Master of the work-house to inflict such number of stripes as may be
adjudged by a warden, not exceeding twenty,

190

ib.

ib.

-ib.

Master of the work-house to whip offenders without fee or reward,
Price for a fruit-seller's badge, $5,

191

Slaves, not suffered to appear manacled in the streets,

Negroes to be sufficiently clothed, under a penalty,

Marshal to take up such slaves and lodge them in the work-house, there to remain until expences are paid,

Nuisances

Commissioners of the streets to order the removal of nuisances,
Tenants may remove nuisances, and deduct expences from rent,
Expences for removing nuisances, may be sued for by the com'rs,
Proprietors of vacant lots to inclose them; penalty for neglect,
No common sewer to be less than six feet high and four feet wide,
Harbour Master to enter vessels lying at wharves, or in the river,
within one mile of the city, to examine the condition of her cargo,
and state of the crew,

Captain or owner disobeying orders, incur a forfeiture of $20 for every disobedience,

Commissioners of streets to cause canals for the passage of water through the docks, to be dug and kept open,

Officers' Duty

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib..

192

ib.

193

194

ib.

Surgeons of the hospital and poor house, shall visit their respective institutions at least once in every two days,

Orphan-House

Clerk of council to keep the journals of council, copy the same fair, and make an index thereto, engross all ordinances for ratification, all ordinances to be passed, attend all meetings of council, publish the assize of bread once a week, &c.

194

195

Lot of land to be laid out for erecting orphan-house,
Commissioners elected by city council,

195

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Duty of Commissioners; steward to be elected; his duty,
To be supplied with provisions for himself only,

School master to be elected; his duty,

To be supplied with provisions for himself only,

Commissioners to make rules for the government of the orphan-house,

to be approved of by the city council,

Steward, master and matron, elected by commissioners,

Commissioners elected annually by the city council,

Duty of the physician of the poor and orphan-houses,
Steward and matron to hold no other employment,
Salary of the matron of the orphan-house, $300; school mistress,
$250; schoolmasters' salary $800, when he resides in the institu-
tion, and $1300 when he lives out of the same; physician's salary
$1200; stewards salary $500; nurses, and spinning mistresses
each $90,

ib.

ib.

ib.

198

ib.

ib.