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, Interments Establishment of city burial ground, Burials, not to be made within the city, except in the cemetaries Superintendant, to reside on lot or square attached to city burial ground Partition fence, between white persons and persons of colour & negroes No interments after dark or before day-light, Offenders-how prosecuted, Superintendant, to keep books; account of interments to be kept, 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, 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, Offenders, to be exposed in the public prints; fines, how disposed of, To be erected of brick or stone, covered with slate or tile, 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, page 150 Not to be brought into the city before a certain hour, on sunday, Carts or waggons, not to remain longer than a certain time at market, 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, 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, Penalty for obstructing the clerk of the market in his duty, 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 use every means to carry into effect all ordinances of the city, 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, Penalty of $20, for renting house or lot to a slave, 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, Any officer of the city authorized to enter any premises and appre- No owner, or person having charge of a slave, to permit them to carry Penalty of $50 for first offence, and $100 for every repetition, Fishermen to have a licenced boat, marked and numbered, to be re- 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 Penalty for hiring out a slave without a badge; price of badges, Slaves not intitled to badge, if his owner does not live in the city, 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, Master of the work-house to inflict such number of stripes as may be 190 ib. ib. -ib. Master of the work-house to whip offenders without fee or reward, 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, 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, 195 ⚫. 196 Duty of Commissioners; steward to be elected; his duty, 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, ib. ib. ib. 198 ib. ib. |