SEC. 4. Penalty on persons who sell in the market, provisions that have been brought by persons

from the country.

Penalty on persons who injure or deface market house, or any of its appurtenances.

6.

Register to establish rules for the regulation of the market house.

7. Persons leasing market property at auction, and failing to comply with the bid, to pay the

difference on a second leasing.

§ 1. Be it further ordained, That no person shall sell, or expose for sale, in the market aforesaid, any blown, stuffed or unsound meat or articles of provisions, or measly pork; and that no butcher shall offer for sale, any mutton, without the head and feet being on it, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every such offence, for the use of the city,

§ 2. That if any person or persons shall buy, or cause to be bought, any kind of vegetables, dead meat, poultry, butter, cheese, tallow, eggs or fish, in the market, or within one mile thereof, with an intention to sell the same in said market, such person or persons shall forfeit, and pay the sum of five dollars for each and every offence, for the use of the city.

§ 3. That when, and as often as any person or persons may expose any of the above enumerated articles for sale, otherwise than in his shop or store, and there is good cause to suspect they have been purchased contrary to the true intent and meaning of this ordinance, it shall and may be lawful for any person to apply to the mayor, or any alderman of the city aforesaid, for a warrant to apprehend such person or person so sus ected; and the said mayor or alderman shall inquire into the offence, and if the person suspected be convicted thereof, on oath or affirmation of one or more creditable witnesses, or if the persons or persons so charged, cannot make it appear to the satisfaction of the mayor or alderman that he, she or they, raised or made the article or articles by him or them so offered for sale, or that he, she or they, are disposing of them, on account of the person or persons who made the same, or that he, she or they bought the said articles at least one mile from the city, he, she or they, shall be deemed, construed and taken to be, offenders against this ordinance, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, for every such offence, for the use of the city

§ 4. That no butcher or other person whomsoever, shall sell or ex. pose for sale, within the limits of the market, on any day, or at any time whatsoever, any victuals or provisions of any kind, which have been before purchased, from any inhabitant of the country, bringing, or who had brought, the same to the said city, or within one mile

thereof, for sale, under the penalty of ten dollars, for the use of the city.

§ 5. That if any person shall wilfully or negligently, injure, deface, damage or destroy, any of said buildings, stores, shops, rooms, vaults, cellars, sheds, stalls, shambles, benches, blocks, or fixtures, or any part of any of them, such offender shall forfeit and pay to, and for the use of said city, any sum not exceeding ninety, nor less than five dollars, to be recovered before the mayor, any alderman or justice of the peace, within said city, by information or action of debt, to be assessed by a jury in the cause; and also, such offender shall forfeit and pay to said city, the value of the thing destroyed, or the value and amount of the damages done, (to be assessed in like manner, by the jury in the cause,) together with costs of suit.

§ 6. That it shall be the duty of the city register, under the direction of the city attorney, to form a set of rules for the government of the market; which rules shall exhibit all the prohibitions and penalties contained in this ordinance; also, all regulations touching said market, in a short and condensed form; which rules shall be printed on good paper, (a single sheet,) in plain type, and shall be smoothly pasted upon boards or canvass of sufficient size, set in frames, at least two of which shall, during market hours, be constantly hung up in some conspicuous part of the market house, one in each end, and in the centre and elsewhere, if need be-to be kept and exhibited as aforesaid, by the said city constable.

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§ 7. That if any person shall become the purchaser or lessee of any store room, cellar, stall, shamble, shed, or any property pertaining, which may hereafter belong to the city of St. Louis, and which may be sold or leased at public auction, by bidding or causing bids to be made therefor, and shall fail or refuse to comply with the conditions of any such leasing or buying, within one hour after such leasing or buying, it shall be the duty of the officer superintending such sale or lease, immediately after such failure, again to set up the property so sold or leased, at public auction, and sell or lease the same to the highest bidder, according to existing regulations; and if said property thus sold or leased, shall not, upon such second sale or lease, bring the same amount that was bid therefor in the first instance, then, and in that event, the bidder failing as aforesaid, shall be held bound and responsi ble for the difference between the first and subsequent bids, to be recovered by action of debt, before any tribunal having jurdisiction

thereof; and the person so failing as aforesaid, shall be probited and debarred from bidding again on that day, for the same property.

This oroinance shall take effect from and after the passage thereof. Passed by the board of aldermen, March 23, 1835.

JAMES P. SPENCER, President, pro tem.

APPROVED, March 30, 1835.

JOHN W. JOHNSON, Mayor ..

CITY CONSTABLE.

An ordinance, supplementary to an ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance prescribing the duties of the city constable, and fixing his salary.”

SEC. 1. Repealing clause.

2. Fees of officers prosecuting for breaches of ordinances..

Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. That the ninth section of an ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance prescribing the duties of the city constable, and fixing his salary," approved the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

§ 2. That all officers prosecuting for breaches of ordinances, shall respectively receive the same fees as magistrates and constables for similar services, under the state laws.

Passed by the board of aldermen, July 14, 1835.

APPROVED July 17, 1835.

JAMES P. SPENCER, President.
JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor.

DRAY MEN AND DRAY-FARE.

An ordinance relative to draymen and dray-fare.

SEC. 1. Penalty on draymen refusing to haul when unemployed.

2. Fare for hauling allowed to draymen.

3. Penalty for exacting higher fare than allowed by this ordinance.

Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. That no driver of a regularly licensed dray, shall, whilst unemployed, refuse to haul a load, or loads, for any person or persons, who

shall tender him the regular fare, under the penalty of five dollars, to be paid on conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction.

§ 2. That the fare of drays for hauling, shall not exceed twenty-five cents per load, to any part of the city.

§ 3. That the penalty for exacting a higher fare than the above allowed, shall be five dollars, to be recovered and paid in the same manner as provided in the first section.

Passed by the board of aldermen, July 20, 1835.

JAMES P. SPENCER, President.

APPROVED, July 22, 1835.

JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor.

BILLIARD PLAYING.

An ordinance to prevent billiard playing within the city of St. Louis, on the Sabbath day.

SEC. 1. Penalty on persons who play billiards on Sunday.

2. Penalty on persons who keep billiard tables, and who suffer the same to be played on Sundays.

Be it ordained, by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. That if any person or persons, shall hereafter play at the game of billiards, at any billiard table in the city of St. Louis, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay to the city of St. Louis, for the use of the same, any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, with cost of suit.

§ 2. If any person, who keeps a regularly licensed billiard table, in his or her house, shall suffer any person or persons, to play at the same, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, such person shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit his or her license to keep a billiard table, and shall not be permitted again to take out a license to keep a billiard table, within one year after such conviction; and shall moreover, pay the costs of the suit, upon which such conviction may be had. Passed by the board of aldermen, July 20, 1835.

APPROVED, July 22, 1835.

JAMES P. SPENCER, President.

JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor.

DAIRIES.

An ordinance regulating the keeping of dairies within the city.

SEC. 1. No person to keep cows running at large, unless for family use.

3. Penalty on persons who violate the provisions of this ordinance.

Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§1. No person shall keep running at large within the city, any cows, unless such cows are kept for his or her own family use.

§ 2. No person or persons shall keep a dairy within this city, unless he, she or they, keep the cows thereof in some house, shed or well enclosed pard.

§ 3. Any person or persons offending against this ordinance, shall pay a fine of not more than five dollars at the discretion of the tribunal who shall try the offence.

Passed by the board of aldermen, December 2, 1835.

Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. That the eighth section of an ordinance, entitled "An ordinance supplementary to an ordinance entitled "An ordinance regulating wagons, carts, drays, and carriages." approved, June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Passed by the board of aldermen, December 2, 1835.

JAMES P. SPENCER, President.

APPROVED December 7th, 1835.

JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor.