| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
miles thereof, for sale, (except the articles herein before excepted,)
either upon the stated market days aforesaid, or on any other days
during the time of the market hours herein before established, at
any other place whatsoever but at or in the said market house,
every such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifteen shillings
current money for every such offence. |
1807.
CHAP. 101. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person shall
presume to
slaughter or butcher any kind of cattle, sheep or hogs, in or near
the said market-house, except within their own enclosures, or suffer
the same to be done, every person so offending shall forfeit
and pay the sum of fifteen shillings current money for every offence. |
For slaughtering
cattle in or near
the same. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person,
after the time
herein before limited, shall put, or cause to be put, any horse, mare
or gelding, into or under the said market-house, on any pretence
whatsoever, every such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of five
shillings current money for every such offence. |
For putting horses
therein. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
of the said
town to be appointed by virtue of this act, after the erection and
receipt of the said market-house as aforesaid, nominate and appoint
a person of good repute and skill to be the clerk of the said market,
and if the person so appointed shall die, resign or refuse to
act, or be rendered incapable of acting by reason of misbehaviour,
or removal from office, the said commissioners shall assemble together
as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, and nominate
and appoint another qualified person to be the clerk of the said
market for the remainder of the year. |
Clerk to be appointed. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person to
be appointed
clerk of the said market as aforesaid, before he shall proceed to act
as such, shall take an oath, or affirmation, before the said commissioners,
that he will diligently and faithfully, according to the best
of his skill and judgment, execute and perform the several duties of
clerk of the said market, without favour, affection or partiality,
and that he will not, directly or indirectly, demand or receive any
fee or reward for performing such duties but what is or shall be
allowed by law, and the said oath, or affirmation, shall be administered
by the said commissioners, or any one of them, and the taking
thereof be entered among their proceedings. |
To take an oath. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of the
said market shall
have sufficient power and authority, at all times hereafter, to take
care and charge of the said market-house, and of the market thereof,
and to examine and inspect the victuals and provisions brought
thereto for sale; to examine and try the weight of any butter
brought to the said market, previously made up in prints or parcels,
and if the same shall not be found of the weight pretended by
the person offering the same for sale, to seize and appropriate the
same to the use of the poor-house of said county, and if any shall
be found unsound or unwholesome, to seize and destroy the same;
and also to try and adjust the scales, weights and measures, used
at the said market, by the standards of the county, and if any
weights or measures shall be false or untrue to seize the same, and
on a just alteration thereof to dispose of the same at public sale to
the highest bidder, and to account for the money arising from those |
Powers of clerk. |
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