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Download or read book Digest of the Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston, from the Year 1783 to July 1818 written by Charleston. and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...slaves for sale or carried bout for sale by any negro or other slave be fe'izedVv any street, lane, alley, or open court within the cit &er anlUakena Sunday contrary to this ordinance, and to' tothenorpha" bring or send the same to the Poor-House or to thfc poor House Orphan-House, for the use of either of those instils tions. And it shall likewise be the duty of even City Constable, of the City Sheriff, of the City Marshall, of the City Guard or any one belonging to the said Guard, of every Clerk of a Market, and of every deputy Clerk of any Market, upon his or their otffl view or other information of any article, offered Ot carried about for sale by any negro or other slave on any Sunday, contrary to this ordinance, as well as..ertns stated in the said clause, or shall forfeit every uch article, as any three Commissioners of the Markets may determine. 23. That no steelyards shall be used in any of the public Markets, but that all flesh, grain, and other provisions of every kind, sold by weight or measure, shall be respectively weighed by scales and weights, measured by measures, duly regulated and stampid by the Clerk of the Centre Market And if any person shall be guilty of selling by steelyards, or shall be guilty of using any unfair trick or deception in weighing or measuring; or shall be guilty of selling, by scales unjustly balanced, or by false measurement; or shall be guilty of making use of scales and weights, or of measures, after they or any or either thereof have been declared by the Clerk of the Market as unfit for use; or shall be guilty of selling, after the first day of July next, by scales and weights, or by measures, not stamped as aforesaid; every Penalty ana such person, if a white or a free person of...