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§14. No auctioneer, or his agent, or servant, or any Sale of Furniother person, shall lay, or place, or sell or expose for sale, any article of household furniture in any street, or public place in the city of New York, other than such as is hereinbefore designated or mentioned, under the penalty of twenty dollars for every such offense, to be sued for and recovered from the seller, auctioneer, or his agent or servant, severally and respectively.

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§ 15. No furniture, goods, wares, merchandise, or other Sales in Chatarticle or thing whatever, shall be sold at auction, or exposed for sale by any auctioneer, his agent or servant, or by any other person or persons, upon the sidewalk of Chatham square, between James street and Catharine street, in the city of New York, under the penalty of twenty dollars for every such offense, to be sued for and recovered from the seller, auctioneer, or his agent or servant, or any other person or persons offending, severally and respectively.

§ 16. Such articles, when exposed for sale, shall not Ibid. occupy more than twenty feet in width, and not more than twenty-five feet in length, of the carriage-way of Chatham square, between James street and Catharine street, in the said city, and shall not be placed within ten feet of each corner of the streets intersecting Chatham square, nor shall any such articles be placed upon, sold or exposed for sale upon any of the cross-walks or intersections of or in said Chatham square, under the penalty of twenty dollars for every such offense, to be sued for and recovered from the seller, auctioneer, or his agent or servant, severally and respectively.

§ 17. All furniture, goods, wares, merchandise or other Ibid. article or thing whatsoever, sold or exposed for sale in

Sale in Chatham square.

tain things

Chatham square, between James street and Catharine street, and authorized to be sold there under and by virtue of this chapter, and all auctioneer stands and conveniences used by or for the auctioneer, or person selling or exposing the same for sale, shall be removed from the said place before two o'clock of the afternoon of the day on which the sale, or offering for sale is by this chapter directed to be made, under the penalty of twenty dollars for every such offense, to be sued for and recovered from the seller, auctioneer, or his agent or servant, severally and respectively.

18. No auctioneer or other person shall sell, or expose for sale, at public auction or vendue, any dry goods, hardware, wooden ware, tin ware, earthen ware, china ware, glass ware, goods, wares or merchandise of any description, or any other article whatever, by retail, or in small parcels or pieces, in Chatham square, between James street and Catharine street aforesaid, under the penalty of ten. dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered from the seller, auctioneer, or his agent or servant, severally and respectively.

Sales of cer- § 19. No person shall sell, or expose for sale, in any of prohibited in the streets or slips in the city of New York, any tin plate

streets.

Firewood.

ware, earthenware, china ware, glass ware, goods, wares and merchandise of any description, or any other article, under the penalty of ten dollars for each offense.

§ 20. No person shall sell, or expose for sale, in any of the streets of said city, any fire-wood of any description, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the sale, by any licensed cartman of said city, of any fire-wood on any of the wharves of said city.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

OF PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THE STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES.

§ 1. No person shall be concerned or instrumental in Prohibition. collecting or promoting any assemblage of persons, under pretence of, or for public worship or exhortation, in the Park or Battery, or in any of the markets or streets, or any public place in the city of New York, laid out and appropriated for the common use of the citizens, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense.

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§ 2. It shall be the duty of all magistrates, constables Apprehenand police officers of the said city, to prevent all such ders. assemblies, and to prosecute, apprehend and report to the attorney of the Board, all persons concerned or instrumental in promoting the same.

§3. Every constable or police officer who shall neglect Ibid. or refuse to perform his duty in the premises, shall, for every neglect, forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars.

preach in the

§ 4. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this Permission to chapter shall be construed to prevent any clergyman or streets. minister of any denomination from preaching in any place in this city, who shall have obtained the written permission of either the Mayor, or one of the Aldermen or Councilmen of this city therefor.

§ 5. The first section of this chapter shall not be con- Baptists. strued to prevent any ministers or people of any church, usually called Baptists, from assembling in proper places in the city of New York, for the purpose of performing

Disorders provided against.

the rites of baptism according to the ceremonies of such church.

§ 6. No person shall disturb, molest or interrupt any clergyman or minister who shall have obtained permission according to section four of this chapter, or who shall be performing the rites of baptism, as permitted by section five of this chapter, or shall commit any riot or disorder in any such assembly, under the penalty of twentyfive dollars for each offense.

CHAPTER XXIX.

OF DRIVING HORSES IN THE CITY.

§ 1. No person shall ride or drive any horse or horses Speed in the city of New York, with greater speed than at the rate of five miles an hour, under the penalty of ten dollars for each offense, to be recovered from the owner or driver thereof, severally and respectively.

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§ 2. No person, upon turning the corner of any street Turning cor in the city of New York, shall ride or drive any horse or horses, otherwise than on a walk, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense, to be paid by the owner or driver thereof, severally and respectively.

ning at large.

§ 3. No horse shall be suffered or permitted to go loose Horses runor at large, in any of the streets in the city of New York, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offense, to be paid by the owner or person having the care, charge or keeping thereof, severally and respectively.

side-walks.

§ 4. No person shall suffer or permit to go, or lead, or Horses on ride, or drive any horse upon any sidewalk in the city of New York, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense, to be paid by the owner or person having the care, charge or keeping thereof, severally and respectively.

§ 5. No person shall run, or race any horse in any pub- Racing. lic street, road or avenue, in the city of New York, nor shall consent to or suffer such racing, under the penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered from the person or persons who shall so race, or suffer, or permit such racing, and the owner, rider, and the person having charge of any animal. which shall so race and run, severally and respectively.

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