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CHAPTER XXXVI.

OF THE SALE, &c., OF FIREWOOD, HAY, STRAW, LIME AND
COAL.

ARTICLE I.-OF FIREWOOD.

II.-OF HAY AND STRAW.

III. OF LIME.

IV. OF COAL.

ARTICLE I.

OF FIREWOOD.

landing and

§ 1. No firewood, brought to this city for sale, shall be Firewood, landed on any of the docks, wharves, or piers of this city, carting. until the same shall have been sold; and all firewood so sold and landed shall be immediately carried away, under the penalty of one dollar for every load which may be so landed before sale, or not taken away when sold.

of sales of

§ 2. No firewood shall be sold otherwise than according Regulations to the following regulations, that is to say: the stanchions Firewood. of each cart or sled which shall be employed in the carrying of such wood, shall be five feet four inches high from the floor of the cart or sled, and no higher; and the breadth of such cart or sled, between the two foremost stanchions, shall be two feet five inches, and between the two hindmost stanchions, two feet nine inches and no more; in which space between the said stanchions, every cartman who shall cart any wood, shall stow as much and as close together as can conveniently be put, or as much of it as will amount to thirty-seven feet ten inches and two-thirds of an inch, cubic measure, which shall consti

Penaltios.

Crooked fire

wood.

Sale of wood

by cartmen and woodsawyers.

tute, and be deemed a load, and shall and may be bought and sold accordingly.

§ 3. No person or persons shall buy or sell any firewood, contrary to the above regulations; and no cartman shall cart any firewood brought to this city for sale, except in carts and sleds made and constructed as by law directed, and loaded as above-mentioned, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.

4. No crooked wood shall be stowed in any cart or sled constructed in manner aforesaid, with other wood, but the same may be sold or disposed of as refuse wood, not subject to the above regulations; and if any cartman who shall cart firewood, shall put or suffer to be put into his cart any such crooked wood as will prevent his cart from containing a full load between the stanchions thereof, he shall, for every load so carted, forfeit the sum of one dollar.

§ 5. No cartman or wood-sawyer, or other person for, or on account of such cartman or wood-sawyer, shall purchase any firewood which shall be brought to this city for sale, except it be for the only use of such cartman, woodsawyer, or his family, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense, except such cartman or woodsawyer shall have received an order, which it shall be incumbent upon him to prove, to purchase wood. And further, that no cartman or wood-sawyer shall sell or expose to sale, any firewood which shall be brought to this city for sale, on his own account, or as agent for or on account of any person or persons, under a penalty of fifteen dollars for each offense.

ARTICLE II

OF HAY AND STRAW.

§ 6. No cartman shall cart or carry for hire or wages, Hay cartmen any hay brought to this city for sale, unless he shall be

duly licensed for that purpose by the penalty of five dollars for every load which he shall so cart or carry.

Mayor, under the
or part of a load

§ 7. Every cartman to be so licensed shall first take and Ibid. subscribe an oath or affirmation, before the said Mayor, well and carefully to examine and inspect all the hay to be carted or carried by him, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it be well and sufficiently cured and dry; and no such cartman shall cart or carry any hay and pass the same as good and merchantable, unless the same be well and sufficiently cured and dry, under the penalty of five dollars for every load or part of a load which he shall so cart or carry.

Hay.

§ 8. Nothing in the last section contained shall be Damaged taken or construed to prohibit the importation within this city, or the cartage or sale of any injured or damaged hay, as being so injured or damaged.

89. Every cartman to be so licensed shall cause the Hay carts. Lumber of his license to be fairly painted on a tin plate, with red paint upon a white ground, easily to be seen, and shall fix and keep such tin plate so fairly painted and easily to be seen, on the square of the after part of the shaft of his cart, under penalty of twenty dollars for every neglect or default.

§ 10. The street or place known as Hall street, between Hay stand. Sixth and Seventh streets, in the Seventeenth Ward of this city, is hereby designated as the place for the sale of hay coming from the country, by the wagon, cart, or sled load.

Straw.

Slips for boats with

§ 11. All the foregoing provisions of this law, shall apply to the sale of straw in this city, except straw made up into bundles, and sold by the bundle.

§ 12. The boats employed in bringing loose hay or straw hay & straw. to this city for sale, shall have the privilege, in preference to all other vessels, of occupying the whole of Gouverneur slip on the East river; and the basin at the foot of Amos street, on the North river; and no person having the charge of any other boat or vessel as master owner or otherwise, shall interfere with boats employed in bringing hay to the said places, or prevent their approach thereto, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offense.

Ibid.

§ 13. The pier at the foot of Charles street, with one half of the bulkhead south of said pier, is hereby appropriated for vessels laden with loose hay for sale, to the exclusion of all other vessels.

ARTICLE III.

Vessels with
Lime.

Ibid.

OF LIME.

No sloop or other vessel which shall bring any slaked or unslaked lime to this city for sale, shall be permitted to lay in any of the public slips or at any of the public wharves in this city, while she has lime on board, except as hereinafter provided, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense.

§ 15. The last preceding section of this chapter shall not be construed to prevent the laying of vessels having lime on board, at the public wharves and in the slips, while discharging cargo, or during the period the lime is bona fide for sale, and the person having charge of said vessel and lime, is ready and willing to sell and deliver the

same.

carts carrу

§ 16. Any cartman who shall cart any slaked lime, Regulation of whether merchantable or not, shall provide his cart with ing lime. a tight box, sufficient to contain sixteen bushels, struck measure; which box shall, whenever any lime is contained therein, be covered with cloth or other sufficient covering to keep the contents from wasting.

§ 17. Every cartman who shall cart any slaked lime, Ibid. excepting in the box, and furnished in the manner provided for in the last preceding section, with the covering therein mentioned, shall forfeit and pay the penalty of five dollars for every such offense.

§ 18. No person shall keep a lime-house in any of the Lime houses. public streets, lanes, or alleys, of the city of New York, between the first day of December and the first day of April, in any year, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every twenty-four hours the same shall be kept therein.

19. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep a Ibid. lime-house in any of the public streets, lanes or alleys of the city of New York, for a longer period than three months, under the penalty of ten dollars for every twentyfour hours the same shall be kept therein.

ARTICLE IV.

OF COAL.

be sold.

§ 20. All coal which shall be sold from any coal yard, coal, how to or any other place in this city, shall be sold by the bushel, except anthracite coal, which may be sold by weight.

§ 21. No person shall unload, vend, or expose for sale, charcoal. any charcoal at either of the slips in front of any of the public markets of this city, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offense.

coal.

§ 22. In the sale of anthracite coal the hundred weight Anthracite shall consist of one hundred pounds avoirdupois, and twenty such hundred weight shall constitute a ton.

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