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and driver thereof; the owner, employer or driver of each cart, wagon or other vehicle used for the purpose of selling thereout charcoal, brooms, wooden ware or kindling wood, shall, at the time such license is granted, pay to the said Mayor the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for the use of the city; and the owner, employer, or driver of each cart, wagon or other vehicle, used or employed for the purpose of selling thereout fish, fruit or vegetables authorized or permitted to be sold by law, shall, at the time such license is granted, pay to the said Mayor the sum of five dollars for the use of the city; said license shall be in force for one year, and shall be renewed at the expiration of each year, and upon the renewal thereof, such owner, employer or driver shall pay, as aforesaid, the sum of fifty cents to the Mayor, for the use of the city, as upon the original granting of the license. Each cart, wagon, or other vehicle, shall have the number of its license painted upon it in a conspicuous place, and the figures composing said number shall not be less than two and a half inches in length, and shall at all times be kept legible.

3. The owner of, employer or driver of any cart, Penalty. wagon or other vehicle, who shall employ or use the same, or suffer or permit the same to be employed or used, for any of the purposes above-mentioned, without having obtained a license therefor, as is above provided, shall forfeit and pay for each day such cart, wagon or other vehicle shall be so employed or used without license, the sum of fifty cents, and the like sum for neglecting or omitting to have the number painted upon his cart, wagon or vehicle, in the manner directed by this chapter, to be sued for and recovered of the owner of, employer of, driver of, or person having charge of such cart, wagon, or other vehicle, or of the owner of such coal, fish, fruit, vegetables, brooms, wooden ware or kindling wood, severally and respectively.

Exceptions as § 4. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as

to Farmers,

&c. to prevent farmers and gardeners from bringing their produce to the city for the purpose of vending and disposing of the same from wagons or other vehicles.

Licenses.

§ 5. The Mayor is hereby authorized to grant licenses pursuant to the provisions above set forth.

How made and sold.

Pen ilty.

Forfeiture.

CHAPTER XLVII.

OF THE SALE AND MANUFACTURE OF BREAD.

§ 1. All bread baked and offered or exposed for sale in the city of New York, shall be made of good and wholesome flour and meal, and sold by avoirdupois weight.

§ 2. If any baker or other person shall make for sale, offer or procure to be sold, any bread of any other than wholesome flour or meal, or shall sell the same contrary to the preceding section of this chapter, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for every such offense.

§ 3. All loaf-bread offered for sale in this city, not in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be forfeited, and shall, and may be seized and disposed of for the use of the said city.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

OF SWINE AND NEAT CATTLE RUNNING AT LARGE, AND HEREIN

OF PUBLIC POUNDS.

swine.

§ 1. No neat cattle shall go at large in any of the Neat cattle & streets, lanes, alleys, piers, wharves, or public places in the city of New York, within the lamp and watch district, nor any swine in any part of the city of New York, under the penalty of five dollars for every such swine or animal which shall be found at large, to be paid by the owner or person having charge, care or keeping thereof, severally and respectively.

ters.

§ 2. There shall be appointed proper persons, as masters round masof the public pounds in the city of New York, who, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, well and truly to execute the duties of their office.

ter's bonds.

3. The said pound-masters shall enter into bonds Found mas with two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Comptroller, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office.

pounds.

§ 4. All swine or neat cattle found at large in the city Regulation of of New York, in violation of this chapter, may be taken by any person or persons, and driven or carried to such place as may have been designated by the Common Council as a public pound; and it shall be the duty of the pound-master or person having charge of such public pound, to enter in a book, to be kept by him for that purpose, the names and places of abode of all persons who may bring

Regulation of pounds.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

any such swine or neat cattle to such pound, and the time of bringing the same, respectively, and the said pound master shall pay to the person bringing any such swine or neat cattle, to such pound, one dollar for each beast or animal so brought.

§ 5. If the owner of any such swine or neat cattle, or any other person entitled to redeem the same, shall appear and claim the same, at any time before a sale thereof, it shall be the duty of the pound-master to deliver the same on receiving the amount of his fees for keeping and feeding the same, not exceeding fifty cents for each beast for every twenty-four hours, and at that rate for any less period of time, together with such sum as he may have paid to the person who brought the said beast to the pound.

§ 6. It shall be the duty of the pound-master, on making any delivery of swine or neat cattle, before sale, or on payment of surplus money after sale, to obtain from the person or persons claiming the same, his, her or their name or names and residence; and once in each month to report to the Attorney of the Corporation, the same, and the name or names of all persons claiming swine or neat cattle, and their places of residence, the date when the same were left, when the same were sold or redeemed, and the names of the persons leaving the same at the pound.

§ 7. If no person shall appear to claim such swine or neat cattle, within five days after the same may have been impounded, it shall be the duty of the pound-master to give three days' notice of the sale thereof.

§ 8. Such notice shall contain some general description of the beasts impounded, and shall be posted up in some conspicuous place at said public pound, and in the City Hall of the city of New York, and shall also be inserted

in two or more of the public newspapers employed by the Common Council.

Pounds.

§ 9. In case of the sale of any impounded swine or neat Regulation of cattle, the said pound-master shall retain out of the proceeds of such sale, sufficient to pay the amount of his fees, and all charges incurred by him on account of said swine or neat cattle.

§ 10. If, after any such sale, and whilst the proceeds Ibid. thereof remain in the hands of the said pound-master, the former owner of any swine or neat cattle shall appear and claim the same, it shall be the duty of the said poundmaster, to deduct from the proceeds of such sale, the fees and charges as provided in the last preceding section; to ascertain the name and residence of such owner, and to pay over the residue of the proceeds of such sale to the person so claiming to be the owner.

ter's report.

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the said pound-master once Pound Vasin every month to account to the Comptroller of the city of New York, for all moneys received or expended by him, by virtue of this chapter, and to pay over to the said Comptroller, all such moneys remaining in his hands, after deducting his legal fees and charges.

cattle. &c., in

g.ounds.

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the persons exercising the Running of duties of keepers of the Park, the Battery, and the Bow- Public ling Green, and the Washington Parade Ground, to drive to the said public pound, all swine or neat cattle found at large by them, respectively, and to report all violations. of the first section of this chapter, to the Attorney of the Corporation.

§ 13. No person or persons shall have or keep in the Pig stles. city of New York, in any pen or sty, more than three swine, at any one time, between the first day of May and

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