Codified Ordinance - Johnstown Borough - 1861: To Sell or Vend

Codified Ordinance - Johnstown Borough - 1861: No person or persons shall be permitted to sell, sell or offer for sale, any fresh meat, poultry, butter, eggs, green fruit, grain, or vegetables in any part of the borough before nine o'clock on regular market mornings, except in or at the market house, under a penalty of not less than five dollars for each and every offense to both seller and buyer, except fresh beef, pork, veal, mutton, or lamb, by any quantity not less than a quarter, to, and for one person: PROVIDED, that merchants shall not hereby be prohibited from selling such articles as form part of their stock in trade: and, PROVIDED FURTHER, Butchers that rent and occupy one or more stalls in the market house, may sell fresh meats from their shops, stores, and place of business; and the butchers and others who do not rent or lease a stall in the market house, may sell fresh meat from their shops, stores, and places of business by paying a license of fifty dollars, all of said license fees to be pain semi-annually, in advance, to be collected by the market master; such shops, stores, ad places of business to be subject to the inspection of the market master, and to all the ordinances of the borough relating to markets, so far as the same may be applicable.