The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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The right of the butchers to buy meat already Prepared for Market.

--Since the difficulties in regard to railroad transportation have been increased so as to amount almost to a total prohibition the country people who were usable to transport their cattle to this city by the cars, have adopted the expedient of having it butchered at home and sending it in that shape. Such meat has been sent here and sold in this way, the greater portion having been bought up by the butchers, who, of course, added a good per centum to the first cost in retailing it to the citizens. The act of the country people, which was intended to enure to the benefit of the town people, was thus made to work injury to them. The existing state of things was made known to the Mayor, a few weeks since, by Mr. Jas. P. Tyler, clerk of the Second Market who thereupon received instructions from His Honor to report any case where a butcher had engaged in the traffic. Yesterday Mr. N. L. Greer, a butcher is the 2d Market bought two fine sides of beef and hung hem up at his shall when they were immediately seized by Mr. Tyler and carried to the police office. Green protested that he bought the meat for his own use; but the Mayor, disregarding their decided that no butcher could buy up, to sell again, any slaughtered meat, of whatever kind, brought to this city. He fined Mr. Green $5 for violating the ordinance forbidding but ketering and also confiscated the two sides of beef which were afterwards sold by the Clerk for $132 and the proceeds paid into the city treasury.