Important to citizens.
--We publish this morning, for the benefit of our readers, an ordinance passed by the City Council on the 14th inst., each section of which is important to all classes, and should be read with attention and carefully preserved. It reads as follows:- Sec. 1. Be it Ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond, That if any white person shall fight or assault another in any place of public resort in the city of Richmond, or in the streets or alleys of the city, he shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 2d. If any white person shall appear in the streets or alleys of the city intoxicated, or shall therein employ abusive or insulting language to another white person, or shall therein use obscene language or actions, he shall be fined not less than two nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 3d. If any person buys from or sells to a slave wine, ardent spirits, or a mixture thereof, or any other intoxicating liquor, whether to be drunk at the place where sold or not, without the written consent of his owner or hirer, he should be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 4th. If any owner or hirer of a slave gives written permission to a slave to obtain any intoxicating liquor, or shall furnish him with the same, with intent that he may sell, barter, or trade the same, or any part thereof, unless it be at the place of residence of such owner or hirer, such owner or hirer shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 5th. If any person permits a slave under his or her control to go at large or trade as a free person, or hire himself or herself out for the benefit of the slave or of any other person, the person so permitting shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 6th. If any person harbors or employs a slave without the consent of the owner or hirer of said slave, he shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 7. If any person employs any free negro who has not an attested copy of his or her register, duty obtained according to law, such person shall be fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars.
- Sec. 8th. If any licensed keeper of a house of private entertainment, or public boarding-house, eating-house, coffee-house, lager beer saloon, or cook-shop, allow any gambling or play shall of any kind for money or other valuable things or shall allow any wine, ardent spirits, or a mixture thereof, to be sold upon his or her premises, he or she shall be fined for each offence a sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
- Sec. 9th If any person not embraced in the next preceding section shall allow any spirituous or fermented liquors to be sold upon his or her premises, he or she shall be fined fifty dollars for each of fence. But this section shall not apply to keepers of ordinaries or merchants having a license to sell such liquors, when the same are sold as authorized by their licenses.
