POLICE ORDINANCE of the Juge of Saint-Marc, concerning the Market of the same Town, the Trees there, the Carts, etc

JEAN-JACQUES Gattien Bretton des Chapelles, etc. Whereas the Procureur du Roi has represented to us that disputes continually arise among the various Merchants, white, free, or enslaved, who sell on Sundays in the Market Square of this Town, over the different places that each of them claims for himself, which causes frequent brawls among them; that on the other hand the mixing of the various goods or commodities, ground provisions, vegetables and other supplies brought to the Market produces a confusion that contributes greatly to the disorder that reigns there, and which must be remedied; the Procureur du Roi requested that it please us to provide for it, by assigning the space to be occupied by the different kinds of goods or commodities, and establishing an order and a police regime fit to end all confusion and prevent all dispute. Granting the remonstrance of the Procureur du Roi, we have ordered and do order what follows: 1°.