The Charters and Ordinances of the City of Richmond
THE CHARTERS AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF RICHM0ND, WITH THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, AND CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND. Richmond. Ellyson’s Steam Presses. 1st. 1859. Pgs. xlvi, (2), 295, 1 blank as issued. The book prints the Virginia Bill of Rights, the Virginia Constitution, the Charter and Ordinanceswithin a detailed index. A two page listing of ordinances including those of Animals, Beggars, Board of Health, Debt of the City, Fire Birgade, Negroes, Nuisances Not in Streets, Pistol Galleries; Police, Poor, Quarantine; Taxes, Tippling, Wagons, Drays, Carts and Hacks, etc. In pre-Civil War Richmond it is noted under the Negroe ordinance a code for Free Negroes and Slaves, with a variety of prohibitions, prescriptions, and penalties (which generally involved whipping). For example, “A Negro meeting or overtaking, or being overtaken by a white person on a side-walk, shall pass on the outside; and if it be necessary to enable such white person to pass, shall immediately get off the side-walk.” Modern cloth with gilt-lettered spine label. Vg cond. Haynes 15572. Not in Sabin, Cohen, Harvard Law Cat.