1846 broadside ordinance from Allegheny City (Pittsburgh North Side) forbidding purchases for resale from the Market House

Allegheny (Pittsburgh) PA: Common Council of Allegheny, 1846. 10 x 8 sheet, printed on recto only. Ordinance forbids people from buying goods at the Allegheny City Market House with the intent to resell elsewhere in Allegheny. "Supplement to Ordinance no. 12" states that "no person shall, within the bounds of the city, purchase to sell again within the limits of the city market house or upon the public ground attached thereto, on market days, during market hours, any kind of meat, flour, meal, oats, fish, poultry, butter, lard, eggs, fruit, or any kind of vegetables. Nor shall any person purchase on market days, within the limits of the market house, any of the various articles offered for sale in open market, for the purpose of vending the said article articles in any part of the city under a penalty of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars; and so much of section number 13, ordinance number 12, as is hereby altered or amended, be and the same is hereby repealed." Condition is good with general tanning, light stains and soil, water tidemarks. Very rare. Good. Item #h45564

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