The revised ordinances of the city of St. Louis [electronic resource] / rev. and digested, in the year 1853, by the City Council, with the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Missouri, the various charters of, and laws applicable to, the town and city of St. Louis ; pub. by authority of Ordinance no. 2951, approved January 7th, 1853, under the superintendence of S.V. Papin, City Register.