Araust 15, 1857.]·
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
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VI. His Excellency in Council may lawfully cause to be closed, any Market now in use, under the Existing Markets repealed Ordinance, upon first making Compensation (if any such be due) for the closing thereof, which may be closed on mak- pensation, and the amount thereof, (if any,) shall be first determined and fixed by the Ways and Means ing Compensation.
led in the Crown Leases in Hongkong, as to Compensation for the Value of Lands resumed by the
Prohibition of other
VII. After the expiration of Ten Days from the establishment of any Market, and the Notification ereof as aforesaid, no Market shall be opened or kept open except under the provisions of this Ordinance; Markets.
every Market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than under the provisions of this Ordinance, , together with the Building or Buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be holden, be med a common Nuisance.
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Certain marketable Articles may be sold
VIII. Licensed Hawkers may lawfully hawk for Sale any Green Vegetables or Fruit, Bean Curds, zee, and Soup, and Boatman may lawfully sell any Fresh Fish from their Boats to the Crews or rapants of other Boats or Vessels; provided that such Boats or Vessels be at a distance from the Shore out of Market. at least 300 Feet; neither shall this Ordinance prevent any Person from selling on his own Premises any ad, Milk, Confectionary, or Salt Fish, (provided that such Salt Fish be sold in quantities not less at any time than the weight of one Picul,) nor (if a Licensed Victualler or a Keeper of a Boarding, Eating, or Fe House, or Cook Shop) from supplying any Cooked provisions to a Customer.
All other sales of
IX All Persons soever within the said District of Victoria (except in the cases specified in Section fight) are hereby forbidden to sell or expose for sale in any place soever, not being a Public Market within marketable Articles out
of Market prohibited. meaning of this Ordinance, any articles of Food, Fodder, or Fuel, usually sold or exposed for sale in a
Sales in Markets to Pblic Market.
take place in Stalls or Shops. Stalls and Shops how to be con-
X. No Sales within any Market shall take place but in a Stall or in a Shop; and such Stalls and Shops the Rooms or Dwelling Houses over or adjoining such Shops, shall be constructed of such dimensions st designs, and of such materials, as His said Excellency in Council shall direct.
XI. No Lessee or Renter of a Stall, or of a Shop or House, shall underlet or assign the same, or any Fit thereof, without a written License of His said Excellency in Council.
structed.
den.
Underletting forbid-
Wholesale Depots to
Market.
XII. In every Market to be established under this Ordinance, there shall be set apart Two Lan or trepots for the Wholesale sale and purchase of Fish, Fowl (whether alive or dead), Vegetables and Fruit, be provided in each which the retail Dealers in such articles having Stalls or Shops in such Market can purchase their supplies. + ́the same; (and such Lan or Entrepots, and the Persons frequenting or using the same, shall be regulated governed by such By-Laws and Rules as shall from time to time be made in that behalf by His said cellency in Council;) and no Person shall be allowed to vend any Articles in any such Lan or Entrepot as holesale Trader or Dealer therein, except under such License as shall be ordered by His said Excellency Council, and His said Excellency in Council shall also be empowered from time to time grant such censes as aforesaid, and make such Regulations for the Duration or Conditions thereof, and the Fees or Taxes to be imposed or levied for the same; and such Licenses shall not be transferable or assignable, but
■ License
shall be granted to every applicant for the same. XHIL
OF
Slaughtering of Cat-
Erection or adap
His said Excellency in Council is further empowered to grant unto any Undertaker in such man- eer, for such Consideration or Rent, upon such Conditions, and for such Period, as shall be from time to time tle.
d and fixed by any Regulations to be made by His said Excellency in Council for that purpose, Privilege of Slaughtering Cattle for the supply of the said Markets, or of any one residing in the District of Victoria, and of providing Slaughtering-houses for that purpose as next hereinafter men- tation of Slaughter- dtand the Undertaker who shall have obtained the said Privilege, shall immediately thereupon erect upon houses. ah Site Sites as His said Excellency in Council shall approve (provided that such Site or Sites be not thin the said District of Victoria) all proper Buildings, or, with the like approval, set apart and adapt any lings already belonging to him for the Slaughtering of Cattle, and every such Erection or Adaptation all be commenced, finished, and made ready for Public use, according to a Plan which shall have been first mined by the Surveyor General, and by him certified in writing under his hand to be a fit and proper parce in that behalf'; and when the same shall have been so finished and made ready for Public use, the ad Undertaker shall give notice thereof in the English and Chinese Tongues, by the publication thereof in The Hongkong Government Gazette, and by printed Hand-bills posted on some conspicuous place in Victoria
cerai.
XIV. After the expiration of Ten Days from the said publication, no Person resident within the said District of Victoria, shall slaughter any Cattle, or dress any Carcass for Sale as Food of Man, in any other
re than the said Slaughter-houses or Buildings.
Slanghtering else- where prohibited.
XV. The said Undertaker shall at all times, during such period of the Day or Night as shall be from Tariff of Tolls for 1. to time determined by His Excellency in Council, allow any Person (who shall first pay or tender the use of Slaughter-
ing-houses. him such Toll as in that behalf is provided by a Tariff of Tolls to be fixed by His said Excellency Council, with powers to alter and vary the same from time to time) to Slaughter any Cattle, or Dress any Carcass for sale as Food of Man within his said Slaughter-houses or Buildings.
XVI No Person shall keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or bring into, any Market or Slaughter- buse, any article of human Food which shall be in an unwholesome condition; nor bring, lead, or drive or keep, or slaughter in any Slaughter-house, nor permit to be so brought, led, or driven thereto, kept, or slaughtered therein, any Cattle which shall be in an unwholesome condition, or unfit for the Tad of Man.
Keeping or selling Food, or slaughtering
Cattle in an unwhole- some condition.
feeding Cattle on un- wholesome Fodder,
Inspector and As sistants to have frea
access.
II. It is also forbidden to any Person to keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or to bring into, any Keeping, selling, or or Slaughter-house, any Fodder being in an unwholesome Condition, or unfit for Food of Cattle or per Beasts, or to give, or allow to be given, any such Fodder to any Cattle, in any Slaughter-house.
XVIII. For the performance of the several duties of the Inspector of Markets and his said Assistants mber this Ordinance, he and they, together or singly, shall have at all times free jaccess to every part of every Market, and of every Stall and Building therein being, and of every Slaugliter-house, and shall have d exercise therein the functions of Officers of Police; and none shall presume to impede, obstruct, or rast him, them, or any of them, in the performance of the said functions and duties respectively.
XIX. Except where otherwise by this Ordinance provided, it shall be unlawful for any Person soever **Gemand or receive any Chattel, Money, or other valuable Thing as, or for, or upon, pretence of Fee, Fees, &c., than
provided under this a. Toll, Rent, Stallage, or otherwise, for access or admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaughtering Ordinance, to be Ex-
y Market or Slaughter-house respectively; and every demand or receipt of any Chattel, Money, or other tortion. able thing, except where expressly permitted by this Ordinance, shall be deemed Extortion.
Exaction of other
XX All Rents of Stalls, Shops, or Houses, and all Fees or Taxes, on or for Licenses, shall be paid Application of Rents, by the Inspector into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown; and all Expenses incurred or to be and power to mortgage ered by this Government, in, about, or incident to, the execution of this Ordinance, shall be a primary
ze upon the same; and His Excellency in Council is hereby empowered to take up and borrow Money'
the purposes of this Ordinance, upon the Security and by anticipation of all Rents of Stalls, let or to be under the authority of this Ordinance, and to charge or mortgage the same for the repayment of Moneys so taken up and borrowed.
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