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· supplies of the same; (and such Lan or Entrepots, and the Persons frequenting or using the same, shall regulated and governed by such By-Laws and Rules as shall from time to time be made in that behalf its said Excellency in Council;) and no Person shall be allowed to vend any Articles in any such Lan or pot as a Wholesale Trader or Dealer therein, except under such License as shall be ordered by His 4 Excellency in Council, who is hereby empowered from time to time to grant such Licenses as aforesaid,
mike such Regulations for the Duration or Conditions thereof, and the Fees or Taxes to be imposed ied for the same; and such Licenses shall not be transferable or assignable, but a License shall be ted to every approved applicant for whom there may be accommodation.
XII. His said Excellency in Council is further empowered to grant unto any Person or Persons, in Slaughtering of Cat- Amanner, for such Consideration or Rent, upon such Conditions, and for such Period, as shall be from tle.
to time ascertained and fixed by any Regulations to be made by His said Excellency in Council for
at purpose, the sole Privilege of Slaughtering Cattle for the supply of the said Markets, or for the supply
Erection or adap-
y one residing in the said District of Victoria; and there shall be erected or adapred, either by the tation of Slaughter- crament or by such Grantee or Grantees as last aforesaid, at his or their own Costs and Expenses, upon houses.
Site or Sites as His said Excellency in Council shall determine, all proper Buildings, for the Slaughter of Cattle; and every such Erection or Adaptation shall be commenced, finished, and made ready for euse, according to a Plan which shall be approved by the Surveyor General in that behalf; and when $1me shall have been so finished and made ready for Public use, notice thereof shall be given in the Bierlang Government Gazette, and by Handbills in the Chinese Language posted in conspicuous places.
Victoria.
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XIV. After the expiration of Ten Days from the said last mentioned notice, no Person resident within the said District of Victoria shall slaughter any Cattle, or dress any Carcass for Sale as Food for Man, in where prohibited.
ether place than the said Slaughter-houses or Buildings.
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XV. Every Grantee of the privilege of Slaughtering Cattle shall at all times, during such period of Tariff of Tolls for de Day or Night as shall be from time to time determined by His Excellency in Council, allow any Person the use of Slaughter
who shall first pay or tender unto him such Toll as in that behalf is provided by a Tariff of Tolls to be ing-houses.
ed by His said Excellency in Council, with powers to alter and vary the same from time to time) to aughter any Cattle, or Dress any Carcass for sale as Food for Man, within the said Slaughter-houses or
Jings.
XVI. No Person shall keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or bring into, any Market or Slaughter-house, Keeping or selling r article of human Food which shall be in an unwholesome condition; or bring, lead, carry, or drive into, Food, or slaughtering step or slaughter in any Slaughter-house, or permit to be so brought, led, carried, or driven thereto, Cattle in an unwhole-
ept or slaughtered therein, any Cattle which shall be in an Unwholesome Condition, or unfit for the Fod of Man.
some condition.
Keeping, selling, or feeding Cattle on un wholesome Fodder.
XVII. It is also forbidden to any Person to keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or to bring into, any Varket or Slaughter-house, any. Fodder being in an Unwholesome Condition, or unfit for the Food of Cattle
other Beasts, or to give, or allow to be given, any sucli Fodder to any Cattle in any Slaughter-house.
XVIII. For the performance of the several duties of the Inspector of Markets and his Assistants under Inspector and As* Ordinance, he and they, together or singly, shall have at all times free access to every part of every sistants to have fres Market, and of every Stall and Building therein, and of every Slaughter-house; and shall have and exercise sercin the functions of Officers of Police; and none shall presume to impede, obstruct, or resist him, them,
any of them, in the performance of the said functions and duties respectively.
access.
XIX. Except where otherwise by this Ordinance provided, it shall be unlawful for any Person soever Exaction of other demand or receive any Chattel, Money, or other valuable Thing as, or for, or under, pretence of a Fee, Fees, &c., than as 1, Toll, Rent, Stallage, or otherwise, for access or admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaughtering, Ordinance, to be Ex- provided under this Any Market or Slaughter-house respectively.
tortion.
XX. All Monies payable to the Crown under this Ordinance for Rents, Fees, or Taxes, shall be paid Application of Rents, er by the Inspector into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown; and all Expenses incurred or to be and power to mortgage curred by this Government, in, about, or incident to, the execution of this Ordinance, shall be a primary Rents. arge upon the same; and His Excellency in Council is hereby empowered to take up and borrow Money for 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 Monies so taken up and borrowed.
XXI. Every such Mortgage, and (if transferred) every Transfer thereof, shall be by Deed, and may pectively be according to the Forms in Schedules B and C to "The Commissioners' Clauses Act, 1847," exed, or to the like effect: And the said Schedules, and also Sections Seventy-eight to Eighty-three ch inclusive, shall be incorporated with this Ordinance, and shall apply to the said Markets, and be construed if the following Amendments had been made therein respectively, that is to say, the word "Governor, tead of the word "Commissioners;" the term "Officer having charge of the Land Office and Register of Deeds," instead of the terin “Clerk to the Commissioners;" and the word " Rents," instead of the word
· Kates."
Forms of deeds, &e. 10 & 11 Vick e. 16.
XXII. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of the Penalties for Offen- bertious of this Ordinance, next hereinafter specified, shall be heard and determined summarily under ces
efinance No. 10 of 1844, and on conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced pay the several Penalties, or in default of payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment
ectively hereinafter specified.
1. Against Sections
1. For every Offence against Sections Seven, Eighteen, or Nineteen, a Fine not exceeding Two
Hundred Dollars, nor less than Twenty Dollars,- —over and above the expenses (in cases of VII & XVIII & XIX. Nuisance under Section Seven) of abating and removing the same. Or Imprisonment for a term not exceeding Six Months nor less than One Month.
2. Against Sections
For every Offence against Sections Nine, Ten, or Twelve, a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars,
nor less than Ten Cents; or Imprisonment for a term not exceeding One Month or less than IX, X & XII. Twenty-four Hours.
3. Against Section
3 For every Offence against Sections Eleven, Fourteen, or Fifteen, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred
Dollars, nor less than Ten Dollars; or Imprisonment for a term not exceeding Three Months XI, XÍŸ & XV. or less than Ten Days.
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5. For every Offence against Section Seventeen, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than One
Dollar; or Imprisonment for a term not exceeding One Mouth or less than Twenty-four Hours. XVIE:
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4. For every Offence against Section Sixteen, a Fine, not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, nor less
than Ten Dollars,-over and above the expenses of the removal of the Food or Cattle in question, XVI. and also (if the Court shall order the destruction thereof) the Expenses of such Destruction or Imprisonment for a term not exceeding Six Months or less than Ten Days.
XXIII. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall protect the Occupier of any such Stall or Shop, Saving as to Nuj-
Grantee of the privilege of Slaughtering Cattle, from an Information or other Legal Proceedings for muCKS.
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• Nalance, should any such he commenced either at the suit of the Crown DL of any private Person.