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ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1858.
Markets.
Disqualification of certain persons In respect of interest.
Rents, fees, and taxes, how payable.
Monies to be paid in current dollars.
Penalties for offences.
1. Against secs. 4, 26, 27, and 28.
2. Against secs. 8, 9, and 10.
3. Against secs. 10, 21, and 22.
4. Against secs. 13, 16, 17, 18, and 19.
5. Against sec. 23.
6. Against sec. 24.
7. Against sec. 29.
admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaughtering in any market or slaughter-house respectively.
28. No person in the public service, and no person in the employment or member of the family of any person in such service, shall, either in his own right or in the right of another, and either for his own benefit or for the benefit of another, and either at Law or in Equity, be directly or indirectly interested in or concerned with any market, stall, building, or slaughter-house as aforesaid.
29. All monies payable to the Crown under this Ordinance for rents, fees, or taxes, shall be paid in advance on the first day of every month, or within seven days next after to the Registrar General, and shall be, within three days next after receipt thereof, paid over by him into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.
30. All sums of money to be paid under, or by virtue of this Ordinance, or any of its provisions, are to be paid in current dollars.
31. All violations or disobediences of, or defaults in compliance with, the provisions of the sections of this Ordinance next hereinafter specified, shall be heard and determined summarily under the Ordinances for the time being in force, touching the jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions; and on conviction of such offences, the respective offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several penalties, or in default of payment thereof, to suffer the several terms of imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified:
1. For every offence against sections 4, 26, 27, or 28, a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, over and above (in cases of nuisance under section 4) the expense of, or incident to, abating and removing the same; or, instead of such fine, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, for every offence against either of the said sections.
2. For every offence against sections 8, 9, or 11, a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
3. For every offence against sections 10, 21, or 22, a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
4. For every offence against section 13, or sections 16 to 19 inclusive, the forfeiture of the lease or tenancy of the offender.
5. For every offence against section 23, a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, over and above the expenses of the removal of the food or cattle in question; and also (if the Court shall order the destruction thereof), the expenses of, or incident to, the same; or, instead of such fine, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
6. For every offence against section 24, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
7. For every offence against section 29, a fine not exceeding in amount the sum of money not paid over, and also (if the offender be a lessee or tenant) the forfeiture of his lease or tenancy.
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