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[ 17 OF 1887. ] CATTLE DISEASES, SLAUGHTER -HOUSES
AND MARKETS .
(D. )
Markets.—Bye-Laws.
Classification of 1. Market buildings shall be classified and set apart by the Sanitary Board
buildings.
for the sale of meat, fowls, fish , fruit, vegetables, and such other perishable
goods.
Numbering. 2. The Surveyor General shall cause all market buildings to be numbered .
Register to be 3. A register of all market buildings shall be kept by the Registrar
kept.
General in the form of schedule C to this ordinance. Every entry in such
register shall be primâ facie evidence of the facts therein appearing.
Manner of letting 4. The Registrar General shall cause to be conspicuously exhibited on a
vacant buildings. notice board in each market a list of all market buildings let by the month,
and of those shortly to become vacant, and notice shall, in the case of build
ings about to become vacant, be exhibited at least three weeks before the
vacancy and a time fixed for the reception of tenders.
Ilonrs during
which markets
5. Every market shall be open to the public from 4 A.M. till 8 P.M. each day.
are open .
Signboards. 6. Every occupied stall shall have a sign -board in front showing in full,
both in English and Chinese, the name of the stall-holder.
Obstructing 7. The sign boards and blinds of every market building shall be so arranged
thoroughfares.
as not to obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no lessee of any
market building shall permanently place or store any goods outside such
market building, or allow them to project beyond it.
Conveyance of
merchandise.
8. No person shall make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market
for the conveyance of merchandise not intended for sale or exposure for sale
in such market.
Regulating sales. 9. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale any article in any part of
the market other than the part thereof which is appropriated for the sale of
such article.
Regulating sales. 10. No sales within any market shall be carried on except in a market
building
Hawking 11. No -person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any
prohibited.
market .
Cleansing of
stalls .
12. Every holder of a market building shall cause his building to be pro
perly cleansed immediately before the reception, deposit or ex posure for sale
therein or thereon and immediately after the removal therefrom of any market
able commodities or articles .
Butchers' stalls, 13. Every butcher and dealer in fesh meat shall thoroughly wash and
cleanse his stall , block, stall-board and any fittings or utensils belonging
thereto at least once a day.
Sale of flesh 14. No flesh meat other than that which has been slaughtered in the
meat.
slaughter-houses of the Colony shall be exposed for sale in any market till it
has been inspected by an inspector of markets and marked by him as being
fit for human food .
Sale of imported 16. Every butcher and dealer in flesh meat who exposes for sale flesh meat
flesh meat .
which has not been slaughtered in the slaughter -houses of the Colony, shall
put up a notice on the front of his stall in English and Chinese stating the
place from whence such flesh meat was imported, and the letters and charac
ters of such notice shall be at least one and a half inches long.