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Power of Urban
Council
to cause
slaughter of
cases or
contacts.
Burial or
exhumation of carcases prohibited
except under
supervision.
Interpreta. tion.
Animals for
be housed in
153. If in the opinion of the Colonial Veterinary Suregeon an animal is suffering from or has been in contact with an animal suffering from infectious or contagious disease, the Urban Council may cause such animal to be slaughtered and the carcase thereof to be disposed of in such manner as the Urban Council may think fit.
154. No carcase of an animal shall be buried, or, after burial, he dug up, except under the supervision of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or of a sanitary inspector acting under his instructions.
Depots for Cattle, Pigs, Sheep and Goats.
General.
155. In these by-laws.
(a) "Depot" and "Depots" mean respectively a depot and the depots for cattle, swine, sheep and goats provided by the Government.
(b) "Officer in charge" means the person appointed by the Unban Council to superintend and have the care of the Depots or any one of them or any part thereof.
156. All cattle, swine, sheep and goats brought to the slaughter to Colony for the purpose of being slaughtered shall be kept Government except when turned out to graze, in a properly constructed Government Depot licensed by the Urban Council.
depôts.
Fees for
use of
depôt.
Removal of
animals
without
permit
prohibited.
Owners of animals to provide food.
Government
and Board
do not accept
Provided that no such animal shall be permitted to remain in any Government depot for a longer period than twenty-one days, provided also that any such animals which is condemned by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon as unfit to be slaughtered for human food shall be removed forthwith by the owner.
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157. The fee payable for each head of cattle housed housed are in a Depot shall be fifty cents when cattle removed to any place other than the slaughter-house adjoining such Depot or another Depot, and the fee payable for each pig, sheep and goat similarly housed and removed shall be ten cents. No fee is payable on admission.
158. No cattle, pigs, sheep or goats shall be removed from a Depot for any purpose except on a removal order signed by the officer in charge. Such order shall be granted on the production and deposit of the receipt given on the admission of the animals and in favour of the person therein named or of any other person on his order.
159. The Urban Council shall provide water only for the use of the cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats, housed in the Depots. The owners of such animals shall provide proper and sufficient food and shall send men in sufficient numbers to look after, feed and water such animals, but no other unauthorised person may be or remain on the premises during such hours as the Depots are close to the public.
160. Neither the Government nor the Urban Council will be responsible for the safe custody of any cattle, pigs,
responsibility. sheep or goats housed in a Depot.
of animals
161. The drenching of any animal with any substance Drenching whatever, or the administration of salt in any form, in a prohibited. Depot, except with the permission of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or of the Inspector on duty, is prohibited.
Maintenance of Order in Depots
prohibited to
162. No person, not being an officer or servant of the Admission Council, shall enter or remain in the Depots except for to depot the purpose of securing or of supplying food or water to any unauthorized any animal therein.
persons.
163. No person shall use in the Depots any indecent Bad or obscene language, or enter or remain therein in a state of intoxication.
language and drunkedness forbidden.
164. No person shall bring into the Depots any malt or Liquor spirituous liquor or any drug of any nature whatsoever.
prohibited.
to use depôt
165. Every person who may desire to use the Depots Application for the purpose of accommodating any animal shall make to be in application, in writing, to the officer in charge, and permission writing. to use the Depots shall be given to the several persons so applying in the order in which such applications are received.
166. Every person using the Depots shall obey all Orders to be reasonable orders given to him by the officer in charge, and obeyed. shall conduct himself in a quiet and orderly manner therein.
167. No person shall obstruct or hinder any other Obstruction person in the proper use of the Depots.
prohibited.
conduct
168. No person shall by any disorderly or improper Disorderly conduct disturb or interrupt any other person in the proper forbidden. use of the Depots.
169. The Depots shall for the purpose of the admission Hours of of animals be open at such hours as may be fixed by the occupation
to be fixed by Colonial Veterinary Surgeon with the approval of the Urban Veterinary Council, and no person shall attempt to gain access to or shall Surgeon, remain in the Depots at any other hour.
170. Whenever in the opinion of the Chairman of the Notice of
closing to be Urban Council it is expedient for its maintenance or preserva- given. tion to close any part of any Depots, he shall cause a notice in that behalf to be posted in some conspicuous part of such Depots specifying the part that is closed, and no person shall thereafter use or enter such part until a further notice has been published and posted as aforesaid notifying the re- opening of such part.
to be
171. Every person desiring to bring an animal into the Animals Depots shall apply to the officer in charge to inspect and pass inspected such animal, and no person shall bring or cause to be brought prior to or attempt to bring into the Depots any animal which has not been duly inspected and passed by the officer in charge.
admission.
secured.
172. Every person who shall bring or cause to be Beasts to be brought into the Depots any beast shall cause such beast to properly be securely tied to the tying irons in a byre assigned for the purpose: and every person who shall bring or cause to be hrough tinto the Depots any sheep, lamb or goat shall cause such sheep, lamb or goat to be properly penned in a lair
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