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29. No person shall cleave any carcase or part of a elsewhere than upon a cleaving block or chopping board or upon the hooks provided for the purpose.

30. Every fishmonger shall thoroughly wash and cleanse his stall and any fittings and utensils belonging thereto at least twice a day.

31. Every poulterer shall thoroughly cleanse his stall, pens and any fittings belonging thereto at least twice a day, and shall provide a supply of fresh drinking water for any live birds that may be kept in such pens,

32. No stall-holder shall suffer any garbage or refuse to remain on or be under or about his stall, and he shall keep the avenue or passage in front thereof in a cleanly condition.

33. No person shall throw any vegetable substance, offal, garbage or offensive matter or thing on to any market avenue or thoroughfare.

34. No person shall pluck, scald or clean any poultry or game except in the places appropriated for the purpose.

35. Every stall-holder, if called upon to do

So, shall provide himself with a portable dustbin in accordance with one or other of the patterns on view in the office of the Secretary of the Council.

36. No person shall sit, stand or lie on any slab or counter intended for the exposure of food stuffs for sale.

37. No stall-holder shall keep any dog in any market, nor shall any person knowingly permit any dog to follow him into a market.

38. Stall-holders who require additional lights in their stalls shall use only clectric lamps or smokeless oil lamps of a pattern to be approved by the Council.

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39. Subject to the provisions of by-law 40, no flesh meat (salted meat excepted) other than that which has been slaughtered in the Government slaughter-houses shall be exposed for sale in any market.

40.-(a) The Council may, from time to time, grant per- mission in writing, revocable at the discretion of the Council, to any stall-holder to expose for sale in his stall unsalted flesh meat which has been imported from Shanghai, Japan, Canada or Australia or from such other localities as the Council may from time to time approve; such permission shall state the name of the person to whom it is granted, the class or description of meat permitted, and the shop or stall on which such meat is to be exposed for sale.

(b) The stall-holder, to whom such permission has been granted, shall cause a board to be posted on his stall, in a conspicuous position, stating in English and Chinese that he deals in imported meat, and stating also the place from which such meat was imported; the fetters and characters of such notice shall be at least one and a half inches long. He shall also make a true return to the Council, quarter- ly, of the quantity of meat imported by him, specifying whence such meat has been imported.

41. If

any

Food Officer at

any

in time discovers any market any carcase or part of a carcase of beef, mutton or pork not bearing the official mark, he is hereby authorised to seize it, and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may order it to be destroyed and no compensation shall be payable to any person in respect of such destruction.

42. On a day and hour to be appointed by the Council, of which three days notice shall be given, the stall-holders shall remove all goods and other articles from their stalls or from other spaces allotted to them in the market in order that the market may be thoroughly cleaned.

43. The Council may expel from any market any person who has been convicted of contravening any of the by-laws relating to public markets, and may prevent any such person from further carrying on any business in such market or occupying any stall therein.