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by carts or vehicles prohibited.

Penalty for offences.

Compensation for animals slaughtered by order of the Urban Council.

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dispute shall be referred to the officer in charge, and the decision of the officer in charge shall be final and shall be obeyed by such persons.

64. No person resorting to a depot, who is in charge of any cart or other vehicle, shall station such cart or other vehicle in the depot or in any private road giving access thereto in such а manner as to hinder any animals or any other cart or vehicle in arriving at or departing from the depot, or wilfully or improperly station such cart or vehicle so as to occupy a position in which the person in charge of any other cart or vehicle would, by priority of arrival, have prior claim to place such last-mentioned cart or

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65. Every person who offends against any of the provisions contained in this Ordinance or in any by-law made thereunder shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

Compensation for animals slaughtered by order of the Urban Council.

66. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2), (3) and (4), the Governor in Council shall direct the following compensation to be paid out of the public revenue for any animal slaughtered by order of the Urban Council under the provisions of this Ordinance :-

(a) where the animal slaughtered was affected with rinderpest or swine fever, the compensation shall be one- half of its full value immediately before it became so affected; (b) where the animal slaughtered was affected with pleuro-pneumonia, the compensation shall be three-fourths of its full value immediately before it became so affected;

(c) where the animal slaughtered was affected with foot and mouth disease, the compensation shall be its full value immediately before it became so affected;

(d) where the animal slaughtered was affected with any other kind of infectious disease among animals, the compensa- tion shall be such proportion of its full value immediately before it became so affected as the Governor in Council may decide after taking the advice of the Urban Council;

(e) where the animal slaughtered was not affected with any kind of infectious disease among animals, the compensa- tion shall be its full value immediately before it slaughtered.

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(2) The value of an animal for the purposes of this section shall be determined by the Governor in Council.

(3) The maximum compensation shall be forty dollars. in the case of a pig, and four hundred dollars in the case of any other animal.

(4) In the case of the slaughter of a bird, the maximum compensation payable shall be ten dollars.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may, if he thinks fit, withhold, either wholly or partially, compensation for any animal or bird slaughtered by order of the Urban Council where, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, the owner of the animal

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