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3. Every vessel carrying more than ten head of cattle shall

of the secure be provided with

footholds for the use cattle on board, and shall be fitted with weather boards or other protection for such cattle from sun and rain and sea, and with a sufficient number of pens. No pen shall be constructed of bamboo, and no pen shall accommodate more than four head of cattle (two calves under six months being counted as one). The pens shall be arranged

that SO

the cattle stand athwartships and shall be substantially constructed and securely fastened so as to stand rough weather. The pens shall be cleansed at least once a day.

4. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, any Food Officer and any Police Officer may board any vessel within the territorial waters of the Colony at any time in order to ascertain whether regulations Nos. 1 to 4 (both inclusive) of these regulations are complied with.

5. No vessel shall be permitted to carry more than two hundred head of cattle for export at any one time.

6. Each animal conveyed in any vessel shail, except as herein- after provided, have not less than fourteen square feet of deck-space allotted. Footholds shall be provided to prevent slipping, and the animals shall stand athwartships and shall be secured by a halter and not be tied by the nose:

Provided that in the case of cattle under two years of age the deck-space allotted shall be fourteen square feet for every two such cattle.

SHEEP AND GOATS.

7. Sheep and goats shall be carried in any vessel in substantially built pens containing not more than forty in each pen, and three square feet shall be allowed per bead.

PIGS.

8. Not more than forty pigs in any vessel shall be placed in one pen.

Three square feet shall be allowed per head, two pigs each under 80 lbs. live weight to count as one, three pigs each under 50 lbs. live weight to count as one.

When carried in crates, a separate crate shall be assigned to each pig. Every such crate shall be of sufficiently large dimenions to hold the pig comfortably and shall also have a small enough mesh to prevent the pig from being injured. Crates shall be arranged in rows and, if stacked, there shall be two layers or tiers only. Rows, if not single, shall be two deep only. Crates shall be so arranged that all the pigs' heads in a single row face the same way, and in a double row face outwards. On the side or sides of a row on which the pigs' heads face, an alleyway shall

wide, left, eighteen inches

to allow food and water

be

to be given. All the crates in a row which is not stacked shall be securely fastened together. In the case of a stacked row there shall be pairs of strong upright posts, which may be of a detachable type, of a height not less than the top of the upper layer or tier, securely fastened to the deck and supporting the row or stack. Such pairs of posts shall be fixed at each end of the stack and at intervals of not more than five crates in the stack's length. Each pair of posts supporting a stack shall be securely fastened together. Large flat- bottomed boats shall be used for conveying pigs across the harbour.

POULTRY.

9. The baskets or crates in which poultry are carried are to be supplied with mats or to be otherwise so constructed as to prevent the poultry getting their legs through.

GENERAL.

10. The Harbour Master may, and, if requested to do so by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, shall, refuse to grant a port clearance for any vessel on board of which the requirements of these regulations have not been or are not being complied with.

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