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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH NOVEMBER, 1890.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend The Cattle Diseases,

BE

Slaughter-Houses, and Markets Ordinance, 1887.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. This Ordinance and The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter- Houses, and Markets Ordinance of 1887 shall be read and construed as one Ordinance to be called The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter-Houses, and Markets Ordinance 1887 and 1890.

2. Section 24 of Ordinance No. 17 of 1887, Ordinance No. 9 of 1889 and Ordinance No. 21 of 1889 are hereby repealed provided that such repeal shall not affect any- thing lawfully done or suffered or commenced to be done or suffered under the said Ordinances.

3. Section 1 of the said Ordinance No. 17 of 1887 is hereby amended by substituting for the definition of animal the definition following:

"Animal except where otherwise expressed means cattle, sheep, and goats, and all other ruminating animals, and swine."

Section 2 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting for the words-"cattle, sheep, and swine," wheresoever found in the said section the word "animals."

Section 7 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting for the words "Section 11 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1883" the words "Section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887."

Section 8 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting for the word "cattle" the word "animals."

4. No person shall sell or expose for sale or bring into the Colony or into any market any food for man in a tainted, adulterated, or unwholesome state or which is unfit for use, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and the forfeiture of the said food.

5. The words "food for man" shall include every article used for food or drink by man other than drugs or water.

14 of 1845 sec. 11, & 17 of 1887 nec. 94.

38 & 39 Vict. c. 63 sec. 1.

1141

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1889."

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. If any person shall be found on board any passenger ship with intent to obtain a passage therein without the consent of the owner, charterer, or master thereof, such person, and every person aiding and abetting him in such fraudulent intent, shall respectively be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars and in default of pay- ment to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding six calendar months; and such person so found.on board may be taken before any Justice of the Peace, without warrant, and such Justice may summarily hear the case, and on proof of the offence convict such offender as aforesaid.

English Passenger Act, 1855, sec. 18.