THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST DECEMBER, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 521.
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The following Conditions of Slaughter-houses Farm or Contract, and Cattle Depôt Farm or Con- tract, are published for general information.
By Command,
A. LISTER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st December, 1889.
Conditions of Slaughter-houses Farm or Contract.
1. The Lessee or Contractor shall be bound by the provisions of The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter- Houses, and Markets Ordinance, 1887, relating to Slaughter-houses and also by the bye-laws made thereunder.
2. The Lessee or Contractor shall not permit any person to live or sleep in any of the Slaughter- houses except with the written permission of the Sanitary Board.
3. The Lessee or Contractor shall at all times see that his servants carry out their work in an orderly manner and that no unnecessary noise is created by them in the performance of their work.
4. His Excellency the Governor reserves to himself the exclusive right of cancelling the Lease or Contract, without giving previous notice to the Lessce or Contractor, at any time upon the Governor's receiving a report from the Sanitary Board to the effect that the said Lessee or Contractor is not fulfilling the whole or any part or clause of his Lease or Contract, and that it is for the public interest that his Lease or Contract should be cancelled.
Approved by the Governor in Council this 16th day of December, 1889.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Conditions of Cattle Depôt Farm or Contract.
1. The Lessee or Contractor shall be entitled to the use and occupation of the whole of the present Cattle Depôt including the Coolie Quarters attached to it.
2. The Lessee or Contractor shall be entitled to a fec not exceeding 2 cents for each head of cattle that enters the Depôt, and a fee not exceeding 2 cents for every day that such animal shall remain in the Depôt not including the day of entry.
3. Except in cases of emergency and with written permission from the Sanitary Board, no inore cattle shall be admitted into the Depôt than can be accommodated in the stalls set apart for their reception.
4. The Lessee or Contractor shall have at all times a responsible person in charge of the Depôt and of the animals housed therein.
5. The Léssee or Contractor shall cause the Depôt to be thoroughly cleansed twice a day in such manner and at such times as the Sanitary Board may direct.
6. The Lessee or Contractor shall cause all animal manure and other refuse matters to be deposited in the bins set apart for the purpose.
7. All the manure collected in the Depôt shall be the property of and will be removed daily by the Government.
8. The Lessee or Contractor shall at once report to the Inspector of Live Stock and Markets any breach of the law regulating the importation of cattle and also any case of cattle disease which may come to his knowledge.
9. The Lessee or Contractor shall keep the Depôt including the Coolie Quarters attached to it at all times in a cleanly condition.
Approved by the Governor in Council this 16th day of December, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
Clerk of Councils.
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