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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH JULY, 1886.

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VOL. XXXII.

No. 32.

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日六十月六年戌丙

日七十月七年六十八百八千一

簿二十三第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 260.

The following Orders made by the Governor in Council, under Ordinance 19 of 1835, are published

for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th July, 1886.

ORDERS

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Made by the Governor in Council, under Ordinance 19 of 1885, this 16th day of July, 1886.

1. No cattle shall be imported into the Colony by water unless they are landed either at the Cattle Wharf at Kennedy Town, or at the Wharf of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam-boat Company, Praya Central, or at the Landing Place of the Hongkong Dairy Farm Company, Limited, at Pokfulam, between the hours of 6 o'clock and 11 o'clock in the morning, and between the hours of 2 o'clock and 6 o'clock in the evening.

Due notice of the proposed landing of any cattle at the Landing Place of the Hongkong Dairy Farm Company, Limited, shall be given to an Inspector of Markets by the said Company.

2. All cattle imported into the Colony by land shall be driven direct to the Cattle Market at the Village of Yaumáti, and their arrival reported forthwith at the Police Station there.

3. All cattle imported into the Colony shall be at once inspected by an Inspector of Markets, and any cattle which he may suspect to be suffering from disease shall be placed in segregation and under observation at the depôts established for that purpose at Kennedy Town and Yaumáti.

4. If it appears to an Inspector of Markets that any cattle are infected, or if he has reasonable suspicion that any cattle have been in contact with, or in the same herd with diseased cattle, he shall report the same to the Colonial Surgeon, and with the sanction of the Colonial Surgeon, but not otherwise, shall cause such cattle to be destroyed.

5. No person shall knowingly bring into the Colony any diseased cattle or any cattle that have. been recently herding, or in contact, with diseased cattle.

6. An Inspector of Markets shall cause all sheds in which diseased cattle have been housed to be

direct. cleansed and disinfected in such manner as he

may

7. The sale of milk drawn from cows suffering from an infectious disease is hereby prohibited.. 8. For the purposes of these Orders the term Inspector of Markets includes all Inspectors of Markets appointed under Ordinance 9 of 1858, and GEORGE RAE, who is hereby appointed an Inspector of Markets for the purposes of these Orders.

9. The several Members of the Sanitary Board constituted under Ordinance 7 of 1883, shall be invested with all the powers of an Inspector of Markets for the purposes of these Orders.

10. The Orders in Council bearing date the 18th day of November, 1885, are hereby revoked.

Council Chamber, Hongkong.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.