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1006 THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 18TH NOV., 1885.

Compensation.

Fenalties.

(3.) Authorizing Inspectors of Markets, or any other Olcers that may be specified in sucli orders for the purpose to destroy or to isolate and keep under observation any cattle that may appear to them to be or to be reasonably suspected of being infected or to have been in contact or in the saine herd with cattle affected with disense.

3. The Governor in Council may at discretion pay out of the publie revennes fair compensation for the destruction of any cattle which are destroyed under the provisions of this Ordinance and which are proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Conacil to have been actually in the Colony at any time when the provisions of this Ordinance are brought into forec.

4. Any person who impedes an Inspector of Markets or any other Officer appointed under this Ordinance to carry out the orders made by the Governor in Council under this Ordinance or does anything in contravention of any of such · orders shall be liable on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $200, or to impri- sonment with or without hard labour for a term not excced- ing 6 months.

In this Ordinance "cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves, and buffaloes.

"Disease" means contagious pleuro-pneumonia.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 445.

The following Order of the Governor in Council is published under Section 1 of Ordinance 19 of 1885.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th November, 1885.

ORDER

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Made by the Governor in Council under Section 1 of Ordinance 19 of 1885, this 18th day of November, 1885.

Whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that cattle disease as defined in Ordinance 19 of 1885 prevails in this Colony, it is hereby declared and proclaimed under the provisions of Section 1 of the said Ordinance that the Colony shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2, 3, and 4, of the said Ordinance.

Council Chamber, Hongkong.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 446.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

The following Orders of the Governor in Council are published under Ordinance 19 of 1885.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th November, 1885.

ORDERS

Made by the Governor in Council under Ordinance 19 of 1885,

this 18th day of November, 1885.

1. No cattle shall be imported into the Colony by water without being landed either at the Cattle Wharf at Kennedy Town, or at the Wharf of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Company, Praya Central, 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.