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1016 the hongkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st NOVEMBER, 1885.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 446.

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

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

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

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.

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 discased 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 discased 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 discased cattle have been housed to be cleansed and disinfected in such manner as he may direct.

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,

Council Chamber, Hongkong.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 448.

The following Rules and Regulations of the Governor in Executive Council are published under Section 6 of Ordinance 10 of 1858, and Section 17 of The Prison Ordinance, 1885.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st November, 1885.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.