i'raibition of other
Marks Lo
Coelin marketable Ankles day be sold
ut of Market.
All other sales of marketable Articles
bited.
The Hongkong Government Gazette,
[May 15, 1858.
IV. From the passing of this Ordinace, no Market shall be opened or kept open except under the Provisions of this Ordinance; and every Market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than as aforesaid shall, together with the Building or Buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be hollen, be deemed a Common Nuisance.
V. Licensed Hawkers may lawfully hawk for sale, any Green Vegetables, Fruit, Bean Curds, Congre, Confectionary, and Soup, and Boatmen may lawfully sell any Fresh Fish from their Boats or Vessels to the Crews or Occupants of other Boats or Vessels, at a distance from the Shore of at least Three Hundred Feet; neither shall this Ordinance extend to prohibit bond file public Sales by licensed Auc- tioneers, or Sales (not being Sales of Raw Butcher's Meat) in Shops or Stores not kept by Asiatics, nor the sale of Rice, nor to prevent any Person from selling on his own Premises any Bread, Milk, Conjec, Confectionary or Soup, or Salt Fish by Hawkers as aforesaid, not being less at any one time than the Weight of One Picul, nor (if a Licensed Victualler or Keeper of a Boarding, Eating, or Coffee House, or Cook Shop) from supplying any cooked Provisions to a Customer.
VI. All Persons soever within the said District of Victoria or the Harbour thereof (except in the eat of Market prohi- cases specified in Section Five), are hereby forbidden to sell or expose for Sale in any Place soever, not being a Public Market within the meaning of this Ordinance, any Articles of Food for Man usually sold or Sales in Markets to exposed for sale in a public Market. take place in Stalls or Shops.
Underletting forbid-
den.
Wholesale Depots to
Market.
VII. No Sales within any Market (except in cases to which Section Nine is applicable) shall take place but in a Stall or in a Shop.
VIII. No Lessee or Renter of a Stall, or of a Shop or House, within any Market, shall underlet or assign the same, or any part thereof, without the written License of the Surveyor General.
IX. In such Markets as may be by the Governor in Council thereunto specially determined, and be provided in each which shall be notified as aforesaid, there shall be set apart Lan or Entrepots for the sale and pur- chase by wholesale of Swine, Fish, Fowl (whether alive or dead), Vegetables, and Fruit, whereat Dealers having Stalls or Shops in such Market may purchase their supplies of the same Articles; and such Lan or Entrepots, and the Persons frequenting or using the same, shall be regulated and governed by such of the aforesaid By-Laws as shall relate thereunto; and no Person shall be allowed to vend any Articles in any such Lan or Entrepot as a wholesale Trader or Dealer therein, except under License approved by His said Excellency in Council, who is hereby empowered from time to time to grant such Licenses as aforesaid, and make such Regulations for the duration or Conditions thereof, and the Fees or Taxes to be imposed or levied for the same; and such Licenses shall be granted to all approved Applicants for whom there may be Accommodation, but shall not be transferable.
houses.
Erection or adap- X. His said Excellency in Council is further empowered to grant unto any Person or Persons in tation of Slaughter- such Manner, for such Consideration or Reut, upon such Conditions, and for such Period as shall be from time to time ascertained and fixed by such of the said By-Laws as shall relate thereunto, the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle, within such Slaughter-houses as shall be provided or appointed for the said Purpose, for the supply of the said Markets, or for the supply of any Person residing in the said District of Victoria.
Slaughtering elsc- XI. No Person shall within the said District of Victoria slaughter any Cattle or dress any Carcass where prohibited.
for Sale as Food for Man, except within the said Slaughter-houses or Buildings.
Tariff of Tolls for
XII. Every Grantee of the said Privilege shall at all Times during such Period of the Day or Night, the use of Slaughter as shall be from time to time determined by such By-Laws as aforesaid, allow any Person (who ing-houses.
shall first pay or tender unto him such Tell as in that behalf is provided by a Tariff of Tolls to be from time to time in like Manner determined) to slaughter any Cattle or dress any Carcass for sale within the said Slaughter-houses or Buildings as Food for Man. Keeping or selling XIII. No Person shall keep, sell, or expose for sale anywhere, or bring into this Colony or any Food, or slaughtering Market or Slaughter-house, any Article of Food for Man which shall be in an unwholesome Condition or Cattle, in an unwhole- unfit for such Food; or bring, lead, carry, or drive into, or keep or slaughter in this Colony or any Slaughter-house, or permit to be so brought, led, carried, or driven thereto, or kept or slaughtered therein, any Cattle which shall be unfit for slaughter.
some condition.
Keeping, selling &c., unwholesome Fod- der.
XIV. It is also forbidden to any Person to keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or bring into this Colony or any Market or Slaughter-house, any Fodder for Beasts which shall be in an unwholesome Condition, or unfit for such Fodder, or to give, or allow to be given, any such Fodder to any Beasts. Exaction of other XV. For the performance of the several Duties of the Police Force in enforcing this Ordinance, the Fees, &c., than as pro- Superintendent of Police and his Officers, and the other Members of the said Force together or singly, dinance, to bo Extor- shall have at all Times free access to every Part of every Market, and of every Stall and Building therein, and of every Slaughter-house and so may abide therein at the pleasure of the said Superintendent; and none shall presume to impede, obstruct, or resist him, them, or any of them, in the performance of the said Duties respectively.
vided under this Or-
tion.
Application of Rents, and power to mortgage Rents.
XVI. Except where otherwise by this Ordinance provided, it shall be unlawful for any Person soever to demand or receive any Chattel, Money, or other valuable Thing, as, or for, or under pretence of, a Fee, Fine, Toll, Rent, Stellage, or otherwise, for access, or admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaugh. tering in any Market or Slaughter-house respectively.
Disqualification of XVII. No Person in the Public Service, and no Person in the employment or Member of the Family certain P'ersons
in of any Person in such Service, shall, either in his own right or in the right of another, and either for his respect of interest.
own benefit or for the benefit of another, and either at Law or in Equity, be directly or indirectly interested in or concerned with any Market, Stall, Building, or Slaughter-house as aforesaid.
Rents, Fees, and Taxes, how payable.
Monics to be paid in current Dollars.
Penalties for Of- fences.
1. Against Sections IV., XV, XVI., and XVII.
2. Against Fections
VI, VEL, and IX.
3. Against Sectiong VIII, XI, and XII,
XVIII. All Monics payable to the Crown under this Ordinance for Rents, Fees, or Taxes, shall be paid in advance on the First Day of every Month to the Registrar General, and shall be, within Three Days next after receipt thereof, paid over by him into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.
XIX. All Sums of Money to be paid under, or by virtue of this Ordinance, or any of its Provisions, are to be paid in current Dollars.
XX. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of the Sections of this Ordinance next hereinafter specified, shall be heard and determined summarily under the Ordinance for the time being in force, touching the Jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions; and on conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in Default of payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified: 1. For every Offence against Sections Four, Fifteen, Sixteen, or Seventeen, a Vine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, over and above (in Cases of Nuisance under Section Four) the Expense of, or incident to, abating and removing the same; or, instead of such Fine, Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months, for every Offence against either of the said Sections.
2. For every Ollence against Sections Six, Seven, or Nine, a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars,
or Imprisonment for Term not exceeding One Month.
3. For every Offence again? Sections Eight, Eleven, or Twelve, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred
Dellars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.
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