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[JUNE 4, 1858.
VIIL All Persons soever within the said District of Victoria or the Harbour thereof (except in the cases specified in Section Seven), are hereby forbidden to sell or expose for Sale in any Place soever, nat being a Public Market within the meaning of this Ordinance, any Articles of Food for Man usually sold exposed for sale in a Public Market.
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IX. No Sales within any Market (except in cases to which Section Eleven is applicable) shall take
pince in Stalls or place but in a Stall or in a Shop.
X. 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.
Un lezletting forbid- den.
Widazle Depots to XI. In such Markets as may be by the Governor in Council thereunto specially determined, and rovided in each which shall be notified as aforesaid, there shall be set apart and numbered by the Surveyor General, Lan or Entrepots, for the sale and purchase 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 Bye-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.
Modes of letting XII. All Buildings in Markets shall be let by the Surveyor General in manner following, that is to Seildings in Markets, say: the letting of all Houses for One Year certain, and from the end or other sooner determination thereaf from Year to Year, and at the highest Yearly Rent that can be reasonably gotten for the same, the First Yearly Rent thereof for the Year commencing on the First Day of July now next coming to be ascertained by way of Public Auction, and the highest Bidder thereat of approved responsibility to be declared the Lessee for the said Term, with right of preference, in the renewal of every such Term, to the actual Tenant thereof: But the letting of all Stalls and Lan to be by the Month, and the Lessees thereof to be ascertained by way of Lot from among the Applicants for the same, with the like right of preference, and at such Rents as shall from time to time be, by His said Excellency in Council, ascertained and fixed and signified unto the said Surveyor General.
Not more than One Building to be holden,
New Buildings.
Partnerships and Shop Seals.
Absence from the Colony.
Alterations of or ad- ditions to Buildings.
False Weights, Coin, &c.
Dangerous sub-
stances.
Erection or adap-
housce.
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XIII. No Person shall occupy or hold, for himself or for another, more than One Building in a Market, without the written Permission of the Surveyor General upon cause shown.
XIV. The Rent reserved in respect of any new or additional Building in a Market shall be after the same rate, and payable at the same time, as the Rents of other Buildings of the same kind in the same Market.
XV. Every Lessec or Tenant, as soon as may be after being accepted as such,and before entering into possession of any such Building, shall furnish the Surveyor General with a written Statement of the Names of all Persons, if any, having any Copartnery interest with him in his business. to be carried on thereon or incidentally thereto, and also the impression of the Seal (if any) of his Shop or Firm.
XVI. No actual Lessce or Tenant of any such Building, registered as the sole Lessee or Tenant thereof shall be at any one time absent from the Colony for a period of Six consecutive Months,
XVII. No alteration in or addition to any such Building shall be made or commenced by the Lessee or Tenant thereof, without the written Sanction of the Surveyor General being first obtained.
XVIII. False or unlawful Scales, Weights, or Measures, Counterfeit Coin, and Base Cash, are hereby forbidden to be used in any Market by any such Lessee or Tenant, and all such Scales, Weights, and Measures, Coin and Cash, shall be impounded and destroyed by the Superintendent of Police.
XIX. Dangerous explosive or combustible Substances, in a larger quantity than One Catty in all, shall not be kept within any Market by any such Lessee or Tenant.
XX. 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 Rent, upon such Conditions, and for such Period not being less than One Twelvemonth, as shall be from time to time ascertained and fixed by such of the said Bye-Laws as shall relate thereunto, the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle, within such Slaughter-houses as shall be from time to time 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 else- where prohibited.
Tariff of Tolls for
the use of Slaughter ing-houses.
Keeping or selling Food, or slaughtering Cattle, in an unwhole- some condition.
Keeping, selling &c., unwholesome Fod- der.
Licensed Porters.
Superintendent of
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to have free access.
XXI. No Person shall within the said District of Victoria slaughter any Cattle or dress any Carcass for Sale as Food for Man, except within the said Slaughter-bouses.
XXII. Every Grantee of the said Privilege shall at all Times during such Period of the Day or Night, as shall be from time to time determined by such Bye-Laws as aforesaid, allow any Person (who shall first pay or tender unto him such Toll as in that hehalf 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 as Food for Man.
XXIII. No Person shall keep, sell, or expose for sale anywhere, or bring into this Colony or any Market or Slaughter-house, any Article of Food for Man which shali be in an unwholesome Condition or 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.
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XXIV. is also forbidden to any Person to keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or bring into this Colony Maughter-house, any Fodder for Beasts which shall be in an unwholesome Condition, or unfit for sun Fudder, or to give, or allow to be given, any such Fodder to any Beasts.
XXV. No Person shall act as Porter in any Market, without being thereunto licensed in Writing by the Superintendent of Police.
XXVI. For the performance of the several Duties of the Police Force in enforcing this Ordinance, the Police and his Officers Superintendent of Police and his Officers, and the other Members of the said Force, together or singly, 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 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 their said Duties respectively,
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XXVII. Except where otherwise by this Ordinance provided, it shall be unlawful for any Person Fees, &c., than as soever to demand or receive any Chattel, Money, or other valuable Thing, as, or for, or under pretence of, provided under this Ordinance, to be Ex. Fee, Fine, Toll, Rent, Stallage, or otherwise, for access, or admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaugh-
tering in any Market or Slaughter-house respectively.
XXVIII. No Person in the Public Service, and no Person in the employment or Member of the Family Disqualification of certain Persons in of any Person in such Service, shali, 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.
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