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ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1858 . 421


Markets.


5. No buildings shall be erected, continued, or maintained, in any market, save Buildings in
markets.
only houses with shops , stalls , standings, houses for market porters, and lan or entrepôts ; [See Ord. No. 5 of
1867 s. 3. ]
and the Surveyor General is hereby empowered and required to see to the execution of
all laws for the time being in force, with respect to buildings, so far as the same are
applicable to the buildings enumerated in the salvo lastly hereinbefore contained ; and
all the said buildings shall be constructed of stone or brick, and such of them as are
shops or stalls shall be fitted with stone or wooden dressers or counters, proper for the
purposes of trade, and no stall shall cover a larger surface than seven lineal feet .

6. Each house and each stall in every market shall be numbered, and a register Numbering hou
ses and stalls,
of the same by its proper number shall be kept in the office of the Surveyor General, and registering
the same.
[" Registrar General " as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867 ] which register shall
also contain an entry of the name of the actual lessee or tenant of the same, the
premium therefor, the rent thereof, and the term of lease, and such entry shall be
prima facie evidence of the facts thereby appearing.

7. Licensed hawkers may lawfully hawk, for sale, any green vegetables, fruit , Certain market
able articles may
be sold out of
bean curds, congee, confectionary, and soup ; and boatmen may lawfully sell any fresh market.
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 bona fide public sales by licensed auctioneers , 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, congee,
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.

8. All persons soever within the said district of Victoria or the harbour thereof . All other sales
marketable artiof
cles out ofmarket
(except in the cases specified in section 7) , are hereby forbidden to sell or expose forprohibited.
sale in any place soever, not being a public market within the meaning of this Ordi
nance, any articles of food for man usually sold or exposed for sale in a public market .

9. No sales within any market (except in cases to which section 11 is applicable) Sales in markets
to take place in
shall take place but in a stall or in a shop. stalls or shops .

10. No lessee or renter of a stall, or of a shop or house, within any market, shall Underletting for
bidden.
underlet or assign the same, or any part thereof, without the written licence of the
Surveyor General.

11. In such markets as may be by the Governor in Council thereunto specially Wholesale depôts
to be provided in,
determined, and which shall be notified as aforesaid, there shall be set apart and each market.

numbered by the Surveyor General, [ " Registrar General " as amended by Ordinance No.
5 of 1867] lan or entrepôts, 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 lau
or entrepôts, and the persons frequenting or using the same, shall be regulated and