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ORDINANCE No. 17 or 1887 . 2137


Cattle Diseases, Slaughter- Houses, and Markets.


10. The lessee of the privilege of slaughtering animals shall enjoy, Privilege of
slaughtering
during the whole of the term of his lease, the sole and exclusive privilege animals.
of slaughtering animals in the Colony , and shall give such security for
the payment of the rent thereof and for the due observance of the bye
laws regulating slaughter-houses as the Governor in Council may direct .

11. The lessee of the privilege of slaughtering animals in the Colony Sub-letting
prohibited.
shall not sublet or assign any part thereof without the written permission
of the Registrar General .

12. No person shall slaughter any animal or dress any carcase Slaughtering
except in
thereof for sale except within a slaughter-house appointed for that pur slaughter
houses
pose under this Ordinance ; always provided that goats may be slaugh- prohibited .
tered by or for any Indians, Indian troops or Indian Police quartered
in the Colony .

Unauthorised
13. Except as provided in this Ordinance no person shall demand
fees or charge
or receive any money or other valuable consideration as a fee, fine, toll , prohibited.

rent or otherwise for access or admission to or for slaughtering any
animal in any slaughter-house.

14. The Captain Superintendent of Police, the Registrar General, Slaughter
hou ses open
the Surveyor General , and their respective officers as well as members to inspection .

and officers of the Sanitary Board shall have at all times free access to
every part of every slaughter-house.

Power to
15. The Governor in Council may from time to time make and make
when made revoke, add to, or alter bye-laws for regulating the slaughter bye-laws.
houses in the Colony.



PART III .
[See Ord. No.
Markets. 10 of 1890.
$. 93. ]

16. All markets established at the time of the coming into operation Establishing
markets.
of this Ordinance shall be continued and shall be subject to this Ordi Prohibiting
other
nance, but it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to markets.

time to close any of them, and also to establish or close any new market .
No market shall be opened or kept open except under the provisions of
this Ordinance ; and every market which shall be otherwise opened or
kept open shall, together with the building in which the same shall be
carried on, be deemed a nuisance.