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6. No cattle shall be allowed to run at large in any such house, or on the premises thereunto belonging.

7. Cattle taken to any such house to be slaughtered, shall be slaughtered, skinned, and dressed in such house, and not elsewhere.

8. The carcase of every head of cattle slaughtered in any such house shall be skinned and properly dressed therein before the same or any part thereof shall be therefrom taken away.

9. Within 18 hours after the slaughter of any such head of cattle every part of the carcass thereof, and all matter thence proceeding shall be taken away from such house and its premises, or removed from such house, to the manure-reservoir belonging thereto.

10. Every person slaughtering cattle at any such house, shall pay the regulated fees for the same, and shall not remove therefrom, or injure, or destroy, any of the slaughtering tools or implements, or any part of the yards or buildings thereunto belonging.

11. Every person slaughtering cattle at any such house shall, previous to taking away or removing from such house any part of the carcass of any head of cattle so slaughtered, give to such keeper or lessee, a statement in writing with the name of such person thereunder written, setting forth the number of cattle so slaughtered on that day at such house, by such person, and a description of the brands (if any) on such cattle.

12. Every such statement in writing shall be carefully kept by such keeper or lessee.

13. Every such keeper or lessee shall, in the event of any diseased cattle being slaughtered at such house, give immediate notice thereof to the Inspector of Slaughter-houses for the district wherein such house is situate.

14. The keeper or lessee of any such house shall admit therein, at all times, at any hour of the day or night, such Inspector of public Slaughter-houses as aforesaid.

15. Every such keeper or lessee shall keep a correct weekly account of all cattle slaughtered at such house, and of the respective persons by or for whom the same shall have been slaughtered, and shall on every Monday transmit a copy thereof, signed by such keeper or lessee, to such district Inspector as aforesaid.

16. All persons slaughtering cattle at such house shall, immediately on being thereunto requested by the keeper, lessee, or inspector thereof, give every assistance in examining the hides of the cattle so slaughtered.

17. The word “cattle” as herein used shall be taken to include horned or neat cattle, sheep, goats, and swine.

18. Every such Inspector of Slaughter-houses as aforesaid is hereby authorised to sue all persons who shall, within his district, offend against any of the Rules and Regulations herein contained.

The foregoing Rules and Regulations shall take effect and be in force within the said Province from and after the 23rd day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

Wm. Brown,
Superintendent.

Waste Land Board Office,
Auckland, June 15, 1855.

The Wardens of the Hundred of Onehunga have appointed

Mr. Wm. Lorrigan
to be Ranger for the Hundred of Onehunga for the current year.

Charles J. Taylor,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Public Pound,
14th June, 1855.

Impounded at the Public Pound, Hundred of Auckland, Newmarket, by Mr. Wilson, for trespassing in an enclosed paddock at the Tamaki,

1 Strawberry Cow, branded AD on rump.

Also,

Impounded at the Public Pound, by the Ranger of the Onehunga Hundred, for running at large in the Hundred of Onehunga,

1 Yellow and White Steer, branded L off shoulder, and off ear slit.

If not claimed, to be sold at the Public Pound at noon on Monday, the 16th July next, agreeable to the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance, Vic. 11, Ses. 8, No. 6.

Joseph Osborne,
Pound-keeper.

Notice is hereby given that the Special Meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the Districts of Onehunga, Panmure, and Otahuhu, notified in the Government Gazette of the 4th inst., for the purpose of granting Slaughter House Licenses, is adjourned till 11 a.m. on Wednesday, the 27th June inst.

T. M. Haultain,
Resident Magistrate,
Resident Magistrate’s Court,
Onehunga, 18th June, 1855.