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management of the Public Slaughter-houses within the said Province, and for other purposes in the said section specified:—

1. No Cattle shall be slaughtered on Sundays in any Public Slaughter-house within the said Province.

2. On all other days such Houses shall be kept open during the hours hereinafter specified, for the slaughtering of cattle therein, and for skinning and dressing the carcases of the cattle so slaughtered.

3. From the first day of May to the first day of November in every year, such hours shall be from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and from the said first day of November to the first day of the month of May, thence next ensuing, such hours shall be from 3 a.m. to 7 p.m.; provided that for the said purposes the said Houses may be kept open three hours later on Fridays and Saturdays, and may be opened at 1 o’clock a.m. on Mondays.

4. No cattle shall be slaughtered at any such House except during the times hereinbefore prescribed; and every such House shall be closed and securely fastened within one hour from and after the latest time to which, under these Rules and Regulations, the same may be kept open.

5. The keeper or lessee (as the case may be) of every such house shall cause the same to be clean kept, and to be washed out every day (Sundays excepted), and shall cause the walls thereof to be scraped and white-washed on the inside once in every month, or twice if deemed necessary; and shall cause all manure, offal, and refuse, to be conveyed away daily from the said House and its premises; and shall cause all Stock-yards and Sheep-pens thereunto belonging to be kept clean and in repair; all utensils, tackle, &c., used in the Slaughtering of Cattle to be kept clean, and in serviceable condition.

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 before the same or any part thereof shall be taken away therefrom.

9. Withineighteen hours after the slaughter of any such head of Cattle every part of the carcase thereof, and all matter thence proceeding shall be taken away from such House and its premises.

10. Every person slaughtering Cattle at any such House shall pay to the keeper or lessee the fees mentioned in the Schedule to the said Act, before the removal of the carcase or carcases of such cattle, 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 such keeper or lessee shall, in the event of any diseased Cattle being brought for slaughter to or being slaughtered at such House, give immediate notice thereof to the Inspector of Slaughter-houses for the district wherein such House is situated.

12. 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.

13. Every such keeper or lessee shall keep a correct 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 for the preceding week signed by such keeper or lessee, to such district inspector as aforesaid.

14. All persons slaughtering Cattle at such House shall immediately on being thereto requested by the keeper, lessee, or inspector, give every assistance in examining the hides of the Cattle so slaughtered.

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

16. It shall be lawful for any person to deliver to such keeper or lessee any cattle for the purpose of being slaughtered, and the said keeper or lessee shall be responsible for such cattle so delivered to him for the purpose of being slaughtered, provided that such keeper or lessee shall not be responsible for a longer period than twenty-four hours.

17. No person shall cart or convey any carcase, or part of a carcase, unfit for human food, or any cattle in an injured or dying state, into any slaughter house, without the express permission of an Inspector of slaughter houses.

18. No person shall in any slaughter house, skin or dress any animal, or part of an animal, unfit for human food.

19. All persons working in any slaughter house, shall be subject to the orders of any Inspector of slaughter houses, and in the event of any person refusing or delaying to obey the orders of any such Inspector, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against these rules.

20. No person whatever shall be permitted to work in Slaughter houses unless licensed to do so in manner hereinafter mentioned.

21. Licences to work in the Slaughter houses shall be issued by the Provincial Treasurer on his being satisfied as to the character of the person to be licensed and on payment of a fee of One Pound. Such license shall be held to run for one year from 1st January, but may be revoked by