provisions contained in the eleventh section of "The Slaughter-house Act, 1866," of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Auckland, I do hereby make and promulgate the following Rules and Regulations for the management of the Public Slaughter-houses within the said Province, and for other purposes in the said section specified:—And I declare that the Rules and Regulations now in force shall continue until the last day of January 1867, and then cease to be of any force and that the Rules and Regulations hereby made shall be in full force on and after that day:—

1. No cattle shall be slaughtered on Sundays in any Slaughter-house.

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. Such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Provided always that on Monday mornings, for the said purposes, the said houses may open immediately after midnight.

4. No cattle shall be slaughtered nor carcase skinned or dressed 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. No portion of any animal shall be delivered or removed from any slaughter-house after 5 o’clock p.m. unless delivered and removed with the carcase thereof; and, no carcase shall be delivered or removed from such slaughter-house after 7 o’clock p.m., when the delivery gates shall be closed.

6. 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 and doors thereof to be scraped and white-washed on the inside once in every month, or twice if deemed necessary; and shall cause each day’s manure, offal, and refuse, to be conveyed away from the said House and its premises before 5 o’clock a.m. of the following day; 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, and the keeper or lessee shall be answerable for the safe keeping of all utensils, tackle &c., belonging to such house.

7. The keeper or lessee shall not allow any cattle to run at large in any such House, or on the premises thereunto belonging.

8. Cattle taken to any such House to be slaughtered, shall be slaughtered in such House, and not elsewhere.

9. The carcases 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 taken away therefrom, provided always that carcases of veal and lamb, may be removed with skins on, if slaughtered and dressed six hours previously.

10. Within eighteen 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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 Slaughter-houses as aforesaid.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. It shall be lawful for any person to deliver to such keeper or lessee, before sunset, 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, and such keeper or lessee shall impound all cattle which have been in yards or pens for a longer period than forty-eight hours.

17. No person shall cart or convey any carcase, or part of a carcase, or any cattle in an injured or dying state, to 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.