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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 209, 19 July 1878, Page 3

COUNTY OF AKAROA. PUBLIC NOTICE. "VTOTICE is hereby given, that a JJN SPECIAL MEETING of the Akaroa County Council will be held at Garwood's House on the Hill-Top, on THURSDAY, the Ist day of August, 1878, at 11 a.m., for the purpose of confirming -or otherwise the following resolution, passed at a special meeting of the Council held this day. E. S. LATTER, Clerk to the Council. Barry's Bay, July 4, 1878. Copy of Resolution. That the following By-laws for regulating the Licensing and Management of Slaughter-houses and the inspection thereof, and of cattle intended for slaughter, in the County of Akaroa, be made by this Council under the authority of The Slaughter-houses Act, 1877, and The Counties Act, 1876. Council of the County of Akaroa. By-law No. 1, 1878. A By-law to regulate the Licensing and Management of Slaughter-houses and the inspection thereof and of cattle intended for slaughter in the County of Akaroa. In pursuance of the provisions of the Counties Act 1876 and The Slaughterhouses Act 1877 the Council of the County of Akaroa do hereby ordor as follows that is to say— 1. Interpretation—Wherever in this bylaw any of the terms mentioned in section 5 of the Slaughter-houses Act 1877 are used such terms shall in the construction hereef have the meanings assigned to them by the said section of the said Act ' ■ unless there be something in the context or subject matter repugnant thereto. ! 2 Fee for Slaughter-house License— There shall be paid to the County Fund in respect of every License issued by the County Council for a Slaughter-house and in respect of every renewal of any such License the sum of Ten Shillings until the end of the present year and from and after that date the sum of One Pound sterling. 3. Slaughter-houses to be Kept Clean— Every keeper of a Slaughter-house shall at all times keep the same and the premises connected therewith and the appurtenances thereto belonging in a clean state and free from offensive effluvia and in all respects to the satisfaction of any inspector appointed or to be appointed under The Slaughter-houses Act 1877 and every such keeper of a Slaughter-house shall so dispose of the blood offal drainage and other refuse matter therefrom that the same shall not create a nuisance nor be offensive to persons residing or being in or passing through the neighborhood of such Slaughter-house and no keeper of a Slaughter-house shall permit any blood offal drainage or refuse matter to accumulate in upon or about the same or the premises connected therewith or to flow fall or be thrown or put into any river stream drain or watercourse. Every person who shall commit a breach of this by-law shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds and every such penalty shall be recoverable in the manner provided for the recovery of penalties by the said last mentioned Act. 4. Fees for Inspection of Cattle—There shall be paid to such Inspector as aforesaid by every keeper of a Slaughter-house in respect of cattle slaughtered therein the fees following that is to say for all large cattle the sum of Threepence for every head thereof and for all small cattle the sum of Threepence for every dozen head thereof provided that if and whenever the j number of small cattle slaughtered in any one week in any such Slaughter-house shall exceed eight dozen head the sum to be paid in respect thereof shall be at the rate of Threepence for every dozen head thereof up to eight dozen head and Twopence for every dozen head thereof above eight dozen head. Made by the Council of the County of Akaroa at a special meeting, duly convened, held this 4th day of July, 1878. E. C. LATTER, Chairman. E. S. LATTER, Clerk. BOROUGH OF AKAROA. PUBLIC NOTICE. "VTOTICE is hereby given, that a I_N SPECIAL MEETING of the Akaroa Borough Council will be held at the offices of the Council, Akaroa, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of JULY, 1878, at 7.30 p.m., for the purpose of confirming or otherwise, the following resolution, passed at a Special Meeting of the Council, held this day. a. i. McGregor, Town Clerk. Akaroa, June 26, 1878. [copy of resolution.] "That by-laws for regulating the licensing and management of slaughterhouses and the inspection , thereof, and of cattle intended lag- slaughter in the Borough of "Akaroa, be made by this Council, under the authority of the ' Slaughterhouses Act, 1877,' and the 'Municipal Corporations Act, 1876.'" A copy of the proposed by-law may be seen at the office of the Town Clerk. "VTEW ZEALAND INSURANCE KM COMPANY (FIRE AND MARINE). Established 1859. CAPITAL :—£1,000,000. Paid-up, £300,000 Risks taken at lowest rates. C. W. BRIDGE, Akaroa. D. CRAIG, Hereford-street, Christehurch.