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out authority in the matter of animals slaughtered 

 for consumption within the state where slaugh- 

 tered. Many of these local establishments are 

 unsanitary in construction, and arrangement, and 

 facilities for satisfactory examinations are almost 

 totally lacking. The result is that the intrastate 

 meat industries are conducted in a most unsatis- 

 factory manner, and their products are lacking in 

 governmental endorsement. Because they are con- 

 ducted in a cheap manner, lacking in sanitary 

 precautions, and also because there is less loss 

 through rejection of unfit carcasses, these uncon- 

 trolled establishments can undersell the reliable 

 products. Because they sell cheap meats local 

 interests frequently oppose regulation of the trade. 



154. Municipal Control. Ordinances regulating 

 the location and operation of slaughterhouses, and 

 regulating the sale of meat products, are fre- 

 quently enacted by municipalities, under the gen- 

 eral provisions of charters and state statutes. Such 

 ordinances are only partially effective, and they 

 may be void because of unjust discriminations 

 and restrictions of trade.^" They may be set aside 

 as unnecessarily onerous on account of the fees 

 charged, and because not strictly health regula- 

 tions.^*^ 



Such municipal ordinances are only justifiable 

 in the absence of state regulation of the industry. 

 They are generally inefficient, and the require- 

 ments of adjoining municipalities may be conflict- 

 ing. 



39 Armour & Co. v. City of <" Brimmer v. Eebmau, 133 



Au^ista, 134 Ga. 178, 67 S. E. U. S. 78. 

 417. 



