GOVERNMENTAL INSPECTION 199 
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 40Brimmer v. Rebman, 133 
Augusta, 134 Ga. 178, 67 8. E. U.S. 78. 
417. 
