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permission constitutes an offence. Any person may be directed to 

 quit the wharf, landing-stage, lair, or any building ; failure to comply 

 is an offence. 



If the Inspector of the Board finds that disease exists among the 

 animals in the reception lair, or other part of the wharf, all the 

 animals shall be detained, or moved to such other part as he may 

 permit, and then dealt with in accordance with instructions given by 

 him. 



When animals are landed the market authorities are responsible for 

 the supply of food and water until the owners take charge of them, and 

 the market authorities may take action against any omission in this 

 respect on the part of the owners. 



All animals shall be slaughtered within ten days after landing ; 

 the slaughter may begin at any time after landing as the Inspector 

 may direct. 



No carcase, dung, offal, litter, or manure can be removed from a 

 Foreign Animals Wharf without the permission of the Inspector, and 

 if in his opinion any such carcase or thing may introduce disease, the 

 same shall be destroyed ; offal or dung under any circumstance must 

 be disinfected before removal. 



Fittings of the vessel, pens, hurdles, utensils, etc., which have been 

 landed cannot be removed until scraped, scoured with water, and 

 sprinkled with a solution of carbolic acid and lime-wash, and then only 

 with the authority of the Inspector. Anything which in his opinion 

 may introduce disease is to be destroyed. 



An Inspector of the Board may require the disinfection and cleansing 

 of any part of the wharf by the market authorities, and such must be 

 done to the satisfaction of the Inspector. 



No animals other than foreign can at any time be landed or moved 

 into the Foreign Animals Wharf, and any animal found in this wharf 

 - is treated as a foreign animal. 



In the Foreign Animals Order is a chapter dealing with the landing, 

 disinfection and disposal of dung, fodder, litter, fittings and other 

 things belonging to foreign animals, other than those landed at a 

 Foreign Animals Wharf. This does not differ in any important 

 particular from the Begulations on the subject laid down for animals 

 landed at a Foreign Animals Wharf, excepting where consent is 

 required the local authorities of the district are the responsible 

 officials. 



The above chapter would appear to be especially applicable to the 

 landing of horses, mules, and asses, from foreign countries, for in a 

 subsequent chapter power is given the Principal Officer of Customs to 

 seize any of the above animals, fodder, litter, dung, and other thing, if 

 it appears to him disease may thereby be introduced ; the same officer 

 is then to report to the Commissioners of Customs, who may order 



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