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frauding the municipal revenue, and, it may be, selling 
unsound meat. In my opinion, the Municipality should be 
encouraged to have their own slaughter house; and the 
General Board of Health ought, without delay, to make 
regulations for all such establishments. A Veterinary Sur- 
geon should be appointed at a fixed salary, and with power 
to examine all and every animal before it is killed, and to 
give his permit : no meat, either beef, veal, or mutton, etc. 
could be offered for sale, except on producing the permit, 
to the proper officer. A fee would be paid for every permit, 
before the carcase were removed. The public would thus 
have a guarantee that no unsound meat would be offered 
for sale, and the municipality could not be defrauded. Any 
person found huckstering meat in any place within the town 
without a permit, should be apprehended and brought be- 
fore a Justice of the Peace to be dealt with according to 
the law. 
Under the 49th clause of the Police Ordinance, any person 
keeping swine in Port-of-Spain, except in some licensed 
place, becomes liable to a penalty : and yet, pigs are met 
in almost every street. Swine are dirty animals, subject 
to loathsome disease ; and pigsties are very offensive. I 
suggest that they be not kept in town, under any pretext : 
and every pig found at large ought to be destroyed, and the 
owner fined. 
A large number of cows is kept in town, and numerous 
goats are met, almost everywhere, though it is forbidden to 
allow them to roam about. Goats are cleanly, and only 
troublesome : but cows may become a nuisance, if not kept 
cleanly and in proper pens ; their dung is, either washed 
into the streets in a diluted state, or deposited on the tho- 
roughfares. The law should be enforced as regards goats; 
