The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY

£l5 PREFERENCE SHARES, SECOND CALL OF
PER SHARE, MAKING THE AMOUNT CALLED
''l2 PER SHARE.

IN accordance with the terms on which these Prefer-
ence Shares were issued, HOLDERS of these SHARES are
required to PAY, on or before Mo , e 10th January,
1848, a CALL of FOUR POUN er SHARE, to either of the
undermentioned Bankers :

LONDON )17KGlyn and Co., Lombard-street
LIVERPOOL • erpool Borough Bank.
BANGOR Messrs. Williams and Co.

Interest at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum, will be
charged on all Calls remaining unpaid on the said 10th January.
By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary.
61, Ilfoorgate-street, London, 17th Dec., 1847.

UNWHOLESOME MEAT.
TO SLAUGHTER-HOUSE-KEEPERS, BUTCHERS,
DEALERS IN MEAT, AND OTHERS.
BOROUGH" OF LIVERPOOL.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, on and after
the First Day of January next, the Powers and Provisions
of an Act, passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Fifth
and Sixth Years of the Reign of her present Majesty, for the
Improvement, Good Government, and Police Regulation of the
Borough of Liverpool, relating to the SEIZING and DES-
TROYING of UNSOUND or UNWHOLE IR -MEAT, and
which Provisions are subjoined, will RICTLY ENFOR-
CED; and the Inspectors of Sla er-houses and Meat have
been enjoined and required se their utmost vigilance in
carrying out the same. order,
Town-hall, 29th De , 1847

WM. SHUTTLEWORTH,
Town-clerk.

The Provisions'Of the Act referred to are as follows :
By Section 178 it is enacted, " That it shall be lawful for any
of the Inspectors of Slaughter-houses and Meat, and they are
hereby authorized and empowered, at all times in the day or
night, with or without any servants or assistants, to enter into
and inspect any House or Place whatsoever, now or at any time
hereafter kept or used for the Slaughtering or Killing of Cattle
of any kind within the Borough, by any person whomsoever,
and also any Building, Shed, Yard, or Place belonging thereto,
such House or Place not being the actual Dwelling-house of any
person, and then and there to examine, search for, and see if
any Cattle, or the Carcases of any sach, is or are deposited or
have been brought there ; and, in case such Inspector as afore-
said shall find any Cattle, or the Carcase or part of the Carcase
of any such, which shall appear to be unsound or unwholesome,
or not fit for the Food of Man, it shall he lawful for such In-
spector to seize, take, and carry away, or direct the same to be
seized, taken, and carried away by any servant or assistant, for
the purpose of being further inspected and examined by com-
petent persons, according to the usual course and practice
heretofore adopted in the Borough ; and, in case, upon such
inspection and examination, such Cattle, Carcase, or part of a
Carcase, shall be found and be declared to be unsound or un-
wholesome, or not fit for the Food of Man, the same shall be
immediately burnt or destroyed; and, in case the Owner or
Occupier of any such House or Place, kept, or used for the
Slaughtering or Killing of Cattle, or of any Building, Shed,
Yard, or Place belonging thereto, or any other nerson, shall
refuse, obstruct, or hinder such Inspector from entering into
and inspecting the same, and examining, seizing, taking, carry-
ing away, or destroying any such Carcase or part of a Carcase
which shall so appear, and be found and declared to be unsound
and unwholesome, or unfit for the Food of Man, every such
Owner or Occupier, or person offending, shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding for each offence."

By Section 183 it is enacted, "That it shall be lawful for an
Inspector of Slaughter-houses and Meat, and he is hereby au-
thorized and empowered, to examine and inspect any Meat
hawked about for sale in any of the Streets, or exposed for sale
in anp other place within the said Borough, by any person
whatever : and if, upon such examination and inspection, any
Meat shall appear to be unsound or unwholesome, or not fit
for the Food of Man, it shall be lawful for such Inspector to
seize, take, and carry away, or direct the same to be seized,
taken, and carried away. by any servant or assistant, for the
purpose of being further inspected and examined by competent
persons ; and if, upon such inspection and examination, such
Meat shall be found and declared to be unsound or unwhole-
some, or not flt for the Food of Man, the same shall be imme-
diately burnt or destroyed; and in case any person shall re-
fuse, obstruct, or hinder such Inspector from examining and
inspecting, seizing, taking, carrying away, or destroying any
such Meat as aforesaid which shall so appear and be found and
declared to he unsound and unwholesome, or unfit for the
Food of Man, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £5
for each offence." _ _

By Section 184 it is enacted, " That if any Butcher, Dealer
in Meat, or other person shall expose or offer for sale in his
Shop, Stall, Warehouse, or on any part of his premises, or
otherwise, within the Borough, any unsound or unwholesome
Meat, Fish, or other Provisions unfit for the Food of Man,
every person so offending shall for every offence forfeit a sum
not exceeding 405., and such Meat, Fish, or other Provisions
shall and may be seized, carried away, and with by the In-
spectors of Slaughter-houses and Meat in such manner as is
hereinbefore provided touching the seizing and disposal of
unsound Meat."