The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

George Hall Lawrence,

Simon Lee Trotman,
Ambrose Lace,

John Platt,

James Aspinall, John Sheppard,
I William Fawcett, Richard Harbord.
It is ordered and ordained by the said Council, and we,
the said Council, do hereby order and ordain, and make
the following Bye-laws, to commence and take effect from
the Thirtieth day of November next :
1. That no carcase, or part of any carcase, of any
Bull, Ox, Cow, Heifer, Calf, Ram, Ewe, Wether, Sheep,
Lamb, Boar, Sow, Pig, or any other animal intended for
the food of man, shall be dressed or prepared for sale by
the process commonly called " blowing," or otherwise,
so as to give a deceptive appearance of plumpness or fat-
ness to the same; and that no such carcass, or part of
any such carcase, so as aforesaid dressed or prepared for
sale, shall be sold, or exposed for sale, within the Bo-
rough, or hung up in any Shop or Slaughter-house within
the Borough ; and that every person so, as aforesaid,
dressing or preparing for sale any such carcase, or part of
any such carcase, within the Borough, or selling or ex-
posing for sale within the Borough, or hanging up, or per-
mitting or suffering to be hung up, in any shop or slaugh-
ter-house within the Borough, any such carcase, or
part of any such carcase, so dressed, or prepared for sale,
as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for each and every such
offence the fine or sum of Twenty Shillings, and for each
and every such offence which shall be alleged and proved
to have been committed, after the conviction of the said
person of any previous offence against this Bye-law, the
fine or sum of Forty Shillings.
2. That no carcase, or part of any carcase, of any Bull,
Ox, Cow, Heifer, Calf, Ram, Ewe, Wether, Sheep,
Lamb, Boar, Sow, Pig, or other animal intended for the
food of man, shall be dressed or prepared for sale artifici-
ally, by stuffiing the loins or testicles, or any part of the
animal, with fat or otherwise, so as to give a deceptive
appearance of plumpness or fatness to the same ; and that
no carcase, or part of a carcase, of any small Sheep shall
be dressed or prepared for sale as Lamb, or part of Lamb ;
and that no such carcase, or part of any such carcase, of
any such Bull, Ox, Cow, Heifer, Calf, Ram, Ewe, We-
ther, Sheep, Lamb, Boar Sow, Pig, or other animal, or
small Sheep, so as aforesaid respectively dressed, or pre-
pared for sale, shall be sold, or exposed for sale, within
the Borough, or hung up in any Shop or Slaughter-house
within the Borough ; and that every person so as aforesaid
dressing or preparing for sale any such carcase, or part of
any such carcase, within the Borough, or selling or ex-
posing for sale within the Borough, or hanging up, or per-
mitting or suffering to be hung up, in any Shop or Slaugh-
ter-house, within the Borough, any such carcase, or part
of any such carcase, so dressed or prepared for sale as
aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for each and every such
offence the fine or sum of Twenty Shillings, and for each
and every such offence which shall be alleged and proved
to have been committed, after the conviction of the same
person of any previous offence against this Bye-law, the
fine or sum of Forty Shillings.
(Signed)
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, Mayor.