The record-union., 1893-02-27

| NNH,E BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
i county OF sacramento ordain as follows
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for any one
TO tie. bind by the legs or wings, or interlocll
the wings OF any poultry for transportation
IN this county, or for the keeping OF the same
IN the markets, or elsewhere, or to contne
| them in improperly or ill-constructed coops
or cages, or otherwise than as hereinafter pro-
| Vided by this ordinance.
Section ?. 1t shall be unlawful for any one
| to transport or 10 carry to or from market or
/ for the purpose of peddling or for any purpose
| whatever, chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks or
other kinds of poultry used for human food
coops or cages of sufficient dimensions to COM
fortably and humanely accommodate such
fowl or poultry therein contained.
Section 3. The dimensions of the coops or
cages TO be used in the transportation or con-
finement of poultry or fowls, for peddling,
sale or delivery or otherwise handled as aiore-
said, are hereby declared to be as follows
For turkeys and geese not less than twenty
eight t2S) inches in night in the clear
For chickens and ducks not less than six
teen (16) inches in hight in the clear.
Said coops or cages shall be constructed
that the poultry or fowls therein confined
shall have ample room in which to stand
comfortably, without crowding: no one of
such cOOpS or cages shall contain more than
twenty-four such fowls in one compartment
While fowls and poultry are thus confined
it is hereby made the duty of the person or
persons having them in charge to provide
such fowl and poultry with suficient food and
| fresh water ana air.
Section 4. II shall be unlawful for any one
| in this county transporting or carrying any
! live calf sheep, goat, hog, or other animal
used for human food, TO bind or tie the feet of
such animal, or to transport or carry it in n
cruel or inhuman manner. Bat whoever has
| the duty of transporting carrying such ami
mails shall provide such ways and means for
such transportation carriage as VIII most
efiectually protect said animals from injury
and suffering.
For the purposes of this section ii is hereby
made the duty OF persons transporting or car
rying he animals in this section enumerated
to construct pens or crates of sufficient dinen-
sions, with proper compartments, to enable
said animals to maintain a standiUg position
said pens or crates to be covered with hav or
straw that such animals may lie down with
comior:; provided, however, that this pro-
vision as TO compartments shall not apply TO
the transportation of hogs, which animals
may be transported in pens or crates undi-
vided into compartments a due regard being
had to the proper transportation of the hogs
so to avoid crowdlng too great number
into one pen.
Section 3. Every person convicted of Vo-
| lation of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be punished by a fine OF not less than
five tS5l nor more than one hundred tSlOOl
dollars, or by Imprisonment of not less than
two (2) nor more than fifty go days, or by
both such fine and Imprisonment
Section s. This ordinance snail take effect
ten days from ana after Its passage.
Adopted February 16, 1898, by the votes of
Miller, Todd, Curtis. Jenkins and Morrison
j. NJ. MORRISON Chairman
SEAL Attest w. b. HAMILTON Clerk
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