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Provision against Sale of unwholesome Meat;
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XLVIII. In any Shop, Building, Stall, or Place kept or used for the Sale of Butchers Meat, Poultry, or Fish, no Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish which is unfit for the Food of Man shall be kept or retained, unless entirely separate and apart from any Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish which is intended for such Food, nor unless the same be ticketed in large and legible and conspicuous Characters as being unfit for such Food; and any Person who shall keep in any Shop, Building, Stall, or Place occupied or used by him as aforesaid any Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish which is unfit for the Food of Man otherwise than entirely separate and apart, and ticketed as aforesaid, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds; and the Inspector of Nuisances, Officer of Health, or any other Officer appointed by the Commissioners for that Purpose, may and he is hereby empowered, at all reasonable Times, with or without Assistants, to enter into and inspect any Shop, Building, Stall, or Place kept or used for the Sale of Butchers Meat, Poultry, or Fish, or as a Slaughter-house, and to examine any Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish which may be therein; and in case any Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish appear to him to be intended for the Food of Man, and to be unfit for such Food, the same may be seized; and if it appear to the Chairman of the Commissioners, upon the Evidence of a competent Person, that any such Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish is unfit for the Food of Man, he shall order the same to be destroyed, or to be so disposed of as to prevent its being exposed for Sale or used for such Food; and the Person to whom such Animal, Carcass, Meat, Poultry, Game, Flesh, or Fish belongs, or in whose Custody the same is found, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every Animal or Carcass, Fish, or Piece of Meat, Flesh, or Fish, or any Poultry or Game, so found, and as to which such Magistrate shall be satisfied that it was intended for the Food of Man.
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