Page images
PDF
EPUB

Art. 11.-On refusal to pay the above-mentioned penalty, the burgher senate is to forward to the fiscal a certificate from the two said commissioners who have examined the shops and detected the transgression, in order that he may take the necessary steps for recovering the same; the respective landdrosts are to act upon certificates from a commission of heemraden.

Art. 12.-No other persons but the licensed bakers shall be allowed to bake and sell bread or sea biscuit, under a penalty of Rds. 500; neither shall any other person sell flour from Cape wheat, in a less quantity than two hundred pounds, under a like penalty of Rds. 500.

[ocr errors]

Art. 13. The price of sea biscuit and fine flour shall also be fixed by the burgher senate; but the biscuits usually called butter or sugar biscuits, are not included therein.

Art. 14.—In case of a complaint being lodged, or a difference arising respecting the price of baking biscuit, the parties are to address themselves to the burgher senate for their decision.

Art. 15.-None of the above-mentioned orders shall extend to the contractors for supplying government, the army or navy, with bread, biscuit or flour; such contractor must act agreeable to the tenor of his contract; but, however, he must be obliged to apply at the secretary's office for a licence.

The penalties levied by virtue hereof to be divided: one third to the fiscal or landdrost who prosecutes for the same, one third to the informer, and the remaining third to government's treasury; but should there not be any informer, in such case his third to be paid into the town treasury, or that of the district where the penalty has been levied.

Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, this 14th November 1809.

[blocks in formation]

[Copy.]

Regulations for the Licensed Butchers.

Art. 1.-Any person desirous of carrying on the Butcher's trade in Cape Town or Simon's Town, is to acquaint the burgher senate of his intention either personally or in writing before ultimo October of the then current year, and he is not to commence until the 1st of January following, nor to discontinue till the expiration of a year; for the due performance of which he must bind himself by a bond, to be executed before the commissioners of the burgher senate, in a penalty of Rds. 1,500, for the payment of which he shall find two good and sufficient securities, who must also bind themselves by the same bond; he is then to apply at the secretary's office for his licence for one year, which is to be on such stamp as is enacted by the colonial laws.

Art. 2.—Every butcher shall be obliged to place a sign-board outside the door of his shop, with his name distinctly painted thereon in large letters, and underneath, the words 'licensed butcher.'

Art. 3. The butchers shall be obliged to keep their shops open every day from sun-rise till eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and from three o'clock in the afternoon till sun-set, during which time they are to supply every person without distinction with good and wholesome meat for ready money.

Art. 4.-Eight days before the expiration of each month the butchers are to inform the burgher senate of the price at which they intend to sell meat and fat the ensuing month; which price they are not to raise during that time without the express consent of the burgher senate, which is to examine their reasons for so doing, and if they appear unfounded, to refuse complying therewith; but should the butchers find themselves aggrieved thereby, they shall have the right of addressing government.

Art. 5.-In order that the public may be properly informed of the price of meat, the burgher senate, at the commencement of every month, is to cause the necessary notice, signed by their secretary, to be affixed by their messenger under the sign-board of each butcher; and if such notice should be lost, immediate information to be given to the secretary, who shall cause another of the same tenor to be affixed in the place thereof.

Art. 6.-In case a butcher is found to have given short weight,

or to have sold meat or fat at a higher price than has been fixed agreeable to the foregoing article, he shall forfeit for the first offence Rds. 100, for the second Rds. 300, and for the third offence Rds. 1,000.

Art. 7.-The fiscal, as well as the burgher senate and the respective landdrosts, shall have the right, whenever they may think proper, to cause the butchers' shops to be examined by one or more of the members; and in case unwholesome meat, or weights not properly assized be found, such butcher shall forfeit for the first offence Rds. 100, for the second Rds. 300, and for the third offence Rds. 1,000, and be deprived of his licence.

Art. 8.-Every butcher shall furnish the person or persons whom he employs to purchase cattle agreeable to the custom at present in use herewith, the following documents:

(a) A written instruction, on which such person or servant is to make oath before the fiscal, or the magistrate thereto appointed, that he will not act otherwise than is laid down therein, unless he has legal permission to the contrary.

(b) A printed list in blank, which is to be filled up with the number of wethers or black cattle which he has purchased, the names of the sellers, the price of each, and the total amount.

(c) Printed orders, usually called bonds, in blank, (to be had at the printing office,) which must be signed by the butcher himself, to be filled up by the purchaser, and then also signed by him; any butcher transgressing this Article shall forfeit Rds. 1,000; and if the purchaser transgresses, he renders himself liable to be punished by confinement in prison, or in such other manner as the case may require.

Art. 9.-In case any butcher fails to make immediate payment of any of the said bonds on their being presented, the holder is to make application to the president of the court of justice, who shall send the messenger of the court to demand payment, which, if not then made, a decree to be granted for immediate execution.

Art. 10. The butchers shall cause the cattle to be driven in to their slaughter-houses, and there slaughtered early in the morning before eight o'clock, under a penalty of Rds. 100 for each beast killed in the town after that hour; and in case any butcher may be under the necessity of killing cattle after that hour, he may do so, but it must be done at a kraal outside the town, and have the meat brought to his shop.

Art. 11.-The butchers shall have the blood of the cattle killed in their shops, and other filth, put into tubs, and have the same carried away and thrown into the sea, under a penalty of Rds. 100; but the blood and filth so removed must not be carried through the streets between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the evening.

Art. 12.-No butcher or other person shall slaughter cattle in the street, or with open doors, on a penalty of Rds. 100.

Art. 13. The butchers shall cause their shops to be properly cleaned twice a day, namely at twelve o'clock and at sun-set, under a penalty of Rds. 25 for each offence.

Art. 14. The butchers shall report at the end of every month to the burgher senate the number of cattle killed and sold by them in the course of said month, and also the quantity still in their possession, together with the number of persons they have sent into the country to purchase cattle, under a penalty of Rds. 100 for each offence.

Art. 15.-On refusal to pay any of the above-mentioned penalties, the fiscal to commence the necessary prosecution before the court of justice, or their commissioners, for the recovery of the same, agreeable to usage.

The penalties levied by virtue hereof to be divided: one third to the fiscal or landdrost who prosecutes for the same, one third to the informer, and the remaining third to government's treasury; but should there not be any informer, in such case his third to be paid into the town treasury, or that of the district where the penalty has been levied.

Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, this 14th November 1809.

(Signed) J. J. Vos, President.

By order of the Burgher Senate aforesaid.

(Signed) J. B. HOFFMAN, Secretary.

[blocks in formation]

[Original.]

Letter from VICE ADMIRAL BERTIE to the
HONOURABLE W. W. POLE.

La Bourbonaise, TABLE BAY, 15th November 1809.

SIR,-I am to acknowledge the honor of your letter from Mr. Barrow under date the 24th May received by His Majesty's Ship La Magicienne the 7th instant, acquainting me it is their Lordships' particular direction that I should desist from the practice of putting Black Slaves into any of His Majesty's Ships proceeding to England. I have etc.

[blocks in formation]

Letter from VICE ADMIRAL BERTIE to the
HONOURABLE W. W. POLE.

La Bourbonaise, TABLE BAY, 16th November 1809.

SIR,—I have the honor to acquaint you, for the information of their Lordships, that La Caroline French Frigate, captured at St. Paul's in the Island of Bourbon, having been surveyed and found fit for His Majesty's Service, I have commissioned that Ship under the name of La Bourbonaise, and have given the command of her to Captain Corbet of His Majesty's Ship Nereide, and the temporary command of the latter to Captain Willoughby of the Otter, until their Lordships' pleasure shall be known. I have etc. A. BERTIE.

[Original.]

(Signed)

Letter from VICE ADMIRAL BERTIE to the
HONOURABLE W. W. POLE

La Bourbonaise, TABLE BAY, 16th November 1809.

SIR, I have the honour to transmit herewith, for the information of their Lordships, copies of my correspondence with His

« PreviousContinue »