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FRANCE (PARIS).
By a decree of the 9th of February 1810, it was
resolved to remove all the private slaughter-houses
from Paris, and to conduct the business of
slaughtering animals in five public slaughterhouses
; namely, three on the right bank of the
Seine, and two on the left, but they were not
opened to the butchers of Paris until the month of
September 1818. From that time to the present
there have been many regulations concerning this
matter, and all these have been co-ordinated in the
grand ordonnance of the 25th of March 1830.
This ordonnance is composed of 301 articles, and
it embraces the discipline and commerce of the
abattoirs and boucheries of Paris ; it is, indeed, a
complete code of laws relating to this subject, and
is always adopted as the regulations to be applied
to new abattoirs in any part of France. These
regulations are so nearly like the regulations
already described as in force at Brussels, that thev
need not be reproduced.
The summary of the regulations in force in
the chief towns and cities of the continent is,—
1. That all markets are under strict supervision.