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the one named in the license as being licensed to use the place.
I may add that the Council, in the slaughter-house (or cow-house)
license, state that they "do hereby license A, B being a person
carrying on the business of a slaughterer of cattle" (or a cowkeeper,
as the case may be), "to use a certain place, being a
slaughter-house" (or cow-house)—situation described—"in the
Parish of Kensington, in the County of London, as a slaughterhouse
" (or cow-house), the duration of the license being for one
year. It is quite true that it is the place that is licensed, and
your Vestry's purpose in asking for information has been sufficiently
answered by the Council's reply. The Council, I may
add, expressly stated, with reference to a particular case cited, that
their "regulations are for prescribing and regulating dairies and
cowsheds in the occupation of persons following the trade of cowkeeper
or dairyman, and that the occupier" (even though he be
not the licensee)" is the person who would be responsible for the
observance of the regulations, or any breach thereof." In the
case mentioned, an offence having been committed, the Vestry, as
the Council were informed, had " felt that they could not proceed
under the regulations of the Local Authority, the offender not
being the licensee, and the licensee not being the offender." It
now appears that your Vestry might have proceeded against the
offender for breach of the regulations. Proceedings were
successfully prosecuted under the Sanitary Act.
I am glad to be able to report that the Council no longer
suffer horses to be stabled in cow-houses, their practice, in this
respect, now corresponding with the views I submitted to, and
which were approved by your Vestry many years ago.
BAKEHOUSES.
The Bakehouses, to the number of 148, viz., 81 in North
Kensington, i.e., north of Uxbridge Road, and 67 in South
Kensington, i.e., the remainder of the parish south of that road,