(III) The person to whom such animal or article belongs belonged at the time of sale or exposure for sale, or deposit for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale, or in whose possession or on whose premises it was found, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £10 for every animal, or article, or. if the article consist of fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, flour, rice. or the like, for every parcel, or, in the case of a liquid article, for every vessel or collection that was so condemned, or, at the discretion of the court, without the infliction of a fine, to imprisoment for a term not exceeding one month with or without hard labor.

(IV) Any person considering himself to be aggrieved by any act done under this section may apply to the police magistrate or a justice of the peace for a summons calling upon such chairman, medical officer of health, sanitary inspector, or assistant sanitary inspector to show cause why compensation should not be paid to such perso for such act, and upon the hearing of such summons the court may make such order, including an order as to costs, as may seem just.

PROTECTORATE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, NO. 6 OF MAY 31, 1917

ARTICLE 1. This ordinance may be cited as the " Protectorate public health ordinance, 1917."

ART. 2. (I) The governor in council may by order apply any of the provisions of the public health ordinance, 1912, hereinafter re ferred to as the principal ordinance, to any place not within the island of St. Mary.

(II) The powers vested in the board of health by the principal ordinance shall, in the case of such application of such ordinance. or any part thereof, be conferred upon the senior medical officer.

(III) The jurisdiction conferred upon the Bathurst police court by the principal ordinance shall in the case of any such application of the ordinance or any part thereof be exercised by the traveling commissioner of the province in which such place is situated, by the police magistrate, or by one justice of the peace, who shall, for the purpose of hearing charges under this ordinance, constitute a cour of summary jurisdiction in such places as the governor in council in such order shall define.

CUSTOMS (CONSOLIDATION)

(AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, NO. 18 OF 1925 (PROHIBITED

IMPORTS)

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ARTICLE 13. Section 45 of the principal ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:

45. (1) The goods enumerated and described in the following table of pr hibitions and restrictions inwards are hereby prohibited to be imported brought into the colony, save as thereby excepted. and if any goods so enumer ated and described shall be imported or brought into the colony contrary! the prohibitions or restrictions contained therein, such goods shall be forfeited and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the governor may direct.

British invoice, found in this handbook under Gold Coast (see p. 240) is required. Note the special notation (No. 6) which applies only on shipments to Gambia.

The usual exporter's declaration required by the United States customs regulations on all goods shipped out of the country is necessary.

SANITARY REQUIREMENTS

The importation and sale of foods in the Gambia territory of British West Africa are governed by the public health ordinance of May 16, 1912, amended to 1926. This ordinance provides only for the general restrictions against the sale of adulterated, unsound, and unwholesome food or that which is in any way unfit for food of man. Such food may be condemned and seized or destroyed or denatured to prevent its being used for the food of man. There are no special provisions relating to the use of preservatives, coloring matter, or artificial sweetening substances other than the general prohibition against adulterated and unwholesome foods; nor is there anything specified in regard to the labeling of canned and preserved foods or the metallic content of containers therefor. This ordinance is supplemented by the provisions in the customs consolidation ordinance amendment of 1925, which prohibits the importation of any article of food for human consumption declared by the chairman of the board of health as unfit for such consumption. It would appear that foodstuffs prepared in accordance with the United States food and drugs act would encounter no difficulty in entering this territory.

ART. 61. (I) The chairman of the board of health, the medical officer of health, a sanitary inspector, or assistant sanitary inspector, may at all reasonable times enter any premises and inspect and examine:

(a) Any animal intended for the food of man which is exposed for sale or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale; and

(b) Any article, whether solid or liquid, intended for the food of man and sold or exposed for sale or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale or the preparation for sale; and the proof that such animal or article was not exposed or deposited for any such purpose or was not intended for the food of man shall rest with the person charged.

(II) If any such animal or article appears to such chairman, medical officer of health, sanitary inspector, or assistant sanitary inspector to be diseased, decomposed, unsound, adulterated, unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man, he may condemn it and cause it to be seized or destroyed or so disposed of as to prevent it from being exposed for sale or used for the food of man.

Ch. 56 of Consolidated Laws of 1926.

CUSTOMS ORDINANCE OF OCTOBER 10, 1876 (AS AMENDED THROUGH 1918)*

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SEC. 47 (as amended by No. 13 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1916).

Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards

1. Goods absolutely prohibited to be imported:

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(2) Cattle and provisions prohibited to be imported except subject to the restrictions on imports herein contained:

* * * Provisions, meat, and vegetables unfit for human food, which shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the governor may direct.

SEC. 48 (as amended by customs ordinance, 1920).

(1) The importation of the articles and animals specified in this subsection is prohibited in the degree and manner hereinafter in such subsection declared respectively:

(a) In respect of the following an absolute prohibition on importation is imposed:

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(III) Meat, vegetables, and other provisions unfit for human food.

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shall

SEC. 49. If any goods enumerated or described in the following table of prohibitions and restrictions as cattle and provisions subject to certain restrictions on importation be imported or brought within the said limits contrary to the prohibitions or restrictions contained in such table in respect thereof, then, and in every case, such goods, cattle, and provisions shall be forfeited, and shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the government may direct. (As amended by No. 2 of 1916.)

Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards

2. Cattle and provisions prohibited to be imported except subject to the restrictions on importation herein contained:

* ** Provisions, meats, and vegetables unfit for human food, which shall be destroyed, or otherwise disposed of as the governor may direct.

NIGERIA AND BRITISH CAMEROONS

IMPORT DUTIES AND TAXES

Canned foods are free of duty in Nigeria, and there are no customs surcharges nor sales or other internal-revenue taxes applicable thereon. The ordinary handling charges at the port would, of course, apply to imports of all kinds. Imperial units of dry and liquid measure and the ordinary nonmetric units of weight are in use in this area.

British Cameroon mandate is under the Government of Nigeria, and the same duties and regulations apply throughout.

MARKING-DOCUMENTATION

Goods not of British origin will be prohibited entry into Nigeria when not bearing a counterindication of true origin if the marking contains a name or trade-mark of a manufacturer, dealer, or trader in the United Kingdom, or any other inscription which manifestly suggests that the goods are of British origin.

Documents covering goods going to Nigeria do not require consular visa. They should be invoiced according to the abbreviated form of standard British invoice found in this handbook under Gold Coast. (See p. 240.) Shipping documents should go forward under separate cover, not in a parcel of merchandise.

The usual exporter's declaration required by the United States customs regulations on all goods shipped out of the country is necessary.

SANITARY REQUIREMENTS

Ordinance No. 24 of 1917 governs the sale of food in Nigeria. This law provides for the inspection and analysis of any article of food. In addition it contains a general prohibition against the presence in foodstuffs of any ingredients which are harmful to health or which fraudulently increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or conceal its inferior quality. The Criminal Code of June 1, 1916, also restricts the sale of noxious or adulterated food or that which is unfit for the food of man.

Preservatives and colors.-There is no special mention of preservatives or of colors in the sale of food ordinance of Nigeria. The general prohibition against harmful or injurious ingredients in foods can be invoked against such preservatives and coloring substances as the officials may at any time declare to be of an injurious nature. Artificial sweetening. No special mention is made of the use of saccharin or other artificial sweetening in foodstuffs. Its presence would no doubt be prohibited under the general provision against harmful or injurious ingredients in foods.

Containers. In the absence of special regulations in regard to containers for foodstuffs, such containers as are permissible in the United States would encounter no difficulty in Nigeria.

Labels. No special labeling regulations are in force in Nigeria other than the prohibition against false labeling of foods and the general restriction against trade-marks or other indications of apparent British origin without a counterindication of the true country of origin as provided in order No. 40 of 1921.

NIGERIAN LAWS APPLYING TO CANNED FOODS

ORDINANCE NO. 24 OF 1917 (SALE OF FOOD)*

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ARTICLE 2. Definitions:

"Food

means any article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs and water; and includes aerated and mineral waters. "Analyst "" means an analyst appointed by the governor under section 7 and includes any analyst in the service of the government.

45 Ch. 55 of Consolidated Laws of 1923.

ART. 3. No person shall sell, to the prejudice of the purchaser, any article of food which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser.

Penalty: A fine of £20.

Provided that an offense shall not be deemed to be committed under this section in the following cases:

(1) Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug or to conceal the inferior quality thereof;

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(4) When the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation.

ART. 4. No person shall sell any compound article of food which is not composed of ingredients in accordance with the demand of the purchaser.

Penalty: A fine of £20.

ART. 5. Provided that no person shall be guilty of any offense under sections 3 or 4 in respect of the sale of an article of food mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended fraudulently to increase its bulk, weight, or measure or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article he shall supply to the person receiving the same a notice, by a label distinctly and legibly written or printed on or with the article, to the effect that the same is mixed.

ART. 6. No person shall, with the intent that the same may be sold in its altered state without notice, abstract from any article of food any part of it so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance, or nature, and no person shall sell any article so altered without making disclosure of the alterations.

Penalty: A fine of £20.

ART. 7. The governor may appoint analysts of all articles of food. ART. 8. Any vendor or purchaser of any article of food in any place where there is an analyst appointed under this ordinance may, on payment of a sum of 20 shillings, have such an article analyzed by such analyst and may receive from him a certificate of the result of his analysis.

ART. 9. Any customs or medical officer or sanitary inspector or any police officer of or above the rank of inspector or any police officer or other person acting on the instructions of a police officer of or above the rank of inspector may procure any sample of any article of food, and if he suspects the same to have been sold to him contrary to any provision of this ordinance shall submit the same to be analyzed by an analyst; and such analyst shall, with all convenient speed, analyze the same and give a certificate to such officer, wherein he shall specify the result of the analysis.

ART. 10. The person purchasing any article of food with the intention of submitting the same to analysis shall, after the purchase shall have been completed, forthwith notify to the seller or his agent selling the article his intention to have the same analyzed by an analyst, and shall offer to divide the article into three parts to be then and there separated, and each part to be marked and sealed or fastened up in such manner as its nature will permit, and shall, if