Provision of municipal slaughter-houses

(1) (a) the municipal council shall provide a sufficient number of places within municipal limits for use as municipal slaughter-houses and may charge rents and fees for their use at such rates as it may deem fit.

1. (b) Such rents and fees shall be recoverable in the same manner as the property tax.

1. (2) The council may --(a) place the collection of such rents and fee under management of such persons as may appear to it proper, or
   • (b) farm out such collection for any period not exceeding three years at a time and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit.