SECTION 1. Republic Act Numbered Four hundred and nine, otherwise known as the Revised Charter of the City Manila, is amended by inserting between Articles XIV an XV thereof, a new article, to be known as Article XIV-A, which shall read as follows:
"ARTICLE XIV-A—Meat Inspection Board
"SEC. 80-A. Composition.—There is hereby created a Meat Inspection Board which shall be composed of the city veterinarian, as chairman, and the superintendent of the abattoir and the chief veterinary meat inspector. The chairman shall receive a compensation of eight thousand sand four hundred pesos per annum, and each of the members shall receive six thousand pesos per annum.
"SEC. 80-B DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE BOARD.—Meat Inspection Board shall;
"(a) Exercise supervision and control over all and private abattoirs, corrals, meat processing butchers' shops, packing plants and boiling down works.
"(b) Regulate and control the slaughtering of stock generally, and prohibit the slaughtering of stock in places, other than abattoirs under the supervision of the Board and provide for the inspection of meat and meat products destined for consumption.
"(c) Provide for the licensing and inspection of slaughterhouses, packing houses and butchers' shops, as we as of establishments where meats are dressed, processed or offered for sale.
"(d) Regulate and supervise the carriage, storage, and treatment of meat and the carriage and treatment of stock intended for slaughter generally.
"(e) Provide for the destruction and disposal of stock and of carcasses of stock and meat which are diseased and which are otherwise unfit for human consumption.
"(f) Provide for the branding of carcasses or meat of stock slaughtered at abattoirs.
"(g) Prescribe and collect slaughterhouse charges and fees for inspection, storage, corralling and cartage of stock or meat and inspection charges for imported meats and meat products.
"(h) Prescribe, regulate and control the slaughter of horses for food of animals.
"(i) Prescribe the qualifications and duties of meat inspectors and other employees of the Board.
"(j) Take charge of the design and construction of such abattoirs, stockyards and corrals as may be authorized by the City.
"(k) Promulgate, subject to the approval of the mayor, such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement effectively the provisions of this article.
"(l) Provide for measures to control and prevent the transmission of animal disease to man.
"(m) Provide for a system of inspection of fish and other marine products.
"(n) Provide for the inspection of milk and milk products thereof."