The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

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At the COUNCIL CUAIIDER, WHITEHALL, .
the 23rd day of November, 180.
By the Lords of Her hiajeaty's Moat Honourable
Privy Council.

PREBINT :

LORD PRIVY Sett.
DORI OF SORKIREV.
EMIL. Russia LL.
SIR GEORGE GRIIT.
MR. hin.tana GIRSOX.
Ma. Banos.
NATIIEREAS by an Act panted in the session
of the e'eventh and twelfth yeas of -Her,
present Majesty's reign, ohepter one hundred orniennert,:
intituled "An Act to prevent, RAW the lett
"day of September. 1850; net to.. tie then nett
to" of ,ketlintnent, the weeding. of oentarions

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Mlesty, chapter one hundred and nineteen, it is (amongst
other things) enact.), that it *hall be lawful for tire
Lords and others of Her Majesty's Privy Council, or any
two or more of them, from time to time to make
such Orders and Regulations as to them may seem
necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or regulating
the removal, to or from such parts or places as they
may designate in such Order or Orders, of sheep, cattle,
horses, swine, or other animals, or of meat, skins,
hides, borne, hoofs, or other parts of any animals, or
of hay, straw, fodder, or other articles likely to
propagete infection ; and also for the purpose of purify'
ing any yard, stable, outhouse, or other *see, or any
waggoua, -carte, earriagea, or other vehicles; and also
for the purpose of directing how any animal dying II
a diseased state, or any animals, parts of animals, or
other things seized under the provisions of the
said Act, are to be dispmei of;' and Alan
for the purpose of causing notices to be
given of the appearance of any disorder among sheep
cattle, or other animals, and to make any other Orders
or Regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the
provisions of the said Art, and again to revoke, alter,
or vary any such Orders or Regulations; and that all
provisions for any of the purpobe; aforesaid in any such
Order or Orders contained shall have the like force and
effect as if the same had been inserted in the said
Act; and that all persons offending against the same
shall for each and every offence forfeit end pay any
sum not exoeeding twenty pounds, or such smaller
sum as the said Lords or others of Her Mejesty'e Privy
Council may in any case by such Order direct:
And whereas a contagious or infectious disorder now
prevails among the cattle of Great Britain, which is
generally designated the `' Cattle Plague," and may be
recognized try the following symptoms
"Great depression of the vital powers, frequent
"shivering, staggering gait, cold extremities, quick and
" short breathing, drooping head, reddened eyes, with
" a discharge from them, and also from the nostrils,
"of a muctous nature, raw looking places on the inner
" aide of the lips and roof of the mouth, diarrhoea or
"dysenteric purging
And whereas several Orders, dated respectively the
24th of July, the 11th, 18M, and 26th of August,
the 22nd of September, and the 21st of October, 1865,
have been made tinder the authority of the said Acts
by the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council, with a
view to check the spreading of the slid disorder:
And whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend
the said Orders, and to make further provisions with a
view to check the spreading of the said disorder:
Now, therefore, the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy
Council do hereby, by virtue of, and in exercise of the
powers given by, the said Act, so oontinued as afore-
said, order as follows :

-1. Thio Order shall intend to all parts of Groat
Britaio.

2. The said Orders dated respectively the 24th of
July, the 11th, 18th, and 26th of August, the 22nd of
September, and the 31st of October 1865, are revoked,
with the exception of so much of the said Order of the
2.11 h of July 1865 as empowers the Clerk of Her
Majesty's Privy Council to appoint inspoctors within
the limits of the Metropolitan Police District, provided
that such revocation shall not affect any appointment
made, or any notice given, or any act done, or penalty
reolverable, under any Order hereby !yoked.
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3. In tins Order Vie word " aninlal" shall mean any
cow, heifer, bull, bullock, or, calf, sheep, lamb, goat, or
swine; and the wort • huipector shall include any
Inspector appointed or to be appointed as aforesaid by
the said Clerk of Her Majesty's Privy Council, or
appointed under this Order, or under any of the said
revoked Orders.

4. Whenever the Local Authority, as herein-
after defined, shall be satisfied of the existence
of the said disorder in, or have reason to
apprehend its approach to, the district over which
Ins or their jurisdiction extends, it shall be
lawful for inch Local Authority, if be or they shall
thins fit, from time to time to appoint one or more
Veterinary Surgeon or Surgeons, or other duly qualified
person or persons to be an Inspector or Inspectors, for
the purpose of carrying into effect the rules and regula-
tions made by this Order, within the district for which
he or they shall have been appointed. And the same
authority may, from time to time, revoke such appoint-
ment.

5. Subject to the powers herein-reserved to the Clerk
of Her Majesty's Privy Col2lloi I, the Local Authority
within the City of London, and the liberties thereof,
shall be the Lord Mayor; in any municipal borongh in
England or Wales, the Mayor; in any Petty Sessional
Division in England or Wales (exclusive, Co far as re-
)ates to the jurisdiction of the Inspector, of so much of
the said division as lies within the limits of a municipal
borough for which an Inspector has been appointed),
the Justices acting in and for such Petty Seesional
Division. The Local Authority in any burgh or town
in Scotland which is subject to the jurisdiction of a
Provost or other Principal Magistrate, shall be the
Provost or such Principal Magistrate ; and, in any other
place in Scotland not within the jurisdiction of such
Provost or other Principal Magistrate, the Justices of
the County in SessMna assembled.

B. every Inspector shall from time to time report to'
the Local Authority by whieh he is appointed the steps
taken by him for carrying into effect the regulations
prescribed by tide Order; and the Local authority shall
certify, in mesh manner as may be directed by one of
Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the number
of days that such Inspector has actually been engaged
in the performance of his duty, and the number of
miles travelled by him while so engaged.

7. Every Inspector shall furnish the Lords of the
Council with such information in regard to the said
disorder, as their Lordships may, from time to time
requite.

8. ,Every pontos having in his possession, or under
his custody, any animal labouring under the maid dis-
order, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Inspector
of the district within which such animal may be, or if
no Inspector shall have been appointed for snob district
then to the Officers hereinafter-named, aooording to the '
place where such animal may be; that is to say: within
the Metropolitan Pullin District, to the said Clerk of
the Privy council; within the City of London and the
liberties thereof, to the Lord Mayor; within any other
borough, burgh, or town, subject to the jurisdiotion of
• Mayor, Provost, or other Principal Magistrate, to
such Mayor, Provost, or other Principal Magistrate;
elsewhere in England, to the Clerk of the Justices
meting in and for the Petty Sessional Division; and
elsewhere in Scotland, to the Clerk of the Peace of the
county.
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9. Every Inspector shall have yowls; within the dirs.
trict for which he is appointed, to enter upon and
inspect any premises or plata 'in which any animal or
animals whioh he suspects to be labouring under the said
disorder may be found, and to examine and inspect,
whenever and wherever he may deem it necessary, any
animal which he suspects to be labouring under the said
disorder within such district.
10. Every Inspector shall have power within his
district to cause to be cleansed and disinfected, in any
manner which he may think proper, any premises in
which animals labouring under the said disorder have
been, or may be, and to cause to be disinfected, and if
necessary destroyed, any fodder, manure, or refuse
matter, which he may deem likely to propagate the said
disorder. And every owner er occupier of such pre-
wises shall obey any order given by such Inspector for
that purpose.
11. Every person having in his possession, or under
his costody, any animal labouring under the said die-
order, shall keep such animal separate from all other
animals, and no person shall send or bring to any fair
or market, or expose for sale, or send or tarry by any
railway, or by any ship or vessel ooastwise, or place
upon, or drive along, any highway or the sides thereof,
any such animal.
12. No person having in his possession or under his
custody any animal labouring under the said disorder,
or which has been in the same shed or stable, or in the
same herd or t oak, or in contact with any animal
labouring under the said disorder, shall remove such
animal alive front his land or premises, without the
license of an Inspector, or if no Inspector has been
appointed for the district within which such animal may
be, without the licence of a Jostioe of the Pesos acting
In and for the jurisdiction within which each animal
may be; provided that each lioenee shall be in writing,
and ‘,all only permit the removal of such animal to
- where it can be conveniently kept apart
..uer animals until mach Inspector or justice is
that there is no reasonable probability of such
•propagating the said disorder.
No person shall place or keep any animal
laheuring under the said disorder in any common or un-
enclosed land, or, tf the animal be in a district for
which an Inspector has been appointed, in any field, or
-pasture, where, in the judgment of the Inspector, mob
taiinial nay be likely to propagate the said disorder.
14. Every Inspector shall have power within his
'district to direct that any animal labouring under the
Paid disorder, or which he suspects to be labouring
ander the said disorder shall be kept separate from
free from the said disorder. And every person
Ii animal hi his possession or under his
Jail obey any direction given by snob In-
rr that purpose. And where the person Laving
mal in his possession or tinder his custody shall
such direction given by such Inspector, then
such ease, and such case only, shall such In.
have power to seize and slaughter, or to cause
seised and slaughtered, such anuapaL