The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague.

The following Order in Council appeared in a
second supplement to the Loudon Gazette of Friday,
August 25 :
"At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 26th day of
August, 1865, by the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council ; present Sir George Grey, Bart., and Mr.
Secretary Cardwell.
" Whereas, by an Act passed in the Session of the 11th
and 12th years of her present Majesty's reign, int.ituled 'An
Act to prevent until the Ist day of September, 1850, and to
the end of the then next Session of Parliament, the spread-
ing of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep,cattle,
and others animals,' and which has since been from time
to*thne continued by divers subsequent Acts, it is (among
other things) enacted that it shall be lawful for the 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, horns, hoofs, or other part of any ani-
mals, or of hay, straw, fodder, or other articles likely to
propagate infection; and also for the purpose of purifying
any yard, stable, outhouse, or other place, or any waggons,
carts, carriages, or other vehicles ; and also for the purpose
of directing how any animals dying in a diseased state,
or any animals, parts of animals, or other -things
seized under the provisions of this Act, are to be dis-
posed of ; and also 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 regula-
tions for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of
the said act, and again to revoke, alter, or vary any such
orders or regulations ; and that all provisions for any of the
purposes 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 said act shall for each and every offence forfeit
and pay any sum not exceeding £2O, or such smaller sum as
the said Lords or others of her Majesty's Privy Council
may in any case by such order direct ;
"And whereas several orders, dated respectively the 24th
of July and the 11th and 18th of August, 1865, have been
made under the authority of the said acts by the Lords of
her Majesty's Privy Council, with a view to check the
spreading of the cattle disease described in the two last-
mentioned orders ;

" And whereas it is expedient to vary the said orders;
" Now, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil do hereby, by virtue of, and in exercise of the powers
given by the said acts, order as follows :
" I. That this order shall extend to all parts of Great
Britain.

"11. That in this order the word 'animal' shall be inter-
preted to mean any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf.
"111. That whenever the mayor or other principal officer
of any corporation, or the justices acting in and for the
petty sessional division of any county, or district in the
nature of a county, within England or Wales, and the pro-
vost or other principal magistrate of any burgh or town, or
the justices of any county within Scotland, shall have
reason to apprehend the approach of the said disease to
the district over which his or their jurisdiction extends,
it shall be lawful for such mayor, or other principal officer,
and for such justices in England or Wales, and for
such provost or other principal officer, and for such jus-
tices in Scotland, if he or they shall think fit, from time to
time to appoint one or more veterinary surgeon or sur-
geons, or other person or persons duly qualified, to be an
inspector or inspectors, for the purpose of carrying into
effect within the district for which he or they shall have
been appointed, the rules and regulations made by the said
recited orders and by this order. And the same authority
may from time to time revoke such appointment.
"IV. The powers of every inspector, appointed under
any of the said recited orders or this order, shall extend to
any fair or market held within his district, and to every
other place within such district, in which animals, as de-
fined in this order, may be found.
" V. Every such inspector shall have rower within his
district to order and direct that any animal which he sus-
pects to be labouring under such disease shall be kept sepa-
rate and apart from every other animal which appears to
be free from such disease. And every person having the
charge of any animals shall obey every such order or direc-
tion given by any such inspector.
" VI. Every such inspector shall have power within his
district to seize and slaughter, or causo to bo slaughtered,
and to cause to be buried in any convenient place, any ani-
mal labouring under such disease.

"VII. Every such inspector shall have power within
his district to cause to be disinfected, or, if necessary, de-
stroyed, any fodder or manure which he deems likely to
propagate the said disease; and every person within such
district, upon whose premises any such fodder or manure
shall be found, shall obey any order or direction given by
such inspector for that purpose.
" VIII. That it shall not be lawful to send or bring to
any fair or market, or to send or carry by any railway, or
by any ship or vessel coastwise, or to place upon, or to
drive along, any highway, or the sides thereof, any animal
labouring under such disease.

"IX. Every person offending against this order shall for
every such offence forfeit any sum, not exceeding £2O,
which the Justices before whom he or she shall be con-
victed of such offence may think fit to impose.

✓ARTHUR HELPS."