The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-18 00:00:00

A T THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITE-
-El. HALL, the 24th day of July, 1865, by the Lords of
hgr Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
Present—Lord President, Sir George Grey, Bart.,
Mr. Milner Gibson.

Whereas by an act passed in the session of the eleventh
and twelfth years of her present Majesty's reign, intituled
"An Act to prevent until the Ist day of September, 1850,
and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, the
spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among
sheep, cattle, and other animals," and which has since
been from time to time continued by divers subsequent
acts, it is (amongst 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 de-
signate 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 animals, 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 disposed of ; and also for the purpose of
causing notices to be given of the appearance of any dis-
order 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 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 such case by such
order direct.

And whereas a contagious or infectious disorder, of which
the nature is at present uncertain, has lately appeared, and
now prevails among cattle within the metropolis and in
the neighbourhood thereof, and it is expedient to take
measures for preventing such disorders from spreading,
Now, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council
do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers given
by the said recited act, and by the several acts continuing
the same aforesaid, order as follows :

1. If at the date of the publication of this order in the
"London Gazette," there shall be any cow, heifer, bull,
bullock, or ox labouring under any contagious or infectious
disorder in the possession or custody of any cowkeeper,
dairyman, or dairywoman, or of any milkman or milk-
woman, or vendor or purveyor of milk, or of any dealer in
cattle whatsoever within the City of London or within the
limits of the metropolitan police district, or if at any time
hereafter, while this present order shall continue in force
and unrevoked, any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, or ox, being
in the possession or custody of any such person as afore-
said within the said City of London or within the metro-
politan police district shall be seized or attacked with, or
be found labouring or suffering under, any such contagious
or infectious disorder, notice of the existence of such dis-
order, or of the first appearance of such disorder in or
among the cattle belonging to or in custody of any such
person as aforesaid, shall immediately thereupon be given
by the person in whose possession or custody such diseased
animals or animal shall be, to the clerk of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council in waiting at the office of
liar Majesty's Privy Council at Whitehall, in the county
of Middlesex ; and it shall be lawful for the said clerk of
her Majesty's Privy Council, and for all such persons as
shall by writing under his hand authorise in that behalf
thereupon, and at all reasonable times thereafter, to in-
spect or examine all or any such diseased animals or ani-
mal, and to report to the Lords of her Majesty's Privy
Council all such information and particulars as to the na-
ture or character of such disorder as may seem to him ex-
pedient for the purpose of enabling proper regulations to
be made for preventing or checking the further propaga-
tion and increase of such disorder.
2. Every person offending against this order, and omit-
ting to give such notice or to permit such inspection and
examination as aforesaid, shall for every such offence for-
feit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, which the jus-
tices before whom he or she shall bo convicted of such
offence may think fit to impose.
(Signed)
EDMUND HARRISON.