The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-31

five residents of that district
who own severally not less than
500 healthy sheep. The board shall
meet once a year, and when scab pre-
walls, once a month. Every three
months the inspectors report to the
chief inspector at Victoria, and their
reports are published in the GoUeIR-
meat Gazette.
For the fulfilment of the duties of
his district, the inspector is endow-
ed with powers similar to those of
constable. He may enter any land,
enclosure, place or building; he may
inspect account or record books of
the flock he may require detailed
description of sheep by ages, etc.,
their brands, and exact location
from the owner. The inspector
keeps a register OF his district, based
on this information. He has control
of brands, and may direct their al
teration; every owner must brand
all sheep over six months old,
Preventive measures follow next.
All sheep are deemed infected, and
must be treated in full according to
rules, which actually have the scab;
which within four months have had
the scab; which are branded with
the letter S, as hereafter mentioned;
which have been kept, within four
months, on any run where there
were infected sheep, or which have
been travelling over or upon such a
run or land. All sheep once infect
ed shall continue to be deemed so
until a certificate from the inspector
to the contrary is obtained. One
scabby sheep condemns a whole
flock.
Every owner shall Immediately
brand all iul, cted sheep, such as
above described, with the letter S,
this brand to be removed only on
obtaining the inspectors certificate
of non-infection; to break this rule
infiicts fine. The owner shall also
Immediately notify the inspector in
writing of the disease; he shall post
notice at every entrance to his
land he shall every two weeks ad-
vertise the fact in local newspaper !;
and within fourteen days he shall
dip his sheep according to direc.
tions provided by law. All under this
penalty of separate fines for nom
performance.
The owner of infected sheep OBJ
tains a license from the inspector,
permitting him to retain his sheep
three months to cure the disease !;
this license is renewed for three
months more if necessary, and If the
attempt at cure is not made, a fine is
incurred, and the end of nine months
the inspector may seize the sheep
and clean them himself at the OWL
er's expense; or the owner, if he
prefers, may have the sheep killed
and sold for his profit. When the
owner makes all proper efforts at dis
injecting, if at the end of twelve
months scab prevails, the inspector
kills and sells the sheep for the own
er's profit. At any date three
months or more subsequent to the
granting of licence, If no of scab are
evident, the inspector grants a certi-
| ficate of dlsinfectlOn.
The rules for travelling sheep are
very stringent. The driver, whether
following the road or crossing the
open land, must inform all owners
of sheep ranges which he passes or
crosses of the departure and desti-
nation of his sheep, and at what
point they will enter aforesaid land
The driver shall keep within a quar-
ter-mile of the road and shall advance
at least six miles day towards his
destination. If a driver abandon
any sheep at any point, they may
after thirty six hours, be destroyed
by the occupier of the land.
Infected sheep are not allowed
to travel at all. An inspector may al
any time destroy them when found
off the owners range. There is 8
fine for a flock travelling. Every
owner of infected sheep shall be
responsible for all damage done tC
other sheep by contagiOn from his
own, when they are not on his range
The government may declare any
certain regions of the colony "clear
districts" and Quarantine districts,
into which no sheep at all may bt
driven and no sheep can be driver
from a quarantine district, except
non-infected sheep driven to mar
kct. The purpose Of this is to con
fine the scab to quarantine districts
and to exclude it from clean dis
tricts.
The wool, skin, hoof or horns o
any infected sheep cannot be renIoy
ed from any place except in bags o.
bales, securely packed and sewet
up.