4 PEOCEEDIXGS AT BOAED MEETINGS. 



begin visiting the farms as soon as the disease appears, commencing his investigation? 

 in West Teviotdale, going on to Dumfriesshire and other districts. 



FooT-AKD-MouTH DISEASE. — In reference to the proceedings at last Board meetings 

 the following letter was read : — 



" Yeterinarv De]jartment, Privy Council Office, 44 Parliament Street, 

 "Westminster, S.W., March 7, 1881. 



" Sir,— I have submitted to the Lords of the Council your letter of tha 2nd instant. 

 I am directed by the Lords of the Council to state, in reply to the first paragraph, that 

 the point to which you refer does not depend on any Order of Council, but that the 

 Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, requires the licence of the local authority of 

 the infected area to be given before animals can be moved into it. In reply to the 

 second paragrajjh, I am to inform you th^it the Lords of the Council are in communi- 

 cation with the railway companies, and hope that the anticipated danger may be- 

 averted. — I am, sir, your obedient servant, " C. L. Peel. 



' ' The Secretary, Highland and Agricultural Society, 

 " 3 George IV. Bridge." 



The Lords of the Council having inquired what were the views of the Directors as to 

 continuing Order of Council 617 after the 31st March, a special meeting of the Board 

 was h^d on the 23rd March, when the following resolution Avas unanimously agreed 

 to : — " That the Privy Council be requested to retain in force the existing Order as- 

 regards the transmission of cattle from England into Scotland ; and that as regards 

 sheep the existing Order be relaxed to the following extent, viz. , that sheep which 

 have been sent into Northumberland and Cumberland from Scotland for wintering or 

 to turnips, and still belong to the same iDarties who despatched them, may during the 

 the first ten days of April be moved back again to their original grazings in Scotland, 

 but only under certificate of the local authority of the county out of which they are- 

 to be moved. " 



The new Order was submitted, from which it appeared that the resolution of the 

 Directors was adopted by the Lords of the Council. 



ROTAL Commission on Agriculture.— The Secretary reported that application 

 having been made for the use of the Society's chambers for the Ptoyal Commission on- 

 Agriculture, from the 6th to the 14th of April, he, after consulting some of the 

 Directors resident in Edinburgh, had considered it right to grant the request. 



Presentation of Books. — The third volume of the Clydesdale Stud Book, pre- 

 sented by the Clydesdale Horse Society; and Part L, Volume III., of the Galloway 

 Herd Book, given by the Council of the Galloway Cattle Society, were submitted ; and 

 the Secretary stated that he had, in name of the Directors, thanked the Councils of both 

 Societies for the presentations. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 4th MAY 1881. 



Present— Lord Balfour of Burleigh ; Mr. Ainslie of Costerston ; Mr. Ding^^'all,. 

 Ramornie ; Mr. Maxtone Grahame of Cultoquhey ; Colonel Hare of Calderhall ; Mr. 

 Hope, Duddingston ; Mr. Mvlne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr. Scott, Glendronach ; Mr. Smith, 

 Whittinghame"; Professor Wilson ; Dr. Aitken— Mr. Smith, Whittinghame, in the 



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Mr. F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Sir Michael R. Shaw 

 Stewart, Bart. ; Sir Henry J. Seton Steuart, Bart.; Mr. Cunniagham, Tarbreoch ; Mr.. 

 Dickson of Corstorphine ; Mr. Elliot, Blackhaugh ; Colonel Gillon of Wallhouse ; Mr. 

 Irvine of Drum ; Mr. Kennedy of Sunday well, Brandleys ; Mr. Eliott Lockhart of 

 Borth^A-ickbrae ; Mr. Mackenzie of Portmore ; Mr. Murray of DoUerie ; Mr. Pott of 

 Dod; Mr. Ralston, Glamis ; Mr. Smith, chief magistrate, Kelso; and Mr. John 

 Tumbull Smith, C.A. „ . ^. 



FooT-AND-MouTH DISEASE.— The Secretary stated that, after communicating with 

 the Society, the Privy Council had renewed the Order prohibiting the movement of 

 animals by land or by water from any place or port in England or Wales to any place 

 or port in Scotland till the 31st day of INIay. 



The other business had reference principally to the Veterinary Department and 

 the Stirling Show. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 1st JUNE 1881. 



Present— ^iv Henry J. Seton Steuart of Allanton, Bart. ; Sir H. James H. Gibson- 

 Craif' of Riccarton, Bart. ; Mr. Cunningham, Tarbreoch ; :Mr. Dingwall, Ramomie ; 

 Mr "Elliot, Blackball ; Mr. Forman, Duncrahill ; Rev. John Gillespie, Mouswald 



