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of stock, infected or suspected, is proliibiled without the pennission 

 of the Principal Veterinary Officer. 



Stock foinul infected with tlie undermentioned diseases will be 

 treated as follows : — 



Glanders. — Destroyed ; and the other stock subjected to the 

 niallein test, and those reacting also destroyed. 



TuhercAilo>iis. — Destroyed; and otlier stock that have been in 

 contact may be subjected to the tuberculin test, and those react- 

 ing" ]nay be destroyed, isolated, or otherwise dealt witli by tlie 

 official. 



Lung Sickness. — Destroyed; and other stock that have been 

 in CO}) tact will be inoculated or drenched if considered necessary. 



Compensation, according to the schedule included in the Act, is 

 payable for all stock destroyed in terms of the above-named diseases. 



The third portion of the Act provides for the carrying out of the 

 following measures: — (a) To prohibit or order or permit the removal 

 of stock from place to place ; (/;) order the burial or disposal other- 

 wise of stock, and pi'ohibit the removal of any carcass or portion 

 thereof; (c) destroy or otherwise (h^al \\i!h, without com])ensatio)i, 

 any stock illegally removed; {d) destroy any stock infected or sns- 

 pected of being infected, on payment of compensation which, liow- 

 ever, is noi i)ayable iii the case of East Coast fever; ye) order tlie 

 inoculation, dipping, spraying, or otherwise disinfecting; or the 

 branding or muzzling of stock; (/) order the dipping of sheep and 

 goats ; {g) prescribe routes for stock, close routes, and suspend 

 traffic of stock along any route; (//) burn grass or grass-hay in 

 infected or suspected areas; {i) prohibit the removal of anything 

 likely to spread disease ; {}) direct the manner of reporting tlisease ; 

 (Vi;) prohibit the holding of any live stock market, fair, or shov\?, and 

 the sale or pnr(lu;se of stock where such is likely to spread any 

 disease; (l) order the disinfection of inarkets or any place wliere 

 stock has been confined, and any railway rolling stock for the con- 

 veyance of animals; (in) use an}' abattoirs for the destruction of 

 stock, and construct abattoirs ; {n) order the disinfection of hides 

 or any articles likely to spread disease if the same have been in a sus- 

 pected or infected area; {o) prohibit ihe removal within or introduc- 

 tion into the Union of the blood or any pait of stock suspected or 

 infected Avith disease; {p) oider a farjner to construct a dipping tank, 

 or, on his failure to do so, construct it at his own expense, 

 (Pi'ovision is made in another Act for advances to defray the initial 

 cost of such tanks.) 



In giving effect to the above powers, the Minister or any officer 

 may enter upon any land, premises, vessel, or vehicle within the 

 Union, and any resistance thereto is punishable. 



The Act has a schedule showing the scales of value to be applied 

 in assessing compenj^ation. The amount claimed from the Govern- 

 ment is determined by a (iovernment veterinary officer or, if desired 

 by the claimant, by a board consisting of a magistrate or field cornet 

 and two landowneis. 



Any one in a suspected or infected area found collecting ticks, 

 etc., ov who move^i any cattle, or in any part of the Union is found 



