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diately before it was affected with the Cattle Plague, as to such 

 Local Authority may seem fit. 



" ' 13. Every Local Authority shall cause every animal that 

 has died of Cattle Plague, or has been slaughtered in consequence 

 of being affected with Cattle Plague within its district, to be 

 buried as soon as possible in its skin in some proper place, and 

 to be covered with a sufhcient quantity of quicklime or other 

 disinfectant, and with no less than six feet of earth. 



"'14. Every Local Authority shall, within its district, cause 

 the yard, shed, stable, field, or other premises in which any 

 animal affected with Cattle Plague has been kept while affected 

 by the disease, or has died or been slaughtered, to be thoroughly 

 cleansed and disinfected, and all hay, straw, litter, dung, or 

 other articles that have been used in or about any such animal 

 to be burnt or otherwise destroyed ; and no fresh animal shall be 

 admitted into any yard, shed, stable, field, or other premises in 

 which any animal affected with Cattle Plague has been kept 

 while affected by the disease, or has died or been slaughtered, 

 until the expiration of thirty days after the cleansing and dis- 

 infecting of such premises in pursuance of this Act ; and every 

 Local Authority shall direct the disinfecting the clothes of, and 

 the use of due precautions by Inspectors, Cattle Overseers, and 

 others in contact with animals affected by the Cattle Plague, with 

 a view to prevent the spreading of contagion. 



" ' 15. A Local Authority may, if he thinks fit, cause to be 

 slaughtered any animal that has been in the same shed or stable? 

 or in the same herd or flock, or in contact with any animal 

 affected with Cattle Plague within its district ; and the owner 

 of any animal so slaughtered may either dispose of the carcass 

 on his own account, with a license from some ofhcer appointed 

 in that behalf by a Local Authority, or may require the Local 

 Authority to dispose of the same, in which case such Local 

 Authority shall pay to the owner thereof, by way of compensation, 

 such sum, not exceeding twenty-five pounds, as may equal three- 

 fourths of the value of the animal slaughtered. Provided always, 

 that the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 

 or any two or more of them, may reserve animals (ordered to 

 be slaughtered as aforesaid) for the purpose of experimental 

 treatment. 



" ' 16. The Local Authority may require the value of any animal 



