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together will secure the utmost possible health of stock 

 and the prosperity of the agriculturist and dairyman. 

 But the neglect of any one of them will make the stock 

 liable to become infected, and the more so the more 

 several or all collateral conditions of the healthy ex- 

 istence of animals are neglected. The negligent man 

 is therefore certain to lose, to injure his neighbour by 

 defeating his precautions, and to damage society ; but 

 the watchful and painstaking man will be rewarded 

 not only by the preservation of his property, but par- 

 ticularly by the consciousness that it has been pre- 

 served by his own care and attention, and that thereby 

 he has also benefited the state. 



This consolidates and amends the former 

 Orders. 



(Copy.) 



AT the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 22nd day of 

 September, 1865. 



By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable 

 Privy Council. 



PRESENT. 



Lord President. 

 Duke of Somerset. 

 Earl of Clarendon. 

 Earl de Grey and Ripon. 

 Mr. Secretary Cardwell. 

 Mr. H. A. Bruce. 



WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of the 

 eleventh and twelfth years of Her present Majesty's 



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