APPENDIX. 371 



NOTE S. 



The Orders in Council seemed only to complicate 

 the matter, and how effectually to combat the evil 

 was a most difficult question. Some said the grand 

 remedy was the knife, and others suggested that the 

 diseased animals should be sent to a sanatorium. To 

 destroy the diseased cattle was impossible, except the 

 owner of them or the inspector went round and 

 obtained an order from a magistrate for their destruc- 

 tion. The last meeting was adjourned, among other 

 purposes, in order that the committee might take the 

 opinion of the law officers upon the subject. It so 

 happened, however, that most of the law officers of 

 the Corporation were at present out of town. For- 

 tunately the Common Serjeant was found, and he 

 gave an opinion which confirmed the committee in 

 their view that they had no power to kill, and no 

 power to do anything except in the matter of isola- 

 tion. Then the committee passed a resolution that 

 another committee ought to be formed to raise the 

 necessary funds for compensating the cattle-owners, 

 and to see that those funds were properly applied, for 

 the money was only intended to apply to the cattle 

 plague, and was not meant to go in the shape of com- 

 pensation for pleuro-pneumonia, or for the foot dis- 

 eases. In other words, they were now legislating for 

 the cattle plague or Rinderpest only. He resided at 

 Dulwich, and he found that in the villages adjoining 

 there were many cows, and never in his life had he 

 seen finer cows. Not one of them had been affected 

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