2 48 APPENDIX. 



" (iii.) The same parts of the truck shall have applied to them 

 a coating of lime-wash. 



" (2.) The scrapings and sweepings of the truck, and all dung, 

 sawdust, litter, and other matter removed therefrom shall forth- 

 with be well mixed with quicklime, and be effectually removed from 

 contact with animals." — [Ibid. Art. 105.) 



" Vans. 



" (1.) A van, if used for containing animals, horses, asses, or mules 

 while carried on a railway, shall, on every occasion after a diseased or 

 suspected animal, horse, ass, or mule is taken out of it, and as soon as 

 practicable, and before any other animal, horse, ass, or mule is placed 

 in it, be cleansed and disinfected as follows : 



" (i.) The floor of the van, and all other parts thereof with which 

 animals, horses, asses, or mules, or their droppings have 

 come in contact shall be scraped and swept, and the 

 scrapings and sweepings, and all dung, sawdust, litter, 

 and other matter shall be effectually removed therefrom ; 

 then 

 " (ii.) The same parts of the van shall be thoroughly washed or 



scrubbed or scoured with water ; then 

 " (iii.) The same parts of the van shall have applied to them a 



coating of lime-wash. 

 " (2.) The scrapings and sweepings of the van, and all dung, 

 sawdust, litter, and other matter removed therefrom shall forthwith 

 be well mixed with quicklime, and be effectually removed from 

 contact with animals." — (Ibid. Fart III., Chap. 18, Art. 106.) 



Provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, 

 41 & 42 Vict. 74, § 33. 



33. — (1.) Every railway company shall make a provision, to the 

 satisfaction of the Privy Council, of water and food, or either of 

 them, at such stations as the Privy Council from time to time, by 

 general or specific description, direct, for animals carried, or about to 

 be or having been carried, on the railway of the company. 



(2.) The water and food so provided, or either of them, shall be 

 supplied to any such animal by the company carrying it, on the 

 request of the consignor, or of any person in charge thereof. 



(3.) As regards water, if, in the case of any animal, such a request 

 is not made, so that the animal remains without a supply of water for 

 twenty-four consecutive hours, the consignor and the person in charge 

 of the animal shall each he guilty of an offence against this Act ; and 



