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ORDER OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 

 AND FISHERIES 



(Dated 5th April, 1904) 



EPIZOOTIC LYMPHANGITIS ORDER OF 



1904 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, by virtue 

 and in exercise of the powers in them vested under the 

 Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903, and of every 

 other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, 

 and it is hereby ordered, as follows : — 



Reparation of Diseased and Suspected A/iin.-a/s ; 

 Notice of Disease 



I. (i) Every person having or having had in his possession 

 or under his charge a horse affected with, or suspected of, epizootic 

 lymphangitis shall {a) as far as practicable keep that horse separate 

 from horses not so aft'ected or suspected ; and {B) with all practicable 

 speed give notice of the fact of the horse being so affected or 

 suspected to a constable of the police force for the police area wherein 

 the horse so affected, or suspected, is or was. 



(2) Every person licensed to slaughter horses who has in his 

 possession a carcase of any horse affected with epizootic lymphangitis 

 shall with all practicable speed give notice of that fact to a constable 

 of the police force for the police area wherein the carcase is. 



(3) The constable receiving such notice shall forthwith give 

 information of the receipt by him of the notice to an Inspector of 

 the Local Authority, who shall forthwith report the same to the 

 Local Authority. 



(4) Where the notice of disease relates to a carcase of a horse 

 that has died or been slaughtered in the district of a Local Authority 

 other than the Local Authority which received the notice, the latter 

 shall forthwith inform the other Local Authority of the receipt of the 

 notice. 



