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" 3. That Clauses 30 and 54 should be so amended as to 

 give less Arbitary Powers to Inspectors. 



"4. That the Slaughter of Cattle which have been in 

 Contact with Plague-stricken Cattle should be made com- 

 pulsory. 



" 5. That Sheep Pox should be dealt with in the same way 

 as Cattle Plague. 



" 6. That for carrying out the purposes of the Act every 

 Local Authority should appoint a Committee consisting of 

 Magistrates and Ratepayers. 



" 7. That the Slaughter, Quarantine, or Sufficient Inspec- 

 tion of Imported Animals at the Places of Debarkation should 

 be made Compulsory, and not left to the uncertain operation 

 of Orders of the Privy Council. 



" 8. That separate Markets for the Reception, Sale, or 

 Slaughter of such Animals should be established by Statutory 

 Enactment at all places where Foreign Animals are landed. 



" 9. That unless the foregoing Regulations with regard 

 to Foreign Animals be embodied in the Bill, it should meet 

 with the determined opposition of the Chambers. 



"10. That Compensation for Slaughtered Animals should 

 be defrayed, as in Ireland, out of the Imperial Taxation ; 

 or that, at least, a Moiety of that Compensation should be 

 so defrayed. 



" That every facility and encouragement, by legislation 

 and otherwise, should be given to the carrying of Dead Meat, 

 and to the more complete development of the Dead Meat 

 Trade." 



This Bill was further considered on 8th June, after amend- 

 ment in Committee, and as it was still unsatisfactory the 

 resolutions of 6th April were re -affirmed. The efforts of the 

 Chamber met with but moderate success for the Bill passed, 

 and the Annual Report for 1869 contains the following refer- 

 ence to the Act : 



" The Council regret that, notwithstanding the strenuous 

 efforts of their friends on both sides of the House of Commons, 

 so few of their proposed amendments were accepted by the 

 Government. The Act, as passed, leaves the whole action and 

 responsibility of regulating the importation of foreign animals 

 entirely in the hands of the Privy Council ; and the way in which 

 these duties have been performed may be gathered from the fact, 

 that foreign sheep which have been associated with diseased 

 animals have been allowed to go inland, and to spread far and 

 wide through this country the grievous Foot and Mouth Disease 

 from which the agricultural interest is now suffering." 



