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The Privy Council appointed a Committee to consider 

 the powers entrusted to them by Sections 64 and 75 of the 

 Act of 1869, and a representative of that Committee (Prof. 

 G. T. Brown) attended a meeting on 5th October to discuss 

 this question with the Council. Resolutions were agreed to 

 deciding that animals travelling by railway ought to have 

 the opportunity of drinking at intervals not exceeding twelve 

 hours, and that water should be available to animals at all 

 loading places of railway stations'; that time-tables of live 

 stock trains should be published, and each lot of animals 

 be accompanied by a way-bill ; that railway waggons should 

 be constructed with spring buffers, spring couplings, and 

 roofed over, and be divisible into compartments ; while 

 freedom from undue overcrowding and a proper degree of 

 cleanliness should be enforced ; and that ships carrying animals 

 should be licensed and under proper inspection. Most of 

 the suggestions contained in these resolutions were embodied 

 in the recommendations of the Privy Council's Committee, 



1870. 



The Council expressed their thanks to the Right Hon, 

 W. E. Forster, M.P., by a resolution on 8th November, for 

 the prompt manner in which the Contagious Diseases Act 

 had been put into operation upon an outbreak of Cattle Plague 

 occurring on the Continent ; and they urged that the interests 

 of producers and consumers alike demanded that effective 

 regulations for waterside slaughter should be permanently 

 extended to all imported fat animals, with quarantine for 

 store stock. 



On the same day they called attention to the exorbitant 

 charges of railway companies for carrying dead meat, and 

 urged a reasonable reduction of their rates, in order to facili- 

 tate a supply of meat to populous districts. 



1871. 



A resolution was passed on 3rd May, on the motion of 

 Mr. T. Duckham, urging the associated Chambers to press 

 for the rescinding of the Privy Council Order of 20th April, 



