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which permitted cattle to pass inland after only twelve hours' 

 detention. In moving this Mr. Duckham said : 



" They wished the Privy Council to re-enact the Order of 

 September last, which had recently been recalled, with the effect 

 of introducing cattle, sheep and goats from Germany and Holland, 

 where Pleuro -pneumonia was at present raging to a frightful 

 extent. The September Order had been recalled in consequence 

 of the high price of meat, but if anything was necessary for the 

 consumer of meat it was the preservation of the health of their 

 own animals." 



On 7th November the Council resolved that the failure of 

 the Contagious Diseases Act had demonstrated the necessity 

 for compulsory slaughter, or fourteen days' quarantine, of 

 all imported animals. Mr. Gladstone was twice asked to 

 receive a deputation on this subject during the year, but he 

 declined to do so ; consequently, at a meeting in December, 

 1872, further resolutions were adopted reiterating those 

 passed at previous meetings, and strong language was used 

 as to the careless methods employed by the Privy Council, 

 and of its utter disregard of the expressed wishes of agri- 

 culturists. A Committee of the Chamber was then appointed 

 to draw up a set of rules for regulating cattle traffic, with a 

 view to such rules being adopted by the Chamber and pressed 

 on the Government. 



1873. 



Apart from the Local Taxation Committee, which imme- 

 diately upon its appointment became a separate entity, 

 this was the first Committee set up by the Chamber, on 

 4th February. It presented its report to the Council, who sent 

 it to the Privy Council. The Report embodied all the 

 suggestions contained in previous resolutions agreed to by 

 the Council, but did not break any new ground. During the 

 discussion on the motion for adopting the Report it was 

 suggested that Sheep Pox be exempted from the rule as to 

 discretionary slaughtering power proposed to be conferred on 

 Inspectors of the Privy Council, but the suggestion found 

 very little support. 



A deputation to Mr. Forster, in conjunction with the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, was proposed, but Mr. Clare 



