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(9) The dain-man may appeal against an order of the Corporation under 

 this section, or the refiisal of the Corporation to withdraw any such order, either 

 to a petty sessional court having jurisdiction within the City, or at his option, if 

 the dairy is situate outside the City, to the Board of Agriculture, who shall 

 appoint an officer to hear such appeal. Such officer shall fix a time and place 

 of hearing within the City, and give notice thereof to the dairyman and the 

 town clerk, not less than forty-eight hours before the hearing. Such officer 

 shall, for the purposes of the appeal, have all the powers of a petty sessional 

 court. 



(10) The Board of Agriculture may at any stage require payment to them by 

 the dairyman, of such sum as they deem right, to secure the pa>'ment of any 

 costs incurred by the Board of Agriculture in the matter of the appeal. 



(11) The Court or the Board of Agriculture (as the case may be) may con- 

 firm, vary, or withdraw the order which is the subject of the appeal, and may 

 direct to, and by whom the costs of the appeal (including any sum paid or 

 payable to the Board of Agriculture as aforesaid) are to be paid, but pending 

 the decision of the appeal, the order shall remain in force unless previously 

 withdrawn by the Corporation. 



23. — The Corporation shall cause to be given public notice of the effect of 

 the provisions of this Part of this Act by advertisement in local newspapers, and 

 by handbills, and otherwise in such manner as they think sufficient, and this 

 Part of this Act shall come into operation at such time, not being less than one 

 month after the first publication of such an advertisement as aforesaid, as the 

 Corporation may fix. 



24. — Offences under this Part of this Act may be prosecuted, and penalties 

 may be recovered by the Corporation before a petty sessional court, having 

 jurisdiction in the place where the dairy is situate, or the ofifence is committed, 

 and not otherwise. 



25. — All expenses incurred by the Corporation in carrying into execution the 

 provisions of this Part of this Act shall be chargeable on the City fund and City 

 rate, and the Corporation may also charge on the same rate any expenses 

 incurred by them in the application by a veterinary surgeon of the tuberculin or 

 other reasonable test for the purpose of discovering tuberculosis, to any cow 

 whose milk is, or was recently being supplied within the City. Provided that 

 no such test shall be applied except with the previous consent of the owner of 

 such cow. 



26. — This Part of this Act may be carried into execution by a Committee of 

 the Council formed in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of the 

 Fourth Schedule to the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, except that the Com- 

 mittee shall consist wholly of members of the Council. 



And notice is hereby further given, that the foregoing provisions will 

 come into operation on the ist December 1900. 



By order. 



Edward R. Pickmere, 

 Town Clerk. 



Town Clerk's Office, Liverpool, 



25M October 1900. 



