456 INFECTIVE DISEASES. 



be such sum as the Local Authority think expedient, being a 

 minimum in the case of a horse of two pounds, and in the case of 

 an ass or mule of ten shillings ; provided that in no case shall the 

 amount of compensation, if above the said minimum, exceed one- 

 fourth of the value of the animal immediately before it became 

 diseased. 



(b) In every other case the compensation shall be the value of the 

 horse, ass, or mule immediately before it was slaughtered. 



