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horses suffering from glanders. Under an earlier Act it was mad& 

 an ofEence to expose glandered horses in markets or on commons. 

 In 1878 power to slaughter was incorporated in the Animals Order. 



(1) Where a person having a horse, ass, or mule in his possession, or 

 under his charge, gives notice to a constahle that the horse, ass, or mule is 



' affected with glanders, or any person is convicted of an offence against 

 the Act of 1878 by reason of his having failed to give such a notice, then, 

 if at any time thereafter it appears to the Local Authority, on a special 

 report of a Veterinary Inspector, that the horse, ass, or mule is affected 

 with glanders, and the horse, ass, or mule is alive at the end of fourteen days 

 after the receipt by the Local Authority of that special report, the Local 

 Authority may serve on the owner of the horse, ass, or mule a notice in 

 writing requiring him to slaughter it, or to permit them to slaughter it, 

 within a time specified in the notice. 



(2) If in any case the owner fails to comply with the requisition of 

 the notice of the Local Authority, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence 

 against the Act of 1878, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court 

 of summary jurisdiction before which he is charged that the horse, ass, 

 or mule, is not affected with glanders, or that the slaughter thereof is 

 for any reason unnecessary or inexpedient. 



(3) The provisions of this Article may be put in force, from time to 

 time, as often as occasion requires, in relation to the same horse, ass, or 

 mule, on a further special report as aforesaid. 



In the order of 1892 it was provided that glanders should include 

 farcy, and power was given to compel slaughter, and to oompensato 

 by payment of half the value of a diseased animal, not exceeding £20, 

 and fuU value in the case of healthy animals. Owing to objections 

 urged against the payment of compensation, another order was 

 passed, which came into operation at_the end of 1894; the order to 

 slaughter being amended as under : — 



(1) A Local Authority may if they think fit cause to be slaughtered 

 any diseased horse, ass, or mule, provided that if the owner of the horse, 

 ass, or mule gives notice in writing to the Local Authority, or their 

 inspector or other officer, that he objects to the horse, ass, or mule being 

 slaughtered, it .shall not be lawful for the Local Authority to cause that 

 horse, ass, or mule to be slaughtered except with the further special 

 authority of the Board of Agriculture first obtained. 



(2) A Local Authority may, if they think fit, cause to be slaughtered 

 any suspected horse, ass, or mule, having previously obtained the consent 

 of the owner thereof. 



(3) The Local Authority shall out of the local rate pay compensation 

 as follows for any horse, ass, or mule slaughtered under this article : — 



(a) Where the horse, ass, or mule was diseased the compensation shall 



