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(g) to allow a diseased or suspected animal to stray on a highway or 

 thoroughfare or on the sides thereof or on common or uninclosed land, 

 or in a field or place insufficiently fenced. 



Offences.* — It is an oifence to move any animal in contravention of 

 the order or notice served under it. The owner of the animal, the 

 person for the time being in charge, the person moving or conveying 

 the animal, the person receiving or keeping it, knowing it to have been 

 removed in contravention, and the occupier of the place from which 

 the animal has been moved, are each guilty of an offence against the 

 Act. 



If in contravention of any regulation of the local authority a carcase 

 be removed, or not buried, or not destroyed, it constitutes an offence. 



If a person in charge of any animal, carcase, or thing being moved 

 under the movement license of the local authority gives a false name or 

 address it constitutes an offence. 



If a person to evade the operation of the Order allows any animal to 

 stray he is guilty of an offence. 



PLEUEO-PNEUMONIA. 



This disease, like many others which have decimated the 

 herds and flocks of the United Kingdom, was introduced 

 from abroad. In 1839 it found its way into Ireland, and 

 in 1841 into England, and for years was allowed to go un- 

 checked by any legislation. One explanation of this is due 

 to the fact that its contagiousness was denied, but it is 

 difficult to believe that this opinion was generally held, 

 excepting by laymen. In 1867 pleuro-pneumonia is first 

 mentioned in an Act of Parliament, but it was not until 

 1869 that it was scheduled as a disease ; since then suc- 

 cessive Acts have been directed against this affection, each 

 stronger than the last, until it has been finally surrounded 

 and obliterated. 



The history of this disease is an admirable object-lesson 

 of entrusting statutory powers to the ' local authority.' 

 While pleuro-pneumonia was dealt with by these no appre- 

 ciable effect was produced upon the disease ; it was not until 

 the Act of 1890 transferred the power of local authorities to 

 the Central Authority, viz., the Board of Agriculture, that 

 the disease was exterminated. Yet this costly experiment 

 * The original Order should be consulted. 



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