BRAND MARKS ON CATTLE. 



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us it was done from great antiquity;* and it serves as a 

 more powerful check to cattle-stealing than any which the 

 owner may devise 



Shortly after the enactment in question, when Mr. (since 

 Sir) William Ogle Carr became the Queen's Advocate, he 

 found some difficulty in retaining the different names given 

 for cattle-brands, during prosecutions for cattle-stealing, 

 and requested an officer of the Court to collect the names 

 in a descriptive catalogue. The following is the result of 

 that officer's labours, which I have the honor to present to 

 this Society* 



NOTE. 



The plates are given in the Appendix in the integrity in which they 

 were found in the original. I regret that ,1 have not been able, as I 

 intended, to add explanatory notes to the names. 



* Arrian states that an Indian nation called Sibse marked their oxen 

 with a club to distinguish them. — Vol. 2, p. 195. 



