1907.] Glanders or Farcy Order of 1907. 419 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have addressed 

 the following circular letter to Local Authorities in Great 

 Britain on the subject of the Glanders 



The Glanders or or Farcy Order of 1907, which will 

 Farcy Order of 1907. come into operation throughout Great 

 Britain on 1st January, 1908. 



Before deciding to make the new Order the Board laid 

 before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury 

 the representations which had been made to them that the 

 cost of compensation, or at any rate a substantial portion 

 thereof, should be made a charge upon money provided by 

 Parliament ; but, after very full consideration, their Lordships 

 decided that these proposals could not be sanctioned. In 

 coming to this decision their Lordships were mainly influenced 

 by the fact that under Section 19 of the Diseases of Animals 

 Act of 1894 it is clearly contemplated that compensation 

 payable under any Order of the Board for animals slaughtered 

 by the Local Authorities as diseased or as suspected of disease, 

 in the case of diseases other than cattle plague, shall be paid 

 by Local Authorities out of the local rate, and there appeared 

 to their Lordships to be no sufficient reason for departing from 

 the principle laid down by Parliament in connection with 

 operations undertaken against glanders. Whilst regretting 

 the view adopted by the Treasury, the Board have not felt 

 that it should deter them from proceeding with an Order 

 in which the mallein test is recognised as the basis for diagnosis, 

 which is not the case as regards the Glanders and Farcy Order 

 of 1894 at present in operation. 



The compensation payable for a horse, ass, or mule 

 slaughtered under the existing Order as diseased may not 

 exceed one-fourth of the value of the animal immediately 

 before it became diseased. This rate of compensation is main- 

 tained in the new Order so far as regards an animal in which 

 the clinical symptoms are definite evidence of disease. In 

 view, however, of the adoption of the mallein test in aid of 

 diagnosis it has become necessary to make provision as regards 

 \ compensation for an animal slaughtered on the evidence of 

 that test. It is apparent that the intrinsic value of such an 

 animal to its owner considerably exceeds that of a clinically 

 diseased animal, and the Board have thought that the 



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