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required majority, he shall announce his decision as to the result, and 

 that decision shall be entered on the minutes and shall be final, unless a 

 poll is demanded by one or more of the persons present (in person or 

 by proxy or attorney) at the meeting. 



8. If a poll is demanded as aforesaid, it shall be taken forthwith in 

 such manner as the Chairman directs ; and there shall be entered on 

 the minutes of the meeting the names of the persons voting at the poll 

 (in person or by proxy or attorney), so as to show whether each vote 

 given was for or against the resolution ; and also, so far as can be 

 ascertained by the Chairman at the meeting-, a statement of the re- 

 spective lands or stints or other qualifications in respect of which the 

 persons present (as aforesaid) claim to be entitled to turn out animals 

 on the Common. 



Proxies or Attorneys. — 9. A proxy or attorney for the purposes of a 

 meeting under the Act may be appointed by an instrument in writing 

 signed by the appointor, which shall be duly stamped. The instrument 

 shall be delivered to and retained by the Chairman of the Meeting, and 

 may be in the form following or in a form to the like effect : — 



I of do hereby appoint 



of to be my proxy or attorney in my 



absence to vote for me at a Meeting to be held for the purposes of the 

 Commons Act, 1908, on the day of 19 



and at any adjournment thereof. [Signature of appointor.] 



10. A person may act as attorney for the purposes of a meeting under 

 the Act by virtue of any power of attorney of which the terms are 

 sufficient to include such purposes. The power of attorney shall be 

 produced to the Chairman at the Meeting, and, if so required by the 

 Board, a copy thereof shall be delivered or sent to the Board. 



Short Title. — 11. These Rules may be cited as the Commons Rules, 

 1909. 



IN WITNESS whereof the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have 

 hereunto set their Official Seal this 28th day of June nineteen hundred 

 and nine. 



T. II. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have addressed the following 

 circular letter, dated 30 June, 1909, to local authorities in Great Britain 

 under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 



Veterinary Reports 1903 :— 



on Glanders. Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Agri- 



culture and Fisheries to advert to their Circular 

 Letter (A&) of the 16th May, 1908, asking that a report in the form 

 annexed to the Circular Letter should be made to the Board in the case 

 of each outbreak of Glanders, and I am to say, for the information of 

 your Local Authority, that the Board are anxious to take advantage of 

 the present operations against that disease in order to obtain accurate 

 information regarding not only the common, but also the uncommon 

 sites of the lesions of Glanders. 



The information which it would now be possible to procure with but 

 little difficulty would be of a very great professional value, and the 



