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Report on the Trade in Animals. 
of Liverpool, Holyhead, New Mil ford, Cardiff, Bristol, London, 
Harwich, and Hull. Independently of other journeys, I made 
eleven in cattle-boats, namely, seven traverses of the Irish Sea and 
four of the German Ocean, and thus had opportunities of observing 
the actual state of cattle at sea, whether from Ireland or from 
foreign countries, and also in different states of the weather. 
The results of this investigation are contained in the following 
pages, and they are followed by the suggestions arising there- 
from, which the Council of the Society have adopted and com- 
municated to the Vice-President of the Privy Council. 
I. — The Legislative Enactments, the Ordeks in Council, 
AND the Local Authorities. 
Great Britain. — It is not my purpose to describe in detail how 
the provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, 
are carried out in every county of Great Britain, or even of 
England. Such a description with reference to foot-and-mouth 
.disease — the special subject of this report — would be both tedious 
and useless, as it is not included in the Act, except generically 
amongst those " miscellaneous" diseases which are known to be 
either contagious or infectious (sect. 57).* The Privy Council, 
* This section is, in exteiiso, as follows : — 
" 57. If any person exposes in a market or fair or other piiLlic place where 
horses or animals are commonly exposed for sale, or exposes fur sale in any sale- 
yard, whether public or private, or jilaces in a lair or other place adjacent to or 
connected with a market or fair, or where horses or animals are commonly placed 
before exposure for sale, or sends or causes to be carried on a railway, or on a 
canal, river, or otlier inland navigation, or on a coasting vessel, or carries, leads, 
or drives, or causes to be carried, led, or driven on a highway or thoroughfare, 
any horse or animal affected with a contaii;ious or infectious disLase, he shall be 
deemed guilty of an offence against this Act, unless he shows to the satisfaction 
of tlie justices before whom he is charged that he did not know of the same 
being so atfected, and that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained 
such knowledge. 
" Where any horse or animal so affected is exposed or otherwise dealt with in 
contravention of this section, an inspector of the local authority, or any officer of 
the local authority authorised to act in execution of this Act, may seize the 
same, and cause it, if afi'ected with glanders, cattle-plague, or sheep-pox, to be 
slaughtered, and if affected with an)' other contagious or infections disease, to 
be removed to some convenient and isolated place, and to be there kept for such 
time as the local authority think expedient ; and the local authority may recover 
the expenses of the execution by them of this section from the owner of the horse 
or animal, or from the consignor or consignee thereof, who may recover the same 
from the owner. 
" In case of a conviction for an offence under this section no compensation shall 
be payable in respect of any animal slaughtered under this section. 
"Notwithstanding anything in this section, the Privy Council may from time 
to time, by order, make such further or other provision as they think expedient 
respecting animals becoming atfected witli foot-and-month disease or any other 
contagious or infectious disease not being cattle-plague, pleuro-pneumonia, sheep- 
pox, or glanders, while exposed or placed or being carried, led, or driven as afore- 
said, and any such order shall be deemed part of this section." 
