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with reference to contagious or infectious diseases other than 
glanders, cattle-plague, or sheep-pox (p. 207). 
(11.) That the neglect to conform to any of the provisions of 
the Act, or of the Orders in Council founded thereon, shall hence- 
forth be punished as an offence against the Act ; and that the 
penalty clauses shall henceforth include a minimum as well as a 
maximum fine (p. 202). 
(12.) That all cattle-dealers shall be required to take out a 
licence, which licence shall be granted or refused by the magis- 
trates of the district in which the applicant usually resides ; and 
that the said licence shall be suspended or revoked at the discre- 
tion of the magistrates in the event of the dealer being convicted 
more than once of wilful non-compliance with the regulations of 
the Privy Council, or of the local authorities (pp. 217, 218). 
(13.) That a register be kept in each district of the cattle- 
dealers licensed therein. 
' (14.) That the lairs, yards, fields, and other premises used for 
the temporary reception of animals, whether inland or at the 
ports of landing and shipment, be duly certificated for the pur- 
pose, and registered (p. 216). 
(15.) That in order to prevent cruelty, sheep and cattle should 
never be carried together in the same truck. 
(16.) That in order to secure proper cleansing and ventilation 
of the holds of steamboats, all vessels employed in carrying 
animals shall be certificated ; and that no certificate shall be 
given to any steamboat or other vessel not now engaged in the 
trade, unless the ventilation of the holds intended for the recep- 
tion of animals be performed by means of properly constructed 
machine-ventilators (pp. 233-239). 
(17.) That the Privy Council should from time to time send 
down their own Inspectors to the markets, in order to see that 
the regulations are properly carried out, and that the inspector 
should institute proceedings against persons whom he may detect 
offending against the law (p. 219). 
(18.) That at the ports licensed for the importation of foreign 
animals the local authorities shall provide slaughter-houses con- 
tiguous to the ordinary cattle-market, also to the landing-stage 
for cattle from unscheduled countries, and within the defined 
part of the port, for the landing and slaughter of animals from 
scheduled countries (where such exist) within the boundaries of 
their jurisdictions, as is the case at Deptford (pp. 217, 229). 
(19.) That in a\\ cases the landing-places for cattle from sche- 
duled and unscheduled countries should be decidedly apart, and 
that the markets for cattle from scheduled countries should in all 
cases be separated by some considerable interval from the ordinary 
market (p. 228). 
(20.) That to enable the local authorities to trace the disper- 
