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MontJdy Council, June 3, 1891. 
They did not pay compensation, and 
they had not one case of the disease. 
After some further discussion, the 
resolution of the Veterinary Committee 
in regard to swine fever was carried 
by sixteen votes to three. 
Entries of Stock from Districts Sche- 
duled for Fleuro-pneumonia. 
Sir John Thoeold then explained 
the recommendation of the Veterinary 
Committee in regard to the proposed 
exclusion from the Doncaster Show 
of animals exhibited at the Koyal 
Dublin Society's Show last March. 
There was no doubt that, if this had 
been a scheduled district in England, 
the animals would not have been per- 
mitted to go to their show, because 
the Board of Agriculture had expressly 
declined to give a licence for the 
removal of any animals from such 
districts. But the Privy Council in 
Ireland were independent of the Board 
of Agriculture in England, and they 
had given those animals a licence to 
enter the scheduled district and to go 
back again to England. The Veter- 
inary Committee thought that the 
Council should mark their feeling 
that it was extremely undesirable to 
admit to the show any animals from 
any district which had been scheduled 
for pleuro-pneumonia, and, therefore, 
they proposed that resolution. 
Mr. Howard pointed out that the 
animals referred to were now being 
exhibited throughout the country. 
The question was whether the Eoyal 
Agricultural Society would do what 
other societies had not done. It ap- 
peared to him that the mischief, if any, 
had already been done, and that it was 
now too late for the Society to take 
action in the matter. 
Mr. Dent said the matter came 
before the Veterinary Committee 
upon a letter received from the High- 
land Society, with a copy of their 
minute on this question. It certaiuly 
appeared to all the members of the 
Veterinary Committee that as that 
Council had been perpetually im- 
pressing upon the Board of Agri- 
culture the necessity of dealing 
uniformly and stringently with 
jjlcuro-pncnmonia, and that the rules 
and regulations made should be ap- 
plicable to every district, they would 
only be acting consistently in passing 
the resolution proposed. He under- 
stood that the Board of Agriculture 
had published an Order called The 
Scheduled Districts Order, and that 
when they declared the district 
scheduled as a pleuro-pneumonia 
district, no animal could move out of 
it unless for slaughter, without a 
special licence. What he understood 
was that certain exhibitors sent cattle 
into a scheduled district in Ireland, 
and that the authorities in Ireland 
gave those people certificates to en- 
able them to remove their animals 
back again to England. They had 
not sufficient information to know on 
what they based their certificate, but 
apparently the authorities considered 
it safe for those animals to go back 
again. The feeling of the Committee 
was that the Council, having been so 
urgent in pressing the Board of 
Agriculture to deal uniformly and 
stringently in the matter, ought not 
to encourage the exhibition by the 
Eoyal Agricultural Society of any 
animals that had been in a scheduled 
district in England or in Ireland, 
lie agreed with Mr. Howard that in 
all probability there was not much 
danger from those animals, but their 
exhibition would be at least a legal 
infraction of the rules that had been 
laid down, and the question was 
whether they should in any way en- 
courage what might be a relaxation 
of them. 
Mr. Terry remarked that, suppos- 
ing those animals had been in a 
scheduled district, they had been 
taken to other shows, and they had 
been in contact with other animals 
that would be exhibited at the Royal 
and at other shows all over the 
country. 
Mr. Pell said the two things were 
quite distinct. If other shbws had 
already exhibited those animals, that 
was no reason why the society should 
do so and carry the disease further 
over the country than it might have 
been carried already. The fact of 
their adopting the resolution would 
have its full effect next year. 
Breeders of cattle would take very 
great care not to exhibit their animals 
in a country which had difTerent laws 
to their own and in which they would 
run the risk of infection. He was 
very strongly in favour of passing the 
