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power to determine whether the 
Committee appointed by a County 
Council under the Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Acts could con- 
tinue to act after March 8 (the 
ordinary day of retirement of 
County Councillors) in a year in 
which such Councillors are elected. 
The question appears to depend 
upon the conditions on which the 
Committee were appointed as re- 
gards period of office. 
The Board do not think that such 
a Committee could not under any 
circumstances continue to act after 
the date mentioned, although the 
Councillors on the Committee 
might cease to be members of the 
Committee on that day. 
I am, at the same time, to in- 
form you that the Board have been 
in communication with the Board 
of Agriculture on the subject, and 
that the point has been noted for 
further consideration in the event 
of the introduction into Parliament 
of any Bill in which provision 
could be made on the subject. 
The difficulty to which you refer 
cannot, of course, again arise until 
the year 1895, when County Coun- 
cillors now in office retire. 
I am. Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) S. B. Provis, 
Assistant Secretary. 
The Secretary, 
Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
A letter had been received from 
Mr. T. Horton, accepting the terms 
of his appointment as the Society’s 
provincial veterinary surgeon for the 
county of Warwick. Copies were laid 
upon the table of the third edition of 
Professor Brown’s pamphlet on the 
structure of the horse’s foot and the 
principles of shoeing, just issued from 
the press. 
Professor Brown had presented the 
following report : — 
Foot-and-mouth Disease. — 
At the time the last meeting of 
the Committee was held, this 
disease existed in Perthshire and 
Midlothian in Scotland, in the 
neighbourhood of Manchester in 
Lancashire, at three places in 
Cheshire, two in Essex, and one in 
London ; at several places near 
Sittingbourne in Kent, and in the 
neighbourhood of Cuckfield and 
Patcham in Sussex. It is now 
confined to the Sittingbourne 
district in Kent, all the affected 
animals in the other districts having 
recovered some little time ago. 
Pleuro - PNEUMONIA. — During 
the past live weeks five fresh out- 
breaks of this disease occurred in 
Great Britain, in the counties of 
Durham, Surrey, and York (West 
Riding) in England, and Midlo- 
thian in Scotland. 
Swine Fever. — The returns of 
this disease still continue very low 
as compared with former years. At 
the present time the fresh out- 
breaks average about fifty a week; at 
this time last year they numbered 
over 140 per week. 
Anthrax. — Outbreaks of this 
disease have within the last month 
occurred in the counties of Chester, 
Dorset, Essex, Hereford, Kent, 
Lincoln (Holland), Norfolk, Notts, 
Wilts, York (West Riding) in 
England, and Aberdeen and Ayr 
in Scotland. 
Stock Frizes. 
Mr. Sanday (Chairman) reported 
that a ^letter had been received from 
Mr. Andrew Mitchell, the exhibitor of 
the Ayrshire cow “ Eleanor,” which 
won the first prize of lOZ. in Class 92 
at the Doncaster Meeting, and which 
animal was subsequently sold to go 
to New South Wales, stating that the 
cow had calved prematurely in that 
Colony, but that the calf was living 
when calved, and enclosing a cer- 
tificate signed by Mr. F. W. Day, 
M.R.C.V.S., the purchaser, to that 
effect. The Committee recommended 
that, as the cow produced a living 
calf, the award be confirmed, and 
the prize money be paid to Mr. 
Mitchell. Further correspondence as 
to the Shire stallion. Prince Harold, 
exhibited by Mr. Peter Blundell at the 
Society’s Doncaster Meeting, had 
been considered, and the following 
gentlemen had been appointed a Sub- 
committee to obtain further informa- 
tion and to make such investigations 
as they considered necessary for 
clearing up the matter : The Chair- 
man, Hon. Cecil T. Parker, Mr. 
Stratton, and Mr. Garrett Taylor. 
