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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Dec 
Mr. Michael Henry Comerford 
,, Thos. Jonathan Symonds 
„ Edwin Hill 
„ Lister Swann * . 
,, Henry Wellburn Maw 
„ Herbert Rangeley 
„ George Bone 
Dec 
Mr. James George Barden 
„ George Holtham 
„ Laurence Hunter 
„ John Jas. Augustus Francis 
21st. 
. Leyton, Essex. 
Cambridge. 
. Somersham, Hunts. 
. Urswell, Wisbeach. 
. Thornton-Pickering. 
. Unstone Grange, Sheffield. 
. Petersfield, Hants. 
22nd. 
Beaulieu, Southampton. 
. Gloucester. 
. Dublin. 
. Walham Green, Fulham. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
CONVICTIONS FOR USING GLANDERED HORSES. 
William Burd, a cab proprietor, and Joseph Wild, a driver in his service, 
appeared before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, on November 25, 
on summonses under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, taken 
out at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, and charging them respectively with causing to be driven, and 
driving a horse afflicted with glanders in the public thoroughfares. 
Mr. Richard Harris, barrister, conducted the prosecution; the defend- 
ants, who pleaded “Not Guilty,” were represented by Mr. Washington, 
solicitor. 
Mr. Harris, in opening the case, explained that the proceedings were 
taken under the 57th section of the Contagious Diseases Act. 
William Peck , an officer of the Society, deposed that on Saturday week, 
about 9 o’clock in the morning, he saw the defendant Wild driving a cab in 
Cannon Street, drawn by a light bay gelding. He noticed that from its 
nostrils a quantity of mucus was running. He asked the driver why he 
brought the horse out in that state ; to which he replied that there was 
nothing the matter with it, and that it had been in that condition for three 
years. Witness said the animal was glandered, upon which he repeated there 
was nothing the matter with it. The defendant Burd, who was driving 
another cab, came up at the time, and he explained that he was the owner, 
and that he had purchased the horse three or four years ago from a farrier, 
named Scott, who told him there was nothing wrong about it, with the ex- 
ception of a cold. The price was £7 10s. He also stated that he had not 
taken it to a veterinary surgeon, and that he was not aware that it was 
glandered, adding that some years ago five of his horses suffering from that 
disease were slaughtered under an order of the district sanitary inspector. 
Witness advised the defendants to take the horse home, and not work it 
again, which they promised to do. Wild, however, drove it into the yard of 
tiie Cainnon Street Station, and there obtained a fare. Next day witness 
went to Paragon Mews, New Kent Road, and saw the horse. The defend- 
ant Burd, in answer to a question, said his driver carried a pail in his box, 
