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them vested under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 
1869 (in this Order referred to as the Act of 1869), and of 
every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and 
it is hereby ordered, as follows : 
1. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after 
the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred 
and seventy-one ; and words in this Order have the same 
meaning as in the Act of 1869. 
2 . Where a Local Authority is authorized by the Privy 
Council to put in operation this provision of this Order, such 
Local Authority may cause all cattle affected with pleuro- 
pneumonia within their district to be slaughtered, subject to 
the following provisions : 
(1.) The Local Authority shall, by way of compensation 
for every such animal, pay to the owner thereof 
such sum, not exceeding twenty pounds and not 
exceeding one half of the value of the animal im- 
mediately before it was affected with pleuro-pneu- 
monia, as to the Local Authority seems fit. 
( 2 .) They may require the value of any such animal to be 
ascertained by their officers, or by arbitration, and 
generally they may impose conditions as to evidence 
of the slaughter and value of any such animal. 
(3.) They may, if they think fit, withhold compensation in 
respect of any such animal, where the owner or the 
person having the charge thereof has in their judg- 
ment been guilty, in relation to such animal, of any 
act in contravention of the Act of 1869, or of any 
Order or regulation, or licence of the Privy Council 
or of a Local Authority, or has, in relation to such 
animal, failed to comply with the provisions of the 
Act of 1869, or of any such Order, regulation, or 
licence, in respect of the giving of notice of disease, 
or in any other respect. 
3 . Where any animal has been slaughtered in pursuance 
of this Order, the owner thereof shall not be entitled to 
recover in respect of the insurance thereof any sum which, 
together with the payment which he receives for the same 
under this Order, would exceed the sum which he would 
have been entitled to receive in respect of the insurance. 
4. Every Local Authority shall keep, in such manner and 
form as the Privy Council from time to time direct or approve, 
a record, stating the date of any order for slaughter, and the 
execution of the order, and other proper particulars ; and 
such record shall be evidence if any question arises concern- 
