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PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
“ 2. The) 7 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 judgment 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.” 
Clause 3 relates to compensation in connection with in- 
surance : — “ Where any animal has been slaughtered in pur- 
suance 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.” 
Clause 4 has reference to the recording of particulars of 
animals slaughtered under the Order: — Every Local 
Authority shall keep, in such manner and form as the Privy 
Council from time to time direct or improve, 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 concerning an order for the 
slaughter of any such animal, or concerning compensation in 
respect thereof/ 5 
Clause 5 provides for the regulation of the movement of 
diseased animals and of substances which have been in con- 
tact with them; regulation of the movement of u other cattle 
from premises where pleuropneumonia exists” being already 
provided for in the seventh schedule to the Act, sec. 3 : — 
“ Where a Local Authority is authorised by the Privy Council 
to put in operation this provision of this Order, such Local 
Authority may, from time to time, with the view of pre- 
venting the spreading of pleuropneumonia, make regulations 
for the following purposes, or any of them : — 
“ For prohibiting or regulating the movement out of any 
field, stable, cowshed, or other premises, of any cattle affected 
with pleuropneumonia, or of the carcases of any cattle which 
have died or have been slaughtered in consequence of being 
affected with pleuropneumonia. 
“ For prohibiting or regulating the removal of hay, straw, 
