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presence of several persons. I drew out sixteen animals in an 
active stage of febrile disease, and in such a state that they would 
have communicated the disease to other animals. There were 
blisters on the tongue, and the roofs of the mouths of the animals. 
Before I examined them minutely I saw that many of them had a 
discharge from the eyes, and they presented every appearance of 
disease. Any person would have detected at once that there was 
something the matter with the cattle. 
By Mr. Browne . — In my judgment any person passing the herd 
would have seen that the animals were affected with disease. Some 
of the feet of the sixteen animals were tender, but the attack on the 
feet is usually secondary. 
By Mr. Clowes . — I do not know that the bullocks were positively 
lame. I do not think they were so lame as to attract attention. 
The primary symptoms of the disease are a falling off of feed, a 
staring coat, and shivering. In my opinion the disease could not 
have been recent. I am not prepared to swear that if I had seen 
the animals thirty-six hours previously, I could have detected it, 
though I could have seen that some disease was being incubated. 
It did not take any unusual time to examine the animals. The 
nineteen other animals were allowed to return to the Hill, as the 
Act did not empower me to detain them. Unless I am prepared 
to swear positively that animals are affected with disease, it is my 
practice to let them go. When Mr. Huggins came up he ex- 
pressed his willingness to do what I wished, adding that the 
animals had the disease, and that he had others at home affected 
with it. 
Daniel Aldous , examined by Mr. Mendham. — I am assistant to 
Mr. Smith. I live at Trowse, and up to last Michaelmas the de- 
fendant occupied some land there. I assisted Mr. Smith to examine 
some bullocks belonging to the defendant on the 20tli of November 
last. After examining them in Barnard’s yard, the result was that 
sixteen were found to have foot and mouth disease. You might 
have told by the look of them, without examination, that they were 
affected. To my knowledge they were about the height of the dis- 
ease. I should think no person having any knowledge of cattle 
could fail to see that they were diseased. 
By Mr. Clowes . — I do not know how long it takes to attain the 
height of the disease. We were twenty minutes or half an hour in 
examining the animals. 
P.-c. Pike , examined by Mr. Mendham. — Before the animals 
were taken to Barnard’s yard several of them appeared to me to be 
very lame, their eyes looked bad, and they frothed at the mouth. 
It was these circumstances which attracted my attention to the 
beasts. I think any person could have observed that they were 
affected. I saw Mr. Smith examine the animals. When he opened 
their mouths I observed large blisters, some of them broken. 
By Mr. Clowes . — I cannot say that I saw the animals before Mr. 
Smith did. My attention would have been attracted to the animals 
if Mr. Smith had not been there. 
