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cided upon. The Markets Committee had not yet made their re- 
port. They had various sites before them ; and he thought that, 
with the Corporation on one side, and the Government on the 
other, a real bona fide market would eventually be made, for he did 
not believe that the City authorities would propose a site of which 
the Privy Council could not approve. At all events, the Govern- 
ment were determined that it should not be their fault if the site 
chosen were not a good one. 
A short discussion ensued, in which Mr. Locke, Mr. C. S. Read, 
and Mr. A. Johnston took part. The main staple of the argument 
seemed to be the comparative merits of the Essex and the Surrey 
shores for the proposed market. 
The subject then dropped. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT.— SCAB IN 
SHEEP. 
Bletsoe. Petty Sessions, March Wth. 
Present — The Right Hon. Lord St. John, Chairman ; the Hon. 
St. Andrew St. John ; the Rev. C. C. Beaty-Pownall and J. Tucker ; 
B. H. Starey, and S. G. Payne, Esqs. 
Shadrach Brightman, farmer, of Little Staughton, was charged 
by Superintendent Carruthers with neglecting to give information 
to the police that his sheep were affected with the scab, at Little 
Staughton, on the 16th of March. Police-constable Sturgess said 
that in October last year the defendant saw him posting up a bill on 
his (defendant’s) barn at Little Staughton, requiring all persons 
having diseased cattle upon their premises to give notice to the police. 
A day or two after he served a summons on the defendant for an 
offence under the Highway Act, and then told him there was a 
report that his sheep were affected with the scab, and that he 
ought to give notice to the police or the inspector. He had seen 
the defendant frequently since, and had posted another notice on 
premises adjacent to defendant’s, stating that any person not giving 
notice to the police was liable to a penalty of £20. Witness was 
with the inspector on the 16th of March, when he examined the 
flock, and previous to that the defendant had not given any notice. 
Mr. H. Crofts, the inspector, said that on the 16th of March 
he went and examined a flock of sixty sheep belonging to the de- 
fendant at Little Staughton, and found they were affected with the 
scab. The disease must have existed for a month or six weeks at the 
least. Defendant told him the sheep had been dressed for the scab. 
In defence Mr. Brightman said he did not know that he should 
give notice. The police put a notice upon his barn, but he did not 
know what it was about. He had had his sheep dressed three times 
for the scab, but it took some time to get rid of it. 
