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TARLIA M E N T A RY INTELLIGENCE. 
with water, and containing in each gallon of limewash either 
one fifth of a pint of commercial carbolic acid, or one fifth of 
a pint of commercial cresylic acid, or four ounces of fresh 
dry chloride of lime, such limewash to be prepared imme- 
diately before use. 
The sweepings of the vessel shall be well mixed with quicklime, 
and effectually removed from contact with animals. 
Shipping and Unshipping places. 
10. At every place where animals are put on board of or landed 
from vessels, provision shall be made, to the satisfaction of the 
Privy Council, for a supply of water for animals; and water shall 
be supplied there, gratuitously, on request of any person in charge of 
any animals. 
11. At every place where animals are landed from vessels, pro- 
vision shall be made, to the satisfaction of the Privy Council, for the 
speedy and convenient unshipment of animals, and for a supply of 
food for them, and food shall be supplied there, on request of any 
person in charge of any animals, at such price as the Privy Council, 
from time to time, approve. 
Transit of Animals hy Railway. 
12. Prom and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand 
eight hundred and seventy, every truck used for carrying animals 
on a railway shall be provided with spring buffers, and the floor 
thereof shall have proper battens or other foot-holds thereon. 
13. From and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy, a railway company shall not allow any truck 
used for carrying animals on their railway to be overcrowded, so as 
to cause unnecessary suffering to the animals therein. 
14. Between each first day of November and the next following 
thirtieth day of April (both days inclusive), trucks used for carrying 
on a railway sheep freshly shorn and unclothed shall be covered and 
inclosed, so as to protect the sheep from the weather, but shall be 
properly ventilated. 
Cleansing and Disinfecting of Pens and Vehicles. 
15. Every pen, carriage, truck, horse-box, or vehicle used for 
carrying animals on land, shall, on every occasion after any animal 
is taken out of the same, and before any other animal is placed 
therein, be cleansed and disinfected in manner following : 
(1.) By the sweeping out of the pen, carriage, truck, horse-box, 
or vehicle, and the effectual removal therefrom of all dung, 
sawdust, litter, and other matter : 
(2.) Then by the thorough washing of the pen, carriage, truck, 
horse-box, or vehicle with water : 
(3.) Then in case of a pen, carriage, or truck, by the applica- 
tion to the floor and to all parts above the floor with which 
animals or their droppings have come in contact, of a coating 
of limewash, made by mixing good freshly-burnt lime with 
water, and containing in each gallon of limewash either one 
