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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 immediately 
before use. 
The sweepings of the pen, carriage, truck, horse-box, or vehicle 
shall be well mixed with quick-lime, and effectually removed from 
contact with animals. 
Penalties. 
16. If anything is done or omitted to be done in contravention 
of any of the regulations of this Order, the owner and the master or 
person having charge or command of the vessel in which, — and the 
owner and the occupier of the place where animals are put on board 
of or landed from vessels at which, — and the company carrying ani- 
mals on or owning or working a railway on which, — and also in case 
of the overcrowding of a truck on a railway, or of the carrying on 
a railway of sheep freshly shorn and unclothed, the consignor of 
the animals in respect of which, — (as the case may be) such 
thing is done or omitted, shall severally be deemed guilty of an 
offence against this order. 
17. Provided, that no person shall be liable to a penalty under 
this Order in respect of sheep as freshly shorn, where it is shown 
that the sheep have not been shorn within sixty days before the 
time of the commission of the alleged offence. 
PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
House of Commons, May 24th. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Sir Selwyn-Ibbetson asked the Vice-President of the Council 
whether the report which had appeared in several of the papers on 
the 23rd, to the effect that the cattle plague had broken out in the 
department of Doubs, in France, was correct, and that, in conse- 
quence, the Government of Neufchatel had prohibited the impor- 
tation of French cattle ; and, if so, whether the Privy Council had 
taken any, and what, steps to prevent the importation of diseased 
cattle into this country ? 
Mr. W. E. Forster said that a report had appeared in the papers 
on the 1 9th of April to the effect that the cattle plague had broken out 
in a department of France. The authorities at the Privy Council lost 
no time in communicating with the Foreign Office, and a letter was 
addressed to Lord Lyons, asking for information ; bur, as no answer 
had yet been received, the probability was that the report was un- 
founded. Orders had also been sent to the Customs to keep a sharp 
look-out for animals coming from France; but l;e thought there 
need be no apprehension of danger, inasmuch as no animals had 
arrived from France since the 27th of April. 
