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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
break Parliament quickly passed a special act to stay its 
ravages, empowering the King in Council to issue such 
orders as were deemed to be the most efficient for the 
purpose. Instructions were thereupon issued, 1st, for the 
killing of all the infected animals, and burying them entire 
with the skins on, tf slashed from head to tail,” that they 
might not be used for the purpose of the manufacturer. 
2d. For the burning of all the hay and straw used about 
the animals. 
3d. For the cleaning and fumigating the sheds, & c., and 
for no sound cattle to be put in them for two months after 
the removal of the diseased. 
4th. For no recovered animal to be allowed to go near others 
for a month after its convalescence. 
5th. For no diseased cattle to be driven to fairs or markets, 
nor for the flesh to be used as food for dogs, & c. 
6th. For no healthy cattle to be removed from a farm where 
the disease had prevailed in less than a month after its 
disappearance. 
And lastly, orders were given for the notice of an outbreak 
to be immediately sent by the farmers to the constables, 
churchwardens, overseers, or special inspectors appointed by 
the magistrates, acting for their respective parishes. 
The Government also undertook to pay forty shillings for 
every ox, bull, or cow which was killed, and ten shillings for 
every calf, with a corresponding allowance for their skins. 
Under this arrangement it is recorded that the Treasury 
paid in the first five years no less a sum than £100,000, and 
that during the third year of the plague 80,000 cattle were 
destroyed, and nearly double that number died ; while in the 
following year upwards of 7000 a month were killed under 
the order in Council. 
The continuance of the disease, notwithstanding the 
adoption of these measures, led to many subsequent orders 
in Council to be issued, to meet the emergency. 
In the third order, we find that no cattle, fat or lean, would 
be suffered to pass the Humber and the Trent northward, 
from its date, namely, January 19th, 1747, to the 27th of the 
