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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS, 
taken the matter boldly in hand, and its prompt action will 
go far to prevent the serious losses which were sustained in 
1847, and the subsequent years down to midsummer of 1850. 
An order in council, which we append, has been issued, and 
also the special attention of the Country Magistrates directed 
to the Act “ To prevent the spreading of contagious or infec¬ 
tions disorders among sheep , cattle , and other animals ." 
(From c The London Gazette Extraordinary Sept. 10.) 
(i At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 10th day of 
September, 1862, by the Lords of Her Majesty's Most 
Honourable Privy Council, present, the Duke of Somerset. 
Viscount Palmerston* and Sir Charles Wood, Bart. 
“ Whereas, by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament, 
held in the 11th and 12th years of Her Majesty's reign, 
intituled c An Act to prevent, until the 1st day of September, 
1850, and to the end of the then Session of Parliament, 
the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among 
sheep, cattle, and other animals’ (which Act has since been 
extended and continued in force until the 1st day of August, 
1863 , and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament), 
after reciting that f a contagious or infectious disorder, known 
or described as the sheep pox, or variola ovina, now prevails 
among the sheep in some parts of the United Kingdom, and 
it is necessary to take measures to prevent such disorder 
from spreading,' it was and is enacted (among other things) 
as follows—namely :— c In case any sheep or lambs infected 
with or labouring under the said disorder, or any disorder 
of the like nature, be exposed or offered for sale, or be 
brought, or attempted to be brought, for the purpose of 
being so exposed or offered for sale in any market, fair, or 
other open or public place where other animals are com¬ 
monly exposed for sale, then and in any such case it shall be 
lawful for any clerk or inspector, or other officer of such fair 
or market, or for any constable or policeman, or for any 
other person authorised by the mayor, or by any two justices 
of the peace having jurisdiction in the place, or for any 
person authorised or appointed by Her Majesty in Council, 
to seize the same, and to report such seizure to the mayor 
or any justice of the peace having jurisdiction in the place; 
and it shall be lawful for such mayor or justice either to 
restore the same, or to cause the same, together with any 
pens, hurdles, troughs, litter, hay,straw, or other articles which 
he may judge likely to have been infected thereby, to be forth¬ 
with destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such manner as 
he shall deem proper, or as may be directed in manner here- 
