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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
among the sheep in some parts of the United Kingdom, 
and it is expedient to take measures for preventing such 
disorder from spreading. 
“ Now, therefore, the Lords of Her Majesty’s Privy Council 
do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers so vested 
in them as aforesaid, make and ordain the several orders and 
regulations following—that is to say :— 
“ *1.—It shall not be lawful for any person to remove any 
sheep or lambs to or from any or either of the parishes and 
tythings following, all lying and being in the county of 
Wilts, and near to the town of Devizes—that is to say, the 
parishes or tythings of Horton, Bishop’s Cannings, Allcan¬ 
nings, Etchilhampton, and Allington, or to drive or conduct 
any sheep or lambs through or by way of such parishes or 
tythings, or any or either of them, unless the person so re¬ 
moving, driving, or conducting such sheep or lambs shall 
first have obtained a certificate, in writing, signed by some 
person who may have been authorised by two or more 
justices of the said county of Wilts to seize sheep or lambs 
infected with or labouring under the said disorders, under 
the 1st section of the said Act, that such removal, driving, 
or conducting may take place without danger of spreading 
the said disease. 
(s ‘ All sheep and lambs dying in any of the stages of 
the said disease, whensoever such death or deaths shall or 
may occur, shall forthwith be buried by the person or per¬ 
sons in whose possession such sheep or lambs may be at the 
time of death, with their skins on, in pits of not less than 
five feet in depth, and the carcases so buried shall be covered 
with quicklime. 
MIL—All sheds and places whatsoever, and all railway 
trucks and other vehicles which may or shall have been used 
or occupied by sheep or lambs affected by the said disease, 
shall forthwith, after having been so used, be thoroughly 
cleansed with water, and immediately afterwards purified 
with chloride of lime by the person or persons in possession 
of such sheds, places, trucks, and vehicles respectively. 
“ ‘ IV.—Every person in possession of any sheep or lambs 
in or among which the said disease shall manifest itself shall 
forthwith give notice, in writing, of the fact to the Chief 
Constable, or Superintendent of Police, of the county or 
borough in which such sheep or lambs may be. 
“ ‘ V.—And it is further ordered that this order shall 
continue in force for three calendar months from and after 
the date hereof. “ ‘ Arthur Helps.’ ” 
