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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
II. Before any commissioner shall exercise any of the 
powers given by this Act his name and address shall be 
notified in the Government Gazette , and he shall also make and 
subscribe before some justice of the peace for the colony a 
declaration in the form contained in the first schedule to this 
Act. 
III. The remuneration of the commissioners shall be fixed 
by Parliament, and shall be paid to them out of such monies 
as shall be provided by Parliament for that purpose. 
IV. The commissioners, on receiving information in writing 
from any owner or occupier of land that the disease called 
pleuro-pneumonia is believed to exist in any cattle, may enter 
upon any land where such cattle may be, and examine the 
same; and if the commissioners shall deem it proper, they may 
cause to be slaughtered for examination by some qualified 
veterinary surgeon one or more of such cattle, wherever the 
same shall be found; and if in the judgment of the commis¬ 
sioners the disease shall exist in such cattle, they may order 
such number of them as they think proper to be forthwith 
destroyed, and ma}^ make such other order in relation to all 
or any of such cattle, and the carcases thereof, with a view to 
prevent the spreading of disease as to the commissioners may 
seem proper. 
V. The commissioners or any justice, on receiving informa¬ 
tion in writing that any cattle are diseased or have recently 
been exposed to the disease, may order such cattle to be 
detained at, or removed to, the nearest convenient place, and 
the commissioners may then examine such cattle and cause one 
or more of them to be slaughtered ; and if in the judgment of 
the commissioners the disease shall exist in such cattle they 
may order the remaining cattle, or such number of them as 
may be thought proper, to be forthwith destroyed, or may make 
such other order as aforesaid. 
VI. The commissioners shall ascertain and determine, and 
shall certify under their hands in the form contained in the 
second schedule to this Act, the value of all cattle destroyed 
under this Act by their order, and which shall appear not to 
have been affected bv the disease, and the value so certified 
shall be paid to the proprietor of the cattle, out of the monies 
granted by Parliament for this purpose, and the treasurer 
shall, on the deposit with him of the said certificate, issue an 
order for such payment. 
VII. If any owner of cattle destroyed by order of the com¬ 
missioners and not affected with the disease shall feel 
aggrieved by the valuation of the commissioners, he may 
require the commissioners in writing to appoint an arbitrator, 
