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and such owner may appoint by writing under his hand a 
second arbitrator, and sucli arbitrators shall by writing under 
their hands appoint a referee, and such arbitrators and referee 
shall proceed to appraise the value of such cattle so destroyed, 
and such valuation, or, if they shall disagree, the valuation of 
any two of them, shall be conclusive, and shall be paid to 
such owner, as before provided. 
VIII. The commissioners shall send to the treasurer a 
duplicate of every certificate given under this Act. 
IX. Every owner of cattle having reason to suspect the 
existence of the disease in cattle in his possession shall 
immediately by writing inform the commissioners or any one 
of them thereof, and every owner who shall fail so to do, or 
who shall resist any justice or commissioner in the exercise 
of the powers of this Act, or who shall refuse or wilfully neglect 
to comply with any lawful order of the commissioners, or who 
shall sell, give, or cause, or suffer to be removed off his land, 
any animal which he knows, or has reason to suspect, is 
affected by the disease, shall, on conviction before any two 
justices of the peace of the colony, forfeit all claim to com¬ 
pensation for any cattle destroyed under this Act, and shall 
further pay a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, and in 
default of payment of such fine shall be imprisoned at the 
discretion of the same justices for any period not exceeding 
six months. 
X. The Governor in Council may by proclamation, which 
shall be published in the Government Gazette , declare any part 
of the colony in which the disease has been found to prevail 
to be “ an infected district,” and shall by such proclamation 
define the boundaries of every such district, and after such pub¬ 
lication no cattle shall be removed out of any such district until 
the same shall have been proclaimed to be free from the disease, 
and any person removing cattle out of such infected district, 
without the consent or permission in writing of the commis¬ 
sioners, shall on conviction before any two justices forfeit and 
pay any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, and in default be im¬ 
prisoned for any term not exceeding six months. 
XI. The Governor in Council may make rules respecting 
any cattle brought into the colony by sea or land, and for 
preventing the introduction of the disease or of any other 
contagious disease in cattle, by any system of quarantine, or 
by the destruction of cattle believed to be affected by the 
disease, for compensating owners of sound cattle destroyed, 
and generally for carrying the provisions of this Act into 
effect, and any rules so made and published in the Government 
Gazette shall be of the same force as if enacted by Parliament. 
