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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
PLYMOUTH GUILDHALL.— Monday. 
Before the Mayor (W. Derry, Esq.), Admiral Basden, G. Mennie, 
R. Hicks, and J. Skardon, Esqrs. 
Before commencing the business of the day, the Mayor called the 
attention of the sanitary inspector (Mr. Rowley) to the impure state of 
the water in the horse-trough at the Parade, and Mr. Rowley promised 
to give his attention to the subject. 
EXPOSING UNWHOLESOME MEAT FOR SALE. 
Mr. Rowley applied for an order to destroy some meat belonging to 
Mr. Lane, butcher. The inspector stated that on Saturday night he 
went to a stall in Plymouth market to search for some unwholesome meat 
which he expected to find; but, not finding it, he repaired to a shop in 
Cornwall Streep and there, behind a shutter, he found a quantity of 
veal in a very polluted condition. Yesterday witness called upon Lane, 
whose property he suspected the meat to be, but Lane totally denied it. 
Mr. Soper, another butcher in the market, had, it appeared, ordered Lane 
away when he began cutting up the meat in question. 
Mr. Raddall., veterinary surgeon, deposed that the calf had not been 
born alive, and that the veal was unfit even for dogs to eat. 
In reply to the Bench, Lane said that he was employed at the Cattle 
Market, got the veal from a slaughter-house, and took it to the market 
with the intention of destroying it. 
The meat was eventually ordered to be destroyed, and the Bench said 
the case would be laid before the Sanitary Committee with a view to the 
summoning of Lane to answer the offence. 
[We readily give a place to the ‘ Reports ’ of the sale of diseased meat, 
as in them we have a public recognition of the scientific knowledge of the 
members of our profession. In our present number will be found some 
criticisms on the opinion of a veterinary surgeon in a similar case, from 
the pen of Dr. Renton, to which we invite attention.] 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office, Pall Mall; .Vhy 29, 1S63. 
Acting-Veterinary Surgeon Daniel Maclean, to be Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeon, vice John Surtees Stockley, placed on half- 
pay. 
