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ORDERS OF COUNCIL. 
CATTLE FROM SCHLESWIG AND HOLSTEIN. 
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 4th day of July, 
1872. By the Lords of her Majesty’s most Honorable Privy 
Council. Present-Lord President, Mr. Forster. 
The Lords and others of her Majesty’s most Honorable Privy 
Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in them vested 
under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, and of 
every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it 
is hereby ordered, as follows : 
1. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after the 
5th day of July, 1872, and shall cease to have effect from and 
immediately after the 30th day of November, 1872. 
2. This Order may be cited as The Schleswig and Holstein 
Cattle Order of 1872. 
3. This Order extends to Creat Britain only. 
4. In this Order—The Act of 1869 means The Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869; a defined part of a port means 
a part of a port defined by a special Order of the Privy Council 
in pursuance of Registration 2 of the Fourth Schedule to the 
Act of 1869 : Landing-place for slaughter means a landing-place 
within a defined part of a port: Master includes any person 
having the charge or command of a vessel: Other terms have 
the same meaning as in the Act of 1869. 
5. Notwithstanding anything in the Foreign Animals Order 
of 1871, the regulations in the Fourth Schedule to the Act of 
1869 shall not apply to cattle brought from a port in either of 
the parts of the Empire of Germany respectively known as 
Schleswig and Holstein. 
6. Cattle brought from a port of Schleswig or Holstein shall 
not be landed elsewhere than at a landing-place for slaughter, 
unless and until the owner, agent, or charterer of the vessel in 
which they are brought has received the special permission of 
the Privy Council to employ the vessel in the importation of 
such cattle. 
7. The landing of cattle brought from a port of Schleswig or 
Holstein, elsewhere than at a landing-place for slaughter, shall be 
subject to the following conditions : First, That the vessel in 
which they are imported has not, within three months before 
taking them on board, had on board any cattle exported from any 
port in any part of the Empire of Germany, otherwise than 
Schleswig or Holstein, or from any port of any of the countries 
