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5. Subject to the provisions contained in the Orders of Council 
relating to the ports of Granton and Leith, dated the tenth day 
of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and in 
the Order of Council relating to the port of Southampton, 
dated the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred 
and seventy, all the regulations in the Fourth Schedule to the 
Act of 1869 shall apply to sheep and goats brought to Great 
Britain from any place in the dominions of the Emperor of 
Bussia, and landed in Great Britain, and all such sheep and goats 
shall be slaughtered within ten days after the landing thereof, 
exclusive of the day of landing : Provided nevertheless, that 
cattle, sheep, or goats being or having been on board any vessel 
at the same time with any cattle brought from any place in the 
dominions of the Emperor of Bussia, shall not be landed at any 
port or place in Great Britain. 
6. Notwithstanding any Order of Council to the contrary no 
sheep or goats brought from any place in the dominions of the 
Emperor of Bussia, and landed within the port of London, shall 
be moved alive out of any part of the port defined as a part within 
which foreign cattle may be landed for slaughter. 
(Signed) Arthur Helps. 
PABLIAMENTABY INTELLIGENCE. 
House of Commons, Friday, July 5 th. 
IMPOETATION OP CATTLE PROM SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. 
Mr. Samuda asked the Vice-President of the Privy Council 
whether the Government had been able to make arrangements 
with the German Government by which cattle from Schleswig- 
Holstein could be imported without the necessity of being slaugh¬ 
tered at the port of landing, and, therefore, as regarded London, 
with a free permission to pass alive to the Metropolitan Cattle 
Market at Islington. 
Mr. IF. E. Forster said that an order would appear in the 
Gazette that day with regard to the importation of cattle from 
Schleswig-Holstein, and as it affected a most important interest, 
perhaps the House would allow him to explain its meaning. It 
had been found necessary to maintain the restriction requiring 
cattle from Schleswig-Holstein to be slaughtered at the port of 
landing in consequence of the proximity of Germany to Bussia 
and other countries in which the cattle plague permanently ex¬ 
isted. They had always been sorry that this restriction should 
apply to cattle from Schleswig-Holstein, where large numbers of 
