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suggestion of the Chief Constable, the court resolved that the 
notices already in force as to the removal of infected animals 
be printed and forwarded to the farmers of the county, and 
be posted up in different localities. 
On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. Bassett, 
M.P., the veterinary inspectors who had been employed during 
the rinderpest outbreak were re-appointed, the question of their 
remuneration being left open. 
Misrepresentation of the Contagious Diseases 
(Animals) Act. —On the morning of Aug.' 26th a large 
number of persons assembled in public meeting on Clerken- 
well Green to consider the cause and remedy of the present 
high price of provisions. The meeting was convened under 
the auspices of a Society terming itself the London Patriotic 
Society. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, referred 
to the famine prices which most provisions fetched at the 
present time, and said that working people could not now 
afford meat once a week. He strongly condemned the work¬ 
ing of the Contagious Disease {Animals') Act, which he said was 
passed as a system of protection in the interests of home 
breeders, and of which a nation which professes to be com¬ 
posed of freetraders, should be ashamed. 
The Government should be applied to on the subject, 
although he did not know that anything could be done with¬ 
out the repeal of the Act. 
Mr. Riddler then moved, and Mr. Mullins seconded, the fol¬ 
lowing resolution:—“That this meeting protests against the 
present working of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 
in reference to the restrictions in the importation of foreign 
cattle, as they are certain such prohibitions are not used at 
present to prevent disease, but to establish a system of pro¬ 
tection in the interest of home breeders, which, as a nation 
pledged to free trade, ought no longer to be tolerated.” This 
was carried. 
A Good Example. —The local authorities of Bordeaux 
are about to elect by “ concours” an officer to hold the 
appointment of Town Veterinarian and Inspector-General of 
Food and of the public abattoir. His salary is to be 4000 
francs (£l60), with a residence at the abattoir.—British 
Medical Journal . 
