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CATTLE PLAGUE ORDER IN COUNCIL* 
The question of the division of subjects for study to separate 
sessions, and ascertaining proficiency by examination, and grant¬ 
ing a diploma in said subjects, also received a fair amount of dis¬ 
cussion, and was very generally approved. 
Charles Middlehurst was unanimously elected a member. 
The meeting terminated at an early hour. The annual meeting 
will be held in the above Hall in November. Tea will be pro¬ 
vided at 5*30 p.m. Members of the Association and the profes¬ 
sion are earnestly invited to attend to take part in the discussion 
of the important subjects likely to occupy the attention of the 
meeting. 
W. Chambers Lawson, 
Hon. Sec. 
CATTLE PLAGUE—ORDER IN COUNCIL. 
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 7th day of September, 
1872. By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy 
Council. Present—Marquis of Hartington, Mr. Forster. 
Whereas the contagious or infectious disease known as Cattle 
Plague or Rinderpest has appeared in the East Riding of Yorkshire ; 
and whereas it has become expedient to make further provisions 
for better preventing the spreading of this disease in Great Britain : 
Now, therefore, 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 
eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
two, and shall continue in force till the first day of December, one 
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. 
2. This Order may be cited as The Cattle Plague Order of 1872. 
3. This Order extends to Great Britain only. 
4. In this Order— 
District means the district of a Local Authority: 
A defined part of a port means a part of a port defined by 
a special Order of the Privy Council, in pursuance of 
Regulation 2 of the Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1869 : 
Other terms have the same meaning as in The Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869: 
5. The holding of all markets, fairs, exhibitions, or sales of cattle 
within the City of York and within the East Riding of Yorkshire, 
