VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 893 
The following have been admitted on Educational Examination 
Certificates : 
Mr. M. Anderson. 
— W. Kennedy. 
— C. Gresswell. 
In addition to the above, eight candidates for admission were 
rejected on the report of the Dean of the College of Preceptors. 
Mr. A. Willows. 
-— T. H. Merrick. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
HEAYY PENALTIES POP INFRINGEMENT OF 
CATTLE PLAGUE ORDERS. 
At Pocldington, before an East Riding bench of magistrates, 
John Fawcett, farmer, of Belthorpe, a village closely adjoining 
npon Yapham, the seat of the present outbreak of rinderpest, 
was charged with having in his possession three beasts affected 
with rinderpest, and neglecting with all possible speed to v report 
the fact to the police authorities. 
The charge was divided into two cases, one having occurred 
on the 14th and the other on the 15th of September. Several 
days subsequently to these dates a policeman visited the de¬ 
fendants farm, and in reply to inquiries as to whether there were 
any beasts affected with the plague upon it, was told by Robert 
Fawcett (a brother) that there was one beast which was ailing, 
and that he had called the attention of Mr. Jepson, cattle in¬ 
spector of Bishop Wilton, to it. Examination led to the dis¬ 
covery, in one of defendant’s fields at Low Belthorpe, of five 
beasts suffering from the rinderpest, two of which were so ill 
that they could not rise from the ground. In another field four 
were found in a like state. The result was that on the 23rd the 
whole of two herds of twenty-five beasts w T ere, by Mr. Jepson’s 
orders, shot and buried. 
It was then ascertained that three beasts had previously died 
and been buried, one on the 14th and two on the 15th of Sep¬ 
tember ; and it was to these alone that the cases referred. Two 
of these beasts had been found buried in separate fields, both 
with little surface soil and no lime; and in one of the fields where 
burial had so taken place nineteen beasts were pasturing. The 
third beast was found to have been buried in the stack-yard, and 
the spot covered for secrecy, as though it w r ere intended to put a 
stack up over it. 
The defence set up by Robert Fawcett (defendant not himself 
