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NEW ORDERS IN COUNCIL. 
foreign animal (including a horse) which was taken on board for 
the purpose of importation, but has died on the voyage, the master 
of the vessel shall, immediately on arrival, report the fact to the 
principal officer of Her Majesty’s Customs at the port. 
No such carcase shall be landed or discharged from the vessel 
without the permission in writing of the principal officer. 
The master, if the principal officer so requires, shall proceed to 
sea, and shall throw every such carcase overboard into the sea at 
such place, or at such distance from shore, at such state of the tide, 
and within such time, as the principal officer directs. 
9. Where it appears to the principal officer of Her Majesty’s 
Customs at a port, with respect to any foreign animal (including a 
horse), or any hay, straw, fodder, or other article, brought by sea 
to the port, that contagion or infection may be thereby conveyed to 
animals, he may seize and detain the same, and he shall forthwith 
report the facts to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Customs, 
v/ho may give such directions as they think fit, either for the 
slaughter or destruction or the further detention thereof, or for the 
restoration thereof to the owner on such conditions, if any (including 
payment by the owner of expenses incurred by them in respect of 
detention thereof), as they think fit. 
DISCOVERY AND PREVENTION OP DISEASE. 
10. Every person having in his possession or under his charge 
an animal (including a horse) affected with a contagious or in¬ 
fectious disease, shall observe the following rules : 
(1) He shall, as far as practicable, keep such animal separate 
from animals not so affected. 
(2) He shall with all practicable speed give notice to a police 
constable of the fact of the animal being so affected. 
Such police constable shall forthwith give notice thereof to the 
inspector of the local authority, who shall forthwith report the same 
to the local authority and to the Privy Council. 
11. Where an inspector finds any contagious or infectious disease 
to exist in his district, he shall forthwith make a return to the local 
authority and to the Privy Council of the number and description 
of all animals being on the farm or in the shed or other place where 
the disease is found, which he considers liable to be affected -with 
the disease, distinguishing those that are healthy from those that 
are actually affected with the disease, and shall continue to make a 
similar return on the Saturday of every week until the disease has 
disappeared. 
12. Where, under section 60 of the Act of 1869, a horse or 
animal is buried, its skin shall be first so slashed as to prevent its 
being of any use. The local authority may, if they think fit, use 
for the purpose of such burial any place on the premises of the 
owner of the horse or animal. 
13. Where a local authority is authorised by licence from the 
Privy Council to destro}^ under section 60 of the Act of 1869, 
horses or animals that have died or been slaughtered as therein 
