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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Esq.; Clement Swetenham, Esq.; Wm. Coare Brockleliurst, 
Esq., M.P.; Thomas Wm. Tatton, Esq.; John Wood, Esq. ; 
James France France, Esq.; George Wm. Latham, Esq.; 
and the Rev. George Eaton, clerk. 
8. That all the inspectors be appointed as officers to 
issue licenses under the 3rd clause of the 7th schedule of the 
said Act. 
‘‘ 9. The committee and sub-committees to be summoned 
from time to time when required.” 
First, policemen are appointed inspectors in every district; 
and, secondly, veterinary surgeons, when called in hy the 
inspectors, are to be paid on the usual terms of their practice. 
Might we, without incurring the faintest suspicion of imper¬ 
tinence, ask under what Act these arrangements are made. 
In the Act of the 9th of August, 1869, we find it stated in 
Clause 34 Where an inspector finds cattle plague or sheep- 
pox to exist within his district ” he shall do certain things. 
Again, in Sec. 54, Where an inspector finds pleuro-pneu- 
monia to exist within his district ” he shall take certain steps. 
Once more, in the general order of August 10th— 
Every person having in his possession, or under his 
charge, an animal (including a horse) affected with a con¬ 
tagious or infectious disease,”— 
He shall with all practicable speed give notice to a police- 
constable of the fact of the animal being so affected.” 
The police-constable is required forthwith to give notice to 
the inspectors of the local authority, and then in Clause 11, 
when the inspector finds any contagious or infectious disease 
to exist, he shall do so and so. 
Is it conceivable that the local authorities of Cheshire 
intend the policemen to do all these things ?—first, to receive 
notice from the owners of diseased animals; then give them¬ 
selves or each other notice of the fact; then to inspect and 
determine whether there is an infectious disease in their 
district or not; and, finally, to give a certificate that an 
animal is affected with cattle plague, pleuro-pneumonia, or 
sheep-pox, a certificate which shall, for the’purposes of this 
Act, be conclusive evidence, in all courts of justice and else¬ 
where, of the matter certified.” Is this what is meant and. 
