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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Diseases (Animals) Act, and received the Royal assent on the 9th 
of August last, the object of the Act being the more stringent 
putting down of contagious diseases. The present information was 
laid under the 57th section. The foot and mouth disease being a 
contagious and infectious disease was included in that section. The 
onus was thrown on the defendant to show whether by reasonable 
diligence he did not know that these animals were infected with this 
disease. Under section 102 the defendant was liable to £5 penalty 
for each animal. 
Police-constable Woollard said he was a cattle market constable, 
and was acting in that capacity on Saturday last. He knew the 
defendant well, and also his drover, Harris. Witness remembered 
some bulls being brought on the Hill on Saturday last, in charge of 
Harris. There were about 100 bulls, which were placed in the bull 
ring, and tied up for sale. He saw the defendant giving orders to 
Harris during the day, and he afterwards saw Mr. Smith, the cattle 
inspector, pick out five bulls, which witness believed were the same 
as were driven on to the Hill by Harris. In cross-examination by 
Mr. Chittock, witness said that the bulls came on to the Hill about 
eleven o’clock, and when Mr. Smith was picking them out it was 
about four o’clock in the afternoon. Witness saw five bulls picked 
out, and five sent away. Witness had never seen any diseased cattle 
on the Hill before. Mr. Smith had never shown witness any cattle 
with the mouth disease. Witness would not know that there was 
anything the matter with such a diseased animal if he were to see 
it. He was not aware that he had seen any animals on the Hill 
suffering from the foot and mouth disease. Police-constable Pike, 
another market constable, gave corroborative evidence. Mr. Wm. 
Smith said he was Inspector of Cattle in the Norwich Cattle 
Market. On Saturday last, about one o’clock, he was in the Cattle 
Market and saw the defendant there with about one hundred bulls 
tied up to the railings in the bull ring. Witness examined the 
mouths of some of the defendant’s bulls, and in four or five of them 
he noticed unmistakeable signs of the disease known as the foot and 
mouth disease. Upon witness finding that these bulls were suffering 
from the disease, he asked the defendant to go with him and see 
the Town Clerk, but defendant refused to do so. Witness then 
left the Hill, and on his return about two hours after, found that 
about seventy of the bulls were gone, they having been sold. Wit¬ 
ness examined four or five of the thirty which remained, and he 
found them also suffering from the foot and mouth disease. Pre¬ 
vious to his leaving the Hill, he requested the defendant not to move 
the beasts off. Three of the bulls which had been removed were 
more diseased than those which witness examined of the remaining 
bulls. This was one of the most contagious and infectious diseases 
known. The whole of the hundred bulls would most probably be 
down with it within a week. The disease was now spreading in 
every direction. Three out of the five bulls which witness examined 
were in such a state that any man who was used to cattle must 
ley were suffering from it. The beasts lost flesh 
