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“It is proper to grant an indemnity for bovines in good con¬ 
dition, considered tuberculous after being slaughtered for market.’’ 
Mr. Rossignol preferred the indemnity for animals in good 
condition for marketable beasts only. 
Mr. Aerts: Indemnity is a just measure only in case of 
slaughter by order. 
Mr. Wehenkel said that, as at present, it is only a question 
of the seizure of meat found unfit for consumption, and not as a 
measure of injury to private property with the object of pro¬ 
tecting the general public, he cannot entertain the proposition of 
indemnity. It is a question of goods of bad quality, whose use 
is prohibited for a purpose it is unfit for; nothing more. The 
State has nothing to do with it. It ought to indemnify only 
where, for instance, it deprives an owner, for the general interest, 
of his chances of the recovery of his sick animal, or the legal 
use of a good one is prevented for the general interest, but it ought 
not to indemnify when it only prohibits for an improper use—the 
exposure for sale of injurious meat. 
Mr. Lydtin agreed with Mr. Wehenkel. This is what was 
done in the Grand Duchy of Baden. 
Mr. Muller remarked that the programme of the day had 
nothing to do with this new proposition. The order of the day 
being gone through with, there is no reason for continuing that 
new subject. The President inquired if there were any need of 
voting on paragraph H , or if the discussion was closed. The 
proposal to close was adopted by a large majority. 
The discussion of the question of education being again taken 
up, Mr. Bouley took the chair and called for a vote on propo¬ 
sition V. of the report. 
Mr. Quivogne believed that the whole of it should be changed 
to “ The boarding and non-boarding students systems are faculta¬ 
tive in ihe schools of veterinary medicine.” This amendment 
was adopted. 
In proposition VI, the first part was adopted unanimously, 
and the second by a large majority. Mr. Wirtz, in the name of 
Roll, proposes to add to proposition VI, “ Veterinary schools 
ought to have the organization of universities.” The amendment 
was rejected. 
