A. D. 1878. Expenses out of union funds. shall contribute thereto; or the lord lieutenant may, if he thinks fit, appoint a veterinary inspector for the united district, on such terms and conditions with reference to contribution by the several unions towards the traveling expenses and allowances of the inspector as the lord lieutenant thinks fit. (3.) An inspector appointed by the lord lieutenant shall have, throughout Ireland, or that part thereof for which he is appointed, all the pow ers by Part II conferred on a veterinary inspector of the privy council. Expenses of local authorities. 82. The remuneration and allowances of an inspector or valuer of a local authority, and all money payable as compensation for animals slaughtered by direction of a local authority, shall when due be paid by the treasurer of the union out of union funds. General cattle diseases fund. Constitution of 83.-(1.) There shall be a general cattle diseases fund for purposes of this part. fund. fund. (2.) Any money at the commencement of this act standing at the Bank of Ireland to the credit of the cattle plague account shall be transferred to the account of the general cattle diseases fund; and that money shall in the first instance constitute that fund, as if it had been raised under this act. (3.) The chief secretary may from time to time, as and when he thinks fit, certify to the effect that a sum equivalent to a certain poundage on the net annual value of the property in all the unions is required for the purposes of this act. (4.) Thereupon the local government board shall by order under their seal assess that sum on the several unions in proportion to the net annual value of the property therein. (5.) They shall send copies of the order to the guardians and to the treasurer of each union. (6.) Thereupon the treasurer of each union shall, out of union funds, pay over the amount assessed on the union to the Bank of Ireland, to be placed to the general cattle diseases fund. (7.) The guardians of each union shall debit the several electoral divisions with proportions of that sum, according to the net annual value of the property therein. (8.) No larger sum shall be levied under this act at any one time than shall be equivalent to a poundage of one halfpenny in the pound on the net annual value of the property in all the unions; nor shall any larger sum be levied under this act in the whole than shall be equivalent, taken with any money before the commencement of this act carried to the cattle plague account, to a poundage of fourpence in the pound on the net annual value of the property in all the unions, (9.) On receipt of a certificate of the chief secretary to the effect that any part of the sum standing to the general cattle diseases fund is not required for purposes of that fund, the local government board shall by order under their seal assign the proportions returnable to the severa unions, according to the net annual value of the property therein; and the Bank of Ireland shall, on a direction to that effect from the chief secretary, remit the sum so assigned to the treasurers of the unions; and the guardians of each union shall, on receipt of that sum, credit the several electoral divisions with proportions of that sum according to the net annual value of the property therein. Application of 84.—(1.) The treasurer of a union, on proof to the chief secretary of the payment by a local authority of any money for remuneration, expenses, allowances, or compensation, in accordance with this part, shal. be entitled to a certificate to that effect, and to an order by the chief secretary for payment from the general cattle diseases fund of one-half of the money so proved to have been paid, subject, in the case of compensation, to all proper deductions for money received by the local an thority in respect of animals slaughtered; and the amount so ordered shall be paid to the treasurer accordingly for the union. (2.) If in any case it is proved to the chief secretary that an animal in respect whereof compensation was paid by the treasurer of a union was, within seven days immediately before its slaughter, brought into that union solely for the purpose of being shipped out of Ireland from a port in that union within those seven days, or of being sold at a fair to be held in that union within those seven days, and that neither the owner nor the person in charge thereof had been guilty, in relation to it, of any offense against this act, then the chief secretary shall order payment to the treasurer in manner aforesaid of the whole of the money paid in compensation in respect of that animal. (3.) If in any case it is proved to the chief secretary that an animal in respect whereof compensation was paid by a local authority ought not to have been slaughtered, the chief secretary may, notwithstanding anything in this section, withhold his order for payment out of the general cattle diseases fund of any money in respect of that animal. (4.) All expenses incurred by or on behalf of the lord lieutenant and privy council in the execution of this part, and not otherwise provided for by this act, shall be defrayed out of the general cattle diseases fund. A. D. 1878. General. 85. The provisions of Part II relating to the police and to constables Application of shall apply to the members of the Royal Irish constabulary force or of provisions rethe Dublin metropolitan police force. specting police. 6.-(1.) Proceedings for recovery of penalties for offenses against Recovery of this act (other than penalties recoverable under the customs acts), and penalties and proceedings for recovery of expenses by this act or an order in council summary prodirected to be recoverable summarily, and proceedings for obtaining ceedings. summary orders under this act or an order in council, may be taken in a summary manner, according to the provisions of the summary jurisdiction acts, that is, as regards the police district of Dublin metropolis, the acts regulating the powers and duties of justices for that district, and as regards other parts of Ireland the petty sessions (Ireland) act, 1851, and any act affecting or amending the same. (2.) The provisions of those summary jurisdiction acts relative to appeals against orders and convictions shall apply to orders and convictions under this act. (3.) For the purposes of this act a court of summary jurisdiction may consist of one or more justices. (4.) Penalties so recovered shall be applied as follows; that is to say, a part thereof not exceeding one-third may be awarded to the informer, and the rest shall be awarded to the crown, to be applied in aid of the general cattle diseases fund. 87.-(1.) The Dublin Gazette shall be substituted for the London Gazette. (2.) A copy of the Dublin Gazette purporting to be printed by the Queen's authority shall be conclusive evidence in all courts and legal proceedings of the date, contents, due making, and publication of any order appearing therein and purporting to be an order in council. (3.) An order in council may also be proved by the production of an instrument purporting to be certified to be a true copy thereof by the clerk of Her Majesty's privy council in Ireland, or the person for the time being acting as such; and that instrument shall be conclusive evidence in all courts and legal proceedings of the date, contents, due making, and publication of the order. 14 & 15 Vict., c. 93. Publication and proof of orders in council. Provision for expenses of vetedepart 88. The lord lieutenant, with the approval of the treasury, may fix the salaries and allowances of the officers and persons acting in execution of this act inor under the veterinary department of Her Majesty's rinary privy council office; and the same, and all charges and expenses incurred ment. in the maintenance and management of that department, shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 105. 11 & 12 Vict., c. 107. 16 & 17 Vict., c. 62. 29 & 30 Vict., c. 4. I.-ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. The contagious diseases (animals) act, 1869 : (ii.) Sections 100 and 101 (transitory), relating II. SCOTLAND. An act to amend the contagions diseases (animals) act, 1869. III. IRELAND. An act to prohibit the importation of sheep, eattle, or other animals, for the purpose of preventing the introduction of contagious or infections disorders. An act to prevent, until the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the end of the then session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals. An act to extend and continue an act of the twelfth year of Her present Majesty, to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals. The cattle disease act (Ireland), 1866. The cattle disease (Ireland) amendment act, 1872. The cattle disease (Ireland) amendment act, 1872. The cattle disease (Ireland) acts amendment act, 1874. The cattle disease (Ireland) act, 1876. 1. Cattle are not to be moved into or out of a place infected with pleuro-pneumonia, except where, as regards movement into such a place, the cattle are affected with pleuro-pneumonia, and except in such other cases as the privy council think fit from time to time by general order to except. 2. In the cases so excepted by order cattle may be moved into or out of an infected place on conditions prescribed by general or special order of council, and not otherwise. 3. Cattle may be moved into, in, or out of such parts of an area infected with pleuro-pneumonia as are not comprised in a place infected with pleuro-pneumonia, by license of the local authority, granted on conditions prescribed by general order of council, and not otherwise. 4. Nothing in this schedule restricts movement of cattle in a place infected with pleuro-pneumonia. THE FOURTH SCHEDULE. FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 1. Animals are not to be moved into or out of a place infected with foot-and-mouth disease, except where, as regards movement into such a place, the animals are affected with foot-and-mouth disease, and except in such other cases as the privy council think fit from time to time by general order to except. 2. In the cases so excepted by order animals may be moved into or out of an infected place on conditions prescribed by general or special order of council, and not otherwise. 3. Animals may be moved into, in, or out of such parts of an area infected with foot-and-mouth disease as are not comprised in a place infected with foot-and-mouth disease, by license of the local authority, granted on conditions prescribed by order of council, and not otherwise. 4. Nothing in this schedule restricts movement of animals in a place infected with foot-and-mouth disease. H. Ex. 186-3 (Section 19.) (Section 25.) A. D. 1878. (Section 35.) (Section 38.) THE FIFTH SCHEDULE. FOREIGN ANIMALS. I.-Slaughter at port of landing. 1. Foreign animals are to be landed only at a part of a port defined for that purpose by special order of council, to be called a foreign animals wharf. 2. They are to be landed in such manner, at such times, and subject to such supervision and control as the commissioners of customs from time to time direct. 3. They are not to be moved alive out of the wharf. II.-Quarantine. 4. The foregoing provisions of this schedule (under the head of slaughter at port of landing) do not apply to animals intended for exhibition or for other exceptional purposes; and in lieu thereof the subsequent provisions of this schedule (under the head of quarantine) apply to those animals. 5. Those animals are to be landed only at a part of a port defined for that purpose by special order of council, to be called a foreign animals quarantine station. 6. They are to be landed in such manner, at such times, and subject to such supervision and control as the commissioners of customs from time to time direct, and subject to such conditions in respect of the animals, or of the vessel from which they are landed, as the privy council from time to time by general order prescribe. 7. When landed they are to be placed in sheds or other receptacles in the quarantine station, prepared by the local authority or the owners of the quarantine station, or the consignees of animals or other persons, and approved by the privy council. 8. Any such animal is not to be moved out of the quarantine station except on conditions prescribed by general or special order of council. 9. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this schedule (under the head of quarantine), the provisions of this act relating to slaughter in case of the existence of disease, and to compensation or other payment in respect of animals so slaughtered, and to the ownership of carcasses of such animals, shall apply to animals in a foreign animals quarantine station. III.-Channel Islands and Isle of Man. 10. In relation to animals brought from the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, the privy council may from time to time, if they think it. by general or special order or by license, alter or add to the provisions of this schedule relating to slaughter or to quarantine, as the case may require. IV. Other foreign countries. 11. In relation to foreign animals other than those brought from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, if and as long as, from time to time, the privy council are satisfied, with respect to any foreign country, that the laws thereof relating to the importation and exportation of animals, and to the prevention of the introduction or spreading of disease, and the general sanitary condition of animals therein, are such as to afford reasonable security against the importation there from of diseased animals, then, from time to time, the privy council, by general or special order, shall allow animals, or any specified kind of animals brought from that country, to be landed without being subject, under the provisions of this schedule, to slaughter or to quarantine, and may for that purpose alter or add to those provisions, as the case may require; but every such order shall forthwith, after the making thereof. if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then forthwith after the next meeting of Parliament, be laid before both houses of Parliament. THE SIXTH SCHEDULE. COMMITTEES OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES. 1. Each local authority shall form and keep up a committee or com mittees, and may appoint the number of members by whom the pow ers of a committee may be exercised, and may at any time add to or diminish the number of the members of a committee, or otherwise alter |