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V.—If any owner or person having the custody, charge, or possession of such Cattle shall neglect or refuse to bury or burn the carcases thereof, within twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every carcase which he shall neglect or refuse to bury or burn.

Cattle out from any of the said Infected Districts, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds for every such head of Cattle so driven out or removed from any of the said Infected Districts; and if any Cattle stray out or from any of the said Infected District into a district not proclaimed to be infected, the owner or person having the care or possession of such Cattle shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for every head of Cattle which shall have so strayed out of such district.

VI.—If any Inspector appointed as aforesaid shall suspect that any Cattle within any of the said Infected Districts are infected with Pleuro-pneumonia, but shall not be satisfied that such Cattle are actually infected, he may, if he thinks fit, give to the owner, or the person having custody, charge, or possession of such Cattle, notice in writing of what Cattle he suspects to be infected with Pleuro-pneumonia, and shall, in and by such notice, order and require such owner or person having the custody charge or possession of such Cattle to drive or cause to be driven the Cattle mentioned in the said notice to such place within the Infected District as such Inspector shall think fit, and such Inspector may, in and by such notice, direct and fix by what roads and route the said Cattle shall be driven; and if any person being the owner of any Cattle, or having in his custody, care, or possession any Cattle within the said Infected Districts, shall, after the expiration of forty-eight hours after such last-mentioned notice has been served on him, or left at his usual place of business or residence, neglect or refuse to drive, or cause to be driven, the Cattle mentioned in the said notice, to the place and by the roads and route directed and fixed on by the said notice, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for every head of Cattle included in such last-mentioned notice; and after the expiration of the said period of forty-eight hours, it shall be lawful for any such Inspector, if such owner or person as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to obey such order, to seize and take into his possession the Cattle included in such notice, and drive or cause to be driven the said Cattle to the place and by the roads and route mentioned and fixed in the said notice.

VII.—The Inspectors of Diseased Cattle under the said Acts, shall forthwith cause to be publicly posted or exhibited at and about all the main thoroughfares leading into the said Infected Districts, notices that the said Infected Districts have been proclaimed and declared infected.

VIII.—If any person shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any Cattle out from any of the said Infected Districts, such person shall be liable to a penalty for every such head of Cattle so driven out or removed from any of the said Infected Districts; and if any Cattle stray out or from any of the said Infected District into a district not proclaimed to be infected, the owner or person having the care or possession of such Cattle shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for every head of Cattle which shall have so strayed.

IX.—In case any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

X.—No Cattle shall be slaughtered within any of the said Infected Districts for the purpose of sale or use, except the same shall have been previously inspected by an Inspector appointed as aforesaid, and then only upon a Certificate signed by him that such Cattle do not appear to be infected; nor shall any carcase or portion of any carcase of any Cattle so slaughtered be removed from any of the said Infected Districts, unless such carcase or portion of such carcase shall have previously been inspected by an Inspector, and a certificate in writing given by such Inspector, stating that such carcase or portion of carcase is free from disease, and fit for human food; providing always that the offal, including horns, hides, hoofs, &c., of