THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 471

may seize and destroy, or cause to be seized and
destroyed, such cattle so deemed infected.

3. If any owner of cattle, or any person having
   the custody or charge of cattle, shall, after having
   received such notice as aforesaid, neglect or refuse to
   destroy the same or any of them within twenty-four
   hours after such notice, such owner or person afore-
   said shall be liable to a fine or penalty of fifty pounds
   for every head of cattle which he shall have neglected
   or refused to destroy.

4. If any owner of cattle which any such Inspector
   as aforesaid has notified to be infected, or if any
   person having the custody, care, or possession of any
   such cattle shall, after the same or any of them have
   been destroyed, neglect or refuse to bury four feet
   under ground, or to burn the carcasses thereof within
   twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such
   owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty
   of ten pounds for every carcass which he shall
   neglect or refuse to bury or burn.

5. If any Inspector for any of the said Infected
   Districts shall suspect that any cattle within the
   Infected District are infected with Pleuro-pneumonia
   but shall not be satisfied that such cattle are actually
   infected, he may if he shall think fit, give to the owner or
   to the person having the 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 such 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 said 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 so 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 upon him or left at his usual place of business
   or residence, neglect or refuse to obey such order, or
   shall 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
   of 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.

6. The Inspectors of Diseased Cattle under these
   Regulations and under the said Act shall forthwith
   cause to be publicly posted or exhibited at and about
   all the main thoroughfares leading into the said
   Infected District, notices that the said Infected
   District has been proclaimed and declared infected.

7. If any person shall drive 'or remove, or cause to
   be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing,
   any cattle out from the said Infected District, such
   person shall be liable to a fine of fifty pounds for
   every head of such cattle so driven out from the said
   Infected District. And if any cattle shall stray out
   of or from 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 fine of one pound for every head of cattle
   which shall have so strayed out of such district.

8. It shall be lawful to any Inspector for the said
   Infected District, or any police constable having
   reasonable grounds to suspect that any cattle are
   about to be driven out from the said Infected Dis-
   trict, to seize the same, and take charge thereof, until
   he shall be satisfied that no attempt will be made to
   drive such cattle out from the said Infected District.
   And it shall be lawful for any Inspector of the said
   district, or any police constable, to seize any cattle
   that have strayed or been driven out of or from the
   said Infected District, and to take charge of the
   same, and to drive, or cause to be driven, the said
   cattle back into the district from which they had
   been driven.; and if such Inspector or constable shall
   deem it expedient so to do, to keep the said cattle
   under his control until the owner or the person
   having the right to the possession thereof shall be
   found or made known to him.

9. In case any person shall wilfully impede or
   obstruct any Inspector or any police constable acting
   under the authority of these Regulations, every person
   so offending shall and may be seized and detained by
   such person so acting as aforesaid, or any person or
   persons he may call to his assistance, until such
   offender or offenders can be taken before two Justices
   of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of fifty
   pounds.

10. All owners or persons having the custody, care,
    or possession of any cattle within the said Infected
    District, shall, within fourteen days from the said
    26th day of December instant, give a notice in writing
    to the officer in charge of the police station nearest
    to the place where such cattle are kept or are, con-
    taining the number of such cattle, the particulars as
    nearly as can be of the place or places where such
    cattle are kept or are, and the brands with which they
    are branded; and if such owners or persons shall
    neglect or refuse to obey this Regulation, they shall
    be liable to a penalty of ten pounds.

11. Every Inspector for the said Infected District
    shall make a report in writing to the said Super-
    intendent of all things done by him under these
    Regulations and under the said Act, as and when he
    shall be required so to do.

12. Any Inspector may, if he shall think fit, grant
    a certificate to the owner of any cattle destroyed
    under or by virtue of the said Act or these Regu-
    lations, recommending a grant to such owners of
    compensation for such destruction; but compensation
    shall in no case exceed three pounds per head for
    cattle under two years, or six pounds per head for
    cattle above that age.

13. The Superintendent of Otago shall from time
    to time, as occasion may require, appoint proper
    persons, to be called Inspectors and assistant Inspec-
    tors, to carry out and enforce these Regulations in
    the districts for which they are appointed.

14. The assistant Inspectors shall have all the
    powers and authorities conferred upon Inspectors of
    districts, except the power and authority conferred
    by the second of these Regulations, to seize and
    destroy, or to cause to be seized and destroyed,
    infected or diseased cattle, or cattle deemed to be
    infected or diseased, and except also the power or
    authority to grant any certificate recommending
    compensation for the destruction of such cattle, and
    it is hereby expressly declared that, with the said
    exceptions, wherever in these Regulations the word
    Inspector occurs, it is to be deemed and construed
    to include in its meaning the words assistant Inspec-
    tor: Provided always that no order of any assistant
    Inspector or assistant Inspectors shall override or
    render void any order or notice of an Inspector.

15. Any person who is desirous of driving or
    removing, or of causing to be driven or removed, any
    cattle from or out of the said Infected District, shall