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four hours after such notice, such owner or person
aforesaid 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 Inspec-
   tor 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 burn the carcases 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 appointed under these regu-
   lations, or otherwise, under "The Diseased Cattle
   Act, 1861," shall suspect that any cattle within the
   said infected district are infected with pleuro-pneu-
   monia, but shall not be satisfied that such cattle are
   actually infected, he may, if he think fit, give to the
   owner or the person having the custody, charge, or
   possession of such cattle, notice in writing of what
   cattle he suspects to be infected with pleuro-pneu-
   monia, 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 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 district, 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 road 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 afore-
   said 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 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 or any carcass or carcasses, or any portion
   of any carcass or carcasses of 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 for any Inspector appointed
   as aforesaid, or any police constable having reasonable
   grounds to suspect that any cattle, or any carcass or
   carcasses, or any portion of any carcass or carcasses
   of any cattle, are about to be driven or removed out
   from the said infected district, to seize the same, and
   take charge thereof until hes hall 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 assi stance, 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 1st day
    of December next, 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, containing
    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. No cattle shall be slaughtered for the purpose
    of sale or use within the infected district except the
    same shall have been previously inspected by the
    Inspector appointed under these regulations, or
    otherwise, and then only upon a certificate signed by
    him that such cattle do not appear to be infected,
    and if any person shall be guilty of any breach of
    this regulation he shall be liable to a penalty of fifty
    pounds.

12. These regulations to take effect from and after
    the date of publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this
twentieth day of April, 1868.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

By His Honor's command,

EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.