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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 any of 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.

6. 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.

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 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 districts into a district not proclaimed to be
   infected, the owner or person having the care or pos-
   session 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.

8. It shall be lawful for any Inspector appointed
   as aforesaid, or any Police Constable, having any
   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 any of the said infected districts,
   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
   districts, or any Police Constable, to seize any cattle
   that have strayed or been driven out of or from any
   of the said infected districts, 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 Police Constable acting
   under the authority of these Regulations, every per-
   son so offending shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding fifty pounds.

10. 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 car-
    cass, or portion of any carcass, of any cattle so
    slaughtered, be removed from any of the said infected
    districts, unless such carcass or portion of carcass
    shall have previously been inspected by an Inspector,
    and a certificate in writing given by such Inspector
    stating that such carcass or portion of carcass is free
    from disease, and fit for human food; providing
    always that the offal, including horns, hides, hoofs,
    &c., of any cattle so slaughtered, shall be buried by
    the owner of such cattle four feet deep within the
    area of the infected district within which such cattle
    shall have been slaughtered; and should any such
    offal, or part thereof, remain unburied as aforesaid
    for longer than one hour after slaughter, the owner
    of such slaughtered cattle shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding five pounds.

11. If any cattle be driven into or be found stray-
    ing within any of the said infected districts, the owner
    or person having charge of the same shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds in respect of
    every head of cattle so driven or straying; and no
    such cattle shall again be removed from any infected
    district into which they may have been driven or
    may have strayed.

12. Every Inspector appointed under the Diseased
    Cattle Acts by the Superintendent shall make a
    report in writing to the said Superintendent of all
    things done by him under these Regulations, and
    under the said Acts, as and when he shall be required
    so to do.

13. These Regulations shall take effect from and
    after the day following the date of publication in the
    New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this
sixth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.

W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th November, 1868.

THE following Report of the Committee appointed
report on the working of "The Tasmanian Scholar-
ship Act" is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

TASMANIAN COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.
Hobart Town,
30th September, 1868.

THE Committee of the Council of Education, ap-
pointed by the Council to prepare a statement for
the information of the Government of New Zealand
in reference to the working of "The Tasmanian
Scholarship Act," have to report as follows :-

1. The object of "The Scholarship Act" was to
   encourage emulation in the Schools of the Colony,-
   to raise the standard of Education, and to bring the
   youth of Tasmania into connection with the English
   Universities, by which it was hoped that sound
   learning would be promoted, and a beneficial in-
   fluence exercised on the fortunes of the Colony.

2. Some of the most important effects of "The
   Scholarship Act" have not had time to develope
   themselves, inasmuch as only three of the scholars
   have as yet had the opportunity of graduating. It
   is, nevertheless, gratifying to know that the liberality
   of the State, in making this provision, has been
   highly applauded by eminent statesmen and scholars
   both in England and on the Continent of Europe.

3. The principle of making such an endowment by
   the State was long since recognised by the Legis-
   lature of the Colony. So far back as the time of Sir
   John Franklin's Government a vote was taken for